Primed and Loaded | The Matchlock Arquebus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Join Brian in for the next installment of our Primed and Loaded series as he tells us about the matchlock arquebus--a type of firearm that the English brought with them to Jamestown.
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Seen a lot of matchlock demonstrations but this is one of the best and most concisise! Lovely video.
Thanks for the comment! And be sure to check back for future videos on the wheellock and the snaphaunce ignition systems.
This is such a fascinating era of firearms, just like the tactics and conflicts in this era in general. I can safely say: I never learned about the 30 years war in school, yet it's a truely fascinating conflict
How fast do you think you could load a matchlock? Check out our other videos in our Primed and Loaded series!
I'm usually right on 18 seconds.
Eventually
The distinction between the arquebus and the musket was something new I learned from this video. I knew that early matchlocks required a forked rest to properly aim and fire, but I thought all early matchlocks were like that and the more mobile firearms weren't developed until later. In this case, it seems to be a tradeoff between mobility and penetration power. If you were part of a pike-and-shot formation in the large armies in Europe, then it would make sense that all of your musketeers would use the heavier muskets, whereas smaller formations of frontier troops half a world away fighting against comparatively lightly-armored European settlers and indigenous peoples would rather have the lighter, cheaper, and more mobile arquebuses.
Agreed.
That outfit and the gun itself still reminds me of a modern soldier in its no nonsense approach to the technology.
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Thanks. i was reading a book about Spanish explorers in the 1500s in Florida and this video helped.
The exact video I needed for my study on the Arquebus! Thanks!
Greetings from Germany (Bavaria). I do reenactment of 30 years war. You have very great videos there.
Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed the video and you may enjoy our other videos in our Primed and Loaded series, so check them out and share with your friends.
Damn that was a hell of a gunshot sound. Hearing entire masses of those being fired in a battle had to be nearly maddening.
Certainly added to the fury, terror and confusion of the battlefield.
Amazing channel. Your videos make me want to go out and shoot my matchlock and wheellocks
You should! Go and enjoy fun & safe day at your range.
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I have always wanted to fire a matchlock before
Nice, which vendor did this arquebus come from? I need to get one myself, i have a matchlock musket but not an arquebus yet
This piece was made in 1978 by a gunsmith named James Kelly, and the museum acquired the piece in the early 1980s.
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Thank you too!
What year clothing is the main presenter wearing? The pumpkin hose and leg chauses are a combination I wasn't aware of and would love to look into!
Nathanael, at Jamestown Settlement the historical interpreters in James Fort tend to focus their material culture to the years 1610 to 1614. In the video what Brian -- the presenter -- is wearing is trunk hose and Irish stockings. Trunk hose go back to at least the mid-16th century and the Irish stockings may as well. Irish stockings are not chauses; chauses being a medieval article of men's clothing out of use and fashion by the early modern period of the late 16th and early 17th century. Irish stockings are merely stockings, but rather than knitted from woolen yarn they are made of and cut from heavy woolen fabric such as frieze (or frize), sewn together and are rather tough and hardwearing. They were commonly supplied to English soldiers serving in Ireland or the Netherlands in this period. Captain John Smith will specifically include Irish stockings on a list of clothing that a colonist should have when going to Virginia, in his 1624 book The Generall Historie.
Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and follow our Going to the Source series, because Brian will be examining John Smith's suggested clothing list for Virginia in a future episode.
Very informative and entertaining! Also, that's definitely a very nice example of an arquebus! Might I ask who made it?
The arquebus that Brian is demonstrating was made by a gunsmith named James Kelly in 1978. Going to one of our staff members that has been with the museum long enough to remember the old days, the museum acquired the piece secondhand from an individual in the early 1980s
@@jamesread1607 Thank you for the reply; very insightful. Mr. Kelly's craftsmanship is superb.
Fascinating! How many shots per minute do you think you could manage?
That might just be a topic for a future video.
I bet he could get 3. That would be a cool video.
@@erikseavey9445 We posted a video back in August where Brian discusses and demonstrates a rate of fire with a musket.
The gentleman in the video can do 4 in a 1:20 from another video, which is remarkably fast for a weapon not meant for faster fire rates.
Not as many as a BAR.
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Why would Jamestown colonists use a gun that’s over 100 years old? Was the arquebus that cheaper than the musket or was it something else?
It is the matchlock ignition technology that is at about the century mark. The arquebus is used well into the second half of the 16th century on European battlefields, and it is in the second half of the 16th century that the arquebus is giving way to the caliver and musket. The difference between a matchlock arquebus, caliver or musket is not in how they work or how the ignition is achieved, it is in the bore size of the weapon with each bore progressively getting larger.
The arquebus may have fallen out of favor in Europe because of its bore size, but in Virginia during the conflicts between the Virginia Company and the Powhatan the arquebus continued to be an effective firearm, especially since the Powhatan warriors are not armored. The arquebus was also an immediately available ready made firearm easily acquired by the Virginia Company or individuals going off to Virginia. And in Virginia the arquebus, caliver and musket are all in use, along with snaphaunce and wheellock ignition.
Finally we will offer one caution. As historians we like to have firm hard definitions for terms. But in the late-16th century arquebus, caliver and musket seem to have rather fluid definitions and they are terms that are not uniformly used or used interchangeably amongst writers and military thinkers of the timeframe.
@@JYFMuseums So were the colonists primarily using arquebuses from the 1400s, or a musket or arquebus or caliver from the mid to late 1500s (or some other time period)?
The arquebus of the 1400s was not the same firearm as that of the more evolved arquebus of the 1500s. In the case of the English settlers, they'd be equipped with firearms produced in the late-16th/early-17th century.
At what point did they switch from crossbow lever to trigger?
Oh wow, thank you for the quick and informative response. In my 30’s Now, I’ve gotten more and more interested in early firearms. You’ve just gained another subscriber. Thanks again
what would happen if you had too much powder in the pan?
Nothing would happen and it's not really possible to put too much powder in the pan. Go to the 5:09 mark to see the actual priming of the piece. You'll notice that after the priming powder is put into the pan, the pan cover is closed, which strikes off any extra powder preventing over priming of the pan and insuring a sufficient amount of powder. The closing of the pan is followed up with a "flicking" of the piece to cast off any extra powder that remains and then blowing off the pan as a third and last step to insure there's not too much powder.
This was the one used against the Aztecs?
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was about 1519 to 1521. The piece in this video would be about mid-16th century.
Wouldn't it have been safer to add the primer after loading he weapon instead of before? It would be awkward if the weapon went off while the shot was being rammed.
One thing that remained consistent in Manuals of Arms from the early 17th century though the 18th century, with both the matchlock and the flintlock, was that the first step of the loading procedure was to prime the weapon. The gunpowder of the previous shot has been consumed, the pan has been wiped, primed and closed. There is not anything that would cause ignition at the pan. If there were, the powder would have ignited at the moment the weapon were primed.
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Please share the recipe of the gunpowder you used.
Just as the Virginia Company would have in the early 17th century, the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation sources its gunpowder commercially. Generally though, gunpowder or black powder as it is known today, was made from 75% potassium nitrate, 15% charcoal and 10% sulphur.
I would've liked to see the reloading cycle done once without an narration, just to get an idea for how long it takes when done in real-time.
We do have a video covering the rate of fire of a matchlock and Brian goes through the process of loading the weapon three times -- m.th-cam.com/video/r9NOMrbYUf0/w-d-xo.html
@@JYFMuseums Thanks, I noticed it was later in the playlist, so I'll get there eventually :D
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Where can you buy this arquebus? Do any companies make reproductions like this one or is it custom?
The piece that Brian is demonstrating was made in 1978 by a gunsmith named James Kelly, and the museum acquired the piece in the early 1980s. Our firearms are each custom made by independent gunsmiths operating their own business.
Military access heritage makes them. I got mine from their website for about 600$.
Why did the arquebus have a rest rod thing wheras the heavier musket doesn't
The arquebus does not have a rest. If you go back to about the 1:48 mark in the video Brian briefly discusses difference between the arquebus and the musket, and the clip at about 1:53 actually shows Brian handling a musket with a musket rest.
@@jamesread1607 thanks! I guess i had a preconceived image of what a musket looked like and it didnt register to me that it was one
6:47 go boom
why didn't they have trigger guards?
Firearms eventually would have trigger guards, but it is an evolution that had to take place over the whole of the 16th century. The arquebus in this video is a example of a firearm of the mid-16th century with a trigger style that is a holdover of the crossbow trigger. In comparison check out our video with Brian discussing the rate of fire of the matchlock and you'll see a bit more modern early-17th century matchlock musket with a more recognizable trigger and trigger guard. Then check out Brian's video where he discusses the snaphaunce ignition system while demonstrating a reproduction of a 1603 snaphaunce fowling piece, also with a trigger and trigger guard.
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bows stayed on military use for longer in Britain.
How do you mean "bows stayed on military use for longer in Britain"? We can certainly see the bow was still in use into the 1540s, as evidenced by both the arquebuses and longbows found together in the wreck of the Mary Rose -- an English warship that sank off Portsmouth, England in 1545. But by 1580s if not earlier, the longbow is certainly no longer a serious military weapon.
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That hand sanitizer station at the end there really helps with the period emersion.
2020 period, that is
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It is not possible to use this gun in the rainy season, what they used to do in the war when it was raining.
The hygroscopic nature of gun powder/blackpowder has always had the potential to cause problems in rain and wet weather, and for dampness to cause the spoilage of the gun powder. Weapons such as pole arms, swords and clubs certainly came to use in wet weather and soldiers also developed their own tricks and practices to either keep their gun powder dry and weapons functioning or to dry out their gun powder after it had been spoiled by dampness.
Nonetheless, do check out our video on our 18th century volleys and firepower from The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. This video and the firing of the flintlock musket was done in the rain -- th-cam.com/video/-9G2YWXQWtY/w-d-xo.html
This happens during the (Spanish) Algiers expedition (1516).
Thei Spanish landing start under a storm that blow the primer powder from the pans and wet the serpentine of their arquebus.
The Spanish force have an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 mans, against a Hayreddin Barbarossa 1,500 mans defending Algiers.
The result was a disastrous defeat for the Spanish, with
3,000 killed or wounded (in combat)
400 captured
8,000 men lost in total - since several ships sunk in the storm.
The Spanish attempt to seize Algiers are defeated again in 1519 and 1775.
Pffft why bother making this video everybody’s got an arquebus or three at home