8 Good Black Powder – Traditional Rifles & Shotguns

Tell us what we got here joe this is a. Pierce away ridge it is except right now. I gotta get this going, so we get some power in the pants back up. I think it’s frozen i think you might be. Right it is 16 degrees out here today there’s. A ball butters just a touch that’s all. You need yeah it’s like it all right this first. Shot it’s on half-cocked. We’re gonna go 25 yards 16 degrees out. Here at a hooligan ville we’ll see if it goes big just for a. Shot-for-shot let’s make white smoke set. Trigger okay definitely wet bag it went. Bang it spit fire out the front. Okay which one’s set trigger the. Backpack one so I’m going to pull that one then this one just touch the front one no you just touch the front one and what i had to do is set it back on the next part holy mack trek please and. Click the back one that gets it ready. And you want it to be tight in your. Shoulders oh you’re alright stand your. First shot safety glasses ears full cock. Full load pants full prisons down the. Bottom target i said pull this one. Didn’t do anything but it clicked just. Sensitive on that front one oops. Nope weight-wise jala. Boom yep powders coalesce all nice flash. From the pan. You.

Hey oh it’s a little chilly out here I’ve got a big thick jacket a leather hat but i also have a flintlock 50. Caliber and tucky long rifle let’s load. It up see if it can pierce a Tulane all. Right let’s go ahead and see if this thing can pierce a soda bottle from about 10 yards away all right let’s go. Ahead and load this Kentucky rifle you’re gonna see me here at my messy jeep station today is my loading station and the way I’m gonna do this might make. A little bit of traditional mate make a few traditional it’s a little bit mad i don’t have a powder horn i don’t have. Very traditional gear here with me but i. Have what it takes to get this rifle to. Fire correctly take my flask. I never pour it down directly into the barrel especially after I’ve been shooting there might be an emperor in their usually there isn’t but there might be so i go ahead and take a powder measure so i can get a very specific. Amount of powder they’ll be using 90 grains today black powder seems to make. This rifle pretty accurate. Shake now I’m ready to load my ball take. A little patch, and we’ll regreased patches i bought in a muzzle loading supply store. Good ball right there should be very. Snug in the barrel got this thing here. Called the ball starter push down firmly. Along in now a lot of ball starters this. Is a traditional trifle and a traditions ball starter both 50 caliber probably. Want to make sure your ball starter is the same caliber as your ball you might nick the ball make it in that regular. Shape and once you have that done the. Ball started take your ramrod. Go ahead ran the ball down the barrel. Make sure it’s well seated put your. Ramrod back now i got here this pan. Primer let’s go ahead give it a charge. Make sure a good bit of the powder he’s. Going down into the little hole because that will go down spread the fire down. To the chamber and go ahead and it will. Go ahead and light all the powder in the. Chamber let’s go ahead and see if it shoots.

Okay this is a peter sloly pennsylvania. Long rifle 45 calibers flintlock little. More complicated in the springfield rifle musket as far as the ignition system, so we have triple f go x maximum. Charge in this is 38 so I’m going to go. A little less than that okay take you. For 40 caliber ball and I’m a hatch that. Is 0.005 thickness makes it fairly easy. To get it down the barrel okay it ran. The little guy home i use go x by the. Way instead of pirate x because you get a faster lock-up time the pirate x tends to have a real delay between the pan going and then the actual charge firing. Okay bullet seated it’s ready to roll. Now i need to put some i use four x go x. Here in the channel in the pan. And let’s see we can get hopefully not a. Flash in the pan double set triggers as. Soon as you set the back trigger basically brushing the front one sets it. Off more insights and there we go. Petter Sullivan sylvania long rifle.

Scottie a little shooting demo here this. Is my brown bess musket it’s a reproduction made by petter slowly which is an italian base company it’s great. Quality productions this was the primary musket of the british military for well over 100 years saw conflicts sy using. Conflicts ranging from french and indian war the american revolution war of 1812. Napoleonic wars it’s got a lot of history to it see here this is 75. Caliber or says oh this is a ball of. Sheets it’s about an ounce of lead this. One’s a 68 caliber diameter looser-fitting in the bore i understand a bit here how it works you. Got a few components that’s the flash pen basically it holds a small amount of. Powder and there’s a hole that leads into the barrel which leads to the. Main charge so cameras pull back for. Cocks soon as the frizzen hits the strands the flint hits the frison creates a spark ignites the main charge it sends a flame through the barrel and. Ignites the main charge very rust very. Simple but work for a very long time so. I’m actually loading this musket using remeasure paper cartridges which is. How they would have done back in the day as well powder on top all on the bottom first start off by opening the cartridge. Pouring the powder down the barrel now. The paper actually acts as a wad. Separate the powder from the ball as well. Makes a tighter seal to increase pressure hopefully increasing accuracy a. Little bit a mental harmony as you can. See black putters extremely dirty fouls. That’s all part of the fun and now i got. To do is prime the main charge. Rip it up outer in their close the frizzen red fire very smoky. All part of the fun sois cups target. That double tapped it they’re not. Particularly accurate because they are smooth bore so there’s no rifling it allows you to shoot a lot of shots consecutively but also means not going to hit very much history.