I wish Traditions still made that pistol. EDIT: use a .490 ball and a 0.15 patch. The patch serves to create an airseal so gas doesn't escape. And the patch also gets bound in the rifling so that the ball can spin like a baseball, greatly improving accuracy.
You are absolutely right. Patching it for the nice tight fit, certainly would make that nice seal. And especially with the rifling on this particular model it sure would help it spin and get that nice stable more accurate flight! You are 100% correct. With my basic plinking, it is accurate enough for me. If I start competition shooting it, I'll start using patches ; )
If you patch the ball it will shoot anything you can aim at at twentyfive yards. The’wadding’ is not a waste of time. In a military situation one had to load as fast as possible so one needed to prim first like you did. However you should always prime after your loaded because your hand is over the muzzle, your gun can go off any time it’s primed. You don’t want the gun going off by accident when your running down your load
Interesting saying that ideally you do not prime first. All my instruction has been by reenactors, so they always prime first. But I definitely see how in theory that would not be as safe! Thank you for the lesson!
@@theblackspotguild the military primed first, then rammed cartridge and ball down the barrel. So reinactors told you correct. Today they tend to shoot blanks, so a singed hand is the worse they could get. At a range or historic event, you don’t prime until your on line to fire. You don’t want gun going off while ramming home ball. If your hunting it’s always best to keep unprimed till your ready to hunt. The gun is ‘hot’ when primed
@@robertd4100 to be fast. Safely isn’t as important when w bayonet is coming at you. Brown bess could be loaded in less then fifteen seconds The Prussians went one better. They made big touch holes and the cartridge could just be dumped in. When the ball rammed home with the pan closed priming was pushed in to the pan. Today no enemy is going to kill you if you don’t load. An unprimed gun is very unlikely to go off. But primed your risking your hand and maybe other parts on how good your half cock notch can hold
It really shouldn't. They minimize the chances of a spark by making the ramrods out of brass. But that doesn't solve any friction issues. I haven't however ever heard of that being an issue.
This exact one is out of production. I picked mine up off guntrader. In southern NH there is a great shop with lots of options! If you happen to be near there. Otherwise, good luck!
THIS is a pirate pistol. But I also say that that in the title: "pirate gun aka flintlock pistol". It is aimed at people that don't really know what a flintlock pistol is, but sure know what a pirate gun is from watching any pirate movie ever. And they want to know how to shoot one. For those that go to RUclips and don't Google "how to fire a flintlock pistol", but rather, "how to fire a pirate gun". Anyone that knows a pirate gun is actually a flintlock pistol, probably knows how to fire it and won't be looking it up. But people that want to know how to fire a pirate gun, would look it up. The general world knows this as a "pirate gun", not a flintlock pistol. See?
@@theblackspotguild I’m guessing that pirates used any pistols available. They did not make their own pistols. They used British and French and Dutch and Spanish military pistols and pistols from other countries. Pirates bought or stole pistols. They did not make them, themselves. There were no “pirate” pistols. Only bought or stolen pistols used by pirates.
I disagree with your philosophy on not using the correct terms and about armatures not interested in knowing the right way. Misleading people, even amateurs, well, is misleading! Even children will need to know the correct terms. Anyway, barring that it was a good video. I have looked at lots of muzzle loading firearms videos and this is the first time I have ever actually seen a close up of the flash pan and how the frizzen closes to prevent the powder from spilling. Your vid would have been perfect if you had shot the ball and used the proper nomenclature. I am interested and I have never touched a muzzle loader.
@@Hamrik_OswaldThey kinda are, before smokeless gun powder was invented and a distinction had to be made to the 'old' black powder, people just called black powder "gunpowder". It's all just semantics
@@zdocc2383 exactly, semantics indeed. When I say gun powder, most people know we mean black powder. They mostly would have called it gun powder, or even just "powder". Semantics.
Learn more and learn the correct terminology for the names of the parts on weapon before you make any more videos and its not a pirate gun, they used what ever they got their hands on.
It is literally called a "pirate pistol." This video isn't made for experts like you. This was made for the general public that have never seen a decent video of one being shot. I made it because I couldn't find one even halfway decent video showing in laman's terms, how to fire one. Newbies don't want all the jargon, they want simple words. Just like when I teach people how to sail I don't use sailing terms. On my ship they aren't lines or sheets, they are ropes. And it isn't even starboard/port, it is left and right. People that aren't sailing nuts appreciate the simple terms versus the complicated terminology. Same as here, the people I made this video for appreciate the simplicity showing how to shoot my pirate gun.
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This pistol is made in Spain by Ardesa, and marketed in USA by Traditions. Good pistol for the price.
Interesting! Thanks for that!
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I wish Traditions still made that pistol.
EDIT: use a .490 ball and a 0.15 patch. The patch serves to create an airseal so gas doesn't escape. And the patch also gets bound in the rifling so that the ball can spin like a baseball, greatly improving accuracy.
You are absolutely right. Patching it for the nice tight fit, certainly would make that nice seal. And especially with the rifling on this particular model it sure would help it spin and get that nice stable more accurate flight! You are 100% correct. With my basic plinking, it is accurate enough for me. If I start competition shooting it, I'll start using patches ; )
I I’ve had mine for 10 years. The screw on the hammer broke. Other than that it’s been amazing
If you patch the ball it will shoot anything you can aim at at twentyfive yards. The’wadding’ is not a waste of time.
In a military situation one had to load as fast as possible so one needed to prim first like you did. However you should always prime after your loaded because your hand is over the muzzle, your gun can go off any time it’s primed. You don’t want the gun going off by accident when your running down your load
Interesting saying that ideally you do not prime first. All my instruction has been by reenactors, so they always prime first. But I definitely see how in theory that would not be as safe! Thank you for the lesson!
@@theblackspotguild the military primed first, then rammed cartridge and ball down the barrel. So reinactors told you correct. Today they tend to shoot blanks, so a singed hand is the worse they could get.
At a range or historic event, you don’t prime until your on line to fire. You don’t want gun going off while ramming home ball.
If your hunting it’s always best to keep unprimed till your ready to hunt. The gun is ‘hot’ when primed
A leather wrap called a frizzen stahl can be placed over the frizzen so the gun is ‘safe’ when primed
@@jeffreyrobinson3555 why did the military primed first?
@@robertd4100 to be fast. Safely isn’t as important when w bayonet is coming at you. Brown bess could be loaded in less then fifteen seconds
The Prussians went one better. They made big touch holes and the cartridge could just be dumped in. When the ball rammed home with the pan closed priming was pushed in to the pan.
Today no enemy is going to kill you if you don’t load.
An unprimed gun is very unlikely to go off. But primed your risking your hand and maybe other parts on how good your half cock notch can hold
I wonder what are the odds of setting off the powder while ramming the rod down the barrel. Would the ramming create enough friction to go blam?
It really shouldn't. They minimize the chances of a spark by making the ramrods out of brass. But that doesn't solve any friction issues. I haven't however ever heard of that being an issue.
You can stuff the paper wading in the barrel it'll hold the ball in there when you ram it
That's what I did.
I could never find that specific model. Always wanted one
Now you have one!
Very cool! 👍
Where did you get this? - I haven't watched the whole video yet😅
Actually, that's an 18th century model.
Does anyone know where I can get one of these?
This exact one is out of production. I picked mine up off guntrader. In southern NH there is a great shop with lots of options! If you happen to be near there. Otherwise, good luck!
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What is a “pirate” pistol? I had no idea that pirates had manufacturing facilities and made their own firearms.
So what is a “pirate” pistol ?
THIS is a pirate pistol. But I also say that that in the title: "pirate gun aka flintlock pistol". It is aimed at people that don't really know what a flintlock pistol is, but sure know what a pirate gun is from watching any pirate movie ever. And they want to know how to shoot one. For those that go to RUclips and don't Google "how to fire a flintlock pistol", but rather, "how to fire a pirate gun". Anyone that knows a pirate gun is actually a flintlock pistol, probably knows how to fire it and won't be looking it up. But people that want to know how to fire a pirate gun, would look it up. The general world knows this as a "pirate gun", not a flintlock pistol. See?
@@theblackspotguild I’m guessing that pirates used any pistols available. They did not make their own pistols. They used British and French and Dutch and Spanish military pistols and pistols from other countries. Pirates bought or stole pistols. They did not make them, themselves.
There were no “pirate” pistols. Only bought or stolen pistols used by pirates.
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It really should have been a smooth bore. I have one. The Spanish made guns have improved a lot over the last 15 years or so.
I disagree with your philosophy on not using the correct terms and about armatures not interested in knowing the right way. Misleading people, even amateurs, well, is misleading! Even children will need to know the correct terms. Anyway, barring that it was a good video. I have looked at lots of muzzle loading firearms videos and this is the first time I have ever actually seen a close up of the flash pan and how the frizzen closes to prevent the powder from spilling. Your vid would have been perfect if you had shot the ball and used the proper nomenclature. I am interested and I have never touched a muzzle loader.
I'll take it sir ; ) perhaps I will redo it with more correct nomenclature etc! I really appreciate the feedback and kind words.
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DO NOT use gun powder as this guy suggests. Use black powder. Two vastly different medias.
Both black powder and smokeless gun powder are gun powder. They're just different.
@@johan.ohgren no
@@Hamrik_OswaldThey kinda are, before smokeless gun powder was invented and a distinction had to be made to the 'old' black powder, people just called black powder "gunpowder". It's all just semantics
@@zdocc2383 exactly, semantics indeed. When I say gun powder, most people know we mean black powder. They mostly would have called it gun powder, or even just "powder". Semantics.
Semantics. They didn't really ever call it black powder. It was all "gun powder" or just "powder". So I call it gun powder.
Learn more and learn the correct terminology for the names of the parts on weapon before you make any more videos and its not a pirate gun, they used what ever they got their hands on.
It is literally called a "pirate pistol." This video isn't made for experts like you. This was made for the general public that have never seen a decent video of one being shot. I made it because I couldn't find one even halfway decent video showing in laman's terms, how to fire one. Newbies don't want all the jargon, they want simple words. Just like when I teach people how to sail I don't use sailing terms. On my ship they aren't lines or sheets, they are ropes. And it isn't even starboard/port, it is left and right. People that aren't sailing nuts appreciate the simple terms versus the complicated terminology. Same as here, the people I made this video for appreciate the simplicity showing how to shoot my pirate gun.
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@@gvonhellsing2 fun video. I have seen that one. Just long and complicated. Thank you though!