I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians broke into my house. "What the devil?" I said, as I grabbed my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blew a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he was dead on the spot. Drew my pistol on the second man and missed him entirely because it's smoothbore and I later found out that it nailed the neighbors dog. I had to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot. "Tally ho lads!" I yelled, as the grape shot shredded two men in the blast, the sound and shrapnel set off car alarms. I mounted my trusty war horse, Charles, and charged the last terrified rapscallion. Impaling him with my standard issue 2 foot bayonet. He bled out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds were impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
Honestly, the story of someone actually doing this rather than just owning a modern firearm would probably be a more effective deterrent. Just because of how insane and surreal it sounds.
There’s a reason duels we’re so uncommon after around the 1840s. The only actual historical duel I can think of (after the civil war) is two drunk guys getting into a fight and dueling over it. One died.
Caleb: *insults both of them for bad aim and being unable to hit* Also Caleb: *standing in between them just off to the side like that ain't still a danger zone*
Whenever you make fun of revolutionary war dudes for standing in a firing line, remember they did that because you have a better chance of actually hitting a guy when like 20 guys all fire at the same time.
Yes but that's an even trade. The enemy has a higher chance of hitting you because you're in a group. That explanation isn't wrong but it's incomplete. The thing is, when cavalry is factored in, you want to do as much damage as possible. A loose group of men would be terrible against a cavalry charge, not just because of the lack of initial damage but also because they won't have a line of bayonets ready for the cavalry charge.
Funny thing is we still do that to this day, granite we take cover and everything now, but shooting from a rough line has been so effective we haven't had the need to change it
My dad told me of an allegedly true story from Imperial Russia where one of the dualists was a doctor and knew that over 70% of deaths are caused by fibers from clothes getting inside you and causing contamination, so he showed up to a duel naked. After a series of good laughs and drinks, both parties became good friends.
Part of why people solved duels with pistols was because there was far less fear of death then using swords and no matter how good you were both of you had the same chance of winning lol.
It’s true! You ever seen video of a cop killing a criminal? You need to empty an entire clip into them to finish them off.. However, swords are terrifying. Go search cold steel if you want a most specific answer.
@@JohnnyWolfblood Gun > Sword. Swords were mostly terrifying in the days of shit medical abilities, son. When no one knew you needed to sterilize your tools, the area, and the wound. Catch any kind of hands you might die of infection before anything else.
@@Kayriel Infections were a real danger but even the common every day knife can really easily kill you even with modern medical technology. Now did more people die from swords because medicine used to suck? Yes. But swords were also really REALLY effective at killing people. And still are. Guns sucked for a really long time before they were good and it's why saber wielding cavalry were still a real and highly effective thing even in the civil war. It was only after the civil war that guns got good enough that melee warfare was made mostly obsolete.
Yes, but the problem is, anyone can use a gun. Sword fighting requires skill. If only guns didn't exist, the number of casualties occuring in these times and before would be much less
It's hilarious because I enjoy reading up on famous battles throughout history, but sometimes I feel a little guilty for being so fascinated by stories about -- often enough -- hundreds, if not thousands, of people dying. Which is why my favorite war is probably the American Revolution, where they were all using guns like these. It's like, in a battle of a thousand soldiers on each side, the losing side will be, like, "12 dead, 42 wounded, about 950 captured".
This is my FAVORITE skit that you've done. People are shocked that Pistol duels were commonplace and the norm nowadays. Well this is why. The end of duels actually was directly caused by the improvement of pistols, around 1880. This was also around the end of the Wild West, and where all the western movies take place. I wonder why...
Really jamming is more of a thing with automatic or semi automatic weapons... Single shot black powder would, more precisely, misfire but not actually jam (though sometimes shit could get stuck in the barrel, like if a panicking kid in the revolutionary war loaded two balls accidentally, and then damaged their own gun trying to fire, that could be considered a true muzzle-loader jam haha)
@@JimRFF I think they found an American Civil War musket like that with two musket balls accidentally loaded into the gun, so yeah that’s something that actually happened
That`s why every gun needed a bayonet lmao, you shoot once and back to swordfighting or you hand it to a 15 year old to reload it like in the Treasure Island novel. Or even better, in the novel every character carried 2 muskets and like 8 pistols on them so they could fire more than once every half an hour
while the lethality of the shots is vastly underestimated the accuracy is....about on par yea. Although it should be mentioned the duel rules were explicitly made to reduce the lethality, the whole spin around and immediately shoot thing was introduced because there was too many deaths if people were actually allowed to aim these things before shooting. And oh boy did you need to aim if you were to hit anything you actually wanted to hit
@@bungbananaman dependedd a bit on the ammo and exactly where you hit but yes, it was possible to do that, although it should probably be called 'crack open' since that is what would happen with a well placed shot to the head
@@bungbananaman that is what early handheld firearms were called 'handcannon' (translated name) and the real bottleneck to their widespread use was reliability, reload time and ease of production. No general wanted to use weapons that would not work if it rained and cost more than a horse to create.
Andrew jackson was at a funeral once, and an assassin jumped out of the bushes with two pistols, both backfired, then andrew jackson pulled his gun which backfired, and then he proceeded to beat the assassin unconscious almost killing him with his cane.
I mean, they chose the till first blood duel, so the duel was not finished. But this skit is fairly accurate, gun powder guns could have killed you on the spot of course, but it was possible to get hit and not be wounded, and even more common was be wounded but survive. The most hate fueled duellists would battle till third blood. Can you imagine having been shot two times and going like "I ain't done yet mate"
this is 18th century, no one used matchlocks anymore. This was the era of the flintlock, barely any delay, less than a quarter-second in a properly loaded weapon.
I wanna be that guy and mention any time the gun is pointing down there's a real chance the bullet rolls out, which is why they always held the barrels to the sky
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If I remember correctly back in the Napoleonic wars bows actually had more killing power, but guns were used instead because they were loud and made your enemy run away quicker. Gotta make sure there's lots of survivors who run away so they can work your factories when you beat them lol.
@@WarriorofChrist612 Yes. Both bows and guns existed, *"but guns were used instead because they were loud and made your enemy run away quicker. Gotta make sure there's lots of survivors who run away so they can work your factories when you beat them lol."*
@@jimothyworldbuilding3664 This is the 1800’s. Guns were used because they were loud and could destroy plate armor during the 1500’s, however this is the 1800’s where muskets have gotten way better and using bows were simply a death wish (Natives). Also pretty weird response…. you just repeated your original comment and I never said bows didn’t exist, I said they weren’t used and were obsolete during the 1800’s.
@@WarriorofChrist612 and he’s saying they weren’t used too dipshit, and actually is right. France was deeply in debt and couldn’t afford top of the line weapons, instead solely using weapons they already had for the first few napoleonic wars, and they were indeed using very old musket designs that were overall less effective then the bow and arrow. But since napoleon was more focused on the conquer and conscription thing, they opted for usage of incredibly loud cannons and guns to force a surrender far faster due to sheer intimidation
@@thegodofallakira6349Really writing a paragraph like i care. How about you get out of your moms basement and leave what I said be. Calling me a dipshit online for no reason… definition of a keyboard warrior.
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@@icarue993 Yeah, that was what pirates like Blackbeard did historically. Anything else wouldn't be practical - it would take too long to take pistols out of a bag during a fight, and having 6 or more holsters would make walking uncomfortable, so they just strapped loaded pistols to their chests and pulled one out whenever they wanted to shoot someone.
@@nathangamble125 Edit: i forgot to mention i am talking about Assassins Creed 4 and then comes edward who literally loads his guns in the middle of a fight in complete calmness while being stabbed by three guys and then using another guy as a shield for the other guy that is on a hous and shoots him. and then the fight can continue for the last guy that you extra reloaded your guns for because you wanted to shoot him in the head.
Mark Twain wrote about that. I think he compared an utterly pointless pistol duel to one of the German fraternity sword duels and it was a very fun read. In summary it read like a meme: the virgin gun vs chad sword.
it wasn't just him, it was any pirate that could afford several guns (by afford, I mean stealing). he's just famous. the navy guys probably had a couple too... but I'm not sure...
This is why they came up with some bizzare guns, with lots of barrels but pretty much dangerous for the user and impractical. Such gun is Duckfoot pistol and Nocks volley gun (7 barrels flintlock). These never widely produced, melee weapons always come into handy in boarding action. The flintlock pistols are common for boarding action, one is enough but there really no rules of how much you can carry.
People would do the same with cap and ball revolvers. Took awhile to reload the cylinder, so they'd have a bunch of pre loaded cylinders. Or they'd have more than one pistol. Love the old 1830s/80s black powder pistols
Freaking hilarious and accurate. That’s why dueler’s had “best men” to load and prepare the weapons. The pistols were nearly useless at 20 paces and often took several attempts to reach resolution. That said make no mistake, when the 52 Cal. ball found its mark it was quite deadly.
Fun fact, the "best men" were actually there to make sure the other dueling party was following the rules, look for the Scottish dueling codex(I think that's what it's called) they also loaded the pistols to make sure they functioned correctly, and made terms of which the duel would be enacted upon. Real interesting stuff. Also the pistols back then were both smooth bore and rifled, so it just depended on the skill and choice of the duelists for which pistol or weapon in general they would choose
Somewhat accurate other than like what you said if you got hit by that ball your dead af. Those pack more damage than a modern bullet. But one other thing they got wrong is people never really fired at the same time. Typically one person would shoot first and then the next person would shoot. Rules were you can’t move, which is pretty obvious.
@@Dk_Thefirst I actually did check one of your skits out, nearly had my ears blown out by my headphones. Trying to figure out how to make sure your channel never gets recommended to me rn
Funnily enough, this was actually one of the reasons why duels stopped being popular. They used to shoot each other and be able to go to work the next day, but when the guns got better people started dying
@@ion_force True but they were nowhere near as accurate as modern firearms. I mean this is why the tactics of lining two opposing armies durectly across a field from one another survived for so long after the invention of firearms.
Yup, most deaths in the Civil war were from dysentery and the gunshots usually weren't fatal and they died from sepsis. People don't realize how much guns sucked. That's part of the reason I always laugh when the right to bear arms is brought up. Not saying you can't own guns, but of your reason is that the guys that f**ked with guns that could barely kill said so, you really need to find another reason.
@@tinamoul Well that's half-true. I mean the lack of adequate Medical Care is a reason why a lot of men died in the Civil War but the weapons in the Civil War were all very effective. What led lot of men to their deaths during the Civil War was antiquated military strategy that didn't keep up with the technology available. You had men marching in a straight line like their forefathers did during the Revolutionary War, while being shot with the Proto versions of weapons in the first World War (Gatling guns, better artillery, repeating rifles, etc.)
Fun fact, they would also jam nearly 10% of the time with a small chance of backfiring. Plus you often had to custom make bullets specific to your gun because barrel sizes weren't standardized.
As someone from the firearms community, this is hilariously accurate (minus the rod getting stuck in the gun and the ball just falling to the ground). Oddly enough, if one of the duelists were wearing boiled leather, hypothetically, the ball would do that.
“And you- it hit your socks! You missed twice in a row what are you doin’?” This shit got me rolling on the floor and curling my toes lmo (3 yrs later btw :3)
Red Dead Redemption is base in the early 20th century. Red Dead Redemption 2 is base in the late 19th century. This video is the 18th century. Guns were much, much different between those different times. You should have reference Assassin's Creed game. Like Ac3 or Ac: black flag or Ac: Assassin hunter which all take place in the 18th century.
