Black Powder Guns: The History of Muzzle Loading Rifles

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For 44 years I’ve had the good fortune to photograph and write about my passion - the outdoor life. Wild creatures and wild places have always stirred me - from the first flushing pheasant that frightened me out of my socks in grandpa’s cornfield to the last whitetail that dismissed me with a wag of its tail. In my attempts to connect with this natural wonder, to become an integral part of our ecosystem and capture a bit of its mystery, I’ve photographed, hiked, hunted, birded, and fished across much of this planet. I've seen the beauty that everyone should see, survived adventures that everyone should experience. I may not have climbed the highest mountains, canoed the wildest rivers, caught the largest fish or shot the biggest bucks, but I’ve tried. Perhaps you have, too. And that’s the essential thing. Being out there, an active participant in our outdoor world.
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  • @davesomeone4059
    @davesomeone4059 Жыл бұрын

    Crazy how hard it must have been to figure all this out for the first time.

  • @AHSValor

    @AHSValor

    Жыл бұрын

    Bet you some of the first guys to make it were missing some fingers

  • @paulatudor691

    @paulatudor691

    Жыл бұрын

    The only thing I hate about mine is the damp weather delaying fire if it fires at all on rainy days

  • @anthonyweber156

    @anthonyweber156

    Жыл бұрын

    Man imagine being in the revolutionary war in the cold with one of these praying that it fires on point 😱

  • @bioemiliano

    @bioemiliano

    Жыл бұрын

    Well hundreds of people across hundreds of years across hundreds of miles of the silk road made hundreds of very tiny innovations to an already existing things, it wasn't like it was all made in a day

  • @AHSValor

    @AHSValor

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bioemiliano The plumbed toilet took well over a couple hundred years, and half a world of travel, before it turned from a working concept into a feasibly replicable and marketable product. The pace of today's innovation is insane

  • @deandeann1541
    @deandeann1541 Жыл бұрын

    I imagine the first ignition system was a touchhole that was filled with gunpowder. Fuse was an early invention too though.

  • @RustyShackleford556

    @RustyShackleford556

    Жыл бұрын

    Very early muzzleloaders like the arquebus were all matchlocks, which means that instead of having a traditional trigger it had a trigger that would lower a slow-burning fuse onto the flash pan to ignite the charge. You were pretty much spot-on about the touch hole thing, the method of ignition was just a little strange

  • @sulkingsalamander6181

    @sulkingsalamander6181

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RustyShackleford556 some of the earliest firearms used in war didn't even really look like a gun and was more like a spear with a large pistol barrel on the end and they would have a powdered touch hole and a lit slow burn fuse on a stick to set it it just like a cannon, a much earlier system than matchlock

  • @RustyShackleford556

    @RustyShackleford556

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sulkingsalamander6181 Fair enough, I guess hand cannons count as guns

  • @Adam_okaay

    @Adam_okaay

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RustyShackleford556 before the arquebus there were "hand cannons" or "pole cannons" which were just barrels on a stick and you would balance it on a "Y" shaped stand and they were "match lit" aka touched with a fuse manually, this was before matchlock. Matchlock was designed to improve the process.

  • @RustyShackleford556

    @RustyShackleford556

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Adam_okaay I know of those, I actually mentioned them in my above comment. I just didn't mention them in the original because I was referring to the more traditional triggered matchlock as the first "true" gun

  • @robertmillen2967
    @robertmillen2967 Жыл бұрын

    They didn’t drill the barrel, they hammered flat steel around a mandrel to make to barrel bore

  • @Pseudoswede

    @Pseudoswede

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I see I’m not the only one who’s been to colonial Williamsburg or a blacksmith’s shop;) Didn’t that manufacturing method sort of give way to the octagonal barrels occasionally seen on Sharps? I’m totally guessing, but it does seem practical given the methodology.

  • @solovoldo
    @solovoldo Жыл бұрын

    Who would have ever guessed that muzzleloaders were loaded from the muzzle?! Lol

  • @terrysmith4465
    @terrysmith4465 Жыл бұрын

    That's a beautiful Thompson center renegade.

  • @mulletsmayhem492

    @mulletsmayhem492

    Жыл бұрын

    I've got the same one, super pretty rifles

  • @ShadowStalky58052
    @ShadowStalky58052 Жыл бұрын

    Subscribed! So much knowledge and interesting about firearms you know.

  • @humblehombre9904
    @humblehombre9904 Жыл бұрын

    Very best description of not only a muzzle loader, but nearly all of the descriptions I have ever heard. Very nice method. Thanks brother.

  • @LucasIsHereYT
    @LucasIsHereYT Жыл бұрын

    PoV: You're on a school trip to the state fair waiting to shoot a muzzle loader.

  • @teddandrews8289
    @teddandrews8289 Жыл бұрын

    I have that same Thompson/Center in Left handed..

  • @dmre0
    @dmre0 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful Hawkin, I have one myself I love it 80 grains and a 300gr 50 Cal bullet does great

  • @octorogue1569
    @octorogue1569 Жыл бұрын

    Nice little Thompson center Hawken. That .54 caliber bores a big hole, take advantage of pumpkin season.

  • @mattheww9656
    @mattheww9656 Жыл бұрын

    That was informative, interesting, and concise.

  • @johndudley5761
    @johndudley5761 Жыл бұрын

    That's Davy Crockett gun ! Cool 👍

  • @burkecunningham7137
    @burkecunningham7137 Жыл бұрын

    Looks like a Tompson Center Renegade 54 cal with double set triggers to me.

  • @brianpierson7708

    @brianpierson7708

    Жыл бұрын

    Don’t know much about that one but the Hawkins with the double set is what I ran for a very very very long time shooting everything form 50 at 54 cal Round Ball to 250 gr slug man I miss the good ol days hand poring ducking and moving to stay away from the rain and even that buck you been on a soggy morning and praying before you pull the trigger that it’s going to shoot and not the dreaded snap and if it’s did snap you scars to move it because of the delayed fire they would pull on you man it was a love hate deal right there

  • @leeleland2435

    @leeleland2435

    Жыл бұрын

    Have one in .50.

  • @fdfd4739
    @fdfd4739 Жыл бұрын

    I have a cap and ball revolver and that's still advanced tech compared to a traditional flintlock. It's almost an art when it comes to reloading, and the cloud of smoke afterwards is absolutely the reward.

  • @odieoh
    @odieoh Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. Keep up the amazing work

  • @country4life534
    @country4life534 Жыл бұрын

    Did you know it was called a barrel because it was iron staves with bands around it like a wooden barrel or bucket

  • @SomeGuyOnTheNet.
    @SomeGuyOnTheNet. Жыл бұрын

    Interesting piece of historical information thank you.

  • @SuperDJMIST
    @SuperDJMIST Жыл бұрын

    Ron your fly is down 😂

  • @Ma_Deuce
    @Ma_Deuce Жыл бұрын

    That's looks exactly like my Hawkens. I love that thing

  • @sett6970

    @sett6970

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it's a .54 cal Thompson Center Renegade, the barrel is the same as the TC hawkens the lock is different color, but the same otherwise. I have both rifles.

  • @RebelScum1996
    @RebelScum199610 ай бұрын

    My great great great grandfather invented that hawkens rifle. Sam j Hawkins. 50 cal

  • @balazsvarga537
    @balazsvarga537 Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Early gun barells were forged. So we have existing copies of damascus gun barells form the 16. and 17. century Europe. Ps.: King Harry VIII of England had a breach loading machlock gun. Working? Definitely! Expensive? Like gold!

  • @joshd2013
    @joshd2013 Жыл бұрын

    I was so convinced you were going to load and shoot that beautiful muzzleloader that when the video ended I was just like oh so can you please make a video of you shooting it I would highly appreciate it if you could

  • @tonywoconish6695

    @tonywoconish6695

    Жыл бұрын

    If you watch the FULL VIDEO he does shoot the muzzle loader at the end.

  • @joshd2013

    @joshd2013

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tonywoconish6695 I did watch it it only goes for a minute

  • @tonywoconish6695

    @tonywoconish6695

    Жыл бұрын

    @@joshd2013 look for Ron’s FULL LENGTH video on muzzle loaders. It’s in THERE. 💥💥💥

  • @joshd2013

    @joshd2013

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tonywoconish6695 oh right I didn't realise he had a full length video of it out I'll Go watch it now

  • @noahmarshall4859
    @noahmarshall4859 Жыл бұрын

    I love those types of rifles there pretty

  • @mr.m1garand254
    @mr.m1garand254 Жыл бұрын

    Old guns> all this new stuff

  • @kevinmcgill9525
    @kevinmcgill9525 Жыл бұрын

    This man reminds me of Major Dad.

  • @WendiGonerLH
    @WendiGonerLH Жыл бұрын

    Rifling itself is interesting, theres some debate as to who exactly invented it. The general consensus is some german gunsmith in the early 16th century was responsible, which would explain why rifles would be predominantly linked to germanic hunting culture. From what I’ve read the two prevailing theories on how the accuracy improvements were discovered and implemented are such: 1) Grooves were first cut straight, in order to give the fouling of black powder (which was even dirtier back then) a place to collect without obstructing the main bore. Twisting patterns were then implemented to maximize available surface area, with the spin stabilization being a side effect. 2) Rifling grooves were first cut in a deliberate attempt to replicate the stabilizing effect of that spiral fletching had on arrows in flight.

  • @lildriphoodlilshoota970
    @lildriphoodlilshoota970 Жыл бұрын

    That’s also why the barrel is so thick

  • @MrAdeuhtyr
    @MrAdeuhtyr Жыл бұрын

    Well, I mean there’s a small hole at the back. Still have to get a spark into the powder somehow

  • @Mr_Itchy
    @Mr_Itchy Жыл бұрын

    I have that same rifle

  • @Thumper17
    @Thumper17 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Tom Hanks

  • @Seamusyt1396
    @Seamusyt1396 Жыл бұрын

    The touch hole

  • @whisk3675
    @whisk3675 Жыл бұрын

    How did they ignite the gunpowder without leaving a hole for the gases to escape through tho?

  • @KingOTanks
    @KingOTanks Жыл бұрын

    And they couldnt add a breach-loading system because the machining technology wasnt there. Youd need an airtight seal with enough material strength to not fracture or explode under the ignition pressure of the powder, and they couldn't do that until mid to late 1800's on any scale that mattered.

  • @henryschmidt485
    @henryschmidt485 Жыл бұрын

    So this might be a silly question but how was it ignited if the breach had to be completely sealed off, ik they didn’t have primers and firing pins back then which would mean there must be something like a fuse that required a hole to be drilled in the breach right?

  • @markallen2558
    @markallen2558 Жыл бұрын

    Is that the famous actor Gerald Mc greedy I'm not sure how you spell it but it sure looks and sounds like him

  • @andresdubon2608
    @andresdubon2608 Жыл бұрын

    What's the name of the type of shirt he's wearing? I like those.

  • @tyrelmoseman7971

    @tyrelmoseman7971

    Жыл бұрын

    Idk but it's some Burt Gummer drip tho

  • @andresdubon2608

    @andresdubon2608

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tyrelmoseman7971 I looked for some shirts and it seems it's like a safari shirt. At least I find similar shirts under that name.

  • @JhonnyTheCleric
    @JhonnyTheCleric Жыл бұрын

    If the breech is enclosed how does the fire come into the boom room?

  • @frankmoreno6866
    @frankmoreno6866 Жыл бұрын

    Is that a 30-30 or 300 blackout lever action muzzleloader too?

  • @limehuzki
    @limehuzki Жыл бұрын

    If you think about it, were still just using flintlocks, just each bullet is a flintlock loaded into a bigger handle

  • @technophant
    @technophant Жыл бұрын

    I thought I was going to see a negligent discharge

  • @mitchg9285
    @mitchg9285 Жыл бұрын

    I have the same rifle. Passed onto me

  • @mits_6131
    @mits_6131 Жыл бұрын

    You have to thank and acknowledge the Chinese.

  • @Pseudoswede

    @Pseudoswede

    Жыл бұрын

    We are. With all the intellectual property theft and corporate espionage that they are never even confronted with on a daily basis.

  • @prestongarvey1051
    @prestongarvey1051 Жыл бұрын

    Powder, patch, ball or else it won’t shoot at all! Always clean your guns after shooting!

  • @lancesudberry209
    @lancesudberry209 Жыл бұрын

    I'd imagine a plenty of the first used got plenty of swords stuck inside them and clubbed a heep before proficiency occurred 😆

  • @mr.c6924
    @mr.c69245 ай бұрын

    this that dude from Simon and Simon?

  • @TheV8Pumpkin
    @TheV8Pumpkin Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact they actually started off with putting arrows in tubes attached to gunpowder :)

  • @dominien6487
    @dominien6487 Жыл бұрын

    it took you that long to tell me a muzzle loading rifle is loaded from the muzzle?

  • @CaptainRon76
    @CaptainRon76 Жыл бұрын

    If fine leather had a voice, it would sound like this guy

  • @spacemarine6212
    @spacemarine6212 Жыл бұрын

    I want to see the first "magazine" based weapon.

  • @xavierzaxavier5873
    @xavierzaxavier5873 Жыл бұрын

    Chinese at sword era already use that theory and create fireworks and fire arrow and also korea

  • @genericamerican7574
    @genericamerican7574 Жыл бұрын

    It’s a science

  • @speedlimit6869
    @speedlimit6869 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting…. This isn’t long enough 😤

  • @iamryan767

    @iamryan767

    Жыл бұрын

    Why are you on the shorts page then? 💀

  • @TraverseRaps
    @TraverseRaps Жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many people lost fingers trying to figure it all out

  • @chrisgabbert658
    @chrisgabbert658 Жыл бұрын

    It’s time to blow some smoke 😁👍.

  • @humblehombre9904
    @humblehombre9904 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine the number of rods and bullets, that were accidentally shot through guys eyes, heads, hands. I mean, we really have it good, now that much-not ALL-of the trial and error has been eliminated through time.

  • @giuseppecaruso2045
    @giuseppecaruso2045 Жыл бұрын

    Tom Hanks bruh

  • @xdrugzbunny4208
    @xdrugzbunny4208 Жыл бұрын

    Ahh China does it again *takes sip of tea*

  • @thatmeme1360
    @thatmeme1360 Жыл бұрын

    Thought this was Tom Hanks until he spoke...

  • @precisionhaze6594
    @precisionhaze6594 Жыл бұрын

    Also the floor is made of floor

  • @RejectOneWorldGov

    @RejectOneWorldGov

    Жыл бұрын

    But you can not doscount the fact that the ceiling is made of ceiling.

  • @hueman8607
    @hueman8607 Жыл бұрын

    Close but i still dont understand

  • @valentine12
    @valentine12 Жыл бұрын

    Lahey without the booze

  • @joestuckel702
    @joestuckel702 Жыл бұрын

    I’m pretty sure that’s not the timeline of gunpowder

  • @efficientfuture1336
    @efficientfuture1336 Жыл бұрын

    Literally would have just kept bow and arrow

  • @frogboy2483
    @frogboy2483 Жыл бұрын

    It's funny how people still tried to make primitive guns back then when bows were just better in every way

  • @DeePolar.

    @DeePolar.

    8 ай бұрын

    Until you came across a wall of professional gun loaders 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @GF-nm1cl
    @GF-nm1cl Жыл бұрын

    COVID really aged brad pitt

  • @Doi-
    @Doi- Жыл бұрын

    Well you didn't discover that you just made it repeatable, the Chinese firework was the first real gunpowder "tool"

  • @Beencheeling
    @Beencheeling Жыл бұрын

    Not the Americans invented guns first! The chinese did. Mongols then invaded China and took they gunpowder and used it in Europe and the europeans reposted the mongols and they took the gunpowder. The americans were literally tribes like in Africa at the time

  • @Davoda2
    @Davoda2 Жыл бұрын

    I doubt that an arrow was ever used in a weapon with combination of gunpowder.

  • @thetoecutta5716

    @thetoecutta5716

    Жыл бұрын

    The Chinese had arrows with rudimentary rockets attached

  • @Davoda2

    @Davoda2

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thetoecutta5716 well, yes; I forgot those... still at least a "rocket" not a gun.

  • @thetoecutta5716

    @thetoecutta5716

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Davoda2 definitely I think they also had simple mortars to

  • @Davoda2

    @Davoda2

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thetoecutta5716 I definitely remember the 'rocket/fireworks' in mainly naval combat, and some primitive landmines, etc. But using an arrow as a bullet..

  • @tagwagley1864
    @tagwagley1864 Жыл бұрын

    My man looks like Brad Pitt

  • @jaimecastro9429
    @jaimecastro9429 Жыл бұрын

    Conventional BB guns.

  • @lancesudberry209
    @lancesudberry209 Жыл бұрын

    Today Me using this arm 1 st time Me : empty gun and a clubbed man trotting towards me at 50 yards 🧐😲😳 Clubbed trotting man CTM:@35 yards😡 🤕🥵😭

  • @Believer1427
    @Believer1427 Жыл бұрын

    For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ‭‭Romans‬ ‭6:23.

  • @chlorhexidine2506
    @chlorhexidine2506 Жыл бұрын

    cap locks kinda suck

  • @Big_AK15
    @Big_AK15 Жыл бұрын

    is it just me or does he look like brad pitt

  • @SpyKid527
    @SpyKid527 Жыл бұрын

    You look like old taika wahtiti

  • @mikeericaful
    @mikeericaful Жыл бұрын

    Kind of self-explanatory

  • @icameisawitrolled
    @icameisawitrolled Жыл бұрын

    Wow, what a waste of everyone's time

  • @alexsass6539
    @alexsass6539 Жыл бұрын

    Early guns were crap, but they’re easy to use and produce pieces of crap

  • @jcbaroux
    @jcbaroux Жыл бұрын

    This poor guy has no jdea of black powder and history....tipycally american, ground cleverness...

  • @bobbybrown475
    @bobbybrown475 Жыл бұрын

    This has honestly been the most useless of any short of yours I've seen. This is just a roundabout way of saying "we have an open end for a projectile to fly out from".

  • @chillingrain9805
    @chillingrain9805 Жыл бұрын

    What brand and model gun is that , I have the same one

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