This short arquebus was found in a bog in Hungary and now it is in the collection of the Royal Armouries in Leeds, UK. This is one of the very first wheellocks we know about today, and one of the very first pistols. First part of a series by Capandball.

Awfully obsolete at the time of acceptance but still a very interesting cavalry arm from the American Civl War. The M 1855 pistol-carbine was adopted the same year as the M1855 rifle musket. In a time when wide variety of breech loaders were already accessible, including a few firing metallic car...

Ransom rest tests of original, Uberti and Pietta 1861 Colt Navy .36 revolvers shot with repro of original service charges. Which is more accurate?

Have you ever wondered what accuarcy an open top percussion revolver reproduction is capable of today? Capandball tests an Uberti 1861 Navy .36 Colt reproduction in Ransom Rest to show you the secrets of capandball revolver accuracy.

This is the 1st part of the series about the civil war capping breech loader Merrill carbine. In this chapter Capandball is focusing on its cartridges and he'll show you how easy their construction is. He will also show you how to make the Washington Arsenal bundle for this clever little carbine.

This is a lovely project. I always had a crush on the tape priming system of the M1855 US arms even if I knew it was useless. This is the 2nd part of the series about the M1855 pistol carbine, that I dedicated to Maynard's tape priming idea. Here is what I found out.

The M1855 pistol cabine is an interesting piece from the history of American Civil War arms. It was born the same year when the M1855 rifle-musket entered service. By that time metallic cartridge and percussion breech loaders were also available, but this mule gun was still designed with the Napo...

The .30-30 or.30 Winchester Center Fire cartridge has been with us for 130 years now and it is still considered a capable hunig round. This chapter focuses on this carrttridge, replicating itts original ballistics and focusing on such interestiing versions as the .30 Short Range cartridge. Learn ...

Follow Capandball in his research for the magical number, the muzzle velocity of a rund ball fired from an early 16th century snap matchlock arquebus. This is all based on primary contemporary sources. Recreating bullet alloys, bullets, 16th century powders, powder charges to arrive to the starti...

Today's film is focused on a new rifle by Pedersoli, the Boarbuster Shadow in 45/70 Government calibe. I had an argument with a friend of mine who stated that the 45/70 is useless above 80-100 meters. Well, here is the answer.

In this chapter Capandball is demonstrating the accoutrements of the early 16th century soldier armed with a snapping matchlock arquebus. Understanding the gear of the soldier inspires ideas about the tactical use of these guns.

Understanding the tactical benefits of a firearm is not possible without understanding all the accessories that were used for operating it. We are quite good with the age of muskets starting from the middle of the 16th century, but we lack a huge amount of information regading the first decades o...

Replicating the tinder sticks for early 16th century snap matchlocks guns added a lot of details to the use of these firearms. This is probably what we can call experimental archaeology. But it also raised new questions, like which one was better? The match that existed for centuries before or th...

This fim is about the earliest representation of the bandoliers for muzzle loading match-lock, tinder lock firearms. Follow Capandball in finding out what was the difference between the apostles of the muskets and these early designs for tinder-lock guns, and join the procedure of making it.

Follow Capandball on his beautiful winter time hunting journey in Hungary with the iconic Swiss K31 military rifle chambered for the 7.5x55 round. Watch as he reloads the cartridges, walks the woods and makes the Hungarian goulash/stew for the table.

This is the 3rd part of the repeating handgonne project, getting back to one of the sources, to a detail that I did not notice before. There is a very special remarod displayed on folios of Codex No. 3069 dated 1411, that can have an important role in making the system work.

The late 15th - early 16th century tinder lock or snap matchlock arms are a really intertesting part of the firearms history. In this chapter Capandball is going after an important tool for making it work: the tinder stick. So you are interested in the first type of gun that was fired with a trig...

We call it tinder lock and snap matchlock. And it can actually work with slow match or tinder as well. That's the first springed matchlock mechanism. Yesterday we had a great walk in the woods with the family and I collected some horse hoof fungus to make some tinder for a new gun manufactured fo...

Follow Capandball as he is going after the story an importance of the Tannenberg handgonne, the only properly dated 14th century European handgun we know about today. He covers its history, importance, but also a lot more. Gives insight to the accessories used in the 14th-15th century, and invest...

This is someting that probably nobody did in he past 300 years in Central Europe. Capandball is embarking on an adventure to hunt wild boar the 17th century way with a wheellock carbine. Parallel to this story he will be investigating the circumstances that led to the tragic death of one of the m...

This is the second chapter of Capandball's handgonne series. Follow him as he is proving the concept of the automatic fire of the medieval handgonne. An experimental archaeology project based on 14th and 15th century sources.
Part I: https://www.weaponsandwar.tv/cap-ball/videos/handgonne-full-pa...

In this video Capandball is following original 15th and 16th century sources to test an interesting and quite dangerous method of loading a muzzle loader for turning a single shot hand cannon into a repeating arm. Have you ever heard of drilled slugs or superimposed charges? Here is your chance t...

Have you ever wondered when was the last occasion when anybody carried a Hall flintlock breech loading military rifle in the woods to deliver food to the family table? Well, Capandball did it and recorded the hunt for you. Follow him to Gyulaj, Hungary and be part of the adventure and prepare the...

The star of today's show is the Swiss M1842 Stutzer or percussion military rifle. This large calibre cap-and-ball rifle is half way between a military rifle and a civilian target rifle and this was the first - not so strictly - standardized rifle of the federal army. Both its features and both th...