He’s got that ‘ flock of seagulls’ thing going on. But then my beard is half a meter long so I shouldn’t really talk.

Schneider, from One Day At A Time

I had a similar experience with muzzle loaders. When I was a kid, my Dad and I did a fair amount of shooting. Even though we had all manner of revolvers, autoloading rifles, shotguns and pistols, I was surprised at how much fun it was to use a cap and ball muzzle loader. Especially me being around 10 or 11 at the time, it was always so fun to mag dump into the hillside, I almost begrudgingly learned how to load and operate the old .50 cal, but I was instantly hooked. Then my Dad got me a single shot pistol, and I'd cut open shotgun shells and use an extra wad to turn it into a little shotgun. When some people are bummed because they're limited to using muzzle loaders, either because of their local laws or their personal legal status, I always tell them that they certainly won't be lacking in the fun factor of recreational shooting.

"Yo ho ho and a bottle 🍾 of rum!" 🥃 🏴‍☠️ ☠️ 🦜

"Slow ⛛ to reload, 🔄 while the spanish,🇪🇸 pikemen has to protect their spanish, 🇪🇸 arquebusiers, italian, 🇮🇹 crossbowmen, and spanish, 🇪🇸 light🚦 bronze 🥉 cannon operators, before they get injured by the obsidian rock 🪨 bladed edge wooden swords ⚔ of the aztec jaguar 🐆 and eagle 🦅 warriors and captured by them for human sacrifice to their sun 🌞 god?"

"The big ones?" 1⃣ the Aztecs, Mayans, Mixtecs, Olmecs, Toltecs, Muisca, Zapotecs, and Incas are no match for them!" "One 1⃣ shot 🎯 and it's game over for them!" "Adios!" 🇪🇸 "I hope the hostile native american tribes will convert to christianity 💒 if they cooperate?" "Through subjugation by 🔫 gunpowder and metal lead ball ⚽ loaded lighted 🕯spanish,🇪🇸 matchlock arquebus and gunpowder iron cannonball loaded spanish,🇪🇸 bronze🥉 light 🚦 cannon, lighted with a matchstick?"🕯 "if they have silver 🥈 and gold?" 🥇 "for his royal 👑 majesty King 🤴Charles the fifth, of Toledo, Spain?" 🇪🇸

"Arrgh!" ☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🦜

I wonder can u shoot them in Ireland

Are you in Galway?

For real, way too somber. Weird tone.

Typical Irish history video you’d see when u visit museums here in Ireland

"Very Scary 😱 weapons 🔫 to the hostile native american tribes?" "They would think, 🤔💭 if the spanish 🇪🇸 conquistadors were some kind of God?" "Who would bring thunder ⚡ and lightning 🌩 down 👇 from the sky?" "Telling them that they must give up 👆 their pagan/heathen beliefs, rituals, and idol worship, 🛐 for conversion to christianity?" 💒

"The Golden age of piracy." 🏴‍☠️ ☠️ 🦜

"Nothing pleases 😌 King 🤴Charles the fifth of Spain 🇪🇸 more than, have the Aztec Emperor Montezuma and his successors out of the picture, 🖼 and replaced by Hernan Cortez and Montezuma's great temple torn down 👇 by light bronze 🥉 spanish 🇪🇸 cannon fire, 🔥 and replaced by a spanish 🇪🇸 cathedral?" 💒

"Prepare to walk🚶the plank ye landlubbers!" "Arrgh!" 🏴‍☠️ ☠️ 🦜

People don't realise just how large a caliber those old guns were. A lot of muskets and pistols around the Napolionic war period were .75 caliber, it would be like getting hit with a Billiard Ball.

Certainly when you're talking Brown Bess type flintlock and cap weapons you're in the era of higher quality powder with reliable ignition systems. Back in matchlock and aquebus days the coarser powder was more difficult to ignite so a finer grain was used for the primer. Fine grain would be used in sporting applications through the muzzle loader period and for very accurate rifle shooting up until the development of modern black powder which all burns brilliantly.

Crushing coarse powder into finer granules helps some firearms. And it's the same powder, just crushed smaller. I've seen this work perfectly in the pan charger.