The Tube-lock percussion rifle...

[TFoley]

Dr Németh does it again! Another remarkable movie on Youtube from our redoubtable doctor of military history - this time the complex but very effective tube-lock ignition system as used by Hungary for a short period in the 1840s and 50s.

Of particular interest to re-enactors is the complex uniform he wears to so the loading and shooting evolutions. The use of a loose ramrod, held on a strap around the neck, was common on central European cavalry troops, especially for the carbine and pistol, but odd to see on what we would call skirmishers or Jaegers. Still, autre pays autres facons....

Watch it and enjoy the learning curve, as ever, it's well-worth your time.

 

[Rudall]

Excellent. Thank you for posting.

 

[TFoley]

Excellent. Thank you for posting.

Not at all. I am simply a fan of his movies, and like many others, fascinated by the insights he shows into wars that most of us have never heard of, using guns that are, for the most part, equally unknown. He is lucky to live in a country where anybody over the age of 18 can have any BP firearm, old or new, and shoot it, without any documentation.

This is rare in today's Europe.