BruceHuxford
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Were carbines used during the American Revolution to the early fur trade out west, I'm developing a new persona but want to use a carbines? Or were they strictly used and developed during the Civil War and after?
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Carbines
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Cruzatte
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Oh no. Kevin Gladysz quotes several estate inventories of French Canadians in his book The French Trade Gun in North America where the deceased had owned a carbine. This being before 1763, mind you.
Archer 756
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Note: Carbines are NOT SMOOTH BORE !
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I have a Charleyville smoothbore dragoon carbine, so I don't know what your problem is with smoothbores with short barrels.
I believe there were Naval carbine rifles as flintlocks.
In the 18th century, carbines certainly could be smooth bored!
satwel
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The meaning of carbine according to Online Etymology:
a short rifle (in 19c. especially one adapted for mounted troops), 1580s, from French carabine (Middle French carabin), used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried; it is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin Calabrinus "Calabrian" (i.e., "rifle made in Calabria"). A less-likely theory (Gamillscheg, etc.) connects it to Old French escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," literally (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.
also from 19c.
a short rifle (in 19c. especially one adapted for mounted troops), 1580s, from French carabine (Middle French carabin), used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried; it is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin Calabrinus "Calabrian" (i.e., "rifle made in Calabria"). A less-likely theory (Gamillscheg, etc.) connects it to Old French escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," literally (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.
also from 19c.
BruceHuxford
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Y'all, definitely gave me something to think on and I appreciate it, much thanks
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Archer 756
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Stand corrected was not aware there where smooth bore carbines
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