To be fair, all things considered, thats a pretty simple way to make ammunition! i assume it must be harder to make arrows or bolts on campaign.

I don't know why but that's satisfying

That's pretty much the textbook way it was done, although there wasn't always water for having the balls dropped in on hand, sometimes it was just on a piece of soft cloth to prevent the ball from being deformed, because even though the ball is solid and hot, it can still be deformed if dropped on a hard surface. During the French & Indian War, Roger's Rangers under Major Robert Rogers, would carry ammunition loose because Rogers knew that in the climate like he was in, which included snow and cold temperatures, the paper cartridges could get damp and ruin the powder, and since he drew a lot of his men from Provincial soldiers, they would bring their own guns because the Crown paid a bounty, so his men would have their own weapons and not in the caliber of the British Brown Bess muskets, so he required his men to have 60 rounds on hand like the regular troops but not in cartridges but they had to make their own balls over a campfire. Normally most troops would be supplied their cartridges by an armorer in a fort or wherever guns were stored, here where I am in the northeast NY during the French & Indian War that would have been Albany and Fort Edward.

Awesome, this really helped me out with my project about flintlock weapons. Thanks!

The musket (the start of the rifle age) A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armour. By the mid-16th century, this type of musket went out of use as heavy armor declined, but the term musket continued as the name given for any hand held long gun until the mid-19th century. This style of musket was retired in the 19th century when rifled muskets (simply called rifles in modern terminology) became common as a result of cartridged breech-loading firearms introduced by Casimir Lefaucheux in 1835, the invention of the Minié ball by Claude-Étienne Minié in 1849, and the first reliable repeating rifle produced by Volcanic Repeating Arms in 1854. By the time that repeating rifles became common, they were known as simply "rifles", ending the era of the musket.

Great video, thank you!

If you want to see a real "authentic" video on lead ball ammo making, there's another old Aussie guy who works for a "living history" type outfit that does it over an open fire. Just search youtube for "Moulding Round Ball". Very extremely interesting and informative. No butane gas burners allowed. ;-)

Human balls....1700's lead 1800's STEEL 1900's wood now....jelly.

Wow

Honestly, I can see myself doing that for days on end 🤣 and then being the soldier with the most ammunition on the fields, of course I'd be slowed down quite a bit though🤣

60 cartridge huh how many could you fire before it had be cleaned

Was it dangerous to dedicate yourself to do this for a long time? You know, lead poisoning?

No need to drop it in water. Let them air cool.

how do you pronounce it mold or moald? plus what matterial is made from?

Isn't lead poisonous?

Great stuff, keep flying the flag of our Nations people and her History!

did he said i should give the round a few months to sit ?

*l e a d b a l l s*

Will this work with aluminum

What is that bullets called anyway?!?

can someone make an ASMR about this

bruhhhhhhhhhh

Musket balls anyone thinking wat I’m thinking about xD

Lol we had shot towers

Talk about make your round count Jesus

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