{"id":25294,"date":"2024-08-18T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/ballistics-and-cartridges-of-the-us-smooth-bore-musket-of-the-1850-1860s\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T08:48:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:48:40","slug":"ballistics-and-cartridges-of-the-us-smooth-bore-musket-of-the-1850-1860s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/ballistics-and-cartridges-of-the-us-smooth-bore-musket-of-the-1850-1860s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballistics and cartridges of the US smooth bore musket of the 1850-1860s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Zj2jZIyOPo?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This time we take a short break in the series about the 1841 Mississippi rifle to talk about the musket cartridges and the ballistics of the US flintlock muskets. I compared their rate of fire and accuracy in the second part of the Mississippi series, and I\u2019ll be shooting the rifle and musket again to 100 meters in the next chapter.This part covers two topics related to the US M1821 or 22 smooth bore flintlock musket: the first topic is the ballistics of the musket, second is the cartridges.<br \/>Please support us on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandballPlease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandballPlease<\/a> visit us on History of Weapons and War: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/<\/a><br \/>Part I. The cartridges of the Mississippi rifle: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/reM11hgGtrE?si=f1qnPxTaNuUWaA6E<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/reM11hgGtrE?si=f1qnPxTaNuUWaA6E<br<\/a> \/>Part II. Mississippi rifle vs M1821 Musket: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5Rx8Ca7ORa4?si=UjsdLrkLMXnpBx3c<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/5Rx8Ca7ORa4?si=UjsdLrkLMXnpBx3c<br<\/a> \/>Part III: Whitneyville and the Mississippi rifle: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q4n7q3sZ4xA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q4n7q3sZ4xA<\/a><br \/>Magyar sz\u00f6veg: <a href=\"https:\/\/kapszli.hu\/az-1822m-sima-csovu-kovas-puska-ballisztikaja-es-toltenyei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/kapszli.hu\/az-1822m-sima-csovu-kovas-puska-ballisztikaja-es-toltenyei\/<\/a><br \/>Chapters:<br \/>0:00 Intro<br \/>1:27 Recreating the original ballistics of the cartridge from the 1850 Ordnance Manual<br \/>7:24 Setting the proper powder charge at the range<br \/>8:19 Energy, velocity, trajectory<br \/>12:07 The single ball cartridge<br \/>16:55 The buck and ball cartridge<br \/>21:02 Bundling cartridges<\/p>\n<p>#capandball #civilwar #ballistics #cartridges #history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time we take a short break in the series about the 1841 Mississippi rifle to talk about the musket cartridges and the ballistics of the US flintlock muskets. I compared their rate of fire and accuracy in the second part of the Mississippi series, and I\u2019ll be shooting the rifle and musket again to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/ballistics-and-cartridges-of-the-us-smooth-bore-musket-of-the-1850-1860s\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ballistics and cartridges of the US smooth bore musket of the 1850-1860s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}