Shooting a Flintlock Rifle

[4NProductionz]

@borntorazehell7777 simple u both used em... :D

[skswig1]

what are the laws like in Australia concerning muzzle loaders

[AK107DX]

I need to get my hands on one of these.

[surrealpillow]

uncool. don't use a short starter! If you are gonna be serious about historical interpretation as your costume suggests, at least load the weapon in an historically accurate fashion. Also, use the ramrod that it attached to the gun. C'mon man!

[MrJapaneseboy1111]

where can you buy a nice flint lock pistol replica that can shot?

and how much do they cost?

[Sixguns4fighting]

@MrJapaneseboy1111 Get the print catalog from Dixie Gun Works.

[twillycool3]

THUMBS UP IF MAMI TOMOE BROUGHT YOU HERE :D

[ziggyzap1]

i love those type of guns

[satch1011]

ha ha funny noise at 1:15



[MattTheSaiyan]

Now *that* is a beautiful gun!

[popperbrand]

some one needs slight of hand

[KissesForever3000]

How did it feel to have all that smoke in your face!! Seriously! Thats not good for your lungs!

[TehReyMan]

those things suck because they take forever to reload

[De4dm4u5Rulez]

Were'nt muskets loaded by priming the pan with the same powder cartridge that you put into the barrel? Or was that just the Brown Bess?

[JomsborgelagSudhird]

@De4dm4u5Rulez

In military circles yes, paper cartridges were made up with a ball in the end, you bit the top off the cartridge with the ball held the in the mouth, used the cartridge powder to both load and prime the musket, then took the ball with the paper used as a patch and rammed this down the barrel.

[JomsborgelagSudhird]

@De4dm4u5Rulez But for hunting you would usually load from the powder horn, which is inherently dangerous after the first shot and is not allowed to be done on the range, so a measure & priming horn is used.

[De4dm4u5Rulez]

@JomsborgelagSudhird Kewl, but what about the Ramrod you used?

Why could'nt you put it back into that ramrod slot after you loaded the weapon?

[JomsborgelagSudhird]

@De4dm4u5Rulez

The ramrod used is a metal one, rather than the one connected to the stock.

In the field, we use the wooden one, at the range we used to use the metal one.

[De4dm4u5Rulez]

@JomsborgelagSudhird Ohhh, alright then.

That makes sense. Thanx. :)

[Jeansschwimmer]

@De4dm4u5Rulez Many replica ramrods are made from ordinary round beechwood sticks. They split easily and then you have a problem getting them out of your barrel.

Original wooden ramrods were of carefully chosen flexible woods.

[De4dm4u5Rulez]

@JomsborgelagSudhird 

[PirateXzibit]

@De4dm4u5Rulez It's not a musket, it's a rifle.

[1diesel1]

I find it interesting that there have been no short starters found in old (18th century back) shooting kits. I use one myself but doubt the autheticity of it.

[WimpBastard]

Do you cast your own bullets?

[JomsborgelagSudhird]

@WimpBastard

Yes

[valttu94]

@JomsborgelagSudhird What's the probability to fail the casting?

[csmybuttt]

Is the beard part of the costume?

[xZiincHD]

lol bow and arrows are faster to reload

[00nerd4]

@xZiincHD True but also harder to train people and harder to shoot with any deal of accuracy

[snipersup]

love the rifle and love the outfit!

cheers from Canada.

[beaniebrothers1]

that gun is really nice man and the entire uniform thingy goes great with it

[PokerChingling]

AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!!! It's like the cool version of England(going there in 2 days lol)

[BleachedMarz]

by the time you do all that in a war, about 60 men wuld die

[Kwak3r]

@BleachedMarz From what I've read, when they had these weapons some people could load/fire them 3 times a minute.. That's pretty quick if you ask me.

[borntorazehell777]

it's amazing how we won the civil war with those types of guns back then and the time it took to load them and stuff, simply amazing!

[00nerd4]

@borntorazehell777 Its also amazing how many died while reloading

[Dullahan111]

Someone knows where i could find the plans of a flintlock musket? I want to make one.

[InfantryChans91]

@Dullahan111 i would strongly advise you not to

[siblilngs101]

ive fired a flint lock shotgun. its pretty cool but very unreliable i had like 6 false fires and it dosent really kick. its kind of a push but still its a fun gun to shoot

[PPAChao]

How much stronger than a crossbow is this?

[greyoldfellow]

whats the expected accuracy at 50 yards?

[JomsborgelagSudhird]

With this fire arm (which is an Edward Marshall Transitional long rifle which is half way between a Jaeger and Pensylvanian long rifle) standing 10 shot group within 5" diameter, benching 2", Standing at 100yds 12", benching 8".

[razr190]

@JomsborgelagSudhird unless your on crack and part god then you can go 300yrds.

[KaptainKoolz]

@JomsborgelagSudhird very impressive!

[JtsGreene]

Hmm, 90% of the people commenting seem to be jack asses.

[JomsborgelagSudhird]

Yes, I have come to the conclusion that most people comment just because they can, not because they have anything worthwhile to contribute, I have ignored them as not worth comment....a little house cleaning is in order.

[marthmaster79]

wow, it was quieter than I expected, coolness.

[Treblaine]

@Modax42

I don't know, modest sized bows are awkward enough to shoot, longbows must be an even greater challenge.Oh course, half the point of archery is the challenge.

But rifled muskets like in this video can be surprisingly accurate, at 200 yards consistently hitting a man sized target, and this is in the hands of someone with modest training.

[67BuickGS340]

With a traditional bow, the longer they are the easier to shoot they are. You don't get string pinch. Longbows arfe a lot of fun to shoot. Lots of practice to be any good though. You can get good at a muzzle loader much faster. The sights for one thing make it simpler to shoot. Faster reloading with my longbow thought!

[Treblaine]

@67BuickGS340

I think the idea with a rifled musket like this you can hit a standing man out to 200m away easy. Now longbows can only hope to hit anything at that distance firing in rank with a massed volley.

And a long-bow man would have to stand to shoot, but a rifleman can shoot from prone or behind cover.

Nah, I'll stick with the Flintlock rifle if I have the choice.

[67BuickGS340]

The English longbow men could hit accurately at about 80 yards. They could fire in volley at about 200 yards.

The accuracy of the musket was somewhat less. Remember, the musket was a smooth bore. A rifle of the day could hit at the range that you are talking about. Most of the infantry men were packing smooth bore muskets though. They worked in the same way as the volley of arrows from the longbow. Lots of shooters pointing in the direction of the enemy.  Both are a lot of fun to shoot.

[Treblaine]

@67BuickGS340

Hmm, as powerful as the long-bow was it still had a relatively low velocity projectile and correspondingly a very curved trajectory which inherently made it much harder to aim than even a smoothbore musket.

I think Musket's reputation for poor range/accuracy is only relative to modern firearms which can hit and kill up to a mile away. For it's day it was a major improvement.

[fixdeluxe1]

No,it didn''t.

But I still love classics like this one.

[RobertGary1]

I love shotting black powder. I have a Pennsylvania and a Hawkins flintlocks. I only use real powder too (which is harder to find), I don't shoot the synthetic stuff.

[lobster9207]

i wonder if any rifleman ever got to reload and actually shoot his rifle once he had fired the first round.

[bfahren]

The way people reload this kind of weapons now a days its the safest, which means the slowest. This weapons were very unsafe and prone to dangerous malfunctions for many reasons (too much blackpower both on the lock and/or on the cannon, doble load, the quality of the blackpowder...) because they were reloaded in haste and disregarding any safety for the shooter.

For a trained man its possible to shoot 3 times in less than a minute if you discard safety measures.

[Swordsman94]

i like his outfit, period appropriate outfits add more fun to BP shooting.

[condorlegion89]

Nice coat and gun!

[mark3smle]

i build custom front stuffers myself. i think all guns are user dependent. smaller caliber muzzleloaders actually cost less to shoot than a 22LR with even better power. im sure in the right hands one could outdo a sniper rifle with this gun. almost like the lead ball. so basic. but millions of people have been killed by such projectiles in wars long forgotten. an unlikely projectile, but perhaps the deadliest and most accurate. but like i said, in the right hands. practice and adjust

[Tommygunfreak]

The flintlock rifle maybe is a primitive rifle, but in the right hands it's a great rifle! Not made for very long range, but very effective tough! Nice video!!

[ProtestantIRA]

Its amazing considering how long it takes to load that the flintlock was the weapon of choice for most militaries for nearly 150 years. Thank goodness for the guy that invented the semi-auto. PS good video.

[offspring94swe]

what do you mean with grains???

[dennyrocks7]

he means individual grains of black powder. it combusts, creating the explosion that propels the projectile.

[123elnat]

A grain is a measure of weight equaling 1/7000 of a pound; also used as a measure of volume, though how it relates to other units of volume I don't know. A weight measurement in grains and a volume measurement equal similar but not exact amounts. Since I have not seen it used as "volume" outside muzzleloading and because powder was measured by volume in the field, I suspect that it was originally the volume of the corresponding weight of powder.

It does NOT mean individual particles of powder.

[dhcafi]

where did you get the flintlock musket?

[Roossell93]

looks like a kentucky. i like them, but i hate holding them. they're heavy.

[kewlboy567]

i think kentuckys are much longer though

[RobertGary1]

Depends on who made there. There is no standard size.

[kewlboy567]

Generally though Kentuckys are much longer this is probably a Virginia.

[JomsborgelagSudhird]

No it's a Transitional Jager

[sebiiau]

Wow, I can see why you need to license, register and store these securely. *sarcasm*

[Foxworthy32]

@sebiiau Yeah. I know, agree completely with you. These guns are of no threat, sure you can kill with it. But to much fuss to really do damage. Firearms these days have too many constraints really.

[Antiks72]

@sebiiau I reckon you could kill two school children a minute minimum.

[corvetteguy1980]

what type of flintlock rifle is that?

[SexyToshi]

Hi, how busy does little river range get on weekends? And how big is the range, and also how many metres were you shooting those flintlocks?

I'm thinking to go there with my friend who has ww2 rifles

[JomsborgelagSudhird]

The range is a SSAA range. It goes out to about 500m. You can shoot any kind of rifle, pistol or shotgun at the range. Many people shoot WW2 firearms there.

I was only shooting at 50m, if I had a support or rest I could shoot accurately at 100m+, past that range the projectile, a round ball, starts to wander considerably compared to modern firearm projectiles like jacketed bullets.

[KillFrenzie]

In NSW?