You were obviously not a very experienced Blackpowder shooter. You had two patches, which is why you could not get the ball to seat into the barrel correctly. The ball for a .50 caliber firearm should be .490. The patch should be .010. Should you feel that’s a little too difficult to load go to 1.005 patch. Also, the spout on your flask can be utilized as the measure. Two fills of a 25 grain spout equals 50 grains. Some practice and figure it out. I hope nobody uses your video as a tutorial.
That's a duel they usually meet up people don't realise they made appointments to shoot at each other 10 min reload imagine telling you co-worker you can't make lunch because you and some guy have to shoot at each other 10min is nothing
I had no idea until I watched the Flintlock Rifle video that Garand Thumb made. If you haven’t watched it, I highly suggest watching it. A Kentucky Long Rifle was quite deadly 👌
It's a watermelon, cannot be compared to a human skull whatsoever. The human skull is extremely tough, and there have been recorded instances where shots from a distance have actually smudged out on corners of the skull or have failed to even enter. At that range, yeah it'd probably kill you but the muzzle velocity of these weapons are very low. An Aboriginal tribe leader in Australia survived being shot by a flintlock many, many times and there have been many other recordings of such thing. A lot of the time it just ended up being a death from infection or lead poisoning which is all pretty ironic but then again you could die from a rose thorn infection back then which just comes to show how far modern medicine has come. Also just for math sake, velocity equates to more kinetic energy than mass as 1/2mv²=Kv, so were mass is halved, velocity is squared. The internal damage for modern firearms, specifically rifles, is also much, much more dramatic.
In a situation like the Burr-Hamilton duel, it wasn't so much about firearm effectiveness, but more an issue of the combatants actually intending to hit their target, from what I've seen on the History Channel.
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That's a spin on the story. Kind of hard to confirm that Hamilton missed on purpose when he's dead. It's easy to miss with one shot and the dummy chose his side and had the sun in his eyes.
@@weaniebeaniebur5725 The pistols used in that duel had single stage set triggers. Burr apparently didn't know of that but Hamilton did. He may have set the trigger and accidentally fired before he intended to.
@@zekiah2 Oh boy, this is a long one, I am going to be honest with you. I have no idea what past me is talking about? Pretty sure I misunderstood OP at that moment, in one of my all nighters. I can give a rough re-wording of what I might have been trying to say which boils down to, "I am down to see how deadly muzzleloaders are, only thing I have ever used is a BB and a machete so I can understand if it is deadlier then expected." My logic is that if a BB can take something out, then I shouldn't laugh at a muzzleloader. And I had to put a bird who had a broken neck out of its misery and bothered me for a while since I do not normally kill anything bigger then a bug, so I was probebly still mentally recovering from that...
You neglected to attempt to resolve the situation peacefully and to have seconds resolve it in your place twice, there was no doctor, and you clearly gave yourself an unfair advantage with the positioning of the sun, otherwise, you would have performed the duel at night, as you are meant to. It also did not seem that you allowed the melon to perform any religious rites beforehand to prepare for the afterlife and did not allow it to notify those who grew from the same vine. You skipped to the ninth commandment despite the fact that the previous eight could have saved a melon’s life. I am, quite frankly, appalled, and, based on your lack of honor, I am forced to assume you have something against melons. May God have mercy on your soul.
A .44 cap and ball revolver with a maximum powder load (about 35 grains, depending on gun model) has about the same power (bullet mass and velocity) as a .38 Special. Very much adequately lethal, and once modern type sights were invented (15th century?) even smoothbore pistols were accurate enough that they had to *leave the sights off* dueling pistols to cut down the number of double kills in duels...
Using proper black powders really ups the performance of the cap and ball revolvers. Under a 217 grain conical bullet, I use 22 grains of Swiss Null B (extremely fine grain 5Fg black powder) to duplicate 1860's era combustible envelope cartridges loaded with Hazard Cartridge powder, using the thin gift wrapping tissue as envelope paper. From my 8 inch barrel Uberti replica Remington Army .44, the 217 grain conical hits 950 ft/per/second, pretty well equal to a modern 45 ACP +P load! These C&B revolvers, properly loaded are no joke, being as deadly as any modern handgun and superbly accurate to long handgun ranges of 100+ yards.
@@63DW89A I've never managed to get conicals for mine (and I'd have to grind out the frame and modify the ram to load conicals on the gun). I haven't found black powder locally and haven't been willing to pay hazmat for a single can (it'd take me the rest of my life to shoot five pounds -- no close local places to shoot, either), so I've used Pyrodex, and loaded some .32 S&W Long cartridges with American Pioneer. I've used cigarette papers for cartridge wrappers, but I plan to get some "end papers" from a beauty supplier, they're apparently similar paper and much cheaper.
I have 4 black powder revolvers and people who say they aren't accurate have never shot one. I can understand they have issues like with the colt style clsometimes they get paper or cap jams from the close tolerances and the wedge design issues, but my colt walker I've shot out to around 60 yards with inherent accuracy and at around 30 or so it's a death machine. Now of course the gun has a 9 inch barrel and holds a pretty big charge, but seeing that smoke feeling the light push from a black powder gun and seeing that ball hit a golf ball at 30 yards, woo boy. Maybe I'm just the few but I fine the hammer backsight very easy to use accurately. Of course this is all bench shooting, I would never want to carry a walker too many problems, but a 1858 new army or 1851 navy they are pointers and can be shot point very profeciently
So for my uberti walker I use 454 balls with 40gr of powder for the classic 45 colt load and use the guns of the west cartridge maker. I've loaded up to 50 and I know the gun can handle 60 fine especially as a modern reproduction but I find accuracy suffers. If I load by hand I use felt wads for the added distance or cornmeal.
@@SilntObsvr I would love to eventually try some nitrated paper but cigarettes paper works for me. Although recently my Walker has been getting jammed up after each paper shot so I'm thinking maybe it's too high up on the ball and is causing it not all to burn, I also had those balls tallow dipped so im unsure. Never had issues till now, The black powder I was finally able to get is called schutzen I believe it's like the only think we can get locally besides pyrodex and I much prefer it. The only issue is I'm out of Remington number 10 primers and csnt find any more :^*
The more desdly part would be the multitude of infections that could be contracted from a bullet wound that they had very few effective ways of curing.
Not really, this looks like a circa 1860-70 pistol, obsolete by a long shot by then, long after duelling and at a decade when bolt action repeating rifles and lever action rifles (and cartridge revolvers) were a thing
These pistols are a lot of fun. I remember building one with my dad from a kit we bought at Sportsman's. I think building it and putting together was more fun than shooting it.
At typical pistol ranges in those days, these were as accurate as any Glock. Remember that although they had primitive sights, the actual sight radius makes up for it, and, the length of the barrel made these guns extremely accurate with plenty of velocity, which in the case of this pistol and this load, would have been about 900fps at the muzzle - much like a standard loaded Colt .45 today.
The amount of calculus that went into every automatic weapon post 1895 is truly staggering 😭 (calculus is where all the weird math for circles is, so gattling guns/miniguns actually need it)
I think mankind's creativeness is pretty well spread across the spectrum from weapons to bridges to cathedrals to music - the latter of which in my opinion is the epitome of human creativity.
-I always rub off the tip for less mess. -The lubed wads helped the performance -The balls are a little too big -Now to ram that little rod inside -Sometimes you miss the hole... *beavis and butthead laughter intensifies*
Yes. Pistol duels are deadly, although not incredibly accurate. Most duels actually never happened as it was just a sign of respect to accept one. Then the grieving party would back out.
I've also heard they would often fire to the side or in the air. That way their honor is safe because they technically went through the duel but "missed" their target
And the weird thing is that this isn't considered a "firearm," according to the ATF . . . which means you can own this without even having to go to a gun store and fill out that 4473 form - it can be delivered directly to your house.
