SLOW MOTION MUSKET SHOT AT CUIRASS AND BALL IMPACT

[azmntman]

That worked, thanks flintsmothie!

Yea, I dont wanna get shot with a musket. Imagine the hole with a rib hit and pass through!

 

[Joemolf]

I can watch the muzzle blast all day!

 

[tenngun]

One question, as I await my first flint. That flint didn’t seem to spark much at all, it seemed to light the pan after it stopped its fall. Is that common?

It was a tad slow, but if you slow a flinter enough you get a shot of ‘hammer’ fall before the flash starts.
By 1600 ball was cutting breastplates, of the ‘best Spanish proof’ so I’m thinking this charge may have been a tad light.
Had a piece of 1/8 inch steel decking. The type with all the little potato shapes on them. ( we called them something different in the navy) had a full stock Hawken in flint, 42” barrel .54 ball. With a 140 grains of three f and a .526 ball it shot right through it at twenty five yards

 

[Joemolf]

It was a tad slow, but if you slow a flinter enough you get a shot of ‘hammer’ fall before the flash starts.
By 1600 ball was cutting breastplates, of the ‘best Spanish proof’ so I’m thinking this charge may have been a tad light.
Had a piece of 1/8 inch steel decking. The type with all the little potato shapes on them. ( we called them something different in the navy) had a full stock Hawken in flint, 42” barrel .54 ball. With a 140 grains of three f and a .526 ball it shot right through it at twenty five yards

To think people don’t realize the potential of these fine arms. I’m sure if that was a hard cast ball it be clean through but we don’t play that way. I have to go watch that video again.

 

[waksupi]

It would appear that the priming powder was fairly course.