The P51 Minié Rifle: The Cabin Fever Challenge 2024
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Many years from now some really confused archeologists are going to comb through that area wondering how bullets from all these different time periods, countries and continents got there.
Its a worm hole!
Would be interesting to hear their comments.
Excellent kit turnout and effort, very much in the spirit of your channel, I've been visiting Brett's channel due to your recommendation thanks for that. Inkerman series was really interesting too. Keep it up :D
Cheers!
This man needs more subscribers!
Thank you... it would be nice to break 100K one day!
Another fine addition to the Mackenzie Cinematic Universe
Nice! I like it!
Don’t want a bear sniffing your cap in mating season 😂
Haha!
Wake up, make coffee, realize Rob dropped a video... it's gonna be a good day
Cheers!
Is the hat tactical? No. But is it tacticool? Hell yeah it is.
I think it's probably tacticwarm.
In its own, antique way....
I see that we are both burning the midnight oil trying to get these out before tomorrow lol
Haven't seen your score yet, but I'm willing to bet it's better than me and my 1766 Charleville
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Yep you did 😂. Also I noticed that same problem with the pattern 1861 cartridge box that I used for the 1866 Springfield rifle
This year was a near run thing... weather and other things were conspiring against me since January!
Don't mind me, I came here for the hat.
Haha!
Rob, I really like the video. I must say I like how you hold learning over performing. A+
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thats a 'significant emotional event' if you get hit by that (cheers to The Cheiftan)
I do!
Hell yeah rob always nice to see a new video
Cheers!
Love this kind of good humour and excellent history.
Cheers!
Here after starting the Inkerman series. Absolutely impressive rifle & congratulations on getting it. The big bore and the guardsman' uniform make a tremendous show. Great work as usual.
Thank you kindly!
He was wearing his bearskin inside out last time.
Haha!
Another great history video loved it👍👍
Cheers!
That man! Get yore air cut!
😀
Hah this was great bud! Amazing that old 'beaut is still running with those monster bullets, impressive.
They are massive, for sure...
Who needs a knap-sack? Just keep all your bits n' bobs under your bearskin :)
For sure!
YAAAAY! I was waaaiting for your video!
Hope you enjoyed it!
That calibre is a bone breaker
It's pretty big, yes...
@@britishmuzzleloaders that’s why there was so many amputations after battle, just shatter bones
Well done!
Cheers!
Another great episode, as always. Great stuff BM.
Cheers!
Your dedication to historical accuracy is astounding! Even with the added difficulties your run was still excellent, well done!
Thank you! And thank you for helping Richard with the shoot!
Somewhere, in those woods, very sad and naked black bear is wandering.
I was looking forward for challenge.
Haha!
Hi. From Pennsylvania. I always watch but i subscribed today. Your videos are fun to watch. I have a mrk r no 2 lee enfield 303 and i love it. It has a very good micrometer peep sight and is. Very accurate. God bless.😊
Thank you for the subby! Glad you enjoyed the clip!
McKENZIE VIBES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yay new Muzzle videos!! always love your skits and awesome information, as always thank you!
Cheers!
The forward and after cap is excellent. Where did it come from? Kind of looks like a Glengarry.
It's a Guards field cap.. explained in Part 1 of the Inkerman series.
@@britishmuzzleloaders thank you
Finally all the years of bear hunting paid off.
Haha!
Good morning from Syracuse NY United States of America my friends across the pond
he is in alberta not wales
Thank you for the correction it's been a long since the last video my friend
Yes, I am Canadian.
Beautiful rifle, and a great video, as usual!
Cheers!
... "it looks magnificent." .. Damn straight! Never really gone out of fashion.
Haha!
Another fine undertaking Rob. I would have loved to see the actual capabilities of the rifle without being handicapped with the fur hat, but I see your reasoning and another excellent video nonetheless
There will be a series on the rifle, eventually.
Sir. the backdrop in this vid is BEAUTIFUL! And, I am in Oregon. I love such landscapes. Been watching you with pleasure. great presentation
Thank you!
Very good.
Thank you! Cheers!
Again with the GREAT scizo-intro! Even filming only yourself, you have great comedic timing! I literally laughed at loud when buffalo hat came out the 2nd time!
Cheers!
Sad to say, Brett's currently deployed. He's closed until he gets back this summer.
Sure, but this video will be around well after he's back and making bullets again.
Greetings from the sunny south Okanagan, thanks for the video once more. It's interesting to see a P51 being fired, it's something I've never held and perhaps even seen in a museum, not entirely sure. All the best.
They are a very rare beast... and I'm very lucky to have one at my disposal, for sure!
勉強になりました
Cheers.
In the beginning, when you looked at your wrist to check the time, wouldn't a nice pocket watch have been more " period " correct ?
or the fact that I wasn't wearing one...... 😀
Thank you for making these videos, they are much appreciated
You are most welcome!
looking through all your videos and seeing this crazy collection of firearms is something to behold.
Where do you source these guns from?
They come from many different sources.
Great video! Thank you!! Regards from the Left Coast of Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for watching! Cheers!
I really enjoy watching this guy. He can add humour, along with facts. Please keep up your great videos.
Thank you!
The P51 was also carried in India and always confused with the P53 by most modern historians
Loved this video.
Using generalised statements to explain very specific occurrences is a bit erroneous, I might say.... Harding states that there were 50 that were made for the HEIC....used by the 66th 'Goorkas".... add to these about 20 that arrived with HM Regiments straight from South Africa in '53-54..... Never generally issued and hardly enough for 'historians to be confused' about their use in India...
that's a BIG boolet
as well as an almost equally large hat...
They are pretty close in size, yes!
I really enjoy your Cabin Fever vids, just great stuff 👍
Glad you like them! Cheers!
Nice shooting! Outstanding presentation. It is certainly lots of fun to watch. I ran my Parker-Hale Pattern '61 for the Cabin Fever Challenge!
Nice to see another Enfield in the Challenge! Cheers!
It's been awhile since i watched you out shooting the B.C clear cuts. By the way ... that hat
Yes, that hat...
I thought you must have run out of ammunition! Down to the bayonet again!
It was close!
Great video. I kinda wish you finished the challenge with the bayonet, though
Done that in years past! 😀
@@britishmuzzleloaders yeah, that's the britishmuzzleloaders style
When one can't see the camera for the bear in one's eyes. 0~o but your "mini" Winchester model of 1890 was still quite adorable. ^~^
That is the first rifle I ever owned. I was 10.
@@britishmuzzleloaders lovely, is it a .22 short, .22 Long rifle, or .22 WRF??? If ever the need arises to fully restore, then only Turnbull Restoration Company, Inc. should be considered.
A .702 caliber British Pritchet pattern bullet was metal detected and dug at a US Civil War site near me, and I metal detected and dug a stamped, flat brass, bayonet scabbard "hook" in Mobile, AL stamped "Crown V.R." and it was said to be from a P-1851 scabbard. There were a few thousand 1851 Enfields used by the Confederacy.
Indeed they were! They bought anything they could get their hands on!
oh basically a muzzle loading 12 rifled gauge!! i swear Rob that bearskin some of the choices the British army have made over time!!
Bearskin (or other fur) caps have been worn in many armies.... Not just a British thing.
@@britishmuzzleloadersthe British army is the only place i've that style and it's more than the bearskin i question with the force! over time i've seem quite few things that brought the what the F response upon finding!!
Does wearing that big bear skin make it harder to be accurate?
It’s in the way, and is awkward….
Oh Mackenzie, never ever change. 😁
Yes Rob, your cap does in fact look magnificent.
Cheers!
wonderful content, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
A very enjoyable and informative video.
Thank you!
The problem with a double chin wearing a bearskin?
Unrelated, no.....
Another entertaining and very informative vid. On a tangent I've never really grokked how the socket bayonets are attached. Does anyone know an easy to follow vid on that topic.
The Brown Bess bayonet had a stepped slot, so it simply came off the same way as it went on. East India types and others simply applied a flat leaf spring to impede disengagement but in British issue, the plain style was first modified by the Hanoverian catch, whereby a spring lever on the musket engaged with an indent on the neck of the socket as it was rotated. Seen here is the Lovells catch, originating with the P39 and P42 muskets, whereby a sprung blade engaged with a lug on the neck of the socket as it was rotated. On surviving examples quite a few of these catches are found broken and missing. This was the last of the Lovell's catch and bayonet design very soon overtook it with the P53 bayonet, which incorporated a rotating ring captive on the socket, with an opening which admitted the rifle-musket's foresight and then cammed up tight against it when rotated, providing the most effective lock up of all. Hopefully you have enough here for a fish around on the internet.
If you watch the various Manual Exercise/Rifle Exercises videos in the "Drill" playlist, you will see every arm and its bayonet attachment.
Mate when could British soldiers have full beards? Love your work
They can right now, actually… the King just approved beards for the British Army about 48 hours ago!
@@papercartridges6705 Cheers
Beards were a "campaign only" thing... The Queen allowed Crimean veterans to keep theirs but for all others, they were verboten. You could have "whiskers" but the chin was clean. Until literally this past week... They were granted for all ranks... In Canada, soldiers have had the ability to wear them since 2017 or so...
@@britishmuzzleloaders Not big in the Aussie army
Excellent sir as always
Thank you!
Great Post thanks
Cheers!
Mr Beat recommended this channel.
In what way?
I cant imagine the level of pain in the arse it must have been to wear those bearskins on active service.
They certainly have a bit of a learning curve!
Always great to see a proud Reb in gray with his Minnie rifle and Minnaybawls, repulsing them Yankees from the sacred… snow covered mountains… of the Southern Confederacy!
In tall bear headcovering ... :D
It was just like being at the battle of Kennesaw mountain in Georgia...
I hear the lament of the Appalachians as they, once more, get no respect. 🙂
@@genericpersonx333 honestly it was my firt thought, who else can be so hardcore as to wear a bearskin hats! :)
No-one can caricature, quite like you, Brett!
Nice work!!! Love the content!
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks.
so that last shot proves accurase by caliber
Hey,... you take it as it comes!
@@britishmuzzleloaders especially when you cant have accurase by volume
I always love your opening skits, and this one definitely got a hearty chuckle out of me! Thank you kindly, and I'm sure the rest of the episode will be just as good!
Hope you enjoyed it!
My cervical spine hurts just seeing that damn hat, or glue applicator, or whatever that beaver on your head is.
Beaver? That is a Canadian black bear! Pretty much a whole one, by the looks of it.
Its not heavy... it's hollow...
I was waiting for it is not heavy it is my brother lol @britishmuzzleloaders
Curse you Rob.... now I'm surfing CGN and GP looking for some sort of BP rifle. Well, I guess I'd best watch for sales on Kraft Dinner as well and a blanket to use when the wife makes me sleep on the couch 😛
Haha! You'll loose all interest in those black plastic things! 😀
Very Dapper.... Very Dapper....
Thank you.
Another silly question. A muzzle loader, black powder weapon. If you put a loaded rifle aside ready for use, does the powder degrade over time with damp or something else? In the book I have 'The Vainglorious war' some soldiers did not cover their rifles from heavy rain. They fired priming caps to dry and clean them out, have you done this. Also have you a video where you use a pull through?
In very wet circumstances, yes... In Part 4 of the Inkerman series (IIRC) the attack of the Guards is detailed... lot's of trouble with their muskets from damp the night before...
I am pleased to finally see the P51 in action up close! Glad to see the long awaited close look into your historic piece.
Also I always adore the 1 of the 2 sibling knuckleheads again, always a great laugh and wonderful way to bring passion into this exotic topic of blackpowder arms! XD
Long live the Ross and Mackenzie twins!
Cheers! There will be a dedicated series for it with more info and shooting, of course.
Absolutely fantastic video Rob, really entertaining. Just out of curiosity, do you know where I'd pick up mess tin straps and greatcoat straps for the slade wallace equipment now that military history workshop is shut down? Any help is greatly appreciated
If you are in the UK, Shedtime Leather (On FB) will whip you up some straps... Laurence doesn't like doing full sets as they are incredibly labour intensive, but the straps, I'm sure he'd do for you!
Bravo SIR!
Your videos are a learning experience as well as entertaining.
IMA as far back as the late 90s advertised a bamboo type frame work for the fur hat like yours.
It may have been made later how far later because IMA didn't go into enough detail but they did say theirs was obtained as British surplus.
Thank you! The bearskin dies indeed have a wicker frame.
Wicker.
I'm sorry about that.
I was going from memory and goofed.
Thanks for the correction.
No worries!
When I was growing up one of the disneyland films was 'the saga of andy burnett'. I saw a copy online and he was updating his rifle to percussion and his friend was worried that they were in danger if the got into fight and he ran out of caps and tried to persuade him to stick with flint. I suppose because you could always find it somewhere. Was there any resistance to the change or was it no contest?
I'm sure some had reservations... but run out of caps, run out of flints... Flint is common in some places, not in others... and then you'd have to knap it... not a skill held by the vast majority of soldiers...
Thank you, I really do love your video's and I am always inspired after watching to go to the range and shoot more black powder. Cheers
More black powder is a good thing!
Top notch as always
Cheers!
Cool hat.
Cheers!
poor director thought he might have a stroke working with the "actor" lol / that looks like a very warm outfit / how bad did it kick(can't tell thru the smoke) / funny as always / that bearskin hat looked to be a real pain in the neck
It doesn't kick all that badly... No more than the P53 with the same charge.
It's not a cabin fever challenge until you see a chimney brush shoot bullet bills at a paper target :D. Great shooting sir, love your content.
Hahaha!
Saw a great deal of use in our ACW but I'll grant that is not Empire service.
"Great deal" is relative, I'd say... 😀 There weren't too many in the first place. They got bought up toute suite though...
All your vids are really enjoyable.
I'd love to shoot some of the weapons you use.
I need to ask what is your all time favourite weapon you have reviewed?
Don't have one... They're all unique in their own way...
Always enjoy all the work you put into making a great video.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!
in what way was the minie rifle used by the British inferior to the enfield?
Ballistically so... larger calibre, the use of the cup in the base vs a plug was also not a perfect technology... Ammunition weighed a ton...
What does a bearskin actually feel like to wear?
Like a top-heavy fur hat. It's hollow... fur over wicker.
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my thumbs up was 980 lol@@britishmuzzleloaders
Again, you take the CFC to another level altogether. Well done!
It's a fun way to compare things for sure!
Always a highlight of my year, cheers rob
Thank you!
It's beyond me why this channel doesn't have a million subscribers
That is very kind. Please pass the word!
@@britishmuzzleloaders I always do. Once I'm in the position, I will support this endeavor monetarily. I love the work you do, it is outstanding! I don't say that lightly - you are surely one of the best doing this, better than any BBC documentary could ever be.
I think your funny hat needs a haircut. 😋
Or at least a shampoo!
fantastic channel. peace - Dave.
Thank you!
I really want to try this challenge now, but I don't have any of the gear or a rifle yet... one day
Don't need "gear",... but a rifle is a bit of a sticking point....
@@britishmuzzleloaders I feel like the kit adds to the challenge. But I did see your video on how you built your Baker rifle. Definitely want to do that.
Love the mustache
Cheers!
Fantastic video
Cheers!
Excellent Rob!
Cheers!
Love your videos!
Thank you!