However, reloading still took time. So for long guns in armed confrontations, men usually paired up with two muskets —one man shot while the other one reloaded, to shorten the time between shots.
As for pistols, you just carried a bunch of them in your belt.
The three firearms most used back then were musket (long range), harquebus (medium range) and pistol (short rage). Muskets were supposed to have a 100-yard range. But no matter what they said, shooters knew the only safe range was a pistol shot: 50 yards. Anything further than that was hard to hit.
**musket**
**harquebus**
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Appendix: Weaponry
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