Fake Muskets in "Sharpe's Eagle"

In a previous video, I made the claim that the television show 'Sharpe' had tried to pass off modern firearms as muskets. So, I thought it'd be fun to make a very quick video about it!
This isn't the greatest sin in the world, given how they clearly attempted to cover up the inauthentic firearms, but in this scene- it is painfully obvious.
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[@rogerwilco2]

The Sharpe series was really cheaply made. They only used "proper", more expensive gear for the close up and hero shots. Everything else was as cheap as possible. As a result we got a great series with Sean Bean, set in a historic period that very few others have covered.

[@atruemanofculture1521]

Another show that comes to mind in the time period would be horn blower,which I stated at one point watching as sharpe on water

[@TootMaimington]

@@atruemanofculture1521 half pint of rum for this man of culture

[@julianmhall]

@@atruemanofculture1521 Cornwell actually said he wanted to write a Hornblower character for the army.

[@Marshal_Windsor]

Even though the historical accuracy is sometimes questionable, you can’t deny that this made every Wednesday night worth looking forward too

[@tsmotions3446]

Come for the good story, stay for bad history.

[@ChaseMcCain81]

Yep

[@lazarusbigface2026]

O remember it being on a Saturday afternoons

[@PRESIDENT_LEMON]

@@lazarusbigface2026 could be dependant on your region.

[@malachiclarke4610]

Except for episode 12. That hurt to watch.

[@1964ahdn]

So that’s how British volley fire beat the French, good ol’ Mosin’s!

[@kriegdeathrider7805]

Kieron Patterson the Soviets madw to many rifles now they are traveling back in time so they can see action

[@velazquezarmouries]

Thet where ahead of their times

[@thewheelchairhistorian3424]

Haha!

[@darkanddryhumour1822]

Good I'm not the only one who seen that

[@SeraphimRoad]

Now, that's soldering

[@istvansipos9940]

and the most silly, unreal, insanely impossible part: Sean Bean survives far too many episodes

[@tewkewl]

Classic!

[@douglasdaniel4504]

Yeah, there's something wrong there...FAKE!

[@lieutenantkettch]

Sean Bean’s other characters are like karma sponges for Richard Sharpe. Every time Sharpe cheats death, some other Sean Bean character must die.

[@BigPuddin]

He's basically a one-man Game of Thrones.

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

British Army Rumor Service jokes that Sharpe is now in modern days, due UFO abduction.

[@BrandonF]

Just in case there was any doubt to just how petty I could get.

[@eric3844]

There never was

[@willis32]

Hey. At least Sean Bean didnt die at the beginning

[@jeroldproductions6367]

Brandon F. ARE YOU AMERICAN! This is treason I feel!

[@dragonsbreath1984]

Film budgeting? Or pure laziness and stupidity? Reminds me of the scene from "Rules of Engagement" where the Marines took off from a carrier on CH-46's and half way to the embassy the helicopters magically transformed into CH-47's. You're not the only one who's petty.

[@magellanicraincloud]

If they hadn't modified the Mosin Nagants they would have had a distinct advantage on the field... provided they tripped over a box of anachronistic ammunition.

[@chringlanthegreat4556]

"Sir my musket dose have lock, it doesn't even take our cartridges". "Henry, I don't think that's a musket, I don't even know what that…( interrupted by time traveling soviet Russian ) "Dimetri, I found your gun" ( time travels back to Soviet Union) "Sir did you see that, that was a Russian and he took my muske…". "Henry…… just go too the armorer and get a new gun, would you". "Yes, sir ". ( officer thinks to himself ) "This is the last time I let anyone else make my tea".

[@manictiger]

(Officer picks up a round that was ejected from the strange gun that Henry was fooling with.) "Interesting. I bet the armorers would like to see this..."

[@Kirito-st3qj]

Tea*

[@thewheelchairhistorian3424]

Problem is the budget unfortunately.. Sharpe is a good series that I really love to watch. I didn't know about this but I think it's just a minor problem.

[@Diebulfrog79]

A lot of Hollywood "Muskets" were disguised cartridge weapons, a favorite in the was 45 -70 Springfield rifle or the Snyder rifle with a fake lock and hardware. Anything that takes a blank and is the right length for the period. Nowadays, non - firing rubber guns and plastic guns are "stock" fillers for extras in movies or TV shows.

[@kpsiex]

In fact, the famous war and peace movies used Mosin Nagant rifles as muskets.

[@steelwarrior105]

Da, is good rifle...

[@renardgrise]

Yep! I own a bess and a Mosin... love them both ;-).

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

You Russian?

[@plymouth5714]

Now come on Brandon, you're talking about an ITV film company here, a situation where the words 'Budget' and 'Shoestring' mean exactly the same thing! Still, keep up the well warranted attack on 'Washington' - I love it! By the way re: the comments below about Zulu and Zulu Dawn, it wasn't the scarcity of authentic Martinis why the extras are using Lee Metfords and SMLEs in the background - it was the cost of buying the Martini ammo! Back then good old .303 was far cheaper!

[@kurukblackflame]

You can erase one historical error for each time Sharpe kicks a snooty officer in the knackers-so most episodes break even in this regard ;)

[@Smudger40k]

Its like Zulu where some of the men have bolt action rifles in the background!

[@patrickbuerke1390]

It's especially evident in the fire and advance scene

[@australianword3812]

Maybe because rifles were a thing in the 19th century?

[@terrorfire8505]

@@australianword3812 they were a thing in the revolutionary war

[@spacebeam6480]

@Australian Word yes but at Rorke's Drift they had lever action Martini-Henries, not bolt actions.

[@AeneasGemini]

@@spacebeam6480 at least it wasn't a total anachronism like this, which is to say at least the bolt action rifles weren't delivered express by time travel mail

[@danielhall6354]

I love Sharpe and must have watched this episode half a dozen times but never noticed this. I guess the TV magic worked on me and I do think it's obvious they were working with a limited budget and number of extras.

[@comrade_islaboyt]

Even in Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo (1970), you can see some of the extras (which are real Red Army soldiers) holding Mosin Nagant rifles with the bayonets attached. It seems that from afar, Nagant rifles can look like muskets. In another Bondarchuk film, War and Peace, a lot of the soldiers also use Nagant rifles, but you can only see them if you pause at the right moment.

[@hrcmfbws]

Man, no wonder Napoleon lost the war. 18th century canon fire does nothing to a T-34.

[@ingolfleiblle6661]

Truely a paradise for us nerds!

[@bertramjagoda5444]

Sharpe's Honour: A soldier of the Imperial Guard is holding a brown bess while standing next to Napoleon in a close shot. Freebie for ya.

[@alittlebitofhistory]

If you want to lose you mind over wrong and out of time rifles I recommend Zulu Dawn from 1979, Infantry armed with cavalry versions of the Martini Henry, or Lee Enfield (SMLE)'s, 1914 Enfields or in some cases wooden sticks.

[@TheSimmr001]

i heard they did most stuff really well in that film too. thats a shame [ :-( ]

[@chrthiel]

Could be worse. In the Company of Heroes film from 2013 the main character, an American, carries a scoped G43 that he operates as if it's a bolt action

[@TheSimmr001]

aka their guaranteed audience?

[@chrthiel]

Robert Simmons The first Zulu film was a major block buster

[@philipsalama8083]

Robert Simmons The original Zulu is far better, in terms of accuracy as well, despite a bit of poetic licence. There's really no reason to watch Zulu Dawn at all. It's not the worst movie you'll ever see, but there are so many better ways to spend your evening.

[@spanishcoinquistador7077]

I honesty begin watching your channel yesterday and I honestly LOVE this channel (I am a big fan history especially Victorian,Napoleonic,and WW1) This is one of the best entertaining channel that brings the audience attention. It’s not only giving facts but it’s makes it appeal to the audience . I literally can’t stop watching your videos .Keep up the great work :)

[@BrandonF]

Thank you! I'm glad that you're finding entertainment and education here!

[@Drusty]

If you think this is bad the Waterloo episode is 100x worse

[@illiminatieoverlordgurglek140]

Yeah, that episode is bad on so many levels.

[@illiminatieoverlordgurglek140]

British Ball The low budget and material inaccuracies are the least of what's wrong with that episode though.. It is historically inaccurate to the point of pure fantasy. The portrayal of the Prince of orange for example is utterly false and down right insulting.

[@ukexpat6893]

For goodness sake! It's an excellent fictional series where artistic logic is allowable. It is not meant to be an accurate historical documentary for dumb nerds to get their rocks on.

[@Drusty]

i dont really care if its historically accurate but i remember there was one scene when they said there where thousands of cavalry men on the hill and there where only like 7

[@theshadowling1]

It is accurate to how the Prince is portrayed in the books however. Bernard Cornwell intentionally makes the Prince a prat, then apologises in the postscript, saying he needed an enemy for sharpe inside the lines.

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Cue jokes about Sean Bean's character not dying so it must be fantasy! ;) Keep up the good work.

[@illiminatieoverlordgurglek140]

It's clearly some kind of science fiction alternate reality where the British invented the Mosin Nagant in 1810 and Sean Bean doesn't die..

[@AeneasGemini]

He does in fact die in the final episode!

[@joshuaduncan6440]

This channel is growing quickly

[@Trek001]

The groove issue is easy to explain - some soldiers would "carve" a groove into the stocks to get them tighter to their face for better aiming. About the differences in colour, in a later episode it is explained the 2nd Batt marched out with old muskets - as Simmerson says, the South Essex is all his which implies he raised them (a well mentioned bit of truth) so he would have equipped them as quickly as possible... So, its not outside the realms of possibility that Sir Henry simply grabbed hold of whatever muskets were close to hand and had them issued

[@Tsagia]

Ah,Napoleonic soldiers carrying Mosin-Nagant rifles! Now that's very advanced.They should have won every bloody battle!

[@mattholland8966]

You know the comments were so entertaining. If you are concerned about the nose piece of the muskets you might take a look at the 1774 Charleville. You will find it to be a good match for what you saw . But brace yourself because it also has those barrel bands you said wouldn't exist for years. The musket is French, and of the right era. It could have been picked from a battlefield. If done the British would have seen it as inferior, because after all it's not British! So it could well have been issued to a unit that they saw as barely fit for combat. The Charleville was an excellent musket and would have done a fine job. Far better then a pike which would likely have been the other choice. Don't be so critical, the props aren't the message The message is in the storyline. What next eill you complain the actors in the battle aren't actually being shot????

[@harryflashman3451]

Well done mate when I subscribed not too long ago you were only at 7k and already at 10k great content and love it keep it up

[@tenno5509]

your intro never fails to amuse me

[@MadRoadDriving]

I’m so happy I discovered this channel. All the videos are great. I’m shocked there aren’t more subscribers, but I suspect that will change.

[@BrandonF]

Thank you! And, I'm rather shocked at how much it's been growing lately. Just a week ago I only had 2k subscribers!

[@SteveAubrey1762]

I just found your channel, and I must say, I enjoy it immensely. One of the reasons I appreciate your channel is your penchant for historical accuracy. Well done, and keep up the good work. JA

[@BrandonF]

Well thank you! I am glad you enjoy it!

[@dylan4964]

4:20 looks like they were trying to emulate charleville muskets... in the british army... in the early 1800's... yea..

[@benjaminbierley2074]

Under the impression they were operating on what might today be considered an "indie" budget at the time, and given the raw surplus of Mosin's and how little they cost (compared to a brown bess) filling in the background guns with them after dressing them up makes sense so they'll still have money to dress, pay, and move the actors to locations. It's like Sharpe said when asked what you do when you don't have any money "You make do without".

[@Jake-dh9qk]

Hey Brandon, any info on how line infantrymen would contend with being on the front rank knowing that they will surely get hit?

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@Pooknottin]

A series made for British TV in the early 90's continuing to 97 and based on a series of novels. It was bound to have some issues with historical accuracy and have a shoe-string budget. Frankly, since it was made by ITV and was a war series (not by the BBC and a 'romance') it's remarkable it ran for so long and even had some later contributions. Even more remarkable that it ran so long with a main character from Yorkshire.

[@Toxked]

I will never understand why directors don't contact reenactment and dress up play groups to help with this. Really, most groups I know if you tell them you need 20 or so for extra work in this period dress. Will give lunch and 30$ for each member. Most would do it just for the chance to dress up. It would be cheaper and easier and a heck of a lot more accurate.

[@konstantinosnikolakakis8125]

In the film Gettysburg all the extras were civil war reenactors.

[@heroinboblivesagain5478]

It was 1993, and they were working on a budget of exactly 5 pounds, a few pints, and one decently assembled sandwich. And made some really great television.

[@danielbutka8854]

I must say, this is truly a hidden gem of a channel.

[@RiflemanMoore]

They were clearly going for French Charleville muskets with that brass forend and the barrel bands, I expect these were for French extras in the big battle at the end but were used here due to a lack of Besses or some other reason.

[@eric3844]

This isn't even the most egregious use of the Nagant i've seen in film. There's this one horrible fim (i think it was sniper two) where tome berenger sings the praises the "Mauser, 7.92" he is holding, which is CLEARLY an unaltered M91/30. I guess they're so common because they're so plentiful (espically considering Shapre was filmed in the Crimea).

[@BrandonF]

I didn't know it was filmed in the Crimea! I suppose that would explain a lot of it, then.

[@eric3844]

Brandon F. Yeah, crimea and Turkey. I have a friend who's a French Revolutionary reenactor who Is OBSESSED with this show (for how awful it is) and knows all the details about it.

[@kamenridernephilim]

I can top that. There is a film called Fire and Sword from 1999. Mosin Nagants are clearly visible. The film is set through 1684-51. www.imfdb.org/wiki/With_Fire_and_Sword_(Ogniem_i_mieczem)#Mosin_Nagant_Rifle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Fire_and_Sword_(film)

[@Soundwave3591]

there's also "Kelly's Heroes" where the WWII American Unit's sniper, during a battle ostensibly set in France, is using a Mosin with a Sniper Scope.

[@MrReded69]

I always just pretended he took it off a dead German vet who bought it back from Russia.

[@cambs0181]

Had the same issue with the box set The Tudors. During the campaign in France the men should be using arquebus firearms from the 1500s, but instead are using matchlock muskets from the English civil war period of the 1640s! (I need to get out more😂)

[@ottoman_reenactor_ct]

united forever with friendship and views our mighty channel will ever endure.

[@LucefieD]

I dunno how I found this channel but I like it. Subbed.

[@MajorSvenGaming]

Excellent spot. I must have seen this episode at least 5 times but I never noticed this... Also congrats on the sudden growth, I'm new to your channel but you deserve it.

[@Emnesty524]

When I was a kid I loved to play age of empires 3 and always wondered why they used colors in the war and then start looking forma information in the internet but it is pretty limited I found your channel and I love it! Good job man

[@SUUC713]

Pointing out fake muskets in a show Now that's soldiering

[@dip-fry3380]

What is that song at the beginning?

[@95goalkeeper]

Question I always had is why does sharp not have a pistol if he’s a officer and why he uses a rifle like the enlisted

[@josiahclinch6219]

so what is your overall thought of the series? and any more opss vids?

[@AdmiralWoodhouse]

I love this show, but I would love if you made a review even more

[@genericusername4596]

At about 2:50, my brain just went “Is that..... is that a fucking mosin?!”

[@InfamousMax]

Soldier01: For the love of the queen, I have no shots left! Soldier02: Have some of mine! Soldier01: Bless you mate! But wait what is this? Soldier02: 7.62 x 39mm AP, blyat! Soldier01:

[@mr.treefrog8641]

Wow I subbed a few days ago when you had 4k now you have 10k wow.

[@jonahdemarco820]

I love your vids, keep it up !

[@BrandonF]

Thank you!

[@strongdanaspiringstrongman2877]

Yeah when you were talking about the brass casing for the ramrod I noticed that it looks much similar to the antique 1835 Springfield musket I have that was used by a relative of mine during the Civil War

[@maxshumylo1921]

18th- Century British troops with Mosin- Nagants? That there's gotta be original. No wonder they cant do anything with them!

[@crimsonshade1429]

Nicr vid man. What all kinds of reenactments do you do?

[@Medved725]

Fucking called it, those are mosins. Recognized the silhouette straight away.

[@Jennifur68]

The "casing" is called a front band, something you should know since the style in the pictures is based on the French Charleville musket. The Charleville was the inspiration for American military muskets right up until the last US Army issue musket, the Model 1842. Its pretty obvious the prop department was trying to disguise modern rifles as Charleville muskets.

[@davidingbar846]

I watched Deadwood with an industrial archaeologist once. It's almost as bad. And while we're on it, in Master and Commander, why does the Sargeant at Arms use a musket, rather than a shotgun, to shoot a bird? I'll set aside the reasons why that scenario is unlikely to begin with. I love the gritty self surgery scene that follows, but he could've been hit by a few stray pellets instead...

[@alexandernowak9260]

I didn't know which video to ask this on, but how would one go about joining a reenactment group?

[@kevinedge2398]

3:54 - It's called a nose cap.

[@HDxEXoThERMiA]

I somehow managed to misread the title of this as "Fake Mustaches".

[@jeremiahthompson9367]

I love the Sharpe Series, grew up with it. I always like to irk my family by pointing out the fake guns, rubber bayonets, inaccurate uniforms and orders, etc.. These producers were doing their best on a low budget, in an increasingly historically illiterate society where the gun culture has been all but exterminated in their country. But it's still fun to point and laugh.

[@youngbyun3198]

The ramrod holders you mention do look similar to those found on the Dreyse needle rifle. But yes, those come a two to three decades later

[@robertcurry389]

Replacing background muskets with cheaper inaccurate weapons. Now that’s soldiering!

[@SukacitaYeremia]

I thought they were really well camouflaged wood rods...

[@sircashew1097]

I can’t speak for the series but the books are awesome, my favorite so far is Sharpe’s Eagle

[@BillMcHale]

I have read 4 of the books so far, and all of them are solid.. In fairness though, novels, and historical novelists tend to have higher standards for accuracy than most T.V. shows where you have an exec asking why the Major needs to have 50 men in his unit.....

[@trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155]

Brandon, as a Officer (ret.) of Uncle Sam's Misguided Childern w/a MA in History. Love your vids. You have joined Shad., Skalla., & Meta. as a binge watching fave for history done right. TYVM.

[@BrandonF]

+SMJ Short Thank you! I am honoured to be considered among such 'greats' on this platform.

[@trippsmythoftheaurigancoal8155]

Brandon, I hope that you do two things with your life, only two things.1. Become a Historian.2. Become a Misguided Child.You will do well as both. You explain complex concepts with simple, easy to understand language, you are very smart, & you care about your subject. That means you will be great at both.

[@tewkewl]

I must say dear sir, you have the most delightful North American accent I have heard in some time. Something of a new England Brahman accent that one rarely hears nowadays. I wish this is how people still spoke!

[@maxwellkrem2779]

Perhaps what was termed a "Mid Atlantic" accent and was very common in movies of the mid-20th century.

[@partizanforces3064]

It took me a second and then you showed the barrel bands and I was like oh my gosh that's a mosin

[@phililpb]

Getting guns from the future now that's soldiering

[@JaredKaiser24]

are there any officers in Brandon F patreon army ?

[@demomanchaos]

My good sir I am curious of something, if Sharpe's regiment were indeed fielding Mosin Nagant rifles how much of an impact do you think it would have on the battlefield? Do you think it would vastly alter the outcome of a battle or would the effect of the increased firepower be largely negligible on the battle as a whole?

[@demomanchaos]

@@vals5816 I specified that if Sharpe's regiment had them, not the entire British army. It is pretty obvious that giving any army of that era anymore more advanced would make them easily able to best their rivals (Hell, just giving them all capslock rifled muskets would be a major game changer), but the question was if there was only a single unit with the more advanced rifles if that unit would have a large enough effect to really matter to the battle as a whole.

[@freddieellis8449]

If you watch the final battle scene in Sharpe’s Gold (Battle of Salamanca) a French soldier is briefly seen standing on his own and firing a gun that is so blatantly a bolt-action! Seriously, check it out!

[@Panzergraf]

And they would have gotten away with it too if we'd only watched Sharpe on 90's TV screens.

[@alekzandah360]

4:20 Charlevilles. If my memory hasn't completely corroded, Potsdams also have those braces.

[@thrand6760]

"BITE" "POUR" "SPIT" *BANG* "DAMN IT DOBBS"

[@evanceier8577]

Yeah so odd how that low budget television show used props

[@jeordiegreen4957]

What kind of musket do you use Brandon F? I’m not sure if I need to go with pedersoli or some farb India company

[@hailsland]

I was just watching this clip from Sharpe a couple weeks ago and I noticed this detail as well. Although I deduced them to being mockups (or actual) of French Muskets, and the creative license taken by the director for the lack of proper Bess's was a "supply shortage." That's how I tried to make sense of what I was seeing, but I also knew that for the shot they had to put together what they could get. Even in reenacting, as you will know, unless a group puts their foot down on a particular model or musket you will get everything under the sun that looks the part showing up. Even for movie shoots, the reenactors bring their own equipment and wardrobe will supply what you don't have. (You also get more $ for bringing your own equipment, especially if you're providing a musket) I like American Revolution era and up reenacting and even movie shoots as you can have a Hodgepodge of different muskets and it would fly. Now, a Napelonic British Regiment just off the boat from England in Port/Spain? I would lean to them all having 3rd Pattern muskets. No reason for 2nd patterns or God forbid some how Springfields in the mix. And I would only think of a Charleville being in there if they had been on the March for months, or in Battle etc something where they would need to supplement their issued equipment for captured muskets.

[@omnisciency]

I only subbed to you a few days ago and seen on social blade your sub count is up 2,129.4% in the past 30 days which is insane, congrats on all these new subs!

[@BrandonF]

I've been absolutely blown away by the sudden flood of support. It's been good fun staring at those numbers all day!

[@omnisciency]

Might be an idea to set up a Patreon, BritishMuzzleLoaders (If you don't follow him on youtube i'm sure you'd love him) has 18k subs and gets $400 a month from it, if you have anymore ambitious goals for the channel as it continues you grow it might be good for supporting them! :)

[@monkofdeaths]

In keeping with the spirit of you leaving baits for future episodes. You mentioned Hornblower in one of those landing videos. So, one has to wonder if you are going to make a video about that series...

[@jason60chev]

I think that those nose caps are indicative of the Charleville style musket.

[@natalassblaster]

there is a greyhound bus in the background of braveheart lol These tv show inaccuracy videos are awesome!

[@BrandonF]

Oh, dear. I never saw that! I'll have to go searching, if I can stomach turning on the film long enough...

[@callehammar2743]

The "Ramrod case" looks a bit like the one on the swedish M1814 and M1815 flintlock musket

[@Papadragon18]

Might we get your oppinion on the British "95th foot" from the Hornblower episode the Frogs and the Lobsters, if you've seen that show? Uniform, armament, behaviour in combat and so on? It's one of my favourite episodes of the series(largely because it really takes place outside the main character's comfort zone at sea), but I'd like to know if its portrayal of the Redcoats is actually at least somewhat solid, or if it's just the utter tripe film portrayals tend to be. Oh, and I want to say this as well; love your channel. I follow several of the bigger youtube channels that deal with things medieval, but it's great to find one talking of the mid-modern era. The fact that you manage to present these things in such a humble, and yet at times so self awarely petty and humourous way just adds to the historical material. On that note, you're probably the most dapper guy I've seen online.

[@BrandonF]

Thank you! And, I've been planning to make a video or two about the Hornblower series. I'm a big fan of it. To put it shortly, their portrayal is quite good.

[@weaseltheswede7821]

One of them looks like he’s holding just a stick with tape and metal and like haven’t a pipe.

[@cassiusemmanualtheyoutubep3171]

nYou remind me a lot of Lindybeige only more focused on a specific era. I'm surprised you don't have as many subs and such. I'll subscribe and follow keep up with content especially the reenactment and analysis of inaccurate scenes it's very interesting to watch so far.

[@BrandonF]

Well thank you! And, these things take time. I won't complain in about my subscriber count...just a few days ago I had 2,000!

[@ernestclements7398]

British law requires that all weapons carried in reenactments or living history groups be rendered incapable of firing, there is a company in India that makes copies of historically accurate weapons that are shipped without touch holes being drilled out to comply with these laws

[@jamestate8815]

It looks like they are using Spanish musket. They have the brass fittings and barrel rings. Also they are fighting in Spain/Portugal at this point where those weapons would be readily available in the case of a shortage.

[@nickshapland9384]

I like your vids my dude

[@Zooasaurus]

Brandon, could you please give the name of march that's being used in your intro?

[@BrandonF]

+Rama Narendra "Glorious Victory"

[@Zooasaurus]

Brandon F. Huge thanks man

[@ArturoLopez-ly2pn]

Hmmmm... Looks more like a Krag Jørgensen to me.

[@2adamast]

My first reaction was: 0:56 Why does he dye his hair? Wrong focus, I should look at the guns in the background.

[@buzzmooney2801]

At first blush, I'd say they're trying for a Charleville, with poorly-cast furniture.

[@ToreDL87]

Didnt they use smoothbore replica`s that some company or another (3-4 different ones have sprung up since then) made for the show?

[@blackleaf_yt]

4:38 the weapon on the far right looks like a Mossberg model 75-B that had the trigger guard and bolt system removed

[@Piloulegrand]

In the Waterloo movie (the russian one) you also see several extras with mosins

[@rantymcrant-pants9536]

It's almost like it had the same budget as the average rice pudding! There is no limit to a pedant is there! :P

[@AccidentalNinja]

I don't see a metal plate there on the Mosin. I'm not an expert on guns, but perhaps they substituted old lever-action rifles for muskets?

[@kriegdeathrider7805]

Comrade why gun not fire? I put powder and ball down barrle and ram tight but gun no fire?

[@alexcrawford6983]

Those "non muskets" are in fact shortened French muskets from the napoleonic war

[@Logoscyth]

With the poor condition some Mosins are in, you would be lucky to fire 3 rounds a minute out of one. And you'd need a hammer.