See also: cannon bunk muzzle-loader shotgun bunk
- 1947  When he went to bed in the "muzzle-loading" bunks that lined the walls of the shanty, he stuck his knife in a niche of the wall at his head.
- 1959  Times have changed mightily since those days of the bucksaw, the horse, the log bunkhouse, and the "muzzle-loading" bunks in which men slept side by side under a long "canvas" made of wool army blankets sewn together.