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  • Firing the Allen & Thurber 32 cal pepperbox revolver

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Buy a Capandball product: http://stores.ebay.com/Capandball?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 Getting back to the early days of percussion revolvers. Pepperboxes were the fast shooting irons until the appearance of the real double action revolvers. Th...

  • Muskets and tirailleurs Part 1/3. The French 1777 musket

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Dear All, this is the 1st of a 3 part series about skirmish fire in the Napoleonic wars. This first part is dealing with the basics, the second part will be about the history of the French 1777 musket and the Austrian 1798 musket, and the 3...

  • Shooting the Pedersoli Classic 12 ga percussion double shotgun

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Presentation and range report of the Pedersoli 12 ga Classic Double Shotgun. I think you will like this. I am basically not a clay target shooter, but as a hunter I find the blackpowder shotguns interesting. We had a little competetition a ...

  • New percussion double rifle from Great Gun

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball That's a beautiful .44 cal double rifle from the Czech Great Gun company. I don't really like modern muzzle loaders, but this little gem is an exception. Want to support our work? By a Capandball product: http://kapszli.hu/en/termek-kategor...

  • Shooting the Pedersoli LePage percussion pistol

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Here is an out of box test of a Pedersoli's LePage Target International .36 cal percussion pistol. This is real value for money. It can take you to the top of international shooting matches at a very reasonable price. Good choice I believe....

  • Shooting an original percussion hunting rifle

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball This beauty was made in the mid 19th century by the Baader family, royal gunmakers of Bayern. Makes a beautiful patch roundball rifle, and it is also a formidable hunting arm See how elegant it is, and listen to its sound testing its accura...

  • Making a plug bayonet for a 17th century matchlock musket

    Please support us at https://www.patreon.com/capandball For buying Capandball Civil War cartridge boxes: http://stores.ebay.com/Capandball?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 The plug bayonet was originally invented as a tool for hunters, but in the second half of the 17th century it sneaked into military ser...

  • Firing a wheel lock carbine

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Here is a short clip about firing a wheelock carbine repro. It is fired in the 'shooters' way, not as they were loaded back in the old times.

  • Firing a volley gun

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Here are some interesting military history stuff: the volley guns were the only effective solutions to increase the firing rate of the muzzleloaders for a long time. Here is the presentation of a seven barrelled piece, that was used in the ...

  • Muskets and tirailleurs Part 2/3. The Austrian 1798 M musket vs the French 1777 musket

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball The second part is about the history and comparison of the French 1777 and the Austrian 1798 M musket. If you would like to support our work, please buy something from our handcrafetd products: http://kapszli.hu/en/termek-kategoria/capandba...

  • Shooting the Thompson M1A1 submachine gun

    Accuracy and penetration tests with some high frame per sec filmings! My impression about the thompson M1A1 submachine gun. Although I could only try this semiauto conversion I am sure that the gun handles well in burst mode as well. Magyar szöveg: http://kapszli.hu/a-thompson-m1a1-geppisztoly/ I...

  • Shooting the .451 Whitworth civil war sniper rifle

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball This is something I promissed you long before: a review of the Whitworth rifle with hexagonal rifling. Thanks to a friend of mine I was able to testfire one of those old Parker Hale rifles. Well, here is the result. And of course some histo...

  • Muskets and tirailleurs Part 3/3. Musket range tests with Napoleonic times service loads

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball I am sure that these tests will be something new for all of us. I've never seen any range tests checking the accuracy of Napoleonic times flintlock smooth bore muskets with original service loads. I've never seen any tests comparing the 16,...

  • Shooting the flintlock Jäger rifle to 200 meters

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball 200 meters or 220 yard is quite a large distance for a flintlock rifle loaded with patched roundball. In this video I am putting my Pedersoli Jäger rifle to the test to see what an average light infantry soldier was capable of during the Na...

  • Ballistic gelatine tests of the M 1867/77 Werndl rifle

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball This is something I promised a long time ago. Continuing the series about the Austro-Hungarian Werndl rifle. Now it is time for some terminal ballistics. Punching holes on a gelatine block. If you would like to support our work, please buy ...

  • Roe deer hunting with muzzleloader rifle

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball The story of one of the first black powder roe deers taken in Hungary at the Börzsöny mountaines at the hunting grounds of the Ipoly Erdő Zrt. It is one of the first games taken legally in Hungary since the Hungarian Blackpowder Shooters an...

  • Shooting the Gewehr 98/40 - accuracy and helmet penetration at 100m

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Here is a quicky about one of my favourite World War 2 rifles: the Hungarian 98/40 used by the German Army and the Hungarian as well. The rifle is chambered for the standard 7,92x57 round (8x57 JS as we call it today).

  • Matchlock and wheellock firing according to authentic French 17th century regulations

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Here are some of my reenactor friends with Bálint Morlin in command. They are demonstrating the standard procedure for firing matchlock and wheelock firearms during the first part of the 30 years war. These guys are just starting the target...

  • 45/70 Sharps gelatine tests

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Here is a real classic, the 45/70 Pedersoli Sharps Sporting rifle fitted with a contemporary Malcom scope. Let's see how a 520 spitzer bullet behaves hitting a gelatine block. Cartridge loaded with 51 grains of blackpowder. 19th century buf...

  • Penetration test: Walker vs 1860 Colt Army vs rifle musket

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Some fun again at the range. I have been planning to do some 19th century style penetration tests with percussion revolvers for a long time. Well, here is the result. Walker, Colt Army and 1861 Navy. And a Springfield rifle-mukset at the en...

  • Trapper style shooting with the Pedersoli Jager flintlock rifle to 100 m

    Please support us at: https://www.patreon.com/capandball Spending a weekend at the shooting range living the lifel of the 18-19th century people is of of the best things to do during the summer time. Here is a short film about shooting my Pedersoli Jäger to 100 m.

  • Wild boar hunting with the 1886 Winchester 45/90 rifle

    Please support us at https://www.patreon.com/capandball For buying Capandball Civil War cartridge boxes and cartridge formers: http://stores.ebay.com/Capandball?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 or the Capandball webpage: https://capandball.com/shop/?_termekkategoriak=capandball-products-2 The story of this...

  • 1867/77 Werndl rifle accuracy at 100m

    www.patreon.com/capandball Going back to one of my favourite rifles, the Austro-Hungarian 1867/77 Werndl. That's the first breech loading rifle of the Monarchy to fire a self contained cartridge with a small calibre bullet.

  • Pedersoli 1854 Lorenz rifle hole in hole accuracy

    Please support us: https://www.patreon.com/capandball For buying our Civil War cartridge boxes: http://stores.ebay.com/Capandball?_trksid=p2047675.l2563 Another important step in the load development of the Pedersoli 1854 Lorenz rifle musket. With the slight modification of an existing .54 cal bu...