I love the old ways. I think what you and Early American are doing with your channels is great. Thanks for sharing!

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou!

@hankdoughty4375

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Townsend channel.

@hankdoughty4375

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronrayfield8177 you should do a collaboration with Townsend channel I'm sub of theirs also.

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

@@hankdoughty4375 im a subscriber!

@anneeeee4230

2 жыл бұрын

@@hankdoughty4375 like }¢¶

Ron you should run a playlist....LOVE THIS STUFF. God Bless you and Justine.

@patricknester435

2 жыл бұрын

I will agree with you John everything that Ron is doing is authentic and really peaks my interest

@cordiscoscorner

2 жыл бұрын

@@patricknester435 They have new video out today on their "Early American" channel.

Really interesting to see all the intricate work involved. Thank you for posting.

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it

I have always found that casting bullets is somewhat therapeutic. It's very relaxing as well as filling a need.

I had no idea that people once made their own ammunition, this was very cool to watch so thank you for making the video. It's fascinating how resourceful folks were in previous centuries. We have so much in these modern times but we have also missed out on so much. Thank you for keeping the skills alive and handing them down.

@nancyfenity9817

2 жыл бұрын

Some people still make their own bullets. It's not a lost art.

@julien.4617

2 жыл бұрын

@@nancyfenity9817 We cast lead when I was a girl and reloaded shells at home.

@connorhart7597

9 ай бұрын

Cowboys would sit around the fire smelting down scrap lead for cartridges or cap and ball guns. It melts real easy

Oh how does that bring back good memories. My brother and I used to cast our round balls and mini-balls using cast off wheel weights back in the 1960's. I still love the smell of burned black powder and greased patches ;-)

This was very cool! Ty for posting it!

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

youre welcome, thanks for watching

I used to do it with my dad..and it was 90s:)

Well you’re a little earlier on and I was, I did Civil War reenacting for a number of years. This is really cool love you and your wife’s channel. I miss living history.

Just fascinating all the intricate details in working the guns at that time. Thank you for your video Ron.

Adorable Horse!

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, her name is Mocha, shes a quarter horse.

My husband casts his own lead Bullets for his Muzzle Loader that he hunts deer with. We also cast our own Shad darts for Shad season on the Delaware!

Just realized today you started your own channel. Congratulations! I've already watched all your uploads and subscribed. Now I'm hungry for more.

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

thankyou! it might be a while, im a professional photographer and its fall wedding season right now and wont it be over until nov. Thank you for subscribing!!

@leoscheibelhut940

2 жыл бұрын

@@frontierpatriot Completely reasonable, although I'm a little disappointed to learn that you don't live in the early 1800's fulltime. A backstory on how you got into reenacting and development your persona would be very interesting.

Dangerous materials and work..so fascinating to watch

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

thanks!

Keep up good work👍🇺🇸

wow, you got some nice balls there,Ron.

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

😉

He's very authentic!👍

Excellent video. I look forward to watching the rest of your channel

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

thankyou!

I enjoy your informative channel. Thank you

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

thankyou!

This channel is awesome! Well done, sir!

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Thanks for the history lessons. Wow!

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

So cool watching the process

Another fantastic video keep up the good work Ron🇺🇲

Master Ron, I am glad to see that you are keeping prepared. You never know when you may be called to service. I was wondering if you smoked your mold before casting. That helps your balls to fall out more easily. I like your loading block. I will need to make one for myself. Even without one I was credited with having the tightest cartridges in the company. Very little loose powder in my cartridge box. Well, keep your powder dry, and as always, Y.O.S. K. E. Baker

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

hey thats a great idea, smoking the mold first! Thanks for the tip!!

Great video Ron 😊 Thank you for posting my fellow Patriot

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou! 🦅🇺🇲

I never knew how the ammunition was made 'back in the day' lol! I knew they couldn't just go down to their local gun store and purchase it haha! Thank you, Ron, for another lesson of the past, for keeping this and other skills alive and teaching others how to (maybe) keep up those ways. This could be a good project for a high schooler (with adult supervision, of course!) while studying this time period.

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou very much for watching!

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

leather gloves, closed toe shoes, a leather apron and safefy glasses. and then you can use coffee grounds for black powder

@chayastaub-krell6601

2 жыл бұрын

@@frontierpatriot, thank you so much for those safety items! My son-in-law has done lead soldering before so this video and your safety tips will help when my grandson gets a bit older (he's 13). We homeschool so I'm always looking for good projects to go along with the lessons. He's studying Ancient History now and he'll be studying Early American History in about two years and I think he'll be ready for this. Can't wait!

Nice skill to learn

This was so interesting! Thank you!

More, more!

Cool. I do about the same thing with my cap and ball pistol.

I cut, roll and fill cartridges for multiple living history events in my state. I've never seen it done your way before. So much more complicated! And i use Pacon art paper - has a more rustic finish almost like construction paper. Works beautifully. I roll and seal without glue.

@duanebrenneman8296

10 ай бұрын

could you make a video of yours aswell?

I meant to say awhile ago,I love the intro and music.

Fascinating process, Ron! Perfect motivation to become an excellent shot! Tell me, are the lead musket balls ready virtually immediately for use after coming out of the mold/trimmed?

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

yes, they are.

Like this video. A work of art.How long does it take to cast these round balls.David Back from Menifee county Kentucky.

Love it

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou!

Hi! What type of grease or glue did you you to secure the paper? Doing great! Thank you.

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

Glue made from pine sap, charcoal and some beeswax. Some people would use string and tie their cartridges or fold and crimp the ends, and some used glue.

@kevinbaker6168

2 жыл бұрын

I liked a simple paste of water and flour.

It sure did require skills to survive in those times. People don't really realize how easy things are now...too many uninterested in learning such things. Never know we may need them again. Ay?

I've seen a few videos on your channel Ron but only have a couple more to watch on Justine's Channel and then I'm done then I will float over here to see what you're doing. I like to introduction and I even like the background music that's played in a soft way. Very cool Channel love it you guys are terrific.

More and longer videos please

Clear and straightforward video. I have cast bullets, sinkers and dive weights with only the heat source changing. The cartridge building was excellent. Thank you.

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

So interesting .... here in UK and elsewhere I'm sure, ammunition was made in foundries by dropping molten lead from a hight from a shot tower. The led was poured through a grid and as it fell the molten led formed almost perfect sphere, the bigger the grid, the bigger the shot....

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

that is correct!

How many hours a week was spent doing this? Thank you for all the energy you put in making these videos

@ronrayfield8177

2 жыл бұрын

Took a while from getting done with regular work then getting things situated, setup, dressed, do it, then review it, then edit, then post. Thankyou for watching!!

Reminds me of that scene from The Patriot where Mel Gibson was melting down his deceased son's metal army men toys to make ammo.

@sierrastanley3109

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!

I have exams tomorrow what am i doing

@johnbarker2033

6 ай бұрын

You'll learn more watching this anyway. 😂

@Socraticmethod01

4 ай бұрын

Prepping for the future😅

Ron, really cool video. Could you revisit this sometime and give a little more detail on the whole process. Keep the great work!

Verry good job Ron! One of these days I will have to do this. David Back.

I love this channel

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

thankyou so much!

I like the narrow loading block or box if you would … excellent idea.

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou Cathy.

Does anyone know any good suppliers of where I buy lead plugs, molds, the tools shown here, etc. Also looking to buy black powder, and maybe a bunch of neat..... what are they called? The little containers that hold 1 shot worth of gunpowder for you on a bandolier?

This could actually been ASMR since its only sounds...love this video.

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

youre right! thankyou so much1

That's badass.

I love your intro.

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

thankyou so much!!

I use to make lead bearings the same size for my catapults here in the great Britain. After you cut the ecces of with plyers & give it a squueeze, it would still leave a little tiny thin line around the bearing. So we would put about 50 at a time in a sock & just rub them against each other. After a while they would be perfectly round & shine like ball bearings. But much heavier than a ball bearing of the same size, its amazing how a little line of unpolished lead can affect the accuracy of the projectile flying at high speed. Do you polish your bearings Ron or just load them in the gun?

@frontierpatriot

10 ай бұрын

very interesting method. i just ram them down the barrel :)

Imagine if they didn't have a spare table for outside and he made a gunpowder mess on the wife's cooking surfaces lol

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

Id be in trouble lol

Where do i get a caster like this?

KOOL 🌟🎁👊

I hope you don't cook out of the pot you melted the lead in. I'm sure not. Enjoying your channel.

Great how to mate, question though, what to you call the mold and where online can they be bought from? New to black powder. Cheers from Aussie.

@frontierpatriot

Жыл бұрын

Hey there Alan thank for watching and for the question, i just called them round ball molds, they also make block molds so that you can mold muitiple balls at once. This is just a single ball mold good to keep in the bag and or for demonstrating purposes

@frontierpatriot

Жыл бұрын

Try www.trackofthewolf.com i get alot of black powder supplies from them.

@aidanhart9871

Жыл бұрын

Howd you go with licensing ? I can't find any shops in WA that sells muskets so might import from Italy.

Luv your channel.. Do you live in the cute log cabin home?

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou! i live in a bigger one not in video

whats the black goop you are using> I imagine a type of glue. Can you link where to get it?

@frontierpatriot

Жыл бұрын

its boiled tree sap glue, you have to make it :)

@ReichenbachEsq

Жыл бұрын

@@frontierpatriot I boiled my pine sap with deer dung 😏

@hillbillypatriot1

7 ай бұрын

@@ReichenbachEsqhey if it works.

Sorry I feel I am from that era in my life today. Washington rules of etiquette are always in play. Truly love your videos, it reminds people of where we started in these United States with our freedom intact with Source God rights speech bear arms etc….go back a few years though with true history and teach. She cooks you teach your a wonderful couple..I don’t know how to contact you for insight I have other than here. I make my own powder for 50 cal sulfur salt Peter and willow. Takes 210 grains for todays rifle

anybody know where to pick up a mold like that

@frontierpatriot

Жыл бұрын

you can get them at track of the wolf www.trackofthewolf.com

@novascotianinfj

Жыл бұрын

@@frontierpatriot what is the name of that tool... :)

@frontierpatriot

Жыл бұрын

@@novascotianinfj its called a bag mold

Do we know how much gun powder. Then soldiers and common pple used in their rifles?

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

Soldiers were using 100+ grains. Ive seen some references to 180grains. I use 100grains with my .75 cal brown bess (musket/smoothbore) rifles would've used less that a musket due to the ball being smaller and the pressure created due to the tight fitting ball. Rifle were for efficience but take twice as long to load and in order to take advantage of the grooves in the barrel the ball has to fit tightly, can be hard to load at times

@dowdawg

10 ай бұрын

60 grains was the norm. During battle it was a what ever you thought was enough.

Need more shooting vids how they will be coming?

where did you get your bag mold

@frontierpatriot

9 ай бұрын

I had a local blacksmith make them

@billy_h_bonney2097

9 ай бұрын

ooof Im looking everywhere for them. I need a pair for 54 caliber@@frontierpatriot

@frontierpatriot

9 ай бұрын

@@billy_h_bonney2097 have you tried Track of The Wolf website?

@billy_h_bonney2097

9 ай бұрын

yes sir, no luck there @@frontierpatriot

@frontierpatriot

9 ай бұрын

@@billy_h_bonney2097 i just found a .54 bag mold its from the 19th century and in really good condition, a bit heavy on price BUT its the real deal :) heres the link. www.hiltpewter.com/item.php?id=1216&cid=26

What size are you casting? I might assume you have the firearm as well, more info on it please!

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, i was casting .735 balsl for my .75 caliber flintlock musket, a long land brown bess.

I hope that's not Justine's good pot Brother!

@frontierpatriot

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@JAEUFM

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, the wife might soon become a widow woman if that were the case.

Some commentary would be nice!

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Ok just for us old guys show the bucks how to make powder how much powder you used as guess is 65 grains. And ball weight? And don’t wear your short night shirt for last one the look on your wife’s face was such a lady. No expression when you bent over. Been married for 31 years. Well played