Blunderbuss - Buckshot Patterning
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2020
- The Blunderbuss was, and still is, a devastatingly effective firearm when loaded properly. In this video we demonstrate a few methods of loading a late 18th century style Blunderbuss with buckshot and demonstrate the resulting patterns from 15 yards.
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You definitely win the UA-cam "Thumbnail of the year" award!
Cool little firearm!
Aye, Hickok45
How are you??
Yo hickok get a blunderbuss for us!
Hey hickhok you should also try to get your hands on one of these and do a review for us!
Never saw you comment anywhere
Hickok in wilderness is stunning...
HIIII I USED TO WATCH YOU WHEN I WAS IDK 3 OR 4
Taofledermaus: Shove the kitchen sink down the barrel as a projectile!
Karl: Look, we know what /projectiles/ work best, but what about the /wad/?
Wad about it?
I want them to shoot a 12 gauge sized miniauture sink now ...
@@robertsmith4681 why shoot a mini sink when you could get a bigger barrel?
@@randomidiot8142 Just staying within the confines of tauflatermaus. I am genuinely curious about the ballistics of kitchen sink shaped objets now ...
@@Tomartyr _Italics_ cool I didn't know that, I only knew how to do the "*bold text*"
Fun fact: The blunderbuss was used as non-lethal crowd control, where it was packed with tar soaked cork instead of shot and then fired at people causing burns and fear. The 18th century rubber bullet/bean bag gun.
As believable (and hilarious) as that is, I'd like a source for that.
Fun maybe. Absolutely not a fact though.
Can you shoot led bullets as big as wallnut with it?
@@hannibalburgers477 theoretically, if you could make a case for the LEDs that could handle that kind of shock... And used a very small load.
Unless you mean lead in which case no. The powder load required would be too much for it. You'll need an actual hand canon for that
@@hannibalburgers477 a lead ball the size of a walnut would weigh a lot compared to a 50 cal musket
Today on InRangeTV:
Kounting with Karl
Von buckshot AH AH AH, toooooo Buckshot Ah Ah AH, Threeeee buckshot, well you get it.
Todays show was brought to you by the word BAFUCKINBOOOOM
WHY WAS SEVEN BY IT SELF!
@@Demicron its a strong indipendent ball who don't need nobody else
Next time with InRangeTV: Vocab with Karl.
I was actually impressed how a plant wad was able to improve performance, I thought it would only prevent stuff from falling from the barrel
After watching duellist1954 wadding a smoothbore with tow instead of paper I've started using nettle fiber for the same purpose. It's ridiculous how well what is basically a weed-- more than a weed, a dried weed, yard waste-- works in an old gun.
@Dr. Hannibal Lester I think nettle fiber isn’t super oily, but it’s quite fiberous and won’t burn super fast. Seems like it just holds together well in the barrel.
It smoked weed everyday! 🙃
Creosote bush is a tough plant. I’m originally from New Mexico and know how tough that bush is. No surprise here that it worked!!! It’s everywhere, even during drought times.
I imagine some Doomsday preppers growing bushes in their greenhouse for their blunderbuss wads.
What's that I see in your pockets?
Nothing officer, it's just wads for... It's weed, yea weed.
Weed*
@@joe125ful Maybe you can use weed as well…
@@sir0herrbatka It will be epic,shoot enemy and get high same time after ewery shot:)
@@sir0herrbatka ''Hmmm, I'd really like to get that guy high...but he's so far. "
When I was heavily collecting, the question I always thought of was,” How armed is well armed”. Clearly a blunderbuss with 15 .32 round balls in it will solve most, one on one entanglement at typical room distances in a modern house, or dealing with a ruffian attacking your stage coach, Add a flint lock pistol, a broad sword, or a tomahawk and a dirk, and you are very well armed.
Aye, unless you expect a professional hit squad, you can do well with non tacticool loadouts.
Ah, flintlock and dagger, highwayman approach
@@abelq8008 And against the professional squad, you probably are done for even with modern equipment.
This and Forgotten Weapons are fantastic. No Bro Tacticool bs, just love of firearms and history. Thank you.
The ultimate in home defense
A damn sight better than a Mossberg shockwave.
tally ho chaps
Then I don’t need my 12 pounder mountain howitzer pointed at the door anymore?
@@jeffreyroot6300 lets not get stupid here, obviously don't even think about it, what if 5 men in a conga line try to find out?
Worked for 200 hundred years
I'll never get tired of black powder content. Love it!
Agreed. I wish I lived out there where rendezvous is much more common.
Yeah there is something very fastcyinating with blackpowder weapons and in my opinion they are mostly absolutly beautyful. 16th. Wheellockpistol is just damn XD.
I would hate to be hit by 15 x 32cal ball fired from that thing. No wonder coachmen, boarding parties and grumpy old men loved using them.
At the end of the day, one cannot argue with large volumes of lead against unarmored targets, either as numerous small projectiles, or a single large one.
Seriously...
"For when you need to shoot somebody fifteen times at once, choose the Blunderbuss!"
Even if you partly miss, whatever DOES hit is gonna shred! No double tap required!
They didn't call them "deck-clearers" for nothing :D
Anyone else wince on that last shot, where all 15 shots of the spread hit gut height?😨
Finally a use for jars of old bent messed up screws and nails that cant be throw away!
That jar that grandad has on the garage shelf?
That's either his jar of whisky or old oil...
This video was very informational. I never knew Karl could count!
Have never seen you look better in a thumbnail.
Hotter even.
Had me clicking in nanoseconds.
You could say he looks... smokin'
I'm so proud of in range kicking UA-cam to the curb and now here we are able to enjoy content that otherwise might scare other channels cause they wouldn't know how to handle adverse just going cold turkey for new videos, I LITERALLY use In-Range as my case study for "this is what happens when you do things on your own and take back more control of what content you can post"
Kicking Yt to the curb but yet posting the video on YT?
@@JCrook1028 the video is posted on multiple other websites no?
@@Mathos93 Maybe we have different definitions of "kicking to the curb" but to me that means not using it anymore... throwing it away... etc.
@@JCrook1028 Yt rules suck. There's Vimeo DailyMotion and others.
@@Angelum_Band and none of those get much traffic.
I had a BP shotgun a number of years ago ........... the old timer that ran the local gun shop said to just use a page from the phone book as both over powder and over shot wad. It was by far the most fun shotgun I ever owned!
"it loads with a bit of everything"
...does it take glock magazines?
*sit-com laughter*
Depends if it fits down the barrel.
in small enough pieces, absolutely
@@dylanwight5764 Exactly what I was thinking.
@@dylanwight5764 best answer
Hit it hard enough with the ramrod and it just might.
I think you have fallen in love with the “trabuco” as it is called un Spain. You look like “ Curro Jiménez “, although you may need a longer sideburns 😁.
Greetings from Spain
Motorcycle types in the USA call them do rags. Not sure if helmet laws are mandatory USA wide currently,but there were helmet free States.
I'm loving all the blackpowder content lately, this is really cool.
Spanish moss works real well as wadding. It's historically accurate too
Only grows in about four states, though.
Dry cow poop or horse poop works
Excellent video, thank you sir.
When I was a lot younger I remember reading an account of a frontiersman defending himself and only having plugs of chewing tobacco to use as wads. I remember wondering of the veracity of it at the time, but you've laid that old chestnut to rest thank you.
Now we need a What Would (Dr.) Stone Do blunderbuss build.
I think he might be able to get rifling, besides
@@Bubben246 An episode where he makes an electrochemical machining setup would be amazing
@@Bubben246 I'd expect him to skip the bullshit and go straight to automatics. Like Choyoyu.
Surely a convertible Blunderbus/Musket/Pistol could be managed? With two types of bayonet....
@@TsorovanZero Bruh Senku should just skip to anime girl guided rockets like in Choyoyu.
I would say that using a wad, between the load and charge, would depend on how many targets need to question their life choices.
If you really wanted to spray and pray, you'd take a G36
@@themasterofdisastr1226 Nah, boomtube fun, if unavoidable I really prefer to only shoot twice. First to make them question their faith, and if satisfied with it, a second time to help them find out how correct they were. That thing might not need a second as loud as it is.
My grandfather had a blunderbus. We still have it. At least thats what we always called it. It looked like the typical pilgrim weapon. Heavwood stock, heavy walled flaired barrel muzzle. But we think it was a deck gun from a ship. It has an area in about the center of the stock with a hole that runs side to side. Which was used as a mount for a piece similard to an oar lock. I remember taking it to school for show and tell in about 1967-68. Mom wrapped it in a quilt. Put me on the school bus and off I went. Came home the same way. Oh the good old days.
That's a mighty blundertoon.
@@amorphoussolid8512 I prefer Blustertoon.
"Aaaaaargh, matey! Hoist the Jolly Roger! " Something funny about that gun always makes me want to be a pirate.
This is absolutely a hoot. 👍
Sage wad to ward off evil spirits at the same time!
As if loaded blunderbuss was not repelent enough on it's own :D
@@PosranaRegistrace lead shot has no effect on the metaphysical. You need a little something *extra*.
@@ericph9 Silver bullets of the Lone Aranger
I wish my dad could have seen this video. I think if he didn't have an aneurysm he would have laughed his head off.
Early adopters can struggle with their 100 and something year young "smokeless" powder, I'm all for tried-and-true, mature technology like black powder.
Smokeless enthusiasts claim it won two world wars. How many wars has black powder won? Pretty much all the wars in the world. Eat that smokeless fan boys.
@@cristianespinal9917 yes, Caesar's campaign would have played out way differently without his trusty line infantry.
@@Soridan and who can imagine Alexander's conquests without his famous Companion arquebusiers?
Something used by both the Song Dynasty and the Union Army can't be all bad, y'know?
LMAO
Most unusual thing I ever rammed down a blunderbuss: a dead squirrel.
Rocketed that guy to his fiery glory! Missed the clay pigeon at the skeet range, though.
There wasa chap in England had his ashes fired from a volley of flintlocks. Except one pinch, which he asked his friend to mix into a ball and shoot a pigoen.
I put my penis down a blunderbuss barrel but I got stuck and had to go to the emergency room. They refused to help me because it was gun free zone.
Blursed
A whole new outlook on fast food. Cooked on the way to you.
@@dcastle2409 That's my boy!
"This isnt click bait, this isnt gun memes or recent events,"
I see your subtle ribbing of youtube's #1 kalashnikov enthusiest lol
@@joshuagibson2520 Brandon is terrible and an embarrassment to the AK community.
@@joshuagibson2520 I watched a handful of the guy's videos and then told UA-cam to stop recommending him to me. He's the PewDiePie of the internet gun community.
Meanwhile he releases a black powder pistol video the same day and gets 6 times the views 🤷🏽♂️
1@@TheRealColBosch : You're able to ask YT to stop recommending certain channels?! I beg of you to share this knowledge so that I may cleanse the plethora of angry, pale Mall Ninjas from my Home Page.
@@johnshaft5947 On your recommendation page there is three dots under the right side of every thumbnail, you click that and theres an option to click "Dont't recommend this channel". keep in mind for some reason this will reset randomly once in a while.
I posted a old video to my social media yesterday of me introducing a friend to my blackpowder 1858 Remington New Army clone. The laugh that comes from him after the first shot is great. He owns one now. It's great fun.
I would like to watch it sometime.
This video answered questions that I did not even know that I had...
Thanks for this content Karl! This and the old west vignette are my favorite things you do, and I've gained so much from a practical sense. Have a good one!
That was amazing to watch, and the amount of joy had in filming was very evident. Awesome video!
"Under-ball lubricated wadding" would have gotten my mouth washed out with soap as a child 😅
Is it wrong that at 6 seconds I involuntarily yelled "YARR MATEY"
No.
"I've stands all i can stands, i can stands no more" !
Nay mate, tis ain't wrong
Same broadside I got me timberleg, old Pew lost his deadlights!
Yes, the police are on their way. How dare you.
...and this is why I believe the Flintlock should do more damage than the Blunderbuss in Sea of Thieves.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
It's the history that i'm here for Karl! and nothing is more informative about history than seeing how a real person uses real equipment, instead of just conjecture about how it was done. please keep 'em coming!
Ooooo almost sounded like a dig towards Brandon Herrera at the end there. I like it.
One of the favored "wad" materials from back in the day was Paper Wasp Nest material. As good as felt.
The sound it makes is so satisfying
Firearms interest, fun and history is why I am finally a patreon subscriber. Job well done!
Reminds me of when I was experimenting with various buck and ball loading variations with my replica U.S. model 1842 .69 cal musket (best birthday present I've ever gotten). It's really quite interesting how the loading order of the shot and main ball can really affect the accuracy of the main ball and spread of the shot. As I recall, best main ball accuracy came from loading the shot after the ball, but it drastically increased the spread of the shot, though for the way early and mid 1800s battles were fought, that would possibly be an advantage.
This is so cool. "a love for firearms and history" indeed!
This was a great video, having been a hobbyist shooting enthusiast for the last 34 years or so - I recently purchased my first BP firearm and can't wait to try it out. I also respect and applaud your position on funding and sponsors. As a fellow Arizonan it is awesome to have two of the best firearms content creators in this state (You and Ian.) If you guys ever need any assistance with your content creation (even just help setting up / cleaning up) I would be happy to assist to help further the content. Great job, and thank you for the information, entertainment, and effort.
It’s awesome to actually see one of these being used and seeing the more subtle aspects
Government:
"Sir is that a registered bush?"
I wonder if poison ivy would make a good wad...you know...for those times when you feel you need to add itch to injury.
+5 poison damage
The high speed and heat make it difficult to apply poison to projectiles for firearms. But with a lot of trickery, it should probably work. But since it is historically not used, I guess it is not worth it.
If the parts of the poisen ivy itself hit the target, it should probably be able to give a sting.
@@niklasmolen4753 Most organic toxins are protein-based, including those from plants, and as such, denature in heat, pressure or exposure to elements. In a word denaturation means the loss of original protein functionality or in other words, the toxin ceases being harmful. Burning powder charge tends to generate heat and pressure.
@@miskakopperoinen8408 But if the bullets are hollow with the poison inside them, the poison should do better, especially if it is inorganic. But it will be expensive and I can not see how it would justify the price.
@@niklasmolen4753 On a small scale it works, a politician in the 70s was killed by a bullet covered in ricin, although it took a few days and the bullet was small.
I've known about the blunderbuss for so many years, probably beginning in history class (a LONG time ago) when their use on warships was discussed.
I've known what they look like, how they work etc. but that was the first time I've ever seen one fired! Scary firearm to be on the wrong end of!!!!
Superb presentation!
I love that this channel really mixes it up.
I love this black powder content, but I’d love to see a manual of arms video for a matchlock firearm
There's a few matchlock videos on iv8888
Well, hell. Some legislator in congress is going to see this and start passing laws.
Awesome video! Can say your recent black powder content has definitely made me more interested in the subject. Always happy to be a patreon supporter of yours, Karl!
Very good video. I enjoyed both the information and the enthusiasm
3:36 at first I was like, WHY ARE YOU FPS RUSSIA-ING SO CLOSE TO THE TARGET!!!
Now I really want a blunderbuss. Can you do a summery of the modern makers?
Such an awesome channel: "dedicated to the love of firearms and history."
Great video! I like my flinter 'bus a lot and have fed it massive loads of powder in "tests." It held up well. Something you might want to consider if you're flintlocking, is a touch-hole pick. I also often use a spring-loaded primer do-hicky to shoot just the right amount of priming powder into the pan. (It's 1-For 2-F for the main charges.) By picking the touch-hole it makes a clear path from the pan into the charge and with one or two 'taps' of the primer nipple in the pan, it shoots a quick jet of flame into the charge. I get lock times that are pretty doggone close to a modern centerfire rifle with this method, and have helped a few flintlock hunters who were ready to give up and go back to modern hunting discover they can be quite accurate with their 'smoke-poles.' With black powder cannon, the "pad" between the charge and the ball was usually a wad of yarn strands from old and weak rope found aboard ship. I'm pretty sure that "Economic Venture Mariners" of that era, probably used the rope yarn for their muskets, pistols and blunderbusses as well.
That first pang on the target though. He ded. Like at least 3 ded.
Trevor: this is a pirate’s gun
Bubbles: well that makes you Long John Dickweed I guess.
I enjoyed this video! Thanks for taking the time to create unique and interesting content!
Awesome video. Just subbed on patreon last night, love seeing videos about things you are passionate about.
You can see how this is the perfect pirate gun or a great defence for a coach driver against a highwayman
So, for a large crowd of unruly "zombies," go with the second method for better shot dispersal, yes?
The creosote bush as a wad threw me for a loop. That was really cool. Now I kinda want my own blunderbuss so I can try leaves and such up where I live in southern Ohio. Fantastic video, Karl.
Classic InRange Awesome! I think everyone wanted to see more of that blunderbuss after the rock-shot video🤠
Yarrr!
I live in North AZ, got creosote as my manicured bushes
Creosote is all over south az as well
Creosote (larrea tridentata) is the most abundant plant in the American southwest. There's a lifetime supply of wadding out here in the desert. 👍
Great video as always thank you!
I love to watch experiments like that and respect those people who make it.
Start harvesting that creosote bush and you've got some "Organic Made in USA Apocalypse Wads" and you can consult Magpul to price them accordingly.
Seriously though, cool idea for a vid!
That is literally a cannon with a shoulder stock.
First time I've seen a blunderbuss actually fired for effect, good show.
Thanks
Loving this little series.
“You don’t need a fancy wonder wad with lube on it” Where’s Sterling Archer when you need him
Oh, we're totally bringing back 'PHRASING'.
Blunderbusses are mean to be stuck into stagecoach windows to make the occupants re-consider their choices. On this note, Karl forgot to yell "Stand and Deliver!" before firing.
My favorite black powder gun. Great video
What a great video again, thank you Karl
I liked it when he said "wad" and "balls."
Out of curiosity from a non-native english speaker: What makes "wad" an innuendo? Google translates it as a equivalent term to "bundle" which (to me) doesn't bring up any relevant associations.
@@DeHerg It's a unit of measurement for semen.
@@DeHerg Google "blew my Wad" just not at work, best delete your history afterwords.
@@DesertFernweh Don't worry most of that google search is just idiom and slang dictionaries. So "wad" is also another word for "cork" (the function not the material) which makes sense given that that's how the wad was used in the video. Thanks.
@@DeHerg Monica Lewinski found a wad of bills in her blue dress pocket
Testing unfair, that was clearly a swiss-enginered bush.
Do whatever you fit... IRtv keeps doing this 🙏🏼
I’m enjoying the content, keep it up Karl!
What brand is that blunderbuss/ where do I get one? 🤣
Ethan Manley I’m curious as well
Me three
Same here. I actually re-watched several of his past videos with it, hoping he mentioned what make it was.
Just throwing in a comment Incase anyone actually knows the answer.
Veteran arms military blunderbuss.
Military heritage has a cheaper version. You have to drill the vent hole to fire.
Eric elephant is cool
Thanks for the old school content. Love it!
Black powder shooting is just a ton of fun! Whenever I take my Colt Navy replica to the range, I quickly find myself the center of attention. The smoke & sparks are a real crowd-pleaser.
"...not about gun memes." Shots fired, with creosote bush wadding, at Brandon Herrera.
With that that hair, Brandon looks like he can take a wad or two. He'll wash it out with White claw.
I do not own any scary looking weapons. I just have a couple of cap lock brass dunderbuss. They should not scare anyone.
Right! One of those shots would have cut a person in two pieces. Not effective at all.
a classic home or vehicle defense weapon.
really enjoyed this one, Karl.
nice one.
I'm glad you're having fun, Karl. The blunderbuss videos are really cool and interesting. You don't see much content about black powder guns on other channels. Looking forward to seeing more of it. Here's an idea: compare the patterning and damage from the blunderbuss to that of a modern shotgun.
Where did the .308 Di Revolution videos go? Were they deleted?
Still on bitchute. Search "Inrangetv Di Revolution"
@@saccaed ok, thanks, but do you or anyone else know what happened to them?
@@australovenatortomino_1741 My guess is youtube nuked the vids because of some interpretation that the videos were selling a gun product... Donno, but this is exactly why I have local backups.
@@saccaed hmmmm...
First! Yeah boi
Do I get a second place prize?
Awesome. I’ve made a few black powder cannons and mortars. A lot of fun to shoot. The wading between the power and shot or ball makes a big difference, especially in shorter barrels.
Fantastic video, great example of old school tech and field smarts.
" Just buy a Blunderbuss !" _Joe Biden
I'm loving the blunderbuss videos
Thank you for the interesting and diverse content. I love it!
Goodonyer Karl, very simple explanation and indeed a lot of fun - thank you.