I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas! (or HAD a Merry Christmas, depending on when you see this)

@matpen7863

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas Mike! Seems like you've got a lovely present this year :D. Lovely video as always!!!

@michaelfitzell2741

Жыл бұрын

Thank you--Merry Christmas to you and your family!

@ChoppedWheat

Жыл бұрын

Just wanted to mention I watched your old video on the 1858 conversion. Taylor claims their 45lc colt model can be turned back to black powder with the cylinders they provide. Admittedly they may be non standard cylinders made to fit their conversion.

@Sport--willow

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas my friend!

@viper_3211

Жыл бұрын

One of the best channels on KZread.

Mike, I have enjoyed your channel for a number of years now. You have pulled me into black powder shooting and guns of old. Thank you some much for having this channel even in these rough times. You do a great job of teacher and explining. Sad will be the day this channel ceases. Thank you mike, and Merry Christmas to you and yours.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Mike, I have been shooting Smiths for over 30 years and have learned a lot doing so. If you come across any of the heavy brass cases that are available today, you probably shouldn't use them. They do not expand and allow gasses to to blow back into the action. Cleaning the Smith then would be very difficult. Also, get a sight protector. The high front sights will draw blood. Have fun shooting the Smith. It can be extremely accurate.

Well done! It's always a treat to see a genuine ol' war horse, fit for duty again.

Hey Mike!!! My great, great, great grandfather carried one of these in Company D ,17th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry during the Civil War. And it's been passed down to a veteran in each generation. I have it now, I'm a Navy vet, and it'll go to my son, an Army vet once I'm gone. The rifle has been converted to a shotgun so Zacharia could hunt with it after the war. Keep putting out great videos!!

Like your method for sighting in the elevation. I've got 2 Smiths, a Sharps and a Spenser to get ready for this years N-SSA skirmish season. All are repros I've had for a while but haven't gotten them ready as I generally just been shooting my '63 3 band Springfield in the musket team matches. Coming up on 50 years of skirmishing.

nice little lead slinger i wouldn't mind a modern version of that in 44 mag or 500 S+W for deer season since we're stuck with straight wall cartridges in ohio!!

Love my Smith carbine. I got a Pietta, the quality, fit, finish, and function are exceptional. This would make a great short range hunting rifle too. I use Eras Gone bullet molds.

A local dealer listed one of these on gunbroker years ago and I bid & won it. The carbine looks perfect and I haven't shot it as it just seemed too nice to use. Your video might get me to dig it out of the safe and give it a range day.

Thank you Mike, for the entertainment and education you have given us in the past year. I don't think many of us understand how much time and work goes into these presentations. Your work is greatly appreciated. Looking forward to new content in the future. Thank you very much for your efforts. Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas Rune!

Nice. I used to repair a lot of older repro Smiths, many built by Yecks, that had a problem with really short and weak ignition drum screws. After some time, these screws would blow out, requiring a new set screw to be installed. The set screw also serves to narrow up the huge cavernous flame channel and ensure more consistent ignition. The new Pietta Smiths don't seem to have this problem.

I agree with most of the other commentators, I just love the videos that you produce on historical firearms. I shoot a little bit of black powder with my .36 Pieta’s, but don’t have the money to venture much further. While you invest in the originals, I’ll watch vicariously.

I just picked up a Pietta Smith on Gun Broker. Just started working on the loads. Shoots great with Eras Gone Bullets. I struggled with a reproduction or original. So far happy with the reproduction

Awesome video and beautiful carbine. I going to have to reach out to lodgewood Manufacturing. I am looking for a original colt 1860 army barrel fairly desperately.

Another great informative video. Thank you especially for the tip regarding the musket caps! I’ll give that a try with my Smith carbine when it isn’t freezing cold out!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

I had mine out again yesterday, and it was even colder...snowing today, so I won't be out with it again for awhile.

@billmorris1683

Жыл бұрын

You are made of stouter stuff than me!

Never seen a Smith fired before! Very cool!

really like the way that sounds

I was just ready to ask about the loading procedure for that beauty...and Mike at the end of the video tells me I have to wait for the next update. Thx Mike like it very much so far.

Just bought a new Pietta Smith Carbine (no box) at at Civil War show in Ohio. Got very lucky finding one. Price was very reasonable and well under $1k. Now I need to order the plastic cases and Minie bullets.

Great video! Love the lines of that rifle!

Thank you Mike. Merry Christmas to you as well.

Wonderful! Just wonderful! Thanks for new video, DueList1954.

Great video and history lesson,and Merry Christmas to you Mike.

Merry Christmas Mike!

Several years ago I got into Civil War Reenacting and my Unit was a dismounted/mounted cavalry unit. I was torn between buying a Smith or a Sharps. I bought the sharps and while I haven't regretted my purchase, I paid a grand for a Pedersoli from Dixie, I longed to have the simple Smith. My reenactment days are pretty much behind me and I still long for the Smith. I'll keep my eye out on DGW and perhaps one will make its way to my hands. Great shooting and cheers. Merry Christmas Mike.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Mike. God bless you and thanks for another cool video. Keep 'em coming!

I always learn so much!

Looking forward to the deep dive, and to see the final shape of the sight. Merry x-mas and thanks for all you do!

That’s a very nice knife you’ve got there.

Merry Christmas Mike! Thank you for all the effort you put into these excellent videos!

Very interesting firearm indeed, very accurate for its tender age.

One of the many things I enjoy about Mike as a presenter is he doesn't "talk his age" He presents information without bias and doesn't feel constrained to cram it all into 5 minutes, which I really appreciate! Definitely an anti-Fudd gentleman! (He also reminds me of my paternal grandfather, which is one of the best compliments I can give)

Mike looking forward to seeing how this carbine functions. The history as well. Your research is always impecable and sincere. The carbine groups pretty nicely for an original. You must be pleased with your purchase. Dave

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

I am. It is a little gem of a gun.

Merry Christmas! Those cartridges look like something that would be extremely easy to churn out on a 3d printer.

Formula for moving impact one inch: Sight radius in inches/ target distance in inches. Mathematically sound

Merry Christmas to a gifted videographer. In my BP days of circa 1956-7, Smith carbines were mostly NRA very good with pristine rifling and over 50% blue: but, alas no ammo.

@theodorebranin1365

Жыл бұрын

I also paid $35 for the one I had.

Nice, thank you! Merry Christmas!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Great video! Merry Christmas!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Thanks Mike. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas ! And that was the coolest video i have seen in some time.. Great technique too.. Always helps listen to those who walked the path before you.. Thank you.

Thanks for a great video, Merry Christmas to you'll

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

very cool Civil War Rifle. Merry Christmas supposed to be 80'in some parts of Southern California on Christmas

Very Merry Christmas 🎄to you and yours Mr Bellevue...!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Great stuff as always,merry Christmas to you and your family and a happy new year! Can't wait for next year shows

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas. Thanks for the great video, always seem to learn something new.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Thanks Mike for all your videos. I really like the ones about the percussion revolvers, Colt, Remington and Starr. These recent ones about the Civil War carbines are fantastic! I have been shooting the 1859 Sharps and Smith Carbine, both replicas, for over 10 years now. Your videos are informative and helpful. The Star and Bullock Hardware cartridge kits work well, with some modification and those cardboard tubes for the Sharps work better than I imagined they would. Thanks again and have a Merry Christmas!!

Thanks for the video Mike, that looks like a fun gun to shoot. Merry Christmas!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas Jeff!

Nice job Mike. I'm so glad I found and subscribe to your channel. I enjoy learning about older fire arms and black powder shooting. Thank you for all your hard work and time Sir. Merry CHRISTmas to you and your family Mikey

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Dang Mike, youre hard core! Love the rifle, love your dedication to making the videos. God bless you sir!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it

Really cool video, Mike! I know it would seem like “nothing” to a disinterested party regarding the sight regulation, but to an owner/enthusiast, it’s very rewarding to get the sights dialed in. Blessings to you during this Christmas Season!

Really a good shooting carbine. What a final group!

Thanks Mike, I look forward to Thursday mournings and my living history lesson! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Awesome

Great Video Mike! I was waiting for you to post this. What a neat gun. Like you said easy to load. I am still looking for a good shooter. Thank you for making this video. Merry Christmas to you and your family!!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas

Another awesome video! Love the Smith Carbine! Can’t wait for the deep dive video! Maybe a Burnside Carbine is in the future?

Another interesting video

I SUCKED with this thing in Fistful of Frags... Still, so cool to see a video of it, and with the typical Duelist quality.

Happy holidays Mike from a fellow Pennsylvania very much enjoy your channel

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Nice!!

Ah morning coffee and watching Mike do what he does best, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and family and stay warm..lol 🎄☕️🎄☕️

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Mike, there is a formula for calculating how much to change the front sight height. It is sight radius x impact change / distance to target, all in inches. I don't know the exact measurements for that beautiful Smith rifle, but let's play with some numbers. 24 sight radius x 18 impact change / 1800 50 yards = 0.24. Based on your video you probably didn't have to remove this much metal from the front sight, but I was not using actual numbers. I have an Excel spreadsheet that will calculate this if you would like to have a copy.

Thanks a lot. Very interesting to me. That is a very neat gun. It put a smile on this old man's face when you hit the steel and said, "Got Em!" Merry Christmas Mike!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Have a merry Christmas mike

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Mike I love you dedication. It looks extremely cold

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

It was very cold. I was filming the next installment yesterday at the Den, and it was even colder. Just indoor videos on tap for a while until it gets a bit more reasonable outside.

@johnhagerman320

Жыл бұрын

I don't blame you a bit. And I enjoy the indoor videos as well. I really enjoy the history and the story's. From what I've seen your probably the only person on KZread or anywhere that tells the history of it all

Merry Christmas - Hope you have a Great 2023

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas

Mike that is an awesome looking rifle and you really got it firing in well now that I've watched it here and thumbs up you I'm going to go on Rumble and do the same thanks for posting I appreciate it cuz I enjoyed it Joe security

Wow the last group you put on paper was pretty tight that thing seems accurate. Great video Mike and Merry Christmas to you and your wife!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Great video. You spent quite a bit of time out in the cold to get it sighted in. It was probably just as exciting for me as it was for you. Good job and Merry Christmas to you.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Mike, You are just great. Wish I would be able to take part in your experiences, Still this is the next best thing. Merry Christmas.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Cabela's sells the Smith carbine and bullet casings for it.

Best black powder channel in the world ! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you like it. Thanks!

What a sweet rifle!! Great job sighting her in. I got an old Zouave I’d like to change out the front sight on. But having a terrible time getting it to slide out. Looks like you got a fun rifle to shoot, I be willin to bet a 100yds would be very obtainable? Merry Christmas Mike!!

I recognize your replacement front sight. I had the exact same one I used for my Springfield 1873 trapdoor. I sighted mine at 100 yards with a file after every other shot. OBTW, your best three shot grouping did far better than any grouping I did with my Rossi 92 44 mag rifle at fifty yards.

Great vid. I'm sure you know about Cherry's in Greensboro, NC, which has lots of old timey guns. I always wondered if those obsolete guns were worth buying as shooters, I guess they are. Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Mike! Great video! I’m just down the road from Dixie gun works. That’s where I got my Walker colt 34 years ago for $200.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Very short sight radius means you don't take very much off the front site to make a noticeable difference.

Mike, thanks for the enjoyable video. But am I the only one wondering what the chances are of setting off a cap if that knife blade goes down faster and further than you were expecting? May I suggest a thin piece of wood (wall paneling or maybe even thinner) with a hole bored the size of the cap. Now the knife blade will stop on the wood, never risking hitting the priming compound. Merry Christmas!

I also have been looking off and on for a smith. I have a inline I bought 20 years ago it just doesn’t fill like black powder.

I'm looking forward to seeing more about the Smith! A diagram of the chamber would be cool!

And merry christmas

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

Have always wanted a Smith. Had a Burnside (the one with the weird case) that I brought back from the dead several years ago but sold it. There are replicas but I would like to have an original. One day maybe...

stay warm

The way back machine… great reference

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

I loved those old cartoons.

That is one more awesome rifle. I certainly hope when you do the Deep dive and I hope you do it pretty soon, that you show how you load the rifle not the cartridge how you get the cartridge in the rifle

Merry belated Christmas, Mike!! Would you ever do a video about semi-auto handguns in the Old West?

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

I'm working on one about the development of Colt's 1911.

Hello again Mike, Another great video. The only thing I wished you had included was the actual loading procedure. I am really interested in seeing the breech and if you have a bore sight, I would be interested in seeing the condition of the rifling of this gun after 160 odd years. Thanks Mike. Keep warm.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

In the next video I'll show loading and unloading.

@fixed970

Жыл бұрын

I had the exact same question. Also, can the plastic cases be reused at all? Or are they ruined after one shot? Merry Christmas!

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

@@fixed970 I just wash them and re-load them.

i like that pocketknife Mike,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’ve had it for years.

Very impressive that your Smith carbine still appears to be a tack driver after its use in the Civil War and whatever else it had been through during the past 160 years. I may have to check out Lodgewood and see if they can help me out with fixing up that Kerr revolver that I picked up last year.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

That is where I’d take it.

@JRB781

Жыл бұрын

@@duelist1954 I have been looking at the Kerr on and off. It turns out that the cylinder does completely lock up, but in a different manner. Since the cylinder can be indexed by the trigger, I finally realized that the hand must have some kind of direct linkage to the trigger. Upon doing some careful dry firing with my thumb on the hammer, I found that the cylinder did lock up tight as I was squeezing the trigger. There doesn't appear to be any bolt involved in the lock up, especially when you look at the cylinder and notice that it lacks bolt stops. The trigger/hand appears to be the only mechanism that locks up the cylinder. My original plan was to carefully take it apart (taking pictures as I went that would aid with reassembly) and inspect/clean it myself when I had some free time this winter. After hearing all of the good things about Lodgewood from your videos, I am going to contact them soon. Especially when you said that your Smith had a frozen nipple and Dave was able to replace it, I realized that I have five nipples that are most likely frozen and it would be better to have a professional like him do it for me.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

@@JRB781 Good Plan!

Very heavy slow bullet it shoots. I know that the old standard issue war between the states guns and their repros are meant to hit a man sized target in the torso. With the revolvers at 25 yards and with the carbines and rifles at 200 yards. They weren’t made for precision accuracy just like the later .45-70 trap doors and colt SAA peacemakers weren’t made for precision accuracy either but with modifications greater accuracy is possible. At 45 or 50 feet my Uberti 1858 with my Howell .45 colt cylinder hits all over the place but all the shots hit within an area that would be within a man’s torso. With some compensating out of 20 shots I can even hit a small cantaloupe a few times at that distance

Hey Mike im liking that shank your slicing up those primers with where did you purchase it?

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

It is just a cheap Pakistani made 18th century folder. Dixie or Track probably has them.

I hope you have more luck than I did with my reproduction Smith. I really like it's looks but it was a disappointment. I swopped it for a two band Enfield made in Birmingham England in the 1970s.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Those were great guns.

Could you show a close up of how you load the "cartridge" into the carbine and remove the empty? Love your insight on historical weapons.

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

The next video covers all that

@davisnewman8278

Жыл бұрын

@@duelist1954 Great. Looking forward to it.

Mike, why are all my civil war replica firearms shoot so high? When I shot N-SSA I had to have new/much higher front sights on my enfield and 1841 Mississippi. I think I’ve heard the answer before but value your knowledge more than anyone’s on these topics. Thanks in advance Sir.

@viper_3211

Жыл бұрын

Never mind I’m an idiot. I think you answered my question in that they were sighted for ridiculously long ranges. Thanks for your videos. Been a fan for years.

All those old Civil War rifles had 200 yd front sights.

I would have to deer hunt with that .Modern muzzle loaders should beade like them

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your front sight gets wider the lower you go so the first "licks" of a file take much more material off vertically... the lower you go the more work is needed to shorten it

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Good point

GREAT GUN GOOD VIDEO BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO SEE HOW IT LOADS

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

The next video in the series covers that.

The first 10 strokes of a file across the pointed, cut site is going to take off more than the next ten because the surface area you are filing us getting larger...

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

Good point

could this cartridge setup used for a sharps?(glad the first filing didn't go too far)/ did you notice some fire came out of the nipple?

@duelist1954

Жыл бұрын

The Sharps is .54, the Smith is .50