15th Century "Snapping Matchlock" Shooting Tutorial

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David Stavlo

Күн бұрын

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@SteveW-qb5ue Жыл бұрын

Great explanation on how to fire a snapping match lock- had not seen this done before

@cedhome7945 Жыл бұрын

Now do all the above (without ball) while walking around a battle field and avoiding men in armour trying to club or stab you and you can get an idea of my weekends ! I am a 15c re enactment hand gun/cannon participant .my group does shows on the sites on battles from the wars of the roses up and down the UK .at the last show there was 1200 people on the battlefield at Tewkesbury the event demonstrates the clash from 1471 and was a victory for Edward IV house of York .nice gun by the way I built my gun using a shortened civil war (fishtail) barrel and I had fun hand making all the lock pieces my gun has travelled to show from Sweden and Denmark to France.👍

@grahampalmer9337 Жыл бұрын

Thank - you - for demonstrating both the piece & the method. I have never seen one of these 'Snap match' pieces before & I spent some years with an English Civil War (1640's) Society that used, supposedly(!), period style Matchlocks. You say this 'Snapping Matchlock' is contemporary for the 1500's & as the English Civil War occurred at the end of the European 'Hundred Years War', with many prominent Royalist actors taking part in that, you would think that the Royalist side at least would be familiar with this superior concept.

@hoodoo2001 Жыл бұрын

It may have been due to the cost of the snapping matchlock that kept it from replacing the non-snapping matchlock and only the significant superiority of flintlocks as developed in the 1600's from the more complex/expensive examples to the more easily produced models (thus being easier to afford). It is my understanding that on both size Flintlock horse pistols were in use during the war.

@tatumergo3931 4 ай бұрын

@@hoodoo2001. Wheelocks as I understand it, being more reliable than early snaplock or snaphaunce, and dating to the 1500's. But I could be wrong...

@IlyaMurometsYT Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your explanation! Thats a beautiful arquebuz you have there!

@buddy.boyo88 4 ай бұрын

4:28 pour load -- 5:40 shoot - I shot it again ! - sir, the siege is over, we are ottomans now !

@capt.bart.roberts4975 Жыл бұрын

I've an 17th Cent, Indian Sub-Continent Rampart Gun. It's an absolute hoot and a holler to shoot. I'm over six foot tall, the barrel's longer than me! It is gimble mounted. Me man, big stick, go bang! 🙀

@dalemoss4684 Жыл бұрын

Highly likely the type of firearms that Columbus had with him. Super cool!

@slcgrgcrgcaneafgugiesclawhfg Жыл бұрын

My understanding as to why these were not more common was that the match tended to be put out when it was fired. I now see the match was totally blown out of the gun - but was actually still going

@evandaire1449 Жыл бұрын

My own matchlock is really hard to actually put out. I tend to just cut off the end of the rope and throw it in a fire pit. It’s easier than putting it out.

@wvcruffler123 17 күн бұрын

Great looking piece. Did you do the build?

@jonahtaivalkoski322 6 ай бұрын

40 grains seems pretty light for a projectile that big. Is that due to the inferior metallurgy of the period?

@drmilanmandic5039 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your work with us!

@noapologizes2018 Жыл бұрын

This Matchlock has a back sight. If my history is correct, they did not come with sights at all. The Military muskets of the later period had a bayonet lug to sight with but no back sight until rifled muskets came into use.

@davidstavlo2854 Жыл бұрын

Actually, firearms from this period were often equipped with rear sights, and this fact is reflected in both surviving original examples as well as artwork from the period - the "Battle of Pavia" tapestries by Bernard van Orley clearly depicts snapping matchlocks equipped with both front and rear sights and this work is attributed to the 1520's. Another great example is the painting of "The Sleeping Soldier" done by Dutch painter Jan Joest around 1507, which depicts a sleeping musketeer with a snapping matchlock leaned against his leg. The painting is very detailed, and the firearm depicted is clearly shown to have a rear sight similar to this one.

@christianx8494 10 ай бұрын

Early guns had all sights you can imagine, including tubular rear sights and peep sights. Target shooting soon incorporated firearms. Marksmen guilds in cities practised for the defense of the walls more than for open battle fields.

@Tsudoshi09 Жыл бұрын

This wouldn't happen to the work of Bolek Maciaszczyk ? The legend himself

@tatumergo3931 4 ай бұрын

It could also be a Mikołaj Susujew, he's pretty good too!

@tatumergo3931 4 ай бұрын

It could also be a Stanisław Maziarz, another great armourer.

@Ivan-ge7xb Жыл бұрын

Is this David Stavlo gun smith of Lodgewood? Any chance you could do tutorials for us on how to defarb, manufacture, scrape, file, treat and stain weapons. Any tips or tricks would be amazing. Your work is incredible.

@Ivan-ge7xb Жыл бұрын

Moreover, would you being willing to make videos you would be willing to sell. For example, how to build a army sport Enfield into one of your defarb ones.