Howdy, friends. Getting some repeat questions, so here is a block of answers so I don’t need to type them out every time: It’s a Springfield Trapdoor in .45-70. It was made in 1886. They started making them in 1865. It is not a Martini-Henry, that’s a different thing. The extraction/ejection works like this: th-cam.com/users/shortsAvU3lAyg5YY?feature=share
@@MADmosche That response is the culmination of my collecting experience. I’m good at finding deals on old guns. There is nowhere I can currently point someone to where you can get a Trapdoor for cheap. I wish there was. American surplus in general is pretty much always pricey.
@@maxharz3914there were many battles like that when these types of rifles were first introduced. Mainly against the native Americans. They’d attack a small outpost, hear everyone fire the first shot and then expect about 30 seconds before the next, so they’d leave cover and rush forward only to have the 2nd volley hit them about 6 seconds later.
@@ConsumptiveSoul i mean bolt actions weren't exactly faster than this until a while later when they figured out how to put more than one bullet in at a time. Though these guns and single shot boltguns were *very much* better than the old guns you had to stuff the shot and powder down the barrel of. see: the austrians with muzzleloaders getting absolutely murdered by the prussians with dryse needle-guns in the austro-prussian war of 1866
Don't forget, they used black powder, which created a lot of fouling in the chamber and barrel. If you didn't clean it after a few shots, the copper (as they were back then) casings would get jammed in the breach, which accounted for the high rate of rifles failing at the Little Big Horn.
@@ronaldrobertson2332the little big horn issue also come from the use of both 50-70 and 45-70 trapdoors... Firing a 45 in a 50 in the heat of the battle can be done, extraction? Not so much
For anyone interested in owning a rifle chambered in 45-70, it's a great round, but be careful. The pressures and power vary from a zippo lighter up to the saturn 9 rocket. If you own a trapdoor Springfield, DO NOT use high pressure +p ammo, unless you want to have more metal in your body than the winter soldier.
I was at a gun show and heard a vendor…a VENDOR tell a guy that these trapdoors are tanks. You don’t feel the recoil because they’re so heavy, it’s like a Ruger #1 but less recoil with the same ammo. I was legitimately horrified at what I heard, I had to go full Karen and correct and chastise. Telling some rookie firearm enthusiast that a trapdoor can do what a Ruger 1 can is damn near felony murder.
Don't shoot anything in a trapdoor that isn't a blackpowder round or cowboy load. They can't handle modern hunting loads of smokeless over time if they don't just catastrophically fail.
It’s the artistry & clocklike workings yet simplicity. As a son of a Family of generations of engineers I nerd out for watches, old firearms and things like that. New technology is for mass production & excellent use but not for longevity.
@@fender7695 holy shit lmao. Old firearms are noteriously shit when it comes to design, reliability and manufacturability. There is a reason why things are made a certain way today to allow for interchanging of parts, easy disassembly, modification et al.
@Ruben Lopez yes! That's a big thing for me, while modern guns are way more advanced in design and tolerances are way smaller older guns just have a feel to them. They were made by someone while modern guns feel too, dare I say, plastic. Older guns just look the part better.
@@peteramodioits only a rifle if its barrel is rifled (hence the name). If its a smoothbore like a musket then its still classified as a musket, just different actions.
Читаю комментарии, вроде бы всё уже сказали, но промолчать не могу. Прекрасная винтовка я никогда не видел такой раньше. Есть в ней что то необъяснимо притягательное👍
Самое забавное, это продукт брейншторма из разряда "как превратить дульнозарядный мушкет во что что-то, что питается патронами со стороны казённика". Если понравился трепдор, то посмотрити про Мартини-Генри, Ремингтон роллин блок, винтовку Шарпса. Эти винтовки делались с нуля и некоторые из них имеют весьма любопытные и крайне простые механизмы.
@@nathanielwarner4582 cheap,slow and u hit total shit with it.. 😃 90% of time u have this useless gun, u are automaticaly already dead on start of the game.
Heard about those trapdoor springfields for years. Didn’t know they were as fast to load and fire. Interesting and impressive. Usually they are being relegated a block of history between the civil war and Spanish American war, and pushed off in favor of the Kraig rifles.
Funnily enough it's because after being fired in large quick succession the brass casings eventually get stuck in the chamber and would often render the weapon useless
@@MA-wq2ihyes sir. Rifle Custer had his men carry. Casing would expand so much they’d get stuck in the chamber, have to use knives to get them out. One of very many reasons custer got his a** handed to him in battle of little big horn.
I like the in between of muskets and shit and bolt actions, like after muskets and black powder goes out of style and once actual bullets start getting made
Cartridges and even the ones with black powder like here are definitely cool, but i agree. the wild experimentation with all the wood still everywhere is really something else
@@thewerepyreking I've mostly only seen 45-70 for modern rifles at gunshows. The only time I've seen the right ammunition, the vendor wouldn't sell them to me cause he wanted them for himself lol.
Gun reload idea: This gun has the functionality of having a "magazine" and reserves like any other game. However, your magazine is just your fingers with the bullets between them. After each shot, your character automatically puts a new bullet in. Functionally, this is like when using a bolt-action or pump-action gun where you cycle the round automatically as an animation. But when you use the reload button, the animation is just your character grabbing putting the bullets between your fingers.
Genji in overwatch has a vaguely similar idea, his "reload" is just getting new shurikens in his arm. Also I know the game is dogshit I haven't played since 2019
@@godzillagamer7512 Part of the issue is technical. Some games have/had animation issues, like New Vegas & Payday 2. If your reload speed gets high enough, the animation doesn't play correctly and it can even bug out your magazine capacity.
@@TheAttacker732 like for guns that need to have the bullets manually placed in, in reality you can reload pretty fast with only 2 hours of using the gun, but what I'm saying is that your character reloads dredfully slow... except in Remnant, you can reload a shotgun instantly
One of my all-time favorite rifles! It's not only gorgeous, but it was very clever for the post-Civil War Era Military to recycle old muskets and turn them into Trapdoor Rifles. Probably saved them a fortune over buying new rifles outright.
I love my Trapdoor. I traded an SKS for it. I've got plenty of SKS's but only one Trapdoor. So I think I did well. He wanted a rifle capable of defending himself with, so he didn't do too bad either.
What a game changer this rifle was. Between reliability accuracy and power it was instantly a favorite of mine I can't believe people were confusing this with a Henry martin
This is probably my favorite gun in the game, neck and neck with the semi auto shotgun. The springfield, for me at least, gets almost consistent one shots at long range without even needing the scope.
ты педофил убийца - для тебя есть Большой Линч и усекновение твоей пипетки - которую ты предварительно должен будешь сожрать - а пошутив так при мне ты был бы обоссан!
by historical definition technically most muskets are modern because the modern era was between 1500-1945. We are in the contemporary or postmodern era.
KOOL! I had the opportunity to fire an 1873 trapdoor with some friends . It came with documentation of it being from the 7th at Little Big Horn. It was going to auction the next week.
@@Darkie6ixx from my knowledge the most reliable are bolt actions, breach loader rifles always seemed pretty fragile to me, but I might just be wrong yk
@@Darkie6ixxNo. The casing would often get stuck in the rifle and a man would have to use a knife to dig it out. Bad ejection system or something. The Rolling Block was an infinitely superior weapon. But a whole new rifle was more expensive than modifying the Civil War surplus and since the US Military was more or less disbanded after major conflicts until the Military Industrial Complex that came into being after WWII…
The reason why I love this gun simple. > It is a caplock muzzle loader rifle converted to a Single shot breech loader rifle. > Very much cost effective rifle to save up resources. > Accurate and simple. > Satisfying reload and of course a good hunting tool.
Its interesting to me because it seems like this was a time when theyre just experimenting with stuff and not really sure whats the best way to do things. The cocking part is probably unnecessary but they kept using that kind of action because thats what people have been used to
Out of all the metallic cartridge conversion systems developed for rifled muskets I really like the Springfield trapdoor conversion the best. It looks right, its manual of arms is simple, and by all accounts it seemed to have functioned extremely well within the spectrum of its natural limitations.
God, such a beautiful sound. Your fingers manipulating the action, feeding the rounds, the eco, and crack of the gunshot. Imagine what lines of men shooting those in volley would be like
Those bandoleers you see Mexican bandits and others you see in the movies wrapped around people's shoulders with lots of rounds in a row were made for this weapon and the 1874 Sharps rifle.
Many people claim it's something that was done historically, but there is basically no evidence. It's faster once your hand is "loaded", but you still have to spend the time "loading" your hand. It also makes it harder to do anything with your left hand if you're shooting and moving without dropping rounds or getting them dirty
@@bigmike9947 save up if you can and hopefully you can get it, and if its sold then try looking for cheap land to invest into, theres tiny properties in wooded areas that are quite cheap
Other details: this is a black powder brass cartridge, I shoot a 405 grain bullet but other weights are available. Last time I bought ammo (I don't have tools to reload my own) they were about $3 each through a local ammo store.
Howdy, friends. Getting some repeat questions, so here is a block of answers so I don’t need to type them out every time:
It’s a Springfield Trapdoor in .45-70. It was made in 1886. They started making them in 1865.
It is not a Martini-Henry, that’s a different thing.
The extraction/ejection works like this: th-cam.com/users/shortsAvU3lAyg5YY?feature=share
Where can you buy one cheap?
@@Stoner556 You can’t.
@@TenaciousTrilobite high capacity brah🤷
@@TenaciousTrilobite that response is pretentious and unhelpful. 👎
@@MADmosche That response is the culmination of my collecting experience. I’m good at finding deals on old guns. There is nowhere I can currently point someone to where you can get a Trapdoor for cheap. I wish there was. American surplus in general is pretty much always pricey.
Man the era of guns where we transitioned from muskets and powder to bolt actions created some really unique and beautiful weapons
Right and imagine have a musket and you just hear the enemy firing that fast probably was scary as hell
@@maxharz3914 just imagine your soldier your country hasn’t gotten bolt action rifles yet you’re done
@@maxharz3914 especially when the sound is "BRRRRRRRT!!!".
@@maxharz3914there were many battles like that when these types of rifles were first introduced. Mainly against the native Americans. They’d attack a small outpost, hear everyone fire the first shot and then expect about 30 seconds before the next, so they’d leave cover and rush forward only to have the 2nd volley hit them about 6 seconds later.
@@ConsumptiveSoul i mean bolt actions weren't exactly faster than this until a while later when they figured out how to put more than one bullet in at a time.
Though these guns and single shot boltguns were *very much* better than the old guns you had to stuff the shot and powder down the barrel of.
see: the austrians with muzzleloaders getting absolutely murdered by the prussians with dryse needle-guns in the austro-prussian war of 1866
the last man on youtube to understand what POV actually means.
Fr
Exactly lmao
There are multiple POVs lol
It scares the s*** out of me. I like it.
На чёрно-жёлтом сайте, вы имели ввиду?
That extractor is really yeeting those casings. Strong and good condition action.
Don't forget, they used black powder, which created a lot of fouling in the chamber and barrel. If you didn't clean it after a few shots, the copper (as they were back then) casings would get jammed in the breach, which accounted for the high rate of rifles failing at the Little Big Horn.
@@ronaldrobertson2332The copper cases stuck because they expand far more than brass ones.
@@ronaldrobertson2332the little big horn issue also come from the use of both 50-70 and 45-70 trapdoors... Firing a 45 in a 50 in the heat of the battle can be done, extraction? Not so much
May I ask, how is it being powered? Is there a spring system im not seeing, or some really clever use of levers? :o
@@AimlessSavant it's the same design as a shotgun ejector, a set of spring+sear engagement that release when you're opening the action
For anyone interested in owning a rifle chambered in 45-70, it's a great round, but be careful. The pressures and power vary from a zippo lighter up to the saturn 9 rocket. If you own a trapdoor Springfield, DO NOT use high pressure +p ammo, unless you want to have more metal in your body than the winter soldier.
I was at a gun show and heard a vendor…a VENDOR tell a guy that these trapdoors are tanks. You don’t feel the recoil because they’re so heavy, it’s like a Ruger #1 but less recoil with the same ammo.
I was legitimately horrified at what I heard, I had to go full Karen and correct and chastise. Telling some rookie firearm enthusiast that a trapdoor can do what a Ruger 1 can is damn near felony murder.
Don't shoot anything in a trapdoor that isn't a blackpowder round or cowboy load.
They can't handle modern hunting loads of smokeless over time if they don't just catastrophically fail.
What the faster reload perk in Hunt Showdown should have looked like
amen
This is my go to budget gun. The winfield is better in every way. But i find myself using this gun with dum dum ammo all the time.
Despite how often it's lead to cheap hunters dying, the clunky-Ness and cheap cost is always enjoyable
better play sparks
@playmakerboi The sparks is under-rated AF
_Jesse, we need to cook gunpowder._
(I wish I could disable replies)
I bet it's even more illegal than meth is some places
@@Schrodingers_kidno making gunpowder is legal
@@TicTacEnjoyer Where are you from?
Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah sience!
I hope a political debate will NOT start because of my comment.
Gotta get that 3 star pelt
you know was up 😂 I gotz to get my legendary panther
@@damm1t_b0bby WE NEED SOME MORE GODDAMN MONEY
Actually a decent gun in pvp too haha.
The slick clicks and metal noises of the trapdoor opening and closing make me feel some type of way
God damnit every time I see a gun with a unique loading system I want to have it.
Same
(whispers in your ear) Rotary action rifle...
@@Dat_one_mf That thing is beautiful but I've already come to terms that I'll never own one. Too limited and too expensive.
@@jackw8338 Alofs shot gun? Lebel? Hell, what about the taschenpistole?
@@Dat_one_mf I thought you were talking about George Hoenig's rotary action rifle.
One of the best guns on rdr2
Which gun is that? Ive never seen this in rdr2
@@heccsclips3319 its literally called "springfield rifle"
@dawgs ah i dont remember it its been a good 3-4 years though
@@dawgs72 lol
i think i used it mostly for the town defences in online but im pretty sure the carcano was just better in almost every other scenario
Imagine going from manually loading each individual cartridge and bullet into your muzzleloader to this. Huge step up.
Old weapons are satisfying as hell 😅
From the first spear to what we have now, it's interesting to think that those old weapons were the most advanced/ used at the time.
It'll put a hole in something.
There's just something about old rifles and guns like this that I find way more appealing that modern firearms.
It’s the craftsmanship, and the fact that somebody made that thing by eye.
It’s the artistry & clocklike workings yet simplicity. As a son of a Family of generations of engineers I nerd out for watches, old firearms and things like that. New technology is for mass production & excellent use but not for longevity.
@@fender7695 holy shit lmao. Old firearms are noteriously shit when it comes to design, reliability and manufacturability. There is a reason why things are made a certain way today to allow for interchanging of parts, easy disassembly, modification et al.
@Ruben Lopez yes! That's a big thing for me, while modern guns are way more advanced in design and tolerances are way smaller older guns just have a feel to them. They were made by someone while modern guns feel too, dare I say, plastic. Older guns just look the part better.
Older guns have character
I just watched $10-$15 just go into the ground
More than that😂unless he does his own reloads
@@TheDailyKnife009 I have a 100rd trapdoor load bulk basically to have ammo and cases to reload. It was like $220
@@trench_raider8247 That's 45-70, right?
Smell of gunpowder on a nice day... Priceless
@@77philesposito it's priceless because you won't be able to afford doing it again
In 19th Century America, YOU are the magazine 😂
I love the sound it makes when ejecting, like a mini Garand ping.
Upgraded musket
thought myself. the next progression is the only action or leaver rifle
das what im sayin!
That’s literally what it is. A lot of these started as muzzle loaders
It’s a rifle!
@@peteramodioits only a rifle if its barrel is rifled (hence the name). If its a smoothbore like a musket then its still classified as a musket, just different actions.
Love these older rifles and their logical, straight forward simplicity.😊
It was state of the art at the time, you’re insulting a dead man. You MUST apologize NOW!
@@convertible4925 You're in no position to demand that little kid
@@josephstalin7668 r/woosh
Ah yes, the harmonica gun
@@josephstalin7668neither are you stalin
I'm loving the case ejection mechanism. What an engineering marvel.
Читаю комментарии, вроде бы всё уже сказали, но промолчать не могу. Прекрасная винтовка я никогда не видел такой раньше. Есть в ней что то необъяснимо притягательное👍
Самое забавное, это продукт брейншторма из разряда "как превратить дульнозарядный мушкет во что что-то, что питается патронами со стороны казённика". Если понравился трепдор, то посмотрити про Мартини-Генри, Ремингтон роллин блок, винтовку Шарпса. Эти винтовки делались с нуля и некоторые из них имеют весьма любопытные и крайне простые механизмы.
берданка первой модели была с подобным затвором, но она какая-то не очень ладная. Эта приятней сделана.
This animation would be great in hunt showdown
This gun is in hunt?
Yes and it’s really damn cheap
@@twurtle12hd39 yes
@@nathanielwarner4582 cheap,slow and u hit total shit with it.. 😃 90% of time u have this useless gun, u are automaticaly already dead on start of the game.
As a perk yea, because it would be OP tho😂
I like rifles that are fiddly.
Very satisfying
Fiddly diddly? Or just regular fiddly ?
soldiers probably didnt
@@foooosh
At the time they probably did as it was a major upgrade over muzzleloaders
@@thomasmacdonough288 i meant liking rifles that are fiddly
I love single shot rifles with all these unique loading mechanisms, it feels like I’m loading a tank.
i love early cartridge-based firearms like this.
Hunt: Showdown Players:
*HUMMING INTENSIFIES!*
Rise up Deadman
Let the dead man sing
*HUM HUM HUM HUUUUUM*
@@Dasistrite it does have one of the best soundtracks in my opinion.
@@df_productions It's definitely up there!
Heard about those trapdoor springfields for years. Didn’t know they were as fast to load and fire. Interesting and impressive. Usually they are being relegated a block of history between the civil war and Spanish American war, and pushed off in favor of the Kraig rifles.
Funnily enough it's because after being fired in large quick succession the brass casings eventually get stuck in the chamber and would often render the weapon useless
They're a Western Expansion/"Indian Wars" rifle.
@@johnathonknight5536 Black powder fouling. The Martini-Henry suffered the same problem at Isandlawana in 1879.
It's alot faster than my 1863 Springfield.
@@MA-wq2ihyes sir. Rifle Custer had his men carry. Casing would expand so much they’d get stuck in the chamber, have to use knives to get them out. One of very many reasons custer got his a** handed to him in battle of little big horn.
I like the in between of muskets and shit and bolt actions, like after muskets and black powder goes out of style and once actual bullets start getting made
Cartridges and even the ones with black powder like here are definitely cool, but i agree. the wild experimentation with all the wood still everywhere is really something else
I am telling you older guns are so satisfying to reload.
Tank loaders when they’re asked to use a rifle:
😂😂
Literally 😂😂😂😂😂
The tiny man in my AR be like
Just hearing the action working is ASMR
yes i love this vidd
He never fails to make me laugh with the way he describes things
Breech mechanism aside, that's probably the most satisfying case extraction I've ever seen
Reminds me of Hunt: Showdown
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Wait, did Hunt got this gun in the game?
If not, someone send this clip to them, please.
@@trintong it's there from the dawn of times
@@trintong it was in the game from the beginning
@@trintong It's in hunt. Kind of mediocre, but stylish, *really* cheap, accurate, and quick firing for a single shot breech loader.
The most satisfying unload and reload on any gun I've ever seen!
One shot one kill😅
Springfield Trap door rifle❌
Spring trap Ventilation Fazbear’s fright door✅
I dont know why, but I always find beautiful the motion actions of reloading old guns.
That reload animation looks so realistic can't wait for the upcoming game
looks real nice.
Look up Hunt: Showdown. They have breech loading rifles just like this one, and the reload animation is more or less exactly the same as this.
the name of the game is war of rights :D :)
@@pophapi dont think these trapdoor rifles existed then, they mightve used an ar15!!!!
Where do you find ammunition for this rifle? Did you make these rounds for yourself?
A friend that loads black powder made these for me
@@TenaciousTrilobite good friend
@@TenaciousTrilobiteThat's awesome. I have the same rifle. I need a friend like that lol. I don't trust myself to load ammunition yet.
@@andreweastwold I see Trapdoor loads for 45-70 at gunshows. They shoot fine, assuming you trust them
@@thewerepyreking I've mostly only seen 45-70 for modern rifles at gunshows. The only time I've seen the right ammunition, the vendor wouldn't sell them to me cause he wanted them for himself lol.
槍械真的是很美麗的東西
something about these old guns just get to me, old guns are so cool for no apparent reason
Damn that's a beautiful sounding rifle
And that little puff of smoke like its a cracked open can of cold beer
I’ve never seen a rifle like this, I want one so badly now
Hoo
Could watch this on repeat for a long time.
I love that little bird house on the right... 😂 The birds inside got PTSD "Timmy get under the bed, it will be all over soon, don't worry.." 😂
Gun reload idea: This gun has the functionality of having a "magazine" and reserves like any other game. However, your magazine is just your fingers with the bullets between them.
After each shot, your character automatically puts a new bullet in. Functionally, this is like when using a bolt-action or pump-action gun where you cycle the round automatically as an animation. But when you use the reload button, the animation is just your character grabbing putting the bullets between your fingers.
Genji in overwatch has a vaguely similar idea, his "reload" is just getting new shurikens in his arm. Also I know the game is dogshit I haven't played since 2019
you know video game characters are way to stupid to actually know how to use their own guns efficiently.
*stares at shotgun reload speed*
And how fast you reload depends on if you fumble like this guy
@@godzillagamer7512 Part of the issue is technical. Some games have/had animation issues, like New Vegas & Payday 2. If your reload speed gets high enough, the animation doesn't play correctly and it can even bug out your magazine capacity.
@@TheAttacker732 like for guns that need to have the bullets manually placed in, in reality you can reload pretty fast with only 2 hours of using the gun, but what I'm saying is that your character reloads dredfully slow... except in Remnant, you can reload a shotgun instantly
One of my all-time favorite rifles! It's not only gorgeous, but it was very clever for the post-Civil War Era Military to recycle old muskets and turn them into Trapdoor Rifles. Probably saved them a fortune over buying new rifles outright.
I could watch this all day
Love the clacks and sound of the action on old guns! What a beautiful piece! Absolutely glorious! 😁🥲👍🏻
I love my Trapdoor. I traded an SKS for it. I've got plenty of SKS's but only one Trapdoor. So I think I did well. He wanted a rifle capable of defending himself with, so he didn't do too bad either.
What a game changer this rifle was. Between reliability accuracy and power it was instantly a favorite of mine I can't believe people were confusing this with a Henry martin
Martini Henry??
@@taggartlawfirm "confusing this with a henry martin" is damn near oxymoronic in how ironic it is.
Love how these kind of rifles you can hold the ammo on your off hand to increase reload speed, making volume of fire comparable to bolt action.
Man's been playing hunt showdown
this needs to be a trait in Hunt Showdown the speed up your reload
Damn that shell casing just shoots up into your face-
Only if your an idiot
There is just something majestic about these older rifles.
Holding the rounds in your hand like that is honestly bad ass and you can visually see how much you have left. Wish this was implemented in a game
Got that external magazine upgrade 😂
ATF. Alcohol, tobacco, and fingers?
Extremely satisfying
I love how it has a very old look but uses modern-style cartridges.
HAVE SOME GOD DAMN FAITH IN ME, AURTHER!
This is probably my favorite gun in the game, neck and neck with the semi auto shotgun. The springfield, for me at least, gets almost consistent one shots at long range without even needing the scope.
Bro this rifle was peak for its time
Yeah, but it came out after the lever-action .44 Henry.
@@ronaldrobertson2332 tru tru
Thirdrate trash really. The classic bolt action has been arround for decades by that point.
Me when the innocent Girl Scout selling cookies crosses the property line
Kind of sick funny
not so innocent anymore once she's crossed the line⚔️
Especially if that Girl Scout is holding a quantum physics book.
ты педофил убийца - для тебя есть Большой Линч и усекновение твоей пипетки - которую ты предварительно должен будешь сожрать - а пошутив так при мне ты был бы обоссан!
What 😮
I want to watch these videos all day
Thank you excellent demonstration of how a trapdoor works much appreciated
Oh man I want this rifle for no other reason then that tiny little _ping_ when you eject the casing. So good, so satisfying.
Ngl this is faster than I’ve seen some people work a bolt action rifle
bro got the modern musket
by historical definition technically most muskets are modern because the modern era was between 1500-1945. We are in the contemporary or postmodern era.
KOOL! I had the opportunity to fire an 1873 trapdoor with some friends . It came with documentation of it being from the 7th at Little Big Horn. It was going to auction the next week.
Love shooting my own OG Trapdoor
So much fun
Feels like I'm loading a freaking cannon
But practically no kick
Simple, Reliable, and Effective. How a weapon should be.
Lol maybe not reliable but it is simple and effective indeed
@@songbird2383 Isnt the trapdoor one of the most reliable breach loader rifles?
@@Darkie6ixx from my knowledge the most reliable are bolt actions, breach loader rifles always seemed pretty fragile to me, but I might just be wrong yk
@@Darkie6ixxNo. The casing would often get stuck in the rifle and a man would have to use a knife to dig it out. Bad ejection system or something. The Rolling Block was an infinitely superior weapon. But a whole new rifle was more expensive than modifying the Civil War surplus and since the US Military was more or less disbanded after major conflicts until the Military Industrial Complex that came into being after WWII…
@@Mourtzouphlos240 hmm, good to know. Thanks for correcting me ,learned alot from a few youtube comments 😅
God the weird world of old firearms never ceases to amaze me, this is a beautiful instrument here
It's crazy to think about how much of an impact advances in firearms like this had back in the day.
Beautiful. Made me all weepy
No bs straight to the point shooting.
Скорострельность просто бешенная..!!!!👍💥
There’s something so beautiful about those old trap door guns
The reason why I love this gun simple.
> It is a caplock muzzle loader rifle converted to a Single shot breech loader rifle.
> Very much cost effective rifle to save up resources.
> Accurate and simple.
> Satisfying reload and of course a good hunting tool.
Not a conversion
@@barryallenporter8127 yes it is.
@@Kikai155The very early ones were conversions. None of the .45-70s (adopted in 1873) were. The rifle being fired in this video is from the 1880s.
A good skill to use in the bayou
This dude has mastery unlocked with that reload, gold skin must be next
I'm not much of a "ye old gun" guy but that action was simply beautiful.
Best thing is that it's a conversion of Obsolete Muzzle loading Muskets. Gotta love it for that.
Its interesting to me because it seems like this was a time when theyre just experimenting with stuff and not really sure whats the best way to do things. The cocking part is probably unnecessary but they kept using that kind of action because thats what people have been used to
Out of all the metallic cartridge conversion systems developed for rifled muskets I really like the Springfield trapdoor conversion the best. It looks right, its manual of arms is simple, and by all accounts it seemed to have functioned extremely well within the spectrum of its natural limitations.
Man something about these old firearms is just pleasing to watch
Vintage guns always have an endearing feel
My fav rifle in rdr2
Huge upgrade from muzzle loading
Ask Red Cloud at the wagon box fight.
A revolution in firearm engineering back in the day.
God, such a beautiful sound. Your fingers manipulating the action, feeding the rounds, the eco, and crack of the gunshot.
Imagine what lines of men shooting those in volley would be like
Battlecry of freedom starts playing
I love how I've already seen this, yet i still get that fesh gun feeling
Those bandoleers you see Mexican bandits and others you see in the movies wrapped around people's shoulders with lots of rounds in a row were made for this weapon and the 1874 Sharps rifle.
They way you are holding the rounds in your hand makes me feel like soldiers should have done that in combat to be faster
Many people claim it's something that was done historically, but there is basically no evidence. It's faster once your hand is "loaded", but you still have to spend the time "loading" your hand. It also makes it harder to do anything with your left hand if you're shooting and moving without dropping rounds or getting them dirty
@@TenaciousTrilobite ahh, did not know. Thank you
@@TenaciousTrilobite also fantastic video
What an attractive weapon.
i cant get over the sound of the hammer
the triple click is so nice
Idk why but I'm I'm love with this thing, aesthetically perfect
There's two of these at one of my local gunshops, I'd certainly like one but they're quite pricey
Firearms are always worth investing in
@@jacobrobichaux1576 Very true, but I'm not sure if I have nigh on 2 grand to drop on a rifle right now
@@bigmike9947 I get that, I just want $500 for another mosin (m44)
@@bigmike9947 save up if you can and hopefully you can get it, and if its sold then try looking for cheap land to invest into, theres tiny properties in wooded areas that are quite cheap
So is the ammunition im sure
Other details: this is a black powder brass cartridge, I shoot a 405 grain bullet but other weights are available. Last time I bought ammo (I don't have tools to reload my own) they were about $3 each through a local ammo store.
LOVE the trapdoor, wanted one since I was a kid, finally got to shoot one a few years ago and it was AWESOME!!
I love how the cartridge yeet itself when the chamber is opened
This thing looks more efficient than most modern cheap rifles