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The two-fingered salute is well a known insult in Australia too. It originated in the middle ages in England, when the English logbow was one of the most feared weapons available. It was notoriously dificult to draw but when fired by a trained archer could fire 15 arrows a minute each of which was capable (when fitted with the appropriate arrowheads) of killing men, penetrating iron armour, and bringing down horses at over 200 yards. The technology for the bow was widely available and simple, but only the English bothered to invest time into training men capable of drawing the bow. The index and middle fingers were used for drawing the bow. So the typical treatment given to captured English archers by the French was to cut off the middle and index fingers and send the men back to the English Army, unable to use the weapon they had trained their whole lives mastering.
Hence English archers got into the habit of waving their two fingers at the french accross the battlefield indicating that they were still capable of killing them at will. As far as I have heard the origin of the middle finger insult derives from the sam gesture, though earlier references to the gesture date to Roman times. Muskets and all firearms now as at any other time can be fired with any finger. It simply makes most sense to use the index finger as it is the first non-opposable digit on the hand. using any of the subsequent fingers means that the index finger is in the way.
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