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For those of you here who follow britishmuzzleloading forum on Youtube, Rob Enfield is a familiar figure. In this movie part, 1 of 2, he visits the UK and the Vickers Machine Gun Association, and gets to shoot a couple of full-auto Vickers MGs and two versions of the BREN light machine gun, said to be one of the very best of its kind ever produced.


I'll try and field any questions you might have about the events - just remember than here in UK there is NO NFA class 3 licensing like you have - Rob was in a VERY privileged position in the making of this movie. Serious question only, please.
 
What is the rifle at the start of the video? All in all a very interesting video.

Jack
Sadly, I have no idea about the details of the carbine - I suspect from the very basic sights that it is smoothbore, and probably issued to Sepoy Native troops in the Indian Raj post the 1857 Mutiny. Rob's headgear/kepi seems to support that possibility. I've emole him to ask for an answer.
 
Rob has spoge - it is a Pattern 44 Yeomanry carbine -

The British Pattern 1844 Yeomanry Carbine was adopted as a somewhat smaller and lighter variation of the Pattern 1843 Second Pattern Victoria Carbine. Both guns utilized a Pattern 1842 percussion lock, designed by George Lovell who was appointed the Small Arms Inspector at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock (RSAF) in 1840.

Lovell was a very forward thinking and modern armorer, and strove for uniformity in production, high levels of quality control and sought to produce the most modern and perfected percussion weapons in the world. Lovell's influence on British military small arms from the late 1830s through his tenure as Small Arms Inspector had a major influence on British military small arms design and production and his contributions are on par with those of his contemporaries James Burton at the Harpers Ferry Arsenal and Erskine S. Allin at the Springfield Arsenal.

The P-1844 Yeomanry Carbine had a 20" smooth bore barrel that was nominally .66 caliber, a reduction from the Victoria Carbine's .73 caliber bore. The smaller caliber was more in line with the traditional English carbine bore of .65 caliber. The barrel was secured to the stock by a screw through the tang of the breech and a pair of barrel wedges, of the same design that Lovell had introduced for the Pattern 1842 percussion infantry musket, which replaced the pin barrel designs that the British military had utilized since the late 1600s.

The gun had a simple fixed post rear sight; a captive swivel ramrod and a single brass rammer pipe to help keep the ramrod secured when not in use. The butt plate and triggerguard were also of brass. The triggerguard had a skeletonized pistol grip extension to its rear, similar to that of the Brunswick rifle triggerguard, and the forward bow sported a single sling swivel. A sling bar of about 7" in length was mounted to the left side of the carbine, secured at one end by the rear most lock mounting screw and at the front by a single screw through the stock and a brass escutcheon.

The carbine was 36" in overall length weighed in at slightly less than seven pounds. The carbine was produced from 1844 through the early 1850s and was finally made obsolete by the Pattern 1856 .577 caliber rifled percussion cavalry carbine. The Yeomanry regiments of the British Army were volunteer units, and the designation separated them from the standing "regular" army unit. Yeomanry Cavalry regiments like the Northhamptonshire Yeomanry have distinguished histories that go back to the 1700s.


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