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Guns, Dogs and Blades QnA
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Oh my what a great time, first shot was fresh and ready, second was a very early start to the next morning, what? 3 hours later ! Only reson to like that last picture is I am nearly 30 lbs liter, good morning as I step outside and take a picture at 6: 27 am after two cups of coffee.
Morning guys
18° real feel, but at least the sun is out
18° real feel, but at least the sun is out
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How bout this wind? Arghh. I needed to drop some trees this weekend.
Oh man, same here, not the tree dropping, but the wind.. I moved my wife's car from under three big oaks.
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Xmas is closing in on us
Thinking stocking stuffer...
Tube lock musket. Austrian circa 1842
Is there powder in the tube that sets the charge off? That is cool!
I'm researching now. Thinking it's fulminate of mercury, like the caps of the same period. Prime and charge, removing the tube opens the cartridge for loading.
Gonna search
Yup.. although the guy didn't ram the paper...
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Innovative for sure!
Funny, he's using cap gun paper to build the primer...
Not unusual since the Maynard tape musket essentially used that same material
Austrian's came up with some cool stuff
Earlier muskets had double- ended ramrod, so you didn't have to rotate it to load. Much quicker in a rapid fire
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Very cool!
Plot twist.
About 330 000 of the Austrian 1849's were imported in the early part of the U.S. Civil War (mostly Western theater). BUT they were modified to percussion cap and had a ramrod channel added.
.713 caliber
Not Brown Bess, but pretty substantial
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Can you imagine being dinged by a .713? Holy smokes it would be like a sledge hammer. The wound channel would be serious.
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12ga slug is a touch bigger, but I bet the older slug loads would have been similar to that thing with a load of black powder. About 1200fps?? I would prefer to not experience the terminal end of either!
Did a quick lookup
Brown Bess at .75 caliber 900 - 1000 but a heavy powder throw could get 1600
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Ouch on both ends!
Range of a 100 yards... Musketey wasn't taught.... massing of bodies all pointing in same direction
My 1795 musket (French Chalesville copied by the colonials) has no rear site
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Funny how we look at that style of warfare as random and barbaric, I wonder how warriors will look at IEDs 200 years from now? In the end there are no winners in war, merely survivors.
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