Pete has been doing that demonstration at Fort George for probably close to a decade now. He's one of the best. I will admit to having stolen some of his better quips for my own demonstrations of the musket over the years (and yes, I have sought and received his blessing).

I clocked it at 13.75 seconds

True that I’m a civil war reenactor

@@atropiaveteran still can't keep up with Blood and Iron and other napoleonic games reload speeds

@@thegrandaviator8308 Tell me more about this? I don't know what the Blood & Iron is. Also, what are the other Napoleonic Games?

He was so into it like he came back from the past!

With no ball most likely.

@@markzimmerman7279 still rammed it down

@@markzimmerman7279 very impressive either way.

6 shots a minute is the highest on record, so for an average of 4.6~ shots a minute is pretty impressive. The British army for example were all expected to fire at the bare minimum 3 shots a minute, so his timing is definitely up there.

You must have visited when they used live ammo.

thanks to his higher ups, your brother wont

I think it was the translator

I love in Minnesota so I'll see about going some day! Our big fort as you probably know here is fort snelling, wich has a demonstration pretty similiar to this. Although I can't remember too clearly as it has been years sense I last went.

@@historyarmyproductions sucks for me I live in Illinois so not really any re-enactments. But we do have the largest ww1 re-enactment.

@@admiralackbar3615 The one here in Rockford? Ever been to WW2 Days? I try to go every year, makes my whole month.

Thank you. This is so nice comment for me!

ik why, u clicked this vid, means u are interested, school doesn't interest u well, sorry for bad englesssh

Huzzay*

Military style 100%

_"ilovemyjob ilovemyjob ilovemyjob..."_

He has nice military voice and moves. I wander... was he in military before?

Would not like to be there....

No veal but there was some fresh bread. :)

I like your comment very much.

Might be his brother. Right? :)

Thats what I was thinking the whole time

The popular 3 rounds a minute thing is generally the requirement of the army for full unit regimented line firing. Meaning all men, in the line should be good enough to allow for a group fire rate of 3 rounds a minute. When fire at will was called, then the 6 rounds a minute would be possible. The best soldiers like demonstrated here could reload in 9-12 seconds, if you were good, with a clean musket, and had a reliable 12 second reload rate, then you’d make 5 rounds a minute. This guy here said he’d manage it in 9-13 seconds so if you had a reload rate closer to 10 seconds. Then you could get 6.

this guy would get 5 in a minute. The fastest record was 6 rounds a minute. So in the Napoleonic Wars, average is 3 per minute, 4-5 for elite soldier (like this guy), and then 6 is very rare.

Did you do this at Fort George or Fort Niagara? Because you said the same thing on a Fort Niagara video, twice. Except one of those times was you talking about it happening at Fort George.

@@sirisaacbrock798 Fort George, i don't think the British flag would be flying on the other side. My mistake

He did say he was shooting a .68 caliber ball.....which is a little over 3x a .22, his description was fairly accurate

@@ISAFSoldier Yes, the bullet is .68 caliber, which is about 18mm and a quench but the bore of the musket usually is somewhere from .72 to .75 (the bore of the muskets of the time vary greatly). All in all, both bullet and bore are in the 18 to 19 mm area - not 1.42 mm. 1.42 mm is about .57 in inches. Believe me, I own two original muskets in .72 calibre as well as two reproduction .577 calibre 1853 pattern Enfield rifled muskets and - being a continental european (unlike the presenter here at Fort George) - I am used to measure in meters and centimeters.

... ps: at 10:45 he says, that the french used a .52 calibre ball out of a .59 calibre musket. Which is wrong again - it's a .62 calibre ball out of a .69 calibre musket (tranlsated into the metric system that would be somewhere in the 17 to 18 mm area for bullet and bore respectively) Apart from those minor errors in measurement the presentation is very good btw.

In colonial days black powder was called gunpowder because smokeless powder didn’t exist. Black powder was the only gun powder. So he is correct.

7:20 Did we even watch the same video? Besides, black powder IS gunpowder.

You are thinking of smokeless powder

Good for you for pointing out the mistake.

Who you hear in the background, is a french translator....

haven't heard anyone talking in the background except for the french translator

you're probably hearing the French translator

It’s a French translator

@@kinggeorgeiii7515 YOU'RE A FRENCH TRANSLATOR

That's a translator to a group touring that doesn't speak English

@@ISAFSoldier tell him to shut up