@@armincal9834 It actually looked like it took a bit of force to ram that wadding down. The lead balls were undersized so they could easily slide down by gravity if there was no fouling.
@@danielbutka8854 More that the gun needed to fill a standardised need. As a lowly conscript you are not often feilded with the cream of the crop of weaponry, and thus will have a gun that has been handcrafted more for speed of production than quality. That results in a barrel that is quite uneven inside. Also to reduce the need of a Matched ball making mold you intentionally have a ball size that is small enough that it gets into the gun no matter what. It is also the main reason you have the need of wadding. Now if we talk a personal gun that is a whole other caboozle as then the gun smith has the time to bore the barrel straight and perfect. Resulting in a gun that shoots perfectly exception and only improvement is rifling then. But since rifling is a really late convention and in the military volume of fire was more important than individual hit on targets, you never really see a mass produced military gun holding the standard of a private hunting gun.
Anything can be a club, really no starting or ending point. If you meant they flip the firearm over and start hitting with the stock? Well, they do that nowadays even.
I worked with a man, a Native American who is an archeologist, reenactor, etc and he went hunting with his matchlock musket and shot a nice whitetail doe at 50 yards. He said the slow match didn't bother her at all, the wind was towards him. Something like a .72 caliber if I recall.
if you slip with the match, you don't want to discharge the shot into the back of the man in front, so you prime and cover+clear the pan prior to loading. Flashing the pan with no main charge and shot doesn't do anything but make you look silly and startle the people around you. While this demonstration is using a separate flask to prime, in many cases, the cartridge (they had paper cartridges then) or "apostle" (a reusable wood bottle) was used to prime (to speed up loading). In a martial context, you don't see much priming after loading until rifled-bore pieces were issued (and even then only for accurate shooting), and the percussion era (where it makes sense to prime after loading due to bringing the musket back up to the recover-position, and is a separate thing from charging the musket).
Almost positive “X marks the spot” comes from the X that was on treasure maps.. Also: The phrase was put into common usage by the British army, who performed executions by marking a piece of paper with a black x and positioning it on the heart of someone sentenced to death.
The Austrians had muskets in their use until the early 1700s that had an additional matchlock serpentine at their flintlocks. The frizzen was pivoted and could be turned horizontically to expose the pan to the match.
He's right, blackpowder is gunpowder. Smokeless powder (which is what is used nowadays) didn't come into real use until the late 19th century. With firearms before that date you MUST use black powder otherwise you can blow up your gun.
@@nucleargandhi2709 Before the invention of smokeless powders in the 1880's there was only one type of gun powder. The term black powder is now used to distinguish it from modern smokeless gun powders.
The demonstration is inaccurate. The English did not prime their musket first, they loaded the main charge first. Per William Garrard, “let him ever first load his peece with powder out of his flaske, then with her [sic] bullet, and last with amuring and touch-powder.” [ _The Arte of Warre_ by William Garrard, published posthumously by Captain Robert Hichcock, 1591, p. 3, which was copied verbatim in _England's Trainings and plainly demonstrating the dutie of a private souldier, with the office of each severall officer belonging to a foot company, and the martiall lawes of the field ; as also the office and charge of a colonell ; the exercise of trayning or drilling : with diverse other necessary and profitable disciplined notes and observations_ , by Edward Davies, gentleman, 1619, from _Military Antiques Respecting a History of the English Army_ by Francis Grose Esq., London, 1801, p. 122.]
Suprised the neighbours didn't complain when a loud bang startled them, making them spill their tea.
Here in america we dont care about loud bangs
@@crumply5959 or our kids lives
Pretty fast load for a matchlock
We train them well ;)
cuz he didn't load a ball.
@@armincal9834 It actually looked like it took a bit of force to ram that wadding down. The lead balls were undersized so they could easily slide down by gravity if there was no fouling.
@@danielbutka8854 More that the gun needed to fill a standardised need. As a lowly conscript you are not often feilded with the cream of the crop of weaponry, and thus will have a gun that has been handcrafted more for speed of production than quality. That results in a barrel that is quite uneven inside. Also to reduce the need of a Matched ball making mold you intentionally have a ball size that is small enough that it gets into the gun no matter what. It is also the main reason you have the need of wadding.
Now if we talk a personal gun that is a whole other caboozle as then the gun smith has the time to bore the barrel straight and perfect. Resulting in a gun that shoots perfectly exception and only improvement is rifling then. But since rifling is a really late convention and in the military volume of fire was more important than individual hit on targets, you never really see a mass produced military gun holding the standard of a private hunting gun.
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"X marked a spot!"
This is the gun i will choose if there are zombie outbreak
Better with a Flintlock
Why? Ancient guns look badass but they take ages to reload and are quite unreliable
@Thane Mac I see, thanks for the help, kind stranger!
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... pretty damned cool piece of expertise. Thanks, mates.
About one minute to load a matchlock, wow.
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Where was this video shot, It looks like a place called Fan Woods near where I live.
Good eye - we have an annual training event at the Fanwood scout centre!
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Very interesting
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Very cool
In reality I’m sure a lot of these guns could be turned into clubs just like 500 years ago
Anything can be a club, really no starting or ending point. If you meant they flip the firearm over and start hitting with the stock? Well, they do that nowadays even.
marvelous
I'd love to go hunting with one
I worked with a man, a Native American who is an archeologist, reenactor, etc and he went hunting with his matchlock musket and shot a nice whitetail doe at 50 yards. He said the slow match didn't bother her at all, the wind was towards him. Something like a .72 caliber if I recall.
shoting without lead bullet ? safe for the opponent
It's just a demonstration
Wouldn’t it make more sense to prime the pan after he’d loaded ?
if you slip with the match, you don't want to discharge the shot into the back of the man in front, so you prime and cover+clear the pan prior to loading. Flashing the pan with no main charge and shot doesn't do anything but make you look silly and startle the people around you. While this demonstration is using a separate flask to prime, in many cases, the cartridge (they had paper cartridges then) or "apostle" (a reusable wood bottle) was used to prime (to speed up loading). In a martial context, you don't see much priming after loading until rifled-bore pieces were issued (and even then only for accurate shooting), and the percussion era (where it makes sense to prime after loading due to bringing the musket back up to the recover-position, and is a separate thing from charging the musket).
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will pyrodex work i can only have muzzleloaders
czcams.com/video/en384qVqrug/video.html should give you the answer albeit if this is a little extreme
There's a reason I sold my matchlock for a percussion lock.
location?
Give it a second, it might go off.
Is this a royalist or parliamentarian regiment
Almost positive “X marks the spot” comes from the X that was on treasure maps..
Also: The phrase was put into common usage by the British army, who performed executions by marking a piece of paper with a black x and positioning it on the heart of someone sentenced to death.
These kind of things often have more than one origin
He's putties had fell down on one of his leg ! He must have wanted to tighten it up during all of the video
modern weapons are still subjected to problems.
Weren't matchlocks obsolete by the 17th century? I thought they were supplanted by early flintlocks like the snaphance by this time.
Snaphaunces and flintlocks were more expensive to manufacture: common soldiers used matchlocks up into the late 17th century.
The Austrians had muskets in their use until the early 1700s that had an additional matchlock serpentine at their flintlocks. The frizzen was pivoted and could be turned horizontically to expose the pan to the match.
Didn't se when did he light up his match.
The match would have already been lit, usually from a brazier or small fire started by the soldiers.
Could you use black powder instead of gun powder ?
Black powder is gunpowder.
He's right, blackpowder is gunpowder. Smokeless powder (which is what is used nowadays) didn't come into real use until the late 19th century. With firearms before that date you MUST use black powder otherwise you can blow up your gun.
@@nucleargandhi2709 Before the invention of smokeless powders in the 1880's there was only one type of gun powder. The term black powder is now used to distinguish it from modern smokeless gun powders.
The demonstration is inaccurate. The English did not prime their musket first, they loaded the main charge first. Per William Garrard, “let him ever first load his peece with powder out of his flaske, then with her [sic] bullet, and last with amuring and touch-powder.” [ _The Arte of Warre_ by William Garrard, published posthumously by Captain Robert Hichcock, 1591, p. 3, which was copied verbatim in _England's Trainings and plainly demonstrating the dutie of a private souldier, with the office of each severall officer belonging to a foot company, and the martiall lawes of the field ; as also the office and charge of a colonell ; the exercise of trayning or drilling : with diverse other necessary and profitable disciplined notes and observations_ , by Edward Davies, gentleman, 1619, from _Military Antiques Respecting a History of the English Army_ by Francis Grose Esq., London, 1801, p. 122.]
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