Ian: "This is a flintlock rifle." Me: That is the oddest flintlock i have ever seen, but ok.

As someone who knows little about both firearms and manufacturing, one of the most interesting things I've learnt from this channel is the difficulty in going from a completed prototype to successful mass manufacture.

I wish he had mentioned the caliber. Original pattern 1841 Mississippi rifles were 54 cal. But most were bored out to 58 cal. for issue during the war between the states. From the looks of it , it may be 58. But hard to tell from the quick glimpse afforded by the camera. BTW for those not in the know, that is a percussion and not a flint ignition system. Ian’s mind must have been overloaded by handling to many different old rifles this day. What a problem to have. Thanks for the vid.

The carving in the stock actually looks nicely done.

You go to an out of the way gun show, there is a rifle with no providence, but is obviously old. Nobody at the gun show can tell you anything about the rifle, other than it appears to be old. You fortunately, get ahold of Ian and show him the rifle, he immediately tells you what it appears to be, and that there are only six know copies in the World with two subtypes, then Ian reaches around the back and pull out an authentic version of each subtype and walks you through which version your new purchase belongs to. To you, this is a once in a lifetime moment. For Ian, it's a day that ends in Y.

I live close to Columbus, GA and the history of its relevance to the American Civil War is awesome. They still produce firearms there as well, HK has a production facility in town.

Who ever does the closed captioning is very good. They changed flintlock to “percussion”lock.

Ah the old armory vs arsenal vs ordinance trick to confuse people regarding a commercial vs government endeavor... Rock Island has entered the chat.

I have a .58 Euroarms repro. of this carbine that is very accurate with patch and round ball. I have won several 1st place prizes at my clubs Turkey matches over the years.

One of the things a lot of the games I play get right is; making one gun is not so hard, mass producing inexpensive firearms is really hard. Good video!

5:34 and 1 minute going forward is a really strong delivery and a solid bit of information. Well done. Congrats

Confederate Calvary, especially partisan rangers like Mosby's, learned early on single shot carbines were worthless in a firefight. Most carried 4-6, 6 shot revolvers.

Honestly, I've missed Ian talking about old/obscure guns from before 1900 :)

Given how information is lost over time I'm glad we still have what we do of 19th century US history.

Flintlock? Must be a hell of a conversion then.

Just amazing that there are only 3 of these known to exist. It would be very interesting to know the back story on those 3 rifles and where they came from. Who had one in their closet, maybe passed down through the family? Thanks again Ian, love the history. 🤝🤝🤝👍👍👍👍

Hey Ian at time stamp 3:02 you called it a “Flint Lock”. Might want to insert correction text in post editing. Love your videos bro!

What a beautiful piece of history.

Man, there were lots of carbine designs during the American Civil War.

At approximately the 3:25 to 3:30 mark: "Flintlock" Ian? Where does the "flint" go? Under the percussion cap? JUST messing around of course! Obviously he simply misspoke, as we all know Gun Jesus knows more than I ever will. Still, he may wish to do a quick edit, if even possible, for those watching who aren't familiar with firearms. Great stuff as always!

Ive really been getting into firearms technology from this time era, this is a great video to watch for me

Just FYI The state would have given $45,000 for 1200 guns. Translated into modern currency (calculating for inflation) means the gun manufacturer was paid over $1.9 Million. That's a lot of money to not fulfill the contract.

"They bought a sword factory, and thus began making rifles"

Confederate guns are my favourite! Ian's slowly getting through all the civil war carbines. I really hope a Tarpley video gets made some day. They're rare as hens teeth but I'll keep hoping!

No way. I had the opportunity to buy one of these at a yard sale a couple of years back. If I would’ve known these were so rare I would’ve bought it. 350 bucks. Fuck me.

Knowing how hard it was to procure all kinds of guns and not just guns but gear and ammo food and horses ect ect and then the added problems of setting these factories up from scratch its just mind blowing that the South hung on so long against the industrial North

A muzzle loading cavalry carbine....ugh.....I'm imagining pouring powder at a trot and caps bouncing out of my fingers at a gallop while branches whip me in the face. But I have an 11B bias.

Another "should have stuck to making wheel barrows" who got burned by trying to make guns, even simple guns. A fascinating bit of history.

I can't help notice the condition of the firearm and am concerned about it's condition slowly rusting away. such a rare piece needs conserving before it is no more. Please make sure this piece of history is around for at lest another one hundred years

Funny-looking "flintlock" Ian 😁

Hi I really enjoy your work,tiny correction,at 3.02 it’s obviously not a rock banger,,,flintlock…best regards from New Zealand.

I'm guessing that we won't see you on the range tomorrow with this one, Ian.

Thanks Ian I never really realized that there are so many different manufacturers of guns.

"The Columbus Arsenal was the official Arsenal in Columbus" Ah yes, the floor is made of floor.

Have you heard of the Confederate rifles of J.D. Nelson, a blacksmith, of Nelson, Georgia....I have heard there is one in one of the Museums in or near Atlanta....He was my wife's Great great grandfather....Jack L. Austin....

has ian done a story on that Gorgas guy? the Confederate war effort pretty much depended on his work. guns are of little use without powder and lead.

My mothers family are the Grays, they hail from South Carolina, and at least one ancestor fought for the Confederacy. So this video was a little surreal.

Always something new and fascinating from Ian.

Hey Ian, any chance of adding the projectile of each gun as a static display on screen? Its easy to just rattle of a series of numbers, but a pic is worth a thousand ------- 😉

Very cool, love all the civil war era firearms, keep it up!

My pops gave me a Mortimer black powder percussion shotgun the other day. Love learning about gun history :-)

Very interesting! I don't know much about this angle in the Civil War, so it's cool to hear about.

Thank you , Ian . 🐺

Fuck. Now I want to buy a sword factory.

we need some firing segments with repros after black powder firearms like you do with the smokeless guns, please

Some super wealthy person needs to remake firearms like these so they are never truely lost.

You know... Back before the war broke out, I used to be a saucier down in San Antonio.

It could be possible that some soldiers carved their initials into the buttstock of their rifle as a lucky charm,trusting in the weapon to keep them alive. The unending horror of war encouraged many schemes for attracting good luck.

At 3:01 you refer to the gun as a "flintlock", when it's very obviously cap. Just a heads up! Great video otherwise!

Very cool looking gun

Even today guns are hard to make. Ever gotten one that didn't work right out of the box? I have. For a simple mechanism there are a lot of things to go wrong. Back then and under the adverse circumstances in the Confederacy...I can see that there could be issues.

Who had better or worse arms procutement and or industry? The CSA or the Boers?

is that hickory? the rather pronounced ring-porousness that looks like the less porous surface areas are harder than walnut kinda looks like it to me.

Thanks for the lesson.

I live in Columbus! Hell yeah!

The South didn't need to manufacture rifles, they picked up new ones from running away from the battle yanks on the battlefield. True fact.

Thanks for this! BTW, did you intend to say flintlock? This is percussion. :-)

No range day with this one?

Anybody can make a firearm, but the chances of it firing TWICE are much lower than firing the 1st time. That 1st time firing has a 50/50 chance of also becoming a pipe bomb in some scenarios so just because you can make a firearm, doesn't mean you should.

Had the South enough factories to make weapons the was would for sure been longer and bloodlier but the North won. The had more water power with the steeoer river in the north that supplied the work power from all many of factories. Ware power eventually got replaced but steam power. Water powered hammers did most of the working hsmers and stamming to make the guns at sramp out pars.

While looking at your videos on odd pistols I realised many look like the odd pistols I remember from old Tintin illustrated books maybe Guns of Tintin by Herge would make an interesting video or even a book?

Take a shot every time Ian says making guns is hard.

Did he say "flint lock" ? He still knows more than me.

At 4:26 into the video It looks almost like a small "M" above "C" and "Y" after the rectangle (full stop ?) at the base of the large "W" on the stock ?

I think Ian misspoke when he said it is flintlock, he probably meant percussion cap.

maybe the confeds shouldn't have fought a war to keep their slaves since they seem to suck at war making.

Why did they go for flintlocks in the era of the percussion cap?

I think I saw one of these at the Georgia history museum.

Do you know if the factory was located on the site of the current AT+T building at 4th. Ave. and 13th. Street....Jack L. Austin....

Please ...please take this to the range.... N x

I'd like to see a comparison of "state of the art" guns, from 1800 to 1900, 1850 to 1950, etc. Geoff Who admires your collection.

Isn’t this percussion, not flintlock? Ian says flintlock at ~3:00

Remember kids: If your muzzleloader doesn't have sling swivels you're not tacticool

A lack of industrial base in the Confederacy?? Hmmm, that causes one to wonder why... :))

3:00 Uh, I think you meant percussion, not flintlock, Ian! :p

What a little Beauty!

Unusual for a flintlock design to have a cap nippple. s/

Am I crazy or did he flub and say it was a flintlock, when it's clearly a caplock?

Thank you for sharing!

No take out at the range tomorrow ? I wonder why :p

Awesome rifle! I love it.

At timestamp 3:02, Ian says that this is a "Mississippi pattern single shot flintlock muzzle loading rifle" while we are looking directly at a percussion cap assembly. Is something missing or did they change the weapon from flintlock to percussion cap at a later point in time?

Nice gun!

Judging by the shape of the lock, this could have been one of those conversion jobs.

3:00 "Flintlock"?

3:02 flintlock? 6:54 THAT'S better 😸

Ian, I'm under the impression that your camera kinda loses it the last months. Please, in the name of archival responsibility, maybe think about a new setup. Thank you sincerely.

Surprised the Confederates didn't create units of archers...

Looks like percussion cap to me.

Percussion cap not flintlock

Interesting......KZfaq didn't give me the notification you uploaded even though I have the bell. Kinda sus....

Did you say it is a flintlock? Looks like a caplock to me.

Thank you

@3:02 "flintlock"?

You mis-spoke at 3:01 and called it a flintlock

you say it's flintlock at 3:00

OLD GUNS

very cool. thanks

...flintlock..?

My old issued rifle.