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Nothing changes. Similiary with farming equipment. You can buy the most fancy and expensive plow for your tractor, but one day you *WILL* put a big rock or a slab of concrete on it, to weight it up.
@@CoolKid-qk7tl well there was a gun that forgotten weapons showed off several years ago that was a wheel lock hunting musket wich had a breach AND proto cartridges.
@@CoolKid-qk7tl If I remember correctly, soldiers who were operating mortars and cannons had pretty high salaries. Maybe becuse they were often killed or mutilated by failing equipment.
The pre-set vertical guidance holes are really funny top for "down there" second for "right there" third for "a little over there" and the bottom for "way out there"
Breach loading was known since the 14th century, the problem was making it with consistent quality steel and advanced steel work. Let's say most of those early cannons tended to shatter and transform their crews into grown brief with relative frequency... To ensure that this happened less they would try to make them thicker, it would be impractical to make a handgun that would be reasonably safe with a breach loading system at that time That's why muzzleloaders were favored until the the arrival of the industrial revolution
You can have faster reload with breach-loader or higher pressure and heavier loads for much more firepower. When the target is a stone wall 2-3 meters thick - the choice is obvious
Your brain will explode when you find out the first car was actually electric. This happens with tech through out history: we start at where we'd like to be, but can't so we work around it until we can.
@@MrVohveli Well, those early electric cars weren't so bad for the time. Originally, we were using electrically-powered trolley cars, steam trains for long distance travel, and so forth. An electric car was not designed for cross-country efficiency, it was mostly just for getting around town. I have a feeling that if we had stuck to electric cars instead of Internal Combustion Engines, we would probably have had good, affordable long-range electric cars a LONG time ago.
Pretty accurate representation Breechloaders were left behind for good gas pressure and more velocity until efficient breech loaders took back the stafe in the 1850s
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Gotta love proto-breechloaders.
I like how it just has a bunch of rocks to keep it from flying away
Nothing changes.
Similiary with farming equipment.
You can buy the most fancy and expensive plow for your tractor, but one day you *WILL* put a big rock or a slab of concrete on it, to weight it up.
A fat wife is even better, because she will get on the machine herself
Breechloaders were know from the start, but without strog enough material "lost face" was wery possible.
They would break do to unsuitable materials.
damm I thought they were muzzle loaded, seems pretty advanced for its time
Breech loaded guns were invented as early as the 14th century, according to Wikipedia and other sources.
@@mediumaevumand semi automatic muskets by the 17th!
Yeah, but they did have a tendency to explode
@@CoolKid-qk7tl well there was a gun that forgotten weapons showed off several years ago that was a wheel lock hunting musket wich had a breach AND proto cartridges.
@@CoolKid-qk7tl If I remember correctly, soldiers who were operating mortars and cannons had pretty high salaries. Maybe becuse they were often killed or mutilated by failing equipment.
The pre-set vertical guidance holes are really funny
top for "down there"
second for "right there"
third for "a little over there"
and the bottom for "way out there"
Единственный механизм работы огнестрельного оружия который я полностью понимаю
That mechanism very popular especially in china 14th century
For when a thief breaks into your home
Большой патрон. Потом уменьшили и засунул в автомат. в ружье :)
Wait, they DID know how to take out the chamber to reload faster? Why the fuck was this never done for handguns?
Breach loading was known since the 14th century, the problem was making it with consistent quality steel and advanced steel work. Let's say most of those early cannons tended to shatter and transform their crews into grown brief with relative frequency... To ensure that this happened less they would try to make them thicker, it would be impractical to make a handgun that would be reasonably safe with a breach loading system at that time
That's why muzzleloaders were favored until the the arrival of the industrial revolution
You can have faster reload with breach-loader or higher pressure and heavier loads for much more firepower. When the target is a stone wall 2-3 meters thick - the choice is obvious
Your brain will explode when you find out the first car was actually electric. This happens with tech through out history: we start at where we'd like to be, but can't so we work around it until we can.
@@MrVohveli Well, those early electric cars weren't so bad for the time. Originally, we were using electrically-powered trolley cars, steam trains for long distance travel, and so forth. An electric car was not designed for cross-country efficiency, it was mostly just for getting around town. I have a feeling that if we had stuck to electric cars instead of Internal Combustion Engines, we would probably have had good, affordable long-range electric cars a LONG time ago.
Mediaeval superiority
Super breach loading technology
Where does the charge go in? How does it handle the recoil?
Idk about recoil but if I had to guess the gunpowder is inside that little back part they took out.
Guys we need that music
And some voice over. I plan on making a video some day about medieval weapons. With voice over and music :). Stay tuned.
@@mediumaevum I mean the wild west meme music
Wow. How large was this? I need to see a banana for scale.
No powder charge?
The breech at the end was loaded with powder as the shot was loaded. It basically works like a primative howitzer.
Pretty accurate representation
Breechloaders were left behind for good gas pressure and more velocity until efficient breech loaders took back the stafe in the 1850s
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