Another great video, Rob, and it was my pleasure to assist you with it! As with all your videos, the care you put into the presentation and your attention to detail is on full display. This latest instalment in your "drill" series is solid stuff and will be of great assistance to those wanting to learn more about the subject.

I admire the effort the sarge is putting in not bonking Mackenzie with his polearm.

Not only is this about military history and weaponry but there’s an emphasis on military drill and the manual of arms of the period which is unheard of unless you’re a member of a specific history club or reenactor. This is absolute gold as I’m a history geek and I’ve followed Rob for a long time just because of his content. The guy is a wealth of knowledge on something you hardly ever hear anything about. As always, excellent work sir 👌

Poor McKenzie...Never escapes the spuds. XD Also another fantastic video.

Love this

Poor MacKenzie can’t even go marching up and down the square without the sergeant jumping all over him.

I think we can all agree that Rob is the best thing to come out of Canada since Rush.

Hahaha like I said before.... best intro's ever! Complete with military haircut.

🥔🥔🥔🥔Potatoes🥔🥔🥔..... yes, he is back! Great “Green Screens” by the way..🤪

From one video drill interpreter to another - well done!!!

Mackenzie: are those potatoes?! Sergeant: 😈

I was a War of 1812 reenactor for years and this brings back lot of memories. When I was first learning the drill, I was surprised how much of the weapons drill was nearly identical to the Lee-Enfield drill that I had learned as a cadet.

I appreciate the effort you put into your content. Always informative!

I have been waiting for more ness stuff thank you 👏

Another Wonderful Video Rob. Great Detail.

A video like this explains so much more than a picture! Another great presentation. Thank you.

Another great video. Very well spoken and always concise and informative 👍

Thanks again, learn so much about my history from your videos

First one i bought, love that musket Thanks for tye vid Rob

Brilliantly executed. Well done.

Another excellent video. I've always been impressed with your weapon handling skills and dress and bearing.

This will certainly remain as the standard accessible reference for this period's drill regimen. Typically well demonstrated, and documented. Well done, once again, sir. Thank you.

I love your videos, always so interesting and educational, that I end up going to sleep an hour late

Great stuff BM.

It's really wonderful.Thank you very much for knowing a lot.😊😊😊

Great video!!!!

@BrandonF. You thought you where pedantic. @Britishmuzzleloaders this presentation is amazing

My ability to maintain focus may not suffice for this one, but it seems to be yet another very good video from you, so thank you for your continued efforts!

10:45 the Present Arms is exactly the same timing and manual I learned with my Mk4 Lee Enfield as a Cadet in the 1970s

This is fantastic, reminds me of our monthly drill sessions prior to Waterloo in 2015...! Nice to see myself on the field here too ;)

👍👍👍 Luckily the ceiling of the room is just high enough to do the drill (without bayonet). This year we could not do winter camp so the company (79th light) did not have proper training before the season started. This will be of great help .

Very cool! Interesting how I can see some of these movements still used in our D&C movements today. I just finished re-watching the Sharpe series too haha, cheers bud, great work!

Your neighbors must love you. I would.

I grew up on the country estate of the Dundas family in north Yorkshire. Aske near Richmond. This was fantastic.

Good morning from Syracuse NY USA brother and thank you for sharing this video which I just got my friend

All that mustache this early in the morning... that's how you know it's gonna be a good day!

Talking about going double quick. Reminds me of something I saw on sharpe. (I know not the best historical reference.) However, I couldn't help but notice that they had some sort of March where they would march for about five steps and then they would run for about five steps. Was this ever actually a thing?

1st rate video with my 2 big toes 4 very big thumbs up loved it

When at charge bayonet what is the position of the rear rank? I very much enjoy your video's, very informative!!!

Great video, but I am not sure that I agree with your comments on the use of the general use of the shortened version of "Attention" in the modern (British Army) the use of "Shun" (from my memories of the late 70s) was restricted to drill practise or informal parades,, When taking a recruit squad and doing the "At ease / Shun / At Ease/ Shun....." treatment then the command was "SHUN" so that the whole sequence could be compressed into a sequence that would result in confusion in the squad, but in any formal parade the full word was used with the "atten" part being drawn out (and serving as the warning order, that they were going to attention not stand easy) then the "Shun" part barked out to trigger the execution of the order.

Ahhh good old Fort George at the start. I was based there for, four years

If you had asked McKenzie about his Brown Bess he would think you meant that girl in the alehouse not his firelock.

I have the Gibbs African Hunter in cal 72, rifled barrel. At 120 m I am in the C50 target. The brown Bess is missing in my large caliber collection.

Good evening Rob, Enjoying the videos. Would you ever do the great war sniper training? No need for a scoped SMLE, just an idea.

Rob too what use was the sling made? None of the paintings I can remember ever show it being used, ether to carry or as a shooting aid.

The anachronisms of present day military drill. The “Pas Cadence” of the Foreign Legion is a hangover from the 18th century.

Just found your channel looks great! btw do you know of any good videos on stripping down a brown bess, I own one but am too scared to attept it without a good guide? Cheers

Once again making an otherwise somewhat dry subject informative and entertaining in your usual manner Rob 👍🍻. What do your neighbours think about your noisy gardening with that very thin trowel on the end of a long pole though? 🤔😂

11:14 I wonder if Rob has been asked by his neighbor about the bayonet poking above the fencline on occasion

Great work Rob! I was always wondering when the rifles were loaded? I assume that during drill times the rifles would have been unloaded, what about during marching, on guard etc?

Only just saw the notification, kicking myself for being nine days late.

So I have a question. I recently got a No.1 MKIII SMLE and this one does not have the star yet it has all the updates the MKIII star received. It is also all matching

I was watching 'The Pride and the passion'' based on the Peninsula war and watched as two sentries were jumped. I have always thought sentry duty especially at night in hostile circumstances one of the most difficult things for soldiers to do. In the army manuals were there procedures and methods to be used to help soldiers on sentry duty?

Hazzar hazzar hazzar You dapper top bloke I have a question for you before the period you have set these drills in Would this drill or is there a manual of arm for 17 40 / 50 period I recognise all the movements Keep up with the excellent informative quality content Bestest from Scotland 👍👍

I wonder if you have an bloopers on camera when a random stumbles on you filming in your “outfits” (as Othais refers to them)? That would be a funny sight.

I feel as though in going from advance arms to the shoulder the right hand's grip should be adjusted before moving the weapon across the body. Ok so basically the 1823 method...

Are the small of the stock & the wrist the same or slightly different positions?

The slow cadence for the movements is not something I had appreciated. Very well done.

Do you need larger lapels to help keep your priming powder dry?Culloden

I might have to buy/make me one of those plummets, be most useful in training of men of step.

I noticed the boots hard to tell under the gaiters but they look a bit like ammo boots. I thought the British army wore square toed shoes in this period. Tried a search but couldn't find anything.

17:27 I swear, if I didn't know beforehand that this was greenscreen, I would have assumed you had a twin brother.

Excellent, now get on the potato’s Makenzie !

Never mind about that brown Bess malarkey. How about getting your back garden sorted, it’s a right old state.

At 4:41 are they Royal Marines or East India company men

British muzzle loaders, would their be a command that would allow the men to use their riffle slings ?

How much do I have to give you on Patreon for Pvt. McKenzie to go full Gomer Pyle "Point Seven Five, Full Lead Round Ball"

You know he'll never get shot, what with all the potato peeling he has to do.

Two shillings in the early 1800's must have been very expensive, just who was it aimed at?

Isn't that skirt scottish correct me if im wrong.

Why was this called the India pattern?

Lance Corporal Jones would be proud.

Nurse I'm seeing double again 😮

Drill is a pill to be taken twice a day! I hated drill with a passion.

Classic Mackenzie.

Will MacKenzie ever learn? 🥔🥔🥔

So Kino So Based

My Irish ancestors were in the British army. Ta mate

Mackenzie on potatoes😅

Is Pte McKenzie the McAuslan of the 21st C?😂😂😂

tee hee he said butt

*_GOD SAVE THE KING!_*

Give Mckenzie a few extra lbs of potatoes

You need to work on the sinister laugh!

OMG the scenery is terrible, how do you live with yourself?

Arms Drill wearing equipment is a nuisance....a real skill. Unfix Bayonets is never a smart looking drill move.