Not pictured: The combined hour and a half of reloading to bring you this video

@jackwayne3333

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s implied and obvious lol

@mutum1

Жыл бұрын

thats what his slaves are for

@Armacham2

Жыл бұрын

AK Flintlock when, you handsome youtube motherlover?

@NitsuJTrigger

Жыл бұрын

@@mutum1 it’s pronounced un paid intern

@bigredwolf6

Жыл бұрын

That’s why you do like Mel Gibson and have 5 guns loaded and your two sons doing your reloading

That is a genuinely horrifying amount of damage. The "as the founding fathers intended" home defense copypasta seems much more realistic now.

@BananarchOfTedKacistan

Жыл бұрын

My dead neighbor's dog would like to agree with you.

@wheeliebin18

Жыл бұрын

"Golf ball sized hole" seems a woefully inadequate measure right now!

@SnakeInAShoe

Жыл бұрын

Well what about the cannon upstairs?

@zacharydurocher4085

Жыл бұрын

At least it doesn’t blow the lung out of the body like the military-grade, high-caliber 9mm round

@KhrynTzu

Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking that.. I thought it was just "meme" bluster, but wow.

I'll always be in awe of the fact that people not only stood still in lines shooting at each other with these monstrosities, but also the fact that they did so in an orderly fashion.

@dango470

9 ай бұрын

Not quite true or how battles worked back then. The orderly standing in line thing was mostly about getting a massed single volley to saturate the air with lead but also to crush your enemy's morale, as well as fsciliate reloading. So theyd have one line firing the next is reloading, to have contunuous fire rate. But yeah, war back then was really just a massive game of chicken. There was a lot of maneuvering and firing at peak distance, but the actual deciding part of battle would be over in a couple of minutes, if one side manages to get a decent volley in. Discipline was also paramount because there's been cases where an army won because the enemy army shot too soon, which mostly missed, which allowed the winning army to march forward to optimal distance, take their shot and just absolutely mow down the enemy army Its also worth noting that on the battlefield aim goes out the window, both because of adrenalin pumping and also because most people have a hard time psychologically aiming such a weapon at a living breathing human being, so most would just be aiming in the general direction of the enemy

@hotchihuahua1546

9 ай бұрын

It would have been interesting to get the FPS and FPE on the projectile .

@terryteed1903

8 ай бұрын

​@dango470 not to mention that they were sold on glory and looooots of Gin. Most of the blokes were as pissed as a handcart.

@rinzler9775

8 ай бұрын

Yes - insane - the guy next to you gets half his skull blown off, and you calmly just keep reloading.

@dango470

8 ай бұрын

@@rinzler9775 not calmly, but you do need to reload to shoot again. But armies generally played a big game of chicken - few battles end with one side completely dead from the fighting, usually once soldiers around you start falling left and right, someone's bound to start running and once one guy starts running everyone else joins him

As a flintlock guy, watching you load was painful. But I love that you did this

@Flaky1916

4 ай бұрын

He had a big ass flinch shooting that thing lol

@torrinfell

3 ай бұрын

Dude the fact that most people don't use pre-measured paper cartridges like you're supposed to when loading a flintlock is SO painful to keep watching

@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry

2 ай бұрын

​@@torrinfellIt's also much more historically accurate to be using pre-filled paper cartridges, which were standard for both the British and Continental armies and uniformed militias.

@peanutbutter551

2 ай бұрын

Not for the Kentucky rifle. ​@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry

@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry

2 ай бұрын

@@peanutbutter551 You're correct; I should have specified that the cartridges were for muskets, which were the primary weapon of both sides. Rifles were also used by both sides, in much smaller numbers, and required a more complex and time consuming method of loading, though they were much more accurate and had over twice the effective range of the musket.

I think the most terrifying thing about this video is not just the flintlocks deadlines, but realizing the lack of medical capabilities to treat these wounds in the 1700s.

@SenkaBandit

Жыл бұрын

Especially with the introduction of triangular bayonets Edit: just a myth nvm

@LordHoth_09

Жыл бұрын

Basically cut it out or cut it off.

@marsfreelander5969

Жыл бұрын

Getting hit = dead/you lose a limb/you lose a limb and die

@zacharyveatch8438

Жыл бұрын

Even today… I’m a civi medic and I would HATE to deal with these wounds

@bren.nan_

Жыл бұрын

@@zacharyveatch8438 just looking at that headshot and i can see why you guys deserve more money than you do, god bless y'all and your line of work

The ballistics are more impressive than I thought they would be.

@official_jimmydore..

Жыл бұрын

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@zambonibob2026

Жыл бұрын

those entrance wounds were insane!

@toptieramongus6730

Жыл бұрын

Same, never think they're that strong, I've heard of 300 yrd shots in the revolution

@r.l.royalljr.3905

Жыл бұрын

The accuracy from the rifling tripled (or more!) the effective range over a smoothbore musket.

@AB0BA_69

Жыл бұрын

Those wounds look absolutely frigging brutal. That ball just stopped traveling through the body or absolutely pancaked. Scary stuff.

Garand Thumb doing the whole Sand People thing @ 9:01 while holding a musket after just making a nice shot made my whole day.

@terryteed1903

8 ай бұрын

Tuscan, you racist lol.

@heikkiremes5661

7 ай бұрын

You mean Arab?

@TristinMorrissey

6 ай бұрын

​@@heikkiremes5661Star wars reference, not racism.

@ratgobbler

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@terryteed1903 Fairly sure Sand People wouldn’t be any more racist than “Tusken Raider.” They only got that name because they, well, raided Fort Tusken.

@terryteed1903

5 ай бұрын

@@ratgobbler lol.

Spat my tea straight into the harbour when you came at King George like that ...

Raising the rifle over your head and letting out a Tusken Raider yell is something every man must do in his life at least once after a successful shot.

@johnjohnon8767

Жыл бұрын

Been there, done that.

@mirkobucolo3242

Жыл бұрын

That was the best thing to do after that flintlock long shot

@jdminn4

Жыл бұрын

Laughed my ass off when he did that.

@josephjin203

Жыл бұрын

hmmm, I'll take note of that for the future

@toddhastings3376

Жыл бұрын

They travel single file, in order to conceal their numbers.?..

Politicians: "this modern handgun round can tear you lungs open" Meanwhile, a 250 year-old black powder weapon: _literally decapitates someone_

@visassess8607

Жыл бұрын

Yes because as we all know, it's only about the power of the round itself and not the many other differences modern firearms have compared to these guns.

@juiceoverflow

Жыл бұрын

@@bafitness3925 do you feel smart and righteous after typing all that?

@juiceoverflow

Жыл бұрын

@@bafitness3925 you cant even spell ad hominem right talk about not worth my time rofl lmao

@juiceoverflow

Жыл бұрын

@@bafitness3925 try harder next time

@GoatSimpulator

Жыл бұрын

The video they did with the Russian KS-23 "4 Guage" Shotgun with a 1000 grain slug didn't eviscerate the target head as much as this ancient BoomStick!!! lol

My great grandfather fought for the Union and was wounded in 63 in the side by shrapnel or a bullet. Seeing the bullet impact at 5:21 gave me chills

@untrainedmechanic

6 ай бұрын

How old are you that your great grandfather was in the Civil War?

@thecivilwarguy3674

6 ай бұрын

@@untrainedmechanic ok I’m sorry Great Great Great Great Grandfather I just hate saying great 5 times

@BUCKINATORCHRIS

6 ай бұрын

@@thecivilwarguy3674 But you only said it four times?

@ratgobbler

5 ай бұрын

@@BUCKINATORCHRIS He’s a bit slow.

@TaylorGriffing-rj2on

5 ай бұрын

Wrong firearm, this is the gun HIS grandfather used.

The damage that did on the headshot was insane! This channel rules.

@kevinprince9527

Ай бұрын

Hollywood scammed us where they show tiny ball entry wound. And a cannon looking like someone threw a baseball on the ground and 3 random extras just fall.

Well we can all be sure that flintlock sharpshooters didn't need optics to confirm a kill, that headshot says it all... My goodness, that is terrifying.

@nickabel8279

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure the distance had a lot to do with it...

@zerwire7856

Жыл бұрын

@@nickabel8279 Yea distance does play a lot into it but most of the older firearms didn't shoot many yards away compared to modern day firearms. What made them dangerous was since they acted like cannons the impact at the right range is a lot higher than say a modern day rifle since flint locks weren't aimed to penetrate. They were also damaging since the the powder used was black powder instead of the modern smokeless powder which is less volatile than black powder. If you see explosive experts on prop sets use black powder you know they mostly use very little for the explosion since black powder has a mind of it's own sometimes and even in a open container will it still act like a bomb.

@kladius8045

Жыл бұрын

​@@zerwire7856 If muskets hit harder than modern rifles, why soldiers only got injured and just fell down or unable to move (I saw it from some movies) comparing to mostly instant death by modern gunshots? (No bad intention I'm just curious)

@sebastianriz4703

Жыл бұрын

​@@kladius8045 neither of those statements are fully correct. For one, hundreds of thousands of people survive GSWs every day. It's called shot placement mate. Getting shot and hit in a vital area will put you down. Getting shot in a non-vital area wont put you down.

@kladius8045

Жыл бұрын

@@sebastianriz4703 Oh I see

Historical reenactor for Revolutionary War here. Been shooting muskets since I was around 8. George Washington himself recommended his troops to load their muskets with buck and ball, which usually meant a ball followed by 3 to 6 sizable buckshot pellets. If just the ball can do that kind of damage, imagine what that load could do. Never tested it but wouldn’t mind a follow up to this!

@AIRSOFTREEACTOR

Жыл бұрын

Me too man. 3RDNY REGIMENT.

@NathanOrlick

Жыл бұрын

I would absolutely love a follow-up in the way described above

@Tyfu39944

Жыл бұрын

Please tell me someone has made a video doing this, this just proves why Washington was a general(?)

@hihihihihello

Жыл бұрын

That's vicious

@olstar18

Жыл бұрын

@@Tyfu39944 You do realize buck and ball loads were very common. It was one of the reasons that some units chose to keep using smoothbore muskets during the civil war.

Think this might be my favourite video you've done. That musical sting after the round hit was perfect.

It is SO great that you are total film nerds. The Homages you pay in... everything! From shot framing, to pacing, to dialogue, to filters, and different edits, it is a miracle how well applied is all of your meticulous work. You guys are Nerds on every level, in the best ways, and it is a phenomenal treat.

There was a militia captain named Daniel Morgan who assembled "Morgan's Riflemen" as the Revolution heated up. The test to get in was to hit a roofing shingle with your rifled musket, cold bore at 250 meters. If you missed, you could still join his unit as support staff (i.e. cooks), but not as a rifleman.

@official_jimmydore..

Жыл бұрын

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@scottcantdance804

Жыл бұрын

Meters?

@isaacrhodes4617

Жыл бұрын

@@scottcantdance804 Must have meant feet, which is still highly impressive

@charlottelanvin7095

Жыл бұрын

I once went 10 rounds with Captain Morgan. I'm still here to tell the tale

@random_tech_adept6117

Жыл бұрын

@@Docsporseen1 we still use feet and yards, metric was not sometthing in common use by us back then as much as it is now.

This is so much more disturbing than any war movie has ever been. I can't believe anyone ever survived a shot from one of these in the field, even peripherally.

@willv3462

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I normally have a pretty strong stomach, but honestly the thought of catching one of those musket balls has me a little nauseous. Shout out to any fucker who would willingly stand in front of one of these

@westenicho

Жыл бұрын

@@willv3462 they're only shooting a 49 cal musket ball too, the british and american regulars shot 70 cal

@TheOneWayDown

Жыл бұрын

@@westenicho would the smoothbore muskets the regulars had have a lower average muzzle velocity though?

@landsknecht8654

Жыл бұрын

Muskets and the arquebus before the muskets were very powerful! We're talking about these things had 70 or 85 or 95 caliber firepower.

@westenicho

Жыл бұрын

@@TheOneWayDown undoubtedly, the calibers of the musket shots ranged considerably to allow them to be rammed down the barrel without getting stuck, meaning the smaller the caliber used the more room it had to move around before exiting the barrel. the brown bess that the british regulars used was smooth bore, probably because they didn't need rifling and increased rifle range for the type of tactics they used in battle. or maybe it was a cost cutting measure.

Imagine you’re chillin with your homies at Lexington in standard formation and his head fucking explodes

You guys put me in a good mood. Appreciate it

How anyone survived this era is both mystery and impressive.

@massimothetrog7111

Жыл бұрын

No mystery, they were all insane by our standards.

@goodwinter6017

Жыл бұрын

@@massimothetrog7111 they were civilised gentlemen who wouldnt hassetate finishing you off with their swords, they were indeed crazy back then.

@Bhatt_Hole

Жыл бұрын

@@goodwinter6017 Hallo. what is means "Hassetate"?

@goodwinter6017

Жыл бұрын

@@Bhatt_Hole you know hasitate, my spelling is off

@asiberiantiger188

Жыл бұрын

@@goodwinter6017 you doing ok over there man?

Imagine being in a battle back then where thousands of men would fire these things at each other in a field. Must have been horrifying.

@goodwinter6017

Жыл бұрын

It was a hell of a lot messier.

@rehoboth_farm

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure that it's like today. 90% 💩 their pants, send rounds wildly into the air and then lie curled up in a ball begging for their mommy till it's over. It's the natural human response. Of course men were a lot less vaginal back then.

@epiphone5696

Жыл бұрын

Now imagine a modern war when a single man can fire thousands, fighter jets above, tanks and ifv on the ground. Missiles and rockets in the air

@ashwilliams3859

Жыл бұрын

​@@epiphone5696 Imagine the governments get half the world to inject themselves with experimental injections and everyone is just "dying suddenly". Some would venture to say that's a pretty unethical form of warfare and would consider it war crimes.

@olegpal5926

Жыл бұрын

@@epiphone5696 sure the weapons in modern warfare are much more devastating, but the size of modern battlefields and the style of fighting are completely different. A couple dozen men having a firefight with one another is incomparable to organized lines of men where 70,000 men would March at each other on open ground in tight formations firing spicy golf balls at each other then charging with bayonets

Didn't know that this was the video I needed! Thank you and God bless!

I love that musket!! The wood furniture is beautiful

that headshot was brutal. I kinda feel sorry for people who seen their friends end like this in person...not the worst death but absolutely scary.

@dwrabauke

Жыл бұрын

Yes, If it hits you like that at least it's just lights out, you don't suffer like if it hit you in the side and you bleed out slowly knowing noone can fix you up.

@boredape1257

Жыл бұрын

​@@dwrabaukeyeah headshot is kinda humane in comparison to machete or knife injuries. but still OMG that was bloody.

@carteranderson5907

Жыл бұрын

I was reading about battles in the war of 1812 the other day, in one of the naval battles a British captain was decapitated by a rifle shot during a battle, to then see it happen to a dummy is eye-opening.

@jasonlewis5851

Жыл бұрын

@@carteranderson5907 where can i read

@wilfdarr

Жыл бұрын

Ya, I'm reading "Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques" right now, and that's one thing I keep thinking over and over, is I don't care how bad my life is, I couldn't do THAT to my family. There a hundred other ways I would take my life before a large-bore to the head!

It would be interesting to see this Flintlock's effect on body armor / modern military helmets

@alericc1889

Жыл бұрын

The soft lead rounds would be stopped easier since they actually flatten when they hit thus making the body armor MORE effective.

@thetayz72

Жыл бұрын

@@alericc1889 Yeah probably but it would still be interesting to see

@theydontlikeitupem.4725

Жыл бұрын

​@@alericc1889 it may not penetrate but the sheer blunt force trauma would no doubt cause massive internal haemorrhageing.

@alericc1889

Жыл бұрын

@@theydontlikeitupem.4725 True, but that would also depend on the distance of the shooter to the target. Since they are .54 cal balls they will have a lot of mass when they hit but black powder is slow burning and didnt have the same velocity as a modern rifle round. It would definitely be painful.

@sumrandomgaymer9945

Жыл бұрын

@@theydontlikeitupem.4725 I can tell you from personal experience it really isn't that impressive with level 3A. Similar damage to something like a .357 - .44 magnum. Maybe a couple broken ribs and a bruise but nothing that would really incapacitate someone unless it was a helmet shot.

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880 yards… a young man named Timothy Murphy during the American Revolution is documented to have literally sniped British officers and soldiers alike at ranges up to 900 yards with his Pennsylvania Rifle. This was not unusual and the militia was the cause of the loss of the war for the British. There are thousands of documented historical records of some frontiersman fighting as militia killing men from 400 yards with these rifles. I have the pleasure of being a curator and researcher at my local museum as a side hobby and I enjoy teaching folks about Daniel Morgan, who went out into the frontier of Pennsylvania in 1778 and recruited 500 men from the ages of 18 to 24, they met up with 1,400 frontier men in the siege of Boston and they could consistently strike a 7 inch target from 250 yards. Daniel Morgan and hundreds of other men (a true hero of the war and someone people need to know more about) at the siege of Saratoga witnessed Timothy Murphy strike and kill a British dispatch rider riding full speed on his horse from 400 yards with his rifle…. Having shot these guns and being close acquaintances with a man who has won National and international tournaments shooting musketry and Kentucky rifles, I’m also a bold defender of the accuracy of muskets. Modern media portrays them false. You can relatively consistently strike a watermelon at 100 yards with a smooth bore brown Bess and other muskets and push it to way slimmer chances at 200 yards. Anyway I hope this comment peaks people’s interest in forgotten history!

My history teacher showed this in class today. Needless to say he's my favorite now.

@RX7FDfreak

Жыл бұрын

Thats awesome!

@casey360360

Жыл бұрын

Your history teacher needs to run for US Secretary of Education.

@rehoboth_farm

Жыл бұрын

@@casey360360 too bad that isn't an elected position.

@sullentamp9140

Жыл бұрын

He’s also my favorite teacher now too 👌🏽

@Kaleki935

Жыл бұрын

@Rehoboth Farm democracy is cringe, vocal minorities always ruin the society with bad ideas, and only the unintelligent vote anyhow since they don't recognize it as it is; the renewal of income for career politicians

I want to see a proper cannon with grapeshot next. You know, the kind of weapon on the battlefield when the 2nd amendment was envisioned :)

@alan_clough

Жыл бұрын

Just as the founding fathers intended ;) (love your content btw)

@ErickStoner

Жыл бұрын

Grapeshot shreds two men in the blast

@AKStorm49

Жыл бұрын

Or the tri sided bayonets that supposedly aren't stitchable.

@InvestmentJoy

Жыл бұрын

@@alan_clough

@NeedlePeen

Жыл бұрын

Tally ho lads!

I got a denix replica of a Pattern 1853 Enfield for Christmas. I'm a civil war nut so I had to get this thing. Primarily because they didn't have the Springfields of the time, but I knew the history of the one I got better. To their dismay as soon as I opened it, I gave them a history lesson and a lesson about the technical part about how it worked, guns before it, and the differences between muskets and rifles at the time. That's how I never got another denix replica again despite my constant rifling (Get it?) through the catalogues.

A few times having muzzle loader beside your head and you pouring new powder in makes me nervous. I've seen powder cook off. Crazy things happen. Stay safe again another awesome video

Seeing how effective this weapon is makes me think of how gruesome the combat was in that era. War is hell in any time period but thinking about the level of medical science at the time and the fact that there were often lines of soldiers facing each other without cover it puts into perspective the bravery of those men.

@monabale8263

Жыл бұрын

& the arrogant stupidity of tyrants who sent them to die for their obsessions; i.e.; GEORGE...

@Kneb587

Жыл бұрын

The standard anesthetic, disinfectant _and_ moral booster was a bottle of whiskey. Truly a multipurpose marvel of modern medicine... If even they bothered using any.

@peaceoutbruh7085

Жыл бұрын

@@Kneb587 And you know that that whiskey was probably not made with today's best practices...It was likely cheap and probably tasted like nail polish.

@matthewcharles5867

Жыл бұрын

Gives you a idea of how bad getting hit with the larger muskets would have been too. Buck and ball loads in particular would have been pretty nasty.

@HerrKendys_Kulturkanal

Жыл бұрын

@@monabale8263 George III. was not a tyrannt at all

My Ancestor was hit in the hip with a British musket. He was in the continental army. He survived and went back out to finish the war. I don’t know how he did it after seeing this.

@sauronthemighty3985

Жыл бұрын

Could have been at a greater distance where the round didn't have as much energy. Revolutionary war tactics were much heavier on skirmishing compared to napoleonic tactics.

@alexturnbackthearmy1907

Жыл бұрын

Well its possible. You need to throw leg back together ofc and provide care for months after wound, if you are lucky and wound is not infected.

@alexandrevieira2410

Жыл бұрын

maybe a deflected bullet

@jamesbingus7232

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffreydorman8715 grapefruit sized hole and AR15 don’t go in the same sentence chief

@CognizantCheddar

Жыл бұрын

As others have said, ricochet, or long enough range causing the ball to lose its kinetic energy would explain why his hip wasn't destroyed.

The guy with the take/wrench is my spirit animal ❤

Would be awesome to see something like 100 flintlock rifles volley fire into a ballistic dummy

Crazy to think that a Civil War soldier with a percussion cap rifle was expected to be able to load and fire 3 rounds per minute

@thedictationofallah

Жыл бұрын

A British soldier was told to shoot 3 shots per minute with a musket and that was a must, however because the way the muskets were loaded (ie with paper cartridges and like no wadding), the muskets were very inaccurate. This is how why get the misconceptions of the inaccurate muskets. If loaded correctly with tight wadding, the shot would actually be pretty accurate, not in comparison to rifles though

@owensthilaire8189

Жыл бұрын

By the civil war the bullets were better designed and easier to load. Minea? Mine? Don't remember the spelling. Prior to this you had to slap the bullet all the way down a rifled barrel with an interference fit. They say after a few shots it could take a minute or more to get a bullet loaded.

@timl8302

Жыл бұрын

@@owensthilaire8189 Minié ball

@Delgen1951

Жыл бұрын

And civil war units would stand and fight until 80% of the men were killed.

@yankeedoodle7365

Жыл бұрын

Well they would have had cartridge, a pre measured poured and set package with shot all ready to go, just takes a bite, pour, ram and prime. It does help them along as well as they did not have patched shot being a bit easier to ram down such a shot.

Imagine you're just marching along on a patrol back in the 18th century and suddenly the guy next to just doesn't have a head anymore and you're covered in his blood. Like wtf even that does so much more damage than I would have imagined, that's terrifying. People talking about having a shotgun for home defense being overkill have no idea what they meant when they said you could have something like this to defend yourself with back then.

@lonelypancake5979

Жыл бұрын

May I introduce you to the blunderbus?

@onanthebarbarian4842

Жыл бұрын

And of course it's someone with an MLP avatar saying this.

@lonelypancake5979

Жыл бұрын

@@onanthebarbarian4842 still has more subs than you tho

@DerpyDaringDitzyDoo

Жыл бұрын

@@onanthebarbarian4842 Oof, I've been got by the dreaded Onan The Barbarian. Whatever shall I do, however will I recover.

@onanthebarbarian4842

Жыл бұрын

@@lonelypancake5979 lol

Charlie is literally one of the best parts. Genuinely enjoy him on ever single video he’s on

great work - please more revolutionary war history videos

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

@nickmccarter2395

Жыл бұрын

Can Flannel Daddy and a bunch of other guntubers do this as a skit?

@NoNo_IStay

Жыл бұрын

Did you have this typed and ready?

@Sauerbrew777

Жыл бұрын

My first thought when I saw the video title.

@arx3516

Жыл бұрын

You got it all wrong, you first fire your musket, then the pistol, and then you close in with your sword.

@clmagnet

Жыл бұрын

This is the only acceptable top comment.

That 100 yard shot to the shoulder would've been lethal too. It wouldn't have killed a soldier right there on the field, but it's a massive wound and it's not on an exterior limb that can be amputated. Gangrene would set in and reach the lung, heart, and throat fast. Terrifying thought at standing still in a line of troops facing that.

@hellogg9300

Жыл бұрын

What’s gangrene man I’m un educated

@andrewbland6890

Жыл бұрын

@@hellogg9300 gangrene is an infection from dead skin caused by lack of blood flow. These dead skin cells would cause the infection to spread rapidly and infect your heart and brain, which would cause cell death, and spreading unchecked, as it would in the 18th century, it will eventually cause a death that is unfortunately not painless

@ther6noob-624

Жыл бұрын

@@hellogg9300infection from unclean would that basically rots away tissue.

@Deathstock

Жыл бұрын

@@hellogg9300 then search it up. You have 99% of human knowledge at your fingertips goddamn

@acebongboy

Жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. If the artery wasn't destroyed he might survive, though infection was a danger. In the Civil War, Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, the founder of the 9th Louisiana Tigers, was shot through both lungs and miraculously survied. Where you were screwed was a gut shot that perforated the abdominal cavity -- that almost always led to peritonitis, an exceptionally painful way to die. They usually amputated limb wounds because the rounds pulverized the bone, so there was nothing to set and gangrene would often set in.

Whoever did the video editing on this needs to be put up for an award

Though my knowledge is a tad more primitive (16th century), you should have a bandolier with wooden or horn bottles with measured out levels of powder. This was done before a battle, allowing for reloading to happen much faster. This would reduce the amount of time needed to reload for a period of time and you can swap out bandoliers if you run low.

@8-bitsarda747

8 ай бұрын

I think a similar thing was done in the Napoleonic wars, where the soldiers had measured out charges of black powder, as well as having their horn or whatever full of extra powder

@russelljones3221

4 ай бұрын

@@8-bitsarda747By the napoleonic wars cartridges had been invented so everything was contained inside a paper tube you would tear open to load with

@jordanhicks5131

3 ай бұрын

Nah, we didn't use those by the late 1700s when the revolution happened. Paper cartridges were the norm for muskets in 1770s warfare. Rifles like this didn't use cartridges, they were very specialized equipment brought from home by the men who used them, they were deployed not in ranks but as skirmishers (snipers) on the flanks and roaming the rear for targets of opportunity such as high ranking officers.

That head shot was wild. Did not expect those ballistics at all!

@monotech20.14

Жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't you think that would happen at point blank range right at the joint?

@Adam-kr8wy

Жыл бұрын

@@monotech20.14 wrong HS. the one before that

@ebitdareadthebook1535

Жыл бұрын

@@monotech20.14 The one before the point blank one obviously.

Of all the BP guns I've shot, flintlocks are the most difficult to be accurate with all because of that flash in front of your face that split second before it shoots. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline.

@GarandThumb

Жыл бұрын

I'm still working on it

@hellspyro666420

Жыл бұрын

@@GarandThumb how many grains of powder where you shooting? I know most people around here use 80-100 for .50cal

@drewschumann1

Жыл бұрын

Modern flintlocks are generally harder to shoot, because their machine made locks are slower than contemporary locks. The top quality flintlocks made by makers like Kibler and Chambers have no perceivable time between the flash in the pan and the main charge going off. My .50 cal Kibler has a faster lock time than most caplocks.

@1810jeff

Жыл бұрын

@@drewschumann1 That's what happens when artisans make firearms, mass production is good for simple parts but you need a craftsman to make something complex work flawlessly. For example double barreled rifles, turns out it's not easy to mass produce them because it's not easy to make two rifled barrels line up with a single sight without serious sacrificing accuracy which is need for big game rifles.

@tbthedozer

Жыл бұрын

Like when GT lowers the muzzle to see what’s going to happen and shoots the ballistic dummy in the neck vs the side of the skull!? 😂 I’m not surprised by the ballistics at all, I think 54 cal. is probably good enough to take elk or moose - might be a minnie ball vs a round ball and a few more grains of powder but still plenty capable. If I had to guess, I suspect a few have been felled with round balls too. 😉 We saw a turkey shoot once with the paper plate on a board that swung down hill, and the sole flintlock shooter was a real contender. He said one thing flintlocks will teach you is how to keep following the target because the delay is never the same shot to shot, especially if you’re in a hurry… lol

Powder fouling in black powder muskets and rifles was a significant issue. The more you shoot, the more fouling builds up in the barrel and the harder it gets to load. You will eventually have to to clean it to continue shooting. The good thing is, powder fouling is water soluble so you can just swab it out with water and a wad of tow (unspun flax fiber) that you would wrap around a "worm" tool that you would screw onto the end of your ramrod.

That dissident fiddle is perfection.

I have been using flintlocks since I was 7. My great grandfather had a .54 caliber rifle and a .69 caliber smoothbore. My grandfather had a .72 caliber smoothbore and a .50 caliber rifle. Rifles were accurate with a patched ball out to about 200 yards with an inexperienced person but could easily be stretched to 300 yards under the right user and rifle. Most rifles during the revolution were predominantly .45 and .50 caliber. Some the "Over the Mountain Men" had .54 caliber rifles but .45 and .50 was dominant. Round balls were deadly, they made of soft lead so when they struck bone they pancaked and became a rather large projectile plunging through your body. Lead balls would also get bacteria collected on them and corrode causing easy infection when wounded. "Chewed" Round Balls were dimpled with a file and would tear flesh pretty badly. However the worst weapons during the Revolution were Smoothbores. These weapons contained no rifling just a smooth barrel. My first flintlock was a .72 caliber smoothbore. These smoothbores could be loaded with Shot, Round Ball, Chewed Ball, Buck and Ball and "Fluff". Fluff was basically glass, nails, scrap metal, rocks and generally anything stuffed down the bore. Imagine getting hit by half a pound of nails at 25 yards and the half a pound is grouped in a 4" area.

@tachankskang

Жыл бұрын

Jesus.Fluff sounds like cannon grapeshot

@spencermurphy5796

Жыл бұрын

@@tachankskang Grape Shot and Canister shot were actually dedicated rounds. Fluff is more or less the equivalent of fletchettes. Although privately owned Artillery during the revolution utilised fluff as well. Worse cannon shot of all in my opinion is chain shot or quicklime.

@pipebombpete.6861

Жыл бұрын

Buck and ball was widely considered the most effective load as it had the highest chance to hit a target past 50 yards.

@spencermurphy5796

Жыл бұрын

@@pipebombpete.6861 yea in my .72 the best I got was a .69 caliber ball with 4 .36 caliber balls. Was pretty accurate out to about 60 yards and 75 if I tied the cartridge tight with string.

@williambigbills-9665

Жыл бұрын

Also most the rifles back then weren’t actually standard sizes. When you rifled your barrel you’d make a mold for the bullets, that’s why bullets often couldn’t be shared.

You should do the 1861 Springfield next. It fires a .58 caliber conical ball and is deadly accurate at 300 yards.

@rc6147

Жыл бұрын

I have a '63. Great rifle-musket

@The_Honourable_Company

Жыл бұрын

A p53 is accurate upto 600

@tyrantstomper

Жыл бұрын

Or go full boogaloo part 1 with a Whitworth. Hexagonal projectiles and accurate to 1500 yards.

@JackTulsen77

Жыл бұрын

If I remember right, aren't paintballs .68? That's basically shooting a metal paintball at someone... Fucking brutal.

@beaushaver3779

Жыл бұрын

@@JackTulsen77 yes correct. Except it's conical like a modern bullet. Absolutely devastating. There are several accounts of engagements where during the Civil War units got into a position to Fire Point Blank at one another. The conical balls would pass through the front rank and into the second-rank.

This was my favourite for comedy content. Actually just my favourite. Thank you

The banter between them all and a little comments just kill me every time I love it😂... You should put more of it in there some side talk it's just too funny.. as well as informative

People had to walk straight in volley fire Knowing that they could have chunks torn out of them. CHUNKS ! The injuries in films are so gentle compared to this.

@lux2132

Жыл бұрын

Well, these are flintlock rifles, which did a whole lot more deal of damage than the smoothbore muskets, which were the ones used in volleys. Infantry did not use these hunting rifles, though some militia did with their own.

@rburch20

Жыл бұрын

@@lux2132 The main advantage to the rifle is it is far more accurate than a smooth bore. But at closer ranges the smooth bores actually had an advantage because they could be reloaded quicker. During the revolution the continentals did actually field some mixed units with both smoothbore and rifles.

@lux2132

Жыл бұрын

@@rburch20 Pretty much. I read that Napoleonic War era British flintlock rifles could hit a target up to 200 yards, which is a difficult shot for even for modern rifles and regular shooters, ngl. It is true that it took longer to load these guns. Musketry was for large battles, whereas rifles were used for skirmishes; light infantry would first hit the enemy officer in a skirmish if it were to happen. That's why they would need a rifle, for a proper shot a musket wouldn't give

@Deadvenuz

Жыл бұрын

Imagine seeing your buddy take a ball to the fucking dome and you just gotta stand there next to his body.

@OG_BiggusDickus

Жыл бұрын

@@Deadvenuz yea, with his brains spattered all over your neck and face.

I can’t imagine the horrors of the civil war, even after seeing the carnage from this weapon from 100years earlier

@ronaldrobertson2332

Жыл бұрын

Civil War rifled muskets were mostly .58-cal and fired the Minie ball, ignited with a percussion cap. They were military weapons as well, so they could fix bayonets.

@ocathain-games

Жыл бұрын

Civilwar also used the Minne Ball round which was similar in appearance to modern rounds, but yeah no the wounds were still harsh

@j.muckafignotti4226

Жыл бұрын

The medical museum at the Presidio in San Francisco was absolutely a chamber of horrors. The pictures of soldiers wounds and the arcane surgical techniques of the day would give a hardened man a case of the heebie geebies!

@alexwalker2582

Жыл бұрын

@@ronaldrobertson2332 The minie ball was still a full lead-only round. It had better accuracy but the wounds were just as devastating as what we see here.

@shortrob5762

Жыл бұрын

Rifles in the civil war where way more advanced and deadly because of better ammo and it shot way further then a flint lock.

This was way more devastating than I imagined it being and I'm all about it!!! Would love to see a video of yall comparing this flintlock rifle to a 12ga slug.

im loving the tactical wrench

Man, that first head to explode just really surprised me. Now I'm just imagining the psychological toll the first firearms must have had. For thousands of years a bow an arrow was the most dangerous range weapon. Then one day your enemy arrives with a bizarre stick that creates a massive smoke cloud and a thunderous boom and suddenly your buddies head just magically disappears.

@tobiaspieringer1653

Жыл бұрын

When i read about roman weaponry i was really surprised by the effectiveness of slings. They were used by special auxiliary forces and outranged pretty much everything aside from scorpions, plus the projectiles apparently are pretty much silent when flying, which leads to a bunch of people dying from lead weights with insults inscribed into them, shot from almost impossibly far away

@trailblazer632

Жыл бұрын

@@tobiaspieringer1653 they used whistling shot with slings too. So now not only are you dieing from fish weights now it sounds like banshees are diving on your platoon lol

@OG_BiggusDickus

Жыл бұрын

@@trailblazer632 yea it's pretty crazy to think you can throw a piece of lead that's been shaped properly and it will puncture your skull, possibly your helmet depending on the range. EDIT: and like the other guy said it might say something truly insulting on it, people have been writing witty things on projectiles long before people wrote shit on bombs.

@Specter_1125

Жыл бұрын

It wasn’t exactly sudden. Gun powder was used for bombards (large cannons for sieges) before they were effectively used for personal weapons. The first hand guns were not particularly great weapons either. Even after they became good weapons, a trained bowman could still reliably out shoot them. Guns were just easy and quick to train people to use.

@treal512

Жыл бұрын

@s1rhcs1vad sure it is quiet but cmon 30 arrows vs one bullet before detection? Maybe against Storm Troopers.

It's interesting seeing this: Modern rounds are about effective distance and armor penetration. 1776 rounds were all about raw, effective damage.

@Cpt_John_Price

Жыл бұрын

5.56 and smaller are just shooting specks of dust compare to those bad boys.

@ashtingillurd4751

Жыл бұрын

The necessity was different too. There just wasnt a need for AP rounds or things like that, not to mention the tech required to mass produce a “bullet” as we know today

@LandoIV

Жыл бұрын

That stopping power we all hear about from the 1911 guys.

@M3D1K

Жыл бұрын

@@LandoIV When he said if you saw that wound and didn't know what it was from. "Well that's a got-dang .45!"

@deeznutz8209

Жыл бұрын

Also, if you look at alot of the drilling/target/sniper rifles from the pre-1860's, a lot of the ballistics involved the mass and momentum of a large caliber lead projectile to reach ranges of 1000+ yards. Given most of that changed with the creation of the Whitworth rifle. It used a .451 mechanically fitted bullet to toss lead 1800 yards with a 12 to 14 foot spread.

Just subscribed, you guys are hilarious!

Couple things: the majority of troops were armed with smoothbores including militia. Partly because they were far more effective due to volume of fire and the ability to mount a bayonet. Also because the majority of those in the east used Fowlers as hunting weapons. In certain regions (notably the frontiers and mountainous regions of the south) the rifle was a preferred arm modern and was well recorded (modern revisionists notwithstanding). What was also recorded was how the rifleman lost his effectiveness in conventional warfare due to the lack of bayonet and slow loading (a musket can be 4-5 times faster to reload and doesn’t suffer as heavily from fouling). Another factor is the low visibility of a 18th century battlefield due to powder smoke would eliminate accurate sharpshooting. The role they were eventually used in effectively was as frontier fighters, light infantry, and skirmishers. In this role the rifleman excelled to the point the British formed rifle units of their own in subsequent wars (baker rifles for example). The bill of the fighting, however, was still with muskets not rifles which have much larger calibers (.69 and .75) and operate under slightly different ballistic principles (its the old debate of light but fast versus slow but heavy as it applies to bullet performance).

Ok, so on reloading: Back in the day, soldiers would make their ammunition while at camp. They would pre-measure out their powder and store them in paper cartridges that also contained the ball (there are several ways of doing this, each with pros and cons) and have a bag of these. Older still, like during the English Civil War, musketeers would have proto-bandoliers of pre-measured powder in wooden vessels on this belt around the chest. Now, they needed the wood because they were using Matchlocks which... are not fucking safe! At all! As time passed, the paper cartridge would get to the point that they would be used in needle-fire rifles and soon after, copper cartridge were used (there are a three different types that I know of; Pin fire, Rim fire, and Center fire). Copper would be quickly replaced with the brass we know and love today.

@lordexmouth1217

Жыл бұрын

Soldiers did not make their own cartridges. Militia, using their own rifles like this, would be loading from a powderhorn and loose shot. Military, armed with muskets, were issued paper cartridges. They didn't make them in camp.

@JessZomb

Жыл бұрын

@@lordexmouth1217 My brother in Christ, there are so many accounts of this. We have evidence from place like Austria making 'bar slugs' on the field. Cap and Ball has a great many videos on this.

@lordexmouth1217

Жыл бұрын

I have read untold numbers of primary and secondary sources of military forces of the 18th and 19th centuries, and a little of the 17th as well. That wasn't common. It may have been done on rare occasions as an emergency thing, but it wasn't the standard. Regulars were not issued loose powder and bar lead and obliged to roll their own as standard practice.

@senseishu937

Жыл бұрын

But... Why would they be ordered to make their own instead of being issued it? Wasn't the whole Hindu/Muslim revolt against the British in the 19th century _because_ they were being issued paper cartridges made with cow and pig fat?

@JessZomb

Жыл бұрын

@@senseishu937 What would be easier? Transporting barrels of powdered that can be used both for cannons and guns, paper, string, and issuing an allotment of lead that can be melted by a camp fire or having to make additional industry to make the cartridges that a soldier can do for free? Even with the Chassepot, the French issued manuals to tell the soldier how to make them, as complicated as they are for use in a needle rifle. You also have to imagine that paper cartridges aren't the sturdiest things and getting them wet is a terrible thing. We can't let our modern idea of arms procurement obfuscate this. Modern cartridges are something that can be shipped around easily, paper isn't, we can see that with early matchloccks and the use of powder bandoliers (sometimes called the Twelve Apostles). I've read and heard, time and time again, that when soldiers made camp, they spent the time melting lead into molds and making cartridges. There's a few muzzleloading channels on KZread that go into this, the daily life of soldiers as well. I know it seems weird to us now but remember, there was a time that even being issued a weapon wasn't common and you had to bring your own or improvise. Now, I'm not saying that ALL of them were made by the soldiers, some would be issued but when it came to protracted battles in the field that take days or weeks, soldiers had to make more ammunition. It's something that happened in concert with people making cartridges to be issued but this was something done near the action.

It’s a real skill to stay on target in the split second between the flint dropping, the powder igniting, and the bullet launching

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Жыл бұрын

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@wolfpack4128

Жыл бұрын

@@ChopsWildRide not at all. The bow doesn't cause a massive flame 2 inches from your eyeball.

@xGSFxGoat

Жыл бұрын

@@wolfpack4128 No, it doesn't, but it still requires you to follow through on your shot

@kevins1142

Жыл бұрын

@@ChopsWildRide It's much more like a sling shot

@georgewashington1621

Жыл бұрын

@@xGSFxGoat wait, is that why i'm so bad at shooting my bows? i have to follow through?

its also interesting to think about this in terms of medicine it makes you realize the doctors back then knew what they were doing even a modern surgeon would look at an arm or leg wound from this and say "yeah theres no way bones are shattered, all the arteries are just ruined someone get me a saw the limb has to go" the fact they could kinda patch up the torso wounds is impressive even though there was alot of praying that went on after patching up the torso wound lol

@Mortablunt

8 ай бұрын

The term you’re thinking of is hamburger. It’s even more gruesome in person.

That’s absolutely crazy how much damage it does man

I want these men to make a video on how to TACTICALLY use these flintlocks for home defence. And also on how to properly shank a ruffian with a bayonet. Since that's what the founding fathers intended.

@gustavusadolphus425

Жыл бұрын

Two words: volley gun

@walterwilliams2246

Жыл бұрын

Eminem’s greatest work

@gregoryhelton6646

Жыл бұрын

This comment needs to be upvoted till GarandThumb sees it!!!! This HAS TO BE done

@johnhancock6951

Жыл бұрын

TALLY HO LADS!

@lanceclement4087

Жыл бұрын

@@gregoryhelton6646 wrong app

I live in PA and we were famous for making early Colonial rifles. The "Kentucky" long rifle was originally made in Pa and shipped west to the Indian territories. There are still German/ Pa. Dutch guys that set up at festivals and show you how they build these. For the barrels, they put it in a jig and pull a small cutting tool through. They do this over and over until all lands and grooves match, and that's the caliber. So, in the early days the caliber could end up anything, you just cast balls to match.

@NinjaTerd473

Жыл бұрын

I remember where I grew up, there was a place that used to be a gun factory for back during the revolutionary or civil war. I forget which. Super cool historical stuff in PA.

@BluntedBaboon

Жыл бұрын

Calling it a Pennsylvania rifle is fine, it is the same thing. My family is in CNY and of German descent on both sides. One side moved thru into PA then CNY, the other from Canada. Former in 1700s, later in the 1800s. A family book has mentions of Pennsylvania rifles being used for hunting. When a house burned down in 1954 it is written 6 rifles were lost, 2 Pennsylvania.

@baddog9320

Жыл бұрын

not 100% true. Pennsylvania rifles were made in Pa. At that time there were many different rifles and smoothbore made. Kentucky were made in Kentucky. But I'm sure there were Pennsylvania rifles made in Virginia. And other styles made in other places. Its based on style. And some didn't have a formal name. These days the big names are Pennsylvania and Kentucky rifles. But in the 18th century there were many different types. Also most in that time were between .62 to .76 cal. But you could find anywhere between .17 to .99 cal The real reason behind patch and ball was the different sizes. You go to a store to buy balls for you .72 cal. But their biggest is .56 cal. You just used more patch for it to fit your barrel. A smart person had their own mold. That way it didn't matter. You just melt lead to make new bullets.

@stillcantbesilencedevennow

Жыл бұрын

Pennsylvania is also the only state to allow muzzle loader hunting. Honestly one of the only reasons I still live here. I hate this state sometimes, other times I love it. Pa has more veterans than ANY other state. 8 million currently living here. We also get bossed around politically by the r*tarded cities.... Almost time for "issues" to start, and PA will be a HELLUVA ground zero to be stuck in...

@HannibalACP82

Жыл бұрын

@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Utah checking in. We have a muzzleloader season.

Would've been fun to see a shot through a t-shirt on this one. That's one thing I always heard about the big bore BP era, that the ball would carry a significant chunk of garment into the wound with it and turn the survivable wound into an almost certainly fatal infection

Micah is the funniest guntuber and hes your sidekick. Thats fucking insane. Props to you for pulling off the straight-guy bit too. Killed it

I can't even imagine how horrific battle with these rifles and muskets were.

@whatfreedom7

Жыл бұрын

Imagine marching towards hundreds or thousands of men lined up in front of you ready to fire all simultaneously. That had to be terrifying. They probably just drink a whole bottle of alcohol before it and hoped for the best if they could actually find any.

@matthewlong9369

Жыл бұрын

And for all of this, records from the Napoleonic wars show that people were more scared of the bayonet. Bayonet charges would often cause the enemy to rout instead of even trying to repel it

@ChefBoyarDEEZ

Жыл бұрын

@@whatfreedom7 sh**, I would. Just standing thier, praying that you don't get hit or a quick death. God almighty.

@zachsilby4569

Жыл бұрын

Yeeaahhh there's a reason the sites of these battles are said to be extremely spiritually charged with negative experiences. These men fucking *suffered*

@ChefBoyarDEEZ

Жыл бұрын

@@zachsilby4569 horribly

"What makes a good soldier, Sharpe?" "The ability to fire three rounds a minute. In any weather sir." - Richard Sharpe 95th Rifles

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Жыл бұрын

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@beowulfsrevenge4369

Жыл бұрын

Those are great books and a great show!

I love this channel so much

50 Beowulf: I can do so much damage Flintlock: Hold my powder

Absolutely devastating. Just as the founding fathers intended.

@simonpowell2559

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean the tax Dodging British farmers?

@mq5731

Жыл бұрын

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

@w4tt58

Жыл бұрын

@@mq5731 self defense circa 2030.

@dobber43

Жыл бұрын

@@mq5731 I'm just gonna get an ar15 can cannon and launch bayonets at them modern and classic design

@kevw25

Жыл бұрын

You're Goddamn right!

Bear hunting was a massive occupation in the musket/black powder era, speaks volumes about the power they're capable of putting out

@Andreas-xx8go

Жыл бұрын

Do you think one shot to the head with a musket could take down an elephant?

@plaguepandemic5651

Жыл бұрын

@@Andreas-xx8go well it really depends on a lot of things, but short answer, yes, it could, and elephants were also poached and hunted back in the black powder days of firearms as well. So therefore a musket can indeed kill an elephant, but whether it did so in one shot would depend on the caliber of the musket, the weight and velocity of the projectile, the amount of powder used, the size/age/gender of the elephant, the distance to the elephant, and of course, the shooter's skill. Somebody in the 1950s killed a world record grizzly bear with a headshot of .22LR, but that doesn't mean .22LR is always 100% of the time gonna take down a bear; it just depends on the context

@TheCaptainbeefylog

Жыл бұрын

@@plaguepandemic5651 most "traditional" elephant hunting with guns involves standing your ground as the animal charges you, then putting a round into its skull and side-stepping if you have time left.

@TheSLOShadow

11 ай бұрын

​@@Andreas-xx8go what distance?

@Thisshitcrazybruh

10 ай бұрын

@@TheCaptainbeefylogHoly shit. That’s something for thrill seekers I reckon.

Man I love this trio.

i got a set of 1858 remingtons ubirty made with a lot of extra cylinders and converters to 45 long colt they are very very good at shooting . the guy i got them from was a retired colt gunsmith marksmen he took first place in a hand gun shooting contest against modern guns.

i am just so amazed at how destructive those old Flintlock Rifle are. That gun was doing more damage than allot of modern gun do.

@pyroparagon8945

Жыл бұрын

Well, it's a .54 cal.

@bad-am3805

Жыл бұрын

Bigger, slower bullet. Dumps all its energy immediately.

@historyandhorseplaying7374

Жыл бұрын

@@bad-am3805 Yep, you don’t have to worry much about over penetration.

@dwightsmith2918

Жыл бұрын

@@historyandhorseplaying7374 only by the bone fragments flying around.

@cloudbase7799

Жыл бұрын

There are also many modern guns and weapon systems (such as the SIG-Sauer M250) that make a flintlock look like child's play by comparison. A pike (long spear) would actually be more effective than a flintlock for close / hand to hand combat.

Even though its different this reminded me of one of the coolest toys I had as a kid it was a cap gun made to look like a musket that used the REALLY old paper cap strips

Its wonderful to see the amazement that these guys have for black powder . Its like they are suprised that it works .

it was so crazy to see how deadly any little graze from these guns are. the assessment at the beginning of “its like a mini canon” was not far off at all

@lildicky8973

Жыл бұрын

Lol next step was to make it bigger

@feliscatus5161

Жыл бұрын

They did start as hand cannons. They became smaller in sized as armour was phased out.

@aj897

Жыл бұрын

Guns are basically cannons

@TacticalPhoenixYT

Жыл бұрын

​@@aj897 and vice versa.

The flintlock rifle was a really big step towards new gun tech at that time!! Highly interesting

HOLY SHIT I was not expecting the damage from that lung shot

The sheer damage that these flint lock rifles made is greater than I suspected. Crazy how modern ammo is more efficient but muskets/flint locks still produce massive damage to whatever it hits. Cool video!

@stevenrostek2788

Жыл бұрын

Bro you are literally sending a rock downrange at inhumane speeds. Go get hit with a rock that was thrown from a car going 60mph in a straight line towards you and tell me you didn’t receive mad damage 😂

@archimagirussancti7956

Жыл бұрын

Soft lead is devastating to flesh. Primitive and effective.

@michaelhogan9053

Жыл бұрын

It's really the modern powder that doomed the flintlock guns. Modern bullets are smaller, more accurate and more powerful. The animal/person dies faster from shock and internal destruction.

@Minotaur-ey2lg

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelhogan9053Also, less smoke. Fog of War got it’s name from the haze of these more primitive firearms, if I recall correctly.

@stillcantbesilencedevennow

Жыл бұрын

I have hollow-point "projectiles" for my muzzle loader. The modern muzzle loaders are pretty dope. The bullet is VERY heavy in the better ones.

Not gonna lie...I was a little taken a back by how extremely violent those first few shots were. I wasn't expecting that much damage tbh.

@jtl-en4yx

Жыл бұрын

The development of the American longrifle was truly a massive leap forward in small arms technology!

oh Charlie, bless your heart!!

The delay in ignition is likely due to your lock mechanism and whether you’re using 4f priming powder or not.

Little fun fact, the flint lock rifle was the reason why we say "Ka-Boom" today. The Ka is the flint strike and then you have the Boom.

@CyberDagger003

Жыл бұрын

That is a fun fact.

@1blueeye

Жыл бұрын

This would be cool if it wasn't so blatantly untrue

@Anon_Spartan

Жыл бұрын

Cool as hell fact

@Forster1973

Жыл бұрын

I thought « Ka-Boom » came from the movie « The Beast of War » 🤔

@alexandertaylor1225

Жыл бұрын

Very cool, I had no idea, thanks for sharing.

Even that shoulder shot looks fatal 😳 The way those ribs absolutely shatter and break through the body is absolutely terrifying. My God.

@Mr-Trox

9 ай бұрын

Considering the level of medicine in the late 18th century, you probably *did* die of those. Infection is a fun time.

@graysoncarter9925

9 ай бұрын

That shoulder shot probably decimated his subclavian artery

@aelitastones3110

7 ай бұрын

something to keep in mind that dummy is naked, the amount of clothing these soldiers had on did significantly slow down that ball.

@r0br33r

7 ай бұрын

@@aelitastones3110 Who asked? Go back to anime in silence

@Yanate1991

7 ай бұрын

yes you would not survive getting hit in the torso or head with a musket

I was surprised how perfectly center mass that first shot was 👌 right under the sternum

The slow burn in combination with a big ball Guves some very interesting ballistics

I think the standard for armies at the time was 3 shots a minute....Pretty damn fast if you think about the process.

@niteartorias8794

Жыл бұрын

That is for Flintlock Muskets, which take slightly less time to reload compared to a Rifled Flinlock Edit: Still pretty fast considering the entire process

@SeanCC

Жыл бұрын

Now consider doing it on horseback

@tschriv

Жыл бұрын

@@SeanCC Riflemen weren't mounted, officers were. And they rarely carried a rifle gun or musket.

@SeanCC

Жыл бұрын

@@tschriv that's very interesting in one case scenario, thank you for the trivia. Here's some for you: buffalo hunters reloaded on horseback. Indians would have too. And fighters that weren't lining up like smooth brain lemmings to die in nice orderly rows might have too.

@tschriv

Жыл бұрын

@@SeanCC Buffalo hunters, depending on the time period, would have been using more modern weapons, breech loading. The Sharps carbine, introduced in the Civil War was revolutionary because it COULD be reloaded on horseback, or by a man laying down. A flintlock like my kentucky, with 36" barrel? Not so easy. :)

To speed up your lock time tap the powder in the priming pan towards the outside so there's a gap between the priming charge and the flash hole. That way when the priming charge lights it instantly shoots a jet of fire into the flash hole instead of having to burn through a pile of it to get in the hole.

@pewpew9193

Жыл бұрын

I don't like anything close to my flash hole.

@jimshorts6751

Жыл бұрын

@@pewpew9193 🤣🤣🤣

@donaldself16

Жыл бұрын

This is exactly the reply that I would have suggested. If you read old journals of the time, it was common practice (after priming), to close the pan cover and then to tip the firearm on it's side and to gently tap the firearm to settle the powder away from the touchhole, this significantly increases your ignition time from a slow burn to instant firing. Also do not fill the pan completely with powder, just enough to light the main charge is all that is needed (which is much less than most people think).

@BcFuTw9jt

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the pan, some like a clean hole some like a dirty dirty girl

Good shoot. Very sharp shooter 💪. I never thought you can hit 🎯 from 100 yards. Respect

Your editor is the best.

That exploding head shows how insane flintlock warfare must have been. I mean imagine being next to guy who just got his head blown up.

@paddypibblet846

Жыл бұрын

After they traded fire, they would then fight to death with clubs, swords, and bayonets.

@bernardopicorelli2369

Жыл бұрын

i mean that shit happens nowadays as well tho, imagine seeing ur friend get hit by a tank

@twistedyogert

Жыл бұрын

And your clothes are covered in his brain and skull fragments.

@harrydupuis3102

Жыл бұрын

The British should have brought their brown pants

@THECHEESELORD69

Ай бұрын

@@paddypibblet846clubs? Bayonets yes, this ain’t WW1 though.

The best part about a musket is, even a child can buy one! Truly as the founding fathers intended.

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Жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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@r.l.royalljr.3905

Жыл бұрын

It's a little iffy on the legality of when and where you can fire them, but nobody needs permission from the government to own a cannon TODAY.

@elliotgillum

Жыл бұрын

@@r.l.royalljr.3905 Wait... They are considered cannons under the law?

@antaine1916

Жыл бұрын

It depends on where. In my stupid, tyrannical state, black powder guns are still treated as regular firearms, as are bb guns, all requiring a Firearm ID (with all background checks) as well as the same restrictive laws regarding transfers and transportation.

I love the old Flint locks and the wick locks id just hated depending on em in battle you would have to wait 20 minutes for the smoke to clear to see if you hit your enemy lol you could use the smoke screen to make a clean get away I guess lol

Jokes aside there were multiple different calibers of muskets used during the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. The Brown Bess is a .75 caliber where a Charleville musket is a .69 but there was also muskets that fired the .54 caliber ball as well which you stated. You can only imagine what the damage would have been like with a Brown Bess with the bigger .75 caliber. If we're talking civilian hunting then they would most likely have measured out the powder with a horn where the military managed to get everything pre-measured into a paper cartridge with the ball attached which made loading much faster so it was possible for a well trained soldier to get 3 shots per minute or even 4 in some cases. Now in the case of using a rifle it would take just a couple seconds longer to reload compared to a smoothbore as the ball usually is a tighter fit and takes more effort and time to ram down the barrel. Also don't forget that the British also used rifles as well and were bloody good at using them as were the American Continentals. The British army was capable of adapting to new styles of warfare and in many cases mirrored the Americans style of loose ordered combat as well Guerilla warfare. Towards the later end of the Revolution the British went back to the conventual linear warfare as the French got involved in which they were gonna fight in linear order and that the American Continental army was much better trained under the Prussian Military Doctrine that Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben issued and was able to fight the British face to face in linear combat. Anyways sorry for the ramble but I enjoyed the video and keep up the great work!

@EggoMakesVideos

7 ай бұрын

Cool story

I am a rev war reenactor and have shot muzzleloaders all my life. It’s great to see the actual reaction in the ballistic dummy. Would love to see a video of a muzzleloader against body armor.

@SpaceMissile

Жыл бұрын

are you going to implement gratuitous gib effects into the next event now a la 6:20?

@gunsforevery1

Жыл бұрын

None of them would penetrate even soft armor but it would definitely break some bones and damage organs. Check out taofledermaus. Even 12 gauge slugs going about 1200-1400 fps can’t penetrate soft armor.

@blackhawk65589

Жыл бұрын

@@gunsforevery1 correct, it would not penetrate MODERN armor, but they sure did shoot through plate armor back then. You are correct, slugs will not go through it either, but the amount of energy that the vest transfers will most likely cause organ rupture or internal bleeding.

@gunsforevery1

Жыл бұрын

@ blackhawk65589 And that can be mitigated by using hard armor.

@blackhawk65589

Жыл бұрын

@@gunsforevery1 still can kill you. Hard plates aren't an end all, that energy has to go somewhere

British Colonel George Hanger documented a 400 yard shot with one of these longrifles during the American Revolution, which went between him and Col. Tarelton (The real life inspiration for the villain from The Patriot), and killed a bugler's horse that was behind them! love how the test damage speaks for itself! Now try the same tests with a reproduction .62 transitional American longrifle like the Edward Marshall rifle. Also love the Tusken Raider yell!

@Mulberry2000

Жыл бұрын

That was more likely luck as most humans have difficulty seeing a target 100 yrds never mind 400. Then add the kick and smoke once fired no one will know for sure what you hit. I be wary of claims you made, esp. from the americans side.

@tombearclaw

Жыл бұрын

@@Mulberry2000 when you’re target is a group of dudes in red jackets with white cross belts and gold epaulets and sitting on horses it’s a little easier to see your target than spotting a deer in a woodland

@crimsonhawk4912

Жыл бұрын

Is it fair to say that the guns of today are more humane than the shit we shot back in the day 😳. The Fuckn skull turned into liquid shit.....

@BigThree4Ever

Жыл бұрын

@@Mulberry2000 black powder doesn't really have a "kick"... it's more like a push, even with its equivalent of Bubba's pissin hot handloads.

@jtl-en4yx

Жыл бұрын

@@BigThree4Ever Unless its an authentic German jaeger rifle with a one twist in the length of the barrel rifling.