Going into combat with a smooth-bore, sightless rifle? Now that's soldiering!
@tarmaque2 жыл бұрын
A lot of soldiers did so, before the advent of rifling. Such weapons were not "rifles," but a "musket." This being the difference.
@theothertoddg2 жыл бұрын
@@tarmaque I was referencing Sharpe
@peterclarke72402 жыл бұрын
@@tarmaque Completely failing to get that the OP was meme-ing it up like a good'un for laughs?! Now that's KZbin Commenting!
@TheArgieH2 жыл бұрын
@@tarmaque So what was "a rifle musket", I always thought it was to distinguish the mode of ignition. That is a flintlock on a firelock or musket or even a rifle musket, and a percussion cap on say an Enfield Rifle.
@deltavee22 жыл бұрын
Or as Baldric might put it "A club wot goes bang."
@ironanvil12 жыл бұрын
Fascinating to learn that the British penchant for "emergency pattern" weapons, that persisted into the Cold War with the 7.62 Sterling, stretches so far back.
@gerrywoody43012 жыл бұрын
7.62? 9mm
@ironanvil12 жыл бұрын
@@gerrywoody4301 that was the well known smg. There was also a 7.62 version derived from that that used FAL magazines, as a potential emergency substitute for the Bren/SLR.
@gerrywoody43012 жыл бұрын
@@ironanvil1 i stand corrected thank you sir i have leaned something i am glad i didnt have to fire it taking the recoil of a nato stadard 7.62 using the thin folding stock Of the smg or to have that round banging off so close to my face added to.in the event of a stoppage one would probby need to carry a vice and a crowbar into battle. 7.62 /SLR a marriage made in the heaven it sent folk to
@thespecialbru2 жыл бұрын
Best thing about this video? The John Wick shirt. A hero wearing a heroic shirt.
@matthewmayton18452 жыл бұрын
Talking about an interesting Baker rifle, now that's Jonathan Fergusoning.
@coryhall70742 жыл бұрын
You gotta be pretty Sharpe to come up with that comment
@legendofkelamentura2 жыл бұрын
Another fascinating glimpse into firearm's history, thanks again Jonathan
@legendofkelamentura2 жыл бұрын
More speculation, but I imagine Joseph Whitworth may have had his hands on one of these before the Pattern 1853 and ultimately his rifled musket
@blaymeister2 жыл бұрын
First time I heard about the Baker rifle was when I read Sharpe's rifles.
@HeavenlySword2 жыл бұрын
Telling us about the Baker Rifle? Now that's soldiering.
@gerrywoody43012 жыл бұрын
Big Clive now thats soldering
@billylin54042 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this video anout the Baker rifle! I can hear Sharpe’s intro theme song and Over the Hills and Far Away playing in my head again and again! 😄
@harrymcnally96162 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely fascinating. I have a Pattern 1800/15 Baker that I absolutely love and it would be fantastic if you could do an episode on the 1815 Baker conversion.
@benedictarnold53762 жыл бұрын
Is it just me, or right at the start when Jonathan says "Hi guys, Jonathan here again in the room full of guns", he's looking awfully smug ... admittedly, if I were there doing the same thing I'd be looking awfully smug. He's got the sort of job I'd love to have. Keep up the good work JF :)
@jamesvandemark20862 жыл бұрын
Very familiar to the fans of Sharpe!
@kanrakucheese2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of that French "rifle" that was adopted as a smoothbore because they decided on a cartridge and gun, but not bullet weight and twist. That was done under the idea they could make the gun now and do the rifling later.
@derekp26742 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jonathan, that was really interesting to see. I would certainly like to see more episodes on British muzzle-loading arms.
@ivanstrydom84172 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, eloquent gentleman with a dope Shirt!!!
@kevinstreet57092 жыл бұрын
Hi Johnathan, really pleased to see you pop up all the best
@thomasborgsmidt98012 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately I can't contribute; but I appreciate that You are doing Your research so somebody out there might come up with some documentation or know something, that can supplement. You never know where in the nitty gritty detail the decisive information might rest. I just might be able to set the famous raid on the Shell-House in Copenhagen in perspective - it takes a very long time to get all the pieces of the puzzle and even longer to see how they fit together. This is partly due to the fact that the persons knowing the critical information don't know how that it is - in fact - critical.
@philgreen8157 ай бұрын
Very interesting insight into an amazing weapon. I did own a smoothbore baker for re-enactment purposes, on a shotgun licence. And was luck enough to attend Waterloo in 2006 where my baker saw much use.
@KNURKonesur2 жыл бұрын
Any chance to see a video about the VSS Vintores and/or AS VAL?
@katanavx03312 жыл бұрын
Excellent work, Jonathan! 👏
@Rinasoir2 жыл бұрын
This and the Nock volley gun episode have this weirder introduction for anyone else? It's like an electric guitar solo with swelling orchestral music. And the ending is just Jonathan singing about some valleys and hills far away......
@proudyorkshireman77082 жыл бұрын
Jonathan with a baker rifle, Now that’s soldiering
@kencampbell17502 жыл бұрын
This was really informative! Never knew what a "sealed pattern" was, and always thought the Enfield Rifle of the 1853 was the first -very neat to learn something new.
@sampointau2 жыл бұрын
I was actually thinking it maybe a pattern sent to armouries like Peshawar, Pakistan Indian, Canadian, Australian for making local versions, allowing for different possible variations of locally produced/ supplied sights, muzzle length and rifling capabilities.
@rcfokker16302 жыл бұрын
That makes a good deal of sense.
@2adamast2 жыл бұрын
Then a random finished rifle would be just as good as there is no interest in sizes and standards and just anything can be modified, lock, stock, barrel, ...
@BravoCharleses2 жыл бұрын
Great videography on this episode. Nice job, lads. 👍
@tsmgguy2 жыл бұрын
If the last version of the Baker rifle standardized the use of the 1796 pattern lock, what lock did the 1800 pattern Tower Baker rifle use? Thanks!
@JochenBrinkmann2 жыл бұрын
So when you got the 'rifle' in this state, assembled but missing the rifling - would it be disassembled again an then the rifling cut at Enfield? Wouldn't it have made more sense to make the barrel there and only get the rest from outside?
@davydatwood31582 жыл бұрын
Remember that this vastly predates viable interchangable parts. The barrel and furniture would have been hand-fitted and you wouldn't want to take it apart again. Especially on a rifle where the sights had to be reasonably zeroed. My guess - and this is ONLY a guess - is the plan was to take the mostly finished rifle, clamp it down, bore out the rifling, cut off the excess length, and fit sights to suit the bore and barrel fit. That, of course, is assuming Enfield had a process to drill out the rifling once the weapon was assembled. An alternate guess would be that, if this was ever used, factories were told "here's all the bits. Here's how they fit together, so you know what you're working towards. But just make the bits and send them to us, and we'll do the hard parts and put it all together." A variation on that would be "You make these bits, we'll make these other bits, and then we'll send everything to this third company to assemble." But that comes back to the "need to be precise for zeroing sights" so I'd think 3rd party final assembly is less likely? All just speculation. Don't overlook the possibility of people thinking this was a good plan until they ran into the very issue you describe. People in the 1800s weren't any better at seeing all the ramifications of a plan than we are now. :)
@Tensquaremetreworkshop2 жыл бұрын
Oops! The flag shown on the bottom right at ~0:30 is wrong- the upper right quadrant saltire should be red over white, not white over red.
@4d4m222 жыл бұрын
Does that mean that you are the current Master General of the Ordnance, Jonathan? Now that’s a cool job title!
@davydatwood31582 жыл бұрын
The Master General of the Ordnance would work for whoever currently buys weapons for the British Army, alas. (The "General" part doesn't mean the Army rank, either, it means that the person works for the whole Army and not just a specific Regiment. That is, the title means "Master of Ordnance, in general.") I'd not be suprised to learn the post still exists, though; Attorneys General and Surgeons General are still very common, so why not Masters General? Anyway, "Keeper of Firearms" seems like a pretty cool job title already!
@4d4m222 жыл бұрын
@@davydatwood3158 I thought it might be something like that but I did wonder if it might have been a Royal Armouries title.
@nigelbarker87262 жыл бұрын
Makes sense. A controlled standard part for calibration of tooling and/or inspection equipment. Not too long ago before the advent of scanning systems in aerospace an inspector might have a 'standard' version of a particularly complex contoured tube for instance to use as a comparison to release a production part. This inspection tool might be painted blue or red perhaps so it didn't actually get used.
@jonwingfieldhill61432 жыл бұрын
A sealed pattern for the Sharpe eyed, now that's soldiering.
@warjunkie82422 жыл бұрын
Exellent video thank you. very cool
@TrainmanDan2 жыл бұрын
Maybe a pattern for a smoothbore for foraging small game? Two or three per company? But I don't know if that was a British thing.
@gwtpictgwtpict42142 жыл бұрын
No, you'd just use the standard Baker rifle. After all, it's small game so some degree of accuracy would be of benefit 🙂
@TrainmanDan2 жыл бұрын
@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 rifling is not good for shot patterns for birds and rabbits and such. If memory serves some Trapdoor 1873 Springfields were made as such for foraging. I thought maybe the Brits might have done a similar thing but it was only a guess.
@gwtpictgwtpict42142 жыл бұрын
@@TrainmanDan I see your point, but at the time anyone carrying a Baker rifle was effectively a marksman, birds on the wing maybe not, but I suspect capable of hitting small game at close range.
@tarmaque2 жыл бұрын
An alternate theory: This is a parade weapon, not needing some of the accouterments of a field weapon but still needing to be capable of firing in salute? It needs to look like the field weapon but not function as such.
@peterclarke72402 жыл бұрын
I don't know enough about firearms manufacture or the history of parade ground usage in the British forces, but while that does make sense, it seems like a lot of cost and effort to have a sealed pattern version of a weapon like this, based on what a sealed pattern version is (something to control serial, and therefore presumably mass, production), for that extremely limited purpose, given how cheap production line guns already were, and given that Britain was in a state of near-permanent war during the period the Baker was in service. In short, why would they need this specific model to produce rifles that would be of extremely limited numbers and of no practical military use, when Enfield could simply churn out a few parade variants based on the full sealed pattern version, but simply leave off the extra bits? There's also the issue that British gun salutes tend to involve artillery pieces (due to the whole Naval tradition), so there'd be even less need for rifles that were of limited military use, and even less when you consider that it would be more likely that line soldiers with muskets, rather than riflemen, who would be performing salutes. Far more likely that this is an outsourcing rifle, as Jonathan suggests, so less skilled manufacturers can produce it in bulk (and presumably get paid less) and leave the final finishing to Enfield. I think the other thing to consider would be the omission of the functional bayonet lug. Parade grounds were all about the show, and even today, British Household Guards tend to have bayonets affixed. I don't know if this was the case in Victorian times, but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't and we adopted it at a later date. I can understand the omission of the sights and rifling, but the bayonet lug seems a strange one if it was going to be used, essentially, for show. But as I say, I'm absolutely not an expert on any of this, and I do think it's a solid idea. Would love it if Jonathan shared his thoughts on it!
@jimjolly45602 жыл бұрын
That seems unlikely- parade weapons are sometimes carried with bayonets attached, and on this one the bayonet will just fall off.
@pluemas2 жыл бұрын
The British military do not do small arms salutes, we only do gun salutes. We also don't typically have parade weapons, current SA80s used as parade rifles are the exact same as ones used in combat, bar the pic rail frontend being removed and a cover for the plastic cover used instead (to prevent snagging or damage to parade uniforms). I believe this has been always been the case, regardless of rifle pattern. As Jim points out, British parades almost always have bayonet attached and this does not.
@felixthecat2652 жыл бұрын
No, definatly not.. You need to understand the times that these guns were being made. This precedes the the work of Robbins and Lawrence and Joseph Whitworth in the development of engineering measurement and precision. The traditional method of government procurement was to have a model item made up and examined by a board of officers. When the model was deemed satisfactory, a wax seal was attached and the item held as a pattern for contractors to copy. It was not just guns, all sorts of items were produced like this, including components and sub assemblies. None of the items were identical, as each manufacturer would have their own measurement methods and would only be able to work to fairlyy loose tolerances. In UK practice, firearm components such as barrels, stocks and fittings were procured from a large number of small contractors, intitially sited around Soho in London in the 16th and 17th Century until land prices forced them out and much of the trade moved to Birmingham. Parts were sent to the Tower of London, where they were fitted together by Artificers and Fitters as the parts would need to be filed and finished before assembly. Most parts would be made in wrought iron which would be supplied in the soft state. After filing up and fitting, they would then be case hardened in sets and assembled. None of the parts would be exchangeable. One of the factors that moved production to Enfield, and prompted the move to the percussion 1853 rifled musket was a fire in the Tower of London, which destroyed a large proportion of the reserve stock of Brown Bess muskets. Much of the tooling that went into the main Enfield production line came from the USA in the 1850s, by which time measurement and guaging methods worked out on both sides of the Atlantic had solved the exchangable parts problem and the need for sealed patterns disappeared. Enfield and the main arsenal at Woolwich were able to send out guaging sets to allow quality control of contracted items as the whole science of engineering tolerances was now understood.
@harrywp57857 ай бұрын
Fyi; the 'British Infantry Rifle' (Baker) was built with the sights and 7:56 bayonet bar brazed onto the barrel BEFORE the barrel was finish reamed and then rifled. This is because red heat in a furnace was required. There was no gas torch tech avail then. Red heat would screw the rifling. THE END. Builders of modern versions ( i have built 4x) should bear this in mind. I solder these parts on. SV. NZ.
@anselmdanker95192 жыл бұрын
What type of steel was used for the barrel and what is the price of the baker during the napoleonic wars ?
@rogerlafrance63552 жыл бұрын
It was proofed! I put forward that it was part of a test program to determine the value and type of rifled barrel over a smooth bore. It could of had several types of barrels fitted. Of course, there's the Secrets thing.
@ckl93902 жыл бұрын
So you could think of it as a rifle "blank", similar to a knife "blank" where it is a knife that needs finishing or some further work but is mostly complete.
@uncletiggermclaren75922 жыл бұрын
Before the production-line era, for all manufacturing that was done for government contracts or for some other enterprise that needed standardisation, the various workshops were given a "Pattern" of the thing they were making. People involved in manufacturing normally had no ability to read working drawings. Families had home-workshops and did piece-work and every family member was involved. And so they were given a "Pattern" to take their measurements directly from.
@st.michaelsknight62992 жыл бұрын
I have done steel fab, and I can read blueprints now, but honestly I think the Idea of the sort of blank pattern like this is brilliant, because you can see how it is suppose to go.
@2adamast2 жыл бұрын
Why use plans when they could have patterns. They would have needed even higher precision measuring devices that need to be to pattern too, the imperial system only starts in 1824
@uncletiggermclaren75922 жыл бұрын
@@2adamast The good thing about using a pattern is you don't need a measuring device with accurate graduations. You can just use a calipers or compass.
@daveg75162 жыл бұрын
Fantastic content thank you ! 😊👍👌🏼
@kebabsvein12 жыл бұрын
Wasnt there a flip up, adjustable sight on one of the versions?
@paulancill38722 жыл бұрын
At what stage did they rifle the barrel I had assumed that they would rifle it before assembly?
@jonprince32372 жыл бұрын
Out of curiosity, what's the internal diameter of the barrel on the sealed pattern example? Is it adequate to allow for rifling to be cut? Surely that would be considered a reasonable indicator for it being a sealed pattern for an unfinished example meant, as you very logically say, for larger scale production by other manufacturers? It wouldn't be the last time the U.K. "peddled" and subcontracted major component manufacturing to maximise production.
@boydgrandy57692 жыл бұрын
Were any of the later Baker rifles modified to the percussion system, or did they all remain as flintlocks? Seems simple enough to do that. I know that in the US, some armory stored military guns were changed over to percussion fairly easily (several models of US muskets numbering in the hundreds of thousands) starting in the 1840s, with many of the newer models being rifled in addition to the percussion modification.
@Bayan19052 жыл бұрын
I really, really wish Pedersoli would make a real, true later Baker rifle, complete with sight and of course, the rifling.
@carrot11512 жыл бұрын
Is this version based on the original caliber baker or the later one with the smaller bore which does not share ammunition with the brown bess?
@Torque_Mk12 жыл бұрын
What is this brown finish on the barrel of a "proper" variant? Looks really neat!
@SurmaSampo2 жыл бұрын
Looks like fish oil or an oil treated patina.
@parrotraiser65412 жыл бұрын
I wasn't sure how to parse "Sealed Pattern Baker", but it seems to be that it's Sealed as in Confirmed correct by official stamp, Pattern as Example of Baker model, a particular type. All sorts of other meanings might be constructed, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
@christopherdean13262 жыл бұрын
Who wants to see Jonathon Ferguson and Ian McCollum just sitting around talking about guns?
@RoganGunn2 жыл бұрын
We all do! They have done quite a few videos together, as Jonathan's book on British bullpups was published by the same company that did Ian's book on French small arms, and Ian has been to the Royal Armoury to look at a few of their pieces over the years. kzbin.info?search_query=jonathan+ferguson+forgotten+weapons+
@Lankythepyro2 жыл бұрын
I was in London a few years back and I have been kicking myself ever since that I didn't know the Royal Armouries existed! One thing I wanted to ask; does the Royal Armouries have a sample of the experimental .280 bullpup FAL? I've seen one image of the weapon in the hands of a soldier and I've wondered ever since how many samples were ever made and if any still exist. Thanks
@felixthecat2652 жыл бұрын
The Royal Armouries are in Leeds, not London. Many of the exhibits that used to be in the White Tower in the Tower of London are now in Leeds..! There were FAL made in .280 but I am not aware of any bullpup versions. I was always told that the FAL was originally designed for the 7.92x33 Kurtz round, and 7.62x51 was always at the top end of what the design could cope with. There were also 7.62x51 versions of the EM2, but they are not as pleasant to shoot as the .280. Leeds has versions of all these, but they may not be on display.
@ParanoidCarrot2 жыл бұрын
I just love these videos :) thanks for making them! so artillery video when ?
@davidprocter35782 жыл бұрын
Could just be a rush, not fitted with sights or rifling because the old chuffs in Whitehall had not yet agreed on a pattern or rate of twist they just needed a look alike to see if it matched their uniforms nicely.
@PopTartRanger2 жыл бұрын
Room full of guns!
@IrishTechnicalThinker2 жыл бұрын
Sharpe and his 95th Rifles. That's soldering.
@rand0mGT2 жыл бұрын
Came from gamespot’s cyberpunk weapons video. New sub. You should really consider doing more video game weapons.
@barrypenn-roberts37422 жыл бұрын
Is the shotgun barrel made from a solid bar ....is the rifled barrel a. Damascus barrel there is no mention of this it would be nice to know....thanks
@PaulP9992 жыл бұрын
Though I feel a bit cheeky offering a contradiction to your theory of this weapon, I'm sure I recall either yourself or "Forgotten Ian" relating a tale of how Britain used to issue sort of second class weapons to their colonial troops, as a precaution against them rising up against British regular troops. In that account they were issued with muskets instead of rifles and given shorter range sighting? Maybe it was one of those nights when I got into what my daughter calls a "deep dive" - getting sucked into one You Tube after another until your face hits the keyboard - and I imagined that?
@DeadnCold2 жыл бұрын
Spitballing here, but could it also be that those things that there were left off the pattern, were things that could could be custom ordered? There different types of sight, rifling, muzzles and bayonets, could this just be the absolute base model of the gun like a car has a base model and those things were options that were decided upon later to tailor the gun to the needs of the military branch at the time? Like say the Army wants just the sight like on the second model but the navy wants a different type of sight and different style of bayonet. So they leave those features off the pattern so that they can be decided upon later as needs warrant.
@schore692 жыл бұрын
hey there! still wondering what that chunky looking assault rifle on jonathans left (from his view) side is... that 80's looking one you know...
@tarmaque2 жыл бұрын
Looks like some version of FAL. Not technically an "assault rifle" but a "battle rifle." Unless you're looking at something I'm not seeing.
@schore692 жыл бұрын
@@tarmaque the thing that looks like an FAL and a SIG 550 had a little love affair. what version of the FAL? i'm really not so sure with that one cause of that carrying handle or sight or whatever that thing on top is... the FAL normally has a folding one that hangs to the side...
@tarmaque2 жыл бұрын
@@schore69 I dunno. There are many versions of the FAL, and my first thought is it's a pre-production version. However it does have distinctly FAL geometry and magazine. The receiver is much squarer than a typical FAL though. But what the heck do I know? Most of what I know about firearms I learned from Forgotten Weapons.
@schore692 жыл бұрын
@@tarmaque lets hope it will be shown by jonathan at one point
@tarmaque2 жыл бұрын
@@schore69 I'd enjoy that.
@iskandartaib2 жыл бұрын
If it's got proof marks, does that mean it's been proofed (which I assume means it's been fired)?
@eshaawood12 жыл бұрын
I would love to know how the barrel was made, A great feat of engineering
@Zajuts1492 жыл бұрын
Could it also be a pattern for use when making rifles with different non-standard rifling?
@CaptainBardiel Жыл бұрын
The 95th Rifles The Chosen Men
@HM2SGT2 жыл бұрын
I haven’t had an opportunity to take a good look, but you might consider doing a piece about the first breech-loading black powder a cap and ball that nearly killed George Washington, the Ferguson Rifle.
@aussiebloke6092 жыл бұрын
0:54 If it has a smooth bore, should it be called a rifle at all?
@johnstacy79022 жыл бұрын
Where those ever converted to percussion caps?
@Zajuts1492 жыл бұрын
Is that a wood block in the lock jaws?
@davidstegman81472 жыл бұрын
Would it be a presentation piece?
@HM2SGT2 жыл бұрын
I am a 95/Over the hills and far away
@toraganaboozehound39952 жыл бұрын
So could you think of it as kind of like a basis for the 80% firearms that are made over in the US?
@TheMadMuffster2 жыл бұрын
I work in a subcontract manufacturing company, and we get samples to build to that are similarly unfinished. IMO J. F. And his speculative thinking ring very plausible
@AlexLuyckxPhoto2 жыл бұрын
There’s a good chance those last gasp Bakers ended up arming the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment. Would love to see a video on the Brunswick.
@lesjames51912 жыл бұрын
For those to young to remember, 20 shillings equals £1 pound.
@johnfisk8112 жыл бұрын
But a gentleman uses guineas at £1-1-0, one pound and one shilling or 21 shillings. FWIW that is 1,016 farthings….. Can’t imagine why they decimalised it.
@oldman24772 жыл бұрын
What makes a good soldier?
@calvingreene902 жыл бұрын
Anyone capable of making safe muskets could make unfinished Bakers and the precision work would be done by better gunsmith to achieve a higher production of good finished product than top-tier manufacturers could produce on their own. That at least makes sense.
@KarlArty2 жыл бұрын
*insert obligatory Sharpe comment here*
@matthewmayton18452 жыл бұрын
Asking people to insert obligatory Sharpe comments, now that's YouTubing.
@PeterSt19545 ай бұрын
In any manufacturing process the pattern only needs to cover the parts made or assembled by a particular unit or factory. Why send complete rifles to people who are only manufacturing the lock or the butt plate or the ramrod? Presumably this pattern relates to a certain stage of manufacture or assembly - before it is passed on for the next stage. The people who attach the sights might just have a barrel with the sights since the rest of the assembly would have been checked and approved before they got them. The mark on the bayonet lug puzzles me. it might mark the point where the dimension is critical so that the bayonet fits snugly - the rest being less critical. If the pattern was passed along as manufacture and assembly progressed - perhaps because it was held by a government inspector who followed several stages of the process - it might contain all the parts and dimensions for several stages.
@mattiaseriksson64222 жыл бұрын
for the very Sharped eyed...🙂
@longrider422 жыл бұрын
The other thing is, the smooth bore military musket was the normal weapon of the day. That any one could be taught to shoot, and load quickly. A Rifled Musket was a bit harder to learn, and slower to reload. That's just my two cents worth.
@iskandartaib2 жыл бұрын
Hmm.. I was thinking at the beginning that it was a shotgun version. Kind of small of bore, though...
@TheKerberos842 жыл бұрын
Your theory that it was a muster gun makes sense, that or the inspector was drunk.
@funkyrussian12 жыл бұрын
Would reacting to Call of duty zombies wonder weapons be a possibility in the near future?
@mickvonbornemann38247 ай бұрын
Well Army bakers real job is baking bread, so they’re only armed as a stock gap in case of an emergency (like what the M1 Carbine was made for), so the powers that be felt they didn’t require rifling.
@tonygunk18862 жыл бұрын
Jonathan, you are way to good at what you do… absolute informational sponge
@SkylerLinux2 жыл бұрын
TIL the orign of Lock, Stock, and Barrel.
@Del_S2 жыл бұрын
My theory is as folllows: "What, no, I said rifle the muskets, not musket the rifles. I think. Did I write it down? Oh. Oh dear. Yes, my bad. Little too much sherry, methinks."
@Jockberg2 жыл бұрын
So... a Baker musket?
@eddiebruv2 жыл бұрын
You must love your job. I know I would.
@MajorT0m2 жыл бұрын
I prefer the Candlestick Maker rifle.
@davidpowell54372 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that you are trying to resolve a puzzle here, but I'm not convinced that you've got close yet. I can see a couple of problems here. One is that rifling a barrel is a relatively slow process involving a dedicated machine and a skilled operator - two "commodities" likely to be in short supply as a crisis unfolded, so it's not clear how much help this approach would be. I would have thought it better to simply contract for rifled and breeched barrels and just deal with the sights and touch holes in house. Rifling wasn't a state secret after all! The other point is that, as I understand it, serious parts interchangeability didn't arrive until after flintlocks had been withdrawn from service. So if you received a batch of assembled but yet to be rifled guns you were looking at possibly having to do an awful lot of corrective work if the rifling process disturbed the seating of the breech plug - if it doesn't go back just so, nothing else would align properly. And you would have the hassle of keeping all the parts together throughout. Could this gun perhaps be an assembled pattern for kits of parts intended to be finished at Enfield? or could it actually be the Sten gun of its day - a "modern" smooth bore quickly produced using existing parts for issue to scantily trained recruits who would be less likely to realise the benefits of a rifle anyway? Really enjoyed the video - kept the leetle grey cells busy till bedtime!
@colmhain2 жыл бұрын
"Ya cull thaht a rahfle? Wi' nho sahts ahnd a smooth bhore? Why, thahts nho rafle at'ull. Sahgeant Hahper,...." "SIR!" "...waht iz this?" "THAT, is a glorifoid tant-pole, Major, Sir."
@RoganGunn2 жыл бұрын
I know Sharpe's Rifles wore green as they were skirmishers, but they weren't Orks... 😅
@colmhain2 жыл бұрын
@@RoganGunn, whadya mean?! Thats not Cockney! Those are clearly a mid-lands and Irish accent! ;)
@RoganGunn2 жыл бұрын
@@colmhain Haha on second reading, you're quite right! 😂
@HM2SGT2 жыл бұрын
*100% Blades!* Sheffield, wuznit?
@harryniemeyer13352 жыл бұрын
Could you tell us about the famas please
@mattiaseriksson64222 жыл бұрын
Ian from Misremembered Shootums likes the Famas
@Torque_Mk12 жыл бұрын
@@mattiaseriksson6422 Ah, I see you're a Lost & Found Armaments enthusiast as well!
@NomadShadow12 жыл бұрын
Cool
@nemo-790002 жыл бұрын
An Excellent Presentation from Johnathon as usual. If I could speak to him face to face, I would conjecture that the pattern would be held as a template against which ongoing manufacturing tolerances could be checked. It should be borne in mind that at this time the concept of standardized industrial manufacturing was being evolved. The commonly believed point of recognition is the introduction of automated parts fabrication at the American Springfield arsenal. Although earlier than this event, gunsmiths were committed to maintaining the interchangeability of parts for fire arms and as the parts manufactured by hand, tolerances would be prone to variation over time. The existence of a master pattern would provide a baseline for the construction process and allow deviations in production to be recognized and rectified.
@leoneldoleschal11942 жыл бұрын
There is a advantage to use a smooth barrel over the not smooth one..? I mean historical meaning.
@gwtpictgwtpict42142 жыл бұрын
Faster reload as you don't have to force the ball down the rifling.
@ferdinand123902 жыл бұрын
is that a John Wick t-shirt?
@Kav.2 жыл бұрын
2:50 I assume here is when you realise you're about to go into a whole bunch of legal technicality. I think you remembered that S58 only applies to guns made pre 1939?
@Kav.2 жыл бұрын
Also please a video on the SLEM-1 & 2 story! Or the various other guns trialed against the Bren (ZBG33)
@d33b332 жыл бұрын
Oh. You have a production blank.
@nosuchthingasshould41759 ай бұрын
8:17 Britain always wanting…wary of war with France…😂
@Warcrimeenthusiast2 жыл бұрын
Would it then be a Baker Musket , and not a Baker Rifle