List of traditional armaments
Missile name Launcher Description brief
Sling bullet sling shot a sizeable round stone or pebble
Dart ( missile ) blow gun a sharp thorn attached to a bead or feathers
arrow bow dagger tip on a wooden shaft and flight feathers
Quarrel /Bolt cross bow like an arrow minus the fletching
flechette musket edged debris , flak fired from muzzle loader
Bullet guns many forms
Lead shot /buck shot shotgun a number of tiny metal pellets
Shotgun slug gun cylindrical lead projectile
buck and ball gun numerous tiny balls with one big one
ball ammunition gun conical lead projectile
pellet ( air gun ) air gun/blow gun
BB gas gun tiny metal ball singularly fired
Ranged weapons -- Bullets/Missiles/Projectiles
Ammunition—general info
This list of traditional armaments tries to include all traditional armaments. Essentially anything that is wieldable, excluding modern (post American civil war) firearms. It lists everything by typology in easy-to-reference tables for your searching convenience. This catalog does not however presume to list every dialectal variant for the word spear, sword, etc. It only attempts to provide a broad range of designs or unique characteristics of various arms of historical or regional significance, i.e. items that stand out from the standard norm. This catalog may include some modern examples but it tries to lean towards weapons of the past. For mythological or fictional arms see: