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I once saw a comment (here) which said something like : "... during training an officer spread a white sheet as large as a line infantry unit 100 meters away from his own line; almost all muskets hit their targets", meaning muskets were not THAT inaccurate. Can anyone help me clear this point?

by /u/Jinglemisk in /r/AskHistorians

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