31mm Flintlock Musket

A couple of the guys having a go with a huge old Flint lock black powder Musket.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Shooting
• Black
• Powder
• flintlock
• 2gauge
• smooth
• bore

[BrianGriffin66]

WOAH! That ball is HUGE! What caliber ball was that if it fit into a barrel that big?

[LS1Cobra]

If you think of it in terms of imperial caliber ie .44 cal or .50 cal then this thing is 1.22 cal.

It's actually a 2 guage. You've probably heard of 12 guage and 20 guage or shotgun shotgun cartridges. The smaller the number the larger the bore.

[GlockMeAmadeus7]

This is why I hate the movies. These rifles were terrible with accuracy and reliability (god bless them) you were better off with a sword until the 1830s :) I think.

[LS1Cobra]

Hence the term Lock, Stock and Barrel. It's basically what happened in close combat. Soldiers would fire first (Lock) then strike with the butt or the musket (Stock) and then another strike with the barrel.

The Movie "The last Samurai" IMHO was a reasonable accurate battle with these kind of weapons and how they fared (even though they upgraded to newer bolt action weapons later in the movie).

[billboi92]

i heard flintlocks can blow back in your face when you do not put a cap like object on the tip of the hammer, is this true?

[LS1Cobra]

Sounds like your refering to a Cap lock. These came out after Flint locks and were much more reliable. Instead of using a flint to throw sparks into a pan of gun powder they use a cap much like a toy cap gun. The cap is usually made of copper and it had some fulminate of Mercury in the bottom of it. The cap is placed over a nipple that has a hole dilled into the back of the chamber where thepowder is. The hammer hits the cap and the flame shoots down the hole to ignite the powder.

[GunOwnerDan]

That thing is almost like a blunderbuss.

I want one!

[teoman2730]

why i feel sorrry for the kid maybe because he didnt get to shoot the rifle

[twillycool3]

THUMBS UP IF MAMI TOMOE BROUGHT YOU HERE :D

[LutzDerLurch]

@LS1Cobra Lock, Stock, and Barrel is a merism used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America meaning 'all', 'total', 'everything'. The effective portions of a gun are the lock (used to hold ready the sparking mechanism); the stock is the portion held and the barrel being the aiming guide and conveyor for the explosive-driven ball. Collectively they are the weapon, therefore, everything.

[LutzDerLurch]

@GlockMeAmadeus7 They were not as bad as many think. And as for Reliability, in dry weather it comes down to 99% users fault, for example not using a good flint etc.

[Norguy77]

this gun reminds me of a Ottoman Abus gun

[megadeth22885]

and they wonder why america won the war

[mark3smle]

a 2 bore? probably something the old ivory hunters used.

[fletcher0102]

31mm...it's a small canon!!!

[themomaw]

Flintlocks are unreliable in bad weather, but it should fire almost every time if your powder is dry. Maybe your flint is getting too dull? Try firing without any powder in a dark room, and see how much spark you're getting. Should be getting a nice little spray of white sparks; too few or more red than white could be a dull flint. Could also be the spring getting tired and not flinging the flint forward fast enough. Really the piece ought to work better than it does in this video.

[1hunterdale]

@Zardoz215 it works a lot better if you make the wad and glue it to the ball use a wad at lest 1/2 long and the ball will all was hit nose onand you can make them hollow points to they flaten out biger than a 2 1/2 in round

[Zardoz215]

How does it do with a patched ball?