Swedish Land Pattern Musket
The Swedish infantry musket, or the Swedish Land Pattern Musket, was a muzzle-loaded 0.63 to 0.81 -inch calibre smoothbored long gun. These weapons were in service within the Royal Swedish Army from the mid-16th century until the mid-19th century.
History
At the end of the 16th century, the Swedish military musket became a style-setter. Its style remained the same until about 1669 in most armies. In Sweden, its basic style lasted for many years—until the end of the 1680s. The matchlock was the dominant mechanism on the Swedish Army soldiers' muskets as well as among other European armed forces, and remained so until the latter half of the 1600s when the snaphaunce mechanism increasingly took over. But it was not until the flintlock mechanism as well as the bayonet had taken hold in earnest—around the turn of the 17th–18th centuries—that the matchlock became completely obsolete among the various squadrons within the Swedish Empire. However, some weapons equipped with wheellock mechanism were primarily reserved for the cavalry. The Swedish, purely warlike musket design remained in its basic form from Model 1696 until Model 1775. Before that, long guns – military as well as civilian – were produced in a variety of designs.Clear variants
Model 1688
Matchlock Musket M1688'''Snaphaunce Musket M1688'''