Picked a beautiful example up and managed to procure some ammunition for it! So stoked for the range - Excellent video!

That's an absolutely beautiful example. Congratulations bro.

USA Modification - I have a United States Marine pith helmet and wanted to add a puggaree similar to this video. The USMC style is slightly different having a smaller puggaree. My solution was 14 inches length of one inch wide ivory color ribbon(cotton or poly) that closely resembles the original pug. It is surprisingly easy to wrap and twist. Pin it on to practice the wraps, pin at the base and wrap/twist it from top to bottom. Wrap it tight. When you get it correctly and the twists aligned, then you can permanently affix it. This video definitely helped guide me in the correct direction, thanks for compiling this video of this unique craft!

Dude Don’t bother timing yourself until you’ve done some practice That was disgraceful

While I agree that charger loading on these types of rifles is faster you also need to account for the fact that a professional soldier trains over and over with drills. I wouldn’t even hazard a guess at how many hours of my life was spent in weapons handling, stoppage drills and kit setup. I just found your channel, keep it up!

hey! I know that flag.... that British Strait Settlement flag, are your from Malacca, Penang or Singapore? Lucky you I born in Penang😂

What kind of cloth would you recommend so that one could make a reproduction pair of puttees for recreational use by oneself? Do you think a mix of wool and synthetic material would work? If so what ratio?

I bought some kind of corned beef from a discount store in the U.S. that was made in Australia. It was full of what i assumed was fat, but texturally acted like plastic. Round cans, and after examining the product i didn't try heating it up. Tried it on the cats. They ate around whatever the weird stuff was.

Ngl soldiers in WW1 were probably not trying to stow mags back up

Is it known when white leatherwork became fashionable? When looking at soldiers from the early 1700s, I see them wearing buff crossbelts. Which nation was the first to introduce white crossbelts? I'd imagine it was one that had predominantly white uniforms, like the French, Austrians, Spanish and Saxons.

I use a paddle pop stick to tuck I'm and smooth out as u warp. Great video

Awesome! I recently bought a reproduction (French type) pith helmet that has proven to be excellent for hot weather, but the puggaree looks rather cheap and probably won't last long. Gonna have to try this method to upgrade my helmet.

yes the finished edge of those original parties has what is called a salvage on each side just like on a full bolt of cloth. Trying to get a company to set up a machine to make those right as possible I don't know if anyone has ever asked. a friend of mine approached a mill in I think North Carolina to make real Civil War era wool sateen for frock coats, dress coats and they said they could duplicate what was made in the 1850s and 60s but you had to order about $10,000 worth. Which is doable if you get subscribers to pitch in enough for making your civilian and military coats and pants. You have to kind of approach it like that.

I think you were having rimlock issues in the video.

If this is a genuine pith helmet can you share a link in the description?

No idea why they decided to go with a 5 round mag in the P13 / P14 I feel if they did make the P13 or just something similar to a SMLE with a 7mm rimless cartridge that did not use cordite, good sights like on later SMLEs, front locking lugs with controlled feeding, preferable a shorter bolt travel and a bolt that had a sub 90 degree bolt thow prefrsble 60, a smoother stripper clips as in Mauser just close the boot rule and have it more accursed and lighter it would be amazing.. After the war If NATO went with the .270 Brit (7mm British) intermediate cartridge. I'm sure it would still be in service today and modern loads could get a 100g bullet close to 3000fps or even more 7.62 NATO was a mistake better to stay with it or .30 06mm or a .338 round for machine guns and long range rifles. Ironicaly .270 Brit has the same bore size as the new .277 fury that the US is using in it's new M5.... I have shot commercial SMLEs (ones officers would buy and civilians could outside of wartime) the quality and accuracy is just so smooth. I also shit one converted to .308 and it's amazing also an accurate P17 in .308 and that's great also but no 10 round mag but it will fit 6... I have had some rough and sporterized .303 rifles (all had very rough leads and headspace issues) had both a SMLE and a Martini Endeild converted to .54r bore diameter is the same so the barrels have to be removed and depending on the lead errosion not much has to be cut off. Rechambered in .54r with a reamer and finishing reamer then also polished, tight headspace set and extractor groove recut. The smle mag only needed a little fiddling around to get right, both had a little muzzle errosion but not much needed tk be cut at all then elrecriwned, very accurate with what was then cheap milsurp ammo. The smle can also be converted to 7.62x39 .303, .54r x39 tok and all types of 7.7 Japanese have the same bore diameter. I have a chamber insert in my late war Arisaka T99 ( around the time they stopped chroming the barrels) and it works great, I can allways remove it if I want to and readjust the mag. It's common for Vickers guns to be rechambered in ,.54r, Lewis guns can be but you need to find russian mags and same with brens but they could all probably be converted to x39 The Japanese uses 7.7R ( direct copy of .303) But they had 7.7SR for machine guns then 7.7 for rifles and some machine guns. So 7.7 Japanese rimless is just rimless .303

Mag reloading would be faster if stupid concrete minders from Army would think about that

Couldn’t take my eyes off your puggaree tutorial! Thanks so much for showing us how to do it. So fascinating. Will probably never make one but would be a great conversation starter when someone compliments my pith helmet which I bought on Amazon. People seem to love the look of it.

Liked this video even before I watched it! And it did not disappoint. Enjoyed your unboxing room-the way you decorated it. And of course the gorgeous “pith hats” on display. I only have the synthetic ones bought online. Wear them around town especially when sunny and hot. Get nice compliments! Appreciate your channel. Learned a ton about these hats. Sometimes people ask me about my hat and thanks to what I learned from you I can sound pretty knowledgeable. The most memorable compliment I received was from an attractive young woman. She simply said, “I like your hat.” I said, trying to be my usual modest self, “Thank you. It provides good protection from the sun.” She then said that she didn’t care about the sun protection and that she just likes a good hat! Fun little conversation, but it worried me a little because the guy she was with seemed bothered by all the attention his girl was giving me😮!

Product of Jamaica 😂

Very well made and very informative

The can has always been tapered and if you had opened the can properly with the key it dont take a degree to figure out to turn the key handle the other way up to miss the bottom of the can you would have found its always been tapered to slide the meat out that way and when it comes out on the plate it really wont bite you the way you was dancing round it i was cracking up i can see you in the trenches dancing with a can of corned beef going eeer eeer its a bit slimy ha!!! and if you had cleaned your pan once in a while it tastes and performs better in the cooking

I made a Pith Helmet for a Tarzan and Jane Theme Cosplay. I used a helmet pattern from Muchprops and got lucky when I found this video on how to wrap the helmet to make a Puggaree. I bought 5 yards of 1" wide bias tape from Amazon for $5. That was enough bias tape for a six-layer wrap. No chin strap yet. You made the Puggaree wrapping instructions pretty clear, but I didn't wrap the axis crossings as neatly aligned as yours, still, I'm happy. I used some fabric glue to hold the start end and the final end to stay in place. PS: the bias tape has no stretch, but it has enough texture to grip the matte paint finish I put on the helmet. Thanks for solving my dilemma to get the final detail (Puggaree) that I wanted.

I won't say the British were dumb. Their leadership was rigid though and didn't adapt so well, they fought alongside the Indians in the French-Indian war, why there aren't more stories of British guerillas hints that they didnt adapt those tactics. Yes, pressure from the French helped, as did Prussian mercenaries. Overall, the British were over-extended on numerous fronts.

I see I am late to the party. One of the advantages of the chargers is that you can carry dozens of them. They take up way less room so even if you could could have got your hands on a crap load of magazines back in the day the bulk and weight of them would limit what you could carry.

You should hang the magazine bag under your web gear to keep it from moving around. Maybe move the canteen carrier behind you and place the mag bag in its place. For the empty mags, you should have an empty drop bag on your left hip. Simplifies removing the mag with your left and dropping it in the left bag. Or, while wearing Pattern '37 battle dress trousers, keep the left thigh utility pocket empty and open. Just an idea.

I love pugarrees... Piths... Slouch hats... Piths...

I kind of want to put a pugary on a modern combat helmet

Really like your show wish more young people would pay attention to history.

Jesus

The Army Barracks Surplus Store in North Conway, New Hampshire has some of that Canadian Kit from time to time. I’ve even found Canadian First Army/ Joint Forces” Tweeny Gear. “

Nice Bombay Bowler Bub.

I have a Type 38 Calvary Carbine

Millennial eating man food girling out 😊

So why bother with a detachable magazine in the design to begin with? Other maybe correcting a malfunction?

Skip first 6min . Takes that long to unbox... Then I left.

Another myth of the AOI was that king George iii was a tyrant.

Was there a tactical use for this puggarree? It would be useful for emergency wound binding, while keeping heat away from the head when in normal use in the tropics, and looking very cool.

Thanks!

One easy way to get your cut straight is to pull one thread out and cut along the gap.

1776 Population of 13 colonies 2.5 million Same time population of Britain only 800.000 According to Google... I double checked and got the same answer... I saw it I read it , but its hard to believe it, If anything I expected it to be the other way round..

Thick as shit---- Dummy.

It’s Italian! FRAGILE…

A Mark IV tank called Fray Bentos was the subject of a siege in no mans land in 1917, the longest patrol of the War andthe crew became the most decorated of the war. They were out for 3+ days.

I think its quite obvious why detachable box magazines weren't common for infantry rifles. In most cases, stripper clips are faster, lighter and inexpensive. This advantage is even greater for rifles with 5 round magazines.

Brilliant great demo and very clear to understand I can now action my 3 helmet/hats cheers

I’ve read a lot and I get that corned beef was not a favorite. I love the stuff. Was it because in ww1 ww2 it was over used thus food boredom or did they have a different palette. Someone explain

Can you eat corned beef without cooking it?

alot of this could be improved by practicing your magazine reloading also no offense but the gun seems to have a hard time ejecting cartridges.

You muppet, the Loyals were from Lancashire and our war started in 39 not 41