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18th century muskets were generally produced without front or rear sights, but it seems to have been common for soldiers to improvise, using bayonet lugs as a front sight and with a groove cut at the rear of the barrel to line up. Why didn't most muskets get made with sights to begin with?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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