Terry's Breechloading Carbine: Used by Hussars and Confederates

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This capping breechloader was patented in the UK by William Terry in 1856, and adopted (in limited numbers) by the British military in 1860. Approved for cavalry use, it was issued to the 18th Hussars, and also bought by a variety of colonial organizations in New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere. In addition, it was used to some extent any the Confederacy; both J.E.B Stuart and Jefferson Davis had Terrys in their possession when taken into custody.
Mechanically, the system is a bolt action, with a two-lug, rear-locking rotating bolt. It uses a paper cartridge, the base of which is a thick greased felt pad to provide obturation. Not more than 20,000 were made between 1860 and 1870, when the company shut down. Unlike the Sharps (for example), Terry’s system was not really able to be converted to use metallic cartridges, and so sales dried up as the self-contained metal cartridge became widespread.
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@Ensign_Cthulhu 4 года назад

An early experimental breech-loader which, unlike so many others, actually got accepted for military service. Not in massive wholesale contracts, for sure, but it had its day in the sun. Very neat.

@nathanrodriguez780 4 года назад

I love how Ian always refers to guns in his videos as “this guy.”

@viper2-168 4 года назад

It’s wholesome

@sil3nT. 4 года назад

I'm waiting for some sort of outrage about how Ian is "not respecting their preferred pronouns".

@itsapittie 4 года назад

@Dalle Smalhals I remember many nights spent hugging Emma and resting my head on Alice (M-16 rifle and ALICE pack). It seems characteristic of soldiers to name their weapons and sometimes other gear after women from Davy Crockett's Ol' Betsy to Paul Tibbets' Enola Gay. Some cultures -- Scandinavians, for example -- tended to give their swords more warlike names but certainly since the advent of firearms it's been a common theme. I don't know exactly why, but it does imply that soldiers are a lot alike across culture, time, and place.

@nathanrodriguez780 4 года назад

Viper 2-1 Yeah, very folksy. Like an inanimate object is a buddy.

@mikepette4422 3 года назад

Assuming gender ? That's it close the channel down !

@jansenart0 4 года назад

Ian, you should carry parchment and some rubbing wax to make rubbings for illegible engravings and stamps.

@Drew_42 4 года назад

Remember that Ian has to handle the guns how the owner of the gun prefers, and he does look at some pretty vintage guns. I'd imagine not everyone would be willing to let Ian rub wax all over their expensive gun, even if the wax wouldn't damage it.

@Celebmacil 4 года назад

@@Drew_42 You put the paper on the surface, and rub the paper with the wax. The wax then deposits on the paper (mostly) on the 'raised' surfaces, or flat, if you will, and will leave the engraved 'recessed' areas untouched, and so legible on the paper. Nothing would technically be rubbed on the gun, though I suppose you could argue that is only a technicality, as the gun would be "getting rubbed" by wax, even though it was through a layer of paper. But yeah, whatever. Probably a kind of pointless and needlessly enthusiastic way of seeing what is stamped on the surface of something. *shrugs*

@anthonyvancampen6729 4 года назад

@@Celebmacil Brass rubbing has a long and storied history in Europe, however, some monuments are off-limits for rubbing due to age and wear. I did some rubbings many years ago, a fine-grained rice paper, and charcoal were my mom's favorite materials for rubbings. She started doing that after a trip to England with my dad.

@girass 4 года назад

Crayon and paper *

@MrFlathead45 4 года назад

I use lead pencils to do rubbings. Get as much lead to stick out as you can (under a half Inch of stickout works good) and rub with the side using light pressure on the paper.

@johnfisk811 4 года назад

H. M. Ridley, retired. Dated 27th May, 1899H.M. Ridley retired from the 7th Hussars on the 27th of May 1899 as a Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. I see the RIA listing has much more information on his service and the those who gifted him the Terry & Calisher. In November 1899 he was Mentioned in Despatches in the South African War when Major Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 16th Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry as an officer of the Reserves, having retired as above.

@bunkstagner298 4 года назад

J.E.B .Stewart was not captured, he was killed during the battle of Yellow Tavern in1864. A very neat rifle, thanks Ian.

@xmlthegreat 4 года назад

If them terries get froggy, we're gonna get hypothetical on their clavicle! We're gonna draxt them.... sklounst!

@csours 4 года назад

You sound prepared.

@kenny344 4 года назад

We gonna draxt. Thems. Sklounst.

@bowlofsoup12 4 года назад

We lookin for terries

@YCCCm7 4 года назад

HELL YES! I was gonna make this moronic joke, but assumed nobody would get it. You, sir, have my deepest respect.

@sliceofbread2611 4 года назад

@@YCCCm7 what can i do to get these jokes? they seem funny but i dont know why

@williamsullivan9401 4 года назад

Odd- I can't find anything about Stuart being captured. Perhaps Ian meant when he was killed.

@FieryCheeze 4 года назад

Yeah, I was going to say Stuart wasnt captured. Perhaps he is thinking of a different Confederate general?

@ZGryphon 4 года назад

"Well... that was _like_ arresting him." - Atomic Robo

@Archaeonomy 4 года назад

Given their heavy use by the Forest Rangers and Armed Constabulary here in New Zealand during the NZ Wars, I have been waiting to see a Terry Carbine on this channel, thank you!

@joelmonkley6177 4 года назад

Von tempskeys rangers used these

@Murray.Sutherland 4 года назад

These where valued as bush rifles, more accurate than the 'tupara' double barrelled shotguns and easier to manage than enfield rifle.

@gregdaweson4657 4 года назад

@Matt allen Could they nod cover the cartridges with wax?

@norwegianwiking 4 года назад

I hope Ian gets his hands on a Norwegian "Kammerlader" one of these days.

@richarddixon7276 4 года назад

IRV 8888 has recently released a YT video featuring a rebuild Kammerlader , Mark Novac is a guest and did the resto , I enjoyed it , I hope You will also .

@lakrids-pibe 4 года назад

His video on the postførerverge knife-pistol is mone of my favorites. Mostly because of the imposible name. The Madsen Forsøgsrekylgevær is another good one.

@19kilo92 4 года назад

Damn I love this channel

@januskristensen4930 4 года назад

Rip and tear

@MrPier101 4 года назад

I've been waiting and hoping to see this here for a long while, ever since I read of a trial where this gun fired some 1800 rounds without needing cleaning, on account of that oiled pad. Unfortunately, I haven't found the trial record itself yet, but if its true that's a hell of a feat for a black-powder rifle.

@Charstring 4 года назад

In a long letter to the Examiner published Saturday 29 October 1859, someone who signed himself Caveto said: "Terry's rifle was fired 1,800 tines successively on board the Excellent, and at the conclusion showed no symptoms of being foul. Of this the certificate of Captain Hewlett is the proof". (He'd called it Terry's carbine earlier in the same letter). "Caveto" kept himself busy writing letters promoting Terry's carbine, and in the same newspaper earlier (Saturday 27 November 1858) he'd said that "Terry's carbine was fired 1,800 successive times ten times in a minute, ... It never missed fire, and at the conclusion was in no need of any process of cleansing whatever". In another letter he said that the Terry carbine was only £4/18s/0d compared to the Westley Richards at 7 quid a pop. Maybe he wasn't an impartial witness?

@frizzen 4 года назад

@@Charstring I'd like to get the formula for the lube they used.

@Charstring 4 года назад

@@frizzen A brilliant comment by you, it’s very true. They didn’t seem to publish that information for some reason. Some people used the gun with Westley Richards cartridges, but I don’t know anything about those. I was just reading a very long and interesting letter from Allan Macfarlane of the South Australian Free Rifles corps published by The Examiner on Saturday 12 October 1861. He was also a fan of Calisher & Terry breech-loaders, and said that he never bothered to clean the bore of his one, he just cleaned and oiled the breech and wiped the outside of the barrel. Maybe people emphasised that aspect because they wanted to underline the advantages of breech loading. Macfarlane said that muzzle-loaders got fouled at the breech end and that caused problems which the breech-loader was relatively immune to. He had a lot of practical stuff to say about the use of guns by soldiers as well, and mentioned that loading a breach-loader was less intimidating that loading a muzzle-loader, particularly with the bayonet fixed...

@zacharyrollick6169 Год назад

Good lube can do wonders for a BP gun. I once saw a guy put 120 or so consecutive rounds through a Dreyse needle gun with no noticeable impact on operation.

@DarkKatzy013 4 года назад

Sweet gun Ian another nugget of gun gold. Thank you sir.

@theblackbaron4119 4 года назад

"nugget of gun gold" :')

@wallaroo1295 4 года назад

I can see development of the Mauser action in this.

@AsbestosMuffins 4 года назад

William Terry sounds about as generic as James Bond

@JohnDoe-nf7up 4 года назад

The name's Terry. William Terry.

@themeatpopsicle 4 года назад

Heading down the "paper cartridge" rabbit hole now.

@dr.vanilla9017 4 года назад

THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!

@jimforehand7571 4 года назад

Coming down the mountainside

@symenbrug1992 4 года назад

My thought exactly hahaha

@zexstrow376 4 года назад

I knew as soon as he mentioned Hussars I'd find this down here

@roadsweeper1 4 года назад

Only after they had been to Hell And Back though :)

@petter5721 4 года назад

Sabaton rocks 💪🏻

@SSgtCalebP 4 года назад

I’m just here for the Key and Peele references.

@neilterry1726 4 года назад

Ridley directed the character Ripley in the movie "Alien", that's all I know about that. And I'm gettin' the family back into business! Get it right this time!

@lostmuskrat 4 года назад

Before Terry got into making chocolate oranges ...

@Plymouth888 4 года назад

Tap it and unwrap.

@zacharyrollick6169 4 года назад

Nostalgia. Used to get one every Christmas.

@TomIreson 4 года назад

" for sealing or obturation, as it's more properly called" "Ridley was there... different person than Ripley" This is class. Total insistence on complete accuracy about even the smallest of points. Well played, as usual.

@johnpreisler6713 4 года назад

Believe it or not

@MANC2311 4 года назад

Stuarts carbine was a gift from a British officer who also gave Stonewall Jackson an India rubber bed.

@johnmorgan1629 4 года назад

My father was in the regiment, which descended from the 18th Hussars, the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO).

@clockworkmultiverse92 4 года назад

I would much rather have a Zündnadelgewehr. This has one additional step in the loading process by comparison.

@zacharyrollick6169 4 года назад

Yeah, reaching for your capper would be a slight inconvenience. God forbid you are using loose caps.

@MrMisterDerp 4 года назад

Wood grain porn at its finest right here

@enricopaolocoronado2511 4 года назад

Forgotten Weapons: *Uploads* Me: *Clicks* Title: *Has Hussars in the title* Me: _THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!!!_

@1r0zz 4 года назад

@@TheRealColBosch The repetition of memes is spontaneous and the reason itself of their existence...you cannot have a meme and not being repeated in similar situation.

@enricopaolocoronado2511 4 года назад

@@TheRealColBosch Y'know if you didn't like what I commented, you should've just ignored it.

@tomaszwota1465 4 года назад

@@enricopaolocoronado2511 there's that, but you know, there's a more general counter argument: if everybody just ignores the things they don't like happening, they will be happening unopposed. I don't think you want that.

@enricopaolocoronado2511 4 года назад

@@tomaszwota1465 No I do not. The guy's reply came off as rude and something an asshole who wants to end happy fun times would say.

@Blazer02LS 4 года назад

That is a neat design, reminds me on the Knight breech loaders. I wonder if the felt also provided a bit of water resistance for the load.

@MrLoobu 4 года назад

Uh no its a paper cartridge you cant get them wet.

@Blazer02LS 4 года назад

True when it's in the pouch, but when loaded the grease at both ends is likely better than a common patched ball in a typical muzzle loader.

@MrLoobu 4 года назад

@@Blazer02LS once loaded yea, your probably right.

@reallydontlikethem 4 года назад

@@MrLoobu I mean at least you'll still have ONE shot if you fall into the river

@sliceofbread2611 4 года назад

i wonder how it works with the touch hole.. is the paper cartridge completely closed when the gun is ready for firing? does the primercap produce that much fire/pressure to burn through the paper? or is it ripped open before loading (seems unhandy)? or is there some kind of thing inside the rifle that rips open the cartridge? because if you actually fall in the river with your rifle loaded i can imagine that the hammer might get smacked and the rifle go off.. but with no cap to seal it (or obturate) i can imagine some water getting into the chamber. probably not enough to ruin all the powder, but the part that gets wet is the part that should get ignited by the cap.

@honestyprofessorcaesarreal5091 4 года назад

And here I thought all Terry made was chocolate oranges.

@HerrPolden 4 года назад

I guess this could be a parting gift to Ridley from his coleauges in the 52nd. As a officer he would have to provide personal weapons in any case, and if your friend is leaving to be a hussar, giving him a embelished hussar carabine with a plaque to remember you by is a excellent gift.

@johnfisk811 4 года назад

He would have to supply his own sidearms i.e. his sword and pistol. He could draw a long arm from the armoury if needed on service. Or use his own if it used the same ammunition. In this case it looks like his fellow officers gave him a Terry & Calisher if he was off to the Hussars.

@mk14m0 Год назад

The Terry action was also modified and used in the Russian Terry-Norman rifle, as a conversion mechanism for Russian muzzle-loading rifled muskets.

@DoughboyJonesmk2 7 месяцев назад

I rented the movie River Queen (2005) literally just because Kiefer Sutherland had one of these on the cover.

@darthmichaelus6104 4 года назад

"If we translate that to something a little less archaic..." *Translates it to inches*

@visionist7 4 года назад

lol

@themeatpopsicle 4 года назад

just a little less. not that much less hah

@mrbyamile6973 4 года назад

As a middle aged American man I am quite versed in our measurements but even I must admit we should have long ago transitioned to the metric system. At this point I think we refuse to convert to metric out of spite of something. I can however transition between the two systems but sympathize with those that have no knowledge of our "archaic" system of measurements.

@jeffreytam7684 4 года назад

Brandon Riedel Honestly it’s even more mixed up in Canada. We officially went metric over 40 years ago, and while I usually usually think in metric, I would be unable to tell you, offhand, my height and weight in CMs and KGs. Now if you ask in inches and pounds that’s absolutely not an issue. Distances are also extremely arbitrary, meters, yards, feet, inches, centimetres, millimetres, fractions of an inch, etc are all commonly used. The one imperial thing I have never bothered to wrap my head around is liquid measurements: the relationship between a fluid ounce, a pint, a quart and a gallon is completely foreign to me, and I actually just convert those amounts into litres to get an idea of the quantity. Essentially, the two systems coexist in perfect disharmony and you end up constantly converting from one to the other. For reference I’m 18 so it’s not even like I grew up with the Imperial system.

@zacharyrollick6169 4 года назад

'Murica.

@odinswrath86 4 года назад

"If we translate this to something less archaic (...)" Proceeds using imperial measurements😂

@gmsherry1953 4 года назад

J.E.B. Stuart was captured? I find no record of that, but I don't have a detailed biography. I found once when he was almost captured and lost part of his uniform (Northern Virginia Campaign). If he was ever captured, he escaped, because he died in combat. Also, about that felt pad -- was it pushed forward by inserting the next cartridge? If it was tight enough to obdurate, seems like pushing it forward might crumple a paper cartridge. They must be sturdier than I imagine.

@spudd86 4 года назад

Looks like the Terry would do well in a mud test, at least for a gun of it's vintage.

@scottishconfederate 4 года назад

JEB Stuart was never captured. He was mortally wounded in combat but recovered by his own men.

@bohica3264 4 года назад

This is true. He was shot in a cavalry skirmish at Yellow Tavern in 1864 and died a short time later. Did Stuart have one of these on him at the time he received his fatal wound? If so, it would seem that he armed himself well, with the LeFouchaud pistol and this carbine. However, it sounds suspicious since cavalry generals did not seem to normally carry carbines. Interesting.....

@EuropeYear1917 4 года назад

@@bohica3264 I always heard he was armed with a LeFouchaud pistol and an 1860 Henry rifle during Yellow Tavern (the battle in which he was mortally wounded)... although I'd have to refer to some of my history books/sources to be 100% sure one way or another. Ian may be right that J.E.B. was armed with this particular model of gun when he was mortally wounded, but he is wrong about J.E.B. being captured... He most certainly was mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern.

@bohica3264 4 года назад

General officers typically only armed themselves with self defense weapons. The ethos was that a commander's job was to lead, not fight unless necessary. That having been said, Stuart was an unusual commander and saw himself as a cavalier, so he may very well have carried a carbine as well as a sabre and pistol. This piqued my curiosity, so I'll look further. I know Ian researches his facts independently of any auction company's literature, so there has to be something to this.

@fien111 4 года назад

Used by the mounted military elite of Europe, of strong breeding and having gone through the finest of European military academies. Top of their class and a gentleman, scholar, and officer before even being the finest of the mounted soldiery. Also Jethro.....from Kentucky. He can bullseye a possum from 400 yards. 500 when sober!

@heatmojo 4 года назад

kentucky was union, cheeky....

@fien111 4 года назад

@@heatmojo you're right, I always mix them up with Tennessee. My apologies to Kentucky and the fine, crack-shot Jethros that inhabit it

@justineallandevelos6491 4 года назад

Also the Texan sharpshooters of Texas

@Goonygoon84 4 года назад

Perfect opportunity missed. "I wish we knew more about who Ripley was there, or Ridley was there. Different person from Ripley, BELIEVE IT OR NOT"

@Tulip1811 4 года назад

I always find the woodworking on pre-industrial age stocks incredible, the work that most have gone in on that chequering!

@Brookspirit 4 года назад

The London Underground system opened in 1863, around the same time this gun was developed. The industrial age was well advanced by this time.

@lucasduque8289 4 года назад

@@Brookspirit Well, I didn't know the tube was so old. You got me interested, makes me wonder what kind of train they even used back then.

@AtholAnderson 4 года назад

@@lucasduque8289 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground#Early_years

@reallydontlikethem 4 года назад

@@lucasduque8289 trains are actually badass

@juhomaki-petaja 4 года назад

Then the Winged Hussars arrived.

@name20411 4 года назад

honestly think it's odd there weren't more prominent capping breach-loaders, would've honestly made a lot more sense than the needle-rifles as a "transitional" gun.. similarly I find it odd how few used/attempted to utilize some kind of "intentionally re-loadable" cartridge, though I know the "coffee grinder" crank gun used something of that nature..

@boffage8922 4 года назад

Favourited by the Armed Militia during the New Zealand wars as the battles were done in the wet bush of the country. Much quicker to use in fire fights

@mattyallen3396 2 года назад

Armed constablary

@flatronpl1 4 года назад

Fire from cap has no problem going trough the paper cartridge?

@frizzen 4 года назад

That's what I wondered. It could have a horrific lock time while it burns thru to the powder - unless you run a pick down the flash hole before capping (like they do for black powder cannons). I'd like to see Ian shoot this one.

@craigthompson3739 4 года назад

Wasn't Stewart kill in action? I don't think he was ever captured.

@EuropeYear1917 4 года назад

Yes. J.E.B. Stuart was killed on May 11, 1864 at the Battle of Yellow Tavern. Ian needs to double check his facts on this on that one. Major General Stuart was NOT captured at the end of the Civil War because he was already dead!

@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming 4 года назад

Imagine the modern equivalent, a heavily engraved l-85 bought as a presentation gift from his mates, he a glorious sight if only that kinda thing still happened

@mirandahotspring4019 Год назад

This was the carbine used by the famous Von Tempsky Forrest Rangers in the NZ land wars of 1863 onwards. There is one in the NZ Army museum in Waiouru.

@joelmonkley6177 Год назад

Von Tempskeys men also carried navy colts and Bowie knives

@mirandahotspring4019 Год назад

@@joelmonkley6177 As did many people in those days

@ROBSHOTZ 4 года назад

Jeb Stuart was not taken into custody. He was killed in combat.

@EuropeYear1917 4 года назад

Yep! J.E.B. Stuart was killed in action at the Battle of Yellow Tavern in Henrico County, Virginia on 11 May 1864. He was dead before the War of Southern Secession ended. He therefore was NOT taken into custody.

@trooperdgb9722 Месяц назад

At least 1000 of these were purchased by the New South Wales Colonial Government for the "New Police".. (the name for the newly combined Police forces of the colony) The Police carried these, along with Colt Navies for MANY years afterward. MANY years LOL. Little funding being available for upgrades, naturally! (The Thuer conversion cylinders were issued later for the Colts, but they were apparently generally disliked and many were used as cap and ball well into the "cartridge era")

@EuropeYear1917 4 года назад

Ian, if I'm not mistaken, Major General J.E.B. Stuart was killed at the Battle of Yellow Tavern in 1864, and was therefore NOT captured at the end of the War of Southern Secession. Might want to double check your non-gun related war facts on this video.

@zzxxooooxxzz4964 4 года назад

Gun Jesus I wish I knew more about Ripley oh no wait I mean Ridley..... 😂😂

@visionist7 4 года назад

Eh that's yer grenade launcher I don't think ya wanna mess with that

@kiwi_comanche 4 года назад

@@visionist7 excellent reference. 10 points to you Sir!

@456eec 4 года назад

These were widely used by colonial police, prisons etc here in Australia. You often see them in museums and they also regularly come up at auction. It was great to see this video as I had never seen the action operated.

@Sarrienne 4 года назад

WHEN THE WINGED HUSS-ARRZ ARRI......Wait, what??!! Huss-arrz? "Hooz-arrz", if you please, Mister Ian... as in "Whose arse?"... to which the response is something clever and imaginitive like, "Horse's arse" as some poorly veiled reference to donkey-wallopers who now ride in tanks... or so it goes, anyway.

@sliceofbread2611 4 года назад

imagine being so early with mass producing a certain design feature that you can name your company after it

@zacharyrollick6169 4 года назад

Like Union Metallic Cartridges.

@lepuuttelu 4 года назад

Is there a version that takes a narwhal tusk bayonet?

@johnfisk811 4 года назад

@lepuuttelu 4 года назад

I'm alluding to the recent incident in London where a Polish man wielding a narwhal tusk was among a group of people who subdued a knife wielding terrorist.

@commando552 4 года назад

Seeing how the bolt handle on this folds makes me think, are there any cartridge based bolt actions that have a folding bolt handle? It would be an alternative to the turned down bolt handle for cavalry use, where instead it could be unfolded to a straight bolt handle to give you better leverage and accessibility than a fixed turn down. Obviously it would be more complicated and potentially fragile, but it seems like the sort of thing that somebody would have tried at some point.

@commando552 4 года назад

@Jay Leno That's my point, if you made a gun with a folding straight bolt handle it would be out of the way when not in use, but give you the advantages of a straight bolt handle when using the rifle. I imagine it would have some issues, but it would surprise me if nobody had ever even tried it considering some of the weird stuff that is out there. I would put money on it that somebody has tried it, probably even vastly over complicating it with something like folding the bolt handle de-cocks the striker to safe the gun and unfolding it re-cocks it.

@TroopperFoFo 4 года назад

Not a bolt action but there is one for the scar.

@JKC40 4 года назад

love the interesting intermediate weapons like this

@brucelee3388 4 года назад

IIRC also used by the New South Wales Mounted Police (in Australia)

@dukkha62 4 года назад

I found a service record for a private named Henry Ridley 52nd Regt (service no. 1256) who was discharged 30 April 1841.

@petercollingwood522 Год назад

I wish I had seen this when it posted three years ago. Some of those rifles that were bought by the "Cape Mounted Rifles" made their way to the "Natal Carbineers" in the Colony of Natal just up the coast a ways from the Cape of Good hope. They were used in the "Langallibalele" revolt of 1873 in which said Carbineers, utterly failed to distinguish themselves in their first major action. Interestingly being led by a Major Durnford, who six years later would get himself killed and most of his command wiped out by the Zulus at "Isandlwana". The skirmish itself was a minor affair in military terms but fought in a spectacular part of the Drakensberg Mountains on the border of Natal and Lesotho. And a good lesson in hubris and the importance of preparation and intel in the planning of military adventures lest they turn into "mis-adventures" very quickly.

@blakebeaton5821 4 года назад

Hey, so, any ideas on Clinton ban guns like the RomArm Romanian PAR1 pump action AKM? Not an unforgotten weapon, but not something you see everyday.

@almostbo23b23 Год назад

The kind of award the commander would gift to the best of the intake, paid for in 1867 by the other ensigns named those days a rifle would be more significant, these days a 'sword of honour' ensign 2lt lt captain, 15 years, about right

@dheibeljr 4 года назад

Omg now I have to make a sex joke for some poor future girl I date saying "no not my touch hole, I might go off!!!" Then get all awkward and have to explain it's a gun sex joke. Anyone ever take your girl skeet shooting then get accused of hitting her because her shoulder is black and bruised and they only believe you when you show them your shoulder is also bruised up from so much shooting? Is it just me?

@ericbergfield6451 Год назад

Sigourney Weaver enters the chat, "I'm not going back to LV-426 Ian!"

@TheAlexagius 4 года назад

Rock island gang rise up

@visionist7 4 года назад

I wonder how much the ones captured from generals in the Civil War are worth today, if they still exist

@Glaaki13 4 года назад

Well I think it would be quiet expensive

@MeshFrequency 4 года назад

1867, the year Canada became a country.

@cokpeotfg4fcdck601 4 года назад

still not independent until 1982

@therugburnz 4 года назад

I'm impressed buy the bolt technology used. Good work.

@SlashGibbonsLP 3 года назад

so the flame of the percussion cap burns through the paper cartridge and ignite the powder? Is that flame that "strong"?

@cleanerben9636 4 года назад

Clearly not obsolete in any way.

@NoirBadGuy 4 года назад

Excuse my ignorance but how did the pad shoot out of the barrel if it was behind the powder? How didn't it be pressed against bolt face and stay inside?

@thegodfather_8455 4 года назад

Man RIA has a little bit of everything

@tomunterwegs1206 4 года назад

little trick for hard to read things on stuff: take a thin sheet if white paper, lay it over the part with the markings and then rub a pencil(not the pointy end but its side) or a piece of coal gently over it.

@geraldbradner5801 Год назад

I thought that JEB Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern.

@thebaddest2562 4 года назад

Something tells me Ridley either saved all their asses and/or was the main cog in some finacial windfall.

@mikepette4422 3 года назад

That's a whole lot of actions to fire this gun. And yet it's still a lot faster than an muzzle loading rifle

@jayfelsberg1931 4 года назад

Stuart was killed at Yellow Tavern in 1864

@dagwort 4 года назад

From The Observer (London), 13th Oct. 1867: "From the LONDON GAZETTE of FRIDAY, Oct. 11 ... [then, thirty-three lines down a column of very small dense text reporting hundreds of changes in unit leadership] ... -- 52d : Ens [Ensign] Lord C.R. Pratt, from the 43d Ft [Foot], to be ens, v. [vice] H.C.M. Ridley, who ret." Apparently this Pratt replaced Ridley, who retired. Seems this Terry Carbine was a kind of "gold watch" for Ridley. Pratt, transferred to the 52nd Foot, was replaced in the 43rd Foot by "John Peirse de la Poer Beresford, gent."

@dagwort 4 года назад

In 1882, The Sacramento Daily Union listed the names of a number of emigrants due to arrive May 18th. One of them was an "H.C.M. Ridley, England". Same guy?

@omartorres5688 4 года назад

But the lever action Henry repeater. Was still a head and still made today

@leechapman7848 4 года назад

Alos used by Adelaide volunteer rifles in South Australia

@shawnr771 4 года назад

Nice rifle. Looks like a pretty solid system. So how exactly did soldiers keep the paper cartridges dry? I get that had a wax coating on them.

@johnfisk811 4 года назад

They were carried in waterproof pouches in sealed packs of 10 and each cartridge came in it's own sealed paper casing with a linen tape tear off to open them.This also protected the greased felt wad glued to the back.

@shawnr771 4 года назад

@@johnfisk811 Thanks

@MrJonathandcrow 4 года назад

No Cleaning Rod What Happens When You Have A Squib And Don't Fire

@Ensign_Cthulhu 4 года назад

You put another percussion cap on and try again. No doubt the military version had one, but this is a presentation gun.

@CrudeConduct666 4 года назад

Well first off its your fault for loading it so damn weak if that happens with a black powder gun. And second, I would just grab a long stick or ramrod from a musket which would no doubt be near by on the battlefield, and push it back to the breech where I could dick around and pull or drop it out. Then again, if I was on the battlefield, I wouldn't be using such bitchloads that I might get a squib. TL,DR not really a problem the military gave a damn about.

@davidtong2776 4 года назад

I have read of a "Terry" being fired over a thousand times without needing cleaning. in a test.

@davidstegman8147 4 года назад

Not a bad idea for a rifle much quicker to load and shoot.

@Doughboy1941 4 года назад

Thank you Rock Island for the link.

@zero_meercat8624 4 года назад

Silas Porter how did u comment 15 hours before the release?

@BelayaBirdy 4 года назад

@@zero_meercat8624 Patreon

@CrudeConduct666 4 года назад

@@zero_meercat8624 patreon supporters get early vids. I really am surprised people still don't know this

@picklewiickle.1583 4 года назад

CARBINE as in WINE not been as in seen.

@Sarrienne 4 года назад

As an English-speaking Englishman, I ought to agree with you.... but in fact, Sir Ian has already done a video on this matter, and he very adequately justifies the 'Car-been' pronunciation... although it's a bit of a cop-out because it's from the French word 'carabine', and ... well... they're French!!

@picklewiickle.1583 4 года назад

@@Sarrienne thats ina restin. lmao

@SafetyProMalta 4 года назад

Mud test please

@JACKSONLEWISOFCANADA 3 года назад

Ripleys believe it or shot! Sorry i had to.

@miguelburgueno4891 4 года назад

An amazing and really beautiful (...and sadly...) "forgotten weapon". Many thanks dear Ian, for bringing it from "cruel oblivion". (BTW., I would like to have six bros like Mr. Ridley... ;) )

@bleach-kun 4 года назад

I want one for blackpowder season.

@isaaco5679 4 года назад

The butt plate looks exactly like my grandfather's British-made Confederate, calvary, rifled carbine in .66(my closest guess).

@Kumimono 4 года назад

I wonder what the slot in the breech is for.

@johnfreeman2956 4 года назад

I searched "obturation," and the definition came back as "Action d'obturer." OF COURSE you give us a word with a French definition 😆

@johnfisk811 4 года назад

Perfectly proper English word for expanding to seal a hole.

@tarmaque 4 года назад

It comes from the Latin root: "obturare," To stop up. From the related latin word "obstruere" we get the word "obstruct." (And no I don't know Latin, but I know a lot of etymology.)

@slowpokebr549 4 года назад

@@tarmaque with French being a Latinate language.

@tarmaque 4 года назад

@@slowpokebr549 Indeed, but English is half Latinate, and half Germanic. English is one of the most bastardized languages in the world. Old English is more Germanic (with origins in Anglia and Saxony in Northern Germany and Denmark), but the Norman French influenced it in a lot of ways. For a time "The King's English" was in fact, French. The dialect among the educated at the time was called "Anglo-Norman, which was mostly French. It later became what we would recognize as modern English. It could be worse. If it hadn't been for the invasions of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman French we'd all be speaking a Celtic language. Like Welsh. o,O

@iain3713 4 года назад

tarmaque well I wouldn’t say that English is only half Germanic, sure maybe the vocabulary is but all the core grammar and vocabulary is Germanic

@TurboCharged_RubberDuck 4 года назад

H.M. Ripley... An ancestor of the famous E.L. Ripley of Alien fame maybe? :P

@DL24StaS 4 года назад

Terry-Norman needle rifle was adopted by imperial Russian military in 1866, quite similar to this, earlier design. Didn't last long, however, as it was replaced by metallic cartridge-firing Krnka rifle the next year, and by the Berdan No1 rifle the year after that.

@johnfisk811 4 года назад

and there was me thinking that it's most famous use was in the Maori wars. Especially the Forest rangers and, in particular, Major Von Kempsky. My current lust after rifle. A paper cartridge Sharps would benefit from this type of cartridge.

@AH-we7rj 4 года назад

Excellent video...the calisher & terry was also used by volunteers in Australia in the 1860s...the wrist apparently was a weak area, breaks and repairs are often seen there.

@TheComradeBritish 4 года назад

It'd be pretty funny being sent into battle with this. Guys carrying Enfields and all that and you're walking around with a Terry.

@TheRogueWolf 4 года назад

When the squirrels and chipmunks hire a buffalo to eliminate you after you've been shooting at them with that Tippman .22, use this to defend yourself.