"The Evolution of Firearms" - Episode 2 - Flintlocks to Percussion Cap

[@peteraugust5295]

The Best part about the development of muskets is that many of them went thru 5, sometimes 10 iterations of improvement, but literally no one came up with the idea of adding a rear sight to the rifle hahaha

[@SRP3572]

Individual accuracy wasn't that important to armies of the day so why add it? I get what you're saying though, don't get me wrong. Sounds like you need to contact Doc Brown and get in the Delorean and go back in time and convince at least one nation to add rear sights

[@peteraugust5295]

@@SRP3572 That is exactly what I am saying. Hardly is it technolgy that hinders progress, usually it is people not beeing able to see the benefits of the existing technology. If they would have tried they would have found out that one volley of precisely aimed fire would be far more effective then 10 volleys of unaimed shooting.

[@trinova9581]

@@peteraugust5295 Not particularly. Muskets themselves were only accurate out to around 50m or so. Past that point it’s basically luck. More importantly, military tactics focused on engaging large blocks of infantry, area targets that don’t require individual accuracy so long as your bullet lands somewhere in the formation. So military drill emphasized rate of fire over accuracy of fire and iron sights wouldn’t have been of any real use, even for skirmisher forces. Now, keep in mind that iron sights did in fact exist at the time, but were mostly relegated to hunting firearms that were designed for accurate fire over weight of fire. Why add iron sights if the accuracy of your weapon is limited and the targets you’re shooting at don’t require it?

[@peteraugust5295]

@@trinova9581 The assumption that muskets are only accurate to 50m is off. It is true, that with the loads and equipment they used they are not more accurate, but that is the fault of military commanders. Any decent musket will be good to hit a single person at 100-150 meters.

[@javanbybee4822]

@@peteraugust5295 And, after you add rifling to your musket it is deadly to 200+ meters.

[@scottparkervs.theworld4377]

I'm loving this documentary

[@adamk7254]

Should be titled Evolution of Firearms / American history.

[@socalion90]

Go make a video yourself then

[@mikesully110]

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[@hellacoorinna9995]

@@socalion90 Nice appeal to accomplishment, dude. Adam K's not wrong. I only clicked on this video looking to find out as the title says: *"The Evolution of Firearms" - Episode 2 - Flintlocks to Percussion Cap*

[@12floz67]

@PL Lyons Yep, they taxed us and threatened us but when they came to take our firearms it was war! 🍻

[@ryana.c1379]

lmaoo ikr

[@vhashkar4527]

Like the samuel colts slogan"god made man,samuel colt made them equal"

[@IM_THE_CHANGLLER]

i love this now Narrators voice better than most others !!

[@caniktp9sf718]

Great job with this documentary

[@kasiak8992]

Rename this to ‘Evolution of American Firearms’ it would be greatly appreciated so people can lean about the ACTUAL evolution of firearms

[@muckbringer]

Firearms, cooking, and home economics. Every student should know these immediately following English, math, and health. Arts should not be on this level, it's a hobby.

[@TheLocalsOnlyPodcast]

@@muckbringer Did you flunk out of Art class or something?

[@meatymartin2186]

Yeah i agree. It pisses me of to cos theres like no other videos out there and i just wanna learn about guns not stupid America obviously the was going to be talk about it as it is important to the progress of guns but its just American patriotic garbage at this point

[@hylianmango8272]

​@@TheLocalsOnlyPodcastart isnt as impprtant as any of those, would you not agree?

[@paulbalogh4582]

This was very good!

[@davec.8406]

Great video as always. The ordnance department redesigned the bayonet for the 1816 going forward to the length when used would make the opponent bleed out on both sides when struck in the abdomen

[@ernestbywater411]

This is more a history of the use of the guns in the US than it is on the evolution of firearms. Sadly too much is repeated in different episodes.

[@ernestbywater411]

@PL Lyons I don't drink beer, but I do dislike people lying in their video titles to get extra views.

[@ernestbywater411]

@PL Lyons I probably will when I can (a) afford to buy decent equipment to make them with, and (b) have the time from my other activities to do them properly instead in a half-hearted manner like this one.

[@kasiak8992]

It’s because this channel is America centric instead of focusing on literally the entire other world of Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America where literally everything was developed and where history actually occurred.

[@ciranopunalesvigliarolo3788]

@@kasiak8992 most of the first video was about both Asia and Europe, while the amount of info may be overdone in this one weren't a lot of these inovations made by Americans?

[@Darqshadow]

@@kasiak8992 uh.... a lot of firearm innovations occurred in the US, perhaps only second to Europe since the French and Germans created the needle rifle

[@Gogdivine]

Next episode, evolution of planet earth/American history.

[@paulposey1162]

Would love to have one of those rifles

[@Chief2Moon]

Paul Posey My old guns are a Harpers Ferry 1807 .58 cal flintlock pistol, 1820 .36cal flintlock Pennsylvania rifle,& 1873 Springfield .45/70

[@da_plasma_catto1801]

Own a musket for home defends, cause that was the founding fathers attended

[@stephenembrey883]

You can order very nice reproductions online and have them delivered to your house. Not that expensive, study the brands and the reviews but I have had the rifles shoot 2-3 inch groups at 100 yards, I am not sure where the writer got his accuracy information from, but the rifled barrels were extremely accurate to very long range, for the day; they could hit a man at a quarter mile with ease. The musket...absolutely no chance other than luck. As old as they are and primitive, don't underestimate them, there are calibers that can kill anything on earth.

[@ianmangham4570]

@@da_plasma_catto1801 🤡

[@freedomloverusa3030]

@@da_plasma_catto1801 how dare to write on Internet? Write a letter and send it by horse mail!!!!!

[@Matzah1982]

They forgot to mention the short starter and block of pre patched and pre lubed balls worn either about the neck or attached to the strap of the possibles bag. The ball had to be super tight for accuracy in the long rifles and needed to be started in the bore with a short starter so to save time a block of about 6 of those pre lubed pre patched balls would be carried and it would fit over the muzzle and the ball would line up with the bore to be just rammed down the first 6 inches of the bore with the short starter. Otherwise it would have to be started with the ball of the short starter just in the surface of the bore and the excess patching material cut off with a patch knife and then get rammed down the first 6 inches of the bore

[@juno6602]

The line in the sand remains the same today as in 1776. Our right to retain our arms is non-negotiable.

[@josuebarboza9809]

Should you be able to own nuclear weapons ?

[@juno6602]

@@josuebarboza9809 No, clearly no. The second amendment was designed to protect the right to own, and carry, arms useful for the defense of self, loved ones, home, and community. Nuclear weapons are about as far as one can get from this purview.

[@josuebarboza9809]

@@juno6602 nuclear weapons are doing exactly that to those nations who own them What if I lived in communist Russia and the government wanted to send me to the gulags Only nuclear weapons would deter them

[@AR_119]

And yet libtard politicians want to disarm us again and lemming hipsters are voting for these lunatics. Read a history book folks.

[@macruz8503]

@@josuebarboza9809Should cars be banned because some people choose to harm others? Of course not! It’s the people we have to look at.

[@nealchampagne5878]

It's really sad how so many people living today have no knowledge or appreciation of how their freedom was obtained. Not only are they ignorant of their own history. But inexplicably quick to condemn it, due to its unavoidably harsh and violent reality.

[@robertocanales1201]

Thank you very much 😑🙏🏼

[@pwessie]

Great video!

[@ulrichkalber9039]

mercury of fulminate? i think it should be fulminate of mercury, or mercury-fulminate.

[@SRP3572]

Im glad i wasnt the only one who noticed that. I've also heard it called "fulminated mercury"

[@pwessie]

Huh. In my head I heard, "Mercury, uh, f- fulminate." Historians often do that in the course of speaking as there is a lot of content in their noggins to sift through to get the right fact out

[@Tiger1x1]

Was here to see evolution of guns

[@sab5043]

Incredible

[@stephenodell9688]

The rifle took longer because the ball is so tight you have to hammer the ball in. some rifle manufactures gave you a mallet there are still "balls starters" to get the ball into the bore. (does any one know where I can get 45 cal minne balls)

[@aurathedraak7909]

i didn't know breech loading was this early, i thought i would be later or after the napoleonic wars.

[@originalkk882]

Ferguson rifle was used by an experimental unit of the British Army in the Revolutionary War. It was later dropped as it was too expensive and prone to breakage. Typical British penny-pinching.

[@derekstocker6661]

@@originalkk882 Sadly, the British short-sightedness and penny pinching at the time lost them the Americas.

[@sadmanpranto9026]

MISLEADING TITLE

[@CarlosAsunder]

Not one but rather two of John Brown's sons died at Harpers Ferry during the attack. The third escaped.

[@Jaystarzgaming]

Firearms history is everyone’s history because it starts with sticks and stones to bows and arrows to firearms of the nowadays with a lot of time of evolution.

[@CMDRScotty]

This is good keep up the good work 🙂

[@quentinmichel7581]

Time 26:52 .... Mercury of fulminate? How about fulminate of Mercury?

[@Aaaqqppl23]

are you mad?

[@quentinmichel7581]

@@Aaaqqppl23 The jury is still out on that 😁 but for this I was merely correcting a glaring inaccuracy.

[@Tarumarugan]

28:00 dude’s hair looks like he should’ve been there when that weapon was made.

[@robertfisher8260]

No mention of the Hawkens rifle wow

[@spookymulder945]

That tie. Good god.

[@CoffeeFiend1]

To be fair to him he looks like he eats the liver of his enemies with fava beans and a nice chianti. He's doing his best to blend in.

[@wtfduud]

That musket expert reminds me of the sommelier from John Wick 2

[@jomahawk7488]

Except the sommelier from John Wick 2 was much more succinct with his speaking and didn’t start/stop at all.

[@leondillon8723]

7:29)Two Kentucky gunsmiths, Henry Deringer, Senior & Junior, moved to Penn. 12:48)Expert marksman? Then I am an Expert Expert. 18:24)A real life rifleman would stand behind the tree.Captured riflemen were murdered. 21:18)Major Ferguson was killed at Kings' Mountain.The unit was disbanded.No original copies left. 22:30)One prison has a monument to the US POWs who died there 1809 and after. 27:57)Colonel J. F. Davis commanded the First Miss.Infantry Militia Regiment. Col.J.C.Davis was Regular Army(RA). 29:00)Once more the Bluenose Censors kept cock from being in the CC. 33:46)Walkers were scaled down with minor changes.Known as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dragoon Model.Carried by the US Army's 1st and 2nd Dragoons Regts.

[@skooter2767k]

2 original Fergusons exist of the 100 initial military batch. A few other original sporterized versions built by Durrs Egg also exist

[@leondillon8723]

Must have been in a clothes closet or an attic. About 25-30 years back, a gun magazine article said that the rifles were destroyed and the unit disbanded. The men went to other regiments.@@skooter2767k

[@damianbigelow9511]

I wonder how much flint was used total per war and where it came from ? Guess I know what I'm doing on the beautiful cold Sunday

[@thealarmclock9307]

I'm so proud. My father's literally fought an empire for trying to take their guns

[@johndalton7878]

... and now the British People can defend 'em with a Spoon 🤣🤠

[@josephadams7379]

If only the French army, commanded by Napoleon, would have adopted Pauly's invention of the self contained shotgun cartridge in 1812, and the double barrel he created to shoot it, things could have been quite different. Forsythe invented the Mercury-Fulminate which was used in the cartridge, and the percussion cap had a few names associated with it, but I believe Egg was the one credited with the patent.

[@haalstaag]

As George Washington said in the Simpsons...”I’ll have it but I’m not going to pay for it”

[@Boon-dang]

They weren't cowards,they had a mind of their own and realized standing in a line to get shot is no life...👍💥💥🤔

[@japanesehitler]

Due to the limitations in accurecy it wasn't as dangerous as it sounds, it wasn't untill the civil war before the weapons become so effective that the tactics needed to change. And most armies would try to use sneak tactics and natrual defenses if they could, but if the enemy is approtching a important town it could be nessecery to meet them in open battle.

[@TamaraBlackwell]

There is significantly more patriotism than I had ever expected, negating the purpose of me trying to explicity learn about firearms as a whole

[@juliusevola4135]

what how

[@dmtaboo_truth7052]

Completely agree. It's supposed to be a series about firearms specifically, and instead they're giving us a history lesson on the American Revolution.

[@zombiewanderer]

Guns and patriotism go together like peanut butter and jelly.

[@jessejames7757]

1776 Liberty or Death Baby !

[@tomstech4390]

Makes you wonder where they got the red, white and blue flag colors, the love of guns, going to other countries and royal empire (imperial) measurements from.

[@zorotitansaitama3593]

Love from Manipur.. we fought the British ( Anglo-Manipur War 1891).. I think they were using flincklock.

[@outdooraddventure]

Why would you burn supplies? Wouldn't it be better just to use the supplies?

[@killerkraut9179]

Are the Red coats really the best Trained army at this Time ? what was with the Prussians ?

[@SRP3572]

When it came to equipment and discipline, the British Army was the best in the world. They had also proved they could defeat other powerful nations such as France and Spain and the Prussian Empire and various German States. The Prussian and French armies could certainly stand toe to toe with Great Britian on the field of battle, but the British prevailed in shear size of its empire. In question of the navies of the world, the British Navy was no question the dominant kid on the global playground. One of the disadvantages that is rarely mentioned is that at this time, the British Empire had so much territory that they had to have military forces stretched very thin to maintain their territory. It's estimated that only 50,000 British soldiers fought during the American Revolution. This includes militia and loyalist units and army units stationed in the West Indies aka Caribbean territories held by the British that would be brought to the American mainland.

[@trinova9581]

Really a bit of a toss-up between Britain and Prussia at the time in terms of training. In terms of equipment, though, Britain comes out ahead. Prussia in the Napoleonic era was using an antiquated heavy musket design as opposed to the lighter designs of Britain and had severe issues with gunpowder quality that tended to make their weapons unreliable, a problem that was solved later in the Napoleonic Wars. They compensated for this with drill and training.

[@killerkraut9179]

Maybe there where a down Phase in The Prussian army . a time after the two Friedrichs . In the Time of the two Friedrichs the Prussian army was most likely the best Trained .kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZzOeYCihc6kpLs But the Superiority of the British red coats where most likely just a Myth kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnaaYnp4rpqSoMU

[@heroinboblivesagain5478]

Which of them had one of the largest empires in history?

[@killerkraut9179]

@@heroinboblivesagain5478 You have to be a good Ship culture to go arround the world ! And the colony stuff was mostly against primitive cultures !

[@brianpencall4882]

Is there still a militia in Concord Massachusetts, which could do that?

[@Puhngaknghaka]

I like guns so why not watch how they evolve and built

[@lepmuhangpa]

Hyper-focused on America.

[@adamfrazer5150]

Really enjoying this series, top-shelf work 👍🍻 Is it wrong to be hoping for Ironside to make a cheeky remark about the FN 5.7 later in the series ? 😬

[@samsunga10samsung78]

Now thats soldering!

[@Oscuros]

There's no soldering in this video. That's sticking two pieces of metal together using heat and flux.

[@samsunga10samsung78]

@@Oscuros I say... standing face to face 40 yards away from your enemy with charged guns... now thats soldering!

[@heroinboblivesagain5478]

​@@Oscuros Correcting someones typo? That's soldiering.

[@stevenhall9349]

I wonder what those men and women back then that gave birth to a nation would think about today. Is there not a part for?

[@mikesully110]

Probably for the best that they aren't around any more, to see what happened to that "freedom" they thought they had won.

[@haalstaag]

Baker rifle???

[@thomasbaagaard]

I wish people would stop spreading the myth that Minie invented the bullet used in rifle muskets during the civil war. Multiply people was designing bullets at this time. the first rifle muskets in wide use was using a bullet designed by Thouvenin. And they where in wide use in mainland Europe by 1850. Minie suggested adding a cap and the bottom of the bullet, to help it expand. The british used this system in their bullets for the P1851 and P1853 riflemuskets. But the bullet used during the civil war did not. This should rightly be called the Burton bullet.

[@thomasjesser1464]

I EXPECTED A HISTORY OF THE WEAPONS,NOT ACTORS AND A LOT OF REENACTMENT BULLSHIT.

[@Genstone24]

‘Merica is so great! Might have s**t politicians but the land of the free is great!

[@bb3xhrhj]

Historical inaccuracy at 16:16

[@AlexGaming99978]

Hi

[@MrPh30]

Reverend Forsythe and Poully did very much for guns and ammo we see as granted and natural to use today .

[@maiholiaw4927]

It's "Fulminate of Mercury" not "Mercury of Fulminate"🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@ToyotaPete]

👍

[@jtv6038]

I came here to learn about the history of guns not politics

[@fernandoesteban2345]

I was just researching on firearms and the latest mass murders.... This explains it very well.

[@Butternut1861]

16:05 Tim Murphy fired 4 shots at Fraser, not 1.

[@pyeitme508]

Ok

[@dejanbelec8611]

10

[@benquinneyiii7941]

Trigger time

[@Kewickviper]

I'd rather watch these without the American history lesson.

[@tman586]

Interesting documentary, but they literally just repeat the same 5 facts about muskets over and over, far to repetetive

[@BrandonS-lk2qc]

G😊

[@dmtaboo_truth7052]

Can't really get into this series. Too much focus on history of places, people, conflicts and battles. It's supposed to be about firearms specifically.

[@rowtubegaming8617]

im here to learn about guns, not the american revolution

[@ra9im308]

americans since of their esbalishment they fighting

[@fourthright]

Defeat the enemy is the most imp trait of a civilisation.

[@benquinney2]

Los

[@haalstaag]

Sorry, can’t carry on watching this load of bollocks....1755 the British army issued the baker rifle to the 60th Royal Americans

[@originalkk882]

That's pretty clever, since the Baker Rifle was first produced in 1800. Previous British military rifles were the Pattern 1776 Infantry Rifle, and the Ferguson Rifle (breech loaded) of the same period.

[@haalstaag]

@@originalkk882 I bow to your greater Knowledge, however, the 60th were still using rifles in 1755

[@thomasbaagaard]

@@haalstaag And what is your evidence that the British issued military rifles to them?

[@haalstaag]

@@thomasbaagaard any regimental history book ever written about The Royal American (Rifles) later the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. The Regiment was made up of mainly Dutch, Swiss and German settlers and were armed with rifles and wore green buckskin when in battle (red coats in barracks for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and fourth battalions and the 5th battalion wore Green Jackets with Grey trousers with red facings to denote a Royal Regiment) they fought extensively in the war with France from 1755 and helped win the battle of Quebec where General wolf said they were “Swift and Bold” which is still used by the regiment today. Celer et Audax is the motto used by The five battalions of The Rifles.

[@thomasbaagaard]

@@haalstaag What Pattern of rifle? What arsenal produce that rifle? who designed it? How many was issued? when? Having a few civilian made rifles is irrelevant to the larger story of the development of military firearm's.

[@peterforden5917]

Arnold not yet a traitor?! he was a traitor the moment he raised arms against his king, as was washington (still known in the British army as the only colonel in the history of the British army to surrender an entie regiment to the French without firing a shot..7 years war.)it was a war (revolutionary war) fought by the poor of both sides for the benefit of the wealthy of the wealthy of both sides...No taxation without representation is as great a lie now as it was then.the colonist started a world wide war against the french (french and indian wars or 7 years war) fought on every ocean and most of the seas as well as on every continent by soldiers and seamen of the crown who left their blood and lives everywhere because of the colonists greed, if that isnt representation I dont know what is, and the US government still lies today ie the Trump v Biden election farce

[@rachelglenn6141]

The King was the traitor. It went about anyone’s greed, but about am kings lust for war.

[@Rightarm_over]

This ignores guns made outside the Western anglosphere as Americans do with everything ig

[@владимирмоскаленко-щ8д]

даже и с большим трудом.но все равно неверю во всю эту херьню.то рисунки и одно фото .а города. вы кто верит стояли один против другова с ружьями.а вы попробуйте.или у тогда яица были из железа.