Last time I had a bit of a trouble to get in from the bouncer!😏

Yeah, and I hit people with my butt, from the bottom up.

Don't forget to have a tight grip on your butt when you go clubbing with your musket

@@joanignasi91 you don't need a grip on the butt. haven't you paid attention? it's much better to grab your barrel and swing the butt

This looks like "a tutorial video on how we should have won wars"

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Absolutely and I would imagine in very close fighting they would be a half decent weapon. A very effective shortish club. Shaped a bit like a knobkerrie it would certainly deliver a very harsh blow, especially to a skull. Powerful strikes from other directions could probably be effective too I imagine.

Even something significantly more recent, like mosin-nagant, did a hell of a job as a club. You could club to death a panther tank and it would still fire afterwards :)

The Scottish Highlander pistol in particular was very nasty in the melee

I tried my cap and ball revolver that way. It's really handy an I would not like to be clubbed with it. I think you can easly fracture a skull using this technique or at least knock someone out

@@firestorm165 They are usually rather small, so I don't see how.

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The idea was that they could dig defensive positions near Vladivostok and fight off the Germans outside Russian borders in Eastern Europe. That's why the rifle is so long.

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You have the carbine or the sniper? (I'm guessing the sniper, that thing is ridiculously long) Man I love a good mosin, the carbine sounds like you're firing an artillery piece.

Bayonets were actually rarely put on rifles. I think due to rules increased fragility iirc.

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@@RainerLP The name of the day is dependent on context.

ben Jovi I forget the book or episode but, Sharpe suggests it’s effective at giving a cavalryman a bad day.

*Napoleonic ;)

Did a lot of English Civil War Sealed Knot, clubbing muskets put a fair few of us in hospital and we were actively trying not to hurt each other.

Musketmen shouldn't be in melee, but it did happen, frequently against other musket units as they march fired into each other due to the terrible accuracy. Having had experience in C16th staged battles you'd be surprised at the amount of broken bones inflicted whilst actively trying not to hurt each other. The battles weren't to the death, but to the submission or rout and badly beaten is enough. Nobody was armoured past breast/back plate and helmet and that would be limited to pike and cavalry. Broken hands and arms are enough to disable an opponent and that's all you really need. Especially true if you're only holding up the front ranks so your own rear ranks can reload for the next volley or hold tight for an adjacent formation to fire into your opponents. Bayonets are better, but that's because spear handily beats club when in formation.

Bayonets ofren break. Sticking someone with a bayonet will ultimately kill them, it may not how ever stop them from trying to kill you back in that exact moment. A brass butt plate in the face puts your man down. Then you can safely stick them to make sure they stay down.

If you jabbed with the barrel, that would decrease surface area and increase pressure, so you are more likely to break the skin. Swinging gives more power because of angular momentum.

Striking with the muzzle is still a valid move in modern use of firearms at point-blank range. You have to stop thinking about it like a gun, and start thinking about it like a martial arts weapon that has the ability to fire a projectile. However, handguns that use the Browning style of delayed blowback action come out of battery when significant pressure is applied to the muzzle. That takes some of the energy back out of the hit, and momentarily makes the handgun unable to fire. Try to fire while out of battery, and you'll have a stoppage that needs to be cleared. A major consideration with muzzle strikes, is damaging the crown of the barrel at the muzzle. In ages past, when steel wasn't as great as it is now, it wouldn't have taken so much force to start deforming the crown or the barrel itself. In turn, the deformity could very easily become an obstruction, and the obstruction can cause a catastrophic detonation of the barrel during firing. Even if the deformity does not cause an obstruction, the accuracy of fire will be degraded. Deforming the crown or the barrel required a skilled gunsmith to repair, whereas a competent carpenter could make a functioning replacement stock. There were a lot more of the latter back then than the former, on top of military quality firearms being expensive in the first place. If you're going to risk damaging something on your musket or rifle, the stock is more expendable than the barrel. Even today, modifying or repairing the crown of a firearm needs to be done by an actual gunsmith. That's one advantage of a threaded barrel, nearly anyone can unscrew a damaged muzzle cap or device, and screw on a new one or a different kind altogether.

@@richard6133 You know what you are talking about mate. While everyone else is doing Larp speculations you highlighted an important weakness of a firearm. As a collector of antique firearms I see so many damaged barrel crowns that it makes me sad no joke. We use special ramrods to protect older muzzleloaders from wear or damage in that area

@@MrPanos2000 The Revolutionary War and the US Civil War greatly affected (and divided) the people who lived here, but very little battle was done here. Since there are houses and other buildings from both eras here that were preserved or have been restored, they attract the re-enactors of all kinds. They bring their fully functional replicas for demonstrations, and occasionally a family heirloom or other genuine artifact is brought to show people. Though I am not a re-enactor, I do enjoy going to see the history come alive, and to honor those who fought and fell from both sides in both wars. On the modern note, my first encounter with damaged firearms was in the Air Force towards the beginning of the GWOT. The Air Force has a maintenance philosophy of repairing equipment however possible to get it back up to the point of being at least serviceable, until it is absolutely impossible to repair it again. Our rifles in boot camp were M-16/A2's from the 1980s with the auto sears removed, and they had been beaten to Hell-and-gone over the decades. Among the damage, many of them had A2 birdcage flash hiders on them that had definitely been thrown muzzle-first into the ground at some point. _A lot._ I was lucky enough to have one that didn't have damaged sights. And some of the M9s I saw personnel actually carrying on duty had to be Desert Storm leftovers. Allegedly, one of the original AR-601 lower receivers from the rifles purchased by the Air Force in the late 1950s was reportedly seen _on duty_ in Iraq in 2004! They didn't say whether it was on a M-16 or a M-4, but the lower is the one part that is more or less unchanged after all this time. I actually do have an old rifle that is going to have to have its barrel cut down and threaded. It is a 1956 Mosin Nagant M44 out of the Budapest factory. It does not have matching serial numbers, and has already been sporterized. I picked it up many years ago for $75, I think. It is not accurate and the bullets are keyholing. The last several inches of rifling are definitely worn out, so I'm going to get it cut all the way down to the legal limit of 16 inches. Hopefully, that will correct it enough to stop the keyholing, so that it will be at least recreationally accurate and safe to put a muzzle device on it.

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I've heard that one issue (especially during WWI) with "throwing the point" was that if you missed, you were good as dead since the recovery would be too slow for you to get a second strike.

@@Schwarzvogel1 The point drops to the ground and the butt is lifted and the rifle is able to be used to parry. Against a sword this isn't great but isn't useless either. Also if you or they are on the attack, someone is moving forward and you have one strike, maybe two, during the pass in either case.

Matt has done a video on that subject. It's a Japanese practice that was borrowed. Effing big sword bayonet to give you a nagata.

Japanes bayonet fighting was exactly that. Purposely taught. IIRC by the same man who developed Judo.

It isn't as handy as you would think. The armies that issue rifles that "provide a usable platform for the bayonet and butt style of fighting" tend to be those which are too poor to afford more modern, compact, and lightweight rifles, or are beaten by armies with more modern and lightweight rifles. Also, the standard barrel length on the M4 Carbine is 14.5". The 10" barrels are on more compact models like the Mk 18 typically issued to special forces, not general infantry. Also consider that a large number of countries issue bullpup rifles like the L85A1, which are even shorter in overall length than an M4 Carbine. And yet, there was a case of a British soldier in Afghanistan successfully using his issued bayonet to repel the enemy. A bigger concern with using modern rifles like these as clubs is that their stocks contain essential components for the functioning of the firearm. In the case of AR-pattern rifles, this would include the buffer tube and recoil springs. With a bullpup like the L85, the entire firing mechanism is in the stock.

It's all bollocks daggers, butts and penetration with this guy

It makes sense, if you think about it. No one thought of sticking blades on the prods of crossbows during the medieval period either, for good reason--the crossbowmen had other troops armed with melee weapons to protect them. Morevoer, prior to the 17th century, pike and shot was the way to go. The firearms of that era were not quite accurate or reliable enough to completely displace melee weapons, and if you have folks with 5 m. spears in the ranks with you, why would you want a bayonet? Anything that can get past those pikes is probably not something you'd want to be facing in melee with your ersatz spear!

Until then musketeers were very much skirmishers. Close in fighting was not their job, they were forced into on that day which then proved to a game changer.

StutleyConstable I haven’t watch that. Only the 2004 version.

The 2004 movie is very good but John Wayne's is a classic. It's almost a swashbuckler with the humor and action combination.

Prefer the one with Fess Parker

then you are doing it wrong. you should feel like a seal clubbing Norweigan :)

@@exploatores Nah clubbing seals is Canada's thing. On an unrelated note, would you like to buy a soft fur lining for your parka hood? Sustainably and humanely harvested from overpopulated animals, swearsy realsies.

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A British soldier of the Napoleonic era would have had hands like sandpaper.