Glad you enjoyed! Lol so I actually made this because I felt I couldn’t find a good video on TH-cam for cleaning a brown Bess. I have the full cleaning on my TH-cam channel as well, cleaning the lock.
@@revere0311this is awesome content. Ive been putting off buying a BP gun due to what I thought was a intensive cleansing process but it honestly doesn't look like much more than cleaning a smokeless gun.
Great job cleaning, but I advice you to never pull the trigger when the frizzen is open and therefor the flint isn't hitting anything, as seen in the end of this clip. This will cause the lock to get damaged, because the energy of the cock going forward isn't absorbed.
I own thirty seven muskets, seven blunderbusses, twenty eight flintlock pistols, six grenade launchers, five mortars, three bombards, four Howitzers, seven Rampart Guns, two Rifled six pounders, two thirty shot Harmonica Volley Guns, and a Catapult…. As the Founding Fathers Intended.
@@revere0311 Im in means a expert and only now really looking and understanding the internals. This coming from a gunsmith I met some time ago telling me of a him seeing a officer doing that exactly to demonstrate to the public. He would explain to me that the inner workings that I think a tumbler connected to the cock if let go to freely fly forward and cause sheering inside the lock on the tumbler. Enough of this action can wear down the catch on the tumbler. In the case of the officer he did it and was unable to pull the cock back at all and it had jammed, they managed to move it but the half cock lip on the tumbler would not catch and just kept the cock in the forward position.
Awesome, I’m looking at getting a brown Bess one day. Do you use a 12ga jag with thick patches or did you get a .75 cal cleaning rod from somewhere else
So wait. You mean to tell me that THIS was all I had to do to clean it? Then what was the point of buying the gun bore cleaner aside for my other guns!?! Dammit I kinda feel stupid now.
😂 yeah can save you money, Smoothbores are simple enough for a field clean, But I also don’t claim to have the perfect method. I honestly posted this because I didn’t really have a good grasp and lots of comments have provided insight on how to clean it better.
Black powder is pretty easy for maintenance. Subs like pyrotechnics are a little more filthy, but you can still do the hot soapy water for cleaning. Dawn is the best.
it's clean well enough, maby you can use balistoll instead of olive oil, but back then you would have used that so... just keep it with a film of oil when you don't shoot it because a single scrub with a dry patch is enough to free the barrel from oil when you need it. this is not a precision gun, so you don't need to go gentle with it. somebody would suggest to use a non steel ramrod and cleaning rod but... that's bullshit, the bess can and will endure the steel rod. if you are shooting in a range where there is no water around, bring with you a 1/2 liter bottle (gatorade stile, the one with the nipple cap) with an emulsion of balistoll water and soap, it will clean well the barrel and the balistoll will neutralize all the salts of the powder untill you clean it at homem and the nittle on the bottle will not waste a drop of the emulsion. @@revere0311
This is not a field clean. Looks like your using home luxuries in the backyard. A field clean would be what you would have on you in the field hence the "field clean"
I get what you’re saying, ‘field clean’ is coming from my experience as a Marine Rifleman, ie the gun is cleaned but not ‘inspection ready’. But point taken, I’ll make a more correct version of this after the next event.
Ima save this just in case i need to clean a flintlock one day
Glad you enjoyed! Lol so I actually made this because I felt I couldn’t find a good video on TH-cam for cleaning a brown Bess. I have the full cleaning on my TH-cam channel as well, cleaning the lock.
@@revere0311this is awesome content. Ive been putting off buying a BP gun due to what I thought was a intensive cleansing process but it honestly doesn't look like much more than cleaning a smokeless gun.
The water method works the best in my opinion.👌🏼
That's how I do it
Good job!! I hate cleaning black powder guns so much LMAO im always worried i missed some water somewhere and it'll rust
Great job cleaning, but I advice you to never pull the trigger when the frizzen is open and therefor the flint isn't hitting anything, as seen in the end of this clip. This will cause the lock to get damaged, because the energy of the cock going forward isn't absorbed.
"I own a musket for home defence just as the founding father has intended"
I own thirty seven muskets, seven blunderbusses, twenty eight flintlock pistols, six grenade launchers, five mortars, three bombards, four Howitzers, seven Rampart Guns, two Rifled six pounders, two thirty shot Harmonica Volley Guns, and a Catapult….
As the Founding Fathers Intended.
Use mineral oil instead of olive oil. It doesn't get gummy and sticky.
Watet and ballistol while not period accurate is hands down the best solvent for black powder
What ratio do you recomend?
The cannon at the end wanted to destroy the house💀💀💀😭😭
One of my Joys in Life
Great Flean video
That ew part got me
Good ol’ Brown Bess
You don't have to add soap hot water will do just fine
Nice video
I need to buy one sooo bad 🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂
They’re so much fun lol
I am 18 years old now and I am looking forward to it
Brave move dry firing with the steel forward
Was just about to comment on that, ya that hurt me to see that...
@@yankeedoodle7365reason being because of wearing down the spring? New to flintlocks so open to any advice/commentary
@@revere0311 Im in means a expert and only now really looking and understanding the internals. This coming from a gunsmith I met some time ago telling me of a him seeing a officer doing that exactly to demonstrate to the public. He would explain to me that the inner workings that I think a tumbler connected to the cock if let go to freely fly forward and cause sheering inside the lock on the tumbler. Enough of this action can wear down the catch on the tumbler.
In the case of the officer he did it and was unable to pull the cock back at all and it had jammed, they managed to move it but the half cock lip on the tumbler would not catch and just kept the cock in the forward position.
@@yankeedoodle7365 ahhh ok, I get it. Well thanks for the response! I’m always eager to learn.
@@revere0311 Every event always has something to learn and better are selves and impressions and then pass that on to the public.
Just visited a reenactment and I think I'll start doing it myself this summer.
They’re a great time!
@@revere0311Bro help my homie in a bridge got shot and others fell into the river at the bridge😭
I can smell this video ☁️
Me wipin my booty in the toilet:
im concerned
First of all...... Ew.....
Second. Why are you removing black powder residue from your rear? Are you the alligator from that one song?
Why are you wiping your booty *in* the toilet?….
MAYBE OR MAYBEEE this could be useful
Lol I made this video waiting for someone on TH-cam to tell me I’m doing it wrong. So far I’m holding fast
Where did you get the cannon from
Awesome, I’m looking at getting a brown Bess one day. Do you use a 12ga jag with thick patches or did you get a .75 cal cleaning rod from somewhere else
Flintlocks are fun! And the Pedersoli has been great reliability wise. I have 30-06 cleaning rod which seems to work perfectly.
Damn it, I need to pee again
So wait. You mean to tell me that THIS was all I had to do to clean it? Then what was the point of buying the gun bore cleaner aside for my other guns!?!
Dammit I kinda feel stupid now.
😂 yeah can save you money, Smoothbores are simple enough for a field clean, But I also don’t claim to have the perfect method. I honestly posted this because I didn’t really have a good grasp and lots of comments have provided insight on how to clean it better.
Black powder is pretty easy for maintenance. Subs like pyrotechnics are a little more filthy, but you can still do the hot soapy water for cleaning.
Dawn is the best.
Nice long land pattern, which vendor did you purchase it from.
Actually short land pattern, I purchased it from Dixie Gun Works, made my Pedersoli
Is that a Pedersoli?
Yessir! Great buy.
Field clean huh?
Infantryman’s term meaning
Clean but not inspection ready. Terms I used as a rifleman in the Marines.
@@revere0311 ok fair enough
Thats gust torture to the musket just buy a cleaning kit
New to black powder, what would be your recommendation?
it's clean well enough, maby you can use balistoll instead of olive oil, but back then you would have used that so... just keep it with a film of oil when you don't shoot it because a single scrub with a dry patch is enough to free the barrel from oil when you need it. this is not a precision gun, so you don't need to go gentle with it. somebody would suggest to use a non steel ramrod and cleaning rod but... that's bullshit, the bess can and will endure the steel rod. if you are shooting in a range where there is no water around, bring with you a 1/2 liter bottle (gatorade stile, the one with the nipple cap) with an emulsion of balistoll water and soap, it will clean well the barrel and the balistoll will neutralize all the salts of the powder untill you clean it at homem and the nittle on the bottle will not waste a drop of the emulsion.
@@revere0311
It won’t hurt the musket. (Other than the dry fire without striking the frizzen).
Hot water will clean black powder plenty.
This is not a field clean. Looks like your using home luxuries in the backyard. A field clean would be what you would have on you in the field hence the "field clean"
I get what you’re saying, ‘field clean’ is coming from my experience as a Marine Rifleman, ie the gun is cleaned but not ‘inspection ready’.
But point taken, I’ll make a more correct version of this after the next event.
Smells like rotten eggs.