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

@AHSValor

Жыл бұрын

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

@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@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

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

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

@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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@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

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

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

@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.

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

That's a beautiful Thompson center renegade.

@mulletsmayhem492

Жыл бұрын

I've got the same one, super pretty rifles

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

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

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

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

@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

Жыл бұрын

Have one in .50.

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

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

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

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

That was informative, interesting, and concise.

That's Davy Crockett gun ! Cool 👍

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.

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!

Thank you so much. Keep up the amazing work

Ron your fly is down 😂

Old guns> all this new stuff

Interesting piece of historical information thank you.

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

@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.

Thanks Tom Hanks

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

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.

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

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.

I love those types of rifles there pretty

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?

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

That’s also why the barrel is so thick

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

This man reminds me of Major Dad.

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@joshd2013

Жыл бұрын

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

@tonywoconish6695

Жыл бұрын

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

@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

You have to thank and acknowledge the Chinese.

@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.

I have that same rifle

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

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

The touch hole

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

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

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

@tyrelmoseman7971

Жыл бұрын

Idk but it's some Burt Gummer drip tho

@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.

I have the same rifle. Passed onto me

this that dude from Simon and Simon?

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

It’s a science

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

I thought I was going to see a negligent discharge

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

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.

Interesting…. This isn’t long enough 😤

@iamryan767

Жыл бұрын

Why are you on the shorts page then? 💀

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

Close but i still dont understand

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

Also the floor is made of floor

@RejectOneWorldGov

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Thought this was Tom Hanks until he spoke...

Tom Hanks bruh

Literally would have just kept bow and arrow

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

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

@DeePolar.

8 ай бұрын

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

Ahh China does it again *takes sip of tea*

COVID really aged brad pitt

Lahey without the booze

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

My man looks like Brad Pitt

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

It’s time to blow some smoke 😁👍.

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

@thetoecutta5716

Жыл бұрын

The Chinese had arrows with rudimentary rockets attached

@Davoda2

Жыл бұрын

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

@thetoecutta5716

Жыл бұрын

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

@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..

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😡 🤕🥵😭

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

cap locks kinda suck

Conventional BB guns.

is it just me or does he look like brad pitt

Kind of self-explanatory

You look like old taika wahtiti

Wow, what a waste of everyone's time

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

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

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".

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