Musket

A Musket is a smooth bore firearm loaded from the muzzle and fired from shoulder-level. It is often fired from a rest so it can be pivoted from side to side. When musket was invented it was difficult to pin down with certainty. Although according to ancient Chinese text it was some time in the fourteenth century. Musket was first produced by Chinese weapons experts. Early muskets took more time to reload and it could not be reliably pierce armor. They were expensive and unreliable. The musket's reliability and ease of use had improved by the seventeenth century. No highly trained soldier or nobleman require to use it. A longbow and arrows could be construed easily from locally available materials.