Sharpie443
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- Apr 8, 2012
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I've always been interested in early firearms and their use and I own quite a few black powder firearms myself. So I'm always surprised to see the myths that pop up about these guns.
I keeps seeing people perpetuating the myth that black powder guns were weak and inaccurate. Now i can deal with the inaccurate comments because it's a relative term and depends on what we are talking about. However the idea that they are/were weak is ridiculous.
I've seen it even said by people with no experience with these firearms that they were barley lethal. I recently watch a video where the speaker claimed that there were cases where round balls bounced off peoples great coats in the Crimean war. This never happened but I've run into a number of modern shooters that seem to have this idea as well. I think Hollywood might be to blame a bit.
So I made a vidio in response talking about some of the ballistics, the history and do a bit of live fire testing. I used a 1 inch pine board and about 3/4 inch of cloth to test the power. The US military found that it takes 59 FT-LBS of energy to pierce a 1" pine board which was their minimum force required for a firearm to be reliably lethal.
Thought some of you might enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p7_Hgs5oxQ
I keeps seeing people perpetuating the myth that black powder guns were weak and inaccurate. Now i can deal with the inaccurate comments because it's a relative term and depends on what we are talking about. However the idea that they are/were weak is ridiculous.
I've seen it even said by people with no experience with these firearms that they were barley lethal. I recently watch a video where the speaker claimed that there were cases where round balls bounced off peoples great coats in the Crimean war. This never happened but I've run into a number of modern shooters that seem to have this idea as well. I think Hollywood might be to blame a bit.
So I made a vidio in response talking about some of the ballistics, the history and do a bit of live fire testing. I used a 1 inch pine board and about 3/4 inch of cloth to test the power. The US military found that it takes 59 FT-LBS of energy to pierce a 1" pine board which was their minimum force required for a firearm to be reliably lethal.
Thought some of you might enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p7_Hgs5oxQ