"Hi, I'm Ian MaCollum and welcome to the British Museum."
@AustinLeeds
5 жыл бұрын
"Hi, I'm Othias, and this OOMPH is the British Museum, Mark I. Let's get it over to the light box."
@Player_Review
5 жыл бұрын
@@AustinLeeds That reply... So glorious!
@David_T
5 жыл бұрын
Great Response! I bet Ian owns more than 135 firearms.
@HaydnHaendel
5 жыл бұрын
You, fine fellow, should be on top of the comments
@roberthonan3492
5 жыл бұрын
May the blessings of Gun Jesus be with you!
@LauraAndres
5 жыл бұрын
"oooh aaahhhh watch them not sparkle!" Genuine LOL from this end.
@KennyHazy97
5 жыл бұрын
Never mind a gold-plated AK-47, I want a gem-encrusted flintlock rifle.
@narcoleptic8982
5 жыл бұрын
Same.
@bluemooninthedaylight8073
5 жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful deadpan sense of humor.
@51WCDodge
5 жыл бұрын
If you are fascinated by this sort of stuff, also try the Wallace Collection in London. They have some fantastic pices, the Damasine on some of them it glourious.
@TheLaceySocks
Жыл бұрын
Bedazzled gun, who knew?😊
@toddellner5283
5 жыл бұрын
I was hoping Ian McCollum would walk in
@TheLoxxxton
5 жыл бұрын
Oh God could you imagine!? Revolvers use cartridges only! He would faint on the spot. She also missed out percussion caps etc etc. I actually thought the British museum would have more firearms!
@toddellner5283
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheLoxxxton This was one of the few bad ones, but she's a collection manager, not a scholar or curator.
@alternativehero
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheLoxxxton The London Imperial War Museum is only 2 miles away, wouldn't make a lot of sense to have 2 museums filled with weapons that close together.
@mattiaseriksson6422
5 жыл бұрын
We need gun Jesus.
@404Dannyboy
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheLoxxxton Most of the firearms are in other museums.
@oddish2253
5 жыл бұрын
Turks: Adopted firearms early on. Japanese: Adopted firearms late but produces them in high quality. Albanian: Make it look pretty don't put a trigger guard. African: Whatever works.
@jacobgreengas7121
5 жыл бұрын
Firearms were first introduced to Japan in the 13th century, with the earliest examples dating from around 1270.
@atomic_wait
5 жыл бұрын
@@jacobgreengas7121 Yeah, Japan had firearms early, but their relative isolation and minimal internal conflicts starting in the early 1600s meant that local military technology stagnated in a lot of respects. No need for an arms race if you're kind of in your own little world and no one's fighting.
@CanalTremocos
5 жыл бұрын
@@atomic_wait Those are some hardcore alternative facts.
@MrEvanfriend
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure that thing would work.
@SuperFunkmachine
5 жыл бұрын
@@CanalTremocos If theres no wars then why make your gun better when you can make it fancy, need more shots have a gun bearer an loader.
@lukedealberdi3713
5 жыл бұрын
Think Sam Colt might have something to say about there being no muzzle loading revolvers
@lukedealberdi3713
5 жыл бұрын
@@alternativehero Technically correct but saying that all revolvers use 'bullets' definitely wasn't.
@vespadavidson2315
5 жыл бұрын
Black powder and ball.
@conorfoster2337
5 жыл бұрын
@@alternativehero pepper box revolvers disagree with you
@conorfoster2337
5 жыл бұрын
@@lukedealberdi3713 bullets are the projectiles, so yes all revolvers use bullets.
@lukedealberdi3713
5 жыл бұрын
@@conorfoster2337 so no lead balls then?
@narcoleptic8982
5 жыл бұрын
A Belgian copy of a Smith & Wesson in the Middle East collection? Don't tell Irving, he'll demand the Lewis chessmen.
@harrymoto6951
Жыл бұрын
At least over here in the colonies, a 'Bullet' is the bit that flies downrange and hits the target. A 'Cartridge' is what you put into the firearm, it's the thingy with the case, powder, bullet (projectile), and primer.
@Tigerrun
5 жыл бұрын
Rick from Pawn Stars would offer $500 for the collection. ‘I’m taking a risk here. Also, they need to be framed and that ain’t cheap’
@davidanderson7782
4 жыл бұрын
And I got to pay an idiot named Chum Lee to screw things up.
@billder2655
3 жыл бұрын
hahhaha the king of low balling, such a joke
@anttibjorklund1869
5 жыл бұрын
"Welcome to the Collection Manager's Corner." More like.
@cicad2007
5 жыл бұрын
I've seen a revolver that didn't use 'bullets'. Each cylinder hole was loaded with powder, wadding and lead the same as a musket, but fired in sequence the same as a revolver.
@davidweihe6052
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, that was James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok's favorite pistol, because he could reload it daily and check the powder (apparently, of low quality, often) and replace it if a cylinder had a bad charge.
@kiethlambert8681
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking. Evidently, she was never heard of a cap and ball revolver.
@kiethlambert8681
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidweihe6052 Wild Bill probably wasn't checking the quality of the powder. After loading the charge (powder) and ball into the cylinder you lever it down. Then you seal the cylinder with a mixture of corn meal and water. Similar to thick corn bread batter. Out here in the Western US it gets above 90 degrees F all of the time. Which makes that corn meal hard and brittle making it prone to falling out. I've been shooting cap and ball pistols since I was a teenager and I'm 54 now.
@anthonygraham834
3 жыл бұрын
Early Colt percussion revolvers were prepared like a muzzle loader using a tamping lever swivelling below the barrel. The charge was initiated by percussion caps struck directly by the hammer. Multiple cylinders (which just slipped off when the mechanism was open) were able to be purchased and could be carried to increase firepower.
@derekp2674
3 жыл бұрын
Have you never fired shot out of any of your revolvers?
@iirainey
5 жыл бұрын
The video was great and I appreciate The British Museum posting it, but a few things. 1. Snapping matchlocks predate both of the guns on the table by a few hundred years. So the snapping lock wasn't a Japanese invention. I realize she may have not said this exactly, but it came across that way in the manner the information was presented. 2. Bullet only refers to the projectile itself. Cartridge is the correct term for the whole package. Again thank you for this content, I love seeing this stuff pop up on my notifications.
@robertrobert7924
3 жыл бұрын
I worked @NMAI, Smithsonian in Collections and Conservation. Hello from across the pond. I helped to conserve our small collection of American Indian owned firearms to be displayed on Opening Day 2004.
@anger154
5 жыл бұрын
"This counts as a deadly weapon and has to be licensed as a shotgun" classic brits
@Player_Review
5 жыл бұрын
I just pretended it was one of the older satirical videos produced by The Onion.
@owllymannstein7113
5 жыл бұрын
In all fairness it would probably be pretty deadly if you attempted to actually shoot it.
@51WCDodge
5 жыл бұрын
UK firearmas laws are in essence quite simple. Prove you are a fit and proper responsible person and have a need to own a firearm. The detail is quircky, but I have no problem that society trusts me with a lethal device, I have to be responsible. Pity the same attitude isn't taken with motor vehicles.
@owllymannstein7113
5 жыл бұрын
That's cool that you don't care that society considers you a threat until you prove you aren't. Though since I don't actually wish to hurt anyone I prefer to be treated like I'm not a dangerous until I do something to prove I actually am.
@51WCDodge
5 жыл бұрын
@@owllymannstein7113 Now you are trolling. Society does not consider me dangerous, or I wouldn't hold a FAC.
@MultiVogon
3 жыл бұрын
Loved the 'Gunny Time' style cutaways, then straight into 100% British presentation style :-D
@danielcadwell9812
5 жыл бұрын
The lack of firearms knowledge is quite evident. You should have a talk with Gun Jesus.
@andrewjohnston4127
5 жыл бұрын
Amen
@woodbox665
5 жыл бұрын
Steve Earle has a song called "The Devils Right Hand" on his "The Mountain" CD where a verse goes; "my very first pistol was a cap and ball colt, shoots fast as lightnin' but she loads a mite slow. loads a might slow, soon found out, get you into trouble, but couldn't get you out. so i went and bought a colt 45, called it peacemaker, i never knew why, i never knew why, i didn't understand, mamma says the pistol is the devils' right hand the devils' right hand, the devils right hand nothin' touched the trigger but the devils right hand. a reference to muzzle a loading revolver being replaced with a quicker loading revolver that uses cartridges . as you can imagine, it being a bluegrass song, it didn't help our protagonist.
@slappy8941
5 жыл бұрын
Cap And ball revolvers aren't muzzle loaders.
@woodbox665
5 жыл бұрын
@@slappy8941 my forehead. you are right. but i think it is a distinction without a difference. it is still very slow to load. thanks for the correction.
@bozo5632
4 жыл бұрын
Cap and ball revolver is basically a muzzle loader with multiple chambers. Granted you don't technically load it through the muzzle but it's pretty close to the same thing.
@a.hollins8691
3 жыл бұрын
Is there any bluegrass song where anything goes right for the protagonist?
@robertschlesinger1342
5 жыл бұрын
There are many older and more unusual rifles and pistol than those shown. Surely you must have some very early examples, circa 1500.
@IPostSwords
5 жыл бұрын
That's a bit of a dream job, a collections manager for such a fantastic museum
@kleinjahr
5 жыл бұрын
Now if they would only post swords.
@IPostSwords
5 жыл бұрын
@@kleinjahr they posted an excellent video on a Sutton hoo sword the other week
@kleinjahr
5 жыл бұрын
@@IPostSwords Yes they did, quite interesting.
@Player_Review
5 жыл бұрын
Collections Manager would be much more fun than being the curator. Collection Managers are often involved with the acquisition of items, so that would be especially engaging were it a component of Wendy's role.
@stingfan4
5 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the scene in the Museum in Demolition Man "Wait,its the future. Where are all the phaser guns?"
@jeffreyrobinson3555
5 жыл бұрын
Rifles, can’t prove it but I bet the two matchlocks were not rifled. Fusil-fowling piece- musket- arqubus? Maybe but not rifle.
@LutzDerLurch
5 жыл бұрын
The japanese matchlocks muzzle looks smoothbore, but the turkish one looks suspiciously rifled
@billbartley3007
3 жыл бұрын
The Turkish one clearly is rifled. I have seen 16th and 17th century Turkish rifles.
@hernerweisenberg7052
3 жыл бұрын
"Revolvers allways use bullets" was my fav :D
@IndianaJoe3
5 жыл бұрын
I was hoping to learn the story behind why that revolver was in the museum. Oh well.
@ronjohnson6406
5 жыл бұрын
Me too. That revolver has to have some significance tied to who owned it. Because there is no reason why the museum would have an old, dug up, knock off schofield revolver.
@kiwibird8441
5 жыл бұрын
@@ronjohnson6406 maybe the fact that it is old and was a knockoff is all the significance it needs to be in the museum.
@neilwilson5785
5 жыл бұрын
If you ask them politely to do a 40 minute video, I'm guessing they would love to do it! YT has a reputation for hating anything that is 25 minutes.
@guile108
4 жыл бұрын
oi, do yew av a loicense to say "gun" mate?
@jlsmith4054
4 жыл бұрын
You should get together with Ian McCullum of Forgotten Weapons.
@ReddoFreddo
5 жыл бұрын
Love the epic Discovery Channel style heavy metal intermissions xD
@teaCupkk
4 жыл бұрын
Yup! When you're thin on substance, better go all out on gimmicky presentation and click bait.
@tommythecat4961
3 жыл бұрын
Props to the guy behind her for standing completely still for the whole duration of the video!
@troyclayton
4 жыл бұрын
She said the spark on the flintlock went straight into the touchhole, but every one I've seen (100ish?) it goes into the pan which ignites powder that burns through the touchhole. Most matchlocks had powder in pans as well. Are these guns somehow different?
@teaCupkk
4 жыл бұрын
They aren't. She just doesn't quite know how her "top 5 guns" work.
@jfridy
3 жыл бұрын
My family owns a Colt 1863 Revolver. It's a 6 shot design from the American Civil War. The gun actually does have to loaded with powder and ball, thought you pour into a exposed area of the revolving cylinder, not the barrel. Then you pack down the shot with a lever beneath the barrel. THEN you attach a small percussion cap to the back of each chamber. Then it's ready to go. Yeah, to load the 6 shots takes 3 to 5 minutes. After the war the ones that stayed in military service were converted to the new cartridge ammunition or replaced with cartridge firing guns within a decade. My dad still takes it out and shoots it once a year. It's actually sturdier than any modern kit versions he's tried.
@derekp2674
3 жыл бұрын
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@JimFortune
5 жыл бұрын
8:50 Early revolvers were cap and ball and did require "muzzle loading".
@willie_brydon
5 жыл бұрын
Well even with those you're not actually loading them through the muzzle, just the front end of the cylinder
@clickityclak6111
5 жыл бұрын
I was going to say this. My dad owns a reproduction Navy Colt black powder revolver.
@lukedealberdi3713
5 жыл бұрын
@@willie_brydon ever seen a pepperbox?
@DiggingForFacts
5 жыл бұрын
A chamber is not a muzzle, no matter which end you put the bullet it. The pepperbox is the only revolver that has to be muzzle loaded, although you could argue that a true revolver has a multi-chamber cylinder that needs to line up with one barrel and that the pepperbox straddles a gray area.
@JimFortune
5 жыл бұрын
@@DiggingForFacts Does a pepperbox revolve? Yes? Then it is a __________.
@rufousdederp
3 жыл бұрын
That rubber band gun is wild!
@Goldendragon003
5 жыл бұрын
Disappointed that no wheel locks were show cased.
@Player_Review
5 жыл бұрын
Those were expensive to make by default, so they always seem to objectively be 'work of art' worthy when they show up. I was also disappointed they either didn't have a wheellock available or they didn't make Wendy's top 5. Wheellocks are also beautiful in action, when captured with high speed camera and slowed down, a glorious site to behold. Even though it wasn't a wheellock, they must not have bid/won King Louis XV's Lorenzoni-system flintlock repeating rifle that Hauschka made around 1735 CE. Probably my favorite presentation rifle, makes the rifle in this video with all the oddly mounted gemstones look like a kid's macaroni art project. It sold for $182k in 2018, which I think the buyer made out very well on; So underappreciated for some of the works of art and historically important firearms to be exchanged for the low monetary values they are.
@51WCDodge
5 жыл бұрын
@@Player_Review There a re some beautiful examples of Wheel locks in the Wallace Collection.
@glypnir
4 жыл бұрын
It would be more interesting to me to hear about the reasons why the museum has these weapons, rather than an introduction to firearm types.
@deceptivepanther
5 жыл бұрын
She's describing a loaded centerfire 'cartridge' and describing the casing and primer as a 'bullet'. For the firing pin to hit a bullet, you'd have to contrive a way to load it backwards.
@hobbitilius
5 жыл бұрын
Well, could happen with a needlefire cartridge.
@deceptivepanther
5 жыл бұрын
@@hobbitilius Ha, good point. 👍
@Jasruler
2 жыл бұрын
Everyone nitpicking about the revolver thing: Chill out and go watch Forgotten Weapons.
@bustedfender
4 жыл бұрын
“...and the firing mechanism is a wing nut and an elastic band “ 🥴🤘🤣
@nicklackey6595
3 жыл бұрын
Cartridges!!!! Good lord.
@ltdannichols
3 жыл бұрын
She referred to the matchlocks as rifles. I would love to know if they were actually rifles or if she's throwing terms around.
@UAPJedi
3 жыл бұрын
You get the feeling Wendy can be a bit mischievous 😉
@dreamjackson5483
3 жыл бұрын
Great channel
@kenc2257
5 жыл бұрын
@10:33 Poor "Jeff," standing around for the entire video, and couldn't get a word in edgewise... [he did seem to perk up when Wendy was displaying the Albanian flintlock]
@bswins9648
5 жыл бұрын
Curator or not, I enjoyed the video very much. Wendy’s great. Knowledgeable and a great sense of humor. Hope she agrees to do more videos. 👍🏻
@The1Helleri
4 жыл бұрын
8:46 "Revolvers always use bullets." This is not so. In-fact one of the first revolvers adopted for service by the U.S. Military (the Colt 1860 Army) was charge and ball loading. They used caps on rear of cylinder nipples and a trip hammer to fire. They even had their own built in ram rod lever. There are quite a few revolvers before and after this that worked similarly. Though we start to see true bullets (conical combustion driven projectiles) a few decades previous to this, there was quite a bit of overlap in transition and revolvers were not originally designed for true cased bullets. In fact the revolving cylinder as a concept dates back to the mid to late 16th century from whence there are even a few example of revolving cylinder matchlock rifles. 9:14 "Apart from more modern repeating firearms. The revolver is the only gun that allows you to shoot more than one round before you need to reload." Except for contemporary double barreled muskets and repeating rifles (repeating rifles also date back to a little before the time of small arms revolvers). Granted, before the 1830's (for the most part) most firearms in use were single shot. But it's because that was the most affordable "will do" option for most people that would own a firearm; Not because the technology didn't exist yet. The development of firearms (as with many technologies) is not a step by step continuum. Rather new concepts were being tried very early on all the time. Often experiencing brief popularity. But for what ever reasons (usually down to people being generally bad at managing money, as apposed there not being a demand for a feature) they fall out of usage or never really take off until decades if not a century or so later. Even when old concepts get revised and see new interest there tends to be decades of transitional overlap. To the point where one could reasonably expect to see multiple radically different platforms for firearms being used within a single battle on both sides. Because if someone had something that worked, perhaps even passed down through their family, they didn't tend to run out and get the shiniest new thing. Firearms are not iphones. It's never been so clearly and distinctly iterative as portrayed here.
@bomber7837
5 жыл бұрын
This episode of not-so curator Curator's Corner was absolutely 'bang' on!
@foreyfriend145
4 жыл бұрын
My 2C$: 4:30 I find a nice match between the BGM and the Albanian gun, it seems that in the those days they didn't have electric guitars or vans to decorate like that. Long live Metal!. 8:30 Belgium!? Mrs. Wendy you just added to my already painful confussion, wasn't it that a Mexican gunsmith and his daughter blah blah then Di Caprio.. . The legend continues on at The British Museum.
@verdatum
5 жыл бұрын
And for a really jaw-dropping arms and armor collection, if you ever get a chance, visit the Tower of London. I was only supposed to be there for a couple hours; ended up spending an entire day.
@mallekgarson9127
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe the distinction is different in Great Britain, but I've always heard modern smokeless powder referred to as gunpowder and black powder as the older stuff for muzzle loaders
@TheLawDawg
5 жыл бұрын
Wendy seems like a lovely person, but as an American it is hilarious to see all the hand wringing over how Brits get panicked over firearms. I have more firepower in my house than they have in their whole museum and I have friends that have even more than I do.
@hueban1643
5 жыл бұрын
you have thousands of firearms in your house? what are you doing with all of them, building an iron throne for gun nuts?
@TheLawDawg
5 жыл бұрын
@@hueban1643 She said they have a hundred or so, unless I misunderstood, in which case I stand corrected. And yes, I have more :)
@hueban1643
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheLawDawg sorry, yes you're right she said they had around 6000 weapons and armour not firearms, my bad
@TheLawDawg
5 жыл бұрын
@@hueban1643 Civility on the internet - you have my respect sir.
@constanze_the_great
3 жыл бұрын
THIS WOMAN HAS THE COOLEST JOB EVER!!! 😎
@theexchipmunk
4 жыл бұрын
"Revolvers always used bullets" So yes, they did like every firearm in human history. I believe she meant cartridge, which is also wrong. We had front loading revolvers. Well middle loading. Percussion Revolvers using blackpowder a lead ball and percussion caps. Loaded by inserting the powder on the side into one of the bores in the cylinder followed by the ball, rotate a bit and use the integrated ram to press it in. Then rinse reapeat, put in the percussion caps and its loaded. A good example is the Colt Dragoon 1848.
@michaelgreen1515
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, be nice to see the inlaid pearl or if you have a decorated Montenegran.
@emilmckellar4932
4 жыл бұрын
The Colt 1851, 1860, 1861 Navy, Remington 1858, and the Lemat are some of MANY muzzle loading revolvers. How can she say that they don't exist
@mandelorean6243
Жыл бұрын
Hi, I'm Alec Baldwin, welcome to my gun collection!
@FlourescentPotato
3 жыл бұрын
wendy got the STRAP
@gregcampwriter
5 жыл бұрын
Watching this makes me grateful for the U.S. Constitution.
@thefreedomhouse1984
5 жыл бұрын
yea where would we be without the 270 mass shootings this year, I mean we would still have all our rights just like they do but those innocent people would still be alive. That's sarcasm BTW.
@gregcampwriter
5 жыл бұрын
@@thefreedomhouse1984 We haven't had 270 mass shootings this year.
@thefreedomhouse1984
5 жыл бұрын
@@gregcampwriter I'm sorry you are right its 297 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2019 Do you realize more people have died in Chicago since the start of the Iraqi war than in Iraq due to gun violence ?
@Mishn0
5 жыл бұрын
@@thefreedomhouse1984 fake news
@Mishn0
5 жыл бұрын
@@thefreedomhouse1984 do you realize that they are almost all cases of criminals shooting other criminals with guns that are already very illegal and exactly none of them are committed with "scary black rifles"?
@mikeshaw9873
3 жыл бұрын
Sadly very poor, lacking preparation and accuracy.
@trailingarm63
3 жыл бұрын
Have you got any ammunition? If nobody loads them they're not very dangerous at all.
@joejoelesh1197
5 жыл бұрын
Uh, I have most definitely shot a muzzleloading revolver. I am really hoping that I heard wrong, and she didn't say that they dont exist.
@JCElzinga
5 жыл бұрын
you don't load it from the muzzle though... you load it from the cylinder.... if you dont push it through 'the muzzle' is it really a muzzle loader? (BTW I have one around here too navy replica)
@joejoelesh1197
5 жыл бұрын
@@JCElzinga, I would still classify it as one as it lacks a through bored cylinder. There is also the example of the common pepper box revolver.
@JCElzinga
5 жыл бұрын
@@joejoelesh1197 The pepper box is a really good example i over looked. I think the normal ball and cap revolver is only classified as a muzzle loader for legal hunting purposes (at least in michigan). But from the point of view of a museum, since it doesn't load through the muzzle, it isnt a muzzle-loader is it? Either way you are right on the pepperbox...
@joejoelesh1197
5 жыл бұрын
@@JCElzinga HAY, a fellow Michigander! You dont hunt with that Navy, do you? I was never able to be accurate enough with my Army model to even consider it. I will stick with my classification of the single barreled civil war era revolvers as muzzleloaders. Another argument I would make is that the true classifications they should be using is "breach loading" vs "non breach loading".
@JCElzinga
5 жыл бұрын
@@joejoelesh1197 Nah, never hunted with one. I am a bow hunter, recurve (barebow but made with modern materials). I actually agree with you, but was trying to give this lady the benefit of the doubt. But there is no way for me to see pepperbox style as anything BUT muzzle loader.
@DonCrowder
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Good choices.
@ender4life
3 жыл бұрын
I want to see that black and white rifle in the background sooooo baaaaad
@pter7531
5 жыл бұрын
Love the series!
@Afro408
3 жыл бұрын
One would think that a curator of firearms at a museum, would know the difference between a ‘bullet (projectile)’ and a cartridge ( the combining of projectile, propellant and primer in one package) Otherwise, a good presentation of some interesting pieces.
@bordenfleetwood5773
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video! It's very interesting to see what the BM keeps, outside of its normal object collections. I would also like to express how interesting it is for me (from the U.S.) to see an English civilian handling firearms. She was very safe and professional, and handled everything appropriately, but there was also a complete lack of either familiarity or fear that this side of the Atlantic is not accustomed to seeing. The pieces displayed are wonderful examples from their nation of origin, and not generally objects that someone more opinionated about the subject would ever choose to discuss. I, for one, found it all fascinating. Again, thank you.
@uncletiggermclaren7592
Жыл бұрын
That "not accustomed to seeing" NONSENSE is just you being lead by the nose by talking heads on your "side of the Atlantic". You should be embarrassed to have uttered such a fatuous bit of twaddle.
@bordenfleetwood5773
Жыл бұрын
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 - In the States, everyone has an opinion about guns. Everyone. It's such a politically divided subject that it permeates our entire culture. Even people who are trying to be balanced and even for a speech or event end up expressing some kind of preference, either for or against the idea of firearms and firearm usage and ownership. The curator in the video expresses zero opinion. None. She doesn't care about anything that these object may represent in the modern day, and it doesn't affect her daily life or thoughts whatsoever. She is able to handle and discuss the objects like any other museum pieces. That was the point of my comment. The cultural difference expressed by her utter lack of subconscious preference was surprising. It was like watching an American getting asked about Hong Kong: we'd only have an opinion if we had a personal tie to the place, otherwise we'd just shrug and answer as best we can based on personal knowledge. The opinion wouldn't be informed by political alignment or any game of cultural telephone.
@uncletiggermclaren7592
Жыл бұрын
@@bordenfleetwood5773 Of COURSE she gave a dispassionate, academic opinion. You DO understand she is a Curator at the FATHER of museums? You think she is going to risk having a controversial opinion ?. That isn't in the job description. And actually I really think you do a dis-service to her counterparts in the more professional of the US Museums. No doubt the Curator of some "Yee Haw, Cowboys !" museum in Texas would allow himself a divisive opinion abut guns, but I confidently believe her counter-part in one of the actual SERIOUS US museums would be as professional.
@bordenfleetwood5773
Жыл бұрын
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 - You are being needlessly belligerent. The comments section are for comments, and I made an observation that I found interesting, and thought that others would, too. But, to your point... We have professionals in the U.S. every bit as worthy as the curator here. I spent the last five years working with several, though my specialties lie in a different profession. Our curators are passionate about their work and subject, knowledgeable, and seek to share that knowledge with patrons from any and all backgrounds. And... If any of them were to present the pieces in the video above, there would be a necessary several seconds in their presentation explaining the importance of considering the object as a historical piece, and urging their listeners to see the objects for their value to the historical narrative, rather than a statement on the museum's own stance towards the subject. After all, ignorance of that consideration - or willfully ignoring it - has recently cost us several statues throughout my country. Some were as pointless as a passive piece of internet art, true, but others carried a priceless historical value, and were destroyed by a bunch of fools with political agendas and cheered on by a nation of people who will, hopefully, one day wake up and realize what they've done. Especially in light of that, I'll stand by my original comment and its spirit. My countrymen currently struggle to see past their own noses when something that could be divisive is put before them, regardless of content or context, and the curator's dedication to her work, combined with her cultural lack of opinion on the matter, deserves to be recognized.
@uncletiggermclaren7592
Жыл бұрын
@@bordenfleetwood5773 Ah, you make your stance clear . . . a person who thinks slavery wasn't wrong, and people are complaining about "nothing". Thanks, that is all you needed to add for me to completely discount your opinion.
@ricecoffee3968
4 жыл бұрын
I once came across a walking stick shotgun, single barrel. Certainly a great piece of work. Would love to know more about the history of them, who and why. Great show.
@jeffreyrobinson3555
5 жыл бұрын
I think you will find a matchlock muzzleloading revolver in Henry VIII guns
@ingramjd
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your passion with us. I look forward to watching your expertise improve.
@tedberwick3186
4 жыл бұрын
She should be taught differences of bullet and cartridge.
@readmylisp
4 жыл бұрын
Off you go then ...Don't keep it to yourself.
@trin08201
4 жыл бұрын
Many muzzle loading revolvers. Beaufort Adams etc.
@Foximillions
3 жыл бұрын
Revolvers don't always use bullets, there are some very early American western revolvers that need to be muzzle loaded and setup off with percussion caps, Colt first made the Colt Walker percussion cap and ball revolver in 1836, they're really interesting, you should check them out if you have an opportunity, cool guns btw
@liamfisher917
Жыл бұрын
Colt pistols aren't muzzle loaded. They are loaded into the cylinder, not down the barrel. So not muzzle loaded. You're not ramming the load down the barrel.
@Tulip1811
Жыл бұрын
the bullet is the part that comes out the barrel, youre thinking of cartridges.
@JGMoore
5 жыл бұрын
I think a part of my brain just died. She was all over the place and no landing zone.
@daviddalton9214
5 жыл бұрын
It will be missed.
@JGMoore
5 жыл бұрын
Spit happens @@daviddalton9214
@derekp2674
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, that was an interesting look at a few of your firearms.
@Jezus42
5 жыл бұрын
In no way would you damage other items of antique. I cant Express how mad I am. Why did you ruin those guns?
@ArcanisUrriah
4 жыл бұрын
probably deactivated before they got them.....
@JohnnyBlaze5100
Жыл бұрын
Yes my love
@davetremaine9688
18 күн бұрын
Wow, within a minute the woman says guns(inanimate objects) can hurt people
@Oblithian
3 жыл бұрын
"they can cause injury", but swords, axes, pikes, maces, hammer... glass display cases, none of those can cause death easily?
@archerc4828
4 жыл бұрын
Best handgun. Anything by Browning. Best long gun, anything by Browning.
@ruhalfoyls
4 жыл бұрын
any one noticed they use the trigun music with a minor alteration?
@captainchaos3053
3 жыл бұрын
Not all revolvers use a full cartridge round. Colt could argue this point if you contact them.
@mf--
3 жыл бұрын
"Deactivated" is what some people would call "partially destroyed."
@ryansutter4291
4 жыл бұрын
I love how she's real about it..."The things she gets to play with......"
@cesarvidelac
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, I hope you can show us some more examples of your collection, I'm sure there are many more interesting items to show there. Thanks for sharing!
@vigunfighter
5 жыл бұрын
OMG! That was HORRIBLE! She doesn't know guns and got SO MUCH wrong! Ugh. Try to forget that you watched this video....
@danjohnston3422
7 ай бұрын
Wendy's habitual use of "bullet" when she means "cartridge" is off-putting. She's a capable person, reasonably well versed in the topic, but man, that just grates.
@davidpowell5437
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Wendy for showing us these items from the vaults. Please show us more, sometime, but may I suggest, restrict your comment to dates and places. I can tell that you are a bit out of your depth on the technical side - but do show us anyway! Some of the stuff in museum back rooms hardly ever gets seen. by the public which is a great pity. Mind you, there seems to be a fair bit of confusion among your commenters too... Here's a few points which might help. Most modern small arms use what is called fixed ammunition - projectile, propellant and igniter all fixed together in a single handy package thus enabling a much higher sustained rate of fiire. Muzzle loaders initially used loose powder and ball which were inserted from the muzzle along with one or more wads or a cloth patch wrapped round the ball in order to get a better seal. The ignition source was usually on the outside of the gun - slow match, some sort of friction fire lock or percussion cap. Military musketry advanced to the point of using pre measured charges of powder wrapped up in (cartridge) paper together with a ball. It reduced wastage and rigorous drill enabled a higher rate of fire than messing about with powder horns etc. Their lubrication provided the tinder from which the Indian Mutiny took off FWIW in the uk, like it or not, cap and ball revolvers are legally classed as muzzle loaders and that is why they are one of the few types of handguns we are still permitted to own so I'll thank you not to argue the point too loudly. Again, before the introduction of metallic ammunition cartridges were sometimes made by wrapping powder in tissue paper specially treated to burn fast and without residue (Think Rizla!). These often used a conical bullet rather than a ball. It is not illegal to do this today - the ignition source is still separate - but opinions I have read suggest that loose loading is more accurate.
@wendeln92
3 жыл бұрын
"Revolvers always use bullets"......."don't have to muzzle-load them".... Well, yes revolvers and most guns use some sort of projectile - i.e.a bullet. Revolvers are not loaded like a muzzleloader - i.e. through the muzzle of the barrel, but they are still loaded very similarly through the front of the chamber of the cylinder with a loading lever taking the place of the ramrod. This is true whether the cartridge is paper or cloth. The bullet for a revolver whether it is a M1851 Colt Navy or Army Revolver, M1861 Colt Army or Navy revolver, Remington 1858 New Army Revolver, British Adams & Dean revolvers, Kerr Revolvers, Le Mat revolvers, etc, etc, etc. could be a round lead ball, a lead tear drop shape, a lead conical shape, etc., etc. etc. The lead bullet ab black powder charge could be separate or they could be combined to form a CARTRIDGE. Later revolvers c. 1866+ used a brass cartridge with powder charge, lead bullet and percussion cap (igniter) combined into a handy-dandy way of loading a revolver, breech-loading rifle and/or carbine. There were weapons that used brass/paper and cloth cartridges during the American Civil War period, but most revolvers still used the old method of loading. To be continued....
@wendeln92
3 жыл бұрын
All the parts of the revolver are made of metal, except for the grip/handle which could be wood, ivory, hard rubber, plastic (later)etc, etc. which was missing from the example she showed. There were many types of repeating or multi-load firearms from the later 18th century on wards through the 19th century that were not revolvers though there was the M1855 Colt New Model revolving rifle which basically took a side-hammer revolver added a rifle stock and long barrel. Also, other weapons that could be fired several times before being reloaded which were no revolvers could include the Spencer reaping carbine/rifle and the Henry repeating rifle both of which used brass cartridge shells with lead bullets. Also, many guns/weapons from the past could be appreciated for their beauty / craftsmanship, etc, etc. and don't have to be highly decorated. I would not rate this video very high simply because the presenter did not seem to know very much about guns / weapons. You don't have to be an expert in military weapons to appreciate the quality, craftsmanship, cultural and aesthetic/artistic qualities, but you should at least have some accurate basic knowledge and/or the ability to transmit that knowledge to an audience.
@wendeln92
3 жыл бұрын
OOPs!!! Corrections - ..."lead bullet AND black powder charge"..."which were NOT revolvers"......."Spencer REPEATING carbine/rifle".. sorry don't know how to edit postings.
@adriannespring8598
4 жыл бұрын
Epic job and collection!! 😍
@Infidelmedic
4 жыл бұрын
As an ungrateful rebellious colonial...I find this pretty funny. LOL....I bet I have more firepower in my living room. Citizens are armed, so we may never be subjects!
@bobsmalser8304
3 жыл бұрын
Revolvers take cartridges, not bullets, which is merely the projectile contained in the cartridge.
@derekp2674
3 жыл бұрын
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@bobsmalser8304
3 жыл бұрын
@@derekp2674 Except you are displaying a Belgian cartridge revolver, not a front-loading percussion revolver.
@patricknorthrup7708
3 жыл бұрын
My American ass is getting wayyyyy too excited for this video...yee yee!
@Contact_Info
4 жыл бұрын
Deactivated is destroying it
@M14Bolt
3 жыл бұрын
regarding the Albanian flint lock. May I humbly suggest that it is a palace guard's weapon. Such a soldier would have both security and ceremonial duties so and ornate but fire ready weapon would be needed. Your statement that all revolvers use bullets is incorrect. The Colt Navy 1861 is a muzzle loading revolver that uses paper cartridges and the cap and ball system. There was a lever type ram rod permanently fixed to the barrel, and yes, it must have been awkward to use.
@Golshanim
3 жыл бұрын
Do you have any bows? I am a traditional archer and have been lucky enough to have been given private access to the archery section in the military museum in İstanbul. I have been a member of BM for years but I have not seen any bows. Could you please let me know? Thank you
@GiordanoBruno42
5 жыл бұрын
@forgottenweapons
@troyweatherford2428
3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunate that firearms are treated as taboo in Britain, and that some of these historical pieces have been essentially destroyed by deactivation
@iroquoisplissken3583
3 жыл бұрын
In the US any gun 100 years or older is unregulated.....so you can get modern semi auto guns that are considered “antique”.
@stevenmarry6845
3 жыл бұрын
great vid..wendy should make more episodes
@gustavmeyrink_2.0
4 жыл бұрын
Don't like looting? You'll hate the British Museum. ;)
@readmylisp
4 жыл бұрын
Or most any museum.....especially ones stuffed with Napoleonic loot.
@michaelburmeister9529
Ай бұрын
It's a "cartridge," not a "bullet." A bullet is the projectile portion of a cartridge.
@chuckschillingvideos
3 жыл бұрын
Were you to try to fire that Albanian, you wouldn't be worrying so much about the semiprecious stones that fell off the stock when you fired it. You'd be far more worried about the semiprecious stones which were once attached to the stock that are now embedded into your hand.
@jesscornelius2481
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine not having a first or second amendment and saying you live in a free country
@tomservo5007
5 жыл бұрын
will come back in a month to find a comment with a list of corrections with timestamps -- love the internet
@jeffreyquinn3820
5 жыл бұрын
Matchlocks were used pretty extensively by Oda Nobunaga in Japan and General Qi Jiguang in China in the mid-16th century, from technology introduced by the Portuguese, although they didn't totally supplant the earlier style firearms in northern China until the Qing conquest of Mongolia. There is some textual evidence that the matchlock arquebuses used by Qi Jiguang's troops were in some ways superior to the weapons encountered by the British in the early 19th-century opium war, but it is also suggested that early 19th-century coastal troops, especially the Green Standard (constabulary) troops the British encountered, were not well equipped compared to troops elsewhere in China.
@mattmoore1882
4 жыл бұрын
wow, very shocking reminder about the difference between the UK and the USA...yikes
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