Відео

Smoke and gun powder? Bright!

1:22

I've got the Model 1771 Nepalese Gurka Bess kit from IMA-USA. Those "footie" barrels were made stout, and can easily take a 120 gr. charge of FFg. I proofed my barrel with 150 gr. with no signs of problems. I'll be hunting with mine loaded with 120 gr. behind a .690 round ball!

Stunning rifle. I was thinking about getting a breachloader, and instead of a Sharps rifle that were going for a few grand, I found these instead going for only about ~900$ Any recommendations before getting one?

I've heard some mixed things, does anyone know how safe it is to use modern ammo (such as PPU .303) in a 303 converted Martini that's in adequate shape?

My henry is also from the Nepal cache... but long ago, a Nepalese soldier carved a swastika on it as a prayer. Historically interesting, but not ideal to our modern ignorant jaundiced eye..

Great explanation! I just bought a Martini Henry and I'm really trying to figure this whole 'making my own ammunition" out. I'm excited to get started.

I have same model I want to sale Gun we have no cartrage india

Good video. Short, with good explanations of what you are doing and why.

wait you didint say how much pyrodex to use!!?

dude someone gave me like 5 lbs of that same pyrodex RS FFG equivilent. how much powder do you use? and for what grain bullet? I havent found any definitive info on that type

If im using the .457 pp bullets what if i dont use a grease cookie? do you still need the 12mm wad or do you need to add more lube or something? I heard some ppl dont use a grease cookie

Not bad. I wonder if you can dip those paper cartridges in wax or bullet lube to help water / weather proof them? I think you should experiment and try it. Might make a good video.

I load 100gr of Fg with about 15gr of FFFFg in the pan, I use a .715 round ball with .018 patches and I can hit a pie plate at 100 yards 4/5 shots.

What is the overall length of the bullet when you are finished

Black powder and cigar connection is amazing!

Newsprint works about the best I’ve found since it’s almost perfect thickness

Gives new respect for how powerful those guns really were. Most impressive! I recently heard on a TV show, though I can't recall which one, that the musket could rip right through a log cabin wall at 100 yards. Seeing this video I can see how that could be true.. Dam!

Wouldn’t that kind of charge blow up the gun?

There was a guy in 1778 who was in a battle with the Indians. He started making cartridges like this. By the time he had one almost finished, he had 70 arrows in him.

Bessie has a bit of recoil, it seems.

Why shoot it from a bench rest? That's no test is it? Should be standing or at least kneeling!-British Army brat.

Can u shoot it lefty

hey man there is no such thing as cheating if it's not a test

excuse the pedantic comment, but while 120 grains was the correct charge in British and U.S. muskets, it was reduced after percussion ignition was adopted to 110 grains. The musket was pan was primed from the cartridge, the frizzen snapped shut over the priming, and then loaded. These days, for safety reasons, one has to first load, then prime. So one is constrained by modern safety standards. Second, the use of paste in lieu of flax thread was done... By the French! French cartridges are what you've got yourself there... Same type used in the French Revolutionary Wars, and in the Napoleonic period. <hums the Marseillaise>. Thanks for the tutorial!

Can you imagine how horrible it was to get hit with one of these musket balls?

Hii

200th sub

You forgot to mention that some of the powder in the cartridge is supposed to be used for priming the pan. You DON'T dump the whole load down the barrel

The Cadet Carbine in Canada was a cut down 3 band rifle since they didn't have enough original carbines. The front sight was too low but the gun wasn't really set up for shooting, more for marching display's. The XRing mold will vastly improve the accuracy or even the .60" round ball works better than the .575 Minie.

You left your paper musket loader unattended in the mild of the backcountry. You gonna get a felon for that ... lol.

The sound of this rifle is better in Battlefield 1

My favorite in Ottoman

Such a sick battlefield 1 gun

Good video! The gluing is actually historically accurate. That is how the French made up their cartidges according to Lyman's Cast Bullet Handbook third edition. The British tied theirs. Powder charge seems fine to me also. Gives you some extra to pre prime the pan.

powder charge way to hot

I have one of these and I really want to shoot it

Huh, I don't remember reloading this slow in Battlefield 1

I had a chance to buy one of these rifles at an antique store North of Melbourne Australia for about $300 in 1986. I chickened out because I was not sure how I could get it back to America. I still regret this today, James H. Rust

Batlefield 1

I want one of these sooooo bad.

excellent video. what size percussion caps are you using?

Beast of a gun

Wonder was this exact rifle (not rifle type same one in video) used in the boer war or even WW1

battlefield vibes lol

I have about gotten mine cleaned up and ready to shoot, I just need to find a bore hone. Your lion is much clearer than mine, too. One thing about the video, I wish the camera was aimed just a bit higher so I could see how you put the paper wrapped ball into the barrel. I have saved your video on how you make the cartridges, and I'll be ordering a mold to cast the balls soon.

How many shots do you get off before fouling gets bad

75 Grs is for the Flintlock's And 60 GR's is for the civil war musket . not 120

One of the things Ive noticed using paper cartridges like this is that when shooting, the paper burns and leaves this terrible black sticky almost tar like fouling in the bore. Not the normal black powder fouling all these guns get, but literally black sticky burnt paper. It doesn't really effect loading while your shooting because the ball is so undersized, but it does make cleaning the gun about 10 times harder and longer than it needs to be at the end of the day. So I cheat. I do it half military/half civilian. I still roll the cartridges up the same old military way, but after biting the tail and dumping the powder down the bore, instead of just sending the paper and ball down the barrel to I remove the ball from the paper and toss the paper away. I then use a patch greased with wonderlube 1000 which all black powder barrels love and send the ball down wrapped in the patch. A little bit more time consuming as Im adding an extra step to the process, but no more sticky black burnt paper cartridge in my bore. Makes cleaning a breeze at the end of the day.

Another thing, like black powder rounds of the time, I would not want to be hit by one. I also shoot Civil War rifled musket Minnié balls in different rifles. They made horrendous wounds during that war. They make excellent hunting rifles also.