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Side note: the Empire of Brazil (1822-1889) also had contact with the Dreyse. Some say the rifles came with a legion of german mercenaries in the early 1850s, but i find that impossible; a more reliable claim is that the Empire bought around 3000 to arm an experimental battalion during the war against paraguayan dictator Solano López, between 1864 and 1870, one of the last (and hardly talked) wars of the musket era. The infantrymen hated it and replaced with the regular belgian Minié rifles, or Enfields that armed some of the Volunteer battalions. I have to recall from memory what i read once since sources are hard to find again. The Dreyse had complains on jamming (no doubt by fouling, and maybe broken needles), humidity on the theater (affecting lubricants or gaskets?) and weight (the experimental unit was light infantry, and the fighting had much broken terrain and quasi-guerrilla clashes). Two other side notes: The Imperial cavalry loved the Spencer carbine and used them to great effect late in the war. Apparently it was so successful that even Winchesters were rejected later in its favour. Spencers served the cavalry in distant corners of the Empire to its end in 1889, and in the initial years of the military dictatorship that followed. After 1868 some Chassepot rifles arrived in the Empire and may have been tested in the conflict. I don't know how, but i guess Count d'Eu - husband to the great Princess Isabel, chief of the Imperial Army and final victor over López - had an influence in the acquisitions since he was grandson to deposed King Louis Phillipe I (no relation to Napoleon III, but i don't believe they were enemies). The evaluation by the Army post-war was somewhat sketchy, plus, by 1873 the robust belgian Comblain was adopted anyway.

Can you please tell me what is the GSM of the paper that you used 🙏🙏🙏

Interesting to see the Dreyse struggle at 300m and beyond. Had the austrians not been so french the prussians would have a hard time, at least at the tactical level.

This may be a bold claim, but I don't think Snuffy's injuries are service related. That keyhole is maybe going to graze his leg, but he'll be fine. His limp is clearly caused by something on his personal time.

2:39 - I don't believe people actually think that such a work of fiction with a nonsensical reloading method had some reality to it.

I didn't know that Jason Kelce knows about old guns?

Hey I have another question 😅😅 Can I use the brown food wrapping paper.

George Frideric Handel was not British. So why are you playing a bit of music that sounds like he might have written it?

What is the size of one cartridge

Can we use kraft paper

What kind of accent do you have, or is it an affection you have developed because of a fatal illness?

It would be faster if he tucked the ramrod between his legs between shots.

Austria....always worried about pennies...yet slaughtered men without concern...sounds like this empire was heavily influence by the zionist usury money jangerlers. Hymie goldshims😅

Excellent video

Soldiers during ACW were trained to knee aim at advancing troops. The line officers would use their sabers horizontally to show the troops to aim low. Seasoned troops understood the mid range trajectory of the minie & conditioning TO aim low at the troops in formations 100 yd or more.. one must consider the manual of arms / tactics were from napoleon's period being taught in military academy using mass volley fire. This regimen continued in the U.K. into WW 1. Knee aiming was also potentially very devastating upon the receiving end. A very high % of wounds were in the legs or upper chest /head, consider, As the soldier was struck in the leg and began to fall usually a second volley would arrive as he was falling striking in the upper chest arm or head. Even if struck only in the leg the wound was usually fatal due to the severing of the Popliteal artery which led to Quick death bleed out. We knew a person who researched this topic of knee aiming & related wounds of the ACW quite extensively for a college essay...also the wounded were struck as the lay upon the ground. As the battles raged the unseasoned troops would start shooting at high aiming point and as the excitement progressed ended up shooting into the sky..the bullets striking harmlessly between formations in the stageing areas or as spent projectiles causing little damage in the fleshly parts of the body. Though may still crack or concuss if struck in head. Amazing the science of evil genius that goes into killing each other...while people starve, want for habitation people kill each other for trival concerns... Mankind, we haven't evolved to highly still killing each other today for same motives, power, & money veiled in faked moral reasonings and excuses😢

Thanks for this great video! And thank you for your service!

Extremely interesting, particularly the part of estimating distance correctly. Never thought about in fact.

Lovin' the Hungarian mail bag. If you need the Deutsche Fraktur translated, feel free to get in touch.

so anything with blackpowder can be counted as musketry? so a chassepot and lee-metford count...

Thank you very much for this very inform|ative video.

You got off to a slow start but, by the 21 minute mark, you had convinced me!

Great video, very educational.l have a 58 cal enfield 2 bands rifle and I’m using a .560 Pritchett mould , I want to try wooden plugs which are very hard to find I have been told that.560 bullet doesn’t need a plug Looking forward to hearing from you Alain

Short Answer. VERY! I should show you my 1855 with 45 grains of 3f off the bench. 3.5 inch shot groups and it is not a accurate as some. i have seen people shooting .54 ca; Mississippies hooting the Wilkinson Bullet

550 yards was the EFFECTIVE range of an M16-A2 because that is about how far most people can see and bd guys do not tand out in the open usually. WIll the bulllet go further? Sure. I shoot 1855 in competition in at 50 and 100 yards with only 45 Grains 3f... We shoot a lot and the we do so for lower recoil. I shoot woth the N-SSA. Yep, big difference between effective range and Maximum range. You should be ble to put five bullets almost in the same hole at 50 yards off the bench. Then try standing..

Excellent presentation. Many people still held the Dreyse in magical regard, but reality was more complex.

Watched this after watching archers with recurves and longbows try to hit things at 100 yards, and I'm beginning to think the whole trope of bows being more accurate than a smoothbore musket is a myth, and maybe the musket replaced the bow because it was just a better battlefield weapon.

Thank You for your service!

You may be correct, but do you have a wicked guitar solo that climaxes when you get to four shots in a minute?

There is a benefit to using FFF over F in long poweders for my area. For some reason, we have ass of Swiss FFF and very little F an no one seems to know why.

The Sharpe series got a lot of things wrong. For example, it couldn't even kill off Sean Bean's character properly. 😃

I just started making them for my son. Thanks for the tutorial 😀

I saw a demonstration in UK where (with the touchhole opened up a bit) they dont prime the pan, and thats why they hit the butt on the ground - not to seat the bullet - but for the main charge to spill out the vent into the pan. So you load the powder, then paper and ball, slam the butt on the ground which also primes the weapon and then fire. The result is lower velocity/pressures, because of the bigger touchhole, but result is very quick loading. Spit loading being done on horseback is the only context I have heard of it, with whacking the butt on the saddle pommel to seat the ball.

excellent video, thanks! (comment for the holy algorithm)

I really enjoy your channel. very reminiscent of the old history channel type shows.

that is wonderful! how did you work out the exact formulation.

Biased video

3rd rate UA-camr and pseudo expert?? I think I've never heard such a detailed, clear, entertaining and academically sound discussion of a very complex and generally misunderstood/over simplified subject.. and all this done whilst on deployment. "Impressive" barely covers it.. Was really intrigued by the stats on small arms injuries over the mid-late 19th century wars. Really surprised that artillery casualties weren't higher during the Franco Prussian war as had always heard that German artillery + agile tactics and effective mobilization gave Prussia the edge vs the superior Chassepot. Are you planning any video on that war? (Apologies if they already exist and I've just missed them😅) Superb channel - just what every 19th century military history enthusiast dreams of..

Is that a real rifle or a reproduction? I have a Armi Sport repro and isn’t very accurate - the rifling inside is not the same as during the Civil War

Guess the Italian rifles are only good with the bayonet then

I knew it was the rifle and not me missing that target

Fun fact: the 303 British cartridge and the 7.7 Japanese cartridge share the same bullet diameter so 303 projectiles can be loaded into 7.7 cases and vise versa

BITE POUR SPIT TAP AIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaha great stuff!! i love it!!! :D

And then came the Indian mutiny

8x52 😂

Interesting. The picture of Wallingford with his tunic emblazoned with badges and medals shows a different rifle. Lee Metford. I wonder if that was the rifle he used for his range exploits?

I think this is the first to bolt action rifle in the world more than the russians made

german engineering . . . or, prussian. the first bolt action in europe

Even to the end of the war, you could still find percussion smooth-bore muskets in service and not just in the secondary theaters or second line troops. The Irish Brigade for all of its existence, armed only one regiment, the 28th Massachusetts with rifle-muskets (.58 M1861). This regiment was used as the brigade skirmishers. The other four original regiments were armed with (and retained in service until 1864), the .69 musket M1842. These muskets were used with "buck and ball" ammunition, a single large ball and three buckshot. And the problem of standardization remained. Between 1857 and 1862, tens of thousands of M1842 muskets and even earlier flintlock muskets converted to percussion, were rifled and fired a massive .69 Minie type round. There were the imported weapons that took everything from a .71 ball to a .54 Minie round. These weapons were placed in four categories, one through four, with one being the best, the .58 M1855 rifle and rifle-musket, the M1861, M1861 Special and M1863 rifle-muskets and the .577 Enfield rifles and rifle-muskets. The Enfields were almost dropped into category two, because they were commercial models without interchangeable parts. The Dresden rifle-musket and the Lorenz rifles and rifle-muskets along with both caliber M1841 "Mississippi" rifles were in category two. As production ramped up of the M1861, imports were reduced, even that of the Enfields and no more foreign rifles or rifle-muskets were imported from the beginning of 1863. The increased production also led to most of the imported firearms and some of the older American conversions being disposed of. But while this was happening, the US Army found itself having to supply ammunition to a new set of firearms, breech-loading single shot and magazine rifles and carbines such that by the end of 1863, it was issuing ammunition for Spencers, Henrys, Sharps, Burnsides and Merrills. The ammunition situation was not resolved until 1875-76, when the Sharps and Spencers were withdrawn and replaced with the .45-70 Springfield rifle and the 45-60 carbine.

I'll take Catfish over Lutefisk anytime!