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  • hahahahah i shot 3 shots from a musket in 20 seconds 

  • legal in UK?

  • @TalonMercenary so that's why americans handed their ass to them on a wooden plate then right?

  • @NatureManGuy ignorance just goes to show you how stupid you can sound on a daily basis...

  • This is quit impressive for an 18-19th century firearm. It would normally take forever to load and fire those muskets and you had to be pretty much at point blank range of your target in order to hit it. Three shots in 46 seconds is very fast for this type of gun.

  • wow, if he dispensed with the ramrod, which would often happen in the heat of battle, instead just thumping the musket on the ground to seat the ball, this guy could prolly fire 5 or six rounds a min. Amazing!

  • just powder popping out of the rifle....

  • Hi, I like your video. I have a request. I am making a Movie and would like to use some footage from your shooting. Could you please provide me a editable copy . Best would be in DV video that I could edit. Will be glad to send you the movie when it is done. Please respond to nakulchandra@Yahoo.com

  • If sharpe has taught me anything, he should have tappped the butt on the ground it works equally well as the ram rod.

  • I thought the last round was funny

  • thumbs up if you are watching this during the zombie apocalypse

  • that takes practice! check out my Mountain Adventures! Click on my name below.....

  • Well done mate. Could have waited another half sec on that last shot. But otherwise brilliant. Makes me want to practice now.

  • See that? my age of empires 3 redcoat... LOL jks...

  • watch out guys, we got Rambo here...

  • where can i buy one of these guns?

  • Do it like Sharpe does. Bite - pour - spit - tap - aim.

  • fuckin red coat

  • @Brewskies4u

    what do u mean fuckin red coat?!

  • @Brewskies4u Redcoats were the finest soldiers in the world. Stop with the jealousy

  • I love how he was a bit rushed on the last shot. Don't forget folks, there's usually a delay when you fire a muzzle loader!

  • The average British soldier could get off 3 rounds a minute in any weather condition.

  • Damn they have had cameras around longer than I thought.

  • the last shot was a fail

  • this is great and all but lets see if he can do this with someone firing back

  • @dave997 well if you consider the huge amount of time a soldier spent firing their weapon over and over again back then, it wouldn't be a big leap... after all if you do something enough your body takes over and your brain can switch off. Plus back then it wasn't accuracy, it was numbers.... so a SINGLE person firing back would be less of a threat than a battalion VS battalion session to the individual.

  • Am I the only one who wonders what it would be like to randomly show up at one of these old battles with a freaking chain-gun just in time to save the battle? "FOR THE UK!!"

  • why no ball??

  • @dookeVlogs See description

  • @blacktriangle sorry i will be sure to read that before complaining next time =/

  • @blacktriangle THEY DON'T WANNA KILL PEOPLE DUH!!

  • WOW!

    

  • So he is like the British Rambo of the Revolutionary War huh?

  • Still hard to believe this replaced the longbow lol. Longbow 18 arrows a minute (depending on skill) and musket 4 shots a minute if you're lucky.

  • @neonplain Because longbows required skill. You had to be trained from when you were born. With muskets, everyone could use them.

  • @Sharpeddd you didnt have to be trained since you were born, but id did take years of practice to perfect. You can teach someone to shoot a bow and arrow in a couple of weeks, but theyll be really insignificant in a battle, now those men that have trained for years would be extremely effective.

  • @neonplain It's a question of economics. The longbow was ballistically superior as weapon, the problem was a skilled archer needed a lifetime to train. Wheras musketeers needed only a couple of weeks. Plus arrows were hand crafted and required meticulous production methodes while musket balls were simply poured in molds, much faster and cheaper to produce. And finally muskets did have the edge in psychological warfare. The loud bang and smoke tended scare the opposition.

  • i bet chinese can do it faster

  • @Spandex08 nah cause they can't see as well

  • thats amazing!

  • oh yeah? well i can shoot 30 bullets with an m4 in under 5 seconds :P

  • That's mighty fine shootin Tex...

  • Very well done sir! i'd love to see this done with shot included, but i still reckon you'd make the 3 a minute!

  • It's too bad guns aren't still like this.

    Imagine a stand off between two gangstas who both missed their first shot at each other and then immediately start fumbling around reloading their guns while talking mad trash about each others mommas.

  • @K31TH3R that would be hilarious

  • @K31TH3R They'd probably stick their bayonets into each other's neck and torso.

  • @K31TH3R I laughed so hard at that comment. Thank you kind sir for making my day.

  • @K31TH3R At which point the one with the knife wins. :D

  • @K31TH3R I would even PAY to be able to see that!! xD

    I'd laugh hysterically all the time xD

  • @K31TH3R: That would make me LMAO!!

  • @K31TH3R It would have been even uglier- bayonets and musket butts to the head. Nasty nasty. A fan of the Swiss, eh?

  • @K31TH3R Bayonet after the first shot

  • @K31TH3R haHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  • Holy crap that's excellent !

  • He is fast but he is not loading a ball with each shot. If he was, the ram rod would not drop down in the barrel like that. It would probably take him about 5 more seconds per shot if he was actually loading a projectile.

  • @ericr91 don't know about that. These muskets were purposely designed to have very loose fitting caliber balls just for this purpose.

  • @ericr91 What stalker said

  • If Empire:Total war is to be believed, it takes a half hour just to ram the shot down the barrel.

  • @GermanConquistador08 Yeah, that always bugged me too.. even most mods don't change this, except for the civil war mod: those guys shoot like machine guns in comparison

  • Sharpe would be proud.

  • As much as I like this and applaud this man's ability, we must not get carried away. The real British regular infantry soldiers of this time depended on there discipline to survive. It is all fun and games for us lot to merely talk about the way to do it and/or how it should be done - but we are not stood there shoulder to shoulder with your friends and under enemy fire. We are not in danger at all. I would not discredit them. I actually reckon that they would be superb and fire 3-4 per minute.

  • No musket balls in the cartridge. Goes fast that way.  Still pretty quick. Try 3 shots on a target with live ammo in one minute and I'd be more impressed.

  • Was there musket balls in these shots or not?

  • what they don't show you is the powder blowing up in his face the 4th time he loads it.

  • that last one suprised the fuck out of him he thought misfire it thought otherwise

  • i want a musket a working one any pointers were to buy one

  • @kobra752 dixie gun works .com

  • yes an other f.. inglish cheating , it,s no bullet plus no accurate shooting

  • @monster1175 Do they teach proper English grammar where you live?

  • @lolnostanku I wasnt feeling good yesterday.. And shutup its called Youtube not Youtell... 0 vids lol

  • @monster1175 Ok, I understood the first part, but what were you talking about in your second sentence?

  • @lolnostanku you have like 0 videos and go around trolling people just because they cant spell well.

  • @monster1175 ...I haven't uploaded any videos, of course I don't have any views.

    And what was the youtube spelling thing about?

    Also, I wasn't trolling; it's just that your profile says you live in the US and - oh wait, you live in the US.

    That explains a lot of things.

  • @lolnostanku i agree people in the us are retards im not form u.s im from Argentina... I had to move

  • @monster1175 Either way, that explains it.

  • @lolnostanku then why are most Canadians ginger? why do their teeth look like shit? why do they ilke bacon? because they live in canada that explains it... See thts what ur basically saying makes no sence

  • @monster1175 I haven't said anything about Canada being better, I've suggested that America has a lower quality education system than Canada.

    And if you don't like bacon, that's too bad for you, more for me :D

  • @monster1175 i like bacon and i'm not from Canada

  • @MaraJade13243 thats not the point lol

  • but these are blanks the guy isnt useing balls just powder much harder to ram a ball and powder than just powder if he can do the same time with live ammo i would be impressed but i doubt he could

  • Very well done..In a real situation with stress and everything i guess a little slower..But, hey, he might even have been faster for all i know ;)

  • the trick that was used to fire 3 shots a minute was not to use the ramrod but to tap the musket at the butt on the ground so the ball settled, that gave you 2 seconds to aim and fire.

  • but the shot he was taking.. would they be accurate? of coures in a volley It would not matter too much... But think if he was in the 95th? that would be 3 dead blokes in 46 seconds.....

  • very cool

  • WOW!!!!

  • Interesting - and the soldiers marched forward with loaded muskets too on Half Cock, so he could have easily achieved 4, or maybe 5 shots a minute, if he started off loaded with Half Cock on.

  • The last shot failed... he almost burned his face, but still very impressive

  • I've read this is the case. Thanks for the demonstration.

  • It was not called the Mad Minute for nothing. In WW2, the British army could fire 30 rounds in 1 minute with their Lee Enfield 303's. Take into account, that the Enfield had a 10 round clip. Germans on the recieving end of the Mad Minute swore they were being shot at by machine guns.

  • it's short...

  • Haha there's a competition for everything. Impressive nonetheless.

  • FAIL!

  • Good I guess, but it looks like he doesn't allow for the rifle to go off on his third shot. He brings it down before it ignites the actual powder charge for the bullet.

  • @DBabyNinetyOne91 It's not a rifle, it's a musket!

  • No matter how many times I see this...all it does is give me aspirations to do 4 shots in 60 seconds.......I still have a while to go

  • where was HE when the british needed him? :p

  • @BrokenSp00n

    The British didnt need him. The British had entire battalions that could do what he did and most probably better. Theres a reason why the British empire was the largest in history ;).

  • @MrDeano324 correction the mongols had the largest empire ever britian is a close second

  • @MetalicaFan2007 No my friend. Think you need to do some reasurch. The British Empire is officially the largest of all time. Some facts... British Empire = -Max land area, 33.7 Million killometres. -% of world land mass, 22.63% -% of wold population under British rule, 458 million. Mongol Empire -Max land area, 24.0 Million Killometres -% of world land mass, 16.11% -Percentage of world population under Mongol rule, 110 Million. You need to check before you comment in future lol ;)
  • @MetalicaFan2007 Nope. The British Empire was the largest. The Mongel Empire is second.

  • @MrDeano324 Look 3 shots in 1 minute he did 3 shots in 45 sec Soooo he's above average :3

  • that guy is a PRO

  • 50 seconds actually

  • @jhvids99 I wonder where you learnt to COUNT!

  • @jhvids99 46 without intro

  • i read somewhere that very well trained soldiers could get off 3 shots in one minute. you sir, are impressive!

  • @HomicidalNun666 He wasnt aiming at anything, and nobody was shooting back. Big deal.

  • @SilverMoonAir

    Upload a video of YOU doing a better job.

    This was damn impressive and only someone with no knowledge of BP shooting, would say otherwise.

  • @qwiksquirrel I have no desire to upload a video 'doing a better job'. I made my point. Oh, and I don't need any 'knowledge of BP shooting', to have an opinion on this video. Muskets are pretty simple. Actually, I could learn to load and fire a musket that fast, maybe even faster. But, just like the guy in the video, I wouldn't be hitting anything but air, that of course is if I was loading a ball.

  • @HomicidalNun666 Actually, IIRC, three a minute was the standard. The very well trained could pull of four shots a minute.

  • @HomicidalNun666 That refers to aimed shots I believe.

  • You know, it is so funny watching you guys bickering amongst yourselves while your governments use this aggro and infighting as a pretext to generate more unnecessary fear and trembling amongst the citizenry to justify ever-increasing restrictions on law-abiding gun owners that have little to no effect on criminals. Forget the self-defense bit - the law must target the criminal element, not the law-abiding. Why don't we get back on the page and fight for that? Otherwise this is all academic.

  • bad comments on here be respectful to each other its only a video

  • fucking redcoats

  • i wish we still used these and i see theres no top comment, heres my shot... hi

  • @zombieunicorn1 You failed!

  • @zombieunicorn1 Seriously, why does everyone feel the need to ask for thumbs up? If we like your comment, we know what to do.

  • 50 Seconds U PEOPLE LIED!!!!

  • @LOLSeeker838 47 seconds...... the video started at 4 seconds and all 3 shots had been fired by 51 seconds

  • We are similar guns at our shooting range in Vienna. Here its called "Vorderladerschießen". skh-shooting.at

  • i counted 45 sec

  • He's great at reloading and all, but what good does it do to reload if you forget to aim?

  • @wwwTheHardDriverscom He's aiming as accurately as you need to (at the ranges muskets were used) (apart from the last misfire, obv.).

  • Epicness. But 46 seconds is the reason we have automatic weapons these days. I can guarentee i couldn't have reloaded it in a minute.

  • Anyone who makes bad remarks about other nations is arrogant, so stop spamming the comments with the America vs Britain crap, no one cares if you don't like the other country, so shut the hell up

  • Brits own, and anyone with a brain knows it...

    Always in our shadows, rest of the world ;)

  • @Sturmmann you have forgotten about the battle of rorkes drift 150 british soldiers against 4,000 zulus and we won so stick that up your arse,

  • @wafroguy

    at rorke's drift only a 1,000 zulus were comitted to the battle and only 300 lost their lives. In comparison to what the Voortreckers did years prior at the Battle of Blood river, the performance of 1st world infantry is pathetic.

  • @Sturmmann

    Rorke's Drift: 150 British vs 4000 Zulu.

    End result: for every 1 British dead, 20 Zulu dead.

    Mmm ... "pathetic" ... yes, you are.

  • @wafroguy Who cares? Today's Brits (welfare-spoiled punks rampaging in the streets and attacking defenseless old people in large groups) are a far cry from the Englishmen of 1879. Today's law-abiding Brits are so emasculated that they're not allowed to legally carry a pocketknife, much less own a firearm for defensive purposes... and they ACCEPT that!

    Rorke's drift might as well have been won by another country (Britain's probably going to be a Muslim sharia shithole by 2040!)

  • @bjggjb "Today's law-abiding Brits are so emasculated that they're not allowed to legally carry a pocketknife, much less own a firearm for defensive purposes... and they ACCEPT that!"

    True. I live in the UK, and there's definitely a weird kind of hoplophobia around. Even regular police officers aren't armed (and don't want to be). Every other industrialized country has figured out that police need firearms to protect themselves and the public (without waiting several minutes for armed backup).

  • @crapatev theres so many miss informed points with ur challos comment but i just want to say that if we haave armed police where needed in london for example, and i think its actually a good point that ppl dont want to carry guns nor need to. it shows what a mess ur country is in once people need to carry guns. and btw u can have rifles an shotguns in uk provided u dont have a criminal record or are insane as oppose to america where they hand guns out like snickers bars out of a share size bag

  • @swanyAJ Where I live (Western USA) I'd feel safer staggering around blind drunk on a Saturday night than I'd feel sober at noon in some parts of London. Pistols are commonly carried, and my state has a "stand your ground" law (i.e. no duty to retreat if accosted by an attacker, and you can legally use lethal force to defend yourself.) And our crime rate? It's in the TANK.

    In England, you can't use that shotgun for defense, even to save your life! ! Do so and it's prison time for you, my friend.

  • @bjggjb lol the funny thing is non british ppl make up like 10% of the uk population with like 3% muslims, much lower than america als i find i quite funny how most americans are decended from British poeple while smething like a quater of american think the world consists of america floating on a sea of mexican immigrants and all other countries are only an attempt to recreate america. fatest stupidest country in the world, i can picture u in a wi-fi access mcdonald getting angry at my comment

  • @swanyAJ Whatever you want to say about Americans being stupid, you have to admit that today's British subjects are not only disarmed, but going by your post I'd also say you're increasingly functionally ILLITERATE. ("Poeple"? "Fatest"? Your grammar is pretty creative also.)

    Am I getting angry? Nah. More like saddened.

  • @bjggjb I agree. I'm quite disappointed at the direction in which the country is heading. I'm British, by the way.

  • @sockschappercat Well, here's hoping that Brits like yourself take to the streets and start demanding your rights back (you had freer gun laws than America 100 years ago, and your violent crime rate was a small fraction of what it is today.) And the sooner you do, the better! Maybe your "yobs" and "yardies" would start showing decent people a bit more respect.

  • @bjggjb Unfortunately, the government seem to blame the weapon rather than the criminal. I'd at least like to see full-bore semi-autos and handguns come back, though.

  • @swanyAJ Been watching Zero Punctuation?

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  • ur juss butthurt cuz we won

  • I see you didnt both touch up on Somme or Gallipoli or even Isandlwanna

  • man, that must've been SO freaking frustrating on the battlefield

  • @crapatev

    this is true....

    british bombers at El Alamein and in Burma carpet bombed entire battalions.

    The Germans couldnt believe their eyes.

    In other cases, RAF attacked RN ships thinking they were German battle ships.

    RAF holds the record for most friendly fire plane on plane or friendly strafing missions in history.

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  • the USMC has no world equivalent. Only the Waffen SS came close to our effectiveness of the battlefield.

    Being compared to fucking british infantry that fled from France in 1940 at the sight of Waffen SS men is an insult.

    Being compared to brits = same people who retreated out of Basrah, Helmand and Singapore 42 and comparing them to people who took Marjah, Musa Qala, Mosul, Iwo Jima, Fallujah, Tarawa...... is also an insult.

    Battle of Tenaru = USMC quality

    Op Agreement = RMC quality

  • @Sturmmann

    The 5 pillars of U.S. military doctrine:

    1. Risk nothing.

    2. Always enjoy overwhelming numerical, logistical, and firepower superiority.

    3. Kill the enemy and civilians at *long* distance, using your overwhelming firepower.

    4. Doubts about your own safety? Use your overwhelming firepower to kill everything that moves, just in case.

    5. Feel free to kill your own allies and badmouth them. (If they started fighting before you, your later involvement was your "saving their asses".)

  • @crapatev

    Risk nothing? During these 2 wars, the risk was entirely ours.

    2. During the entire wars of the US revolution and war of 1812, the british army was numerically superior.

    3. True. We killed more british officers at Saratoga than the french did EVER.

    4. Remember the Somme? Overwhelm with mass infantry charge. Tell me how it ended.

    5. watch?v=tXDZ1csv9C0

    We never carpet bombed our own troops

  • @Sturmmann Interesting how lame and fatuous your response is to the "five pillars" - you aren't able to refute any of it. I guess the truth hurts, don't it, SS Bedwetterfuhrer?

  • @crapatev

    So we've concluded two things. The British love to gamble everything, overwhelm with firepower and only gain 10 km of territory at the Somme with 1 million casualties (dead and wounded)

    300,000 Turks kept over 1/2 million Brits and Frenchies out of the Ottoman Empire ON ONE BEACHHEAD!!!

    At Blanc Mont in 1918. 6th US Marines did in 3 hrs what you and 300,000 (dead french and british couldnt do in 3 yrs)

  • @Sturmmann FYI:

    * I'm not British, as such. That's why I don't refer to the British as "us" or "we".

    * I would never claim that British line regiments are "better" than the USMC. That would be silly, and that would be someone else speaking.

  • @crapatev

    Sangin 2011

    less than 1,000 US Marines accomplish what 60% of the royal marine commando corps couldnt do in 4 yrs.

    Pacify Sangin.

    in 2010, Southern Helmand river valley was taken back after being held by the taliban for nearly 4 yrs....after being surrendered to taliban control by OUTNUMBERED british infantry, paras and marines.

    Tell me again those 5 pillars?

  • @Sturmmann Not sure where you get your figures from. From your own head, perhaps? Like I said, they're not remotely credible unless you give their source and the context within which they were published.

    What is absolutely beyond doubt here is that you're not merely an anglophobic bigot, but a deeply sad and *obsessive* one - someone who lovingly mines and maintains a database of bogus data that have been manufactured and/or twisted to support a hate fetish against the Brits.

  • @crapatev

    You have yet to make an argument, all youre doing is ad hominem.

    I checked his claims on Gallipoli, Somme and the US revolutionary war. The figures check out, eventough the Somme casualty numbers are embellished.

  • @crapatev

    A simple wikipedia search reveals my sources.

    it is you that didnt refute an argument

  • @SSJewkiller "A simple wikipedia search reveals my sources."

    Bzzzzzt. Wrong, but thank you for playing. The speed with which you responded to my "five pillars of US military doctrine" with your own bogus statistics evidenced an immediate data-mining of your personal collection of anti-British propaganda. Not a "simple wikipedia search". Nice try tho'.

  • @SSJewkiller

    1. "During these 2 wars, the risk was entirely ours." A lie: The integrity of your nation and the safety of its people were never at risk because it was protected by an ocean on either side.

    2. Nope.

    3. British officers were generally pompous assholes, so good riddance.

    4. "Overwhelm with mass infantry charge." Which is the more overwhelming: slowly walking soldiers in broad daylight, or the machine guns which mowed them down like nine-pins? AKA "Lions led by donkeys"

  • @SSJewkiller Some basic stats about WW2 ...

    Total British deaths: ~450,000, incl. ~65,000 civilians

    Total US deaths: ~420,000, ~2,000 civilians

    Per capita mortality rates: UK 0.94, US 0.32 - i.e. UK three times higher than US

    'Yeah, maaaan, them fucken Brit "cowards".'

  • @crapatev

    Do you realize how an army suffers during a retreat or a streak of defeats. The years of 1939 through 1942 are marked by british and commonwealth retreats on nearly all fronts. N Africa was the only place they could hold till the US came in. Besides this, USA spearheaded a two front war, defeating the jap navy and the bulk of the jap army both in SE Asia and the Pacific. 1944= for every brit and canadian there was 3 Americans on the western front.

  • @SSJewkiller "1944= for every brit and canadian there was 3 Americans on the western front."

    Duh. The US had a population 3+ times that of the UK.

    Du bist ein SS Idiot, ja?

  • Great job... I'm not a big fan of the red coat... LOL... I'll stick with my AR15 for reloads... Thanks for taking the time to make this video... Great History...

  • it's not very efficient is it?

  • I want him on my team!

  • America should speak FRENCH!

  • VIVE L'EMPEREUR!

    P.S.

    Napoleon never died on St. Helena...the HEROIC American people rescued him right from under the noses of you cowardly, perfidious, idiotic Brits (in reality ruled by inbred GERMANS) and the Emperor enjoyed a HAPPY retirement and died in peace in GOD's country...AMERICA (New Orleans).

    Relax, while we invade Canada now...

    Sincerely,

    The Republican Party.

  • @EJ160E Didn't you try to invade Canada before with your army and were repelled by a militia? Yes, i distinctly remembering reading about that. And I remember British soldiers burning down the white house. Also all of your 'facts' are just pure and utter bullshit.

    p.s. I am not American hateing to other people reading this comment, just EJ160E hateing.

  • @TheSirPrise Err... Yes, all this happened during the 1812 War, actually...

  • @MCYoung1969 I know, I was implying it.

  • @TheSirPrise I thought so, but I was wondering whether @EJ160E would catch the point... :-)

    Greetings from Barcelona (Spain).

  • The French should've invaded and RAPED Britain...there sould NEVER have been the 2 world wars (England's fault)

    Sincerely,

    The United States of America (and forever friends of FRANCE & Continental Europe)