Well done guys, thank you for participating in the challenge!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thank you for helping us by helping organizing!
@gumsloughmead2881 Жыл бұрын
I really like what offer on your videos. I appreciate your time and effort you put in for us. Please keep doing what you do. Thanks alot.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thank you kindly!
@jamesvatter5729 Жыл бұрын
Probably going to get scoffed at, but before I got my fowler, I filed the bayonet lug on my Bess into a makeshift front sight. Made a big difference.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Good idea!
@PalmettoNDN3 ай бұрын
Many people in the frontier did the same. I've seen historic examples with lugs filed.
@h-minus2212 Жыл бұрын
My hat is off to each of you gentlemen. That looked like a lot of fun and fairly tough physically, given the weight of the firearms and the rigor of loading - especially when compared to modern firearms. I am pacing like a tiger waiting for my kits to show up. My wife keeps telling me that patience is a virtue. Darn virtues. Thank you for the great content.
@alanparadis5061 Жыл бұрын
That is awesome! Looks like an absolute blast! Great job both of you guys as far as I'm concerned, both getting 3 or 4 shots off around 2 minutes is a job well done!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@folday6169 Жыл бұрын
Thanks guys! Encouraging to get outside this time of year.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thanks!!
@keithkatschke8036 Жыл бұрын
Great job guys, I just wish I could get up from those positions as gracefully as you both do!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thanks Keith!! We'll have to get a class for you to try.
@keithkatschke8036 Жыл бұрын
@@ILoveMuzzleloading I can get into and out of those positions, awkwardly of course!
@calebswartz6273 Жыл бұрын
Really cool Ethan, very fun to watch. Have to give it a shot next year!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Please do!
@johnfisk811 Жыл бұрын
G that looked like fun.Well done chaps. FWIW I would suggest a more aggressive charge of 120 grains of 1F and, for the number of rounds used, larger balls. The period size was to allow the full 60 rounds carried to be loaded in spite of fouling. With modern cleaner powders you can get away with a .72 or .73 ball in the Bess. Post Napoleonic war George Lovell reduced artillery and sappers carbines down from .753 to.733 as they would be unlikely to have to fire 60 rounds so could benefit from a closer fit to the standard service issue ball cartridge.
@uriah-s97 Жыл бұрын
Looks like lots of fun! Still need to build a smoothbore myself, maybe I can come shoot with you guys some time. Great video Ethan, glad yall had a blast.
@johnhildenbrand2642Ай бұрын
Yeah, a fowling piece or military musket is pretty high on my agenda too, almost certainly to be a charleville if I go musket, but damn if that Bess isn't a beaut
@johndally7994 Жыл бұрын
Very cool video! Thanks
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thanks John.
@gijoe508 Жыл бұрын
Per the British drill manuals the brown bess bayonet lug was actually referred to as “the sight”
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks!!
@dowdawg Жыл бұрын
Looks like fun. We used to do stuff similar with buddies when I was younger.
@FlintlockOperator Жыл бұрын
Fantastic work! Love to see those military muskets be pushed to their capabilities.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
It's a lot of fun!!
@Flyingcircustailwheel Жыл бұрын
After learning on the bess, the charleville felt like a huge upgrade 😂
@johnnottahcal572511 ай бұрын
Oh man. I missed out on a postal shoot. I have my Charleville up and running. She sure can bust up my cheek bone.
@JCP1152P8 ай бұрын
I have a Pedersoli 1777, great fun. Way more fun than cartridge guns. I blame all my misses on the smooth bore.
@robertlittle7407 Жыл бұрын
Cool man cool
@user-ts1fp4nm9yАй бұрын
Think about how stressful it would be if a whole lot of people were shooting back at you!!! Great video!!!
@johnhildenbrand2642Ай бұрын
Getting shot at sucks, and its gotten even worse as weapons have advanced
@jimbo3615 Жыл бұрын
I love these videos! My son was home from school (linemen school🙂 ) this week and I would have loved to do this with him. I’ll do it in May when he hets home and will send you the video. Maybe you can start a subscriber series…. Of course we’ll have nicer weather in May and real sights! Lol!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thank him for being a lineman for me! Please do it! I’d love to see how much fun you’d have
@earlshaner4441 Жыл бұрын
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY brother and everyone else
@davefellhoelter1343 Жыл бұрын
your paper cartriges look Much Like Mine! keeping safety in mind I developed a paper load with the pan powder of chioce last or first? in the tail as a pimer charge pocket. I Must "Believe" our ancestors did much the same! sooner? Watching you and your friends Gets me to my Next Shoot! Thanks!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thanks Dave! Good thoughts on the primer pocket!
@Real11BangBang Жыл бұрын
Rocking the good old Charleville. I'm jealous. Mine is getting worked on right now. Otherwise I'd be running with it. Looks like I'm going to be using the pederesoli brown bess
@snappers_antique_firearms Жыл бұрын
That looked fun
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
You gotta try it!
@allenpippin3799 Жыл бұрын
That was awesome. I may have to take my pedersoli brown bess to the range and try this.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Please do!
@swamprat9018 Жыл бұрын
Barry has the slowest velocity I have ever seen out of a muzzle loader. the 22 second flight time over 50 yards on his second shot was amazing. LOL Probably the reason he shot low.
@Schlachtschule Жыл бұрын
A great showing guys, it looked fun. Of course, if you and Barry were really cool, you'd have done it on snowshoes while wearing a full kit like Rob did... ;-) Still, kudos for doing it at all and getting some hits.
@bgeipel Жыл бұрын
I can only bow down to Rob.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Rob clears the wild timber for us mere peons!
@frontierpatriot Жыл бұрын
Looks like fun! :) POW POW!!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
You gotta try it Ron!!
@Operator_Inquiries Жыл бұрын
I didn't know you were a fellow Ohioan, Good runs.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@galenhisler396 Жыл бұрын
I love it! Nice guns. I need one🤠
@micwell22475 ай бұрын
Can't wait till the come out with chewable/ edible flavored paper ...Mmm good. Shooting time means snack time
@felixd7818 Жыл бұрын
Love the channel. Hate to sound like the safety police, but please consider moving the priming horn further away while shooting prone.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thanks for keeping an eye out!
@Everythingblackpowder Жыл бұрын
This looks like a good time. I need to give it a try.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
I’d love to see it
@jessealvarado4319 Жыл бұрын
Another great video!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@northwoodstrapper8778 Жыл бұрын
Looks like a good time. I can’t wait until the snow melts to get the range open
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Hope it’s soon for you
@OdoyleRules24 Жыл бұрын
That's good shooting for a military musket and paper cartridges. I had to make a little sheet metal rear sight for my brown bess to even hit paper consistently!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Glad you got it working!!
@HDSME3 ай бұрын
I hate to think of how many soldiers rated there rifels and they went off!!!! Shooting the ram rod out because of hot embers after furling in a battle wow
@sailorjohnboy2325 Жыл бұрын
That looked like a lot of fun, except the snow part. I think I'm allergic to snow. LOL Something that's helped me tame my fowler is a laser boresight and watching a ridiculous amount of yt videos on aiming and fitting shotguns and shooting skeet. IMHO you have to aim these sight less muskets like shotguns. I replaced my flint with a piece of wood and dry fired with the laser boresight to look for my mistakes. Made a big difference. I also think your main charge is too light. I'd bump it up to 110 grains of 1.5f or 2f. YMMV Anyway, thank you for doing these videos.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Good idea on the dry fire practice and thank for the other tips too! Thank you!!
@squawk3120 Жыл бұрын
You’d make a fine member of the Armée révolutionnaire française! Looking forward to taking out my Charleville this spring for turkey season.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I hope to be up to snuff! What kind of load do you use for turkey? I’m hoping to do the same
@squawk3120 Жыл бұрын
@@ILoveMuzzleloading I’ve yet to go out and figure out a ratio yet. I have #5 shot and plan on starting out with a square load of 75 grains using flax wadding. You might beat me to it! If so, I’d like to see what you come up with :)
@StevenMMan Жыл бұрын
Having fun is what it is all about Mountain man
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Amen!
@rsengineering8 ай бұрын
Barry, your ball should have been a .715 or .720 if it is .75 cal. So basically like the undercaliber ball for the Ferguson which is a .65 and shot a .615 carbine ball. Of course, that was shot with a tallow/beeswax dip and you shoot with paper patching. Nathan shot a .66 out of a .69. I just think the Brown Bess Ball Size was way too small in order to compare accuracies. It was fun to watch that Barry kept his frizzen open while trying to fire. That will never go off.... And these two guns are probably a few of the only Pedersoli guns which actually have a correct flint breech and therefore work pretty well. I am still assuming that the springs are pretty terribly unbalanced in the lock which shortens the flint life???? How many shots do you get from a flint with these?
@TyrusPerises Жыл бұрын
I've been wondering how these two would stack up. In your opinion, is Pedersoli a pretty accurate representation of the gun?
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Pedersoli is as close as it gets in the mass market. For what I'm doing they are fine, but a lot of people have modified and 'fixed' theirs over the years by refinishing and even applying new hardware.
@TornadoCrewStormChasers11 ай бұрын
I am looking at getting a Rev military musket. Cant decide between the brown bess or the charleville. The charleville looks more military ish.
@terryqueen3233 Жыл бұрын
Hey Barry were you the cameraman for Steve walls?? If you weren't you sure do look like the cameraman that Steve walser's using just like him
@paulnelson4318 Жыл бұрын
How do you find out about this shoot, and how do you participate? Another great video!!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
It’s a free to shoot online match! More info here: www.riflechair.com/cabin-fever-challenge
@Bayan1905 Жыл бұрын
I wanted to do this, and then my range got buried under 3 feet of snow, you can't even walk to get there let alone set out a target.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Hope it clears up soon!
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Hope it clears up soon!
@rustyshackleford4728 Жыл бұрын
What brand is your charleville?
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
This is a Pedersoli
@rustyshackleford4728 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@louiscifer5438 Жыл бұрын
what hole!!!!
@kevinbietry7527 Жыл бұрын
You're doing it wrong aren't you if you don't use the supplied ram rod with the gun and return it before each shot. I mean you can argue Soldiers might have in the stress of battle forgotten to prime first and resorted to primming one way or another after the fact and modern shooters adhere to safety, but you can't argue against the ram rod.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
Thanks Kevin
@Rumblestrip Жыл бұрын
Nice shooting... Never let em see ya sweat though... 1:58 as per your timer, we heard that. Lol whispering doesnt help with a lapel mic lol. Well ya know what that showed me with your second run? You think too much. Knock it off lol your group was better the second time.
@ILoveMuzzleloading Жыл бұрын
LOL thanks man!! I do think too much, that's for sure. lol