That hit with the smooth bore and the subsequent hysterics. Fantastic.
@MrEric_API3 жыл бұрын
A great representation of the quantum leap forward in 20 short years in firearm and cartridge development. Love the content.
@Derecq3 жыл бұрын
A fellow shooter once said "even a blind dog will find the ball once", in other words that was a lucky shot !
@ks-dn6oj3 жыл бұрын
You guys should be getting a lot more views and subscribers. We already know there is an audience for this kind of content if channels like Forgotten Weapons, InRange TV, capandball, Shadiversity, etc etc, are anything to go by. I'm going to guess people are just not aware of this channel's existence yet. I'm not sure how we can advertise this channel to those existing fanbases but I think that it needs to be done, as this content deserves to be seen.
@papercartridges67053 жыл бұрын
I don't mind a smaller following, it keeps this a fun hobby instead of something that begins to resemble work!
@knightman45743 жыл бұрын
It was fun watching you two reload, getting relistic there. 👌
@herbertarriola95643 жыл бұрын
Chris, I believed in you. That one shot woulda been the number on ‘ol Wilford. That was awesome!
@yorkshirejoinery28692 жыл бұрын
Reading the book, now to digest an entire KZfaq channel! Looking forward to this……..
@culloden233 жыл бұрын
I saw the original painting of The Thin Red Line in Scotland. Sent a chill through me
@KW-qq7nu3 жыл бұрын
Great book, great video, thanks, K.
@davefellhoelter13432 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dillon for the loan! Love this STUFF! OH! the Irony of that Shot! along came #2! AND Then Number THREE, Ho no FOUR, Opps 5, started to get Un Sportsman like, then like #7 or 70% to 10%
@keithhagler5023 жыл бұрын
These new percussion guns will never be popular.
@papercartridges67053 жыл бұрын
I know, right? Will never catch on.
@keithhagler5023 жыл бұрын
@@papercartridges6705 lol...I have plenty of them and just recently went back to flintlock, but I'll probably be back to percussion next year. Depends on what timeline I happen to be in...lol
@knightman45743 жыл бұрын
@@keithhagler502 both are fun, but i also think its a bit of the speed?.. when in flintlock brownbess.
@Syngekhoomei2 жыл бұрын
This is great when is the algorithm gonna pick it up
@papercartridges67052 жыл бұрын
The algorithm probably shoots smoothbores…
@jeffreyrobinson35553 жыл бұрын
I live a few miles from the Wilson Creek battlefield. This was in Aug 1861. The confederate army was little more the militia and the union poorly trained. Although the army was provided with rifled muskets much of the fighting took place at less then a hundred yards. I do think at such ranges a smooth bore flint lock could get off more shots and be as deadly at that range. In fact although Johnny Reb was armed with smoothbores and shot guns and own hunting guns near equal armies and Blue bellies had superior ground the confederates were able to get a victory.
@jonahtaivalkoski3229 ай бұрын
Makes sense, given how common buck and ball loads where.
@lawrencestanley89892 жыл бұрын
Very interesting... So have you conducted any tests that would demonstrate the kind of damage inflicted between that of a round ball -vs- a Pritchett bullet at that distance? Maybe something along the line of a meat target similar to Paul Harrell's usual setup?
@papercartridges67052 жыл бұрын
They would both be pretty bad but the rifle bullet would have considerably more energy because it is so much heavier.
@lawrencestanley89892 жыл бұрын
@@papercartridges6705 I agree. Still be pretty cool to see though!
@johnfisk8113 жыл бұрын
Bravo Brett. If only that book were available on Amazon at $11.95. Oh. It is..... Buy it gentle viewers. Well underpriced in my opinion. Why the double ramrod thumps on the Pattern 1853? That surely should be on the Pattern 1839 which does need 'two sharp raps' to set the paper case into a sabot. Or maybe not given the hit it made at beyond 'musket shot' (@300 yards) range.
@papercartridges67053 жыл бұрын
It goes against good advice, but I really like to seat the bullet firmly and possibly expand it slightly. It gives me good results. The Platoon Exercise with the P/53 called for two firm taps, I give it two hard raps. For precision work, this will lead to crushed/compressed powder and bad groups. It's probably a bad habit I need to break, frankly. I've been doing it since I was shooting the old thick skirt N.O.E. bullets.
@tigerkrag3 жыл бұрын
Well... Apparently I've been loading my rifled musket wrong
@questofknowledge878810 ай бұрын
What is the effect of firing minie projectiles from a smooth bore? The projectile should self-stabalize shouldn't it?
@MrWeezy3123 жыл бұрын
You fellas in the high desert huh maybe I'll see you at the range someday:)
@GizmoDuck_18603 жыл бұрын
Can you guys change to a Figure-11, man-sized target for a future video. That'll be an interesting test
@libertyboy27439 ай бұрын
I hope you’re doing well, I had a question how do you sight in an 1853 Enfield pattern rifle. Does the rear sight base move left or right to obtain windage adjustment? My rifle groups about 3” groups at 200 yards. Just wondering if it could be adjusted. Any help will be greatly appreciated thanks.🫡🤔
@papercartridges67058 ай бұрын
Can’t remember if I answered this somewhere else. The rear sight on military Enfields is fixed with no adjustment allowed for windage.
@narutorasbat3 жыл бұрын
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you tried shooting a Pritchett Bullet out of a smoothbore? I've seen plenty of people coming up with theories and math about how using a Minie Ball would be either "better but not by much" to "absolute failure".
@papercartridges67053 жыл бұрын
Without a gyroscopic spin along its axis, a Pritchett or any other elongated bullet would immediately tumble when it leaves the muzzle. The spinning motion it takes from the rifling keeps it stabilized on its axis.
@narutorasbat3 жыл бұрын
@@papercartridges6705 Yeah, I figured something like that, but considering how innacurate a smoothbore already is, would the difference be felt? How innacurate would it be compared to a regular musket ball?
@papercartridges67053 жыл бұрын
@@narutorasbat Probably less accurate since a Pritchett weighs about twice as much, so it would drop a lot faster. Sure wouldn't want to get hit by one, though.
@mattefinnish8411 Жыл бұрын
A "predecessor" is something that comes before, not after.
@papercartridges6705 Жыл бұрын
My sincerest contrafibularities for catching this. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
@user-ho4nw5sf3w Жыл бұрын
The smooth bore musket was the most advanced assault weapon of it's time. It was easier to reload than a rifled barrel,It was as accurate rifle at 70 yards,fighting range. When the constitution was written the founding fathers were well aware of assault weapons
@GizmoDuck_18603 жыл бұрын
Looks like a trained shot could still harass an enemy column at 300 metres with a smoothbore. Kinda cool.
@1337penguinman2 жыл бұрын
It's small caliber artillery at that point. Which, when massed, could be potentially effective. But a rifled musket is still leaps and bounds more effective.
@shericontrary25353 ай бұрын
you need a UV sunbrella
@davefellhoelter13432 жыл бұрын
CHEERSE MATE! As an American I think I'll do a Beer with a Whiskey Backer?
@gemmeliusgrammaticus25093 жыл бұрын
whereabouts are you guys located at?
@ironmatic12 жыл бұрын
What is your outro music?
@papercartridges67052 жыл бұрын
March of the Bowmen
@justinbailey55903 жыл бұрын
Where do you get some of your wonderful toys
@TheMwarrior503 жыл бұрын
Tmw smoothbore hits the 400 yard target first e.e
@GREATRussia19903 жыл бұрын
Oh c'mone!!! British fought only a small Russian force in Crimea! Why they didn't stay there for at least 4 months!? Because 800 thousand Russian soldiers from the western borders will come to Criema to meet the British and French armies!
@HaNsWiDjAjA Жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? The Russians sued for peace and accepted the Allies' terms. Thats why the war ended.
@robertkalinic335 Жыл бұрын
Nobody said anything about how crimean war ended or who should do what, he was only talking about difference in effective range between smoothbore and rifled musket. If you are right or wrong is irrelevant in the first place and also why are you butthurt about war that happened almost two centuries ago?