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Flintlock Distance Challenge (Patreon)

Published:
2022-09-14 13:06:00
Imported:
2023-01

Content

In this video, Sinistral Rifleman and I see how far away we can go and still hit with a smoothbore flintlock pistol.

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Flintlock Distance Challenge

InRange is entirely viewer supported: https://www.patreon.com/inrangetv In this video, Sinistral Rifleman and I see how far away we can go and still hit with a smoothbore flintlock pistol.

Comments

James Moechnig

So how many of that pistol would you need to spin the spinner? Edit: It's right there!

Loke von Post

Fun video! (I really should comment more often, as I find nearly all your videos interesting, but maybe this is the start of a trend for me ^^;)

Anonymous

I have only shot one black powder pistol and it’s my Uberti Walker and once I got used to the sights it was accurate enough. Watching this makes me want a flintlock. Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.

Anonymous

What next? Wheellocks maybe? Please?

Wayne Dygert

Arrrgh! (Which is more or less what I say when I miss a shot with my 50 cal. 8"-barrel flintlock) Do you think you could get a little more velocity using wad-ball-wad vs ball wad? and would that help the general accuracy?

Retired No Bad Days

I watch your channel for information on modern weapons. Your mud test , the WWSD project and other modern weapon comparisons were great. But your content seems to be moving away from what made the channel great. Please consider getting back to the bread and butter.

Anonymous

A few years ago I saw some pictures on the web where someone took a ruger 10/22 charger and made it look like a pirate pistol. I got a chunk of maple and a little hardware from a black powder supply place. My son CAD'd out some dimensions from the plastic stock and I took my router and carved it out and made my own. It's a little crude but I like it. I even soldered a blade on the thread protector to give me a crude front sight.

Anonymous

I’m just sad when Karl said “surely” Russel didn’t respond “my name isn’t Shirley “

Patrick Yamada

Litter bugs of the Western Mojave seem to prefer Pacifico and Tecate. We find not only the cans, but also the cardboard cases. They seem to like shooting fire extinguishers, also.

Anonymous

What kind of charge do you use with that .56 caliber?

Anonymous

The illustrations of Blackbeard show him carrying 6 pistols, all pretty small on a sash or weird two strap rig. Goya's painting of the Tobacco Guards shows three being carried on a sash. Three-four seems to have been pretty standard for anyone seriously expecting to start shooting...

Jeff Price

Should be "Throatshot Rifleman" :)

Guido Schriewer

the impact would rather be the infection of a piece of shirt pushed in to somewhere. on the upside... one mans trash is another mans fortune. but maybe at least smack someone on the head with the butt of the thing.

Guido Schriewer

sinister flntmiculeklock trickshooter

Witt Sullivan
>>91617962

Cap and ball replicas are supposedly zeroed for 50 yards like the originals. At least the front sights are usually tall enough so you can file them down to 25 yards or shorter distances. If the windage is off, you have to file on the notch in the Colt's hammers or the top strap of a Remington, it's a lot easier to just find out the gun's point of aim and use Kentucky windage. :)

Witt Sullivan
>>91623463

I threw him some money on patreon to support his blackpowder videos. He's got plenty of modern stuff in the can to upload. There's a million other youtube channels doing modern stuff and only a handful making good content about antiques and blackpowder.

Witt Sullivan
>>91647397

Pirates for sure carried several pistols stuck everywhere they found practical, wherever there wasn't a blade hanging. :) Non-pirate Wild Bill Hickock carried four revolvers. The only people in the military issued or requiring a single shot pistol would be officers, cavalry, or artillery, who would also have a big blade to use after the first shot (or revolver) was spent. Another thing, martially, they would use their strong arm for their sword and their pistol in their weak hand. Even when revolvers became standard in cavalry, they would carry multiple pistols on themselves and on their saddles because reloading on the back of an excited horse with adrenaline shaky fingers would be really hard. Charge and shoot into the mass, fall back, holster your empty and draw another, charge, fall back, holster, redraw. On board a ship, fire into the mass and hope you hit the right guys and then start cutting or clubbing, leaving the riflemen in the rigging to try to hit targets of opportunity like the other ship's gunners or officers (if allowed). Try to hit them when they're swinging in while their hands are full of rope. :)

Witt Sullivan
>>91641363

If it were a musket, you would use 60 grains, as a pistol, up to 30 grains would be safe for a smoothbore that size. The rule of thumb for smoothbore muskets with modern (mid 1800s and up) blackpowder is 1 grain per caliber. Pistols are half of that.

Anonymous
>>91617962

They say the Walker was the most powerful revolver until the .357 Magnum came out. I would love to see someone do a comparison. I have a Python, maybe I’ll take them both out and do some type of damage test comparison. Maybe I could set up a simple ballistic pendulum. It’s got me thinking… and my head hurts. :P

david weilbaecher jr

i thought that the practice was to use the pistol as a club after shooting it. would a modern angled grip break more easily when the pistol was used as a club?

alphawhiskey

It’s really neat seeing Russell receive an over the air update on how to do flintlock pistol shooting.