Flintlocks : Bullet boards and loading blocks.
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2013
- A faster way to load a patched roundball. Steve Davis,Stillwater Woodcraft,The Pathfinder School,survival,bushcraft,prepping,trekking,fishing,hunting,trapping,woodcraft,camping,flintlock,muzzleloader,knapping,primitive skills,fire,shelter,water,longhunter,colonial,navigation
Thank you for a interesting video! 👍
I have an old book on flintlock rifles.
It has photos 248 different rifles and about two dozen shooting bags with accessories. There are photos of several loading blocks and at least
One of them had a short starter attached to it. So they were known and used. Problem is that only a few survived in collections. I think thats true for lots of small common everyday items. People in later generations didnt know what they were and didnt value them enough to preserve them.
By the way the short starter shown in the book was made from a piece of tree branch about 1 1/2 inches wide and four inches long. All but about an inch was scraped down to bore diameter so it would push the ball down into the bore about 2 1/2".
It was obviously handmade and kind of crude looking. Not turned on a lathe but no reason you couldnt make one like that.
I might be interesting to make one and work with it to see just how long a short starter rod is ideal for field use.
Thanks for the video.
Great video. I'm building a flintlock this summer and trying to absorb as much good info like this as possible. Very helpful!
I'm going to make one, thanks!
NICE! An 18th century speed loader! I've had a week off from work and have been binge watching your videos, very impressive. The 18th century was much more labor intense but simpler at the same time and we lack that now in modern society.
Thank you very much. Those boards look easy to make.
I like loading blocks! Yours is a smart design! Nice out fit also,Thanks for sharing.
Awesome!
A good idea and nice video,Steve!
during the civil war, pre loaded shots were supplied in a paper patch. you tore or bit the twist off the paper, poured the powder into the bore, the paper and projectile were both rammed in and you were ready to fire. I believe both sides of the civil war used a similar arrangement.
Not concerned with then, now is is where it is and this is the real deal. Great black powder lesson for us newbies. (I'm 60) Real world hunting can use stuff like this. Actually love "then' but, hey this is now..Thank you. Subscribed
this is the slickest idea iv seen in a long time. thanks for sharing
Looks good to me! Thanks Steve!
That is cool. Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant bro. But then most things I see you do usually are
Good luck during hunting season
VERY COOL, I did not know about those. Thanks for the video.
Agree!
great vid on loading block critter lot of ppl don't know about them
Thanks, I needed that.
Very helpful thanks
That's a high capacity loading block! Illegal in the state of California 😲
Can you do anything in California?
That's brilliantly simple. I feel so stupid for never having thought of something like that before. I can't believe I've not heard of this.
Only the Southerns using the Enfield style cartridge. Yankees used a different paper cartridge that required removing the minie ball from the paper wraper.
Earliest reference I’ve found for these is 1860 but no doubt they would of been used before. Not sure about 18th C but definitely period for a 19th C setting, Mountain men, fur trade, etc.
Quickest way for a second shot - keep an extra ball in your mouth. If you need a second shot that fast, you probably don't need a patch anyways...
Bayonette
@@andrewgft4529 It takes a hefty amount of ingestion to get lead poisoning, which one gets from lead dust, i.e. ingesting lead paint. If your round balls are oxidized, don't put one in your mouth. But at that point, handling them is probably about as bad for absorbing toxic amounts of lead. A non-oxidized lead RB isn't hurting anyone.
Musket speed loader!
I find it hard to believe that loading blocks, or bullet boards, are not period correct. While maybe not documented, I would think the colonials or whomever back then had to have thought of ways to speed the loading process of their firearms,. This method had to have been utilized.
Purists dispute the use of the loading block BECAUSE they can't find documentation on them. However, I suspect that the reason for that is that nobody bothered to write anything down about it because it was so obvious, so commonly in use, that no one saw the NEED to! The block I made for my shooting bag holds ten .490 patched balls;overkill maybe, but I use my smokepole for target shooting, since I can't shoot worth a damn(and I REFUSE to go hunting if I can't guarantee a clean shot and a quick kill!), so the less time I have to spend searching for balls and patches, the more shots I can have to scare the targets with!
Period correct or not, thats the way its done!
It very well could mean putting food on the table or not
Do you ever use tallow or fixin wax on your wads?
No lube on the patch?
One thing i have learned when i make shot is that if the water is warmed up to about 110 degrees the shot cools slower preventing misshapen or deformed shot.
Steve, I've been an NRA instructor for years and have lots of guns, but no black powder. I want to get a flintlock this winter. Ice been thinking about a French fusible at about a 20 gauge bore. What gun do you recommend, and who should I buy from?
No lube on patch?
Ten "you knows" in five minutes. An average of two per minute. Not bad, you know.
What are you using for lube? I'm a spit-lube guy so the block doesn't work well for me. Several of the guys I do 18c re-enactment with use these and use "bear grease" for lube.
Steve, I'm afraid if you keep this up, you'll someday have a flintlock machine gun ...
Good video. Get a HD camera.
Hi What size hole did you drill
the chinese sharpshooters and japanese would use bamboo tubes pre charged with shot, patch and powder and all you had to do was push the ramrod through and you only had to prime your pan. unfortunately i couldnt find much in english about musketry of that era that wasnt heavily fictionalized/censored by the cultural revolution.
What do you do if you forget to pour the gun powder before you load the bullet? How do you get it out?
Pour some 4FG through the vent hole, about 10 grains, and light it off with a match. It’ll propel the stuck ball
where did you get the hat I have to have one!
Blocks may deform the soft lead ball thereby costing you accuracy.
Military 15 ball Block to 18
I'm going to make one, thanks!