Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1.  @allangibson2408  And .22 Extra Long, .22 BB, .22 CB...
    1
  2. Is it just me, or did the gun seem to cycle noticeably slower with that last magazine?
    1
  3. The Chauchat's magazines remind me of nothing so much as some sort of pastry.
    1
  4.  @alexm566  I was asking about American -produced guns imported into Europe, not about native European ones.
    1
  5. 9:10 - If you break an extractor finger, shouldn't it still be possible to have a new one custom-made somewhere?
    1
  6. Why would stamped metal parts have lower trace-metal requirements than forged ones? Both of those processes involve pressing the metal into shape under force; the difference is basically just whether it's cut before or after shaping.
    1
  7. What's the cause of that prolonged thunder-roll sound following each shot in the chronograph footage?
    1
  8. Watching Karl shoot, working a lever action looks a lot quicker and smoother than reaching up to cycle a bolt; I'm pretty curious why militaries essentially abandoned lever-action rifles in favor of bolt guns.
    1
  9. 0:30 - Ethiopia isn't in NATO either, but you referred to their 7.62x51 as "NATO"...
    1
  10. Genuinely curious; would it be possible for some of the speed dispersion seen by the chronograph when you're testing rounds to be due to slight differences in the angle at which the bullet passes through the 'graph (slightly altering the length of the path it has to follow between the two gates)?
    1
  11. Did American manufacturer-proofed guns imported into Europe have to be re-proofed at a European proof house before being sold?
    1
  12. 16:41 - Is "Rick B" the name of the seller?
    1
  13.  @josephledux8598  The Abrams does have reactive armor, just not explosive reactive armor.
    1
  14. 14:23 - ...That is, assuming you put your own name on the guns. I can just imagine someone making counterfeit Colts putting a different manufacturer's name on them to cover their tracks and potentially get a competitor in legal hot water...
    1
  15.  @ForgottenWeapons  Could it've been adapted to a belt-feed system?
    1
  16. 4:50 - "...and an anvil that prevents the hammer from just pushing a primer around." Theoretically, there's another possibility; if the hammer hits the primer at a high-enough speed, the primer's own inertia can serve as the anvil, removing the requirement for a separate physical anvil. In practice, good luck getting the hammer to move that fast.
    1
  17. 8:51 - ...Um, is the explosive powder supposed to be accumulating static electricity like that?
    1
  18. I wish this'd been adopted as the standard U.S. service bayonet.
    1
  19. 1:34 - Technically, there is still a situation where there's a requirement for a working model, but it only applies if you're trying to patent a perpetual-motion machine.
    1
  20. 32:44 - I am curious, and slightly afraid, to know what a police department wanted a flamethrower for.
    1
  21. 21:41 - One of the big uses for TEA nowadays is lighting big rocket engines, where you really want reliable immediate ignition (if unburned kerosene and oxygen get a chance to pool in the combustion chamber and only then ignite, the engine tends to explode).
    1
  22. 10:28 - Bad news for historical accuracy, that is. Good news for the Germans in those real-life bunkers who were probably quite glad that they weren't flamethrowered...
    1
  23. I'm curious why they used a battery-powered rather than a piezoelectric firing mechanism; piezoelectric crystals don't lose their power just sitting on the shelf.
    1
  24. 8:54 - It does sound just like a mouse click!
    1
  25. What's wrong with straight blowback for a .45? Straight-blowback guns have been mass-produced and work just fine with calibers all the way up to and including .45 ACP.
    1
  26. 12:19 - Would the routine use of suppressors on standard rifles really expose the riflepeeps to enough carbon monoxide to create toxicity concerns?
    1
  27. 18:09 - Finally, the Army moves away from auto-fouling rifle actions!
    1
  28. 5:15 - ...How does 80kpsi blow out the back of a cartridge case when the bolt face is in the way?
    1
  29. If the pressure inside the case is enough to bust brass, won't making the rear of the cartridge out of steel simply mean that, instead of the rear cartridge face rupturing, the cartridge parts at the junction and the steel base flies backwards while the brass sticks in the barrel?
    1
  30. Well, you certainly opened it... now it's dispersed all over the range.
    1
  31.  @alexsis1778  It kinda does make sense; shotguns are way less powerful than rifles of equivalent caliber.
    1
  32. 11 inches of armor penetration... that's thicker than the armor of a lot of warships.
    1
  33. 14:19 - Basically, the cartridge case is the liner, not the structure.
    1
  34. The black-powder era's Fat Mac - basically as big as you can make a gun before it starts being an artillery piece.
    1
  35. Light weight is basically the only advantage aluminium has (at least, in non-electrical applications).
    1
  36. And to top it all off, it was designed to replace something that didn't need replacing.
    1
  37. 25:04 - Ah, yes, because of course fouling only accumulates in the chamber itself.
    1
  38. German? Looks to me like HK'd been importing Swiss watchmakers...
    1
  39. 4:37 - Even with a shaped charge, the velocity of the shell pre-detonation is still going to add to the velocity of the metal jet that the shaped charge spits out.
    1
  40.  @vksasdgaming9472  Adding the shell's 1 km/s forward speed (in reality likely considerably more, as the shell is going to be going faster, not slower, than a rifle bullet, due to the shell's higher ballistic coefficient meaning it gets slowed down less by aerodynamic drag) to the 10 km/s speed of the metal jet increases the jet's total speed by 10%, which results in a 21% increase in the metal jet's kinetic energy (remember, kinetic energy is proportional to the square of speed) relative to what it would've been if the shell were detonated while stationary, which translates into an equivalent 21% increase in the shell's penetration capability. Hardly "irrelevant".
    1
  41. Rack of six Thompsons on the wall behind Ian: "I feel inadequate."
    1
  42. 1:25 - Also, it [the magazine] looks ridiculous.
    1
  43. It seems to me like the best way to use this would be to fire it as you're in the process of stabbing/slashing your opponent with it, for extra damage.
    1
  44. 2:10 - The second line there looks more like a romanization of Ancient Egyptian than anything remotely resembling German.
    1
  45. Any idea why the early intermediate cartridges (7.92×33 mm and 7.62×39 mm) were made by shortening the cartridge but leaving its diameter unchanged, while later intermediate cartridges (5.56×45 mm and 5.45×39 mm) were made by reducing diameter while leaving the length be?
    1
  46. Wouldn't've mattered; the Army'd still've rigged the tests so that the M14 won.
    1
  47. 9:34 - Good aim hitting the camera with that ejected shell! :-P
    1
  48. "This is apparently much more of a debate than I would have anticipated online" Welcome to the internet.
    1
  49. 4:19 - Hold on... a Chinese mystery pistol experienced someone trying to shoot out a squib with another bullet... and held together?!
    1
  50. Were you experiencing microphone problems when filming this video? For most of the scenes, your voice is only audible on the left channel; the right channel only has a (fairly-loud) hissing sound, and even the left channel is somewhat hissy as well.
    1