Examinig an original Lorenz M1863 cartridge 

Thunk about all of the history that cartridge had to survive to serve as a technical example. Military museums have practical purposes aside from housing curiosities. Great video!

Love having my morning coffee with you.

It's amazing they let you pour out the powder and examine it. Super cool

Excellent little bit of research. 😊👍

Fascinating peace of history, thanks for sharing with us 👍

Excellent video as usual.

Fantastic video. Thanks !

I'm a bit surprised by the pure Tallow. Either they had very moderate summers where they fought or their lube melted. My lube is Bear fat 30%, Tallow 60% & bees wax 10%. In the winter I sometimes leave out the beeswax but that winter mix becomes a liquid at about 26.6 Celsius

Always spot on with precise demonstration of well researched procedure with zero fluff...... Much appreciation

Thank you so much for this video! Perfect timing as I just acquired a Pedersoli Lorenz musket!

Interesting thank you

Thank you Sir, Very interesting. Köszönöm.

Amazing!

Fantastic video!

Excellent video!

I really enjoy these types of videos.

Just starting my day with coffee and your video is the best. Well done and thanks again.

Always enjoy your history lessons on black powder munitions. Dave in USA

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Really interesting, though I was quite afraid when I saw the professor beginning to open the cartridge... but it's obvious he respected this rare witness of past history, so thanks and well done. I remember I saw last year a video of a guy opening an authentic box (not a cartridge, a complete box !) of Enfield Snider cartridges before firing them... I made a remark, saying it was a kind of crime against history and totally pointless, but guess what ? This sucker laughed at me... Personnally, I had the chance to find some thirty years ago a very well preserved paper cartridge for French An IX musket dating from the Napoleonic period or the years just after (don't ask me how I know that, it's linked with the place where it was discovered by the seller, there were three of them, no more). Since then, I put it in a glass tube and never open this tube, let alone open the cartridge. It survived such a long time that I won't even dare to touch it...

Excellent and informative; thank you for posting! Will you have a video of you using them?

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I was going to ask about the loading procedure with the backwards lead but got the answer from one of the comments.

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Sir...what are the dimensions of the 3 papers to make the cartridge...hard to follow the video...Thanks !!

Como siempre su página es excelente. Lastima que lo presenta solo en ingles. Saludos desde Uruguay.

Loading my Civil War Zouave seems so much easier and faster.

Exact duplicate out standing now to duplicate the black powder

I am very curious about the lab results, especially the density. Mid 19th century powder was at the top of its development. Your nation depended on your military's powder. I would love to compare 18 and 19th century powders.

@Capandball Hy Balazs, what kind of lubrification you put on the end of the paper cartridge to lube the bullet?

Great video, yet again. Thank you. I have my own Lorenz M1863 here in the UK. You demonstrated the cartridge with the compression bullet. I have a mold being made in Germany for the later Minie style Podewils type bullet but cannot find one who can make the compression type. Do you know such a maker? I believe the Pedersoli example is wider than the original Thank you. Peter.

When you said the powder was made of coal, do you mean like heating coal? Ive never heard of powder being made of anything but charcoal before.

Do you think the powder was originally that polished, or has it become more polished over the last century as the cartridge is moved/handled/etc?

Did you say beef tallow for the lubricant?

Speaking of Austrian muskets, do you have M1784 with you? Even if it isn't in live fire condition, we would like to know more about its self-priming barrel structure.

7:30 Why is the bullet pointing towards the rest of the cartridge? Isn't that backwards?

Tallow melts in your hand. The only way to improve it alone is to select only hard fat to render like caul fat. I know a lot of people are shaking their head at it alone, the animal matters as well. I've only eaten bear but I guess the tallow is better from them. Sure is gamey tho. And sheep is downright offensive. Never keep it from deer either. Are you just using beef then?

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Hi. Any plans on doing an EDC showcase video? Or perhaps even a livestream for audience interactions outside of the comments section? Take care.

I'm wondering why are you not using some gloves when handling things like this?

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