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The SRG ("Struve-Reardon Gevar") rifle was a flintlock rifled musket that became the standard infantry weapon of the USE Army. The SRG was based on the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle, adapted to use a flintlock mechanism. It was chosen because Grantville's Civil War reenactors had several reproductions that could be used as models and because flintlock-adapted versions could be produced in quantity using materials and techniques that were readily available in 1633. Also, it could be re-adapted to use percussion caps once they became readily available, and could even be upgraded to use breech-loading mechanisms. In addition to its qualities as a firearm, the SRG introduced the ring bayonet, which could be used without plugging a gun's barrel.

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  • The SRG ("Struve-Reardon Gevar") rifle was a flintlock rifled musket that became the standard infantry weapon of the USE Army. The SRG was based on the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle, adapted to use a flintlock mechanism. It was chosen because Grantville's Civil War reenactors had several reproductions that could be used as models and because flintlock-adapted versions could be produced in quantity using materials and techniques that were readily available in 1633. Also, it could be re-adapted to use percussion caps once they became readily available, and could even be upgraded to use breech-loading mechanisms. In addition to its qualities as a firearm, the SRG introduced the ring bayonet, which could be used without plugging a gun's barrel.
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  • The SRG ("Struve-Reardon Gevar") rifle was a flintlock rifled musket that became the standard infantry weapon of the USE Army. The SRG was based on the Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle, adapted to use a flintlock mechanism. It was chosen because Grantville's Civil War reenactors had several reproductions that could be used as models and because flintlock-adapted versions could be produced in quantity using materials and techniques that were readily available in 1633. Also, it could be re-adapted to use percussion caps once they became readily available, and could even be upgraded to use breech-loading mechanisms. In addition to its qualities as a firearm, the SRG introduced the ring bayonet, which could be used without plugging a gun's barrel. It was designed to be superior to the matchlocks and early-model flintlocks used by armies in the early 17th century; to be something that would shoot farther, more accurately, and more rapidly than anything available in 1633. Unlike the firearms that were standard in the early 17th century, the SRG enabled riflemen to repel cavalry charges instead of relying on the pikemen for protection. By 1636, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire had equipped their armies with the SRG rifle.
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