What's wads ?

@@skyrok0645 A bit of paper or cloth you stuff in with the musket ball or bullet to help keep it in place and make sure it has a good seal against the barrel.

Looked like your hands were shaking which is unusual, is it cold or is that head setup really that hard to work with sometimes?

@@John.McMillan Like I said, vision of a naked mole rat. And no depth perception. It's frankly a terrible way to film, but it seems to give decent results.

@@TenaciousTrilobite The results certainly are good, I appreciate the lengths you go to provide top tier content.

you saying that people have used 13 different tools just to put the bullet in place?

@@justarandommalayboi8231 learn what an exaggeration is

@@kazimierzmalewicz3604 ik what it is, i'm just asking is all

@@kazimierzmalewicz3604 No need to be an asshole.

Imagine doing shit under pressure. And this was a huge leap forward compare to conventional muskets

This war lasted 4 years. Afghanistan was fought with tanks, aircraft, and fully automatic weapons. It lasted 20 years.

@@CDJCMstryker In Afganistan, just like Viet Nam, the idiots in D.C. kept the military's hands tied. If it had been allowed " total war" mose it would've been over in months with no Taliban left alive. Another waste of blood and treasure by the fool who are afraid to use the power available.

dz, wars from the medieval, victorian or musket wars in general?

I’m told they trained to three per minute and expected about two per minute in combat. They weren’t fishing stuff out of cargo shorts and they didn’t have a camera setup covering their eyes, though.

tbh alot of kills in the battle field were done with bayonets cuz they could get shot very easily if they reload in the middle of battle without cover

@@echstatistic 1% of the kills in the civil war were bayonets, they were not used often. While yes, they could get shot while reloading, they had trenches and cover.

@@plutoziummmmm And most importantly, hundreds of other infantrymen around them, sending big rifle slugs downrange!

@@hux2000 Yeah

I was on the forgotten third side of the battle fighting with the horseshoe crabs from the Potomac

@@TenaciousTrilobite i knew it!

Trilo is so old, he was literally at every conflict in history, he saw what Cain did. He knows why the dinos bit the dust

@@ZanXpeacemaker0989 Trilo was the rock Cain used to kill Abel with

@@Dyloaniusmonk trilo was the meteor that killed the dinos

I was getting subscribers faster than I knew what to do with them for a while there. There were actually a couple milestones I had planned out that I skipped because they were going to be back-to-back specials.

Gotta hit those algorithms son

They're like markers for how many subs he had on that day

He likes his subscribers

So

better than half a century earlier 'hol up bruh im reloading gimme 30 secs'

@@carrott36 not better than centuries earlier "hol up i dont actually have to reload as im just swinging a blade around"

@@carrott36 more like 15 seconds.

@@lefr33man nah, that's only the best soldiers usually. The fastest I've ever seen or heard it done was a guy saying he could get it in 9-13 seconds, and he managed 13 that time although I'm sure he can do 9. 20 seconds was the expected reload rate for the British Army, but in battlefield conditions for pretty much everyone it was often 30 seconds, at least for the less-drilled troops.

And the answer - "No problem, bro, take your time. I'm gonna go get a sandwich, you want something?"

I saw a guy at the range reloading his 1855 springfield in 13 seconds, so yeah this is pretty fast if you know what your doing.

Oh wow where do you live?

@@crezzyt Portugal .

@@rolha666 i didnt know portugal had strict gun laws, damn… im glad that i can own anything exept full autos. Germany is quite nice… i miss america sometimes tho

@@crezzyt Very strict, but at least we have low gun violence I guess .

@@rolha666 we have had 8 shootings since 1970 here in germany so i dont think guns are the problem ;) And we can own pretty much like people in the US

Did you mean 0.5 round per minute?

At that stage you use your flintlock or your bayonet and pray.

Load was 65 grains of FFG

@@kirktrof Correct, that was the original military load. I was referring to the load used by PH's on Elephants.

It's because I really can't see anything with the camera setup covering my eyes. I get a blurry view of my phone screen a few inches from my face and no depth perception, so I have to feel around for things.

@@TenaciousTrilobite oh right, I forgot about that rig you had set up on your head. That makes a lot of sense, as you are seeing through a screen for vision.

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Except that most Civil War soldiers didn't have sidearms (other than their bayonet, which was useless from a distance). They just had to hope not to die. Must've been freaking terrifying.

Might sound cowardly, but I prefer my life, I'd actually run if I somehow got into that type of situation

Bingo

My phone, some goggles, and some rubber bands

@@TenaciousTrilobite that sounds like alot of trouble instead of buying a camera but I applaud you for the effort

100?

@@andria6838 you can’t read?

Most of the guns I have done for this channel have been from the World Wars. This is one of the few that wasn't

@@TenaciousTrilobite Can you do some new guns like Snpier Rifles

@@justingill8781 I'll do a few at some point, but I don't have many of them on hand. Many of the most well known ones from video games and movies are far too expensive for me to be able to afford.

@@TenaciousTrilobite Do some handguns then

@@TenaciousTrilobite واقعا از ویدئو های شما لذت میبرم 🌹

That was a thing that was done, they're called paper cartridges but ig he just decided not to use them here. They were used in pistols, rifles, and very interestingly needlefire rifles before the invention of the metallic cartridge

@@JosephStalin1941 He was technically using paper cartridges in the video. Just not one that goes into the gun

The Chassepott rifle of 1866 did that, also, the Dreyse Needle gun of the 1840's. Biggest problem with both guns is obturation: how to keep those gases produced from the BP detonation from going back at the shooter's face every time they fire. That issue wouldn't be sold until reliable methods of making brass casings were made in the 1870's...

Couldn't air just get in through the .58 inch hole sticking out of it?

In most European countries, that's legitimately their only option. Modern hunting rifles and shotguns needs to be registered to a hunting club and be in use for hunting at a bare minimum time per year before they can get a license. Muskets fall outside that. Capandball is an amazing channel showing you how to hunt with a BP rifled musket or for birds, a fowling shotgun...

I previously did it at 1337 subscribers, so I went for 100x

This one was made in 1864, and actually it isn't mine. Most of the ones I film do belong to me, though. I have just been slowly accumulating them over the years as I find good deals.

@@TenaciousTrilobite thanks

It’s one of the most accurate rifles

When you’ve got 80,000 men shooting at each other while standing facing each other in a straight line! Most deaths though were due to Disease and poor sterile conditions in the field hospitals. Many died of sepsis and infections caused by poor sterile conditions.

Getting hit by the bullet this thing fires is a death sentence and is immediate. If you survive getting shot at with this thing... well, that is an almost guaranteed death sentence in of itself; if you didn't die from blood loss waiting for the surgeon to get to you after attending more than 100 patients before you, without painkillers, you would most certainly die of gangrene due to the dirty amputating instruments that wasn't sterilized before being used on you as sterilization and antiseptics wouldn't be mainstreat until the 1870's. Many injured soldiers would rather plead to their comrades to mercy kill them rather thanhave them face a slow and painful death from the hands of an Army doctor. The biggest cause of deaths in the US Civil War wasn't combat but diseases incurred between combat and the primitive medical science that tried to save the injured but oftentimes accelerated their deaths. If you ever been to a Boy Scout Jamboree, chances are you have heard of their sanitation practices in place at camp. Civil War military camps are like that... minus the sanitation and cleanliness. If you're not vaccinated for common diseases like chickenpox or smallpox or have on hand medicine to combat common diseases like cough or even wash your body or your utensils for eating, chances are you'd be incapacitated or worse killed due to the inadequate health facilities that are seldom available. It's this experience that led to the US Army establishing a sanitation department dedicated to the study of disease propagation and prevention, leading to such important studies as the cause of yellow fever and ways to combat it. The Civil War and the deplorable army camp conditions both sides suffer from is what pushed Clara Barton to establish the American Red Cross after the war...

Not too rare. They made about a million originally. The Allin conversions didn’t even come close to getting them all

In an auction

Basically yes

Unironically, that is an actual thing. Before self-contained rounds become commonplace, half an infantry soldier's time in training is trying to reload their guns the fastest. Some armies' solution to increase firepower is to forego learning how to reload faster and just storm the opposing line with bayonets...

Mostly just know by now. Or with the smokeless guns I can usually just figure it out. This particular rifle was my first direct experience with a caplock, so I had to look up the proper loading and cleaning processes.

I specifically don’t pull the hammer to be safe. The trigger will not drop the hammer when the hammer is in the half-cock position

I don't think the cap would be able to set it off. They did what you're describing with the smaller revolver cartridges, but those used much thinner combustible paper.

@@TenaciousTrilobite Ah, I see.

​@@TenaciousTrilobite Alright but what if you poured in the powder, but didn't unwrap the bullet before stuffing it in? Couldn't you save a bit of time during reloads that way?

@@Xamp1256 I’m not sure the minié ball would actually properly expand to engage the rifling if you did that.

@@Xamp1256 This worked for older, round musket balls, but these minié-balls are made to expand when fired, so they engage the rifling. Paper gets in the way.

The 1863 didn’t introduce the Allin system. That showed up with the Springfield 1865 and 1866, neither of which saw use in the Civil War. Are you having an AI write these or something?

I searching any info, but its not correct, so i give up, i only hope its all correct

Oh no, that would be a nightmare

That’s a percussion cap. This is technology from before primers and firing pins, so that cap is acting as “the primer”

@@TenaciousTrilobite cool thanks! So it basically ignites it?

@@Alkivo Yes, exactly

@@TenaciousTrilobite thanks again!

@@Alkivo I'd like to add, that the percussion cap was an improvement over the flintlock system since it works while wet, and is easier, safer and faster to use.