{"id":29816,"date":"2026-06-25T23:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/french-1840-musket-bonus-guide-to-french-percussion-muskets\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:24:50","slug":"french-1840-musket-bonus-guide-to-french-percussion-muskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/french-1840-musket-bonus-guide-to-french-percussion-muskets\/","title":{"rendered":"French 1840 musket + Bonus guide to French percussion muskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oG_AitGEUyo?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Become a member on YouTube or support us on Patreon! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1840 the French decide the percussion guns should be adopted across the board and not just the reserve of the elite troops and officers. For the line infantry they decide to draw inspiration from the 1837 and 1838 chasseurs carbines but perhaps a little too much inspiration. Ultimately the 1840 pattern musket was abandoned in favour of a simpler, cheaper and more rational design, the 1842.<\/p>\n<p>Buy Me A Coffee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>Teespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become a member on YouTube or support us on Patreon! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange In 1840 the French decide the percussion guns should be adopted across the board and not just the reserve of the elite troops and officers. For the line infantry they decide to draw inspiration from the 1837 and 1838 chasseurs carbines but perhaps a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/french-1840-musket-bonus-guide-to-french-percussion-muskets\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French 1840 musket + Bonus guide to French percussion muskets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":29817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}