Grinding Mustard: Cannon Ammo in the Age of Sail

Grinding Mustard: Cannon Ammo in the Age of Sail | Pirate Weaponry

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As you might have noticed, this is my third video covering pirate artillery. Originally, it was all going to be one video - then I realized, I best make an instructional video on their handling. And the day before I published the previous one, I discovered some new information on the ammunition, and here we are.
Modern sources:
cindyvallar.com/LaBuse.html
www.britishtars.com/2019/02/l...
The Sea-Rover's Practice - Benerson Little
Pirates 1660-1730 - Angus Konstam
Period Sources:
Sea-Man's Grammar - John Smith
The Sea-Gunner - John Seller
Elements of War - Guillaume le Blond
An Universal Dictionary of the Maritime - William Falconer
Memoirs - Jean-Baptise Labat
Image sources
By Gaius Cornelius - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
0:00 Introduction
1:11 Wadding
3:44 Round shot and variants
6:03 Bar shot and variants
6:53 Chain shot and variants
8:31 Alternative materials
9:36 Canister and langrage
13:42 Grapeshot
15:13 Conclusion
16:02 Outro
#history #cannons #pirates #privateers #goldandgunpowder

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@rachdarastrix5251 11 ай бұрын

Stop blowing holes in my ship!

@theoutlander9564 11 ай бұрын

(In Shrek's voice)

@royzgaming441 11 ай бұрын

I believe they are called glory holes, you know, so the guy on the other side remembers you

@4rumani 11 ай бұрын

-🤓

@Poltard 11 ай бұрын

*Fucking make me landlubber!*

@victoriaevelyn3953 10 ай бұрын

Some buggers trying to poke holes in my ship

@jessesloan864 11 ай бұрын

"Only the most demented of savages would fire this random crap at you." You, sir, have a way with words! Recent subscriber, love your content.

@joearledge1 11 ай бұрын

If you're firing "buck and ball" or "ball and grape" or "ball and canister" shot, just make sure whichever projectile is lighter goes down the bore last(closest to the muzzle in the shot column), because, Sir Isaac Newton said some stuff....

@DJSockmonkeyMusic 11 ай бұрын

Something something momentum.

@bariscankaya6754 10 ай бұрын

something something barrel go boom

@matthiasjagdm3949 11 ай бұрын

5:48 cross bar shoot unlocked a memory... According to one of my history teachers they are a primitive form of shaped charge, they would fly into the haul of an ship get stuck on the out side and via a timing fuse it would explode on the side of the ship creating massive holes and sending more splinters into the ship. You can actually see the gun powder hole on the photo. They also used to damge land structures and to blow open large wooden fort doors to making an hole into the fort there you could fire all sorts of nasty shots into like mortars, explosive, burning and grape shots. Again this is according to my teachers. edit forgot to mention besides explosive they could also be filled with a material which was flammable and since the crossbar/ nail would sink into what ever you shoot it at it would be hard to remove and would basically become a long burning torch

@flyback_driver 11 ай бұрын

Wadding is still used even in modern weapons. Specifically, shotguns but it is all stored within the shell itself. If you ever fire a shotgun you can actually see the wadding fly like 50m or so it's kind of cool .

@suddenllybah 10 ай бұрын

shotguns, because they don't have rifling are a lot like age of sail cannons.

@IWontBuy-RP 10 ай бұрын

@@suddenllybahtrue and the types of ammo are basically everything a canon can shoot, but on a smaller scale

@Kyuschi 9 ай бұрын

shotguns are literally just the modern evolution of the musket

@alexsawa2956 11 ай бұрын

At 5:48 crossbow shot is introduced...where the ball has a spike cast through it. The ball appears to have a hole in it, so perhaps it was hollow and meant to be an explosive shell by loading hollow with powder and having a fuse to set it off. Perhaps the spike was meant to embed in the hull, a mast or a cabin wall and the shell would explode shortly after.

@tykjpelk 10 ай бұрын

It's clearly a armor piercing discarding sabot round.

@Immopimmo 11 ай бұрын

My favorite shot is the canister shot loaded with flint flakes. I expect they would've shred like a thousand flying knives, plus they were dirt cheap. Just take whatever's left after knapping your gun flints and load it in a canister and voila!

@thecreweofthefancy 11 ай бұрын

Our gunner just made a reproduction langrage round I'll definitely be filming next week. We are also getting a little too curious about how it would work and how best to set it up for a potential demonstration.

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

not standing in front of it is always a good setup, good luck and I look forward to seeing the results

@thecreweofthefancy 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder we got to see if our home site will let us. Haha.

@JamesThomas-gg6il 9 ай бұрын

Ask not for permission first, ask forgiveness after.

@mageillus 11 ай бұрын

The music has been fire lately! 🔥

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

a lot of YTers use this guy's music since it's royalty free, so it was hard to find something that fit my content and wasn't used so much by others

@AimlessSavant 11 ай бұрын

One could say the advantage of Bar Shot is the cost to construct it versus that of Chain shot.

@HeroClone99 11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for getting back to me, I'm sure as a content creator you don't have time to respond to every comment, this being my thought process and also being unsure if you were the kind of content creator who would answer new comments on past videos, i reposted it in the comments for this video. I am making my way through your videos(excluding shorts for the moment) in order of release. i am currently trying to finish the 1st Bartholomew Roberts video, and with the catchy music coupled with the fact that my medication that keeps me focused and all similar meds are part of a nationwide shortage, I'm having some trouble focusing on the info in said video rather than the music. lol. I was also unable to absorb any information from the 3-part special for the same reasons. however, i still intend on trying to listen to them, but will wait until i get more of my medication. Thanks again for getting back to me, Love your content and the goofy little background sounds add a little extra enjoyment to the videos, at least for me anyway. Cheers!

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

alright take care

@unknowntrooper_2791 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful detailed look into the topic. Cheers! 🏴‍☠️

@AwakenedAvocado 11 ай бұрын

As a human cannonball, i approve this video

@matthewwyman1581 4 ай бұрын

The silly cartoon sound effects always cause me to burst laughing because one moment this dude is talking about an island’s governor having his intestines cleaved out and the next moment it’s the wilhelm scream

@CurtisWebb-en5kh Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing.

@ravenb3048 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video as alyways, thank you for making it. The crazed cannister cannoneer! Sir Gideon Ofnir, the report-reading!

@skeletor6789 11 ай бұрын

I love this channel!!

@Chris-mt4yq 11 ай бұрын

5:15 This a very old, entirely false myth that is still said to be true about large bullets like .50bmg etc. If the cannon shot was dispering that much force into the air around it, it would only fly a couple hundred feet at most. I love your channel and videos!!!

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

Most curiously of all, were reports that men were wounded by artillery that didn't even hit them. Surgeon Ambroise Paré explained that during a 1545 military campaign, a peece of Ordinance... passed very neare one of them [two men on horseback], which threw them to the ground, and t'was thought the said Bullet had toucht him, which it did not at all, but onely the winde of the said Bullet in the midst of his coate, which went with such a force that all the outward part of the Thigh became blacke and blew[25] Ambroise Paré, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, 1649, p. 770 from: piratesurgeon.com/pages/surgeon_pages/foreign_object_wounds1.html

@vetocherish 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder it's much more likely that the near miss caused the horses to buck the riders off which caused their thigh injuries. You'd certainly feel the wind rushing past you and maybe attribute it to that. That account is from one of the first surgeons in history. He wouldn't exactly have all the information and evidence to know if it was a shockwave emitted from a near miss, and even then it reads as a second hand account told to him by one of the victims. It's evidence of people fearing or accepting that there's a shockwave but it's not evidence of such a thing existing.

@Chris-mt4yq 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder Interesting account. I wonder if there's a simple lack of perceiving the event correctly? Modern times have created accounts of soldiers saying a sniper missed his target by an inch but he still lost an arm etc, do you have a take on the matter? Thank for your reply and for your amazing videos man

@rachdarastrix5251 11 ай бұрын

Ha! 50 Butt Munching Gun? Meet MR 76 caliber rifled flintlock!

@joearledge1 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I've read several historical accounts of "the wind of the cannon ball" killing a man without obvious injuries. The physics doesn't add up. The mass, velocity, and size of the balls were all too low to even think about creating that kind of overpressure, especially in an open environment(field, deck, ect...). The theory of overpressure killing these men is one of the leading theories, mainly because the description of them is similar to modern men killed by the overpressure of an explosion(ruptures a lot of things in the body, without getting into a class on it). Another theory is that these were "grazing" hits. I'm not sold on that one either, but under just the right circumstances, it might be a possible explanation. Most likely, there are a variety of explanations, as not every account is perfectly identical.

@censusgary 11 ай бұрын

I’ve read that chain shot was used primarily against ships’ rigging. If you blast a hole in a sail, the sail still works (though less efficiently), but if you manage to cut the stays that hold up masts and yards, or the sheets (ropes) that control the sails, it becomes impossible to maneuver the ship at all. Of course, getting hit with a flying chain would also damage a human. But the chain would be unlikely to penetrate a ship’s hull. For that, you want round shot.

@zpy-nq7wv 11 ай бұрын

ALWAYS INFORMATIVE AND 👍 A SUPER ENTERTAINING STYLE ! THANK YOU SIR .

@MrTotalAhole 11 ай бұрын

What is so funny, is I was going to ask you to cover the different types of cannon shot. And I was going to reference Pirates of the Burning Sea (which I played), and ask if there really was stone shot or brass shot or star shot? Imagine my surprise.

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

brass shot I haven't heard of and I doubt it was used, since brass was much more expensive than lead or iron, which were the most common metal for cannonballs

@davidkermes376 11 ай бұрын

just for info purposes, mexican troops in the mexican-american war were said to use copper shot. no idea why.

@peterheinzo515 7 ай бұрын

binging this channel today :) thank you and the algorithm for matching us

@paulsteele8614 11 ай бұрын

Glad to see a new video i really enjoyed it,thanks for the effort of making it

@fattyMcGee97 11 ай бұрын

I suspect the advantage of bar shot was probably a lower production cost. It’ll cost less to cast a bullet that to cast 2 and chain them together

@ged1798 11 ай бұрын

Great video as always, always appreciate the good content

@mrsillywalk 10 ай бұрын

The weight of gunpowder required is extraordinary.

@crestcringlingcrungler1332 11 ай бұрын

Great video! Glad I was here for this one as I have been on a huge pirate rabbit whole lately and have watched nearly all your videos at this point. Hope you make a video recommending some good, and accurate, pirate media as my love of them first started with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and would love to play some or watch some actually accurate stuff. Love your vids and can't wait for more!

@scottmiller1297 11 ай бұрын

Amazing video . Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to research this to pass information along witch is what's it's all about.....

@ostrowulf 11 ай бұрын

Excellent and informative as always.

@hombreg1 11 ай бұрын

Fun fact, mitrailles sounds similar to the Spanish word for the "fragments" thaf would cause damage in a fragmentation grenade or shell. We call them metralla, and it refers to any small pieces that would break off from an initial exploding device or any fragments that are shot out after an impact. Say, if a hull was hit by round shot, the wooden splinters would also be called metralla.

@TheEddiefiend 11 ай бұрын

The word for that in english is Shrapnel

@SofaKingShit 11 ай бұрын

Wouldn't a gun that was almost horizontal or actually level still nonetheless occasionally point downwards due to the rocking action of the waves causing the boat to pitch up and down and thus wadding would be always needed to be placed after the bullet while shooting on anything like a rough sea?

@komiks42 10 ай бұрын

Yea, he just pointed it out that you CAN shoot it without the other wadding. Is it good idea to do it on the sea? No.

@crusader.survivor 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the instructional video! I'm Canadian and Canada is one of the most restrictive countries to acquire weapons. Therefore, I have to learn diy projects for homemade weaponry. I made a semi-functioning mini-cannon that I learned from an old Russian movie called Brat-2. The first one blew up in my face, and fortunately my face escaped injury. Since then, I've been diligently studying better ways to make an improvised mini-cannon. Your video is helping me, thank you!

@scinanisern9845 11 ай бұрын

I'd like to thank you for sharing what would otherwise be unnoticed nuances in the world of the Pirate Hoards. Scurvy, the fresh fruits the pirates had access to, the food and ships, strategies, dress, flags and lives clear issues I never actually dreamed existed in standard histories. We had two cannons but one cannon ball, which we could not fire because it was used to crush their mustard? Heh... I never suspected.

@TheRiverPirate13 11 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the video! Very informative mate! A little over a year ago we Pirates of St Augustine had an event at the local gun range firing cannon shot at mockup of a British warship. There were 2 cannon on carriages and 2 swivel cannon. The video is on my KZfaq channel if you're interested. Most of the pirates dressed in period correct garb for 18th Century for the event too. The cannon shot themselves ranged from 1 lb to 3 lbs. I slowed down the video footage in several scenes so you can see how shot travels through the air! It was so much fun! More interesting was that it was the 1st time since the American Civil War that cannons using gunpowder had fired actual shot in the city limits of St Augustine!

@insertyournamehere4328 11 ай бұрын

5:47 I can say this was the first Sub-Caliber Round in the history of gun… 17th century APCR

@theoutlander9564 11 ай бұрын

If I'm remembering correctly the Marine Corps got its nickname from The Tall leather collars they would wear to protect themselves from flying debris.

@centric3125 11 ай бұрын

Yes. Marines were issued leather jackets or overshirts with tall, stiffened collars that were good for stopping splinters and other small Shrapnel. They earned the nickname 'leathernecks' for this.

@maxgilbert18 11 ай бұрын

And cutlasses. Apparently one of the first US Navy and marine core battles, was fought with enemies who preferred to swing their cutlass at neck level. At least that's the rumor I've heard.

@DJSockmonkeyMusic 11 ай бұрын

I wanna see someone shoot a Gibson Les Paul Studio a distance of 50 meters into a Marshall 800 stack. Ammo that rocks, it's self evident that this needs to happen.

@VSO_Gun_Channel 10 ай бұрын

Hey man. I like the video and I found it very entertaining. However, the part at 5:18 is erroneous hearsay. I work in powder burning weapons professionally. There is no concussive force as a projectile passes by. I may make a lot of noise, but this has been demonstrated time and again to be fictitious. The best demonstration I have seen is a .50 BMG projectile fired through a house of cards by my friend Matt at Demo ranch. That projectile, while weighing less, would be traveling about 400% faster than round shot. KE=1/2mv^2. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out. Cheers

@BlorkTDork 11 ай бұрын

An important note would be the distinction between cannon and caronade

@bigblue6917 10 ай бұрын

The French navy in the 18th century preferred to use bar and chain shot because they wanted to dismast the enemy ships as it made it easier to capture them. The British used round shot to cause as much damage as well as killing or disabling the enemies crew making it easier to defeat them after boarding. Also the British Navy spent much more time at sea so were much better trained than the French who would spend more time in their barracks on land. Canister shot was also used on land, especially at cavalry, and was even used by the Australian Centurion tanks when fighting in Viet Nam. During one battle the Australian Centurion tanks had moved through a village and when they got to the other side the platoon commander ordered the tanks to fire canister into the tall grass in front of them. As it happened there were enemy troops hiding in the long grass ready to ambush the Australians when they turn away from the grass. The canister cause utter devastation to the ambushers.

@khvrasiel 10 ай бұрын

13:10 Cartouche is very common word in Russia, it was widely used in historical documents and literature. In russian languadge it sounded like "kartetch", and meant a canister shot filled with iron pieces, rocks or whatever you stuff in it.

@michael-so6bj 9 ай бұрын

*After every battle (sigh) "Start swabbin' the poop deck..."

@CosplayZine 11 ай бұрын

hmm it would seem to me that if you fired a chain shot at rigging it may just latch on around it at times. But if you fired it at sails it would usually tear through. The bar shot may have tore through rigging and sails. However one could imagine if they had some type of reason they wanted the bar to stay on the ship like having some sort of combustion in the bullet then they may want to use chain shot. Being that the bar shot would more than likely bounce off what it hit and not stay on the ship. Now it could have of course been whatever they had available but I think the physics may have came into play for their strategy in many cases.

@user-yc9wy3lv1y 10 ай бұрын

5:22 Damage from bullet flying nearby is common fudd lore myth. Its completely harmless for modern shells and I don't think that round cannonball aerodynamics were worse enough to create a shockwave

@Panzerram 10 ай бұрын

Wish that he could see this comment

@caledonianamerican41 11 ай бұрын

R.I.P. Mr. Bill 🤕

@AwesometownUSA 11 ай бұрын

3:45 so… shots were called bullets, and bullets were called shots? now I’ve heard _everything!_

@rachdarastrix5251 11 ай бұрын

What would be really useful is a plumbata designed to be fired from a musket. Due to aerodynamics it will have incredible range and acracy while the weight behind the tip guarantees it comes down on point. So using something similar to airplane sights you measure the trajectory to arch your shot. Enemies begin marching into standard range and are confused as to why darts are raining down on them from further than it.

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

this sort of weapon existed, will either cover it in a remade muskets video or the one on grenades

@rachdarastrix5251 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder Nice! 🧊

@JIMMORGAN-jx6ft 11 ай бұрын

I found this extremely interesting.

@mikemiller209 11 ай бұрын

When firing grape shot at a line you could eliminate 6 men wide 3 men deep from the battle field

@mandybutler8880 11 ай бұрын

New subscriber. I'm enjoying the technical side of piracy. Curious about navigation, how was it done?

@CoHigh 11 ай бұрын

Bad Dog!

@letiziaroselli9395 11 ай бұрын

Hey, I just discovered your channel and its super interesting! Could you do a video on how women were treated on pirate ships and what their role might have been? I‘m trying to write a book with one of the female character in that situation and i want it to be as accurate as possible, but i don‘t really trust the other sources I’ve found so far. You’re channel seems very reliable and i like how you explain these things in your videos. Thank you and have a great day1🫶🏻❤

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

I've summarized it in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n96Wo7N2p9q0l4U.html will make a full video at some point but no guarantee when it comes out

@letiziaroselli9395 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder thank you so much, I’ll check it out!🙏🏻

@joeerickson516 11 ай бұрын

"Arrgh!" 🏴‍☠️ ☠️ 🦜

@jcee2259 11 ай бұрын

I saw some shot by cannon of 3 pirate vessels attacking Monterey, California, before sacking the port facilities. California Missions had advance notice delivered by military horsemen and some choose to send choice comforts elsewhere. I found one such trove under 12 feet of seawater in 1976 . No, I did not despoil the site other than lay both my hands upon it.

@ImNotCreativeEnoughToMakeUser 11 ай бұрын

1:09 Sometimes, the wadding is consensed from two separate pieces on each side of the shot, to the shot being tightly wrapped in a large amount of cloth. This method is good for quick reloads in close combat. Edit: I am not referring to cartridges. I am giving a brief discription of an emergency quick loading method

@francescoparisi986 11 ай бұрын

Hi, could you please make a video about Henry Every (sorry if the name was wrong)and the Fancy? I love your videos

@drdiabeetus4419 6 ай бұрын

I can’t help but imagine that, given their propensity to fire random crap at people, pirates would naturally stumble upon the cartouche method out of sheer laziness. As for why it might not have been mentioned until later, there’s the possibility that it may have been something that was considered common knowledge and not worth writing down or something that was never really recorded by the people using it. Though obviously you have more info from the period sources than I

@SHDW-nf2ki 11 ай бұрын

I think the idea of the crossbar ball was to focus all the weight and force of the shot down to as small a point as possible, to better crack heavy armor.

@HeroClone99 11 ай бұрын

I mainly listen to your content rther than watch, as i become too distracted by the wonderful imagery you display in your videos. So therefore, by listening I gain more of the knowledge you provide. However, As integeal as music is as part of my life, i have a ver hard time focusing on the information you provide. I would never tell someone how to make content(as I have no clue how to do so myself...), but if you could possibly make the music i your videos... perhaps a wee bit less boisterous(I use ths term loosely, perhaps a more suitable word would be; flambouyant(Yes, I am aware i might've misspelled that, my attention span and brain isnt quite what it used to be.) it would be greatly appreciate. I pla on using much of the information you present in your content to inform myworlduilding decisions for a dnd pirate/sea roving campaign i am working on.

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

you're reposting a comment from one of my older videos, I don't know if you've actually watched my newer upload but you might notice that the audio quality is different and probably more to your liking

@speedandstyletony 11 ай бұрын

12:26 Oh no Mr Bill!

@SHDW-nf2ki 11 ай бұрын

I can't prove it, but I recall reading an account of a pirate ship where their situation was so dire they ended up tearing up their own shirts to use as wadding for the cannons.

@donaldhysa4836 10 ай бұрын

Actually it takes more energy and resources to make a round steel ball than to turn stone into a balls. The reason why steel balls were preferred is because they are in fact much more effective than stone balls because steel is more dense therefore delivers more energy into a target

@captainorion9756 10 ай бұрын

It’s almost as if Blackbeard deliberately set up his ship so that upon its wrecking, as much knowledge about their ways as possible. “Gentlemen. Ye must load the canister BEFORE the cannonball.” “But. . .aren’t we ditching the ship, cap’m?” “YAR ARE YE QUESTIONING ME ORDERS?!”

@absolutelydemonic 11 ай бұрын

"Pirates, merchants and *The Frenchmen*". Throughout the ages "The French" has always been and always will be a relatable inside joke. No matter to which century you travel, you can always make a joke about the French and people will laugh.

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

it's not even a joke lmao

@jameskelly7782 10 ай бұрын

Bar shot and chain shot were specific to rigging damage.

@theanarchonazbolinquisition 11 ай бұрын

The "bar shot" is just pirate gym equipment being used as makeshift ammunition...

@to45t48 9 ай бұрын

I have a question about these older guns/cannons that can also be seen in newer guns from the world wars. Why is the thickness of the piece thicker closer to the breach and thinner towards the muzzle?

@exerminator2000 10 ай бұрын

Nice channel 👍

@AssasinTurtle12_ 11 ай бұрын

The whole pressure wave causing injury thing is false. You'd feel a little air move but that's it.

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

@AssasinTurtle12_ 11 ай бұрын

@GoldandGunpowder I get that there are references, but that's not how the physics works. The reason the balls fly well is because they don't generate a big pressure wave. That'd be a massive energy cost kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kMhdmMeV1c-9qoE.html

@benoitgradel2080 11 ай бұрын

Mitraille would be more similar to shrapnel since it’s a type of « ammunition » in a way.

@Annathroy 11 ай бұрын

Hello, how do You search for sources? Also, are You from a Nordic country?

@RoninWolfos 11 ай бұрын

So what you’re saying is Pirates invented Dumbbells? 😮

@kyledavis828 11 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@mrbigtiki1035 4 ай бұрын

where did you find the music used in this vid?

@mamumonkan 11 ай бұрын

Ahoy there ... my father told me back in the 70s that the only pirate movie worth watching was a movie called " Herr der Sieben Meere" ... did anyone here ever come across that morsel ?

@dareethan4159 11 ай бұрын

What's your opinion on general sea and land battles in pirates of the caribbean (the fitst one)? It's my favorite movie

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

I'll tell you soon

@dareethan4159 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder hell yea

@MrAvidOutdoorsman 10 ай бұрын

Shiver me timbers!

@suddenllybah 10 ай бұрын

Ah, so bullet used to cover just shot in a general, explaining bullet bills, and sprue is a general "cast in mold term)

@Ijusthopeitsquick 11 ай бұрын

In French "grape" means bunch. The French word for grape is "raisin".

@johnathan651 11 ай бұрын

Could you please make a video on exploding cannonballs?

@Lvl100bidoof101 11 ай бұрын

Pirate philosophy

@desertlizard4723 11 ай бұрын

I believe bar vs chain comes down price per shot, i think solid bar shot was cheaper to cast/forge. I think you dont get the same spread as chain shot, which is more expensive to make, because you are forging each link especially in that era.

@kamilszadkowski8864 11 ай бұрын

Assuming that chain shot did actually spread. I saw some chain rounds fired from shotguns captured by slow-mow cameras and they don't really spread even after traveling a significant distance and don't really spin. Now, I don't know how comparable that is to an actual chain shot fired from a canon. The mass, the energies et cetera will be different, but I would love to see someone make an experiment and test it.

@velazquezarmouries 11 ай бұрын

Do we have any records of chain shot being used as an impromptu melee weapon

@bookofroger 11 ай бұрын

Clanker!

@centric3125 11 ай бұрын

I mean, isn't that what a Bola or Flail is? Yes, bolas usually have 3 balls to steady them and the flail technically has a handle, but I have a point, weapons enthusiasts!

@velazquezarmouries 11 ай бұрын

@@centric3125 i know it could be done but I wonder if it was recorded of someone doing that

@centric3125 11 ай бұрын

@velazquezarmouries I doubt it seriously. Chainshot is kinda noisy and I doubt seriously it's going to be extremely effective.

@tetrahedron9196 11 ай бұрын

When will you do a video on Barbados?

@0KiiLLa0 11 ай бұрын

A modern 50 bmg doesn't even ruffle a card house when shot between the cards. Why would a cannonballl maim if it misses?

@inquisitordonklas7928 10 ай бұрын

Basically, it’s all about size and mass. Due to the volume of air it replaces, and the wind of the air following behind it, the air is liable to deliver a massive amount of force to you, which can wound or even kill you, even if you’re not hit

@daviddavidson2357 10 ай бұрын

Mentioning pirates of the burning sea took me back. It was a half decent mmo a decade ago. Probably a cash grab now.

@rzu1474 11 ай бұрын

i wonder why pirates and "frenchmen" kept being meantioned together

@seanfoltz7645 10 ай бұрын

The reality likely is that both chain and bar shot were useless as people have been trying to recreate them with shotgun shells - so-called "bolo" shot - and more often than not, the first ball simply flies behind the second and does not spread out, spin or otherwise do anything remotely close to what was hoped it would do.

@giovannicervantes2053 11 ай бұрын

Imagine greek fire cannons

@centric3125 11 ай бұрын

I forgot about that. It's basically the ancestor to Napalm.

@giovannicervantes2053 11 ай бұрын

@@centric3125 fire off a cannonball that's been soaked in greek fire It'd probably warp the barrel

@joeerickson516 11 ай бұрын

"Flamethrowers?" 🔥

@giovannicervantes2053 11 ай бұрын

@@joeerickson516 no imagine a clay cannonball filled with napalm so more like an incendiary round

@martinwinther6013 11 ай бұрын

Eyepatches. Pretty much all boarding sailors would wear one, for that simple reason that we dont have electricity. If you pad one eye then youl have that eye ready for when you go below deck where you dont have to wait for your night-sight to kick in. You can just flip up the eyepatch up and you can see things in a matter of seconds after. Even below deck where the sun dont shine

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

they had lanterns below deck

@martinwinther6013 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder and you defo count on that as boardingparty, right?? cmon..

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

aha for boarding, where is your evidence that eyepatches were widely used for this purpose during the age of sail?

@martinwinther6013 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder lols - yaknow.. except from eyewitnesaccounts? or rather eyepatchaccounts? I iant got shit

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

I have not encountered any period illustrations, depictions, paintings, eyewitness dispositions, or written accounts, or modern mentions of such accounts, archaeological evidence or descriptions of archaeological evidence, proving that any group of people used eyepatches for this purpose before the US navy in WW2. "It makes sense" is not an argument. Modern hygiene makes sense to us. It doesn't in the 17th century

@minitntman1236 10 ай бұрын

Is this Canon to pirates?

@SA_Caine 11 ай бұрын

13:10, some Arabic countries call modern cartridges, particularly shotgun shells, khartoosh. Perhaps a result of french colonialism?

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

yeah, you'll find the word used in other languages aswell for cartridges or case shot

@SA_Caine 11 ай бұрын

@@GoldandGunpowder interesting, I just discovered your channel and I'm binge watching it, already shared it to some friends

@trvsfrnd 11 ай бұрын

The idea that a near miss from any projectile can cause internal bleeding, etc. has been proven false. If it's an explosive, yes, but there is actually low-pressure surrounding a projectile while it is in flight, so unless it touches you directly, no energy is transferred to you. The same myth existed for .50 BMG, something that travels nearly 3000 fps. Compare a cannonball going a top speed of about 1200 fps (if everything went perfectly for that shot), and you're not getting hurt from a projectile simply passing you without touching, no matter how close. Otherwise, a great video, and I definitely believe pirates would have reported this, but any injuries sustained after a near-miss were falsely correlated with it.

@Terrysberg 11 ай бұрын

So this might be irrelevant to the video topic, but fuck it. I’m trying to make a historically accurate pirate outfit for a game, if there’s an image or group of images online of historically accurate pirate outfits, where would be the most simple place to find said images?

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

see this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtJyoseQ1LGvgJc.html

@robstirling3173 11 ай бұрын

Not pronounced Sabot, but sabo as in sabotage ( French for Shoe)

@GoldandGunpowder 11 ай бұрын

ait ty

@CouchPotato524 11 ай бұрын

Do you think Sea of Thieves is accurate at all

@synthemagician4686 11 ай бұрын

I love SOT, but no, it's not really accurate.

@roulejj1342 11 ай бұрын

captain cooke was my great great great great grandfather and they ripped his book? lol that sucks

@brycep7093 11 ай бұрын

Sabot is pronounced saboe

@JRT140 11 ай бұрын

Mythbusters debunked the idea that the wood splinters from an impact were deadly. The splinters simply don't have enough mass.

@davidkermes376 11 ай бұрын

another one of their mistakes.

@leewilkinson6372 10 ай бұрын

They may not be directly deadly. But in an age when what we consider a relatively minor infection could spread like wildfire, I imagine any penetration of the skin was bad news....

@editedforprivacy207 11 ай бұрын

Ahhh the French, of course only they would be the ones to only keep a cannonball to grind mustard for their meal.

@jimmyh6579 10 ай бұрын

I have a hard time listening to someone about f1rearms with that british accent. Now if he sounded like a merican i could believe what was being said.

@leewilkinson6372 10 ай бұрын

Oh Fer crying out loud.....he's Scandinavian (most likely) my friend. And it's 'Murican. Cmon Jimmy, get your life together! 🤣

@jimmyh6579 10 ай бұрын

@leewilkinson6372 british or Scandinavian either way they dont have freedoms amirite? Gobbless brother.

@leewilkinson6372 10 ай бұрын

@@jimmyh6579 😆 ok. Got me there.

@Wo0dGlue 10 ай бұрын

@@jimmyh6579 he mentioned elsewhere as having military training and firearms license