“You’re in England and it’s constantly raining”, no it’s not, I distinctly remember a day two years ago when it wasn’t, it snowed.

@51WCDodge

3 жыл бұрын

Go to Wales Boyo! If you don't like the weather wait about ten minutes, it will change.

@mrjockt

3 жыл бұрын

@@51WCDodge, Wales isn’t too bad, I lived there for 4 years, only rained for 3 of them.

@FrontSideBus

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrjockt I like to call Wales the pissy valley... cause it's always pissing with fecking rain! Isn't it? Boyo?

@51WCDodge

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrjockt :-) End of lockdown first place on the list Brecon Beacons.

@harbl99

3 жыл бұрын

Saw that hateful yellow thing in a sky a few days ago. We banged drums and threw rocks until it went away. Only rain is true.

"you're in england and it's constantly raining" *Looks out of the window" He's not wrong

@Pcm979

3 жыл бұрын

By late August my lawn will be wishing it was constantly raining, though.

@howardjones725

3 жыл бұрын

Sunshine here in Essex

@222caribou

3 жыл бұрын

glorius sunshine here lol...you must be down south

@chrisstephens6673

3 жыл бұрын

Overcast but dry here in the leafy suburbs of NW London, no wait its raining, wait again its dry and now its rainingagain , oh what the hell its just weathering out there. Thank God its not Wales, there you dont have a choice, its raining or you must be dead.😂

@silverbladeTE

3 жыл бұрын

Pfft, wussy Sassenachs! when yer sphincter is bubbling, THEN it's *really* raining! :P

In Scotland if you can see the hills it’s going to rain... ...if you can’t, it’s raining already.

@51WCDodge

3 жыл бұрын

Or!! It dark!.

@Qmeister044

3 жыл бұрын

@@51WCDodge And also still raining.

@51WCDodge

3 жыл бұрын

@@Qmeister044 Agreed :-)

@kevindemmocks8310

3 жыл бұрын

Nah that's the west coast of the south Island of new Zealand lol.

@richieb7692

3 жыл бұрын

At least the rain keeps the midges away

You can tell a lot of Ian’s subscribers are British, he discusses an interesting firearm and we end up discussing the bloody weather, lol.

@henryrodgers7386

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, it's raining here in the land of the uppity colonials, too... We actually had a blizzard last month, about the size of Britain. It's been raining pretty much constantly since.

I could watch Ian discuss the history and merits of a Nerf gun and still be glued to the screen!

@joaopedrosambatti2474

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, that would be a great april fools video

@bossman4799

3 жыл бұрын

I kinda want to see that now.

@joaopedrosambatti2474

3 жыл бұрын

@@bossman4799 the thing is, would it be more interesting to see a springer or an electric one

@MrDmitriRavenoff

3 жыл бұрын

Explaing the merits of the ROF of different Nerf reloading systems. Lol

@kfeltenberger

3 жыл бұрын

Someone find a first generation Nerf gun and a current generation and send them to him.

That's actually a really cool design: no fancy widgets or add-ons to block out the water, just carefully laid out angles to redirect it.

@guaporeturns9472

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone who has ever worked as a roofer can appreciate that design.

"Scotland is rainier than England" - be fair, it's also got a magnificent selection of icy winds too.

Come on, Ian, those of us who live in the Arizona desert know rain is just a myth, an urban legend. People expect us to believe water randomly falls from the sky? Ha!

@afnDavid

3 жыл бұрын

Dune, Arakis, The Desert Planet.

@AM-hf9kk

3 жыл бұрын

It's not rain itself that's the myth. The myth is gentle, pleasant rain that doesn't turn streets and arroyos into raging rapids capable of dragging cars away.

@worldtraveler930

3 жыл бұрын

@@AM-hf9kk Now you're starting to describe parts of West TEXAS.

@billd.iniowa2263

3 жыл бұрын

When I was in Glendale it mudded one day. Dust storm meets a rain shower. It made crazy circle patterns when the drops landed.

@diskinetic

3 жыл бұрын

Mississippi here. Urban legends don't make it here, but rain does.

Little known fact, the Mosin’s specific geometry allows water and mud to get EVERYWHERE inside your receiver!

@guaporeturns9472

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda like the "mud and rock entry cut" in the receiver behind the safety on an AK.

@alexbiggs9208

3 жыл бұрын

@@guaporeturns9472 to be fair, it's respectably sealed when the safety is on, and that should be the majority of the time/ should be the case whenever it's on the ground. But yeah, I can't disagree too much, because lord knows tools aren't always used the way they're designed to be lmao

@guaporeturns9472

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexbiggs9208 true

"You're in England and it's constantly raining!" *Looks outside* Yep...

@51WCDodge

3 жыл бұрын

If you can see across the road, it's not raining.!

@frogz

3 жыл бұрын

@@daveross2265 .......it is bad enough that people in comments are all confirming at the time of posting "...yea, it is raining right now" so you're lucky!

I work in a factory making pallets. And every time I have to reload my nail gun I can hear Ian’s voice in my head telling me about the nail gun.

@andersbendsen5931

3 жыл бұрын

Lovely!👍

It's like the five seasons of Vermont: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, Mud, and the Fourth of July.

@danielthompson6207

3 жыл бұрын

We've got three seasons in east central Indiana: Winter (cold and rainy) Summer (African savannah weather) Everything Else (all the weather combined into one season at random)

"You're in England and it's always raining" Why, good, sir, as soon as I'm dried out from the latest downpour I shall seek satisfaction!

Point of Order: It does not rain all the time in England. Only on days with a Y in them. That's a Wildfowling gun, the Ducks and Geese are on the water, it sort of goes with the shooting.

@Simon_Nonymous

3 жыл бұрын

There is an alternative theory that it only rains if you go outside, with the chances of it raining being doubled if you are on holiday, own a motorbike, are camping or want to go climbing. The chances are tripled if you own a new gun and/or want to go game shooting. Plus there is the Test Match factor.

@GC2Major_Tom

3 жыл бұрын

@@Simon_Nonymous Rain is guaranteed if you just washed your car, too.

@51WCDodge

3 жыл бұрын

@@Simon_Nonymous You forgot to add, trusting the weather forcast! :-)

Whenever you read historic novels about Regency England, all the cool rich guys go to Joseph Manton's shop for their dueling guns and a little target practice.

@lairdcummings9092

3 жыл бұрын

...target practice. On each other.

@tristanc3873

3 жыл бұрын

@@lairdcummings9092 Makes sense. Good targets are hard to make, but we can just grow humans.

@wayneantoniazzi2706

3 жыл бұрын

@@tristanc3873 Well, as an advanced antique gun collector told me years ago: "Know what's the difference between a duelling pistol and a target pistol?" "The target!" He also told me than in actuality most duelling pistols were never used for that purpose. Finely crafted firearms were popular purchases with gentlemen of means to show off their wealth, basically the same as the wealthy buying exotic sports cars today.

'You're in England & it's constantly raining' Scotland:

@pseudomonad

3 жыл бұрын

Wales: hold my rainwater.

In Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey & Maturin books one of the characters buys themselves a Manton fowling piece when they come into a spot of prize money.

@JGCR59

3 жыл бұрын

I was just about to post that too

@gerryjamesedwards1227

3 жыл бұрын

@@JGCR59 it's all the details about life in that period, like the Manton shotgun, or the Breguet watch, that make those books so rewarding.

@ekscalybur

3 жыл бұрын

@@gerryjamesedwards1227 Just searched those watches. Very nice.

English: "let's hire Joseph Manton, the world's premier shotgun gunsmith, to develop us a waterproof flintlock!" Scots: "gonna nae dae that, Rev. Forsyth put mercury fulminate in a copper cup."

@travishabursky4362

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you brought Rev. Forsyth up, as I feel he is often forgotten in history.

@Simon_Nonymous

3 жыл бұрын

@@travishabursky4362 the irony that a man of the cloth increased the killing power of firearms... but yes.

@masterofdesaster8

3 жыл бұрын

@@Simon_Nonymous You gotta deliver the sinners to their maker for judgement as fast as possible...

@ScottKenny1978

3 жыл бұрын

@@Simon_Nonymous gotta feed the faithful. Hunting for market was a thing even in the 1900s (Anvil Gunsmithing recently had an FN A5 with a Market Hunting magazine, I counted 11 shots in Mark's op check).

@firstconsul7286

3 жыл бұрын

@@Simon_Nonymous Hey man, cloth or not he just wanted to shoot some birds.

It has to be said, Summer is my favourite day of the year....

you need to look into Joseph Manton........very prolific designer, came up with a lot of interesting ideas

@roeng1368

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, just thought that myself. He trained the big names in British gunmaking, Holland, Purdey etc. Anyone who is well known today.

@stepanmikulica

3 жыл бұрын

Thats interesting. Is there any good book about shotgun development which you will recomend?

@warrenhapke2091

3 жыл бұрын

@@stepanmikulica Michael McIntosh's Best Guns has a lot of good information about the development of double barrel sporting shotguns. It's very good on the development of American side-by-side doubles.

@51WCDodge

3 жыл бұрын

@@stepanmikulica Have a dig through Project Gutenberg, a lot of good historic free books there.

@OBIOsim

3 жыл бұрын

Here's the link to the video I just watched about Joseph Manton. kzread.info/dash/bejne/paJlp6txgtS6oZc.html

This handforged damascus barrel is a piece of art.

That's wicked metallurgical engineering for 1815. How many man-hours to complete that weapon, I wonder?

@Dreadought

3 жыл бұрын

A lot, a hell of a lot. But that's Manton's reputation, his shop was one of the premier gunshops in the world, and his pieces were priced accordingly, especially for a piece as technically sophisticated as this

@andyleighton6969

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen elsewhere a couple of years between order and delivery.

The original user of this gun would NEVER have said it was for hunting. Hunting is chasing a mammal quarry with scent hounds. Shooting is using a shot gun on flying birds. Stalking is using a rifle on a mammal quarry.

As an Uppity Colonial, I found this informative and fun!

@JensontheBasterd

3 жыл бұрын

you're an immigrant, colonial americans dont exist anymore they've been bred out, you are just an immigrant

so we have waterproof firearms. what about fireproof waterarms?

@danieldoesdumbstuff

3 жыл бұрын

That is the question

@Cynical_Hypocrite

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@duneydan7993

3 жыл бұрын

That's basically a high pressure cleaner

@diskinetic

3 жыл бұрын

I designed a bulletproof rifle. I can't load it.

@alun7006

3 жыл бұрын

That's easy - they can't catch fire because they're all wet. ;)

It amazes me how close they could tolerance parts back then. Stunning craftsmanship.

So I watch this video and as soon as Ian disparages the English weather, I look out the window and yes, it is indeed raining.

Those weighted safeties are similar to Joseph Manton's gravitating locks. Designed to make the gun automatically safe unless it is pointed above the horizontal. Here the weight acts as a pendulum, bringing the gun up swings the weight back and the lever away from the front of the cock so allowing it to fall when the trigger is pulled. Handling a gun by Joseph Manton is an experience to be remembered.

I would expect a pair of servants holding tiny umbrellas on each side of the action of the gun ,walking alongside the aristocrat hunter all around the fields.

"You're in England and it's constantly raining" Liar! Sometimes its sleet, snow or hail!

@Simon_Nonymous

3 жыл бұрын

or drizzle of course.

In southeastern America we used to get a decent shower in the afternoon a couple of times a week. Now it rains all winter, and into the spring. Once the crops are planted and it starts hitting 90 degrees, the rain mostly stops until fall. 105 in the shade and hardly any rain. It's a miracle that you can grow a crop at all. That's why the farmers are all having to invest in irrigation pivots. One summer, a couple of years ago, the irrigation pulled the ground water down so far that salt water from the Atlantic entered the aquifer. That was near Savannah Georgia. Rain might get aggravating if you're in it all of the time but it truly is a blessing. Nice video, I really like the gravity safety system. Yall take care and be safe, John

Lovely gun. Isn't it wonderful how blindingly obvious things are when somebody else thought of them?

One of the great lessons of history is that people in the past were far more clever and inventive than we give them credit for. Just because they didn't know about germ theory yet didn't mean that they weren't very intelligent indeed.

@Archangelm127

3 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%. Whenever I see some idiot say things like "they couldn't have aligned the Great Pyramids so precisely without alien assistance," I want to punch them. They had very smart people then, just as we do now, and they had a monarchy with the wealth, resources, and inclination to set these smart people to work on great projects.

@Simon_Nonymous

3 жыл бұрын

very well said Sir.

@Simon_Nonymous

3 жыл бұрын

@@Archangelm127 and when experimental archaeologists get to work on trying to fathom how they did it... my respect increases. Especially when they show it could be done with two planks of wood, some string, and a big pair of balls.

i love how ian calls random pieces of metal lugs

I had the pleasure of handling a Manton pistol 40 years ago that had a "waterproof" lock. The reason for the quote marks is the owner told me the lock really isn't waterproof, water-resistant is closer to the mark. If you're out in a driving rain moisture's going to get your priming eventually. As he told me "Since only a fool goes out in the rain if he doesn't have to the Manton lock is good if you're out and get caught in a sudden rain." One thing everyone should know, if you could afford a Manton you could afford the absolute best. Not that other British gunmakers weren't any good, far from it, but Manton was the top-of-the-line. None better.

Ian, love your content, the safety you describe is actually a gravity activated hammer block that activates when the shotgun is placed muzzle pointing upward for the loading of powder, wads and shot, thus making the hammer impossible to fall while loading.

@electrogrim

3 жыл бұрын

The working angles don't look right for it to function reliable in the manner you suggest, besides, surely it would be simply safer to load with the hammers down and frissons up rather than hammers cocked?

@joelvca

3 жыл бұрын

From what I can see, it looks like the safety would engage at either half or full cock when the muzzle is more than ~80 degrees above horizontal in the normal orientation, and I find that the muzzles are usually vertical or a bit past center (i.e tilted a bit "backwards") when loading in the field. Granted that one ought to load with the cock down and the hammer (frizzen) open, if you've only fired one barrel, you have to remember to dump the prime and lower the cock on the unfired lock before reloading the recently-fired barrel. These devices just give the gentleman or lady who can afford the best an extra layer of safety when out "rough shooting" and one might be distracted by the conversation of one's companions or by an abundance of game. The also applies to his or her loader when in the heat of a driven hunt.

@deweyvicknair6875

3 жыл бұрын

@@electrogrim The above description is exactly how they are supposed to work, as described in the patent for the device. Gimmickry was no less important to sales at that time than it is now.

@electrogrim

3 жыл бұрын

@@deweyvicknair6875 Interesting. Do you have a link to the patent please?

@deweyvicknair6875

3 жыл бұрын

@@electrogrim No, I have it my multi-volume set of British small-arms patents. The patent number is 3558, of the year 1812. It's also covered in Keith Neal's book. The internet doesn't have all of the answers.

Even a short video on anything Joseph Manton made is a treat. I found a couple short videos on the TGS Outdoors channel, and a much longer one on the Studio 12 channel on the man, his guns, and the historical importance of what Manton developed in the early 19th century between the flintlock and the use of the percussion cap. Manton's criminal mistreatment by the British Regency government, and subsequent bankruptcy is a sad coda to a great man's life.

Manton firearms are legendary ... basically the Purdey of his day - top of the line design, craftsmanship, materials ... what a pleasure to see one thanks to GJ and RIA ... this has made my day!

@51WCDodge

3 жыл бұрын

Tte name still exists.Agemtleman in Finigly Essex has it.

@deweyvicknair6875

3 жыл бұрын

Joe Manton launched James Purdey's career.

The safety catches are also automatic, they engage automatically when the gun is loaded in a vertical orientation. This was done to prevent an AD while ramming the charge. Just for interest. Like the video, Thank you.

Another feature of that safety device is that the weighted lug engages it while the weapon is pointed up (loading) and disengages it through gravity when the weapon is leveled to fire

Anyone that could afford a flintlock like that would have their man load it and put the beeswax on it for them.

@andyleighton6969

3 жыл бұрын

....which is why you bought a matched pair. One for the shooter, one being reloaded.

Can you cover the history of the percussion cap? Obviously most people who watch your content are aware of how it works, who invented it, etc., but I haven't seen any vids that compiled all of it's developmental history and the parallel developments in one summary. Different nations developed their own designs, sometimes independently, and it would be interesting to see how that technology proliferated internationally.

Another great video with a very easy to understand explanation! Good job as always Ian!

Beautiful Flintlock. The engraving is just amazing.

Manton was one of the best English gunsmiths. But by the time he built this gun, the Forsyth lock had already been around for eight years. In 1817 "Gentleman's Magazine" published a letter critical of the percussion lock. In one place the writer noted "...to those who say it fires in violent wind and rain, I say, gentlemen do not go sporting in such weather." Most presciently, the writer also observed "If, moreover, this new system were applied to the military, war would shortly become so frightful as to exceed all bounds of imagination, and future wars would threaten, within a few years, to destroy not only armies, but civilization itself."

Beautiful. Stunning damascus barrels too!

Thank Ian. Beautiful piece.

I love Flintlocks and I have been waiting for a video like this for ages, its awesome.

"you're in England and it's constantly raining" I lived in England for a while many, many years ago, and I remember a phrase I heard: "England, when the sun shines, is a beautiful place."

Really hope there's a final prices video coming on all this RIA stuff.. it should be exciting!

What a beautiful and innovative firearm! It's obvious that a lot of thought went into this weapon, and the solution was simple and very elegant.

The Mantons were a family of well respected gunsmiths in London.

Thats the most valuable gun if have seen on this channel. Manton was the grandfather of English guns. His 3 apprentices went on to found Purdy, Holland and Holland and I forget the 3rd. All are still going.

Ian, the "half cock safeties" are actually called gravitating stops and were invented by Joe Manton. Their actual designed purpose was to prevent the hammers from dropping while the gun was in the muzzles-up position during loading. With the gun held horizontally, the are supposed to drop clear freely of their own weight. I suspect that there is some congealed oil preventing these from working as freely as they should.

Absolutely beautiful firearm. I had no idea that the percussion cap was invented in Scotland despite recently having looked up when percussion caps were invented. Staggering how many things were invented in Scotland or were invented by Scots.

@PapaSchultz74

3 жыл бұрын

Well as Jeremy Clarcson once said if you have a shiny day you may go outside and enjoy the day but in scotland's weather all you can do is go to your shed and invent something. Good job scots and thank you.

@silverbladeTE

3 жыл бұрын

@@PapaSchultz74 or, if your from Fife, go the shed and enjoy the sheep...

@stephen7571

3 жыл бұрын

The greatest Scottish invention is of course whisky.

@silverbladeTE

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephen7571 nah! more like: Rubber sheep! Velcro sporrans! :P on a more serious and indeed, tragic note, a bottle of 18 year old McCallan's is like £250, which is enough tae make a grown man cry! :(

@stephen7571

3 жыл бұрын

@@silverbladeTE yes, but whilst drinking it (alone) you can drown your sorrows.

Can confirm it's always raining here in the UK. It's pissing down at the moment

I just love those simple looking solutions, but behind there is a very clever mind.

My grandad used to call wind in Bedfordshire " lazy" because " it dont bother going round you, it goes through you."

Thank you , Ian .

Such beautiful engineering.

'High End' is right... what a wicked piece of engineering.

Awesome as always

Another aspect to those gravity safeties, from the angle it looks like they might also auto engage if the gun is racked barrel up, the gun is upside down, or if pointed straight down.

According to a different video, the safety was for when you held the gun vertical for pouring in the main charge; it would automatically fall in place, preventing an accident while loading.

A beautiful peace of art.

1815? More likely celebrating givin' it to them damn froggies. Or practicing ready to fight 'em on the beaches, depending on the time of year.

@britishamerican4321

3 жыл бұрын

Right. Washington was burnt in 1814; Waterloo was 1815 (June); Battle of New Orleans was Jan. 1815, where Andrew Jackson triumphed and the British commander, Sir Edward Pakenham -- Wellington's brother-in-law (wife's brother, I believe) btw --- was killed.

Some very clever thinking involved in this. A real effort which likely didnt help much in an actual rain, but some yes. Many times I've hunted I wet conditions so this likely helped some! Love it. God bless all here.

What a thoroughly beautiful gun.

Man, what a piece!

Makes me feel like an Uppity Colonial is a good idea.

We dont take to kindly to ferners callin us uppity.

Hello Ian, i was wondering if you have ever interviewed your father about how he got into firearms history etc? Have a good day.

@MaggotBrain762

3 жыл бұрын

jesus dad, aka God probably just shoot lighting from his fingers

@mattmorrison9379

3 жыл бұрын

@@MaggotBrain762 lmao, that's awsome

@sanguinemoon9201

3 жыл бұрын

He did talk about it in a really early video

@con6lex

3 жыл бұрын

There is a long video with his dad at the close of the Kickstarter for his book.

God I'd love to be able to engrave like that. Beautiful artwork.

I guess there won't be a Forgotten Wpns variation of the Inrange mud test with this in the rain? Just guessing.

@lairdcummings9092

3 жыл бұрын

Not with that Damascus barrel, there won't be.

I really appreciate your videos!!!

I look forward to the upcoming mud test.

Oh I wish I was a peasant, helping Sir carry this magnificent piece of art.

What a beautiful gun!

We'd probably be far more interested in celebrating the defeat of the uppity French at Waterloo, than the burning of the uppity colonial politician's fancy house. 😉

Very much enjoyed this video.

Beautiful gun. I own a similar gun in a 20 bore by Joseph Manton from the Keith Neal collection that looks new and is the prized gun of my collection.

A few years ago, i had the opportunity to fire a Manton percussion duelling pistol. I felt privileged, it was a beautiful gun.

@SteamCrane

3 жыл бұрын

Did you hit him?

Ian’s narration brings a person’s appreciation of the elegance of this gun to another level.

I remember Manton’s firearms from the Aubrey-Maturin novels being mentioned as among the best available. Very cool old gun

I have a really well made flintlock and the frizzen and pan are so perfectly fit that it's damn near watertight

@steveh1792

3 жыл бұрын

I have one like that, too, using a Durs Egg-style lock. And it does work just fine in rainy conditions. (Durs Egg was a Swiss gun maker who worked in London around the same time as Manton.)

I love it when Ian role plays or at least gives a hilariously human perspective to help give context for whatever he is trying to inform the audience about

And here I was, using lard/beeswax bullet lube and carrying it with the action under my armpit like some sort of peasant!

@andersbendsen5931

3 жыл бұрын

If it works, you know?👍

In Glasgow and I can report it is indeed currently pishin doon

I do like listening to the explanation of the geometry of how this funnels water. It'd be even cooler to see it in action, but I doubt the owner of this antique is eager to see it rained on for demonstration purposes.

Also a nasty surprise for a dagger armed footpad trying to rob Lord Biggshotte in the rain.

what a jewell! beautiful!

Beautiful and ingenious thing. I wonder how many of these were actually made? A niche within a niche. Though if you were an English toff in 1815 the most pressing matter would be the jolly good thrashing administered to the Corsican Fiend at Waterloo.

The pan sort of looks like an odd toilet or bidet with the frizzen open lol. Remarkable ingenuity and craftsmanship for its time!

I always found the 18th - early 19th century to be such a frustrating period of time. They had the technology to do so many great things such as this, infection control, anesthetics, etc. but they just didn't, either because no one tried/thought about it or because people did try it and didn't think it was worth it at the time

@demonprinces17

3 жыл бұрын

No one thought of it, we can look back and say dummy you could do it however need someone to think of doing it 1st

@frogz

3 жыл бұрын

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine does this work? is there examples of it? i wouldnt think that it would be relyable with half of the metal shavings from the flint being captured by the wax

@frogz

3 жыл бұрын

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine also, i blame you and griffin for not inventing teleportation devices we have the tech, the resources and the science to do it, why havent either of you worked out the practicalities of breaking physics?!

@lairdcummings9092

3 жыл бұрын

In 1815, you've got two problems: First, people didn't yet *know* what was needed, and Second, work like this fowling piece are bleeding-edge technology for the time, requiring extraordinary effort and expense to realize. Even today, there are things we could do, that we don't, because it is economically infeasible, despite being technically possible. Things like metered liquid propellant to create much-desired caseless weapons, for instance.

I can say without a doubt that I have never seen anything like that before. Very cool! :)

This would also be used by wildfowlers out on the foreshore, where rain is more like, and the water that’s around you can be splashed up by you or your retriever dog

Just FYI, Manton dueling pistols were regarded as some of the best available.

So basically, there is the "early 19th century british gentleman hunter spectrum." On one end, there was the owner of this shotgun. On the other, there was the originator of the quote "gentlemen don't hunt in such weather." I firmly hope those two gentlemen knew each other, because if they did, the amount of beef they had must've been astronomical.

My son asked me if England (where we live) has an independance day. "Not yet" I said.

@JensontheBasterd

3 жыл бұрын

english independence from scotland is coming

@theafro

3 жыл бұрын

@@JensontheBasterd Let's face it, Most of us would like to be independant from england, or at the very least London.

@JensontheBasterd

3 жыл бұрын

@@theafro do you know why the union exists? its because scotland bankrupt itself trying to start a colony in panama and scottish people where living in extreme poverty because of it, its not the scottish that need independence its the english that need independence from scotland, nobody ever asked them if they wanted a union they just got one that favored scotland and pulled them out of poverty, england created freedom and not it needs it more than ever from scotland

@theafro

3 жыл бұрын

@@JensontheBasterd You seem fixated on scottish independence, how come nobody cares about the East anglian independence movement. we started on a moat but only got as far south as cambridge before the digging got difficult, we're going to need a couple more blokes with shovels. Essex is also a problem, they don't know wich side they want to be on, colchester will end up like west berlin if they're not careful!

So freaking neat!!! I love your channel, Ian. It's why i even have a youtube account at all