Modern Ammunition – A Short History
Modern Ammunition – A Short History
The modern metallic centrefire cartridge is an incredibly efficient piece of design, but it didn’t come into existence because of one large technological advancement, instead it is a product of a multitude of small iterative improvements.
The modern metallic centrefire cartridge is an incredibly efficient piece of design, but it is a product of a multitude of small iterative improvements, rather than one single technological advancement.
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Your video is very good. I am surprised it doesn’t have that many views.
As some of you eagle eyed viewers may have noticed some of the ammunition on screen isn’t quite what it seems.
As you should be able to tell from my voice, I’m English, and whilst firearms are far from banned, they are stringently controlled, and I don’t have a firearms licence.
This means that I can’t legally possess ammunition, so I’ve had to do a little fakery. The Centrefire cartridges that you see on screen are real in a sense, except, they’ve been fired.
They are just a brass case, and a bullet, they have no propellant, and the primer has been fired.
The musket ammunition is entirely faked. The musket ball is a lead slingshot ball, the cloth patch is just a piece of cloth that I’ve cut up, and the “black powder” is actually the waste products from a wood burning stove.
In non-covid times I probably would have been able to film more of the real deal, but I don’t feel it detracts from the video.
the exact video to my question!
Lucky to found this channel early.
I wonder the future ammunition will be, maybe we will do away with ballistics all together?
Owe that great feeling when you find a Gem of a small of a small channel.
the explanation with the animation is is easy to understand and fun to watch, great video!
You forgot to mention about brass cartridges , at one time copper was used, making the shell too soft to extract, leading to jams
This needs more views. I am glad I was searching for “invention of modern bullet”, so I found this. Great video!