The Pirate Trading Co. Flintlocks: Tools of The Sweet Trade

[MrGuitarNGuns]

I love all things pirate and truely believe I was one in a past life. Glad I stumbled across your channel

[LegoSplattface]

Awesome you guys are beast I wish I had all this for my Halloween pirate costume

[Bouzoukiellas]

how consistent are the locks on these guns?

What about the frizzen hardness?

[wallabing]

Is a FFL transfer needed?

[surfer911dood]

Dammit man, stop pointing all those pistols at the camera like that! lol

[Professsor]

Age of piracy? Piracy has been around as long as man has sailed the seas!

[ViolentEKG]

I like the play in the East India Trading Company symbol. Very nice.

[calorenveres]

Prices??

[PirateTradingCo]

Thanks for your interest. $325. for pistols plus shipping

[AntiGun111]

@PirateTradingCo are these real flintlocks? cause thats a pretty low price for an antique pistol

[onelasttitan]

too bad theres no piracy today...well besides online piracy.

[wolvenblacktalon1]

@onelasttitan or simalian pirates lol

[onelasttitan]

@wolvenblacktalon1 LOL !

[wolvenblacktalon1]

@onelasttitan lol i thought someone would like that one

[MrShamelessone]

@onelasttitan or indonesian pirates or laosian pirates or burmese pirates come to think of it theres lots of pirates in modern times

[gravedigr12]

you should dress up like jack sparrow

[PirateTradingCo]

@gravedigr12 Thanks I will...are you being funny? lol ...I am Jeff MacKay of Captain Jack's Pirate Hats, as well as The Pirate Trading Co. I used to be one of the first Captain Jack Impersonators back in 2003. You can see pix and vids of me around. Type in Captain Jacks pirate hats in the youtube search.

[gravedigr12]

@PirateTradingCo lol nah i just figured with the same music why not

[KeiPyn24]

Most of these were used past the age of piracy. Stock some doglocks, Dutch pistols, French and Spanish in order to portray an accurate persona. The golden era of piracy was between 1680-1720 *cir)

[PirateTradingCo]

@KeiPyn24 You did catch me saying Golden age of Pyracy and yes you are correct, in that respect. Though the majority of pirate reenactors, such as myself, portray pirate personas from more of the 1700-1770 period. And that is who my videos are marketed to. I would have to disagree that the age of piracy was past by 1720. Piracy continued on and flourished though the Seven years War and The American Revolution and these weapons were actively used for these purposes during that period.

[firebirdcas]

I got a question, when you hang your flintlock in your chestbelt, is it still ready to go, so no reloading because all of the powder fell out?

[PirateTradingCo]

@firebirdcas Not if the frizzen rests tight to the pan, the powder shouldn't fall out.

[MichaelIanHenry]

@firebirdcas the "chestbelt" is called a Baldric

[whowantsabighug]

Do you have a European reseller? It's just i've fallen in love with the Germanic Dragoon pistol.

[pilingswivel]

I would love a Murdoch pistol since I'm a Scotsman , but unfortunately you don't ship here.

[pkf007]

Damn. If they werent so expensive Id have bought on or two of each of them. But, oh no. Im a poor man. :(

[onkelulf]

what is the name of the background song?? :D Love the flintlocks, too bad you don`t ship outside USA :(

[Highlandgent]

Be it a one legged man Jim! lol Nice Flintlocks my friend

[CPMcKittrick]

"This is a BIG Gun!" :-) Too Right!

Well Done MacKay!

[PirateTradingCo]

whowants.... Sorry it took awhile to answer. You can load the blunderbuss either way, you can use premeasured cartridges as the British did with their muskets, or you can pour powder from a powder horn and then a ball with a patch or shot and a wad. Ram, prime cock fire...

[whowantsabighug]

how do you reload the blunderbuss', do you have cartridges like a musket or do you reload it like a big pistol?

[rizky171]

nice pirate costume

[PirateTradingCo]

Yes it was inspired by The East India Co. Logo From POTC2 and was copy righted the same year.

[KondimentKid]

Is the logo inspired by the East India Trading Co. from Pirates of the Caribbean by any chance? ;)

[whowantsabighug]

do u do blunderbuss and those musketoon thingies aswell?

[PirateTradingCo]

I've seen 3 rounds shot within 40 seconds. That was at a range and under perfect conditions. Realistically for boarding ships and ship to ship melees you would only shoot once, and turn the pistol into a clubbing weapon. Or to use as a main gauche or to parry a cutlass attack, so as to open the enemy up for your own blade. If you wanted to shoot more than one round in this type of situation, you would carry more than one loaded pistol. It is said that Blackbeard wore a brace of at least six .

[whowantsabighug]

or u could hav one of thoose snazy double barreled pistols

[DeathScythe642]

@PirateTradingCo

I've heard of pirates often carrying multiple guns.

[PirateTradingCo]

@DeathScythe642 Many did. Blackbeard reportedly carried a brace of 6 flintlocks.

[Jupiter065]

Assuming someone's using pre-measured disposable powder vials and pre-wrapped slugs, theoretically, how fast could someone very well trained with one of these pistols load them?

[xxthelostartsxx]

Great video. And greqat job with the pirate trading co. Its nice that somebody is selling high quality items, as they should be. BTW, i cant seem to find the song used in this video on the score soundtrack that Klaus Badelt worked on.

Any help?

[PirateTradingCo]

Thanks. We're glad you enjoy our video's, our site and our products. The Musical Piece is called "Skull and Crossbones" and is on Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" soundtrack.

[potgsl]

But can you take them hunting?

[PirateTradingCo]

yep, as long as it's Black Powder/ Musket season.

[potgsl]

But can we take them hunting?

[CabooseDaMan]

nice site gotta lot of cool pirate stuff there

[PirateTradingCo]

Funny you should ask, I actually mis-spoke on the Germanic Dragoon. That baby is actually just over 22" long (not 19"). In comparison the British Heavy Dragoon Pistol which is 19"

[LordJazor]

Oh, wow! Excellent! I plan to purchase the British Dragoon in the near future. I'm not a very big guy, though, so I may want to get one of the smaller pistols.

[LordJazor]

Hello, sir. This be Jason again. I enjoy your YouTube videos immensely. How big is the British Dragoon Pistol as compared to the others?