Ames 1840 Heavy Cavalry Saber

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Discussing and "slashing" with an original Ames Model 1840 Heavy Cavalry Saber made in 1857.
Video we did years ago with my 1860 Light Cavalry Saber: • 1860 Light Cavalry Saber
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@hickok45 Год назад

Video we did years ago with my 1860 Light Cavalry Saber: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_8vKVopmGh8.html

@mrsalamander9246 Год назад

How old were you when this saber was made?

@kennyh5083 Год назад

Happy to see that you are alive and well and doing ok.

@elizabethmiles9238 Год назад

Yankee and Confederate Saber Sword

@davestelling Месяц назад

The "Ol' Wrist Breaker."

@mickey875 Год назад

I was a 19d cavalry scout in the US army and much like the marine corps cavalry men are often given a saber as an award when I left fort drum my unite gave me one as a going away present. It's a very coveted award to be given most enlisted soldiers under e5 don't get one.

@Karl_I Год назад

I have my dads from when he was a cav scout

@philllax1719 Год назад

Sorry you had to live in upstate new york

@rockyjforay Год назад

Marine Corps allows for NCO sword at the time the Corporal rank is achieved, and is necessary to have for parades, especially if you are leading a unit in the ceremonies.

@docrakidocraki8067 Год назад

@@philllax1719lol, it’s nice if you like the cold/snow. Which I do.

@philllax1719 Год назад

@docrakidocraki8067 I like the cold and snow too, but you can get that in the rockies without all the terrible laws

@nighttow8780 Год назад

Now if you can hit the big gong at 100 yards with that I will be thoroughly impressed.

@larrynason8716 Год назад

Might need adjustable sights for that! But then again we ARE talking about Hickok 45.

@jaydee5156 Год назад

Dang! You stole my idea. Well, you did beat me by a couple of days.

@_What_About_Bob Год назад

Hickok is like a kid again with a sword and pumpkins, awesome! 💯

@KevinSmith-yh6tl Год назад

Who wouldn't be? 😁👍

@ragingjaguarknight86 Год назад

He should form a band and call it "The SLASHING Pumpkins". XD

@davideric27 Год назад

The Kiowa tribe captured one from the US Calvary and still has it on display in their tribal museum

@Plata-ori-plumbu Год назад

I've been a fan of Hickok45 since my high school days, so long ago. I've always Loved his historic gun videos. Now that I'm also a sword collector, this episode just warms my heart. I would Love Hickok45 to do videos on historic swords not only from the Awesome USA, but from around the world. Who's with me on this?

@iowa_lot_to_travel9471 Год назад

That would be a cool idea. 🔥👍💪

@sd4594 Год назад

1840 heavy Dragoon saber. Sometimes referred to as the old wrist breaker. I have a German made S & K, which were purchased and imported by the US military.

@ommsterlitz1805 Год назад

These sabers were all based on the famous Hussars Sabers of the French Empire, the model 1840 is an exact copy of the Royalist 1822 Cavalry Saber

@donaldbuckley971 Месяц назад

I have a S&K 1840 Sabre

@DanielEnfield Год назад

My old church group leader found one of these at his job. His job is to clear out old apartments after the previous occupants had left. I believe it was marked 1864.

@hickok45 Год назад

Probably the 1860 Light Cavalry model. Very similar but lighter.

@DanielEnfield Год назад

@@hickok45 Very interesting! Thank you for the video!

@shivamtyagi8008 Год назад

Lord Hickok reviewing antique swords......love from India 🇮🇳 1857 our first war for Independence

@andreweden9405 Год назад

Butchering a bunch of innocent women and kids, and throwing their bodies in a well to hide the deed is not a "war of independence". I'm not saying that the British should be proud of their role in that conflict, but the Indian side has nothing to be proud of either. In addition, India had already been under Muslim occupation by the Mughals. This is why many Sikhs actually supported the British during the 1857 mutiny: they remembered the other form of occupation, and they didn't want anymore of it.

@GUNNER67akaKelt Год назад

It's funny, I just happen to have a replica of this sword. It's cool to see the actual sword mine was made to immitate. They called these old heavy cavalry swords 'wrist-breakers' because they aren't easy to stop once the blade gets going. Easy to damage a tendon. Of couse, they are meant to be used from horseback, where the momentum of the charging horse does most of the work.

@garlicgorilla6540 Год назад

Hello from the UK, we got butter knives but need a license

@richardmerrill4036 Год назад

You’ve gotta cut those watercress sandwiches!

@anthonyz.4560 Год назад

Oi mate, you got a loicence for that knife

@joshuabessire9169 Год назад

How do you defend against someone armed with a piece of fruit? Giant weights and tigers are effective but hardly concealable.

@robertlennihan3113 Год назад

Moats

@MajorGeneralDiscomfort Год назад

How about hydrochloric acid?

@bubblefish17 Год назад

Hickock still wearing ear protection while reviewing a sword, maybe it is part of him now. :D

@oldmangreywolf6892 Год назад

Better safe then sorry........what did you say?

@hickok45 Год назад

Yeah, my dentist gives me odd looks when I wear it to appointments. :-) Of course, I wear it THERE just for the intimidation factor. You cause ME pain; the ears go in and I cause YOU pain. :-)

@RealMTBAddict Год назад

@@hickok45 Haha I'm stealing that

@incitatusrecordings473 Год назад

Heavy cavalry was intented to get into static melee with the enemy....while the light cavalry had less armor and was mostly for charges (they ran thru the enemy once...sliced all they could then run away and come again.) The heavy cavalry charged and kinda of stood there in the middle of the fight....while the light cavalry was running the enemy up and down basically. Im not very good at explaining this specially in my non native language.

@Gauge-lo2bp Год назад

Perfect explanation

@incitatusrecordings473 Год назад

@@Gauge-lo2bp Thanks! :)

@ns987 Год назад

Not all heavy cavalry had armor in the 19th century. It is more correct to say that a minority of cavalrymen had armor. In France, for example, cuirassiers had armor. But in the USA, the cavalry did not use armor at all. And during the Civil War, all the bulletproof armor of the Napoleonic era became useless. The division into "light cavalry and "heavy cavalry" comes not only from the tasks (which was correctly said), but also from the weight and size of the horses. The design of this saber is apparently French. As I understand it, the saber was only used on horseback on large horses. The length is too long for fighting on foot. Perhaps this saber was not even worn on foot

@billberry8240 Год назад

Beautiful piece of history!!! Thanks for sharing.

@BlazeLeeDragon Год назад

awesome sword, there is a cool civil war channel here on youtube. they talk about they where so long so you can hit enemy from horseback, the strap would have the sword hanging much lower and dragging on the ground if you where on foot. it was designed to be drawn from a horse. Most of the sabers where actually dull and not sharpened the cavalry preferred to charged with their revolvers. a lot of troops in the civil war where not trained to fight with the saber either. crazy stuff in history but fun, thanks for sharing.

@gradybrowning3976 Год назад

I love this kind of content, I was raised up going to Civil War re-enactment battles as a kid and I love History.

@paulcrawford8425 Год назад

My Great uncle Chester was a Cavalry officer in WWI, he told me the horses had their own gas masks.

@andreweden9405 Год назад

It's great to see you cover some bladed weapons again! I'd love to see some more videos featuring tomahawks as well. Thank you!

@chadbane167 Год назад

I had no idea he ever did anything other than guns before

@speedbagboxer7451 Год назад

It’s nice to see ur review of something other than a gun for a change. It’s a nice change of pace. Really cool to see some of the weapons used back in the day.

@discerningmood2674 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful piece. The horse soldier is older than civilization

@jojojalapeno7956 Год назад

I needed something new to cut with, thank you🗿👌🏼

@yokaidigital3033 Год назад

What a beautiful blade and the video so informative as well I appreciated learning the history behind it. Have a blessed day

@shawkorror Год назад

The heavy and light designations refer to the type of cavalry, not the sword or it's weight, although those did vary according to the role of the cavalry too obviously. That's a good looking weapon, seems perfect for it's horseback job of momentum delivered slashes, and ye never need to reload!

@RealMTBAddict Год назад

Its no apostrophe

@48mastadon Год назад

@@RealMTBAddict I can only imagine how busy you must be correcting grammar and spelling mistakes on RU-vid comments.

@jameswoodard4304 Год назад

@@48mastadon , Hey, *it's* a thankless job, but someone has to do it.

@jameswoodard4304 Год назад

I assumed the names for the US sabers, while carried over from the European traditions being copied, still referred primarily to the weight of the sword as 19th-century America had no heavy cavalry. Ergo an American HCS would be a cavalry saber that was heavy rather than the more standard European usage referring to a saber for heavy cavalry. But I'm no expert. Did the US military just retain the old European distinction as "a sword for heavy cavalry" even though we didn't have heavy cavalry?

@jameswoodard4304 Год назад

@@RealMTBAddict *Its. No apostrophe.* Sentence fragments aside, this statement still requires some form of punctuation between "its" and "no." Otherwise, you are claiming that something is not an apostrophe. If you're going to be a pedant, go ahead. More power to you. Just do it correctly, please.

@1165reddragon Год назад

Never thought I'd see the day Hickok is taking a sword to the range. I love it, lol!!😂 Serious question though, think y'all could come by a Patton Saber? That would be so cool to watch.

@Michaels-emptysoul Год назад

One of my favorite channels! Hickok45 and hot coffee. You're very much appreciated sir

@johnpugh327 Год назад

Great video Hickock! Have loved bladed weapons all of my life. Besides, it's nice to let the gong sleep in every once in a while. Thanks so much.

@spectacks Год назад

I love the jingle and crunch of all the spent cartridges on the ground they're walking on, haha!

@johnjackson2256 Год назад

My brother had a cavalry replica Saber. We used to toss potatoes up in the air and slice them with it. What fun we had. My mother really didn't appreciate it when we did it in the kitchen.

@johnjackson2256 Год назад

Sometimes we could hit one twice if we were quick enough

@hickok45 Год назад

I love it. Sounds exactly like something I would do and have done. Great example of how guys' brains work. Of COURSE, we guys are going to do something like this with potatoes and sabers! Why not! :-) Could we break something or get hurt? Yes, but that's the way we're wired. I've often commented that it's a miracle that so many of us guys survive into adulthood. Many experts and social scientists have written extensively on how modern society has made it difficult for guys to be guys. So many of our natural instincts for danger and adventure have been suppressed by society and "civilization." Tossing potatoes and slicing them in the air with sabers might involve a little "danger," but it appears the lack of a little adventure, direction, and maybe even "danger," in boys' and men's lives could be resulting in some real negatives for society.

@emperorhadrian6011 Год назад

By god, it's gorgeous.

@al-masihad-dajjal4565 Год назад

I have the exact same saber gifted to me when my father passed away only difference is the sheath is solid silver and Ingraved ..you bought back memories 👍

@loganchappell6272 Год назад

This is great! I love to see axe and sword videos every once in a while.

@jmfbk Год назад

Of course you went to a gun show in Manassas. I was stationed in Norfolk I won't say where. You are an amazing person. I collected knives then daggers then swords and now I'm up to guns and I tell everyone about you it's not really about likes on Facebook or RU-vid or whatever you are the person I go to besides my grandfather who has passed away for gun knowledge. Never change

@GShileikis Год назад

Well this is unique for Hickok but very interesting as I'm a Civil War buff and love any and all weapons that could have been used at that time. Thanks again!

@wiskadjak 2 месяца назад

From what I've read Ames was a particularly good manufacturer. Sabres for light cavalry and for fighting on foot usually have blades about 30 - 32 inches long and weigh 700 - 800 grams. Your 1840 has a 35" blade and weighs about 1100+ grams or 2.5 lbs. Its not the heaviest cavalry weapon out there but pretty close. To properly wield a sabre of this size would require the same amount of strength and control as using a standard axe with one hand.

@APoleYouKnow Год назад

I was really expecting hickock to cut some bottles instead of shooting them for once. Was not disappointed.

@coochykilla Год назад

Been watching a lot of the Napoleonic Wars lately so it's cool you did a video of this. Thanks

@WinterInTheForest Год назад

@Chickenbutt436105 Год назад

feel free to do more edged weapons/tools in the future

@WhatIfBrigade Год назад

I'm ready for the Matt Easton/Hickok45 collaboration.

@bigmeaty9000 Год назад

as a lifelong martial artist and knife guy i gotta say it's real entertaining to see you so out of your element with a weapon! you're always so certain and practiced with firearms, its easy to forget you're not trained on every single thing

@hickok45 Год назад

Correct. I have no interest in being "trained" on knife fighting. My running shoes will snap into action LONG before I'd be engaging in a knife fight. :-)

@3ducs Год назад

You may have an Ames in your garden shed right now, they make shovels and other implements to this day, hopefully made in the US.

@pbrandon4129 Год назад

I walk past an Ames rake on the way to my office each day. the sticker says since 1774!!

@Kota_555 Год назад

Much love we all appreciate you so much 🥳🫡🤝I’m very grateful for your presence,much love and support from the 19yr old fellow Texan really enjoy your content man!!!

@coopandcarter Год назад

We never really change from young boys playing with our toys.

@j.c.1988 Год назад

That's a beautiful blade.

@davidneal6920 Год назад

Amazing blade 🇺🇸 🇳🇿. Wicked looking slasher!

@Nickword1 Год назад

Something different. I love it!

@siggishwiggish Год назад

graceful looking sword. love the hand guard.

@flamespear86 Год назад

Looks can be deceiving. These heavy sabres are made for hacking and slashing from horseback while charging. Not really great for a proper sword fight on the ground. They even called them wrist breakers because of how heavy they were.

@Drummingwizkid Год назад

This is my yearly post....Will we be getting a Red Ryder BB gun review for Christmas this year?

@thistlenstar 7 месяцев назад

Beautiful sword! I have one that is not quite as nice, and a French m1822 after which it was modeled. The French sword is a few ounces heavier as you said. I suppose the name "wristbreaker" was meant to carry a certain respect. At least regarding the French, the light cavalry would have been the Dragoons (dragons) and the heavy cavalry, the Cuirassiers. As translated the terms "light" and "heavy" would have referred to the shock value of the troops rather than the weight of the sword I believe the light cavalry/Dragoons often dismounted and fought on foot, the Cuirassiers, less often. (NOTE: Take everything I write with a huge grain of salt.) An easy way to tell the M1840 from the M1860 is that the M1840 has a flat spine/back of blade, and the M1860 has a rounded spine. Thanks for the video, it was fun!

@dannydm2133 Год назад

Now that was an Epic video!

@JamesPlaysJP Год назад

One of these days Hickock will do a video on the S&W Tripple Lock

@culleyderouin7434 Год назад

Hickok's catchers mitt hand barely fits in the basket. Lol

@jameswoodard4304 Год назад

I need to get this video to Matt Easton. I feel like he would appreciate it.

@cjr4286 Год назад

I was wondering how Hickok was going to "shoot" this, but he still found a way!

@terrillschneider3778 Год назад

Beautiful specimen

@Pablo668 Год назад

Really nice saber. I have to admit the first thing I wondered was if it was possibly carried during the Civil war. I do envy you being able to go to Civil war battlegrounds/sites, and I'd guess having better access to artifacts from that time.

@scottoquinn4415 Год назад

Milo's sweet tea is awesome!

@markveenstra9378 Год назад

First video where the cowboy survived.

@hicksfred73 Год назад

Great info always thanks

@Allen338LM Год назад

That's a cool piece of history

@foggykudzu394 Год назад

I'm glad you drank the Milo's tea and refilled with water before it met that 1800's beast. Milo's is too good to waste! Great video.

@nicholasmangialardi1618 Год назад

Nice to see blades get some lovin 🗡️🗡️🗡️

@elbino413 Год назад

As a 24 year old with a short attention span, you managed to add a little fun to this and kept me intrigued the whole way. Do with that info as you please 😂. Also my ears perked up when you said Chicopee MA, as I reside in MA. Not a state you hear many people mention.

@KevinSmith-yh6tl Год назад

I'm so glad that the jug of MILO'S was empty of it's delicious contents before you used it for Sabre practice, Mr. HICKOK. 👍

@sirfox950 Год назад

We quite liked our sabres when I served in Custer's Michigan regiment during the Southern Rebellion, we used to hunt rabbits with them and occasionally rebs. Heard they stopped using them in the Indian Wars, dammed kids said they were to heavy, clunky and useless. That's no way to fight with honor

@73North265 Год назад

I feel a cross-over with my fencing instructor, Matt Easton, of Schola Gladiatoria, might be in order!

@paddyleather5434 Год назад

AWESOME!!!

@tcschenks Год назад

For a second I thought I was watching the Scholagladiatoria channel. Good stuff!

@jorgechalub8930 Год назад

Muy bueno tu vídeo saludos desde Argentina

@veryllfattrope16 Год назад

"Very quiet show,about Pumpkins. That's for me peace and quite ."

@Kluberus Год назад

Awesome!

@jamesvatter5729 Год назад

"Now that's a knife!" Hickok 45 out does Crocodile Dundee!

@RealMTBAddict Год назад

Not even a knife

@jasonsliger5430 Год назад

I have one of those and agree that it is heavy. Those calvary soldiers must've been in some kind of shape!

@BraskHouseConcerts Год назад

A friend had a few of these. They are very heavy. Dueling would be very hard.

@the_guitarcade Год назад

Matt Easton of Schola Gladiatoria has lots of videos on military sabers; mostly European but some American ones, as well. As far as I know, from European naming conventions, the difference between a light cavalry saber and a heavy cavalry saber isn't the weight of the sword but whether it's carried by light cavalry or heavy cavalry. That said, I don't think we Americans had light cavalry and heavy cavalry, but just had cavalry, so the weight of the swords may be why we have both light and heavy cavalry sabers.

@jackcottingham6436 Год назад

Dad had one like that the matching serial numbers on the sword and scabbard were 242

@davestelling Месяц назад

Usually had the factory's inspectors initials...(?) (Instead of serial numbers.)

@moredistractions Год назад

Great video! Maybe for a future video you should locate a WWII Japanese katana (our boys brought countless scores of them back from the war), get a rolled-up cutting practice tatami mat and give her a few swings. Guns are endlessly entertaining, but an occasional sword thrown in makes for some pleasant variety.

@pinkofastora Год назад

Definitely need to practice that edge alignment! Those watermelons and two liters aren't gonna cut themselves, lol! Love the video!

@jonmether8276 Год назад

My great great (great?) grandfather fought in the civil war as a calvary man. My family still has his saber somewhere.

@justinweaver8107 Год назад

Very very nice sir!

@bp814 Год назад

Too cool!

@snoozy04 Год назад

Nice sword, more please

@CurtF94 Год назад

I just see the thumbnail,I wondered if he’d be chopping pumpkins and stuff with it 😂

@Ames2pleaze1 Год назад

Ames? That makes this very interesting to me. I'll have to do some further research. Cheers!

@nathanhoard3421 Год назад

I would love to add that to my knife and sword collection

@yoderboys1 Год назад

There was a battle where Nathan Bedford forest bout cut the head off of a union soldier those things were some kind of deadly in the right circumstances.

@brianhillis3701 Год назад

He thought they were silly and too noisy until his brace of pistols were empty. He used a cerimonial sword that had not been sharpened and found it to be effective. He sharpened it and carried all the time after that. It is a slashing weapon primarily. It weight is high so sword fighting is difficult but swing it is easy.

@jonatan0909 Год назад

Hit the gong with it🤣

@joshuabessire9169 Год назад

Can't wait for the woods walk.

@rockyjforay Год назад

Just clicked on here to see how Mr. Hickok45 would put this sword to use on his range 😊

@flamespear86 Год назад

It's amazing how thick sabers are vs say a long sword. Much less tapers and balanced for anything except slashing.

@arthurbradshaw7035 Год назад

I like this kind of content.

@antoninolatorre8355 Год назад

hi, greatest Hikock 45 !!! good video on a splendid cavalry sword best wishes bye bye 🌞🌾

@Soldierinthegarden Год назад

Nice,for any knife thrower's the Glock field knife,spring steel been throwing them for years they never break, bend ,but never break✌️

@shaunault7538 Год назад

Glock junk

@WHITEWHOADIE Год назад

Awesome 😎

@knives2my497 Год назад

That sword is very nice! My last antique I got was a French Gras bayonet. It's basically a sword 😂👍

@judgejimbobrowntown3214 Год назад

1857 damn what a piece of history in your hand imagine the story that bLade has

@rongarrett1366 Год назад

There is a 1913 model saber designed by General George S. Patton III when he was a second lieutenant.

@emperorhadrian6011 Год назад

Every bone in my dutch body is in love with this.

@chrislang5659 Год назад

Appears to have an edge!

@BigT27295 Год назад

Love it love it love it. Heck yea.

@alswann2702 Год назад

A saber keen and a saddle carbine and an Army Remington! So goes the song I Wanna Be In the Cavalry.

@markchoate9021 Год назад

I believe they also used to call the 1840 sabers "wrist breakers" and if you swing one around, you can quickly see why. BTW, when this video popped up, I thought you may have gotten this at the CW show down in Franklin, TN. I "thought" that I saw you there on Saturday, but I was negotiating a deal so I did not break away to check, ha.

@hickok45 Год назад

I was there.