I've fired many guns but a flintlock only once. Best fun I ever had pulling a trigger. Ye olde guns are so ridiculous by modern standards but they make you appreciate history. A matchlock was state-of-the-art in it's day, glad some people keep the old skills and knowledge alive. Primitive technology is quite difficult for modern people.
I had a similar experience with muzzle loaders. When I was a kid, my Dad and I did a fair amount of shooting. Even though we had all manner of revolvers, autoloading rifles, shotguns and pistols, I was surprised at how much fun it was to use a cap and ball muzzle loader. Especially me being around 10 or 11 at the time, it was always so fun to mag dump into the hillside, I almost begrudgingly learned how to load and operate the old .50 cal, but I was instantly hooked. Then my Dad got me a single shot pistol, and I'd cut open shotgun shells and use an extra wad to turn it into a little shotgun. When some people are bummed because they're limited to using muzzle loaders, either because of their local laws or their personal legal status, I always tell them that they certainly won't be lacking in the fun factor of recreational shooting.
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excellent presentation, especially disputing the term "12 apostles" for the nickname of the chargers on the bandolier. It was very much a later Victorian indulgence. 👍
In America, you had a possible's bag. This contained a powder measure, a ball starter, a percussion cap holder, patches & lead balls of different diameters.... Each patch was 10/ 1,000's of an inch or 1 caliber= one .490 round ball & 1 greased patch for .50 caliber or 1/2 inch in diameter=.050 or 50/100's of 1 inch.😊
Usually bandoleer or powder horn was depending on what musket you used. A caliver or arquebus would more likely use the horn and portetache and since they were lighter, more suitable for more mobile troops, nations that relied more light troops would also be more commonly seen with this setup. The bandoleer is typical for the heavy musket since the charges were also much bigger (i guess the spout would be way too large) and the heavy musket needs a different style of fighting. But of course you could load a caliver with a bandoleer.
Whats with the music? Why the hell is it so eerie? I can't focus on what the guy's talking about because I feel like I'm listening to some creepy-pasta
Brother Namaste 🙏 from India Bharat. You really put in great effort into the video. Congrats. You are sincere and honest. God bless you. Just one point, is "bore" number of bullets out of one pound of lead or half a pound of lead? Sorry, if I am wrong. Great effort Brother. 🙏🙏🙏
That the first recorded instance of a firearm in Ireland is one clan guy shooting another clan guy is the most Irish thing I have heard outside of potatoes.
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Certainly when you're talking Brown Bess type flintlock and cap weapons you're in the era of higher quality powder with reliable ignition systems. Back in matchlock and aquebus days the coarser powder was more difficult to ignite so a finer grain was used for the primer. Fine grain would be used in sporting applications through the muzzle loader period and for very accurate rifle shooting up until the development of modern black powder which all burns brilliantly.
Crushing coarse powder into finer granules helps some firearms. And it's the same powder, just crushed smaller. I've seen this work perfectly in the pan charger.
People don't realise just how large a caliber those old guns were. A lot of muskets and pistols around the Napolionic war period were .75 caliber, it would be like getting hit with a Billiard Ball.
I'm, curious if you could point out the types of weapons used in the Battle of Beresteczko Poland [1651] What were the type of firearms -- or was it swords and lances. Thank you.
Bohemia has more than 600 years of gun rights of commoners to own and carry guns. Longer then any country on the globe. Even today far more than UK, Australia or Canada. It's how they could fend off Crusaders in the west and Ottoman Empire on the east, both of which use "cold arms". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Czech_Republic
