I had heard of the Maynard system, but never expected to see a working example, let alone one shot for real. You perfecting the tape making (90% ignition is really well done) is a big achievement. Really interesting video, the history of your rifle musket added to it.
The good ideas fairy just beamed the concept of tape priming + guncotton cartridges into my brain and i think it would be quite funny to see it in action.
Awesome to see you figured out how to recreate the tape primers in a reliable way. as soon as I got to see them, I immediately realized that moisture must have been a problem.
Welcome back, it's good to see you home. I remember having a toy gun that worked with red Maynard tape in the 1970's. My grandparents sold these in their small textile factory/shops between and after the two world wars. (Towels for the mothers, underwear for the fathers and a toy gun for the kids😄)
Thank you Sir, you are having excellent success with your tapes. I don't think the originals were better than 90% and most often a lot less. Would love to see the manufacturing process. Thanks again for posting, Best regards...Doc
The moment I saw the mechanisms action I was in cloud nine! I have seen this a couple of times but I never seen how it actually works, let alone in action. As a connoisseur of odd musket versions, conversions and mechanisms this was a real treat. Thank you so much for sharing!
Nice to see you´re back from your deployment, in good health without sickness or injuries. Thanks for introducing this interesting and nice weapon to us. This model is hard to get here in germany. Tomorrow I´ll go with my Needle-Rifle to Sömmerda/Thuringia for the annual Dreyse-Needlerifle-Shooting Competition. There are evrey time very interesting people with interesting rifles and much more interesting history. The last time I´ve a nice conversation with the great-grandson of Nicolaus von Dreyse - the inventor of the Needle-Rifle. I think this would be great fun for you too😄
There is an annual Dreyse shoot in Sömmerda? I am planning a research trip to include the Prussian secret state archive in Berlin, and of course a stop to visit the Dreyse-Haus in Sömmerda on my way to Wien and the Austrian Staatsarchiv. Is it always this weekend every year?
Great to see you back in the Commonwealth safe and well. A fascinating video about cap guns (as our toys were called all those years ago) and interesting that Maynard had the same duds and dampness trouble we had in Liverpool in 1962! Thank you Brett Best regards from Suffolk (the original one 🏴)
I don’t know if you were already approached at all Brett, but I think your channel should be on Ian’s History of Weapons and War app. It’s the kind of well researched and interesting esoterica that belongs there.
I have always wanted to see one of these work and it was as cool as I thought! Great concept but nature once again proves to be the issue with a new military technology 😂. It is good to have you back! Can’t wait to see what you come up with. Have to get back that way to visit again, it is always a great time when I get to visit the shop and nerd out!
Welcome home! Thank you for your service and another very interesting video. I can't wait to see your "mad minute" with the 1816. Especially if you use the Enfield style cartridge.
Welcome back, I have been missing these videos here in the UK. I have seen and handled rifles with tape primers in museums, but that's the first time I have seen one in action. Excellent video as usual.
Glad to have you back intact. I knew there were moisture problems but not as bad as you experienced with the unsealed rolls. From what I've read it was indeed a trouble-prone system in all regards and most were glad to see it gone. Even being on the other side of the lock, if the magazine went off the flash would be dangerous to an unshielded eye- that was a huge danger with Forsyth's fulminate bottle system. It still surprises me how long it took for sealed cartridges to be invented; all the needed parts were there for a long time before it happened. One last thought is that damp or wet paper might form better pockets in the tape if that's an issue for you. Let 'em dry then load.
Thanks for the great video. I’m sure we would all like to see how you were able to make these Maynard tapes.
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Welcome back, Brett! You can never be too nerdy about about these things ya know. (That hollow base bullet really drags a lot of smoke with it!) You can always self publish a pamphlet on ignition systems, and yes I'd buy it...U-Tube be dammed Suh!
Welcome home, and thank you for your service. As always, thank you for the hard work you do on your videos as well. On a side note, I am taking a trip to gettysburg this month. I've been wanting to go back since 2003!
3:14 him commenting on how much of a nerd he is. Meanwhile I am watching this putting primers in 45-70 Government casings so that I can make more safe ammo for my newly bought Model 1888 Springfield Trapdoor
I had read about and seen pictures of this weapon for most of my life. A couple of weeks ago i was handed an rather beaten up example of this weapon. The stock and barrel were just almost junk. But the receiver was intact and still worked. A real piece of history was sitting in my hands. Hated giving it back to the owner.
@papercartridges6705 in the UK they seemed to get replaced by caps that looked more like percussion caps, made of plastic in rings of caps joined together. Then they all just vanished...
Glad you are back safe. Great work with this. The period waterproofing would likely have been a shellac lacquer but a modern interpretation might be a plastic tape with a contact type glue. Very fiddly to mate it all together by hand so some sort of hand driven wheeling sort of thing maybe? Tyvek or similar would look more like actual paper at least. I can see it being done by hand for one’s own use. Glueing one side of two strips with a contact adhesive, laying out the pills in some sort of jig to place them the same distance apart and dropping the other tape in place in a jig but one would still have to find a way to form the blisters on the top tape. Hmm, will have to think that through a bit more carefully. Tyvek is a plastic after all and may allow blisters to be easily formed for the top tape by simple squeezing of heated tape in a jig or a hot jig. Commercially the solution, if the hand made version works, would be a cunning machine to do it continuously. Maybe Maynard had such a device or patented one? Anyway chons da or good luck in Cornish.
@@papercartridges6705 A valid concern but easy enough to test with a few off cuts I would think. Maybe with a percussion cap pushed over some Tyvek (or similar) onto a nipple. A similar material is used for security envelopes too I think . Very hard to tear.
Acid treated paper is lab filter paper. It is not nitrated. I suggest it because it sheds liquids and won't soak the varnish up of a thicker coat. There's resins, tars, shellac, cellulose, rubber or pyroxalin, with or without casein. Colophony (left over rosin from turpentine distillation). Lots of these things were mixed together for specific applications. Just "varnish" is almost the equivalent to just food, could be a cornucopia of ingredients and have the simple title. Oil matters, long oil varnish is "long" on oil/ contains a greater amount of oil to solids, spar. Furniture varnish is "short" with more solids. I make propolis varnish. They just didn't test enough or maybe spent the time on the trials cap rolls and subcontracted after that.
Welcome back big chap, glad to see your back safe and sound 😊looking forward to some cracking bids, now if you will excuse me, am aff to shoot ma wee parker hale muscketoon. All the best from sunny Troon Scotland
Schön das es Leute gibt die sich die Mühe machen derartige Waffen wieder funktionsfähig zu machen...im Vergleich zu heute hatten die Konstrukteure von damals noch phantasie😊
The value of the 1855 Springfield was never so much the tape primer even when there was high hopes for it. It could be served by tophat primers just as well as any other percussion musket. The main value of the weapon was that it had the rate of fire of a smoothbore musket but almost the accuracy of a slow-loading patched ball rifle. It fired the Minie (spelling approximate) ball. It was dreamed up by a Frenchman of that name a short time earlier. It was a deliberately undersized conical bullet with a hollow base. The small size allowed it to almost fall down a clean bore of its own weight. A steel ramrod put it down fast regardless of he condiition of he bore. When the powder exploded, the skirt of the base expanded out to engage the rifling. The effective range then reached out to a furlong. The 1855 Springfield was first tested in combat on a large scale by the US Ninth Infantry (mounted) under the command of Colonel George Wright at the battles of Four Lakes and Spokane Plains early in September, 1858 near the present-day communities of Four Lakes and Medical Lake in eastern Washington. Colonel Wright understood immediately the potential of the new Springfield in combat. Against some resistance, he was able to obtain extra ammunition for his men to practice with. It paid off handsomely during the expedition that won and ended the Yakima War and with it the dastardly plot to exterminate all non-Indians in Washington Territory. The attacking Indians at Four Lakes were dismayed at rapidity that they were being hit at the range that they were being hit. In the day or two later Battle of Spokane Plains, they ran before the advancing infantry and artillery. Their smoothbore Hudson's Bay trade muskets were no match for the 1855 Springfields and the six pound howitzers. Great praise and honour were won by Colonel Wright, a fine officer much envied by those of superior rank. From 1957 to 1959, I dwelt with my birth family on a military base named in his honour. It was Fort George Wright and was located between what is now Airway Heights and Spokane along the Spokane River. During the War Between the States, Colonel Wright was breveted to the rank of General and was appointed Commander of the Department of the Pacific consisting of everywhere in the nation west of the Great Continental Divide. In that post he distinguished himself in the delicate task of keeping the bloody war out of the west. As for the Minie Ball concept, it took over in the manufacture of infantry weapons. Later iterations were the 1861 and 1863 Springfields. They began to be called rifles instead of muskets. More properly, they were called "rifled muskets." During the War Between the States, hundreds of thousands of them were being distributed on both sides.
I have one of those tape primer guns, I don't know much about it. I can't see any rifling and it was made in philly. that range looks familiar pretty sure I've been there.
Your tape primers! Worked better! than my purchased primers! all brands. if you only had the issues "I watched" in this video? I never thought about the paw's similarities to revolvers and historic timing. Never thought about the caps' dexterity either? Thanks! "I wonder?" if Maynard ever had a revolver about this time? as a dentist he had the metallurgy and chemistry tech. "I BET" he used a copper or tin foils, maybe soldered depending on environmental and manufacturing confidence, or abilities? but costly, so you know what came next in history, save a cent.
Like other Commenters, I had come looking this rifle and percussion method on YT after reading a Comment on a YT Short about "Maynard Cap Muskets" in Reply to an YT Video Short on a German "Cap Lighter" - an old brass lighter, similar to a Zippo, petrol fuelled, but ignited with a "Cap-roll" instead of a flint! It has a little "twist ring" on the Centre of the body, which Flips the Lid open and Strikes the Cap at the same time! Fairly ingenious for the mid-19th Century when Cigar smoking was a fashionable, time-consuming business, and boxes of matches weren't readily available - nor Safe! And were hopeless outdoors in the wind and rain. The "Convenience of a Box of 'Sulfur Lucifer's', with all the Flame you need to get your cigar going!" (One imagines the advertisement running) But... one Also has to wonder? Strange Coincidence? Divine Providence? Or did someone see a "Maynard Cap" Percussion Roll being used for shooting and have a 'eureka' moment?! Thank you Brett for the Video and I'll raise a small glass of Irish whiskey to you health! Sláinte, 🥃👍
Seeing this speed improvement, it's surprising that the didn't try a cartridge where you bit off the tail and pushed the whole thing open end first into the bore? It would speed loading
Those dang cool kids! They think they’re so cool. Thanks for another great video, very interesting. When were capping tools invented and commonly used?
Useful French expression: fausse bonne idée -- false/misleading good idea. Even has a neat TLA. Got it from a French RUclipsr, Nick at The Linux Experiment. Welcome back, and I'm glad you weren't savaged by a camel.
I am curious on how that rifle, which is a Converted Flintlock 1816, and which unlike most Converted Flintlocks was made into a rifle, was type classified by the ordinance department. I'm assuming they'd fall under the category of "Rifled Muskets 'altered to percussion,' N.A. or contract. Calibre .69" but I don't know for sure. Nonetheless an absolutely beautiful and interesting Rifle.
There are fireworks makers in India that you can watch on yt manufacturering the cap sheets for rolls as a cottage industry by hand. Every step from a bowl of goo to boxed rolls. Are they silver F? I don't even know.
Always thought these were neat. I assume it uses mechanics similar to a revolver where the hand would advance the cylinder but instead uses it to advance the cap tape? I don’t know when I will be able to make it down that way, but what kind of scotch do you drink, so I can prepare for the trip! 😁
If only there had been a guy around familiar with film cameras in the late 1800s nitrocellulose film was a thing and I bet you could have adapted a revolver type hand arrangement to advance a film roll slowly forward and the film itself is explosive but maybe you could have combined it like this to make little powder pillows.
@@willbbwluvr If you wish to see a lot of options (or need another rabbit hole to go down) Check out "Homemade primer course", it's a PDF written by a PhD of chemistry.
Since I was just at 100 yards, I was shooting 55 grains of Goex 3F. It’s very dirty. 2F or even 1F would be more appropriate for a .69 but my experimental primers seem to ignite 3F easier.
@papercartridges6705 thanks for the fast reply. Maybe a mixed 'Russian' powder charge would help ..... 3f tipping down the muzzle first, with 1f as the bulk of the charge to follow? Just a thought. Glad you're back.
They are available at my shop in Gettysburg. Because they are technically “primers” I can’t ship them, without an extraordinary hassle. So you’d have to buy them in person.
@@papercartridges6705 Thats about a 3 hour ride from me. But im planing on going to the Gettysburg Gun Show October 5th so Ill definitely swing by to pick a few up then if youre open that day!
For all you people commenting on this being the paper cap originator, it is not. There was a dart looking grenade that preceeded this firearm use. Like a big boomy 💥 lawn dart. Maybe 1790, maybe... They make a kid version of that as well. The paper cap in the nose cast metal toy with orienting fins and a heavy nose, whatever it is called, the bomb thing.
Where can I get some Maynard tape? I've have the model 1855 but have never been able to find tape for it. Thank you for the videos, they're always fascinating. Also, welcome back.
@@zacharyirizarry8589 nowhere near hot enough, also the geometry of both distance between priming blisters and thickness of the tape most likely will not work.
on FB Brett replied: "yes but you’d have to pick them up in person at my shop in Gettysburg. They’d require the same hazmat shipping requirements as any other primers or percussion caps and I don’t want to deal with that BS." so at some point it do look like you will be able to get them at his shop in gettysburg
Something that may be workable for a hunter or someone like a specialized sniper. The average soldier in the mud and muck would not really work well in war time.
I wouldn’t recommend it. Buck and ball was designed to throw a maximum number of total projectiles from a large number of guns into a certain space in hopes that a few might hit. Not ideal for hunting. A single patched round ball in a smoothbore would answer a lot better.
The smoothbore would have used paper wadding but when it was converted to rifle, it uses a Minié-Burton bullet that didn’t take any wadding. They load fairly easily and the blast of firing expands them to fill the rifling grooves.
Hello from Norway you was just overseas and I you are a officer but do you work for the army at full time? I now that it has nothing to do with the channel I was just curious, love the channel
I am in the U.S. Army Reserve. We do about 48 days of military training a year, and will often go overseas on longer deployments to support the active Army.
so why not a mad minut with flinllock, and cap and bal too. i didn´t say match lock for two reason. it´s a few hundred years outside your scop. the second it would only be a mad rush to get a second shoot of. in that minut.
I'm a ssg in the army, also very interested in history. Would love to take you up on your offer to shoot the shit over scotch. I was at alc at ft indiantown gap, part of the curriculum was essay and tour of Gettysburg. You ever thought of a crossover with them?
Excuse me sir, but do you have an email? I was wondering if you could have a follow up to your video on making realistic blank cartridges for civil war reenacting. At near the end of the video you remarked that you could make a video on making the arsenal pack. I have been scouring the internet and I was wondering if you could be of some help in that matter. If you can, it is deeply appreciative. Thank you and for such wonderful videos.
My god it is the same as the old cap guns I played with as a kid, back in the 50s. Never knew that the idea was even older.
exactly the same, it's where the idea came from.
Me too, but in the 60s. 😊
Kilgore was here. (The brand of roll caps I remember)
Add Scotland mid 60's
I was playing with Maynard primed cap guns in the 90s....
I had heard of the Maynard system, but never expected to see a working example, let alone one shot for real. You perfecting the tape making (90% ignition is really well done) is a big achievement.
Really interesting video, the history of your rifle musket added to it.
Your recreation is probably more reliable than the original!
I was literally just going to look up a video on these, because I didn't know how it worked. Perfect timing!
The good ideas fairy just beamed the concept of tape priming + guncotton cartridges into my brain and i think it would be quite funny to see it in action.
Your Remington conversion is beautifully preserved, . Thank you for presenting this gift of inspiration for collectors like myself.
I almost fell over the first time I looked at that bore!
I never thought about the flame possibility igniting the whole tape. That little leaf spring is a super solution for it. Very fascinating system.
The world of gun design is filled with ideas that sound better than they actually are.
Actually, you can say that about most things built by man.
"Merchant of Victorian Death".... if that is not on a T-shirt yet, it should be. Welcome home, Thanks
It’s on my business cards
Excellent
Awesome to see you figured out how to recreate the tape primers in a reliable way. as soon as I got to see them, I immediately realized that moisture must have been a problem.
Welcome back, it's good to see you home. I remember having a toy gun that worked with red Maynard tape in the 1970's. My grandparents sold these in their small textile factory/shops between and after the two world wars. (Towels for the mothers, underwear for the fathers and a toy gun for the kids😄)
Thank you Sir, you are having excellent success with your tapes. I don't think the originals were better than 90% and most often a lot less. Would love to see the manufacturing process. Thanks again for posting, Best regards...Doc
Thank you for this high praise. I am a big fan of your channel!
This channel is criminally under rated
I know, right?!
Good morning from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing this information
The moment I saw the mechanisms action I was in cloud nine!
I have seen this a couple of times but I never seen how it actually works, let alone in action.
As a connoisseur of odd musket versions, conversions and mechanisms this was a real treat.
Thank you so much for sharing!
That is a beautiful rifle. Given the early era of firearms, this was really forward thinking in terms of engineering. Great video.
Memories of my old cap guns in the 60’s 💥💥😃
Nice to see you´re back from your deployment, in good health without sickness or injuries. Thanks for introducing this interesting and nice weapon to us. This model is hard to get here in germany. Tomorrow I´ll go with my Needle-Rifle to Sömmerda/Thuringia for the annual Dreyse-Needlerifle-Shooting Competition. There are evrey time very interesting people with interesting rifles and much more interesting history. The last time I´ve a nice conversation with the great-grandson of Nicolaus von Dreyse - the inventor of the Needle-Rifle. I think this would be great fun for you too😄
There is an annual Dreyse shoot in Sömmerda?
I am planning a research trip to include the Prussian secret state archive in Berlin, and of course a stop to visit the Dreyse-Haus in Sömmerda on my way to Wien and the Austrian Staatsarchiv. Is it always this weekend every year?
Hey Brett, I’d love to see a video on how you clean your guns after firing and how you keep them in great condition if you get the time!
Welcome home! Excellent interesting presentation on the Maynard priming system. Certainly scratched an interest I have had for years.
Great to see you back in the Commonwealth safe and well. A fascinating video about cap guns (as our toys were called all those years ago) and interesting that Maynard had the same duds and dampness trouble we had in Liverpool in 1962! Thank you Brett
Best regards from Suffolk (the original one 🏴)
I don’t know if you were already approached at all Brett, but I think your channel should be on Ian’s History of Weapons and War app. It’s the kind of well researched and interesting esoterica that belongs there.
That would be cool! But I doubt Ian even knows who I am lol.
Thank you for your service, Brett. Good to have you back in the CONUS.
I have always wanted to see one of these work and it was as cool as I thought! Great concept but nature once again proves to be the issue with a new military technology 😂.
It is good to have you back! Can’t wait to see what you come up with. Have to get back that way to visit again, it is always a great time when I get to visit the shop and nerd out!
A most excellent episode! And a rare treat!🎉😊❤
Welcome back Sir. Well done! I have know about the Maynard for a long time but never have seen one used till now. Wonderful job, thank you!
I've always wanted to see this system in action, thank you!
Nitrocelulose lacquer should work like charm ,fuses are coated with it .Its used for guitar finish.
Thank you for doing these great videos! Welcome home! Glad you made it back safe! Thank you for your service
Welcome home! Thank you for your service and another very interesting video. I can't wait to see your "mad minute" with the 1816. Especially if you use the Enfield style cartridge.
I think I can use the same bullet for the P/51 Minié rifle and make up a sort of enfield style cartridge for it.
Welcome back, I have been missing these videos here in the UK. I have seen and handled rifles with tape primers in museums, but that's the first time I have seen one in action. Excellent video as usual.
Glad to have you back intact. I knew there were moisture problems but not as bad as you experienced with the unsealed rolls. From what I've read it was indeed a trouble-prone system in all regards and most were glad to see it gone. Even being on the other side of the lock, if the magazine went off the flash would be dangerous to an unshielded eye- that was a huge danger with Forsyth's fulminate bottle system. It still surprises me how long it took for sealed cartridges to be invented; all the needed parts were there for a long time before it happened. One last thought is that damp or wet paper might form better pockets in the tape if that's an issue for you. Let 'em dry then load.
I saw one of these tapes up for auction yesterday! First time I'd ever learned of it
Thanks for the great video. I’m sure we would all like to see how you were able to make these Maynard tapes.
Welcome back, Brett! You can never be too nerdy about about these things ya know. (That hollow base bullet really drags a lot of smoke with it!)
You can always self publish a pamphlet on ignition systems, and yes I'd buy it...U-Tube be dammed Suh!
Welcome home, and thank you for your service. As always, thank you for the hard work you do on your videos as well. On a side note, I am taking a trip to gettysburg this month. I've been wanting to go back since 2003!
Come visit the shop if you have time, 262 Baltimore St.
3:14 him commenting on how much of a nerd he is. Meanwhile I am watching this putting primers in 45-70 Government casings so that I can make more safe ammo for my newly bought Model 1888 Springfield Trapdoor
@cannonboy47323 if you insist. We nerds love free food!
Welcome home, and I was waiting for the "how to on the Maynard tapes" to bad about the RUclips censorship..
I just LOVE your channel!
Greetings and best wishes from Switzerland!
Thanks! Greetings from Gettysburg Pennsylvania
Good to see you back and happy Brett! Looking forward to future projects mate!
I had read about and seen pictures of this weapon for most of my life. A couple of weeks ago i was handed an rather beaten up example of this weapon. The stock and barrel were just almost junk. But the receiver was intact and still worked. A real piece of history was sitting in my hands. Hated giving it back to the owner.
great vid now i know how it works seen them keep up the good work
Its interesting that the pistol tapes were red. In the 1970's the toy cap gun tapes that I remember were also red.
They were red in the 90s when I grew up too. Haven’t seen them recently
Some were also green. I seem to recall the red ones being better.
@papercartridges6705 in the UK they seemed to get replaced by caps that looked more like percussion caps, made of plastic in rings of caps joined together. Then they all just vanished...
You can still find em around, usually in the toy section of markets and service stations.
Welcome back, was fantastic to be nerding out. Far to early in the morning for scotch tho.
Never too early for scotch!
man, i am getting old when I watch the shooting and spend the entire time hoping for more talking and info of how you made the dang things!
Maybe if I go to Rumble
Glad you are back safe. Great work with this. The period waterproofing would likely have been a shellac lacquer but a modern interpretation might be a plastic tape with a contact type glue. Very fiddly to mate it all together by hand so some sort of hand driven wheeling sort of thing maybe? Tyvek or similar would look more like actual paper at least. I can see it being done by hand for one’s own use. Glueing one side of two strips with a contact adhesive, laying out the pills in some sort of jig to place them the same distance apart and dropping the other tape in place in a jig but one would still have to find a way to form the blisters on the top tape. Hmm, will have to think that through a bit more carefully. Tyvek is a plastic after all and may allow blisters to be easily formed for the top tape by simple squeezing of heated tape in a jig or a hot jig. Commercially the solution, if the hand made version works, would be a cunning machine to do it continuously. Maybe Maynard had such a device or patented one? Anyway chons da or good luck in Cornish.
The plastic would need to completely burn away. I’d be worried that it would push half melted plastic down the vent hole in the cone.
@@papercartridges6705 A valid concern but easy enough to test with a few off cuts I would think. Maybe with a percussion cap pushed over some Tyvek (or similar) onto a nipple. A similar material is used for security envelopes too I think . Very hard to tear.
Acid treated paper is lab filter paper. It is not nitrated. I suggest it because it sheds liquids and won't soak the varnish up of a thicker coat.
There's resins, tars, shellac, cellulose, rubber or pyroxalin, with or without casein. Colophony (left over rosin from turpentine distillation).
Lots of these things were mixed together for specific applications. Just "varnish" is almost the equivalent to just food, could be a cornucopia of ingredients and have the simple title. Oil matters, long oil varnish is "long" on oil/ contains a greater amount of oil to solids, spar. Furniture varnish is "short" with more solids.
I make propolis varnish.
They just didn't test enough or maybe spent the time on the trials cap rolls and subcontracted after that.
Train isn't moving very fast, either. Still don't want to get hit with one.
I have always wanted to see this in action. Thank you.
Welcome back big chap, glad to see your back safe and sound 😊looking forward to some cracking bids, now if you will excuse me, am aff to shoot ma wee parker hale muscketoon. All the best from sunny Troon Scotland
Glad to see he's home, also it seems like the Maynard works about as well as brass caps, seems solid.
The gangs got them the blicky with the Maynard tape primers!
Schön das es Leute gibt die sich die Mühe machen derartige Waffen wieder funktionsfähig zu machen...im Vergleich zu heute hatten die Konstrukteure von damals noch phantasie😊
ich glaube, daß Maynard Zündhutchen sind nicht so schwer wie Dreyse Zündnadelpatronen zu fertigung!
it's pretty cool how they managed to make it work but wet weather was it's biggest nemesis
I wonder if using wax paper would help to resist the moisture.
I too have an 1857 Dated Rifled and Sighted 1816 with a Maynard Tape primer. 👍👍
Fantastic!!!!!
dude, you are the cool kid at this point!
i wish i could get my replica completed to have the maynard device to work
The value of the 1855 Springfield was never so much the tape primer even when there was high hopes for it. It could be served by tophat primers just as well as any other percussion musket. The main value of the weapon was that it had the rate of fire of a smoothbore musket but almost the accuracy of a slow-loading patched ball rifle. It fired the Minie (spelling approximate) ball. It was dreamed up by a Frenchman of that name a short time earlier. It was a deliberately undersized conical bullet with a hollow base. The small size allowed it to almost fall down a clean bore of its own weight. A steel ramrod put it down fast regardless of he condiition of he bore. When the powder exploded, the skirt of the base expanded out to engage the rifling. The effective range then reached out to a furlong.
The 1855 Springfield was first tested in combat on a large scale by the US Ninth Infantry (mounted) under the command of Colonel George Wright at the battles of Four Lakes and Spokane Plains early in September, 1858 near the present-day communities of Four Lakes and Medical Lake in eastern Washington. Colonel Wright understood immediately the potential of the new Springfield in combat. Against some resistance, he was able to obtain extra ammunition for his men to practice with. It paid off handsomely during the expedition that won and ended the Yakima War and with it the dastardly plot to exterminate all non-Indians in Washington Territory. The attacking Indians at Four Lakes were dismayed at rapidity that they were being hit at the range that they were being hit. In the day or two later Battle of Spokane Plains, they ran before the advancing infantry and artillery. Their smoothbore Hudson's Bay trade muskets were no match for the 1855 Springfields and the six pound howitzers.
Great praise and honour were won by Colonel Wright, a fine officer much envied by those of superior rank. From 1957 to 1959, I dwelt with my birth family on a military base named in his honour. It was Fort George Wright and was located between what is now Airway Heights and Spokane along the Spokane River. During the War Between the States, Colonel Wright was breveted to the rank of General and was appointed Commander of the Department of the Pacific consisting of everywhere in the nation west of the Great Continental Divide. In that post he distinguished himself in the delicate task of keeping the bloody war out of the west.
As for the Minie Ball concept, it took over in the manufacture of infantry weapons. Later iterations were the 1861 and 1863 Springfields. They began to be called rifles instead of muskets. More properly, they were called "rifled muskets." During the War Between the States, hundreds of thousands of them were being distributed on both sides.
I have one of those tape primer guns, I don't know much about it. I can't see any rifling and it was made in philly. that range looks familiar pretty sure I've been there.
900 FPS 500 grain freight trains. Not to be underestimated.
Even the hand that advances the tape looks just like I remember from cap guns 😮
Your tape primers! Worked better! than my purchased primers! all brands. if you only had the issues "I watched" in this video?
I never thought about the paw's similarities to revolvers and historic timing. Never thought about the caps' dexterity either? Thanks!
"I wonder?" if Maynard ever had a revolver about this time? as a dentist he had the metallurgy and chemistry tech. "I BET" he used a copper or tin foils, maybe soldered depending on environmental and manufacturing confidence, or abilities? but costly, so you know what came next in history, save a cent.
Sometimes ago there were trials with caseless ammo and somekind of electric ignition. In the 1850s that was Sharps with Maynard tape... 😀
Like other Commenters, I had come looking this rifle and percussion method on YT after reading a Comment on a YT Short about "Maynard Cap Muskets" in Reply to an YT Video Short on
a German "Cap Lighter" - an old brass lighter, similar to a Zippo, petrol fuelled, but ignited with a "Cap-roll" instead of a flint! It has a little "twist ring" on the Centre of the body, which Flips the Lid open and Strikes the Cap at the same time! Fairly ingenious for the mid-19th Century when Cigar smoking was a fashionable, time-consuming business, and boxes of matches weren't readily available - nor Safe! And were hopeless outdoors in the wind and rain. The "Convenience of a Box of 'Sulfur Lucifer's', with all the Flame you need to get your cigar going!" (One imagines the advertisement running)
But... one Also has to wonder? Strange Coincidence? Divine Providence? Or did someone see a "Maynard Cap" Percussion Roll being used for shooting and have a 'eureka' moment?!
Thank you Brett for the Video and I'll raise a small glass of Irish whiskey to you health!
Sláinte, 🥃👍
Seeing this speed improvement, it's surprising that the didn't try a cartridge where you bit off the tail and pushed the whole thing open end first into the bore?
It would speed loading
Those dang cool kids! They think they’re so cool.
Thanks for another great video, very interesting. When were capping tools invented and commonly used?
Useful French expression: fausse bonne idée -- false/misleading good idea. Even has a neat TLA. Got it from a French RUclipsr, Nick at The Linux Experiment.
Welcome back, and I'm glad you weren't savaged by a camel.
I am curious on how that rifle, which is a Converted Flintlock 1816, and which unlike most Converted Flintlocks was made into a rifle, was type classified by the ordinance department. I'm assuming they'd fall under the category of "Rifled Muskets 'altered to percussion,' N.A. or contract. Calibre .69" but I don't know for sure. Nonetheless an absolutely beautiful and interesting Rifle.
Can you do a video on the Norwegian Krag-Peterssen? If you could even find one. Those things are as rare as a Stradivarius.
Not what you would call "Soldier-proof" :)
@8:57 I have been issued weapons with a bore not half that crisp
Wait. The roll cap existed since before tye civil war? Whoa.
What does a actual unused 1861 Springfield from the period sale for now, used to be 2500.00 to 3,000.00?
There are fireworks makers in India that you can watch on yt manufacturering the cap sheets for rolls as a cottage industry by hand. Every step from a bowl of goo to boxed rolls.
Are they silver F? I don't even know.
Man do I miss those Pennsylvania State game land ranges
Welcome back! Get to work😅
Always thought these were neat. I assume it uses mechanics similar to a revolver where the hand would advance the cylinder but instead uses it to advance the cap tape?
I don’t know when I will be able to make it down that way, but what kind of scotch do you drink, so I can prepare for the trip! 😁
What about using fine line masking tape for the primers?
If only there had been a guy around familiar with film cameras in the late 1800s nitrocellulose film was a thing and I bet you could have adapted a revolver type hand arrangement to advance a film roll slowly forward and the film itself is explosive but maybe you could have combined it like this to make little powder pillows.
@papercartridges6705 I'm just curious, is the compound Armstrong's mixture, or something else?
Probably H48 or similar. I make H48 to reload large rifle primers for black powder cartridges.
@@dragonhealer7588 thanks mate, good suggestion
@@willbbwluvr
If you wish to see a lot of options (or need another rabbit hole to go down)
Check out "Homemade primer course", it's a PDF written by a PhD of chemistry.
Good Sir, a question - what is the powder charge in your cartridges for that shooting day?
Great video, thank you, Gus
Since I was just at 100 yards, I was shooting 55 grains of Goex 3F. It’s very dirty. 2F or even 1F would be more appropriate for a .69 but my experimental primers seem to ignite 3F easier.
@papercartridges6705 thanks for the fast reply. Maybe a mixed 'Russian' powder charge would help ..... 3f tipping down the muzzle first, with 1f as the bulk of the charge to follow?
Just a thought.
Glad you're back.
Would like to know where or how u made the caps I have several of that type lock would like to use it as made
Do you have any plans on selling maynard tapes on your website in the future?
They are available at my shop in Gettysburg. Because they are technically “primers” I can’t ship them, without an extraordinary hassle. So you’d have to buy them in person.
@@papercartridges6705 Thats about a 3 hour ride from me. But im planing on going to the Gettysburg Gun Show October 5th so Ill definitely swing by to pick a few up then if youre open that day!
Perfect Ill be in Gettysburg on October 5th for the gunshow in town so I’ll definitely be stopping by to pick a few things up 👍
How fast does it make reloading compared to a regular cap lock?
It’s a few seconds faster
For all you people commenting on this being the paper cap originator, it is not. There was a dart looking grenade that preceeded this firearm use. Like a big boomy 💥 lawn dart. Maybe 1790, maybe...
They make a kid version of that as well. The paper cap in the nose cast metal toy with orienting fins and a heavy nose, whatever it is called, the bomb thing.
What would the Maynard system do for your mad minute? Would it save enough time to get another shot off?
It takes about 3 to 5 seconds to cap, so it would save about 15 seconds, that’s enough for another shot
Where can I get some Maynard tape? I've have the model 1855 but have never been able to find tape for it. Thank you for the videos, they're always fascinating. Also, welcome back.
the old cap gun ribbons might work
@@zacharyirizarry8589 nowhere near hot enough, also the geometry of both distance between priming blisters and thickness of the tape most likely will not work.
You’ve got to make it yourself! Nobody makes it that I know of.
on FB Brett replied: "yes but you’d have to pick them up in person at my shop in Gettysburg. They’d require the same hazmat shipping requirements as any other primers or percussion caps and I don’t want to deal with that BS."
so at some point it do look like you will be able to get them at his shop in gettysburg
Dollar store has tape caps!
Its a bit mesmerising watching this.
Something that may be workable for a hunter or someone like a specialized sniper. The average soldier in the mud and muck would not really work well in war time.
Just out of curiosity what’s your opinion on buck and ball for deer and hog hunting
I wouldn’t recommend it. Buck and ball was designed to throw a maximum number of total projectiles from a large number of guns into a certain space in hopes that a few might hit. Not ideal for hunting. A single patched round ball in a smoothbore would answer a lot better.
@@papercartridges6705 ok just wanted to now that
The “cool kids” with their ARs wish they were half as cool as the guy with a Maynard.
the projectiles seemed to go go down pretty easy, you sure you weren't meant to use the paperwrapping as wadding?
The smoothbore would have used paper wadding but when it was converted to rifle, it uses a Minié-Burton bullet that didn’t take any wadding. They load fairly easily and the blast of firing expands them to fill the rifling grooves.
Hello from Norway you was just overseas and I you are a officer but do you work for the army at full time? I now that it has nothing to do with the channel I was just curious, love the channel
I am in the U.S. Army Reserve. We do about 48 days of military training a year, and will often go overseas on longer deployments to support the active Army.
Are you back from deployment? Welcome back.
Yes, got home a couple weeks ago
@@papercartridges6705 Welcome home. Looking forward to more videos.
Would paper caps work in this mechanism? I see you can still buy them. (Wasn't sure. My childhood experience with paper caps was from the 1970s. :P )
The toy caps work on the same principle but they are the wrong size, and very weak and would never be able to fire off the musket.
@@papercartridges6705 Thanks. I always wondered once I found out the Maynard system existed.
so why not a mad minut with flinllock, and cap and bal too. i didn´t say match lock for two reason. it´s a few hundred years outside your scop. the second it would only be a mad rush to get a second shoot of. in that minut.
I don’t yet own a flintlock. Someday…
I'm a ssg in the army, also very interested in history. Would love to take you up on your offer to shoot the shit over scotch.
I was at alc at ft indiantown gap, part of the curriculum was essay and tour of Gettysburg. You ever thought of a crossover with them?
I drill at FIG. Stop by the shop sometime. 262 Baltimore St in Gettysburg!
Excuse me sir, but do you have an email? I was wondering if you could have a follow up to your video on making realistic blank cartridges for civil war reenacting. At near the end of the video you remarked that you could make a video on making the arsenal pack. I have been scouring the internet and I was wondering if you could be of some help in that matter. If you can, it is deeply appreciative. Thank you and for such wonderful videos.
Brett ( at ) PaperCartridges dot com
Maynard mush!