um Minie' (min Yay) he was a Frenchman hence the accent mark.. not a small ball just sayin, give the man his due as they inventor by not mangling his name.
Miss seeing Danny in the videos. This come across my feed and I immediately realized i was watching an old video. My heart goes out to you guys. He’s definitely missed by all of us viewers! P.S. I’ve donated blood twice now since hearing y’all’s requests, and I will continue to until I’m no longer able.
I always knew the minie ball and rifling drastically improved the range of fighting but that simple football feild graphic really put into perspective the sheer fighting distance gained. Thank you Jeff!
@@azmanabdulathat isn't why tanks are going smooth bore. They're smooth bore because it increases the types of rounds they can use like grapeshot and even anti-air guided missiles. But also with fin stabilized sabots the smoothbore is better because the fins do the work.
Stuart Elms well i assume that the tombstones were made with some type of human technology, so technology is not written on them, its written with technology
Imagine designing a round that not only completely revolutionized combat but even after almost 200 years is still entirely effective as a modern bullet. Minié you were a genius
I enjoy watching these older videos with Danny. He will always be remembered, and within our hearts forever. We miss you Danny. Thankyou for everything. 🙏
Jeff, That is the way they did it back then, Performance was based on projectile weight and not high velocity, they didn't have the powders we have or the metallurgy we have today. even now with the selection of accurate slugs, we have available effective munitions we can put together to suit any need. Fast, No,, effective, Yes. That was all that mattered back then and still lives on today. You guys do a super Job with these educational, entertaining videos, Keep up the good work. Dave.
It was more about just killing the opponent too. The idea of wounding the enemy to drag down the support capabilities of the enemy didn't come into vogue until the 20th century.
750gr. at 1,375fps is only 3,149fpe. Elephants is a bit of an exaggeration.Good moose round though. My 60" twist .58 Hawken made 1,375fps with a 675gr. modified Lyman #57730 Minnie - 165gr. 2F GOEX. That kicked a bit, too. Not quite as good as your .69 cal. 750gr. Version. Well done boys. You too, Danny. BTW - how many gr. Longshot or Steel or is it a secret?
Daryl Sapergia I hunt with “Minnié balls” in both my 50 and 54 caliber in my “Hawken” style rifles which I push to slightly higher velocities and they are soft shooters compared to my 45-70 Rolling Block, 45-120 Sharps style rifle, and 458 Win Mag built on a Mauser action. I have found that most pump style Shotgun’s tend to transfer more felt recoil than the majority of O/U shotgun provided that not “light weight” (weighs 8 plus pounds) firearm have a “flat comb” stock and a decent recoil pad. The reason most pump shotguns is not gun weight so much as stock dimensions to short and to low
It would be a great guide gun for big game hunting say if a few. Guys wanna go for moose with bows in alaska and a bear trys to muscle in on there kill or the moose runs at the hunters it woukd drill there sledge hammers they seem to look like holland and holland. 70 bullets and they definitely drop elephant's if an ak can this round with a high heart shot would drop a bull elephant id say but who knows they seem to penetrate like mad
@@weirdsciencethe2nd205 It would definitely penetrate to the vitals of an elephant at 50 yards. It's also over. 40 caliber, so technically, it's legal.
Danny, you are the Real "IronMan" !! Firing 8 Minnié balls like that takes giant brass balls. And you maintain your accuracy without any concern about what's next. Great video coverage of a very interesting topic. Thank you All.
The principle of the minie ball is actually still used in artillery. The artillery shells and mortar bombs that have rotating bands and obturating bands made from nylon use the gas pressure to forcefully engage the rifling on a howitzer or gun and the walls of a mortar tube to ensure a nice, tight, gas seal.
This is a reloading project I have been wanting to get around to for ages. Greatly appreciate your efforts here! I think a 54 Minie bullet (400 grains weight range) out of a 20 gauge smooth or rifled barrel would work superbly. I particularly like the Lee "Modern Minie" design, with the large meplat, which should make for an extremely effective hunting round! Thanks again for your efforts here and for posting such an informative video!
As I understand the Minnie ball originally had a steel plug that for Ed the lead skirt out into the rifling, it also had the problem of sometimes the plug would pass through the ball leaving a lead ring stuck in the barrel.
So if you shoot a smaller version, would that be a mini minie ball???? Lol PS... Holy mother of pearl at the recoil.... Danny is like "meh, tis but a flesh wound."
I've shot thousands of 58 caliber minies in my years with the NSSA and can attest to their accuracy. They were designed for ease of loading in a black powder fowled rifled musket barrel. They were cast under bore size with a hollow base and thin skirt that would expand into the rifling upon firing. Great video, thanks.
I'm surprised he hit it so well with out a scope and it was almost dead on. That man is crazy accurate with unknown bullets. So... how you contact him incase of the zombie apocalypse?
The Minie Ball was a lethal projectile during it's heyday in the Civil War. It tore through flesh and shattered bone with ease. Due to it's lower firing speed in Civil War era muskets; it did not have a cauterizing effect and wounds caused by it generally became infected. It's awesome to see you guys trying out older ammunition type like this!
Having shot these from an actual (modern reproduction) period rifled musket, I can attest to their incredible accuracy, not to mention the recoil, lol! These were man-stopping, bone-crushing rounds that pulverized with lethal force and accuracy. Most fighting was at much closer range than needed, and wounded survivors were considered more unfortunate than the dead, as this weapon's ability to maim and cripple far exceeded medical technology at the time.
Actually Minie's bullet was perfected my Capt. John Burton of the Harper's Valley Armory and that was the one used primarily. Minie's design had a small metal cup in the back which was harder to produce and sometimes blasted thru the lead ball leaving much of it in the barrel. Burton's design was a deeper cavity in the lead with no metal cup. It just continued to be called Minie ball which sounds better than Burton's Ball I guess. But the credit should go to Burton for the invention that worked.
fideau one exactly right! And he called it a damn MINI BALL!! Pisses me off when ppl want to correct others and don't even know what there talking about... Nobody but modern TV host have called that thing a Mina' ball..
@@thespiritof76.. History tells us it was called the Minie, not a mini, and burton didnt rename the bullet, American troops failed to pronounce the french name properly. Its a damn minie ball not a mini. History does not support you on this.
If you like his videos they sill show up. You also have to let youtube know the content you dont want to see. Hit the 3 little dots on the side and click mot interested for stuff you dont want to see. And more stuff you do want to see will show up on your feed.
Damn! I'm both blown away and impressed! I was already liking how the minie ball performed in your previous video...but this testing is over the top. Great video as always guys.
I'm just now rewatching this for the third or fourth time! I'd like to get some of these myself they would make a great hunting round! Thanks for keeping traditions alive and innovation GOING!
The mini balls hollow skirt design was to cause the skirt into expansion when the gases from the ignighted powder would cause a perfect gas seal while sliding down the bore. This design was carried over to the revolver cartridge guns. Like the .45 Long Colt. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Guns had an oversized bore of .458in. While the bullet had a dua of .454 - .456 in. Dua. In 1970, the cartridge was standardised to .452 in. Dua.
This was the only video in my feed, so I watched it. Fun fact. Miniè ball technology is still used to this day! A classic target round in 38 Special is the 148 gr HBWC. The hollow base gets pressurized which squeezes the sides of the skirt against the bore to form a good gas seal. Only a small charge is required to propel it at modest velocity where the flat nose cuts a clean hole in the paper target. Some people like to shoot them backwards into water. The hollow base acts like a hollow point and they expand explosively. You go from a 35 caliber diameter to a 70 caliber diameter in just one gallon jug of water.
Fit4Survival He's a tough guy, for sure. 1 1/2 oz slugs are bound to have some fierce recoil. I bought some buckshot, and slugs the other day. I'm gonna raise some hell, and blow some shit up today! It's well worth the pain to me, too. lol
you really dont need a scope for a 50 meter shot, just need to have a zeroed weapon and a good sight picture. you can reliably hit the target so long as you can see it in the sight picture and have the target placed properly within the sight picture. you just have to have the weapon zeroed for whatever range you plan to shoot and know how much you need to lift or lower the barrel to hit closer or further targets from that zero. in army basic training you learn how to shoot with iron sights as apposed to learning how to shoot with only optics (because they can fail) at ranges between 50-500 meters with an m4. in fact you wont even see any kind of optics until you get to your unit. an optic for ranges less than 200 meters is really only helpful if it allows you to get the correct sight picture, faster than you would be able to get the correct sight picture with only iron sights. magnified optics or "scopes" are really only helpful 300 meters and beyond because at those distances the target looks so small it becomes more difficult to place the target within the sight picture properly. unless were talking about the ACOG then none of this is true because its kind of the best of both worlds.
New York's Pastor Paul Me either. I make my own .490 round balls from lead I gather at the range. Lead is really expensive here in Alaska so if I wanna shoot my dad said I have to gather and make my own. But I always get great groups with my CVA Hawken muzzle loader in .50z and it’s not an in-line either.
Some of the lead chunks shattered hit my right eye when he shot the lead plate. Amazing power this slug has, thus the fragments bounced from California to where I'm watching the video!
Great video guys. Hope Danny is okay after shooting those monsters. I had two 30 second ads during this video which I let run to the end without skipping., Hopefully you get some revenue from this video. Keep em coming.
Well done Danny and correct on the pronunciation! I've found a few of these while metal detecting and they are quite a lump of lead! hate to imagine what they feel like when they hit you....
Considering you are shooting on a privately owned Rifle Range, I doubt if it has an actual name. This got me to thinking. You should talk to the owner, and see if they would allow you to name the range, or change the name. Post a sign that can be clearly seen while you're shooting. And I would like to toss my idea for the name of the range into Dannys Hat... Welcome to TaofledeRange. Kind of got a nice ring to it, I think. If you all agree, hit the thumbs up.
Hi, guys, back around 1972, I took a 58 caliber minie ball from my Zuave Replica rifle musket and drilled out the nose and filled the cavity with a mixture of FFG black powder and the smokless powder from a 22 short then inverted the 22 short case into the cavity, sealing it as best I could then fired it at a 4 inch concrete block. I could find nothing over 1/4 inch in any direction ( this was done in my basement, so there wasn't much place for anything to go). After all these years to think about it, I realize it wasn't a very wise experiment, but I would like to see the results of a similar round in a shotgun slug under your controlled conditions. Thanks for these extremely informative videos.
That slow motion footage from the shot through the ballistic booger and into the vest was bonkers! Insane energy transfer through and into that lot. Great work with the camera and the shooting there.
not as much, they are both lighter and harder, what made them so deadly was they were originally made of soft lead that made them dump their energy way faster than a musket ball. For some really cool old gun technology check out the Whitworth civil war sniper rifle that had an effective range of 800 to 1000yd. Completely outranging anything else from that war, and it had a scope too.
buh-BLAM! I need a G.E. Minigun that fires Minie' balls. I used to work for the National Park Service in NJ and there were a couple locations I worked at that had the original buildings from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Walls in the buildings still had embedded cannonball and rifle rounds in them. I can't imagine the pain if hit by one of those Minie' balls.
Ok guys after many videos with this I hit the subscribe button. Not only love the exploration on projectiles, also the good mood with you guys do your content. Greetings from Chile!!
This was never in doubt. A Fosters-Slug which has a shorter cross section has it's mass in the forward section with a large skirt to the rear. The .69 caliber Mine'-Ball has a longer cross section with its weight forward and a large skirt at it's rear Drive-Band/Grease-Groove area. Both act like a BRI Sabo, enabling them to be fired through a smooth bore, using the air pressure/wind resistance on the skirt to keep the projectile oriented straight on it's axis the same way a Shuttle-Cock does.
I suggested this today as a matter of fact using the Minnie. Then lo and behold this 5 year old video popped up! Cool! Thanks Kindly and Good Shootin! And can we even imagine getting hit with a Minnie! Those Soldiers were tough as nails! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Brian for one he can't film muzzle loader, too much smoke. Second, it would have to be an antique to accept that .69cal and wouldn't be safe. And third, why would he want to back track? The shotgun is approximately 20-30% increase in power and speed over standard muzzle loader anyway
@@RichardCranium321 Parker Hale sold a reproduction .577 1853 Enfield for re-enactors. Perfectly safe to fire with black powder. Don't know if they are still made though.
Edward Chambers I'm aware, my grandfather has a.577 but that is not .69 for one so it would be a completely different set of parameters & would need a special wad to properly seal .577 into 12ga hull. They have sabot for .50 but this time they just used regular shot wad & it still cut the petals. Also he can't get proper video of black powder w/ his current setup, he has tried bpowder before & it just smokes out the field of view.
History 👍👍👍...thank you for this post!!!...I’ve got a full display of fired, drops and even pulled bullets in my collection that I found from Chattanooga to New Hope/Dallas Georgia (city cemetery on the hill where my family is buried) just laying on top of the ground (no metal detectors...even found grapeshot) but this was in the 1960s 😊
That's an a**ton of recoil! Danny , you just got back from the repair shop. Holy hell. Ease up and go run the camera , make Jeff or ole Gregg launch a few .
Those were flying very nicely in the slow mo shots - quite a good design by Mr. Minie all things considered. Thanks for another great and interesting video!
Explanation of how a .69 cal minie ball works in a .73 cal shotgun ua-cam.com/video/q_-Q3nUwfiQ/v-deo.html
I'd think the ribbed rear portion also ads drag, making it naturally want to nose forward.
BLUE SQERE??? COLORBLIND? OR SHADES???
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Minie'
(min Yay) he was a Frenchman hence the accent mark..
not a small ball
just sayin, give the man his due as they inventor by not mangling his name.
hit that steel plate a few more times and you'll have a nice wok.
nice
He is so funny, and such a great character. He will be missed by many, RIP Danny. Hit that blue square on that lead plate!!
People all over the world will get to know and love Danny, hopefully for many more years to come.
April 2023, I still miss him ! Always a pleasure to hear him 🥲.
R.I.P. Danny... we will always have these videos of him healthy and happy, doin his thing! Thanks Brother.
You guys should refer to your private range as "Church Road". Because there's a lot of "pews" and people saying "Oh, my God!".
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Effing love this. Laughed like a crazy person. 😂🤣😂
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I approve.
Miss seeing Danny in the videos. This come across my feed and I immediately realized i was watching an old video. My heart goes out to you guys. He’s definitely missed by all of us viewers!
P.S. I’ve donated blood twice now since hearing y’all’s requests, and I will continue to until I’m no longer able.
thank you
Never knew him. But I miss him too.
Thanks for sacrificing your shoulder Danny. Those are some impressive rounds.
David Fisher Wow! That was amazing how fat that round expanded.
Excuse you those rounds were sacrificed to Danny's impressive shoulder
the kick on original rifles is less than a shotgun.
@@JeffHokie yeah because a black powder rifle/musket weights about three times as much as a modern shotgun.
@@johnbeck1978 black powder also kicks less than smokeless and is less powerful.
I always knew the minie ball and rifling drastically improved the range of fighting but that simple football feild graphic really put into perspective the sheer fighting distance gained. Thank you Jeff!
Weird how now tanks are going smooth bore
As the rifling slows the round down
@@azmanabdulathat isn't why tanks are going smooth bore.
They're smooth bore because it increases the types of rounds they can use like grapeshot and even anti-air guided missiles. But also with fin stabilized sabots the smoothbore is better because the fins do the work.
@@redfoxtactical8425cool
Proof of the Technology is written on Tombstones
@Stuart Elms the bullets work proof is in the body count is how I took what he was saying
@@joshd2013 I think that was supposed to be a joke. :/
Stuart Elms well i assume that the tombstones were made with some type of human technology, so technology is not written on them, its written with technology
@@chaos_omega if it was they got me lol
Oooooo spooky
Imagine designing a round that not only completely revolutionized combat but even after almost 200 years is still entirely effective as a modern bullet. Minié you were a genius
C'mon Danny, u missed that Lube Groove is the name of OG's adult only smooth Jazz band!
You better believe I'm checking out The Lube Groove this Saturday night !
They'll be playing at the Hole in the Wall club downtown
Jake Dee you mean Lube Groove is playing at "The Glory Hole-in-the-Wall"? 😂🤣
@@RichardCranium321 I'm bring ma wiggle finger!!!!
NICE!!
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I enjoy watching these older videos with Danny. He will always be remembered, and within our hearts forever. We miss you Danny. Thankyou for everything. 🙏
Awesome, but a bit brutal to Danny :) Great content as always guys. Thank you for your time.
Thank you Lars!
Jeff, That is the way they did it back then, Performance was based on projectile weight and not high velocity, they didn't have the powders we have or the metallurgy we have today. even now with the selection of accurate slugs, we have available effective munitions we can put together to suit any need. Fast, No,, effective, Yes. That was all that mattered back then and still lives on today. You guys do a super Job with these educational, entertaining videos, Keep up the good work. Dave.
It was more about just killing the opponent too. The idea of wounding the enemy to drag down the support capabilities of the enemy didn't come into vogue until the 20th century.
The bearded wonder returns! That's basically an elephant gun!
750gr. at 1,375fps is only 3,149fpe. Elephants is a bit of an exaggeration.Good moose round though. My 60" twist .58 Hawken made 1,375fps with a 675gr. modified Lyman #57730 Minnie - 165gr. 2F GOEX. That kicked a bit, too. Not quite as good as your .69 cal. 750gr. Version. Well done boys. You too, Danny. BTW - how many gr. Longshot or Steel or is it a secret?
Daryl Sapergia I hunt with “Minnié balls” in both my 50 and 54 caliber in my “Hawken” style rifles which I push to slightly higher velocities and they are soft shooters compared to my 45-70 Rolling Block, 45-120 Sharps style rifle, and 458 Win Mag built on a Mauser action. I have found that most pump style Shotgun’s tend to transfer more felt recoil than the majority of O/U shotgun provided that not “light weight” (weighs 8 plus pounds) firearm have a “flat comb” stock and a decent recoil pad. The reason most pump shotguns is not gun weight so much as stock dimensions to short and to low
It would be a great guide gun for big game hunting say if a few. Guys wanna go for moose with bows in alaska and a bear trys to muscle in on there kill or the moose runs at the hunters it woukd drill there sledge hammers they seem to look like holland and holland. 70 bullets and they definitely drop elephant's if an ak can this round with a high heart shot would drop a bull elephant id say but who knows they seem to penetrate like mad
@@weirdsciencethe2nd205 It would definitely penetrate to the vitals of an elephant at 50 yards. It's also over. 40 caliber, so technically, it's legal.
I can sum up this round in one word...........DAMN
Somebody needs to make these shells. I would buy at least 100 of them.
with a . 54 meplat
This round is a Frikken High Powered Battering Ram!!
YES - Please make this into something that can be purchased... I Will Buy!!
And the soft lead would cause massive ammouts if broken bones if hit in the hand.
I work in a high bear population area. These would be perfect for a 800+pound bear or a psychotic moose.
Lyman used to produce a mold for them, the part number used to be #68569 iirc.
Danny, you are the Real "IronMan" !!
Firing 8 Minnié balls like that takes giant brass balls. And you maintain your accuracy without any concern about what's next.
Great video coverage of a very interesting topic. Thank you All.
Wow Danny that thing really rocked your world
The principle of the minie ball is actually still used in artillery.
The artillery shells and mortar bombs that have rotating bands and obturating bands made from nylon use the gas pressure to forcefully engage the rifling on a howitzer or gun and the walls of a mortar tube to ensure a nice, tight, gas seal.
Yup, it's called "Drive-band technology" and it is pretty dang cool. A science of physics pertaining to fractions of a second.
Credit to Danny and his shoulder , informative and entertaining as always
Good to see you back, Danny. Not only flawless shooting, but flawless pronunciation of French.
Even though I've watched all your Videos here I still come back and watch again.
Love you guys
TX Patreon..
Thanks again!
This is a reloading project I have been wanting to get around to for ages. Greatly appreciate your efforts here! I think a 54 Minie bullet (400 grains weight range) out of a 20 gauge smooth or rifled barrel would work superbly. I particularly like the Lee "Modern Minie" design, with the large meplat, which should make for an extremely effective hunting round! Thanks again for your efforts here and for posting such an informative video!
As I understand the Minnie ball originally had a steel plug that for Ed the lead skirt out into the rifling, it also had the problem of sometimes the plug would pass through the ball leaving a lead ring stuck in the barrel.
So if you shoot a smaller version, would that be a mini minie ball???? Lol
PS... Holy mother of pearl at the recoil.... Danny is like "meh, tis but a flesh wound."
Danny is the Black Knight in Monty Python, the Holy Grail
If it's brutal in 12 im should be softer in 20, but you might lose too much velocity to keep the accuracy.
@@julemandenudengaver4580 He couldn't be. If Danny had been the Black Knight, King Arthur wouldn't have finished the film.
God bless Danny! Hope he’s raisin’ hell at the range in the sky.
Minie Ball = Just another name for "Flying Sledge Hammer". Danny is awesome on the sights, nice shooting!
I've shot thousands of 58 caliber minies in my years with the NSSA and can attest to their accuracy. They were designed for ease of loading in a black powder fowled rifled musket barrel. They were cast under bore size with a hollow base and thin skirt that would expand into the rifling upon firing. Great video, thanks.
I'm surprised he hit it so well with out a scope and it was almost dead on. That man is crazy accurate with unknown bullets. So... how you contact him incase of the zombie apocalypse?
I think he does better using bead or open sights than the red dot.
That was the minie balls intended point , can make anyone accurate and deadly at least back in the American civil war.
Taoflederbat signal, of course!
A scope doesn't make a gun more accurate. It makes the shooter more precise.
Yeah I'm better with iron sights around 80 yards to 100 yards away , no idea why lol any scope from 2x up i miss more than irons at that range.
The Minie Ball was a lethal projectile during it's heyday in the Civil War. It tore through flesh and shattered bone with ease. Due to it's lower firing speed in Civil War era muskets; it did not have a cauterizing effect and wounds caused by it generally became infected. It's awesome to see you guys trying out older ammunition type like this!
Having shot these from an actual (modern reproduction) period rifled musket, I can attest to their incredible accuracy, not to mention the recoil, lol! These were man-stopping, bone-crushing rounds that pulverized with lethal force and accuracy. Most fighting was at much closer range than needed, and wounded survivors were considered more unfortunate than the dead, as this weapon's ability to maim and cripple far exceeded medical technology at the time.
Actually Minie's bullet was perfected my Capt. John Burton of the Harper's Valley Armory and that was the one used primarily. Minie's design had a small metal cup in the back which was harder to produce and sometimes blasted thru the lead ball leaving much of it in the barrel.
Burton's design was a deeper cavity in the lead with no metal cup. It just continued to be called Minie ball which sounds better than Burton's Ball I guess. But the credit should go to Burton for the invention that worked.
fideau one exactly right! And he called it a damn MINI BALL!! Pisses me off when ppl want to correct others and don't even know what there talking about... Nobody but modern TV host have called that thing a Mina' ball..
I'm not buying anything called Burton's Balls no matter how many or how cheap your selling them.
Exactly! What matters is what is was called by the men who used them.. 200yrs of history tells us that was a mini ball.
@@thespiritof76.. History tells us it was called the Minie, not a mini, and burton didnt rename the bullet, American troops failed to pronounce the french name properly.
Its a damn minie ball not a mini. History does not support you on this.
@@arkhaan7066 History doesn't matter it's UA-cam. If UA-camrs decide to re write history then all we can do is consider it done!
Danny you will be missed so so much. I'm going to miss hearing you and your knowledge. Prayers for you, your family, and friends.
Taofledermaus in my newsfeed! What kind of sorcery is this?
If you like his videos they sill show up. You also have to let youtube know the content you dont want to see. Hit the 3 little dots on the side and click mot interested for stuff you dont want to see. And more stuff you do want to see will show up on your feed.
No excuses needed. Great job guys! What a 300 yard sniper round!
Damn! I'm both blown away and impressed! I was already liking how the minie ball performed in your previous video...but this testing is over the top. Great video as always guys.
thank you Kirk!
Yes it is! I use that same slug every year during the muzzle loader deer season
Jeff, maybe get Aquachigger to come help you find the slugs? The guy's like a bloodhound for musket rounds and other lead bits. :P
That guy is hilarious
Great to see those reruns again .Amazing how the weight forward design works. even in an antique design ,thats perfection!
Nice to know ft lbs of recoil on the shoulder. 416 rigby is around 89ft lbs depending on gun weight.
Great video as always 👍🏻👍🏻
I've got a TC Pro Hunter rifle with a .416 Rigby barrel . I'm about to load up some rounds for it , got 40 pueces brass and 100 bullets .
I'm just now rewatching this for the third or fourth time! I'd like to get some of these myself they would make a great hunting round! Thanks for keeping traditions alive and innovation GOING!
It's pretty hard to find the molds for these.
Dead eye Danny is a shooting god. Look after the old fella 👍
The mini balls hollow skirt design was to cause the skirt into expansion when the gases from the ignighted powder would cause a perfect gas seal while sliding down the bore. This design was carried over to the revolver cartridge guns. Like the .45 Long Colt. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Guns had an oversized bore of .458in. While the bullet had a dua of .454 - .456 in. Dua.
In 1970, the cartridge was standardised to .452 in. Dua.
I was educated today... I had no clue of the true name of them... Thanks Danny glad to see you back
This was the only video in my feed, so I watched it.
Fun fact. Miniè ball technology is still used to this day! A classic target round in 38 Special is the 148 gr HBWC. The hollow base gets pressurized which squeezes the sides of the skirt against the bore to form a good gas seal. Only a small charge is required to propel it at modest velocity where the flat nose cuts a clean hole in the paper target.
Some people like to shoot them backwards into water. The hollow base acts like a hollow point and they expand explosively. You go from a 35 caliber diameter to a 70 caliber diameter in just one gallon jug of water.
Tougher than a week old fried chicken gizzard. 😂😂 I love it and will definitely use that line in the future 😁
Fit4Survival yeah, I thought that one is a keeper also 😎👍
I always hear the grey beards saying "I was tough and ruthless..now I'm just rough and toothless!"
Fit4Survival He's a tough guy, for sure. 1 1/2 oz slugs are bound to have some fierce recoil. I bought some buckshot, and slugs the other day. I'm gonna raise some hell, and blow some shit up today! It's well worth the pain to me, too. lol
you really dont need a scope for a 50 meter shot, just need to have a zeroed weapon and a good sight picture. you can reliably hit the target so long as you can see it in the sight picture and have the target placed properly within the sight picture. you just have to have the weapon zeroed for whatever range you plan to shoot and know how much you need to lift or lower the barrel to hit closer or further targets from that zero. in army basic training you learn how to shoot with iron sights as apposed to learning how to shoot with only optics (because they can fail) at ranges between 50-500 meters with an m4. in fact you wont even see any kind of optics until you get to your unit. an optic for ranges less than 200 meters is really only helpful if it allows you to get the correct sight picture, faster than you would be able to get the correct sight picture with only iron sights. magnified optics or "scopes" are really only helpful 300 meters and beyond because at those distances the target looks so small it becomes more difficult to place the target within the sight picture properly. unless were talking about the ACOG then none of this is true because its kind of the best of both worlds.
That vest flying off was amazing
I wish we would have found that slug in the vest but it spit it out somewhere on its wild ride.
Now you guys need to test a musket ball. I’ve heard so much about their inaccuracy, but I have never seen the musket ball’s inaccuracy displayed.
New York's Pastor Paul Me either. I make my own .490 round balls from lead I gather at the range. Lead is really expensive here in Alaska so if I wanna shoot my dad said I have to gather and make my own. But I always get great groups with my CVA Hawken muzzle loader in .50z and it’s not an in-line either.
I only shoot .495 round ball from my Kentucky rifle, and I can still hit an 8" plate at 100 yards with boring regularity.
Some of the lead chunks shattered hit my right eye when he shot the lead plate.
Amazing power this slug has, thus the fragments bounced from California to where I'm watching the video!
Great video guys. Hope Danny is okay after shooting those monsters. I had two 30 second ads during this video which I let run to the end without skipping., Hopefully you get some revenue from this video. Keep em coming.
I was surprised at the smooth bore stability. After all, ol' Claude invented it for a rifled bore. Thanks, guys, for another great video.
Well done Danny and correct on the pronunciation! I've found a few of these while metal detecting and they are quite a lump of lead! hate to imagine what they feel like when they hit you....
Wait, what? Please tell me folks were carrying them as souvenirs or something.
@@mazzalnx eh? i found them while metal detecting in fields so they were probably shooting at deer or practing at targets
@@ArcturanMegadonkey Oh. I thought you were metal-detecting people on a security checkpoint...
@@mazzalnx lol no. checkout some of my videos from a few years back on my channel
Really enjoyed the ecstasy of gold playing in the back.
My lord that's a heavy hitting round... Good thing Danny has that new bionic shoulder..🤘🇺🇸
It's an American shoulder
Red white and blue after shooting those things
Brilliant results for old (and once leading) technology. Well done & thanks TF & Danny 👍👏
Pair of absolute legends right here! Interesting video :)
It’s been about a year since I’ve seen this one it was great seeing Danny again we all miss him
Considering you are shooting on a privately owned Rifle Range, I doubt if it has an actual name. This got me to thinking. You should talk to the owner, and see if they would allow you to name the range, or change the name.
Post a sign that can be clearly seen while you're shooting.
And I would like to toss my idea for the name of the range into Dannys Hat...
Welcome to TaofledeRange.
Kind of got a nice ring to it, I think.
If you all agree, hit the thumbs up.
That’s absolutely the correct pronunciation of the inventors name! Thank you!
"Tougher than a week old fried chicken gizzard" is a new saying in my book.
Hi, guys, back around 1972, I took a 58 caliber minie ball from my Zuave Replica rifle musket and drilled out the nose and filled the cavity with a mixture of FFG black powder and the smokless powder from a 22 short then inverted the 22 short case into the cavity, sealing it as best I could then fired it at a 4 inch concrete block. I could find nothing over 1/4 inch in any direction ( this was done in my basement, so there wasn't much place for anything to go). After all these years to think about it, I realize it wasn't a very wise experiment, but I would like to see the results of a similar round in a shotgun slug under your controlled conditions. Thanks for these extremely informative videos.
Danny is the Man!
That slow motion footage from the shot through the ballistic booger and into the vest was bonkers! Insane energy transfer through and into that lot. Great work with the camera and the shooting there.
thank you!
Me wonders what a full copper and harder steel version of this slug could do
not as much, they are both lighter and harder, what made them so deadly was they were originally made of soft lead that made them dump their energy way faster than a musket ball. For some really cool old gun technology check out the Whitworth civil war sniper rifle that had an effective range of 800 to 1000yd. Completely outranging anything else from that war, and it had a scope too.
the alt-flight. So maybe an Dmv version would prevent distortion and let it through the lead plate
@@emilypeters8888 It would certainly be hard enough, but I don't know about the mass. Maybe a steel insert in a lead base?
Annealed Aluminum version.
@@zorro456 With a tungsten core.
Thanks especially for showing it through a smoothie bore. As you have shown in the past, rifled barrels are not always necessary.
"Tougher than a week old, fried chicken gizzard"
i aspire to be so tough
That is Chuck Norris tuff.
buh-BLAM! I need a G.E. Minigun that fires Minie' balls. I used to work for the National Park Service in NJ and there were a couple locations I worked at that had the original buildings from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Walls in the buildings still had embedded cannonball and rifle rounds in them. I can't imagine the pain if hit by one of those Minie' balls.
Week old fried chicken gizzard? Damn I love that!
Here to call out the very nice rotating round in the tabletop footage. Looks like magic.
So ready
Danny for sure you are our hero! Outstanding shot
That was very interesting to see, thanks guys!!!!
Love you Danny. U will live on 4 ever
Tauflederfolks: Your homework tomorrow is this... Work, "Tougher than a week old, fried, chicken gizzard." into a conversation. :)
Ok guys after many videos with this I hit the subscribe button. Not only love the exploration on projectiles, also the good mood with you guys do your content. Greetings from Chile!!
thank you Tito!
Remind me to never get into a southern styled feud with Sensei Danny.... Good god, he is awesome with that gun!
This was never in doubt. A Fosters-Slug which has a shorter cross section has it's mass in the forward section with a large skirt to the rear. The .69 caliber Mine'-Ball has a longer cross section with its weight forward and a large skirt at it's rear Drive-Band/Grease-Groove area. Both act like a BRI Sabo, enabling them to be fired through a smooth bore, using the air pressure/wind resistance on the skirt to keep the projectile oriented straight on it's axis the same way a Shuttle-Cock does.
Danny - the TaoflederBoss
Love the music from The Good the bad and the ugly.
Hands down my favorite video 2 reasons 69 is my fav. Pos.... er uh number and this is the MOST violent round yet
thanks!
Thanks for keeping us safe!
What - read the MANUAL?!? LOL
I always wondered why the Minie' Ball wasn't used in shotguns as slugs. Great shooting Danny :)
See my comment above. The Minie' Ball has no advantage in a breech-loading gun.
I suggested this today as a matter of fact using the Minnie. Then lo and behold this 5 year old video popped up! Cool! Thanks Kindly and Good Shootin! And can we even imagine getting hit with a Minnie! Those Soldiers were tough as nails! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Musket vs shotgun minnie ball might be a cool test
Brian for one he can't film muzzle loader, too much smoke. Second, it would have to be an antique to accept that .69cal and wouldn't be safe. And third, why would he want to back track? The shotgun is approximately 20-30% increase in power and speed over standard muzzle loader anyway
@@RichardCranium321 Parker Hale sold a reproduction .577 1853 Enfield for re-enactors. Perfectly safe to fire with black powder. Don't know if they are still made though.
Edward Chambers I'm aware, my grandfather has a.577 but that is not .69 for one so it would be a completely different set of parameters & would need a special wad to properly seal .577 into 12ga hull. They have sabot for .50 but this time they just used regular shot wad & it still cut the petals. Also he can't get proper video of black powder w/ his current setup, he has tried bpowder before & it just smokes out the field of view.
Don't feel bad Danny.. I felt the kick from the smooth bore too..
Spin helps but bead site doesn’t drift after recoil.
Jeez, the jump from that recoil! Awesome shooting as always danny!
HOLY CRAP! These things sent that vest flying damn near in to low earth orbit! LOL
History 👍👍👍...thank you for this post!!!...I’ve got a full display of fired, drops and even pulled bullets in my collection that I found from Chattanooga to New Hope/Dallas Georgia (city cemetery on the hill where my family is buried) just laying on top of the ground (no metal detectors...even found grapeshot) but this was in the 1960s 😊
That's an a**ton of recoil! Danny , you just got back from the repair shop. Holy hell. Ease up and go run the camera , make Jeff or ole Gregg launch a few .
Got the notification, an ad in the middle, and another at the end. Naturally let both play. Only channel I do that for. 😉
thanks, but just skip them!
@@taofledermaus Ok, if you're sure.
Y’all may want to install a Mercury tube (or 2) in the tube magazine to help tame some of that recoil.
Interesting to see the mini ball in action with modern components
2000th like, was kinda neat seeing 1.9k go to 2k. : ]
Awesome fella's! I have no idea why I am fascinated with the slow motion but I dig it. Nice work.
It's not the same without the OG standard finger gauge.
Those were flying very nicely in the slow mo shots - quite a good design by Mr. Minie all things considered. Thanks for another great and interesting video!
Good shootin Danny! Get some ice on that shoulder.
One of your best videos.
Very devastating round when it impacts & hydro shocks the ballistic gel F...ing WOW. Simplicity at its best.
thanks!
Danny, you're a brave man. Great shooting as always!
Im sure after days like these Danny has a sore shoulder but great job guys. Awesome work. Love your channel.