The steel shot will be mandatory throughout the nation in 1991, in shells and in loose form for muzzle-loading weapons.

The rifled breech-loading gun that resulted was an improvement over traditional rifled muzzle-loading weapons.

The Type 99 is a smooth bore, muzzle-loading weapon of the Stokes-Brandt type.

The Type 97 is a smooth bore, muzzle-loading weapon.

It was a rigid-recoil, rifled, muzzle-loading weapon that had to be levered around to aim at new targets.

Along with a revised 1863 model, it was the last muzzle-loading weapon ever adopted by the US Army.

Its history is closely associated with the development of the breechloader which replaced muzzle-loading weapons.

The 1840s also saw the introduction of the minie ball, which allowed rifled barrels to be used with muzzle-loading black-powder weapons.

The 3 inch trench mortar is a smooth-bore, muzzle-loading weapon for high angles of fire.

These problems influenced the British to equip ships with muzzle-loading weapons of increasing power until the 1880s.