Colonial Weaponry 101 | Saints & Strangers

this is your standard standard matchlock
musket it was the earliest firing musket
that they was this over here is a match
cord both sides were normally kept like
hip to light in case one end was
extinguished and you know over here
you’d put your your black powder this
would essentially be locked up take your
shot load it into the pan closer then
now the musket ball take the scouring
stick reverse it
reverse scour down you charge
now take your purchase gentlemen
bellington they need to place their
match cord almost testing them
of course and are you ready to go so
what would essentially happen would be
you would pull the trigger here the lit
match cord would like the part in the in
the pan igniting the part in the barrel
propelling the bullet this thing is
really heavy and it’s obviously very
long you would you would you would have
two things so you’d be holding this in
the stand and you just stick the stand
in the ground and then you aim it like
this these were pretty inaccurate in
terms of yeah right it’s tremely
inaccurate rare for them to actually
fire because they were so unreliable I
expect there was a lot of kind of oh
just people with it this is your
possible and this would carry a black
powder in it and yeah your sword just
bleh Talmud in this this is a solid iron
this was solid iron so that’s plastic
now they wouldn’t necessarily keep their
eye on the target they’d almost like
drop the head like this because it would
because it would there would be a puffin
yeah and that’s the other thing they
told us about it doesn’t have a trigger
as we saw these were really rudimentary
so you couldn’t carry them like this
didn’t set them off and you couldn’t
have to be really careful apparently a
lot of people didn’t blowing things up
integers off because they were so easily
sit off by mistake