Operating the 17th century matchlock musket - TEASER 

Plus carrying those cartridges around on your chest with a burning fuse!

@@thomaszaccone3960 They're called 'apostles' because you carry 12 of them.

That's what the pikemen were for.

@@doglover31418 Interesting

@@doglover31418 Called "apostles" by people who think this an old term. It's a pervasive myth. They are called many things, chargers being very common. Sadly quite a few books which are sloppy on research keep repeating it. 12 chargers are common but not the only number carried.

When you say everyday use are you hunting with one? Or are they your choice for home defence or concealed carry ? Cause that would be awesome ! Haha

I own a 76 cal matchlock made in Italy, and I don't often use the apostles. And the match I keep tied around my left arm and pinned by my thumb, not hanging off my front, super sketchy to have it hanging off your gear. They are really fast ignition in comparison to later lock based single shot weapons, and because of the barrel construction you cannot use synthetic powder. It's a hell of a lot of fun, but honestly you end up spending a ton of money on handmade lead or a mold and all your powder, wads and matches(I make my own matches) it quickly turns Into a $4k gun. Which kinda sucks.

​@@LouisE-mp8lx Maybe in Italy it's different? You're certainly right about the US though--I do this myself (but with flintlocks).

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the match is slow because hes actually pulling the trigger slowly

Ahh yes. The Spanish Tercio

same

I don't see the connexionwith the brown bess specifically

@@TheVoodooMaker the brown Bess was a flintlock. An improvement over matchlocks

@@johnnybagofdoughnuts4193 I know. That's why I'm pretty confused. Why did you mention the brown bess specifically and its longevity ?

because@@TheVoodooMaker

​@@TheVoodooMakerbecause the brown Bess was the most mass produced rifle during this time and was heavily relied on by the British army because of how fast you could reload per shot

Many thanks for your good words!

Or being charged by cavalry/spearmen/swordsmen.

The discipline of battle hardened pike/pike and shot formations is something truly lost to most militaries nowadays

@@francesco3772 I was thinking much the same thing. Musketry superiority was surely as much a matter of keeping your nerve and discipline as of straight shooting.

@@francesco3772 Because they were highly trained professional soldiers and professional soldiers may loot, rebel or change sides when they are not get paid. That is why political leaders switched to conscription whenever the technology became available

@@okancanarslan3730 Almost all political leaders in the pike and shot era were troopers of horse fighting on the field themselves. Changing sides and looting were issues among mercenary forces but the main reason was larger wars requiring larger armies. So governments took to forcing ordinary boys and men into conscription using press gangs. Nowadays with the abolition of the draft (and the nuclear standoff) we have gone back to wars being fought by large mercenary forces.

It's overall an incredible story/period that many people not only don't know about but how dangerously close MA/CT/RI/Plymouth came to losing the war.

cite your claims, swine

@@stansfieldmcelroy what are you refuting?

British, 1670s... pick one

Yes, this is exactly right. I;ve researched this in detail when I was working on my masters. This is a little know aspect of New England early history. Nor is there much mention today of the old historical accounts of terrible Indian atrocities against the settlers - particularly in Western Massachusetts. Horrible acts of bodily torture and death were visited on entire captured families, and the shocking accounts of these discoveries are recorded for all to read. Many of the Indians behaviors were are far cry from the "Noble Savage" as portrayed in many a Hollywood movie. One of their favorite pastimes of cruelty was tethering a captive to a pole with room to move about. Then the tribe, from old women to even young children, would take turns running in and delivering non-fatal bloody injuries the captive, gouging out eyes, cutting off genitals, fingers, scalps, etc. and this went on for days. The only negative for the tribe was issuing a fatal wound too soon to spoil "the fun".

He is boring: no new plastic camo stuff with thermal vision scopes, just old junk. :)

@@capandball I beg to differ. Can't wait for this video.

@@capandball Think you could get that matchlock kitted out with a composite stock, Picatinny rails, and optics by maybe, say, April the first?

I know it's a meme, but what's funny is that the founding fathers weren't even born yet when these were in use. The newfangled flintlock was about as old to the founding fathers as the Civil War is to us.

0,5 shots :)

@@capandball Or, with a couple of weeks practice (according to Jacob De Gheyn); 2,5 - 3 rounds a minute! (That'll be really quite rushed though, and not going through quite every move described in his drill book.)

Yes. AND slightly older versions used a very different trigger, one which resembles the trigger guard of this one.

@@markhatfield5621 Yes, based on a crossbow tiller, which was the most applicable contemporary technology. In the oldest designs there wasn't even a trigger mechanism to speak of, just a bar with a pivot in the middle and a match holder on the end. Pull up on bar and gun goes boom.

he controlled the rate of descent, you can snap it down fast, but I find that's when the misfires happen.

Really if the rifling etc where the same the only difference is the ignition. I would see them preforming the same I hunt with flintlocks in Canada (fall,winter) and you really have to give credit to people who used these weapons in the past I couldn’t imagine trying to keep a match lock burning in the dead of winter or rain. Flint lock you can use a cows knee. Do you hunt with your matchlocks ?

@@warplease I don’t hunt in general, but I do compete in primitive biathlon. (Muzzleloader target shooting combined with a snowshoe race) Low temperatures combined with adverse weather conditions. As long as it is cold and relatively dry, keeping the matchlock working is no problem. Keeping my fingers working is the issue. Matchlocks are no good for hunting because of the smoke and the long waiting while the match burns. Yes, it’s all about the inside of the barrel, the load, and the sights. A friend of mine made a copy of an early 18th c matchlock target rifle. You read that right. The Germans were using matchlocks for target work long after they were obsolete on the battlefield because of that zero lock time. It shoots like a laser beam.

Yes i do. I will include the process in tge film about tge Landsknecht arquebuse.