Firing of flint lock carbine.

[TexaS]

Here's one to train your Swedish... some good extra footage.



Scientists at the Vasa museum made the replica from an original.
Enthusiasts were present at the firing. (The guy in uniform is almost 100 years too late.)
350 m/s muzzle velocity.
Slow motion filmed in 4000 pictures a second.
Some of the cannonballs hit some furs 500 meters behind the target.
The purpose was primarily shrapnel (or splinters).

[Bligh]

Yes! Another good find Jonas. A far larger example of what we found when we fired a musket ball at an old oak desk lid, and decided that gun fights from behind card tables or horse troughs unless they were filled to the brim, was asking for trouble.
Rob.

[Bligh]

This one is really just a bit of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsN1GvqSG2I

Rob.

[Comte de Brueys]

Here's one to train your Swedish... some good extra footage.

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Scientists at the Vasa museum made the replica from an original.
Enthusiasts were present at the firing. (The guy in uniform is almost 100 years too late.)
350 m/s muzzle velocity.
Slow motion filmed in 4000 pictures a second.
Some of the cannonballs hit some furs 500 meters behind the target.
The purpose was primarily shrapnel (or splinters).

Impressive...

Any save place on a sailing ship.

I can understand that the British trained their crews like hell to deal out more broadsides...

[Bligh]

They keep telling me that the Orlop deck is the safest place to be, but why would any sailor wish himself there unless he were a Loblolly boy or Surgeon.
Rob.