What Are Pirates Weapons

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Pirate Weapons
By: Adriana POW! Boom! Bang! The Guns were fired at the ship across the sea. The pirates joined together and fought off their enemies with the different varieties of weapons: guns, cannons, and knives. Pirates used different weapons because each type of weapon had varying effects on their targets.
To begin with pirates used guns, such as muskets. They were best for long range shooting because of the long barrel in the front. Muskets weren’t that accurate compared to other guns. Muskets are also known to be really slow with reloading so pirates preferred Blunderbusses. Compared to muskets, blunderbusses were best with close range battles. Another Gun that was preferred over the other guns was a Pistol because it was easy to

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