"There are a few other subtle details ... which we don't need to go into in excruciating detail..." YES! Yes we DO! I understand, though one does not want to give away all the secrets to potential forgers, but I want excruciating details! Still, fascinating video! Well done indeed!
I read a sci-fi/post-apocalyptic story in my youth (one of the [in]famous LaserBooks series) wherein a guide had a percussion style revolver, which were common due to society's inability to make good cartridges or some such, only in lieu of caps it used batteries in the grip and a spark plate. Drop the hammer, a connection is made, sparks fly, powder burns, gun goes boom. The safety notches between the chambers were non-conductive so one could carry the piece indefinitely without draining the battery. In fact, in one scene the main character realizes the next morning that he didn't move the hammer to a safety notch after firing so his batteries were dead. Fortunately he had spares. I've always wanted to try this, though I'd imagine one would need more voltage than most of us want toted around next to our bodies.
They made caps in the 1800s with limited industrial capacity. You think we could figure that out. Somebody had to make the first rimfire rounds pretty much by hand
@Erick Konop No doubt they had some of that but not even close like a factory; it probably looked more like a small workshop churning out a few pieces of each component on the same machines.
@@Kamina1703 Those seem random, might well be a tent peg, some hard soil and no hammer at hand. The ones on the throat of the grip, those missed both the butt as well as the trigger guard. Might be a good place to start your count, right?
kwestionariusz1 both my grandparents were antifa, they fought the Nazis across North Africa and Europe.. both were democrats as well.. there is nothing more American than being anti facist... or being a liberal...
kwestionariusz1 are you really this stupid? Do you actually think you can make an argument in any rational way that hitler wasn’t a facist as were his other axis power leaders, Mussolini, Stalin, et. Al.? national socialism had nothing to do with socialist political ideology.. try actually understanding some basic facts before you make yourself look so incredibly ignorant.. socialism and communism are different except in the area where the means of production are owned collectively.. this was not a feature of nazi germany.. god you’re dumb...
kwestionariusz1 yeah, complete sentences and facts always confuse idiots like you.. now off to your virtual kindergarten, little guy. Try to learn something so you can keep up..
That might be about the Tucker & Sherrod guns. The Lt. Governor of Texas at the time was a guy named Crockett. He got himself made a partner in the Tucker & Sherrrod company
Ok now, who wants to see Ian run and gun in a course with this old revolver? Firearms are functional art, shame to not see it in action once, for posterity.
I don't know how feasable it would be for the video production workflow. But if you want a better view of the sight picture you need to go higher on the f-stops. If you can't do it in the available light and the noise is too high if you raise the ISO. Then you could consider taking a still photo of the sight picture with both gun and camera on a tripod and you should then be able to use as high of an f-stop as you want to get as much of the gun in focus as you want. That is, unless you don't have aperture control over the lens... Which is often the case with phone cameras for instance. But yeah. Just something I've been thinking of as I watch these treasures of videos.
Since I know that you really like french firearms I think that if you ever come to France you should go to the Les invalides in Paris its the French military museum and they have a quite large selection of French military weapons.
he has already visited the museum. He even made a video on one of its obscure collections (but not firearm related) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iRsdSBY93sg.html
I find the proud back strap screws interesting. They are the same on their Dragoon. I wonder why?.. They couldn't get them flush or they didn't want to or didn't care ? Thanks Ian very cool.
The lack of ability to make useful quantities of guns is symptomatic of the problems that made the South’s defeat inevitable after the first few months of the war.
Downside of having all your economy and supply chain devoted to slaves is that theres no incentive to throw it all away on mechanisation unless its some way of making your slaves more profitable like a cotton gin or a sugar boiler.
Is it possible that Tucker left Tucker * Sherrard because they were selling guns out the back door, rather than sell them to Texas like they were supposed to under their contract?
No offense to the hardcore guys, but I prefer rimfire and centerfire revolvers of the time, I mean cap and ball was effectively obsolete along with minie bullet in this time period.
I imagine someone is going to pay a lot of money to add that to there collection. It would be interesting to know the path it has taken to get to where it is now,
does the army and the the military own and make weapons and ammo companies and factories? This question was on my mind for quite a long time seeing that most gun designers and inventors were officers and engineers in the army as example kalashinkov
There have been official government manufacturers for military arms and equipment throughout history. But that doesn't preclude the existence of private enterprises tendering their own products in the hope for a sale.
FYI: Here is an article on Argyle Tucker from the venerable "The Handbook of Texas," for what it's worth to you. Interesting and enjoyable video, as always. www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/tucker-argyle-william
