hi pizzaflix, did some of your episodes of long john silver get deleted by youtube? i'ts just i thought you had more episodes uploaded than what i can see?, or maybe i was wrong, thanks.
That pistol Long John is cleaning at table in the beginning of the episode has got a bore the size of my whole fist, the caliber of the ball it explodes out must be in excess of .65 ! I've never fired one - but the recoil or 'kick' to it must break your wrist. They carried them in the waist of their trousers - can you imagine one going-off as you grabbed it ! One vasectomy and 'big-toe-ectomy' coming-up😄 🥺 😬 - 🤪😭🤪😭🥴 Before the 'safety'. Simply pull-back on the hammer - and wait a week or two to be able to hear again; it ain't like the movies friends, - the BOOM and 'shock-wave' by itself would've been enough to match a concussion shell ! Close range - very. No barrel-length, no boring, no bullet to speak of. Just a big fat lead ball that was probably an amorphous blob even before it left the barrel. I swear, those pistols looked like smaller versions of the 'blunderbuss'. What a nasty weapon that was. They were like 'murder-machines'. Or the French trick of loading cannon with lengths of chain. The damage they'd do was incredible. All this gabbing behind Long John cleaning that little hand-held cannon ! Sorry. Check-it-out, - you're looking right down the barrel at around ~ 1:07 all the way through to around ~ 1:44 ! The thing is absolutely enormous ! That barrel and muzzle are the size of my arm ! I thought it was a piece of gas or water pipe at first. You don't get the very same shot twice too, this was before the measured containment of shells. So I guess it depends on charge. I wonder how many blew-apart. There was no cap and paper-filled amount each time. Paying no attention and tipping that flask for 'just-a-bit' too-long - and KABOOM ! Those things must have been just as dangerous on the butt-end of that thing !
