How Powerful are Black Powder Guns?? - Ballistic High-Speed

[Woodwright]

An interesting video. I wish they had used guns with better quality, and probably faster ignition times, for their tests.

 

[stronics]

I'm not sure why but it's painful to watch.
David

 

[RobertIN]

Sharing this classic for those who haven't seen it

 

[hanshi]

An interesting video. I wish they had used guns with better quality, and probably faster ignition times, for their tests.



Painful to watch? Very! These guys obviously know nothing about muzzelloaders or black powder in general. They don't appear to be truly very knowledgeable or "gun wise" as maybe they should be to make the video. It would have been a much better effort with at least an elementary understanding of BP and ballistics. One thing they did well was to show that black powder arms are NOT toys.

 

[#BPBReloadingFFL]

Problem with a lot of people doing videos with muzzleloaders. Is they want to compare them to the suppository guns.
I read a Muzzleloader with knockdown power.
All this ballistic stuff to me is like you know singing kumbaya.
Yeah guys will show you a picture of a 30-in piece of gelatin. And I want to tell you look how far the bullet went inside of it .
Who cares that it went 27 in inside of 30-in piece of gel.
Especially when most of the stuff you're shooting is it much more than 12 in across.

 

[cynthialee]

Yeah....these gents demonstrated how deadly these guns are and show clearly it isn't something to take lightly. But the pistol and rifle locks in their guns leave a lot to be desired compared to some of the ignition times I have seen with higher quality weapons. I also find myself wondering what powder did they use. Then I wonder after how tight of a patch ball combo they may have had. But they were not evaluating powder or ignition times and seemed to be focused on how deadly they can be. Pretty deadly to be sure.