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I've always loved how many idioms from this single act. Lock stock and barrel, going off half cocked, biting the bullet, flash in the pan, all from a history of shooting flintlock weapons.
Well if you’re fighting one on one you’ll likely fire and switch straight to the batter formation. But seriously often one on one fights back then erupted into hand and knife fights.
I think the reason almost everyone misses with a flintlock in modern times is because in almost every instance I've seen someone fire it, they press the trigger, expect an instant recoil so the aim lowers before the ball comes out.
"OI WANKER! MAYBE IF YOUR MOTHER WASN'T AN ELDERBERRY, YOU WOULDA HIT THAT!" "OH ITS ON YOU SCRUMMY LASS!" average conversation while reloading a musket.
Nice joke but many professional soldiers in the 18th century could fire more than 4 rounds per minute, and a regular soldier had to fire at least 3 rounds per minute
@@martinbryaskov7709this kid even slowly showed us how to do it in under a minute. I wouldn’t be shocked if a trained soldier could let rip a ton in a minute
I'm sure I read or saw somewhere that they'd have someone loading and handing them guns, or they're have rolls of people firing, falling back and loading and replacing the front line when they're ready
Just imagine doing this under fire. Those men back in the day were very quick at reloading and had to be Very accurate at shooting. You wouldn't want to miss the target 🎯
I can’t imagine The anxiety of trying to reload your weapon while the enemy on the other side is very close to finishing his reload and he’s got you as his next target.
This is how the war used to be in the olden days, the one in front would shoot and when the first reloaded, the one in the back would be the next, and the one in the back would shoot again before the one in front would shoot again after reloading.
As a Civil War reenactor, I felt a little too immersed in my first battle to the point where I was shaking trying to load even though I wasnt actually getting shot at. I've shot a musket on my own before, but once you're on the receiving end of nearly 100 booming rifles at 30 yards, it can sound a bit scary. My ears were ringing and I kept missing the barrel trying to pour down powder to where I only got like 2/3 of the powder charge in. I soon fell and within minute, the Rebels were already marching past my body and a few others. Very fun times indeed.
When we were young, my friend made a flintlock pistol. I bought it from him and used it to shoot some tin cans. I had to bury it because my parents were against guns, and I was a minor. Sometimes I miss that thing. By the way, I live in the countryside, so having this kind of weapon was not far-fetched. We could easily buy gunpowder and even pellets, but the rules have changed since then.
Thats why the line infantry didnt use these, they used smoothbore muskets which were a bit faster to load. Usually only the skirmishers and sharpshooters used the type of long rifle you see in the video
@@themightyarcher3388until you miss cause your pistol is smooth bore and you smoke the neighbours dog and have to resort to the cannon loaded with grapeshot at the top of the stairs
@@grasseaterneil flintlocks were smooth-bore. Rifling and the shape of modern ballistics weren’t implicated until around the American Civil War with percussion-cap muskets.
Yes, but in between turns you were mostly preoccupied with trying to ignore the one guy near you who just got his head blown open by the shot that did fly true, and the agonized screaming from the guys who were hit by shots that almost flew true. There was no snacking on Doritos between turns like we get to enjoy nowadays.
That is true but I've never seen a bayonet on an American long rifle. They were civilian hunting rifles that were adapted for sniping because of their accuracy but they were much slower to load than a smoothbore musket. The Brown Bess and Charleville were military arms and were fitted with bayonets.
If it was me firing me first shot and not being advised on this i would have unwelded it from my shoulder and thought wtf is wrong with it? It would then fire while i was inspecting it and leave me in shock
Not quite the same, but soldiers were able to fire at just under 4 rounds a minute with muskets, averaging a reload just over 15 seconds, which isn't bad considering.
@avoidmicah. nope. Common myth. Yes, you weren't going to hit 1moa. Yes, you weren't gonna snipe someone from 500 yards away. But at 100 yards, soldiers could hit the overwhelming majority of shots on a human sized target. You couldn't win a precision shooting competition with them, but you could shoot someone a decent way away with basically guaranteed accuracy. The reason they were thought to be inaccurate is because soldiers don't actually want to shoot each other, and would aim at the sky/ground in battle.
I could be wrong but I heard that when they first lined up for battle, they staggered the firing. Not all the soldiers would shoot at once. For example 1/3 would fire and while they were reloading the others would take their turns. When the last group fired, the first group was ready to fire. When I was in the Navy that's how we fired the twin 40mm saluting cannons. A 21 gun salute with two manually loaded cannons had to be done just right. When one was reloading the other one was shooting.
Horse archer logic: I'm fast and I can shoot arrows rapidly. Musketeer logic: Bullets are more lethal, I'm already loaded, and there are 5 of me for every one of you.
@@sinisterisrandom853710 shots a min would be more fitting for a late 1800s single shot rifle. In practice the fire rate could go up to 4 or 5 a min but under battle condition you'll get a 3 or a 4 if the men are extremely well trained and have high morale the French and the Prussians were a little ahead of main land powers but the Brits could keep up with them most of the times.
@@hanzchii9245 we had Swedish troops at our air defense artillery school and they were all so tall even the women I wouldn’t want them as an enemy 😂 also unrelated but the Qatari troops had one guy that I swear to god was so fcking fat he actually waddled instead of walking, must’ve been an oil princes son because they only sent the best troops over because they had to learn like 3 different patriot operator jobs
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Remember lads, if you ever see yourself in an unfortunate circumstance where your musket is empty you pull out your trusty sword on the currently terrified rapscallion invading your home
I'm so used to seeing/hearing the round go off instantly the moment the trigger is pulled, that for a split-second I thought it was a dud, forgetting that it's a musket
Yes, but this rifle was not a common war weapon. It was for hunting or maybe "sniping" in warfare. War was primarily fought with a smooth bore musket, and in volleys.
@@brianery Correct. And volley fire changes things as well. And it was standard to have not just teams of muskets, but lines of them which could step forward or have a fired line step back. General warfare was much about moving pieces and yes, much like chess. It's interesting to read into accounts of non-traditional warfare of the times though which has pretty much become standard now days for many small units and guerilla warfare tactics.
People forget these were *accurate*, a lot of people depended on hunting to feed themselves and used rifles to do it. If you missed 90% of the time and scared all the deer away you'd never eat.
@@boydrid Yeah, my older brother went out to Friendship and shot many times. Won a few competitions if I remember right. With a rifled barrel, these guns are surprisingly accurate. Most of the 18th century guns were smoothbore muskets, those were spray-and-pray.
I feel like I remember this exact thing happening in a duel I want to say the US don't quote me on it I can only vaguely remember something like this happening
