Why was the repeating musket not used? #shorts

[stakuyi]

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[badboycooking]

Those danish royal guardsmen must of felt like the most badass soldiers in the world back then

[randomguy]

Imagine fighting in the middle of a bloody battle and your gun broke so you would have to send it to a different country to make it so you could use it again.

[JonnesTT]

You mean to tell me that was literally an epic rarity weapon reserved for the best equipped soldiers of the planet?

[OBurny]

well now I have a gun that makes sense for shooting every 6 seconds for dnd

[chaselegoman]

Imagine you're trying to break into the Danish royal palace, and you hear one of the guards yell, "suppressing fire!" before racking this gun.

[stetonwalters]

Actually during the siege of Copenhagen in 1659 one of Charles the 10th bodyguards had a Kalthoff repeater that held 50 rounds

[alexandernewman]

"Never underestimate the ability of privates to screw things up" ~ Every Platoon Sergeant Ever

[serenahiggins]

Then, thanks to Eli Whitney, we get interchangeable parts. This allowed for the modern manufacturing process. Before one weapon would have its parts. If one thing broke it couldn’t be replaced easily. After Whitney got to work weapons were much easier to make. Along with farm equipment and such. He also invented the cotton gin. He was a pretty cool person.

[togglefire]

Yeah there was basically two types of guns in the early days of weapons like that. Over engineered complicated pieces of equipment or literally a tube attached to a stick.

[jz]

As a modern gunsmith I can assure you it is absolutely an art. Still is, mass production, commercialization, and industry standards can make it all feel corporate, robotic, and if you ask me, bureaucracy sucks the enjoyment out of life. But even then, I do custom jobs all the time, helping guys save money the whole way while I go all out on trying to make the best product out of what I can. And it is so fulfilling, far more than I had ever realized it could be. Now all that’s left on the list is land and a still, then I’ll be ready to go full OTG🙌🤣

[Groovebotk]

The history of firearms makes it abundantly clear why adding firearms to D&D isn't the disruptive technology some would think it would be.

[OutOfPrintGM]

I recall reading somewhere that Napoleon was offered a break action musket but he turn it down because he thought it was too technical for the average soldier to use and maintain

[panzermensch]

I hate debating semantics. However, I feel you're a man who appreciates semantics. The Kalthoff repeater was not semi-automatic, as it required more action to fire than simply squeezing the trigger again. I suppose the best definition for it would be a lever action, since you lever the action to load a new ball and round.

Love the vids man, keep it up.

[fainterdot]

There’s also the fact that repeaters before the invention and adoption of smokeless powder (basically anything before 1885) was prone to fouling due to the residue that black powder leaves behind after firing which jams up the moving parts in the action causing friction and making it less reliable unless you clean it very regularly. That’s the same reason why no one could really make self loading weapons apart from a very few exception. One of them being Hiram Maxim with the actual first ever machine gun in 1884.

Also yes I know it’s just an easy comparison but the Kalthoff was not a semi auto musket. It’s a repeater with manual operation.

[jackpfefferkorn]

Back in the black powder days, it was basically impossible to have a halfway reliable repeating firearm. Black powder produces much more fouling of the barrel than the smokeless powder in use today, meaning you'd have to clean out the barrel frequently. Smokeless powder and metallic cartridges allowed for semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms to be built with relatively simple designs.

[joeyboi]

The idea of gunsmith families and I'm totally using it for a dnd character 😄

[rayne_brown]

There were a few pistols and long guns designs that were like that. They were complicated and expensive to both make and repair.

[willfakaroni]

every pre industrial machine gun is like that, genuinely so many people don’t understand that and just assume faster fire wins

[chriscombs]

Tvtropes has an entry that pretty much describes this situation perfectly: too awesome to use