Civil War Rifles: 1861 Springfield vs P53 Enfield.
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Comparing two iconic firearms of the American Civil War, the 1861 Springfield and the P53 Enfield. Both rifle-muskets are in .58 caliber.
First video with the 1861: • 1861 Springfield Rifle...
First video with the P53 Enfield: • 1853 Enfield Rifle Musket
There are chapter 2 videos with both firearms.
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First video with the 1861: ua-cam.com/video/hxKteQFGcFc/v-deo.html
First video with the P53 Enfield: ua-cam.com/video/mzrKOKULCxU/v-deo.html
There are chapter 2 videos with both firearms.
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Hello Hickok, greetings from Texas. I have been enjoying and learning since the beginning :)
You remind me, naturally, of teachers and professors I’ve had that I have enjoyed listening to in more than a few classrooms over the years.
Actually it might be a treat for y’all to publish an exceptionally lengthy video on one of your favorite topics if someday you feel so inclined. Would be a good chance to get a glimpse of you really doing your lecture thing, you know?
Have a great evening guys and thank y’all for all your hard work :)
Sir you made this an interesting day, had fun watching you have fun with both of these gems!🙏
I’ve been watching you since I was a kid Hickok! Keep up the videos, thank you for all the entertainment!
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Sometimes I wish I could make statements like that, that I've been doing anything "since I was a kid." The reason I cant' is, I've never grown up and am STILL a "kid." :-)
@@hickok45 I've had the same occupation for 41 yrs and still can't decide what I want to do when I grow up. Keep em coming good sir.
@@hickok45 glad to hear it big man
thats kinds morbid
The 1853 Enfield was used in the Civil War by both the North and the South. The Confederates imported more of these guns during the war and towards the end of the war, more than 75% were armed with the 1853 Enfield. It was the second most widely used rifle behind the 1861 Springfield Musket. The original (as with this reproduction) have a 39" barrel and was fastened to the stock with 3 metal bands. This model is also known as the "three-band" model.
Then that'd why the confederates fired at will at Fredricksburg, keep the federals coming and hit as many as possible.
So was the Springfield bye the end of the war both s I des had both guns if only they cloud talk
Anyone who reads a couple of Civil War books you learn that the massed fire often held soldiers of both sides from advancing, made many flee and surprisingly many who, despite their facing certain death, pushed stubborningly forward. It is always good to see these old rifles.
I have an 1829 N. Star and Sun 69 cal. Built in Middleton Con. It was found by a 10 year old girl who’s father was tearing down an old house in Delaware about 100 years ago. I restored it for a friend and wound up buying it a few years later. I’m not a gunsmith but have restored many period antiques, furniture, metal and leather for many years. Everything is original and all parts are with it. Haven’t shot it yet but a former Navy Seal gunsmith looked it over and said he’d first use a half charge before going to the full 70 grains. The bore is rusted, which has kept me from shooting it but will finally have it restored. It’s a lovely piece of history, army issue and quite possibly used in the Civil War. Originally it was a flint lock converted to cap by the military, a brass insert where the old lock had been. It’s far better now than when I restored it but can still use a bit of work. Thanks Kindly for your videos and all the reviews. DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
I cant be the only one who loves looking at the dents on the stock and would love to know how and on what day that dent occurred. Absolutely fascinating!!
We call that a firearm with character.
I know what you mean buy probably just got hit on a table or something.
I still got a Tower Flintlock pistol in 69 caliber that I bought in the early 70's. They were being sold as replica wall hangers back then. Dixie Gun works provided a service where they would install original parts to these wall hangers so they would fire. The locks on the hangers were not hardened and wouldn't spark very well. I used to load that pistol with shot for rabbit hunting and did pretty good with it.
We had an 1873 trapdoor that I should have never let go. I love all the old firearms you bring out. Thanks
We have a 55’ Springfield breech loading thingy manufactured in 1864, it is patent pending, would you happen to know what it is? And you you mean 1873 trapdoor or is yours a modification of a regular Springfield.
@@jphil-mk8bw your right made a mistake
@@OhioGentlemenArms we have a 73 as well, very nifty little thing
Id love to own a trap door.
If ever I get a reproduction rifle musket, I would get a 2-band Enfield. Not quite the 1853, but I just love the looks of it. Thanks for sharing your original treasures.
Good choice; a two-band Enfield (1858 Enfield) was my choice for my first military muzzleloader rifle. Even a two-band rifle musket is a long gun.
A skirmish rifle. 😮😮😮
Better rifling on the later models of the 2-band, make them almost as accurate as the 3-band, originally made the the Rifle brigade and light infantry 😊
I used to shoot with the N-SSA (North-South Skirmish Association) and had the opportunity to shoot several original models of Springfields, Smith Carbine, Enfield, Richmond, and Fayetteville Rifle-Muskets. I shot with a reproduction Colt 1863. Used to have a great time and learned much about black powder shooting. The biggest controversy or arguments between shooters came from the recipe for bullet lube, everybody had their own "secret" concoction for the best accuracy.
I have found stocks on Enfields shaved down so you could easily get a sight picture. This was done after they were surplus to requirements and people used them for hunting
The way Hickok deals with this topic is perfect! Whereas in so many hands it would be politicised and hugely skewed to a Northern viewpoint he gives us his fascinating impressions and a balanced view on the true history. Brilliant video and a real breath of fresh air.
The only thing I would say is during the Napoleonic wars part of the reason the French were so successful for so long was they _didn't_ just line up and it wasn't all smooth bore musketry. Napoleon championed the cause of fighting in a column and it was this tactic that was so hard to counter until Wellington showed how to break a column advance with fast but accurate line fire. Best of all were the 'Light bobs', the Greenjackets who were ideally skirmishers and carried rifles which they were trained to use with almost the same speed as a common soldier could his musket, yet with far greater accuracy and range.
A 30 minute video from hickok45? Today's a good day.
A local gun shop has been getting some Civil War era firearms lately, originals and reproductions. I now have an 1861 Springfield, a Remington Model of 1863 rifle, a Burnside, a Spencer repro, and a Sharps paper cartridge repro. Haven't come across an Enfield yet...
I like these looks back at the early weapons, they help us visualize our history.
thats a decent collection....ever thought about doing a little showcase video of your own?
@@spartan3244 No. I send pics around to some friends but I don't think I'm up to doing any video work. Thanks though.
I like these “comparison” videos. Thank you young man!
I would recommend going to the Springfield Armory museum in Spg Mass and see the organ of muskets. 648- 1861 brand new muskets.
Great history lesson that I enjoyed very much
Thank you Hickok 45 Sir. I enjoy learning the history and how they worked. Makes me think how it must have been like to live back then. In some ways maybe better and other others not so good! Thank you and John for all your hard work.
If we lived in those same ways as back then but with our medical knowledge of today it would be great
We got an Italian repro 53 many years ago and have used it for deer hunting. A couple of fowling shots and it is a tight shooter. Deadly on deer with 70 gr of 2F.
Always a delight to see a new video
It would get very dirty really quick but you could attach the suppressor with the bayonette mount on the end with a twist on. Very cool
That's true and I think a scope would be a nice touch also.
Great video as always.
I believe that the flash hole on the Springfield is drilled at an angle towards the bore. At least that is the case with the Remington rifle Model of 1863. Pretty sophisticated given the era, they weren't crude rubes back then.
Gorgeous rifles, love the history behind them and the smoke flying
I own an 1862 Springfield replica, and it is so much fun to shoot (200+ yards), thank you hickok45 to get me into this !!!
Hickok45: you’ll never know which side I was on because my Kentucky Relatives still haven’t forgiven me about it
Pls do a colt 1860 review, you did it kind of in the military handguns of the USA video, but it jammed up...
It would be great if you do so:)
I love the 1860 Colt
Greeting from Germany
Maybe a comparison between the 1860 colt and the 1858 Remington new model army
As a civil war reenactor I had a replica 1861. I liked how it felt at the shoulder over the P53. Both are excellent rifles muskets. When I started out I was lucky to had the use of a Lorenz for an event.
Gosh.. beautiful rifles! Love this vid. Thank you very much!
Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
What a great video ,many thanks to you
Love how you smoked that pumpkin
Smooth bores were used because of tactics. Volley fire and not aimed fire. Also quick to load especially when fouled.
I’m still waiting for the Jungle Carbine review. Lol
Love the guided tour through history from the Hickok Museum! It's worth every minute.
Good morning my internet shooting/Rona quarantine companion!
Thanks for the great content keeping me from going stir crazy.
I'd love a similar version with the bolt action successors of these beautiful rifles
Its hard not to like Hickok45's positivity.
Thanks for firing up the old time machine, I love these little trips 😎
Really enjoy the history lessons. I inherited an 1855 manard tape Springfield that I'm trying to restore that was in really bad shape. Looking down the bore it looks like it was left outside leaned up against a tree for years. It will never shoot again but it looks really great hanging over my mantle. The family's history has participants on both sides of the war and I'm not sure which side this gun came from, but I enjoy telling people about it.
Those rifles have lasted almost eight generations, just think how different the world has changed since they were made. Kind of amazing that the basic technologies of firearms evolve so slowly. How long was the flintlock around, several hundred years?
just imagine this being used in todays days that would be crucial
Love this! Very interesting and I've heard this before but didn't pay much attention!! Thank you Hickok!
Excellent presentation 👏 Almost like this guy was a teacher or something.
I agree he is always very knowledgeable about whatever firearm he is discussing, keep the excellent work Mr. Hicok
Smooth bores could be loaded with shot like a shotgun with 00. Very effective against charging troops
Would love to see you have a Whitworth on the channel sometime.
Having used both the 1863 Springfield and P53 Enfield my choice would be the 1857 Wurttembergischen because the twist rate of the barrel permits the use of both long bullets and round shot.
If I were only able to use long bullets my choice would be the 1854 Lorenz rifle.
I could watch a video for 2 hours on these guns.
Been watching you for a long while now. My old man and I watched quite a few of your videos while he was in the hospital at the end of the summer. We had been trying to get him healthy enough so we could take my M&P Sport II to the range together but he didn't make it and passed away in mid September. After he passed I went to a local range and took his first hunting rifle, my AR, and my first pistol (G3C). Since then I've added 3 more pistols and am waiting for an SA-35 to show up at my local gun shop.
Keep up the good work. I love your range, wish I could find somewhere to shoot like that near me. Curious to see if you get your hands on an SA-35 to hear your thoughts.
Love the Springfield my favorite is the 1863
Watching From Mini Ball Pennsylvania . Montgomery County ,Home of The Revolutionary War, .For Our Independence To Be Talking About These Freedoms. A Great Video!Hickok 45. Keep on Keeping on.Amen.
It was nothing to shoot 1000 yards at a dense enemy form. I find you can use FFF powder or FF BP. I use 85 grains for hunting. Lower loadings equals low velocities that drops quickly. Thicker skirted bullets require heavier loads for correct obturation. I find FFF better for these.
Single shot at a thousand yards from a rifled musket is unlikely to hit a man-sized target but a company worth of rifled muskets will ruin the opposing commander's whole day.
Most of the original models likely never saw any "action". There were many left over in the arsenals, most that were actually used would have too much bore and breech corrosion to be safe to shoot.
excellent ! Love historical guns!
Thanks for the videos.
Silencer central gives us another reason to say let's go brandon
Thanks Hickok45
It would be interesting to know how many consecutive shots were fired during the Civil War before it became necessary to clean them!
Clean after every battle... Black powder corrodes like crazy
Most men went into a fight with a minimum of 40 rounds in 10 round wrappers that included what was called a wiper which was a cleaning bullet.
I love your channel hickok45 I am a huge fan of history
Love this guy !
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing.
Fine bit of History in those Rifles,Have Parker Hale 1958 two band Mighty fine shooting rifle Cheers
The classic American and British (rifled) musket face-off.
Also, the 1842 Springfield (rifled) musket variant and the 1855 Springfield rifled musket also had similar ladder rear sights.
Not to mention, the 1862 Richmond Rifle is a Confederate copy of the 1861 Springfield, actually it’s more like the Model 1855 rifled musket because well… it has the hump that was based for the Maynard tape mechanism. The Confederates took the machinery from the Harper’s Ferry (the armory that the Union sets it on fire and let it burn to the ground because the Union didn’t want all of the machinery at Harper’s Ferry end up in the wrong hands, which unfortunately the Confederates did). Confederates produced their own rifled muskets at Richmond.
So I'm only 3 seconds in and may have woke my neighbors laughing already lol.
I can't wait to get on to the "boring" history lesson. This is probably gonna be a good one!
those are both really cool rifles!!
Just by accident these turn out to be a great hunting rifle to take into the American West! I’d expect after the war getting one was super cheap!
Love this channel. So interesting and informative.
Love these, thanks for another awesome video.
I love seeing the ol smoke poles great stuff
I love the trapdoors. I had one that I only shot black powder.
The sights are not a gimmick on the Enfield, those rifles had step-tapered rifling (deeper at the bottom decreasing steadily towards the muzzle) that "squeezed" the projectile as it was fired and went through the barrel resulting in very accurate fire. I own a reproduction P53 Enfield made by the Parker Hale Ltd company from Birmingham England in 1976 and live fire it between reenacting seasons and it is more accurate than I can shoot it. Oh, and TC's bore butter is the bestest friend ever to anyone that burns black powder hands down.
Now that's some fun shooting in my book. I can smell that smoke all the way here in Mt. Juliet.
@Templar Knight yes sir. Charlie Daniels was a great man and patriot. Tennessee is a great state!
Really nice video.
I prefer the P53 due to the superior sights.
Having both full sized balls for long range and slow rifle fire and undersized balls for fast short range fire was too complicated of a concept for the generals to understand.
I want grandpa like this
The Enfield and Springfield were practically the same gun.
Saluting from across the Pacific
What does one do if they load the bullet before the gunpowder?
Shot very little and dropped only once. Rifling a barrel 150+ years ago was labor intensive, time consuming and thus expensive
That FilthyFrank start though: "Got eem".🤣
Hickok45 no longer just a master of comedy and sage of guns, now enters the memes.
I've always wanted to fire an old muzzle loader. Something about that Enfield ❤
Amazing! 😀🤘🏼
Hickok, what is the chain on the enfield rifle?
Was wondering the same thing, maybe to clean the cap nipple?
Hickok blasts a man sized target at extreem distance with a smooth bore shotgun and Foster type slugs; explaining how rifled bore is of no great advantage. Then he speaks of how the rifling of the Enfield and Springfield were of such advantage with the Minnie. Hmmm.
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I really enjoyed this! Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Have you done a video on the different firearms used in the revolutionary war? Specifically the difference between privately owned firearms and say military grade arms?
I feel that since the Supreme Court is currently trying to figure out what the founders might have meant by the 2A, that it might be a good subject to bring up..
I've still got a bayonet off one of those. They don't seem to be worth enough for me to be willing to sell it. Surprising considering it's age.
I love watching your video
Best opening video scene. :)
11/4 time 6a not light in wynne AR yet
Very informative! Thanks! Enjoyed the history behind these weapons. Do you happen to know which rifle was used by the Lewis and Clark expedition? I believe that Lewis requisitioned weapons from Harper’s Ferry.
They had at least one air rifle believe it or not. That they use for hunting.
I knew about the air rifle…often used to impress the indigenous peoples along the way.
Not sure. In 1804 it might have been a variety of firearms. Could have been some Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifles along, as well as some early U.S. muskets, such as the 1895 Springfield and such.
@@hickok45 Must have been rifled though, those guys had very long range accuracy hunting elk and bear. And I think that Pennsylvania rifles would have been used as Lewis coalesced much of the expedition from there. Thanks Hickok…really enjoy your videos!
Where can I find Springfield 1861. I appreciate all of your time and help. Your knowledge and presentation is top notch. Thank You!
Online perhaps, but I'd suggest you search for when a Civil War show might be taking place in your area, or even if you have to drive a ways. You'd have a much wider choice of rifles in various conditions and prices. A person could attend a great number of regular gun shows and never see one.
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The Civil War would have been a lot bloodier if one side or both hsad converted these weapons ino 1867i Carcano style needle fire rifles in 1862
That pumpkin never stood a chance
My great-grandfather was in Co G , 19 th Virginia Inf'y . Now people want to call him a traitor . All he did was answer the call from his home state .
Daylight savings
Its almost 2022 hickok45
As we watch this video, we are just several hundred yards from the Plank Road, on which thousands of Lee''s rebel troops, carrying weapons like the ones he is showing, marched westward to confront Hooker's Federal Army in May, 1963, at Chancellorsville.