BeckumOutdoors from a city boy that moved to the south rabbit dont taste like chicken . Rabbit makes chicken taste loke i dont know what i been eating all this time
yes, it's the 1842 springfield smoothbore, .69 cal., i've taken turkey with it also, alot of fun, very user friendly, kinda expensive now, might as well pay for a good flintlock fowler. Thanks Brian
I do some French & Indian War Re-enacting and I'm in the process of getting a 1750s British Sea Service Musket or in other words a "Naval Carbine" it is a .76 cal. smoothbore flintlock and I'm planning on using it for squirrel hunting as well. I also do Civil War Re-enacting and have a 1853 Enfield .58 cal. I use for Deer Hunting. I really enjoy hunting the way our ancestors did!
Very nice, only thing that could make this even better is a split screen of the target going down , but that's just icing on the cake. Very good video.
Good guns, good game, good fire, good coffee, good food, good friend to share it with. That's almost as good as heaven. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Hi Rusty Lee, we were shooting, 1861 springfield & 1842 .62 cal. musket smoothbore, since, we both have built flintlock fowlers, .20 gauge, but we just wanted to have alittle fun, if you know what i mean. & it worked we got a few, thanks for watching & good luck. Happy New Year!
Yes you may have found golden bamboo which is not native...rivercane grows in north Florida but i do not know about south Florida, i have heard many people talk about having trouble finding rivercane in south FL....
Hey Billy get rid of that primitive bow and get yourself a flintlock! Just kidding. Thanks for the comment. By the way i really enjoyed your doe hunt with the primitive bow and arrow! I know how hard that was to do, good job! Brian, and yes that was Roy you seen in Macon at the GON show!
Well when i'm out in the woods i just use salt & pepper, its hard to beat just simple seasonings, very tasty, you might want to boil your game awhile to get it tender then put it on the fire to brown it, good luck.
I use just what you see, a 20 gauge flintlock. thats all, i mostly deer hunt but i'll get the old fowler out once in awhile & have some fun, just like you said. it is alotta fun! Thanks for watching.
I just found this channel and it is a great one... Especially all the traditional gear that is shown to work just as good if not better than some of the stuff I myself use. I am in South Carolina too so I have to say that cypress swamp backdrops do make me feel right at home
you can either buy a drill bit long enough from Track of the Wolf, or get the right size bit & have it welded to a long straight piece of steel rod & go ahead & cut out your ramrod channel then lay the bit in the channel & use blocks of wood to hold the shaft or bit in place then start drilling, but you have to be very careful & mark your seel bit so as not to go to deep or come out in the wrong place, the ramrod channel has to be straight, & go slow. hope this helps, Brian.
Yes D5quared91 it is, I,ve taken quiet a few turkey, with this 1842. a little heavy but built solid, very nice weapon, I like mine a lot! Thanks for the nice comment & for watching, take it out one day, you'll enjoy it. Thanks again.
Well got me a Replica of a Flintlock 1777 Charleville Musket,took it squirrel hunting killed a squirrel no more then a few minutes in the woods.Been hunting with since the season open up.Best time ,and so much fun to hunt with.Using number 6 shot in it ,works find .
Really enjoyed watching this video. When I was younger I use to hunt rabbit with a 1766 Charleville 69 cal. Musket (repro) loaded with shot of course, I was big into black powder still am just to old to hunt these days. I did sub hoping to watch more of your videos.
went to MMR down in Tejas. we got our Mountain man Capotes and possibles bags buko fun. I got my hands on a rifled musket. I fired it and it barely had a kick. Mind you it was half a load so it kicked like a .22
Hey thanks, it is a very good time, just made a full-lenght squirrel hunting dvd, & a bonus hog hunt coming very soon, all done with a flintlock smoothbore. i think you'll like it. good luck this fall!
THanks, for the nice comments, Good luck with your new fowler, hunting season is a while to wait, but it will eventually get here, & you'll have alot of fun! by the way got a new smallgame hunting dvd coming soon.
As for squirrels, we just uses 7.5 shot, seems to work for us just fine, good luck, Thanks for watching, Oh, by the way i had two neck fusions also, still having some problems with it, hope yours works out better than mine. Brian.
Hey Thanks, most of the time just 1 once, yes they are cylinder bore, the ones we are shooting are just civil war muskets, mine is .69 cal., built me a .62 cal. flintlock since that video was made, its also cylinder bore. thanks again for watching, got a new squirrel hunting dvd coming soon with a bonus hog hunt. you might like it.
@jabames Yes, that's an 1861 springfield rifled musket. not very good for bird shot, but that's all he had. now he's in the process of getting a flintlock fowler 20 gauge.
Thanks for watching & for the nice comments, yes i understand about being to old because my eyes are getting pretty bad, might be hunting with the old fowler all the time before long! thanks again.
Very nicely done,great slow motion shots and plenty of action!Love the outfits and woods scenery.Informative as well.I perfer old style Blackpowder huntting just this way,great vedio!
@backwoodshuntin Thanks that means alot....we are working on more dvds now....hope to have a new primitive bow hunting dvd by spring....another flintlock hunting dvd finished in a couple weeks....good luck to you and thanks for the nice comment.
Well, because i did'nt have a flintlock fowler at the time we made this little u-tube clip, i built one a few months later, & i plan on making a smallgame dvd this coming fall with the flintlock, by the way, theres nothing wrong with a caplock, us blackpowder hunters better stick together, don't you agree?
jt, these guys look like they're using in the arena of about .60-.69 cal. The man in brown looks like he's using a Charleville or other related gun...those are .69 cal. Great video guys. I reenact the civil war from the confederate side, so eventually I will be primitive hunting as well, with a U.S. 1842 smoothbore. I can't wait for small game season here in WI. Much more spring turkey and deer season... Cheers, -Chris
you are right dogtroop515, my friend hunted with it anyway, mine was smooth but his you had to be very close because the rifling would distort the pattern, but now he has a really nice flint smooth bore, & I do too, when we done that little video we were just experimenting with his gun & just wanted to get in the woods, I wouldn't advise using that for taking game unless you are really close & he did get a couple with it, anyway thanks for watching.
Thanks for the nice comments, since i made that little video i've built me a .62 cal. smoothbore which i just made a squirrell hunting plus a bonus hog hunt dvd, go to my web-site & it will be for sell in a few weeks, plus i got several other deer & turkey hunting dvds there as well, good luck this fall !
Yes it does, it grows everywhere in the southeast U.S. & Yes it looks kinda like small bamboo, you'll notice it grows mostly near water, around creeks & rivers, anyway, thanks for watching, go to my web-site i think you'll like it. Brian.
I love squirrel hunting. I personally prefer to quietly walk the woods until I cut across one. By walking I can get to squirrels that the sitting hunter might not see. To each his own though. Nice video.
Thanks, Keith for the comments, I could'nt agree more, What's even worst is a scope on an in-line, i get a laugh when i look at the black powder big game records, 90% were shot that way, Anyway i figured you were just pickin, I'm O.K. with that, but you would'nt believe some of the comments i get, anyway, good luck, Brian.
HEy that guy Roy looks familiar....was he at your booth at the GON show in Macon last year? Very cool video. Great close-up shots of those squirrels. And I like the time period outfits. I also like that ya'll hunt small game. Small game hunting is some of the most fun I've ever had in the woods! Keep 'em coming!
Looks like you good old boys have more fun then my dog rolling in crap. In my opinion you have about the best I have seen on tube. Once I get off my butt (I drive transit 12 hr splits x6 days) I'm going to purchase a few of your primitive series. I'm fair at it myself despite being partial to my 06 maybe due to griz breathing on my neck a few times. Going to -30 with chill for Sunday which is my second to last day to get the Sunday buck for boy. You can see him at 12:45 on my home page.
great video you have here I have a Hawken 50 cal it has a 1/48 twist can this be used to take small game and if so how much powder would I use with a round ball?
Hi Thanks for the comments, as for the .50 cal. for squirrel ? As long as you don't hit them in the body,Ha,Ha, about 30 or 40 grains should do it. have fun!
BeckumOutdoors thanks lol hope you have a great year of hunting our deer season open this Sat the 12th I am using my hawkens50 will a round ball drop 1 say 50 yards?
Hi, I Don't think it was so much as to burn all the powder as it was to keep the shot in a tighter pattern, as you know there was'nt to many jug chokes at the time. thanks for watching.
Oh, I just thought since it was a smoothebore how you were getting it. It makes sense now that you were using bird shot. I thought you were using round balls. Good video.
Does river cane grow down south in FL ?and does it look like small bambo?The reason I ask is because I've been lookin for it and I did find something that looks like small diameter bamboo.
@jtdrummer2112 use number 6 shot in it with a couple patches with 50grains of powder,and sit your powder measurer to 90 grains and fill it with number 6 shot,and there you go.
Excuse my ignorance ,but why are the barrels so long on the blackpowder smooth bores? I thinking that blacpowder is fast burning and could get by with much shorter barrels that were handier to handle .
I watch this video every year, its gettin to be as seasonal as charlie browns christmas.
Thank you, Too bad we can't live like we really want to in today's world, but thanks for watching!
BeckumOutdoors from a city boy that moved to the south rabbit dont taste like chicken . Rabbit makes chicken taste loke i dont know what i been eating all this time
Rabbit is some fine dining for sure. I've never been big on squirrel but rabbit and gator get me very hungry indeed!
Where are you guys hunting?
Nice vid man, wish we could go back in time and live like that again.
That's looks like so much fun. Thank you. That really makes me want to get more into historical hunting and camping
Nicely tuned locks, almost no hang time. Well done gentlemen !
yes, it's the 1842 springfield smoothbore, .69 cal., i've taken turkey with it also, alot of fun, very user friendly, kinda expensive now, might as well pay for a good flintlock fowler. Thanks Brian
I just got one of those for its general purpose usefulness
12 years later do you still stand by it?
I do some French & Indian War Re-enacting and I'm in the process of getting a 1750s British Sea Service Musket or in other words a "Naval Carbine" it is a .76 cal. smoothbore flintlock and I'm planning on using it for squirrel hunting as well. I also do Civil War Re-enacting and have a 1853 Enfield .58 cal. I use for Deer Hunting. I really enjoy hunting the way our ancestors did!
I love that when I have a stressful day, like today, I can watch your videos and it brings me back.
Very nice, only thing that could make this even better is a split screen of the target going down , but that's just icing on the cake. Very good video.
Now that looks like a fantastic way to spend a weekend, thank you mother nature.
Good guns, good game, good fire, good coffee, good food, good friend to share it with. That's almost as good as heaven. Thank you for sharing it with us.
I watched your videos over and over again very good hunting over here i use .36 caliber smoothbore from thailand
Hi Jesse, I understand your concern, but if you load it right & don't take too far a shot it's not a problem, thanks for watching.
Hi Rusty Lee, we were shooting, 1861 springfield & 1842 .62 cal. musket smoothbore, since, we both have built flintlock fowlers, .20 gauge, but we just wanted to have alittle fun, if you know what i mean. & it worked we got a few, thanks for watching & good luck. Happy New Year!
Yes you may have found golden bamboo which is not native...rivercane grows in north Florida but i do not know about south Florida, i have heard many people talk about having trouble finding rivercane in south FL....
I love it !!! I am a primitive bow Hunter I got all your brothers DVDs but man my dad sure would LOVE this ... I gotta buy him a DVD for x mas :)
Hey Billy get rid of that primitive bow and get yourself a flintlock! Just kidding. Thanks for the comment. By the way i really enjoyed your doe hunt with the primitive bow and arrow! I know how hard that was to do, good job! Brian, and yes that was Roy you seen in Macon at the GON show!
Well when i'm out in the woods i just use salt & pepper, its hard to beat just simple seasonings, very tasty, you might want to boil your game awhile to get it tender then put it on the fire to brown it, good luck.
fantastic job you two ,,brings back good memoties when Al Freeze and I did much the same thing.
I use just what you see, a 20 gauge flintlock. thats all, i mostly deer hunt but i'll get the old fowler out once in awhile & have some fun, just like you said. it is alotta fun! Thanks for watching.
I just found this channel and it is a great one... Especially all the traditional gear that is shown to work just as good if not better than some of the stuff I myself use. I am in South Carolina too so I have to say that cypress swamp backdrops do make me feel right at home
Reminiscent of the days of Francis Marion the "Swamp Fox" for you Carolina boys.
I'm chomping at the bit to get my little 32 cap and ball out in the woods for some small game !! Great vid !!
you can either buy a drill bit long enough from Track of the Wolf, or get the right size bit & have it welded to a long straight piece of steel rod & go ahead & cut out your ramrod channel then lay the bit in the channel & use blocks of wood to hold the shaft or bit in place then start drilling, but you have to be very careful & mark your seel bit so as not to go to deep or come out in the wrong place, the ramrod channel has to be straight, & go slow. hope this helps, Brian.
Yes D5quared91 it is, I,ve taken quiet a few turkey, with this 1842. a little heavy but built solid, very nice weapon, I like mine a lot! Thanks for the nice comment & for watching, take it out one day, you'll enjoy it. Thanks again.
Well got me a Replica of a Flintlock 1777 Charleville Musket,took it squirrel hunting killed a squirrel no more then a few minutes in the woods.Been hunting with since the season open up.Best time ,and so much fun to hunt with.Using number 6 shot in it ,works find .
Really enjoyed watching this video. When I was younger I use to hunt rabbit with a 1766 Charleville 69 cal. Musket (repro) loaded with shot of course, I was big into black powder still am just to old to hunt these days. I did sub hoping to watch more of your videos.
went to MMR down in Tejas. we got our Mountain man Capotes and possibles bags buko fun. I got my hands on a rifled musket. I fired it and it barely had a kick. Mind you it was half a load so it kicked like a .22
I love this video. I just got my first BP smoothbore. Now I can't wait for small game season.
Hey thanks, it is a very good time, just made a full-lenght squirrel hunting dvd, & a bonus hog hunt coming very soon, all done with a flintlock smoothbore. i think you'll like it. good luck this fall!
THanks, for the nice comments, Good luck with your new fowler, hunting season is a while to wait, but it will eventually get here, & you'll have alot of fun! by the way got a new smallgame hunting dvd coming soon.
Praví bushmeni. Perfektné! Greetings from Slovakia!
As for squirrels, we just uses 7.5 shot, seems to work for us just fine, good luck, Thanks for watching, Oh, by the way i had two neck fusions also, still having some problems with it, hope yours works out better than mine. Brian.
Hey Thanks, most of the time just 1 once, yes they are cylinder bore, the ones we are shooting are just civil war muskets, mine is .69 cal., built me a .62 cal. flintlock since that video was made, its also cylinder bore. thanks again for watching, got a new squirrel hunting dvd coming soon with a bonus hog hunt. you might like it.
Hey Jess, Thanks for watching, & yes I have 4 deer, 1 turkey and 1 squirrel hunting dvds. thanks again, Brian
Yes, the world is really crazy, sometimes you just need an escape, thanks for the nice comments.
@jabames Yes, that's an 1861 springfield rifled musket. not very good for bird shot, but that's all he had. now he's in the process of getting a flintlock fowler 20 gauge.
Thanks for watching & for the nice comments, yes i understand about being to old because my eyes are getting pretty bad, might be hunting with the old fowler all the time before long! thanks again.
Very nicely done,great slow motion shots and plenty of action!Love the outfits and woods scenery.Informative as well.I perfer old style Blackpowder huntting just this way,great vedio!
@backwoodshuntin Thanks that means alot....we are working on more dvds now....hope to have a new primitive bow hunting dvd by spring....another flintlock hunting dvd finished in a couple weeks....good luck to you and thanks for the nice comment.
Hey i appreciate that, yeah my brother is a bow hunter too, coming out with a smallgame dvd soon on my web-site, anyway, Good Luck this fall!
Well, because i did'nt have a flintlock fowler at the time we made this little u-tube clip, i built one a few months later, & i plan on making a smallgame dvd this coming fall with the flintlock, by the way, theres nothing wrong with a caplock, us blackpowder hunters better stick together, don't you agree?
jt, these guys look like they're using in the arena of about .60-.69 cal. The man in brown looks like he's using a Charleville or other related gun...those are .69 cal.
Great video guys. I reenact the civil war from the confederate side, so eventually I will be primitive hunting as well, with a U.S. 1842 smoothbore. I can't wait for small game season here in WI. Much more spring turkey and deer season...
Cheers,
-Chris
Hi o2jmpr1, Thanks for the nice comments, Hope you lots of luck in the new year! Brian
Yeah, me too! I'm actually making a squirrel hunting dvd right now, should be out before fall, Good Luck! Brian
you are right dogtroop515, my friend hunted with it anyway, mine was smooth but his you had to be very close because the rifling would distort the pattern, but now he has a really nice flint smooth bore, & I do too, when we done that little video we were just experimenting with his gun & just wanted to get in the woods, I wouldn't advise using that for taking game unless you are really close & he did get a couple with it, anyway thanks for watching.
You boys are the real deal!
Thanks for sharing
Thank you buddy! Glad you appreciate what we do.
I really enjoyed your video.. Thanks.. I am trying to get a .32 caL but it is a real pain in the backside here in the land of the FREE.. Canada
Thanks for the nice comments, since i made that little video i've built me a .62 cal. smoothbore which i just made a squirrell hunting plus a bonus hog hunt dvd, go to my web-site & it will be for sell in a few weeks, plus i got several other deer & turkey hunting dvds there as well, good luck this fall !
Yes it does, it grows everywhere in the southeast U.S. & Yes it looks kinda like small bamboo, you'll notice it grows mostly near water, around creeks & rivers, anyway, thanks for watching, go to my web-site i think you'll like it. Brian.
Hi ben, My friend used that sometimes, you have to be pretty close with it, i never use one, thanks for watching.
It's amazing how you guys can sneak up on anything with all those dead leaves on the ground.
I love squirrel hunting. I personally prefer to quietly walk the woods until I cut across one. By walking I can get to squirrels that the sitting hunter might not see. To each his own though. Nice video.
Hi, thanks for watching, as for the shot, it would be 71/2 bird shot, thats what i use for squirrels, thanks again.
Hunting season is coming for me with my old caplock black powder as always getting very cold here from north east Thailand.
Hi Seeds, Hope you luck, thanks for watching
Hi Travis, He's hunting for several days & will get back to you soon.
Hey That was funny, Mark, thanks for watching. Good Luck!
Thanks, Keith for the comments, I could'nt agree more, What's even worst is a scope on an in-line, i get a laugh when i look at the black powder big game records, 90% were shot that way, Anyway i figured you were just pickin, I'm O.K. with that, but you would'nt believe some of the comments i get, anyway, good luck, Brian.
Hi Mr. Smith, Glad you liked it, Good Luck This Fall!!!! Brian.
Thanks for watching & Good Luck!!!!
Sorry but really don't understand the question, what i'm useing is bird shot in the smoothbore, i think thats what your asking right?
Hey, take them one day, they will probably like it, & thanks for watching!
HEy that guy Roy looks familiar....was he at your booth at the GON show in Macon last year?
Very cool video. Great close-up shots of those squirrels. And I like the time period outfits. I also like that ya'll hunt small game. Small game hunting is some of the most fun I've ever had in the woods! Keep 'em coming!
My kids want to do that. Looks like a great time.
some people wanna be a rich man, a successful businessman, I just wanna be out with you two lol
Looks like you good old boys have more fun then my dog rolling in crap. In my opinion you have about the best I have seen on tube. Once I get off my butt (I drive transit 12 hr splits x6 days) I'm going to purchase a few of your primitive series. I'm fair at it myself despite being partial to my 06 maybe due to griz breathing on my neck a few times. Going to -30 with chill for Sunday which is my second to last day to get the Sunday buck for boy. You can see him at 12:45 on my home page.
Hi James, Thanks for watching! Brian
Very cool video. I like the old muzzle loaders. Have me a .58 cal myself. Want to find a .32 for small game.
I'm thinking about buying a muzzleloader kit before deer season.
Very nice. I have long though that a Springfield U.S. M1842 .69 caliber musket would be a great hunting gun with birdshot or buckshot. :)
They actually loaded military buckshot in the 1800s paper cartridges for it
12 pellets of .31 caliber buck
Hi Sean, thanks for watching.
i might be wrong but i think a 12g is larger than an 62cal. i use to use a 12g with target loads and never had the problem
Good job, keep random archaic things alive!
@theswordsman09 you got it right but also because its an antique gun under the antique guns act
Awesome videos very interesting
great video you have here I have a Hawken 50 cal it has a 1/48 twist can this be used to take small game and if so how much powder would I use with a round ball?
Hi Thanks for the comments, as for the .50 cal. for squirrel ? As long as you don't hit them in the body,Ha,Ha, about 30 or 40 grains should do it. have fun!
BeckumOutdoors thanks lol hope you have a great year of hunting our deer season open this Sat the 12th I am using my hawkens50 will a round ball drop 1 say 50 yards?
I was useing FFG Goex, Yes, i have a .22 but like the blackpowder guns better, anyway, thanks for watching, & good luck!
I gotta' try that sometime my self, looks fun! Say, what do ya usually use when your small game hunting. I use a 4-10.
Hi, I Don't think it was so much as to burn all the powder as it was to keep the shot in a tighter pattern, as you know there was'nt to many jug chokes at the time. thanks for watching.
Great video guys!
Oh, I just thought since it was a smoothebore how you were getting it. It makes sense now that you were using bird shot. I thought you were using round balls. Good video.
Yes sir, that is the reason, thanks for watching.
Does river cane grow down south in FL ?and does it look like small bambo?The reason I ask is because I've been lookin for it and I did find something that looks like small diameter bamboo.
Thanks for watching, go to our site for more hunting the old way.
Longer barrel means longer range in regards to smoothbores.
You almost asked/told your friend to get some firewood hahaha.....
@jtdrummer2112 use number 6 shot in it with a couple patches with 50grains of powder,and sit your powder measurer to 90 grains and fill it with number 6 shot,and there you go.
You can find all of the music we use at BeckumOutdoors at Music 2 Hues which sells buy out copy right music for video production! Thanks
Hi Thanks for the nice comments, go to our web-site for more hunting the old way.
Thanks Cameron.
Great video Brian
Yeah I meant FL. in general. I should have just said florida ,but I think I have found it growing.Thanks for your replies and cool videos.
I've been looking for makers of a good flintlock smoothbore but for some reason I can't find any.
Could you leave a link to the music you used specifically in this video? That fiddle tune has been stuck in my head for years
Excuse my ignorance ,but why are the barrels so long on the blackpowder smooth bores? I thinking that blacpowder is fast burning and could get by with much shorter barrels that were handier to handle .
Nice video guys. I was trying to ID the guns. Can you help me out, what were you shooting?
This is funniest thing I've ever watched!!!
I work with Roy Morris I've known him for some time, it's just funny seeing him on UA-cam
gotta ask....how do you go about drilling the ramrod hole on your guns...im havin a hell of a time figurin this out for the one im building...
Good shootin Mr beckum I usually hunt with my longbow (also what is that music)
great video, back to basics !
Can't remember its buy-out music from "music 2 hues"