Your content is absolutely exceptional. With every episode I am grateful for your hard work, bringing these forgotten eras and weapons back to life. Thank you Balázs!
I first learned about Mohacs from my AP Euro History teacher. She was of Czech descent, though she lived in Budapest for about five years. During her stay there, she learned a great deal about Hungarian history and also became fluent in the language. She taught us a lot more about Hungary than our AP Euro textbooks presented thanks to her personal experience in your homeland. Fun fact, for extra credit during her exams, she made us memorize Hungarian place names and said we would only get the extra points if we spelled the place names correctly (including the exact accent marks and umlauts).
@@capandball She was definitely my favorite teacher in high school. I remembered getting my extra points for successfully writing "Trianoni békeszerződés" (Treaty of Trianon) during our WW1 exam.
This has got to be the most relaxing gun channel on UA-cam. As a red blooded American I enjoy my rifles, machine gun, and shotgun channels but this is always a nice change of pace.
Black powder guns don't get enough love in the US these days. They're a lot of fun to shoot. If you don't already have one, I highly recommend an Uberti 1858 Remington. You can find them used for $200.
@@aniquinstark4347 the definitely don't! They're actually not even considered "guns" by the government here which is nice because you can buy a kit online without having to having an FFL middle man
Dear Balázs! In the course of our joint research, it is always a pleasure to see how enthusiastically you talk about the objects to be examined and their historical role. Your enthusiasm is sticky! Today we benefited again from this enthusiasm and it was also a pleasure that Dr. Gábor Bertók joined us today. Again, we got a little history lesson ... I hope you can use today's results in your research as well. We are happy to say about our lab that this is where automotive electronics meets archeology! br Tonio
The endoscope footage was absolutely phenomenal! What a wonderful bit of history, to be able to directly examine the historic loading methods... and the wide variety of it, at that.
Wonderful scientific analysis of barrels and projectiles. It is interesting to see the high amounts of tin in the alloy I would never have suspected this result. Please do more endoscope images of the barrels of your historic weapons.
I have always wanted a matchlock, particularly an Arquebus but so few companies reproduce them because of the demand. I would love to see Pedersoli put out one of these.
I wish Pedersoli would make at least a regular matchlock musket. There are enough people who are interested in 17th century history that it would justify that i guess.
@@thrifikionor7603 I don't know where you are located, but Veteran Arms is currently selling two different models of functioning matchlock for $690 each. Also, depending on your local laws and personal tolerance for risk, certain non-functional replicas can be converted to live fire simply by drilling a hole from the pan to the chamber.
@@jic1 Im from Germany, so getting one isnt really an issue. There are similar ones like those from veteran arms available, maybe even from the same manufacturer, but those arent really high quality. The other option would be from eastern european craftsmen but that could be complicated with proofing and such. Thats something im most likely going to do but of course i would much prefer a high quality, off the shelve musket thats ready to shoot both for reenactment and target shooting.
@@jic1 Ι wouldnt recomment these Indian replicas. Low quality and historically innacurate in the details. They usually need a lot of work to properly function as well
@@tatumergo3931 I have, but I don't watch them regularly since I'm not fluent in either language. That being said, using matchlocks isn't a component of HEMA training or competition, and the contemporary artwork of the period I have seen all shows much larger guns, for example, the "Battle of Pavia" tapestry by Bernard van Orley
Pros of this channel: - getting to see interesting old, firearms - getting to learn about military tactics and historical battles - hearing beautiful, bright hunglish language Cons of this channel: - none
This video is wonderful. I have been interested in firearms of this period for the better part of a decade and this is probably the best distillation of both academic scholarship and online expertise on the topic. Thank you for mentioning Michael from the old Vikingsword forum posts. His passing was a loss for the whole early firearms community. He was a wonderfully passionate man and contributed greatly to the study of early firearms. I'm sure he would have loved the video.
Balazs, I absolutely love this episode! My father told me the story of Mohacs when I was a small boy. Your professional and scientific approach to the analysis of the arquebus and its history is awesome. This is why I follow you! Thank you for this episode and keep up the good work! Minden koszonom szepen testver! Hope I said that correctly. :)
I've been looking forward to this video for a month and a half. I finally watch it and find that it's ten times more interesting than I could have imagined. Capandball is an absolutely unique experience. Thank you so much.
this is true craftmanship when it comes to quality, content, presentation and even education. Balázs is such a valuable provider of history and context, keeping a striking balance of entertainment and knowledge.
Great Presentation! Really in-depth with actual arms and sweet interludes firing the matchlock. I never knew the significance of Hungary and fighting back the ottoman hoard....bad ass!!!
Wonderful to see people providing demonstrations of these old matchlocks. I am waiting on a matchlock myself now, a full sized fishtail musket from Middlesex Village Trading co. I'll probably only shoot cut lead bars from it due to the expense of a custom bullet mold and the fact that, in your other demonstrations, the cut lead bars are proven to be adequate.
I was quite surprised at the accuracy you achieved with that. As always, excellent presentation of history along with a unique piece of living history.
Excellent video, you are certainly helping expand my historical knowledge of your part of the world and its fascinating. Thanks for all your hard work!
Wonderful video! Your best yet... Such a interesting and scholarly lesson on ancient matchlock guns. I just love your little arquebus gun you fired at the gun range. Can you tell me where I can get a reproduction just like yours? I have shot black powder for years and would love to have and try a little gun like yours. Thank you so much for your videos. We love you in USA!
Excellent video! We do not learn much of the history of Central Europe in the US. I always enjoy your videos and look forward to more related to this research project.
I'm surprised that the calibers went down to as low as 9mm, I always associated earlier firearms with wider bore diameters. If the powder capacities were high enough and the barrels long enough, it would seem quite likely to me that the crack of supersonic projectiles was a common sound on 16th century battlefields!
Great video as usual, only more so. That “kind of fabric” used as wadding looks a lot like tow. That is, the raw, unwoven fibers of linen. It was a standard material for wadding and cleaning firearms through to the 18th c. As for your own shooting experiments, a few ideas. For under-shot wads, find some thick felt, like the felt in worn out wool boot liners. Use a hollow punch to make wads of bore diameter. Soak them in a mixture of 2/3 beeswax and 1/3 olive oil, melted. They will seal the bore and lubricate/clean it when firing. You can also coat the ball in beeswax to make it fit the bore a little better. Another trick is to roll the ball between two rasps to raise little projections on the surface. They will deform when the ball is rammed, but keep it aligned in the bore. Happy shooting, landsknecht!
Yep as expected, the best video yet. Thank you Sir for your and everyone else’s work put into this video. If you don’t mind me asking I would like to know if this gun was a custom job or a “regular” reproduction, It’s simply beautiful. Greetings from Sweden and have a good day.
@@capandball That tends to be the case with such niche, historical firearm reproductions. But, while they are of limited supply, they are almost always of excellent quality and will last for a very long time (given that you show it the respect and care it duly deserves).
Excellent Video from many viewpoints. Very interesting for me as my two hobbies are collecting and shooting historical firearms and wargaming. I have collected a Hungarian Wargame army of 1526 based on the army at Mohacs so I am very interested in your Mohacs 500 research group. I wish you every success in finding as much historical information as you can. I'm looking forward to shooting my repro matchlock based on a Dutch target musket circa 1600 when the weather is more reliable
I appreciate your objective and data-oriented approach, but I must say I love the sound of this gun. I'm not sure if it's the load or the barrel, but it sounds very bass heavy and it is an auditory treat in open space 👌
You make Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons look like a University Student. I love your videos. You provide the historical context, the engineering analysis of such toys and also the shooting section!
Great video Balázs! There is some evidence that the musket was around in the first half of the 16th century but, regardless, you are quite right that is certainly a (very small) arquebus. It would be a carbine, musketoon, blunderbuss or 'dragon' by later standards, but these terms had yet to be coined in the 1520s. edit - oh, and 'hakenbuchse' is surely just the German for 'arquebus'? In England it was 'hackbut', among other variants. It means "hook gun". The hooked form of medieval handgun developed into the stocked versions that you showed in this video, and then the iron hook was eliminated. The musket was simply a derived form of large arquebus/hakenbuchse/hackbut with a specific role, but acquired a special name. For this reason we get the "arquebus a croc" later on, which is a survival of the larger type of arquebus which retained its hook, hence "hook gun with a hook", showing that the original name 'arquebus' had long since lost its original meaning (of a handgun with a hook).
Very fashinating! i did not know there was a matchlock musket with a springed mechanism, especially so early in firerarm development! Thank you for a good and informative video as always! You keep inspiring me to invest more time in the beautiful world of black powder! Cheers!
This weapon brings a whole new meaning to the term hand cannon. Here we go again Ottoman Turks against Christians. At 9:42 the ball went through the same hole, upper left.😊
What's amazing to me, is that while firearms technology made many incremental advancements over time, there wasn't really any major, revolutionary advanes until the self contained cartridge, in the 19th century.
I'd argue the revolver and the minie ball were major advancements as well as the move from Matchlock to Flint making the form factor of a Musketeer must more viable and mobile
Absolutely fascinating! Seeing the scientific analysis of the battlefield shot was very enlightening! I had to look up my periodic tables to check the ingredients. 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😁👌🙏🏻🙏🏻
Very interesting Video, with a lot of historical and technical background, i think that was a lot of work for you.. Good job, Balázs. PS: Landsknecht is spoken like Landshut, with (sz) not as (s). But the rest of your german pronouncing was really good! ;-)
Are there examples of Ottoman firearms that have been dug up or were left behind in Hungarian collections? I am curious if there are differences in European and Ottoman manufacturing and firearm styles
Owning a later matchlock I built. Just writing this that people looking for such a weapon and even with rudimentary steel woodwork skills these locks and the stocks are quite doable if you are willing to do the work. My only concern is it is best to buy a properly made barrel from a reputable company. The lock is simpler than you may think.
This is the most EXCELLENT video l have ever seen👀 on this type weapon ever and l am 80 years old....Congrats my friend🥰....l enjoyed it very very much😃.....Amazing video in every way🤩....Thanks very much🇺🇸
Very informative history of ur country and the firearms used in battles- ive fired a .50 cal flintlock and a .68 cal Halfstock boatding gun both kicked worse then a 10gage shotgun lol- also 28 gage and 20gage ball and cap shotguns- also a 10 Long Tom double shotgun with 38in barrels kicked like a 10gage magnum shotgun
Another great example of arquebuse that you can find is in the museum of castle sant'Angelo Rome, Italy. It's an old Vatican fort and they have a room full of small and very big arquebuse that they used to mount on the wall using a U shape metal piece.
Viele Dank für diese hervorragende Dokumentation. Ich habe nicht gewusst das es Druckknöpfe als Auslöser gegeben hat . Es ist die Frage warum ist diese Art des Auslösers verschwunden. Der Blick in die Historie und das daraus bei mir entstandene Kopfkino ZB wenn 200 oder 300 Männer mit den Akebusen schussbereit stehen und auf den Schiessbefehl warten mit glimmender und qualmender Lunte . Dann der Befehl was für ein Bild Die metallurgische Untersuchung einfach genial . Vielen Dank für diesen Einblick in die Geschichte und die Moderne Alles Gute viele Grüsse Ihr Frank Galetzka
Excellent. Hammered projectiles made from cutting off pieces from cast bars of lead were a battlefield expedient. I worked on a conservation project of early firearms @Smithsonian Institute, USA to be displayed in 2004 in the National Museum of the American Indian. It was titled: Guns, Germs, and Steel. The early guns used by European migrants and Conquestadors were Matchlocks.
I'm flabbergasted that it was physically possible to shoot such a tight group with a smooth bore gun at 50 meters, my man is a magician.
Your content is absolutely exceptional. With every episode I am grateful for your hard work, bringing these forgotten eras and weapons back to life. Thank you Balázs!
Honestly it’s great
I first learned about Mohacs from my AP Euro History teacher. She was of Czech descent, though she lived in Budapest for about five years. During her stay there, she learned a great deal about Hungarian history and also became fluent in the language. She taught us a lot more about Hungary than our AP Euro textbooks presented thanks to her personal experience in your homeland. Fun fact, for extra credit during her exams, she made us memorize Hungarian place names and said we would only get the extra points if we spelled the place names correctly (including the exact accent marks and umlauts).
:) that's a good story, thanks!
@@capandball She was definitely my favorite teacher in high school. I remembered getting my extra points for successfully writing "Trianoni békeszerződés" (Treaty of Trianon) during our WW1 exam.
@@IMfromNYCity You are very lucky to have known her.
Wow that delay from when you pull the trigger before it goes boom the slow mo really shows it.
This has got to be the most relaxing gun channel on UA-cam. As a red blooded American I enjoy my rifles, machine gun, and shotgun channels but this is always a nice change of pace.
Black powder guns don't get enough love in the US these days. They're a lot of fun to shoot. If you don't already have one, I highly recommend an Uberti 1858 Remington. You can find them used for $200.
@@aniquinstark4347 the definitely don't! They're actually not even considered "guns" by the government here which is nice because you can buy a kit online without having to having an FFL middle man
Dear Balázs! In the course of our joint research, it is always a pleasure to see how enthusiastically you talk about the objects to be examined and their historical role. Your enthusiasm is sticky! Today we benefited again from this enthusiasm and it was also a pleasure that Dr. Gábor Bertók joined us today. Again, we got a little history lesson ... I hope you can use today's results in your research as well. We are happy to say about our lab that this is where automotive electronics meets archeology! br Tonio
The endoscope footage was absolutely phenomenal! What a wonderful bit of history, to be able to directly examine the historic loading methods... and the wide variety of it, at that.
Wonderful scientific analysis of barrels and projectiles. It is interesting to see the high amounts of tin in the alloy I would never have suspected this result. Please do more endoscope images of the barrels of your historic weapons.
I have always wanted a matchlock, particularly an Arquebus but so few companies reproduce them because of the demand. I would love to see Pedersoli put out one of these.
I wish Pedersoli would make at least a regular matchlock musket. There are enough people who are interested in 17th century history that it would justify that i guess.
You have taken the words out of my mouth. It ´s like we should all regroup and send them emails of this wishlist!
@@thrifikionor7603 I don't know where you are located, but Veteran Arms is currently selling two different models of functioning matchlock for $690 each. Also, depending on your local laws and personal tolerance for risk, certain non-functional replicas can be converted to live fire simply by drilling a hole from the pan to the chamber.
@@jic1 Im from Germany, so getting one isnt really an issue. There are similar ones like those from veteran arms available, maybe even from the same manufacturer, but those arent really high quality. The other option would be from eastern european craftsmen but that could be complicated with proofing and such. Thats something im most likely going to do but of course i would much prefer a high quality, off the shelve musket thats ready to shoot both for reenactment and target shooting.
@@jic1 Ι wouldnt recomment these Indian replicas. Low quality and historically innacurate in the details. They usually need a lot of work to properly function as well
That's got to be the most adorable arquebus I've ever seen! I've never seen a Landsknecht firearm that small.
@@tatumergo3931 Nope, never seen an arquebus that small on any of the HEMA channels I watch regularly.
@@tatumergo3931 I have, but I don't watch them regularly since I'm not fluent in either language. That being said, using matchlocks isn't a component of HEMA training or competition, and the contemporary artwork of the period I have seen all shows much larger guns, for example, the "Battle of Pavia" tapestry by Bernard van Orley
@@tatumergo3931 He's mentioned firearms in lots of videos, and shown some too, but he's never shown a tiny arquebus in any of them.
Pros of this channel:
- getting to see interesting old, firearms
- getting to learn about military tactics and historical battles
- hearing beautiful, bright hunglish language
Cons of this channel:
- none
I see one con, i want to get such guns too but im too broke for them
This video is wonderful. I have been interested in firearms of this period for the better part of a decade and this is probably the best distillation of both academic scholarship and online expertise on the topic. Thank you for mentioning Michael from the old Vikingsword forum posts. His passing was a loss for the whole early firearms community. He was a wonderfully passionate man and contributed greatly to the study of early firearms. I'm sure he would have loved the video.
Balazs, I absolutely love this episode! My father told me the story of Mohacs when I was a small boy. Your professional and scientific approach to the analysis of the arquebus and its history is awesome. This is why I follow you! Thank you for this episode and keep up the good work! Minden koszonom szepen testver! Hope I said that correctly. :)
Great content. Seriously. Thank you for the work you are doing and for sharing it via the uploading of this video.
I've been looking forward to this video for a month and a half. I finally watch it and find that it's ten times more interesting than I could have imagined. Capandball is an absolutely unique experience. Thank you so much.
This was absolutely fascinating- thank you for all the effort you all put into this project!
As an Anthropology major I love the archeology research that went into this! Great work!
Excellent video, stay safe with all that's going on close to you. Pray for peace
Once again fantastic knowledge thanks my friend. Best wishes from england.
Fascinating, and well done, as always. So many points of interest in a single video. Thank you.
This video, in all of its depth, was fantastic! Thank you and keep them coming.
this is true craftmanship when it comes to quality, content, presentation and even education. Balázs is such a valuable provider of history and context, keeping a striking balance of entertainment and knowledge.
I believe that you'll have 1 million subscribers by this December. Godspeed !
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of this video!! So cool
Exceptional content, I really enjoyed the extra historical content.
Great Presentation! Really in-depth with actual arms and sweet interludes firing the matchlock. I never knew the significance of Hungary and fighting back the ottoman hoard....bad ass!!!
Thank you Austrian man. You did very good video for machlock guns and pistols. Bravo. Austria ever will be Austria. You make me happy
I’ve learned more about Cap and Ball from Cap and Ball when any-other source.
Thank You for the Time it takes to make One lesson .
So great!!! Can't wait to see content like this about hackbutts and handgonnes!!!
As usual, excellent, simply excellent work!
Such an elegant and handy piece - the ultimate black powder experience in my opinion!
Wonderful to see people providing demonstrations of these old matchlocks. I am waiting on a matchlock myself now, a full sized fishtail musket from Middlesex Village Trading co. I'll probably only shoot cut lead bars from it due to the expense of a custom bullet mold and the fact that, in your other demonstrations, the cut lead bars are proven to be adequate.
I’ve seen match locks before with the simple lever mechanism but not the firing lock on your gun. Very interesting and educational video thanks.
Superb video! One of your best. Definitely the best historical firearms channel.
I love the look and size of this gun!
Wonderfull! The endoscope footage is uniquely interesting on top of all the informations and images.
Plus I learn how to pronounce Mohacs.
I was quite surprised at the accuracy you achieved with that. As always, excellent presentation of history along with a unique piece of living history.
Excellent video, you are certainly helping expand my historical knowledge of your part of the world and its fascinating. Thanks for all your hard work!
A very good video with many facts about this arquebus. Thank you.
Always pleased with your videos!
Perfect more matchlocks please
Wonderful video! Your best yet... Such a interesting and scholarly lesson on ancient matchlock guns. I just love your little arquebus gun you fired at the gun range. Can you tell me where I can get a reproduction just like yours? I have shot black powder for years and would love to have and try a little gun like yours. Thank you so much for your videos. We love you in USA!
It would be very cool to have one of these
Excellent video! We do not learn much of the history of Central Europe in the US. I always enjoy your videos and look forward to more related to this research project.
That x-ray stuff was really fascinating.
Köszönöm a nagyon érdekes kutatást!
The most beautiful weapons! I enjoy everything that you are doing.
Amazing knowledge!! Your vids are so entertaining and inspiring! I own a matchlock in .60 caliber, of all my weapons it’s still the most fun to shoot!
I'm surprised that the calibers went down to as low as 9mm, I always associated earlier firearms with wider bore diameters. If the powder capacities were high enough and the barrels long enough, it would seem quite likely to me that the crack of supersonic projectiles was a common sound on 16th century battlefields!
Great video as usual, only more so.
That “kind of fabric” used as wadding looks a lot like tow. That is, the raw, unwoven fibers of linen. It was a standard material for wadding and cleaning firearms through to the 18th c.
As for your own shooting experiments, a few ideas.
For under-shot wads, find some thick felt, like the felt in worn out wool boot liners. Use a hollow punch to make wads of bore diameter. Soak them in a mixture of 2/3 beeswax and 1/3 olive oil, melted. They will seal the bore and lubricate/clean it when firing.
You can also coat the ball in beeswax to make it fit the bore a little better. Another trick is to roll the ball between two rasps to raise little projections on the surface. They will deform when the ball is rammed, but keep it aligned in the bore.
Happy shooting, landsknecht!
wonderful video brother! God keep you.
Yep as expected, the best video yet. Thank you Sir for your and everyone else’s work put into this video. If you don’t mind me asking I would like to know if this gun was a custom job or a “regular” reproduction, It’s simply beautiful. Greetings from Sweden and have a good day.
It is made in very small series only by an individual gunsmith.
@@capandball That tends to be the case with such niche, historical firearm reproductions. But, while they are of limited supply, they are almost always of excellent quality and will last for a very long time (given that you show it the respect and care it duly deserves).
As always, this video was informative and interesting in the extreme. Thank you very much for posting.
Really interesting CT scan results of these barrels!
Excellent Video from many viewpoints. Very interesting for me as my two hobbies are collecting and shooting historical firearms and wargaming. I have collected a Hungarian Wargame army of 1526 based on the army at Mohacs so I am very interested in your Mohacs 500 research group. I wish you every success in finding as much historical information as you can. I'm looking forward to shooting my repro matchlock based on a Dutch target musket circa 1600 when the weather is more reliable
41:20 - the churchbell sound ;)
What a fantastic, and detailed filled video.
Вот это фильм!Отличная работа!Очень полезная информация по археологии.Успехов!
this is a really cool gun. Fascinating way to make a firearms action, and you can see where later designs evolved from.
I appreciate your objective and data-oriented approach, but I must say I love the sound of this gun. I'm not sure if it's the load or the barrel, but it sounds very bass heavy and it is an auditory treat in open space 👌
Thank.you for a most enjoyable and informative presentation.
You make Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons look like a University Student. I love your videos. You provide the historical context, the engineering analysis of such toys and also the shooting section!
This dude is a tenured professor in a military academy in Hungary...
Great video Balázs! There is some evidence that the musket was around in the first half of the 16th century but, regardless, you are quite right that is certainly a (very small) arquebus. It would be a carbine, musketoon, blunderbuss or 'dragon' by later standards, but these terms had yet to be coined in the 1520s. edit - oh, and 'hakenbuchse' is surely just the German for 'arquebus'? In England it was 'hackbut', among other variants. It means "hook gun". The hooked form of medieval handgun developed into the stocked versions that you showed in this video, and then the iron hook was eliminated. The musket was simply a derived form of large arquebus/hakenbuchse/hackbut with a specific role, but acquired a special name. For this reason we get the "arquebus a croc" later on, which is a survival of the larger type of arquebus which retained its hook, hence "hook gun with a hook", showing that the original name 'arquebus' had long since lost its original meaning (of a handgun with a hook).
The single most interesting channel on youtube
Fascinating !
Very fashinating! i did not know there was a matchlock musket with a springed mechanism, especially so early in firerarm development! Thank you for a good and informative video as always! You keep inspiring me to invest more time in the beautiful world of black powder! Cheers!
Thank you for the Historical Info. I have not heard our Native language in a long time.
The trigger mechanism looks pretty unique! 🥺
You mean like the lock?
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Super video and your knowledge is amazing, very interesting old guns. 👍
Hello from Turkey-turkish... very good imformation video.
This weapon brings a whole new meaning to the term hand cannon. Here we go again Ottoman Turks against Christians. At 9:42 the ball went through the same hole, upper left.😊
Passionating!
Damn this episode was really cool
What's amazing to me, is that while firearms technology made many incremental advancements over time, there wasn't really any major, revolutionary advanes until the self contained cartridge, in the 19th century.
I'd argue the revolver and the minie ball were major advancements as well as the move from Matchlock to Flint making the form factor of a Musketeer must more viable and mobile
Absolutely fascinating! Seeing the scientific analysis of the battlefield shot was very enlightening! I had to look up my periodic tables to check the ingredients. 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😁👌🙏🏻🙏🏻
intensely compelling presentation! pretty darn good chootin with a primitive arm as well!
Great content in this video! Well done!
hello from Pavia!
:)
Very interesting Video, with a lot of historical and technical background, i think that was a lot of work for you.. Good job, Balázs. PS: Landsknecht is spoken like Landshut, with (sz) not as (s). But the rest of your german pronouncing was really good! ;-)
Fantastic rifle thanks for showing and history
Did matchlocks ever see the use of paper cartriges?
A (little) beast .
Awesome content as always.
Are there examples of Ottoman firearms that have been dug up or were left behind in Hungarian collections? I am curious if there are differences in European and Ottoman manufacturing and firearm styles
Very interesting. When something goes wrong my Hungarian wife tells me not to worry about it, "We lost more at Mohács."
Thanks for sharing 👍
Owning a later matchlock I built.
Just writing this that people looking for such a weapon and even with rudimentary steel woodwork skills these locks and the stocks are quite doable if you are willing to do the work.
My only concern is it is best to buy a properly made barrel from a reputable company.
The lock is simpler than you may think.
Very nice, thank you for sharing.
Very well done presentation and interesting subject matter 😁👍👍👍👍👍👍
Excellent work! Very informative!
Beautiful movie.
Thank's alot friends.
👍 👍 👍
What a beautiful firearm.
Can't wait to see the history of this rifle.
All the informations for thank you very much.
This is the most EXCELLENT video l have ever seen👀 on this type weapon ever and l am 80 years old....Congrats my friend🥰....l enjoyed it very very much😃.....Amazing video in every way🤩....Thanks very much🇺🇸
I have seen guys with modern firearms who couldn't do that well, so that is pretty good for that type of firearm.
Very informative history of ur country and the firearms used in battles- ive fired a .50 cal flintlock and a .68 cal Halfstock boatding gun both kicked worse then a 10gage shotgun lol- also 28 gage and 20gage ball and cap shotguns- also a 10 Long Tom double shotgun with 38in barrels kicked like a 10gage magnum shotgun
Another great example of arquebuse that you can find is in the museum of castle sant'Angelo Rome, Italy. It's an old Vatican fort and they have a room full of small and very big arquebuse that they used to mount on the wall using a U shape metal piece.
Excellent work. Thanks
Viele Dank für diese hervorragende Dokumentation.
Ich habe nicht gewusst das es Druckknöpfe als Auslöser gegeben hat .
Es ist die Frage warum ist diese Art des Auslösers verschwunden.
Der Blick in die Historie und das daraus bei mir entstandene Kopfkino
ZB wenn 200 oder 300 Männer mit den Akebusen schussbereit stehen und auf den Schiessbefehl warten mit glimmender und qualmender Lunte .
Dann der Befehl was für ein Bild
Die metallurgische Untersuchung einfach genial .
Vielen Dank für diesen Einblick in die Geschichte und die Moderne
Alles Gute viele Grüsse
Ihr Frank Galetzka
Excellent. Hammered projectiles made from cutting off pieces from cast bars of lead were a battlefield expedient. I worked on a conservation project of early firearms @Smithsonian Institute, USA to be displayed in 2004 in the National Museum of the American Indian. It was titled: Guns, Germs, and Steel. The early guns used by European migrants and Conquestadors were Matchlocks.