The Maihaugen collection lists its weapon as "George Reichweins revolver of 1597". I remember getting a chance to see it a few years ago. Really spectacular! It has clear provenance to a General Reichweins from Hessen in Germany. He was living in Bergen, Norway around 1630s.
I can readily see that these were built in Central Europe, probably one of the German States given their metal working skills especially in clock and watchmaking. When the presenter mentions Nuremberg my first thought was the Nuremberg Egg.
Surely the man's name was Georg Reichwein. Reichsweins revolver means the same in german and english: The revolver of Mr. Reichswein. And George is in german Georg.
@@wmidler : A writing error, in german language there are in historical context many words Reichs..., meaning belonging to the Reich / realm. In german grammar in this case an ,s' is necessary, so i accidently wrote Reichswein instead of Reichwein. For example Reichsritter, Reichsstadt, Reichsstand, Reichsapfel.... Reichwein, this name would be translated into english Richwine, so the namegiving ancestor had a lot of wine(yards?).
Fantastic presentation as usual! Thank you for your tremendous contributions to the two books mentioned. Incidentally, ‘Wheelgun’ ended up being 144 pages long after I was through with it-I think it is fair to call it a fully fledged book!
Yes brilliant, Although, i wish John would stop saying the word cock (as a verb or a rooster. I mean to say, I understand the context, but he says it so often that it forms an disturbing image (to me) and you could, in concept, turn it into a drinking game. "Insert joke here" Haha ..........
My favourite gun of this period is the 1625 breechloading wheellock that Ian at Forgotten Weapons showed in a video. That gun is a beautiful piece of art and a marvel of gun smithing for the time (breechloading with metal cartridges, nice sights for the period, etc).
It's much cheaper to make clones of the AR and AK platforms. Making guns like this would take a considerable amount of time and appeal to a small market in the firearms community. I could see a recreation for a weapon like this costing 5k or more. Still be cool to see.
Maybe a talented artist, in the same vein of Click Spring, and his Antikythera mechanism replica project, could take up the challenge, and make one of these. Hopefully, they also have a RUclips channel and share their results.
Thanks Jonathan and team, that is a really fascinating firearm. Even in its current condition, the decorative work on the stock is very nice to see. It must have cost a small fortune to make this back in about 1597.
you have the most perfect pronunciation of "Schloss" (Castle, not to be confused with "Schloss", which means lock... yes, same word) that i EVER heard.
I know of *at least* two in Sweden (both in the Livrustkammaren), and now consequently of this one and one in Norway. Though the ones in Sweden (both from Nüremberg I believe, ca. 1600-1603) seem to be remarkably more pistol-like than this example. I haven't yet had the privilege of studying them up close, but then again I was not there to look into them either.
@@ромаЕ-р5ч You'd be surprised by all attempts at making multi-shot firearms before the invention of the self-contained cartridge. Especially the attempts made in the 17th century.
There is a previous example revolver pistol with a whelllock action circa 1580 in military configuration and made compleately made of iron , it is or was at the Bayerisches Armeemuseum ,Ingoldstadt Germany (inventory number A7382) . its mentioned and described ,see M. Morin "Armi e Letteratura nel 500" at Diana Armi N# 7 /1975. its described as hand rotate cilinder for three shoots of the 15 caliber ,special wheellock self primed with iron stock with very few decorations a cone grip with a big ball at the end . hope this helps your future reseachs in this matter, salutes.
Very interesting, thank you - neither I nor 'Team Collier' seem to have a note of that one. Caveat - the other supposedly ca.1580 examples we've checked have proven to be later - very late 16th century as per the 15 I mention. But it's really important that we chase down all leads and this could even be that old. Thanks again.
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouriesyure welcome i had that info in a book i purchased many years back a Spanish reedition of an italian original called Armi Antiche 1sr edition 1982 ARNOLDO EDITORE S.p.A. Milan. If you like i could send you a picture of the pistol i have in this book. Cheers!
I figured it was only a matter of time before Ian & Co pulled Jonathan into their publishing. Kudos, and hope that you are working on a book of your own with them.
I'm realizing I could not work for a museum doing this sort of thing, when he said stuff like he couldn't index the revolver or it's obvious that he doesn't want to touch the hammer and stuff like that. I don't know I would be able to help myself wanting to 'play with the toy' (messing with the mechanical bits) I already have a few firearm props just because I like doing things like cocking the hammer on them or working the slide, spinning the chambers on a revolver, etc
Jonathan obviously realises this gun is as fragile as a cobweb. Don't fiddle with anything or you will destroy an irreplaceable relic. That is why all the sliding pan covers and the frizzen are missing because some ham fisted fool mucked about with it two or three hundred years ago when it was simply regarded as a funny old artefact of a bygone age.
Once you get to a certain level of appreciation, you get to a "we can 'play' with this, but not that" outlook. I'm a huge antique gun enthusiast and researcher, and I've been studying anything I can find. But that being said, I'd buy a repro version of an antique before I buy an original because I know these old guns are fragile and belong in a museum
Much better lighting and close ups than on other videos! The white table cloth does wonders is my guess. An overhead cam showing what you look at would be better instead of watching you pointing at something on the side not facing the camera. If you turn it during a close up, rotate it slowly please. A close up view along the whole thing at the end would be nice to see all the surface details.
It would make sense to have an pan cover as you say who was pushed away, probably sideways, uncovering the powder and giving the flint something to strike against, I guess this would be an replaceable part who is locked.
Given that these were likely layed out by hand with no indexing mechanisms 4, 6 or 8 chambers in the cylinders make sense. In fact dividing a circle into 6 equal parts is the easist as we all should remember from geometery class. This must have been an absolutely gorgeous girearm when built. The one thing l wonder about is how dud they prevent chain fires. Some sort of partial ring around the cylinder possinly with a leather or felt seal?
We have no evidence of any measures against chain-fire, and in fact from what I've seen there wouldn't be room for a seal. I think they just winged it to be honest.
It's just amazing how early they were developing these types of Firearms. Imagine if someone had developed self contained ammo, back then and what we have today.
I've seen wheellock pistols with detachable chamber units, which would be basically that, you load the spare chambers with powder and ball (maybe also a patch), though you'd still need to prime the pan for each shot.
I suspect the limiting factor was the primer. Without a percussion fired detonation you are stuck with a flint lock firing mechanism and external priming. Fulminate of Mercury, the first percussion primer that I know of was discovered in 1800. That I think is what set off the small arms revolution.
@@francesconicoletti2547 Priming is a key element, yeah, but even with nice and good primers like that, people were pretty hesitant to combine it all into one unit, there were a lot of capping breech loaders before self-contained cartridges finally took off.
There is a bylaw from a town in Germany, dated 1510, that forbids the concealed carry under a cloak of "guns which fire by them selves", that is to say, wheellock pistols, the pre-cursors of snaphaunce and flintlock guns, because of the possible use for assassinations etc. Medieval people were far from stupid.
Bit like how you can get those hideous wraps for guns nowadays. Humans do love to make their things look pretty (by their personal standards), and at the very least unique.
There is a similar weapon in the National Museum of Russia, in Moscow. Dated somewhat earlier than this (IIRC - it is over 20 years since I last visited) and with an alleged provenance from Russia itself. And (again, to the best of my memory) in much, much better condition. I was highly skeptical of the whole thing, Russia being prone to claiming it was the first in many, many things. I'm somewhat less skeptical now.
I feel the original development of this system was simply to avoid the tedious task of ramming a load down the length of the barrel and just charge the more user-friendly cylinder instead. Was there a single shot swing out breech predecessor to this system perchance?
@Johnathan, there is an Italian made repeating flintlock pistol, Ian from Forgotten Weapons did a video on it I think ten? years ago now? I forgot what is was called, but it was quite mechanically interesting. Do you know off hand what pistol I'm talking about? I think the name started with an L?
Yeah the caliber and the revolving parts would suggest to me that they hunted small game with this revolver. Like rabbits etc. Dont think deer or boar. What do you think?
2:12 I guess I'm in luck, second correct guess in a row! 😊 7:29 It would be small bore for the period, but not necessarily for the region & application: I've read of the German or maybe Silesian wheellock fowling arquebuses of the late sixteenth century with bores as small as 8 or even 6 mm! 11:31 Although it seems that in a couple decades' time it was recognized that revolving pistols are worth making, judging by the early seventeenth century examples that are slightly more numerous.
Too bad the subtitles were missing from this. As usual, the audio wasn't perfect, so I missed some of the commentary. Fascinating and very hansome piece, though.
RUclips subtitles doesn't like the way Jonathan says Colt, keeps writing Cult 😂 Anyway, i remember by great grandfather had something like this, hanging on his wall.
@@Thisandthat8908 I'm sure it was for numbering but couldn't they have marked it in a less conspicuous place or attached a removable label of some kind?
Reloading, after the 8 shots have been fired, would probably not be done by the "lord" of the manor. He would have "people" to do things like that. The "Lord" and his guests for the hunt, would probably have a spot to eat while the gun was reloaded.
Spectacular. In a different era could be called steampunk?! This type of thing demonstrates how we've lost our way, even the richest among us are mostly cauterized to true artistry. Even as late as C19 engineering had at least an esthetic input (e.g. pumping stations). These days the tyranny of price trumps everything. How many artisans are even capable of such work nowadays? Granted the owner must have been richer than Elon...
Just to point out that Germanic does not mean German. Germanic is an ethno-cultural category which encompasses most of the native people of north west Europe. The English are also Germanic, for example. The Nordic groups are also Germanic. The Germans are Germanic but not all Germanic people are German. This is a common but understandable misunderstanding.
He's all, it doesn't do this, it doesn't do that, you manually have to do this, and I'm all wtf, it's a multi-chambered rotating cylinder gun from the 1500s.
My gold inlayed 1500s revolver is a POS. Exactly how you say something and make me question how much your high class prostitutes cost you. Try a pub, or your mom's house. Because you're out of touch.
It looks sort of clockwork, so this killed people in the olden days, would it kill people in modern times too? Say.. do the bullets come out slowly that I could outrun them?
it is always amazing to me that firearms became a thing given the risks involved with just handling gun powered and the dodginess of some of these weapons. i could see someone not closing some of the pans properly having a massive chain fire and blowing half their arm off. still in this modern age we have dimwits still shooting themselves through bad gun safety go figure. cheers for the video but i think i will stick to my spear, sword and bow. far less chance of killing myself then messing with early firearms.
Considering the engineers & craftsmen could be pretty multi-cultural in the HRE members 'doms, who knows where the person come from who created this revolver? You mentioned Indian motifs? Oh you probably answer this in "Who Invented the 'Wheelgun'?" :D
Oh the maker of this was absolutely Germanic. The Indian counterparts I mention are 'convergent' in design and decoration to some extent but are later.
So is the royal armouries a govt entity? I thought so, and thought he was just an employee/curator. But The title “keeper of firearms” makes me think ol Jonathan found a cheeky loophole in a weapon hating society.
In Britain, Royal tends to be used as a ceremonial equivalent of Government in departmental titles. Although sometimes it actually means belonging to the King. Keeper is an old term for curator.
The Maihaugen collection lists its weapon as "George Reichweins revolver of 1597". I remember getting a chance to see it a few years ago. Really spectacular! It has clear provenance to a General Reichweins from Hessen in Germany. He was living in Bergen, Norway around 1630s.
I can readily see that these were built in Central Europe, probably one of the German States given their metal working skills especially in clock and watchmaking. When the presenter mentions Nuremberg my first thought was the Nuremberg Egg.
Surely the man's name was Georg Reichwein. Reichsweins revolver means the same in german and english: The revolver of Mr. Reichswein. And George is in german Georg.
@@brittakriep2938 Mr. Reichswein or Mr. Reichwein?
@@wmidler : A writing error, in german language there are in historical context many words Reichs..., meaning belonging to the Reich / realm. In german grammar in this case an ,s' is necessary, so i accidently wrote Reichswein instead of Reichwein. For example Reichsritter, Reichsstadt, Reichsstand, Reichsapfel.... Reichwein, this name would be translated into english Richwine, so the namegiving ancestor had a lot of wine(yards?).
Fantastic presentation as usual! Thank you for your tremendous contributions to the two books mentioned. Incidentally, ‘Wheelgun’ ended up being 144 pages long after I was through with it-I think it is fair to call it a fully fledged book!
Yes brilliant, Although, i wish John would stop saying the word cock (as a verb or a rooster. I mean to say, I understand the context, but he says it so often that it forms an disturbing image (to me) and you could, in concept, turn it into a drinking game. "Insert joke here" Haha ..........
My favourite gun of this period is the 1625 breechloading wheellock that Ian at Forgotten Weapons showed in a video. That gun is a beautiful piece of art and a marvel of gun smithing for the time (breechloading with metal cartridges, nice sights for the period, etc).
Would that be kinda like the iron cartridge cannons, effectively pre-loaded breeches?
Thanks for the recommendation, another fine piece of history.
I wish we could see more recreations of these old firearms so we can see them in a working a condition
It's much cheaper to make clones of the AR and AK platforms. Making guns like this would take a considerable amount of time and appeal to a small market in the firearms community. I could see a recreation for a weapon like this costing 5k or more. Still be cool to see.
Maybe a talented artist, in the same vein of Click Spring, and his Antikythera mechanism replica project, could take up the challenge, and make one of these. Hopefully, they also have a RUclips channel and share their results.
Thanks Jonathan and team, that is a really fascinating firearm. Even in its current condition, the decorative work on the stock is very nice to see. It must have cost a small fortune to make this back in about 1597.
Incredibly advanced technology for the 1500s, this would have been a tremendously expensive weapon even without the gorgeous decoration.
the only people who could afford it wouldn't have had it any other way
you have the most perfect pronunciation of "Schloss" (Castle, not to be confused with "Schloss", which means lock... yes, same word) that i EVER heard.
Really? Wow, thank you. I pick up a few German words in this line of work, since Germany is so pivotal to the subject.
I know of *at least* two in Sweden (both in the Livrustkammaren), and now consequently of this one and one in Norway. Though the ones in Sweden (both from Nüremberg I believe, ca. 1600-1603) seem to be remarkably more pistol-like than this example.
I haven't yet had the privilege of studying them up close, but then again I was not there to look into them either.
amazing gun......1597 ffs!
@@ромаЕ-р5ч You'd be surprised by all attempts at making multi-shot firearms before the invention of the self-contained cartridge. Especially the attempts made in the 17th century.
There is a previous example revolver pistol with a whelllock action circa 1580 in military configuration and made compleately made of iron , it is or was at the Bayerisches Armeemuseum ,Ingoldstadt Germany (inventory number A7382) . its mentioned and described ,see M. Morin "Armi e Letteratura nel 500" at Diana Armi N# 7 /1975.
its described as hand rotate cilinder for three shoots of the 15 caliber ,special wheellock self primed with iron stock with very few decorations a cone grip with a big ball at the end . hope this helps your future reseachs in this matter, salutes.
Very interesting, thank you - neither I nor 'Team Collier' seem to have a note of that one. Caveat - the other supposedly ca.1580 examples we've checked have proven to be later - very late 16th century as per the 15 I mention. But it's really important that we chase down all leads and this could even be that old. Thanks again.
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouriesyure welcome i had that info in a book i purchased many years back a Spanish reedition of an italian original called Armi Antiche 1sr edition 1982 ARNOLDO EDITORE S.p.A. Milan. If you like i could send you a picture of the pistol i have in this book. Cheers!
I figured it was only a matter of time before Ian & Co pulled Jonathan into their publishing. Kudos, and hope that you are working on a book of your own with them.
He already has the book is 'THORNEYCROFT TO SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901-2020'
The norwegian one is in *Maihaugen Folk Museum* in *Lillehammer*
I mention Maihaugen in the video, or so I thought? edit - yes, at 11:00.
Great video, as always! I love playing guess the weapons on the racks behind Jonathan when I watch these. Thank you to the Royal Armouries !
Always informative and a beautiful view of early arms technology. Thanks.
Idk Jonathan helped in two new books...
Well you made my Xmas list easier for family members to get the perfect "me" gift
Absolutely marvellous, cheers!
Looks simply fantastic!
beautiful
Lovely piece of work
Whould love to see a video on the swan gun that's at the Rijksmuseum. The thing is huge
This weapon is about as old today as a 1911 pistol would be in 2300 :)
The 1911 will probably still be in use with some still. 🤭
@@DB-yj3qc According to Starfield, yes.
I'm realizing I could not work for a museum doing this sort of thing, when he said stuff like he couldn't index the revolver or it's obvious that he doesn't want to touch the hammer and stuff like that. I don't know I would be able to help myself wanting to 'play with the toy' (messing with the mechanical bits) I already have a few firearm props just because I like doing things like cocking the hammer on them or working the slide, spinning the chambers on a revolver, etc
Would love to see a smith recreate these kinds of guns for the demonsration factor
Jonathan obviously realises this gun is as fragile as a cobweb. Don't fiddle with anything or you will destroy an irreplaceable relic. That is why all the sliding pan covers and the frizzen are missing because some ham fisted fool mucked about with it two or three hundred years ago when it was simply regarded as a funny old artefact of a bygone age.
Once you get to a certain level of appreciation, you get to a "we can 'play' with this, but not that" outlook. I'm a huge antique gun enthusiast and researcher, and I've been studying anything I can find. But that being said, I'd buy a repro version of an antique before I buy an original because I know these old guns are fragile and belong in a museum
Brilliant as always
Beautiful handmade metal work.
Thank you. An interesting firearm.
hello sir, would you also make a video about the Annely or PAUL DÜBLER revolvers in the future ? that would be nice !
lol, this afternoon i just randomly searched "what was the first revolver ever made" and then a few hours later this gets uploaded.
We've got you!
back in the times taking this out would be like takeing a G11 out.
one thing is for sure, room went silent fast.
Fantastic! Thanks for the video!
Much better lighting and close ups than on other videos! The white table cloth does wonders is my guess.
An overhead cam showing what you look at would be better instead of watching you pointing at something on the side not facing the camera. If you turn it during a close up, rotate it slowly please. A close up view along the whole thing at the end would be nice to see all the surface details.
I recall a naval gun that had a revolving magazine. Was it a Puckley gun?
Puckle. It was never used in anger.
It would make sense to have an pan cover as you say who was pushed away, probably sideways, uncovering the powder and giving the flint something to strike against, I guess this would be an replaceable part who is locked.
We have a example in our museum in czech republic, the pan cover on our example is springloaded and moves forward when struck
Met this guy ! Top chap !
Given that these were likely layed out by hand with no indexing mechanisms 4, 6 or 8 chambers in the cylinders make sense. In fact dividing a circle into 6 equal parts is the easist as we all should remember from geometery class. This must have been an absolutely gorgeous girearm when built. The one thing l wonder about is how dud they prevent chain fires. Some sort of partial ring around the cylinder possinly with a leather or felt seal?
We have no evidence of any measures against chain-fire, and in fact from what I've seen there wouldn't be room for a seal. I think they just winged it to be honest.
That is utterly beautiful! I want one...
Great 💯 Thank you Jonathan 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
It's just amazing how early they were developing these types of Firearms. Imagine if someone had developed self contained ammo, back then and what we have today.
I've seen wheellock pistols with detachable chamber units, which would be basically that, you load the spare chambers with powder and ball (maybe also a patch), though you'd still need to prime the pan for each shot.
I suspect the limiting factor was the primer. Without a percussion fired detonation you are stuck with a flint lock firing mechanism and external priming. Fulminate of Mercury, the first percussion primer that I know of was discovered in 1800. That I think is what set off the small arms revolution.
@@francesconicoletti2547 Priming is a key element, yeah, but even with nice and good primers like that, people were pretty hesitant to combine it all into one unit, there were a lot of capping breech loaders before self-contained cartridges finally took off.
There is a bylaw from a town in Germany, dated 1510, that forbids the concealed carry under a cloak of "guns which fire by them selves", that is to say, wheellock pistols, the pre-cursors of snaphaunce and flintlock guns, because of the possible use for assassinations etc.
Medieval people were far from stupid.
back in olden times just because something was decorated don't mean it wasn't used for fighting or hunting.
Bit like how you can get those hideous wraps for guns nowadays.
Humans do love to make their things look pretty (by their personal standards), and at the very least unique.
Do you get a cut from the book sales?
Getting vibes of like post apoc or admech from this thing. Interesting design
There is a similar weapon in the National Museum of Russia, in Moscow. Dated somewhat earlier than this (IIRC - it is over 20 years since I last visited) and with an alleged provenance from Russia itself. And (again, to the best of my memory) in much, much better condition. I was highly skeptical of the whole thing, Russia being prone to claiming it was the first in many, many things. I'm somewhat less skeptical now.
Those weapons had been in 16th century HRE called ,Drehling' ( Turnling).
Just what I thought it was
There is a revolver and carbine in the Hessian Museum in Darmstadt.
I feel the original development of this system was simply to avoid the tedious task of ramming a load down the length of the barrel and just charge the more user-friendly cylinder instead. Was there a single shot swing out breech predecessor to this system perchance?
There were actually a few breechloading wheellocks made during that time period.
@Johnathan, there is an Italian made repeating flintlock pistol, Ian from Forgotten Weapons did a video on it I think ten? years ago now? I forgot what is was called, but it was quite mechanically interesting. Do you know off hand what pistol I'm talking about? I think the name started with an L?
Lorenzoni. There are several magazine repeater designs ca.1640 onwards, incredibly. The Lorenzoni is a bit later but one of the more successful.
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries yes that’s it! Thanks I was pulling my hair out trying to remember that!
Is this museum at white tower?
Leeds.
Glad to see that Ian did not usurp you.
1597 - INSANE - imagine this.....
Yeah the caliber and the revolving parts would suggest to me that they hunted small game with this revolver. Like rabbits etc. Dont think deer or boar. What do you think?
Quite possibly. Rabbits, hares, birds on the ground.
2:12 I guess I'm in luck, second correct guess in a row! 😊
7:29 It would be small bore for the period, but not necessarily for the region & application: I've read of the German or maybe Silesian wheellock fowling arquebuses of the late sixteenth century with bores as small as 8 or even 6 mm!
11:31 Although it seems that in a couple decades' time it was recognized that revolving pistols are worth making, judging by the early seventeenth century examples that are slightly more numerous.
I can't get over the feeling that it's been modified, but unless I missed it (I'm going to watch it again) it wasn't mentioned.
OOOH this is COOL!
Too bad the subtitles were missing from this. As usual, the audio wasn't perfect, so I missed some of the commentary. Fascinating and very hansome piece, though.
We appreciate the feedback - sometimes subtitles can take a while to generate and process, they should be working now if you refresh!
@@RoyalArmouriesMuseumThere are still no subtitles.
OLD guns the best guns
What animal has antlers & horns?
Eh? I'm saying that the GUN has antler and horn decoration :)
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries I figured that. I don't know of an animal with both, but there could be. I'm no animologist!
You mean zoologist, and no animal has both antler and horn.
@@korbetthein3072 yet! Gemo!
@@Iowa599 They're actually mutually exlusive. It grows horns or antlers, never both.
RUclips subtitles doesn't like the way Jonathan says Colt, keeps writing Cult 😂
Anyway, i remember by great grandfather had something like this, hanging on his wall.
I could almost see something like this being used in some RPG game my the Gunner/Marksman/Gunslinger class character 😂
1597.... holy
Man, why would someone scar that gun with that horrible stamp?
a clerk in a office who doesn't care probably. Or mor for proper numbers than looks.
Remember. There are "car enthusiasts" who would willingly chop up the sole remaining model of a low production classic in order to build a hot rod.
@@Thisandthat8908 I'm sure it was for numbering but couldn't they have marked it in a less conspicuous place or attached a removable label of some kind?
That SSO lapel pin is just *chef's kiss*
Brilliant piece of symbolism. Cossack werewolf :)
Did Puckle get his idea from this?
The original Cheek Pistol!
Samuel Colt never stated he invented the revolver. But he made every man equal that had one.
sam did what apple did....juts collected all in 1
Oh nice a found a high capacity musket
Reloading, after the 8 shots have been fired, would probably not be done by the "lord" of the manor. He would have "people" to do things like that. The "Lord" and his guests for the hunt, would probably have a spot to eat while the gun was reloaded.
This man has a calculator watch in 2024. He is the head nerd.
I like the little tidbit of provenance of this firearm, to where some idiot stamped it so wrong, that they had to correct themselves 😂 85 -5- 6
Spectacular. In a different era could be called steampunk?!
This type of thing demonstrates how we've lost our way, even the richest among us are mostly cauterized to true artistry.
Even as late as C19 engineering had at least an esthetic input (e.g. pumping stations). These days the tyranny of price trumps everything.
How many artisans are even capable of such work nowadays?
Granted the owner must have been richer than Elon...
clockworkpunk? coilspringpunk? xD
Or paid less the Elon
The gun that discovered ‘chain fire’?
Just to point out that Germanic does not mean German. Germanic is an ethno-cultural category which encompasses most of the native people of north west Europe. The English are also Germanic, for example. The Nordic groups are also Germanic. The Germans are Germanic but not all Germanic people are German. This is a common but understandable misunderstanding.
Are they gonna try to ban it lol
He's all, it doesn't do this, it doesn't do that, you manually have to do this, and I'm all wtf, it's a multi-chambered rotating cylinder gun from the 1500s.
My gold inlayed 1500s revolver is a POS.
Exactly how you say something and make me question how much your high class prostitutes cost you.
Try a pub, or your mom's house. Because you're out of touch.
Snazzy
Why don't museums date these guns by the tree rings in their wood?
I am guessing this isn't shoulder fired for the fact it has a pommel on the butt; and because people just didn't like doing that.
I do mention the fact that it's a cheek-stock in the video :)
No pommel and no bayonet? Dissapointed
Load, then prime. Insane otherwise.
It looks sort of clockwork, so this killed people in the olden days, would it kill people in modern times too? Say.. do the bullets come out slowly that I could outrun them?
The 8 shot capacity is making me think that a certain Canadian gunsmith was reading about this when he was designing another rifle
Garand was originally designed with a 10-round magazine before the Military commissioned it with the wider .30-06 cartridges
@@TheSundayShooter I know, just fun to draw historical links. No matter how fictional they may be
love the level of autism and dedication !
it is always amazing to me that firearms became a thing given the risks involved with just handling gun powered and the dodginess of some of these weapons. i could see someone not closing some of the pans properly having a massive chain fire and blowing half their arm off.
still in this modern age we have dimwits still shooting themselves through bad gun safety go figure. cheers for the video but i think i will stick to my spear, sword and bow. far less chance of killing myself then messing with early firearms.
Considering the engineers & craftsmen could be pretty multi-cultural in the HRE members 'doms, who knows where the person come from who created this revolver? You mentioned Indian motifs? Oh you probably answer this in "Who Invented the 'Wheelgun'?" :D
Oh the maker of this was absolutely Germanic. The Indian counterparts I mention are 'convergent' in design and decoration to some extent but are later.
So is the royal armouries a govt entity? I thought so, and thought he was just an employee/curator. But The title “keeper of firearms” makes me think ol Jonathan found a cheeky loophole in a weapon hating society.
In Britain, Royal tends to be used as a ceremonial equivalent of Government in departmental titles. Although sometimes it actually means belonging to the King. Keeper is an old term for curator.
The paper targets in the background are cool, but not aesthetically pleasing.
A "Daft" revolver, let me guess, either English or Dutch, maybe even Belgian!
John Dafte was English. But the oldest self-rotating revolver is indeed Dutch and is in Colt's former collection (Wadsworth Atheneum).
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Awesome but extra long winded!
In what way, sorry? It's less than 15 minutes.
This content is for people who have a deeper interest and want to learn. Perhaps demolition ranch is more your speed
Bot. Why do you keep saying that. It's your opinion. Should he just cater to you? What about everyone else? Do they agree with you?