I admire your work Mr. Nemeth. Your historical and technical knowledge is outstanding. I do no black powder shooting but I have an historical interest especially in US Civil War weaponry. I wish my father was still alive for he would have loved your channel and used it for technical reference. He shot and hunted with black powder. He fabricated his own ammunition and would create his own powder horns like you. Thank you.
I am absolutely fascinated by the mechanics of forming a mushroom bullet upon loading that can achieve such accuracy. I certainly learned something new today. You never cease to amaze me.
Your videos are such an in depth look at the firearm that provide as complete an understanding of the history, innovations and performance that I feel I have taken a master class. Thank you for the excellent and informative work.
I watch your videos pretty regularly and noticed one from 9 years ago. You’ve sure came along way in these videos since 9 years ago. I watch your channel today and it’s like watching a show on TV. Actually you should have your own show on TV, I could see Cap and Ball on the Outdoor Channel, or the History Channel, or even on the Military Channel. Really enjoy watching your shows, you do a great service for the history and preservation of firearms today. I’ve learned a lot from your videos and damn your a hell of a shot.
Marvelous and thoroughly interesting! I had no idea a rifle existed with a chamber designed to swage a ball for increased seal and accuracy. The lengths this gentleman goes to to make high quality content for us to regularly enjoy is remarkable. Best regards from Canada!
It's fascinating to see the different directions various designers went in their search for the ideal muzzleloading rifle. The Kammerbüchse was one that was more successful than others. The pillar-breech guns had the unfortunate tendency to bend the post in the chamber on which the bullet was deformed, according to Peterson. And the less said about the Brunswick with it's two-groove rifling and belted round ball bullet the better. Beautiful rifle, superb marksmanship, great presentation. Once again, thank you! Great dog, too...😄
I am fascinated by the differences between modern black powders and 18th & 19th century black powders. Thank you for the insights into the different powder density. The more I learn the more I discover I don't know.
I’m a history professor and a PhD. Big fan of your channel by the way. Usually every semester I will offer a field trip of choice to my students to come to my farmhouse to shoot my various percussion cap and flintlock rifles. I’ve observed that when students get hands on experience with history rather than just reading about it they develop a much greater interest for history.
Dear Amber, I definitely agree with you. I also take my students regularly to the range to experience the arms of the past ages. Probably this excursions won't help them to learn easier, but they surely open a door to their minds.
@@capandball, I got a matchlock musket over the summer. I’m excited to have my students witness me shooting it and hopefully all the students who come will shoot it. A lot of my students have never fired a gun before and some were scared to shoot my flintlocks and a couple were scared to shoot my percussion cap guns.
Great video. I've seen these at gun shows here in collections. This was purchased by the north if memory serves me in the civil war, but I lay be wrong. Very cool. Jager meaning hunter if my German serves me.
GREAT video, as always! Made me want to hug the .45-70 Springfield Trapdoor I'm building. My Colt Walker is my favorite Cap & Ball, & the .22magnum North American Arms pistol.
I used to shoot target for recreation, I shot for about 10 years but I gave it up a few years back. Things like this really make me miss it. I loved muzzle loading. Thinking I might get back into it and join the MLAGB here in the UK.
I understand that there were no conical projectiles in use at this time. I would however like to see what the performance would have been like if and when the rifles ever would have used a long conical projectile with a concave bottom that would have expanded to engage the rifling. I think it would probably have been a very accurate bullet and would have produced greater ballistic co-efficiency. Love your channel over here in Louisiana.
I might have missed it, but from where do you get tubelock primers? Nowhere in the US seems to manufacture them, and I’m not sure how much fun it’d be to make one’s own.
Excellent shooting and a very nice rifle. There are modern centerfire rifles that can't duplicate that group. One jagged hole in the target is quite impressive. Thank you again for another entertaining video.
very cool bayonet and that was actually some good grouping on your first shots....ramming on your shoe aside of course 😉 Using cotton to catch the bullet and that shape after it came out is pretty unique. Extremely interesting... glad you took the time to show us some battlefield experimentation I shudder to think of the poor fellows that would get hit by something like this projectile and in the heat of battle even wounds in body locations that today would be merely painful would be fatal back in the 19th century
I like your style and fokus on history of the rifle. My teacher told me to evaluate everything in the correct context. I am more interested in history and technics than shooting or even politics (I thing of myself more as a pacifists). I came here from realtimehistory. Greetings from Germany. Sorry for my english.
Beautiful weapon- thank u for the lessons on loading and correctly firing such a weapon- if i ever get to where i can afford to but a muzzle loader im going deer hunting with it in my state and im luke u the hunt is more important then the kill-
Thanks for keeping this history alive, just imagine the amount of testing the inventors went through and you honour them with this video. However I believe your original powder charge was closer to being correct,... in fact it should have been:- 1. a faster burning powder, 2. higher potency, 3.10mm to 12mm air gap between the ball and powder, hence less powder and no filler. What was required was a degree of detonation from the powder charge at the rear of the ball to expand the ball into the rifling groves, rather than from the front with the ram rod. My guess is that the ram rod was weighted and mark to drop from a registered marker just to snug the ball rather than ram the ball into the rifling, thus only one ramming action.
Great content as always. I've never heard of that cotton box method, will need to try it with Minie balls out of my rifle musket, see what they look like coming out.
Great video. I have an unrelated question: Do you know of any period sources for muzzle loader fire rate? Only thing I’m aware of is Wikipedia claiming data from the Hall Rifle trial (citing a 2009 issue of American Rifleman, but I can’t find this data anywhere else and don’t have the magazine in question) saying 2.223 a minute for smoothbore and 1.3 a minute for rifled. Any other data out there?
These data are pretty close to the practical rate of fire during combat. Nearly all contemporary manuals of the 19th century give data for rate of fire, so there are plenty of info available. Some in detail info: Johann Andreas Demian: Anleitung zum Selb-Studium der Militärischen Dienstwissenschaft I. theil: Waffenlehre (Wien, 1807); William Duane: A hand book for riflemen (Philadelphia, 1813); Das deutsche Wehr- und Schützenwesen nach den technischen Anforderungen der Gegenwart (Darmstadt, 1861); Gerhard von Scharnhorst: Über die Wirkung des Feuergewehrs. Für die Königl. Preußischen Kriegs-Schulen. (Berlin, 1813); William Mueller: The elements of the science of war Vol II. (London, 1811) .
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us on the history of these firearms. When does hunting season start in Hungary? I look forward to those videos a lot.
Just an off topic note. Your Prime Minister Viktor Orban is an impressive leader. I have another major purchase to handle this year but I've decided that as soon as I can make it to Europe for a hunting trip, it's going to be Hungary. My tourism money will be going there directly because of PM Orban. Now I just need to figure out how a foreigner can hunt there, lol.
Thank you for these videos I am fascinated by the Austro-Hungarian imperial armies and there is not much information about it in of cause English. So once again thank you
Hi, just curious about your dog at the start of the video, we have had Hungarian Viszla's for over 25 years, your dog looks like a darker version? Thanks, Ton, Oxfordshire, UK.
I've been waiting for this one! Great video, but do you know when the Austrian Armed Forces switched the ammunition from the round ball to the "Spitzkugel" for the Kammerbüchse? So I'm very interested in the armed conflicts of 1848-1849, but I still don't know what ammunition the "Jäger" and the Hungarian rifle troops used? Thank you very much also for your great book from Osprey
European guns from that time are typically often in nice shapes since we didn't really have a major major war(there were some smaller wars of course) in Europe at that time, so they often weren't really used terribly much
@@capandball it's probably not an issue listening on your phone, but in my vehicle I had to get creative with the equalizer. I'm also lucky enough to still have my high frequency hearing after all these years.
Hi.i know this is a tad off topic, but I have original family 1860's pistols and rifles that have a smaller diameter powder chamber than the bore .for 3 quartets of a inch for a .40 rifle and 2 thirds of a inch for a .50 pistol.. I always thought that this was to put the apex of the charge on the center of the projectile even with solid base conical,abit like a snooker player hits the center for a straight shot....thoughts please .And thanks and best regards from nz.. P.s live your stuff and British Muzzle..and mag 50...ta.
I think your comparison of bullet BC is not correct. That faster should be calculated at v50-v100 mark to give similar input velocities of both bullets. But that is just a small note ;)
How difficult is it too make a cap and ball gun? I ask because I am American, and I could make almost any weapon in my garage without getting in trouble.
@@capandball Or maybe a Kammerlader converted to use 12.17×44R or shotgun shells, because I'm extremely curious how it was possible to adapt that system to metallic cartridges.
If you could provide RU-vid with a written account of your presentation, you would be doing everyone who uses the closed captions a distinct favor. They seem to use some kind of pathetically piss poor A.I. to do the interpretations and the result is just incomprehensible shit. I'd hate to miss out on them, but RU-vid makes it a worthless exercise. Try watching it with the CC on and see if you don't agree.