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I went to a NRA black powder shoot 40 plus years ago as a kid. One man had a .86 caliber rifle. Engraved on the side was " Happy is he who escapeth me" lol!!!
1:40 "Back when I was fighting in the Civil War"....Blue, Gray, or Butternut???? 😉🙃🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had to stop and rewind that to make sure I heard it right 😄
After civil war battles they found rifles with stacked rounds up to 9 or 10 in a barrel.
they didn't quite get the concept of a lever-action xD
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So nervous they underpowdered and kept packing without realizing nothing was coming out.
In ww2 about 20% of troops would shoot to kill nowadays it's more like 80%(dont know that's a good thing, and before any teenagers start typing about how much of a woss I am, I am a British army veteran who served in northern Ireland during the troubles 😊)
Okay, reality. You’re scared stiff. Thousands of men are firing rifles around you. You can’t tell if yours is going off because the first five rounds made your shoulder numb. There’s so much smoke in the air that you can’t tell what you’re firing at. It’s not just a sign of stupidity.
There are two kinds of muzzleloaders, those who have loaded a dry ball and those haven't done it yet.
BTDT. I bought one of the "screw the ball" gadgets. It had a nylon ring to keep the screw from dinging up the rifling when you ran it down the bore.
The ramrod is steel. I doubt the screw remover used once in a while will do any notable damage....even if not covered in nylon.
You gotta learn to listen to Sgt Ken. I was screaming for you to load powder! LOL
I've wanted to build a Ferguson Rifle. It's a breechloading black powder carbine which was designed and made in the 18th century, around the time of the American Revolutionary War. 100 of them were produced and were actually issued and used in the war. It had some problems, it's biggest one was that it was much more expensive to produce then the brown Bess. But overall I think it had a lot of advantage. You could get off about 7 shots a minute. Which in and of itself seems like a huge advantage over the mussel loader, but it's biggest advantage was that it was much easier to load prone, or behind cover then the muzzle loaders.
Fighting in the Civil War Hickok45? LoL
He came out of retirement for it 🫡
yeah, that was a good one
But for which side 😁🐝
MARK yer ram rod and check every load!!!
You will immediately know if yer load is right and powder is what you want
And when you see that the mark doesn’t line up, you’ve already made your mistake.
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mine has a breach plug that comes out with yer fingers. easy peasy
@@happyhillbilly3466 modern black powder are truly advanced, scope mounts and amazing accuracy, lots of features like your breech plug. And an extra week to hunt!
I tried to warn you!!! But you couldn’t hear me!!! Lol! 😆
Always a good day when Hickok posts
I learned something...I had always wondered what remedy for the problem...
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That no doubt happened more times than we read about. Military paper cartridges helped to eliminate that issue, but there were others.
All us black powder guys are sitting here, like "HEY, STUPID, ya forgot the powder!!!". Mind you, that's exactly why the militaries of every damn country using flinters and cappers used PRE-ROLLED PAPER CARTRIDGES!
Now I never use those for hunting. But, as a historical re-enactor, that is ALL I use on the field. (We kinda leave out the ball... nobody wants to play with us anymore if we leave those in.) But my unit (portraying Napoleonic era Provincial Marine/Royal Navy) DO live fire WITH ball a couple of times a year, using appropriate historically-based paper cartridges.
However... not too long ago, with one of my flintlock hunting rifles, I actually had a wooden ramrod break off inside the barrel. The ramrod was quite old, and had actually started to rot out. I was completely unable to remove it by any of the usual means, including the CO2 blaster... it was just letting too much pressure past it. With no other options, I had to opt for this same method. Like you, I had some FFFFg powder on hand (we use it for making cannon quills), so I decided to use that. I managed to get about 20 grains or so through the vent hole. Then I touched it off with a blowtorch.
I think the movie quote that covers this is from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". It goes "Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?". Eeeee-yeah... I should have done the math. My usual blank/target load in that .54 cal. was 60 grains of FFFg. That means that I had almost half my regular non-hunting load behind the remnants of that rod. Well, it WORKED. Cleared the barrel. Mind you, there was nothing bigger than a toothpick to be found of my ramrod. The rod's forward screw-in fitting and my jag are, I assume, SOMEWHERE out in my back forty. I found the smoldering remnants of my cleaning patch about fifteen yards out. Oopsy.
Hey! I remember you! You was that old guy me and my six Zeglar brothers talked to when we signed up out of Illinois. Yeah that tree makes a great cover, my older brother has two holes in his hat from looking around a tree on each side. He didn’t dare look a third time. But we all made it home afterwards by his grace. G.A.R.!
5 to 10 grains of powder will still get you to lethal velocities.
That 1861 Springfield looks like a Crosman 760 air rifle in His grip ! 😆
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I have a CO2 discharger with the fitting for musket nipples, i think they call them silent ball dischargers, meant to safely unload a loaded muzzleloader at the end of a hunt when you don't want to transport a loaded gun.
Innovative as always, Hickok!!!😊
That is a flash pan charger. Handy tool.
2:26 I’ve heard of nipple clamps before, but I’ve never heard of a nipple wrench before!
It's to tighten them down after you accidentally unscrew them. If you go to far counter clockwise they fall off.
I remember during one engagement a trooper forgot to take the ramrod out of his gun and when he fired it the rod exited with an awful twang and rendered his rifle useless, he was killed by a rebel bullet not long after.
You'll note most reenactors will not tamp their powder..... it'd too easy to forget the ramrod when distracted! Any projectile in that scenario is a bad projectile.
The tip of my ramrod broke off while I was cleaning my Hawkins. Luckily, I had a screw tip to get it out with another cleaning rod. All those little accessories come in handy sometimes.
You or someone did a video of this with a flintlock. This looks like the best way to clear the rifle. 😊
Hell, I thought you had one of dem paper cart thingies...
I learned about this some years ago. I've yet to try it out as I don't have meself a Springfield musket. :)
Out a delrin bushing or a stack of bushings on the threaded ram rod. Or also make the tip of the screw similar to an endmill instead of a sharp point. The blunt mill will stay on the bullet nose and chew until the threads come into contact. Pointy bullet and point threaded shank can deflect.
Yes! It works! Have done it once!!
How would you fare with a match lock in pouring rain? You wouldn't be here on this Planet.
You wear a wide brimmed hat! Keep that powder dry 😀
Looks like a good way to bugger up the threads with flakes of powder. I would chase the threads with a bottom tap before running the screw back in.
I read that muskets or rifles would be found on the battlefield with 2 or 3 bullets stuck in the barrel . In the confusion of battle .
I guess the fact that it was a slug, with that nice pocket behind it really helped a lot. There would be much less room for powder if it were a round ball, right?
Civil war? Were you fighting for Julius Caesar or Pompey the Great?
I use a field rod with a ball puller. I also squirt some oil down the barrel. Works great.
4:30 A good time for iron against iron equals sparks equals boom. Ditto at 5:46.
ROTFLMAO IM LIKE Wait, didn't he forget something 😂 and I never shot or loaded black powder 😂😅😅
Nice work and very informative.😮
I dry balled my Harpers Ferry M1841 when I was trying to see how a ball fit in the barrel. When I got home I pulled the breach plug and drove the ball from the breach. I still need to make a breach plug wrench.
How tough was it to get the breach plug out? I've never seen that done, I'm curious.
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I have never dryballed once. Never
Compressed air?? Same screwhole, but no powder.
You're old but you're not ancient
Thanks 👍
@1:52 say "Car Ramrod!"
O my that is how do it also.
Neat-O! Never fired one of those before! 😄
But the good thing is that the gun does not weigh as much as ten boxes you might move with so it is good enough for us today.
Aaw, success thank you for sharing. Everyone stay safe, happy and healthy.
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Looks like a tap of the proper thread for the screw would be nice to get the powder out of the treads
Don't worry. That powder will find it's own way out of the threads.... mostly a firey way. 🔥
Joking aside, these old rifles aren't as tight as modern ones....and they don't really need to be, as the pressures involved are lower. The powder on those threads will burn off just fine.
Be careful about tapping the ram rod with the palm of your hand, if you had a detonation it would drive it through your hand! Best use forefinger and thumb. Best wishes from gun starved Ireland 🇮🇪.
0:53 I did. Several times. But you were in a RUclips video from the past and couldn't hear me. :)
Watched my dad do this. More of a phut and the call just left
I used to play with cap guns when I was a child 😂🤣
haha i thought you pamed the slug ..your too smart to do that ..
😅 that the spark powder
7:29 long🪛
1:15 short⭕
But this is a good idea!
Is there no concern about leaving some air between the powder and the ball? I'd worry a bit about that.
Very nice! I love it!
Good one!
such a PITA. I wonder how American natives did against those guns with their bows?
Crossbows would have been better at medium/close range IMO.
I was given a mini ball that was screwed it suppose to be a civil war find 🤷♂️, it is what it is.
He jokes but his bullets look like they’re old enough to be from the civil war
But for which side 😁🐝
*It happened to me once too. I did exactly the same thing😉*
Powder patch and ball or it won't fire at all. I'm faster with the extractor
You use BP for the clearing shot. Could you use a reduced charge of smokeless, say 5gr of Unique? Not that you'd recommend it, of course... :)
As always, thanks for the tip!
YOU can.
I won't. And I won't stand next to you(or anywhere withing a couple hundred yards) but don't let that stop you. Get a video for us! 😮😂
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I don't use these rifles, but that made me turn away from my screen when you banged the palm of your hand over the end of the ram rod! Surely that's breaking a cardinal rule of reloading? i think i'll stick to cartridges!
Years ago on a black powder hunt, a local guy missed his shot, reloaded quick, and when he rammed it down, the gun went off firing the the rod and ball through his shoulder.
He was all alone, way out, but somehow managed to survive. I can’t remember if we all had phones then.
Definitely helped keep me away from black powder rifles.
No harm tapping the rod. Blackpowder is not that pressure sensitive. In fact, loading manuals of the day did instruct one to drop the rod at least once to seat the minie bullet.
For all practical purposes, a spark is the only thing that could set it off. Your ramrod is undersized and cupped, and should not be able to create a spark large enough to get under the ball even if it does incidentally touch the barrel.
(Enough heat will set it off as well, but you could only generate that heat by outside source or firing alot in quick succession. I would worry more about the latter than any charge compression or sparking from ramming the powder home)
And remember to Leave the cap on when grounding the weapon butt to reload!! If your hammer spring has correct tension, it will hold the cap over the opening of the nipple, preventing a "chimney effect" of any residual sparks after the initial shot. Without air coming in from the bottom, any residual ember should be small enough to be extinguished when the powder is put down the barrel.
But point the rifle away from you when reloading anyway, just in an abundance of caution.
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