"Then a sparketh from thy musket match igniteth thine smock!" - Pilgrim Ethan, 1620

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

And if but a single spark would hath caused me to be warm on such a frigid day I would hath invited 10,000 sparks to take flight and land upon mein smok til I bursteth into flame. Lest I perish from the cold. ~Also Pilgrim Ethan last Sunday

@ArizonaGhostriders

Жыл бұрын

@@Real11BangBang HAHAHAH!

@garyjones3023

Жыл бұрын

@@Real11BangBang Great statement in somewhat would be Olde english!

@makingmajic1938

Жыл бұрын

@11BangBang How often do you take the barrle out of the stock for cleaning, and what type of anti corrosion prevention grease, oil, or wax did you use for under the barrle

@femboymusketeer

7 ай бұрын

*Thy smock

Thank you fellas good show and y'all have a good night

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

Same to you

I have the Veteran Arms version of the same gun and it has got to be one of the most fun guns to shoot, hands down. When I take it to the range it draws a crowd every time.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

oh yeah tons of fun

@firearmsaddictloveguns

Жыл бұрын

That’s what a buddy of mine refers to as a “crowd pleaser”.

Great show guys

Just now realising Ethan had Scottish broad sword on his belt, well done👍

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

lol yeah that was the first day of filming he forgot it the next day

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

Garrett found a basically 17th century packing list for coming to North America from England and one of the things that they stated you had to have is a "basket-hilted broadsword" so I threw it on interestingly something else you were supposed to bring along was 20 lb of powder and 60 lb of lead

Dang! Now you have me wanting a matchlock for the collection.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

they are alot of fun

Excellent, excellent treatise boys! This is why I love 11 Bang Bang! Happy Thanksgiving! TC

@garrettfromsmokeinthewoods

Жыл бұрын

I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Quick question did you build your leman from a kit? If so what kit do you suggest for a guy to build a leman?

Great history lesson. Happy Thanksgiving, boys!

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

thankyou lol dont burn tomuch powder today

@richardlahan7068

10 ай бұрын

​@@Real11BangBangWhat did you use to strip the paint/shellac off the stock? My 1766 Charleville arrives next week. Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving! What a glorious firearm for the occasion, and quite the powder charge, too!

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

oh yeah i think it would match alot of mordern rounds

I like your presentation! And the shooting, job well done!I like the history lesson. Like to have a matchlock in my collections. David Back. Happy thanksgiving!

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

thankyou verymuch and a happy thanksgiving to you too

This was an awesome video. Thanks for sharing.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Sorry i missed the Premier guys. Long day

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

thats ok hope you are doing well

@snappers_antique_firearms

Жыл бұрын

@@Real11BangBang i am ok ish . i have a lot to get done. But i caught something. Doing all this while being sick sucks.

Super presentation about a forgotten weapon of the Pilgrims!! I really appreciate the mix of history and your shooting the matchlock. Keep it up! That's why I im glad I found your channel.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

these matchlocks are truly alot of fun!

Marvelous, gentlemen, well done. This is the kind of historical accuracy I have come to appreciate from your channel. It's so nice to see people who don't mistakenly believe that gunpowder ended the predominance of the medieval knight on the battlefield. In reality, the end of the reign of the armored knight had more to do with the fact that two to three commoners with polearms could defeat any knight at a fraction of the cost, and those commoners didn't have the knights' limitations about the seasons they could take the field (knights had to spend a lot of time managing their fiefs). Also, as you pointed out, many harnesses were bullet proof--in fact they were called "armors of proof," and they would be tested by having a gun fired at them, with the resulting dimple sometimes highly decorated with etching, etc., to play up the fact that it had been successfully tested. Thank you, too, for pointing out that the "12 apostles" term was anachronistic and weren't as good as the paper cartridges; people think that term is so cool that they ignore the facts about them. I learned more about the early powder from this video than I had known before, and I appreciate that. One thing that I think would have improved this video would have been to have demonstrated the military loading and firing procedures taught by various manuals of the period since those procedures were very telling in terms of how the weapons worked and could be used most efficiently--that's a suggestion, however, not a criticism.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

thankyou. that is verymuch Appreciated coming from you. yes i do need to study the tactics a bit more i find this era of firearms history very interesting and not very well covered on youtube as of yet.

I’m starting to develop an interest in the 30 Years War, The English Civil War and obviously the arrival of the Pilgrims and the Puritans to this country. Plus I love firearms and blades of all kinds.

@Real11BangBang

9 ай бұрын

that is a very over looked piece of history

I liked the video so much, I had to watch it again. I’m ready for next year. Happy Thanksgiving y’all.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

why thankyou and happy Thanksgiving to you as well

240 grain charge man that sounds insane

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

lol yeah its kinda a rush

@lexheath8276

8 ай бұрын

90gr puts mine on target.

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A very interesting video. The idea of an annual video serie is nice.

@Real11BangBang

10 ай бұрын

More to come!

Awesome video, Happy Thanksgiving.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! You too!

so thats why they hold on their match

The great swamp fight was an attack on a friendly Indian settlement that served no purpose but to satisfy the revenge of the puritans who were getting killed in the field prior to Chuch organizing the rangers with Indian scouts that would decide the outcome of the war. It was simple attrition against better warriors. It took ten pilgrims to equal one Wampanoag warrior in the field.

this is a very very good video !! thx guys !

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Team 11 Bang Bang really nailed this video. That was excellent, such great research and context-rich. Im a history gun nerd, but seriously, ive learnt more about early musketry from this video than most others. Thank you, Gus

@Real11BangBang

9 ай бұрын

thankyou very much for watching

Be easier if you just filled your bottom lip with powder and stuck a sparkler up your nose, did your face get burned? Love that gun especially when you think how long it was used in rain, snow, war and getting over run. Thanks for your video, not much out there, have you hunted with it?

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

no never hunted with it mostly because of the fire hazard but it would be fun to try on a snowyday

I have the same gun, can you point me to a place to get a diagram or instructions to disassemble the gun if need be?

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

i dont no if there is one but its pretty simple just three screws

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

This is Ethan don't forget the pins

As a descendant of John Alden, I really appreciated this.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching

When it came to a pilgrim village how many guns would you say were available with the townspeople?

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

well as far as Jamestown goes it was the company regulations that every man have a musket. as far as the pilgrims go we know although it was not a rule it was understood that every man would have a gun of some kind.

16 June 2023- I ordered my matchlock with crossbow trigger from Military Heritage

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

Lol, make your match cord hot, and you will have a blast. Lol no pun intended

I usually complain about the rotten music. But this aint rotten.

I love matchlocks and yes you can deer hunt with them with a slow match. They are addictive. I have a powder question. With the non compressed powder of 240gr how is that compared to 240gr of Goex 2F ?

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

we have not run it over a chronograph yet but acording to everything blackpowder with the same 75-15-10 mix as goex, the non compressed powder was about 20 percent weaker. the 17 century powder is i beleave slightly weaker then that.

vut is thy footage of poundage my dear sir? just an expository question mein friends.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

we canest not know the answer to thy question untill we have layed aside enough coin for a chronograph. lol

@reefread1234

Жыл бұрын

@@Real11BangBang true weights of voleys said grain and powder say a lot to velocities mean

What scouring stick is that? Mine is like a twig. I would love to get a new one.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

this is just a hickory ramrod blank from track of the wolf. We always say with the Indian made muskets you should basically get a new ram rod or scouring stick right off the bat . It does require quite a bit of work to taper it to fit the India made muskets and then we just take the original end that was on the scouring stick that came with the gun and we pin it to the new one and coat it with woodwax. a good straight grain hickory ramrod will last a very long time. they are pretty tough.

Ya'll owe me some greenbacks! Because of ya'll, I just ordered a Military Heritage Matchlock.

@Real11BangBang

6 ай бұрын

haha

Chaps, a question please: with your early powder, how many shots before loading gets slowed, and how many more before it's getting darn right tedious? Never knew till your video that corning powder came along so late ..... i assumed by 1600 it was the norm, so i thank your research and real-life experiments.

@Real11BangBang

9 ай бұрын

it gets tight after about 15 shots as i recall

Just got one for Christmas, quick question how do you clean the bore after shooting, I’ve never seen a rod long enough to get all the way down this gun

@Real11BangBang

6 ай бұрын

Congratulations what I do as I go ahead and order a long ramrod blank from track of the Wolf made of Hickory. Because generally the India made Ram rods will break quickly. Anyway, and when you order that blank, go ahead and order a tip that's threaded for a cleaning jag. Trust me you will be shaping a ramrod out of goodwood for pretty soon

Why is it that toys can be fun even when we've outgrown them.

@Real11BangBang

10 ай бұрын

lol thats when they are the best

How were you able to remove the barrel to refinish? I understand the pins for the barrel, but it appears the tang is nailed in place. How did you get the nail out?

@Real11BangBang

6 ай бұрын

I believe ars was screwed in

I'm a damn redneck and I love my damn matchlock, hours and hours in the woods with this amazing musket, I have the late version of it from late 1600s, they have a roundish buttstock

Happy Thanksgiving! Seems like that matchlock would work great with gloves when it's cold out 😄 How heavy is the trigger? It almost seems like a revolver trigger due to the travel.

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

oh its not heavy at all just alot of travel. its kinda hard to explain what a trigger with no break feels like lol

@45calibermedic

Жыл бұрын

@@Real11BangBang A light revolver trigger which you pull with multiple fingers, then 😂

So if I’m shooting a 550 grain ball then I should use 275 grains of powder?

@Real11BangBang

7 ай бұрын

only if you are useing non compessed 5-1-1 powder

@bythebnro7498

7 ай бұрын

What would u recommend if I was using a 550 grain ball with goex powder?

If I don't have homemade powder, how can a make a matchbook work?

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

you can do it with swiss powder it is just not as reliable

@lexheath8276

8 ай бұрын

I've had no issues with Hodgdon "Triple Seven" in FFFG.

@Teleoceras

4 ай бұрын

@@Real11BangBangI respectfully disagree. I've used Swiss FFFFg in the pan for years with my Matchlocks and I never had an issue with ignition as long as the powder is dry.

I very much appreciate Your interest in matchlock guns and making videos pertaining to this topic. But unfortunately, this gun is very far from the originals. The barrel has a fantasy shape. My thumb is up anyway :-)

Where can you get a matchlock?

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

milatary heritage. com

@Beuwen_The_Dragon

Жыл бұрын

If you’re handy with a hammer, a file and a Chisel, you can make one.

How much does that thing weigh?

@Real11BangBang

Жыл бұрын

around 10lbs

@craigcook1571

Жыл бұрын

@@Real11BangBang not as bad as it looks then

@Beuwen_The_Dragon

Жыл бұрын

A goat’s leg and two corn cobs.

@craigcook1571

Жыл бұрын

@@Beuwen_The_Dragon 🤣