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

  1. Looks like Burnside wasn't much better as a businessman than he was as a general.
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  2. 16:55 - Good on Karl for fighting fair. 👏🤝
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  3. ♫ Rocket baaaaalll... ♫
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  4. 15:44 - What's wrong with Phillips screws per se?
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  5. I love how gleeful the M2 gunner at 8:13 looks.
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  6.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  I think they meant that statement as (or, at least, I understood it as) "there are actual real-life soldiers who have sexually humiliated", not as "to be a real soldier, you have to sexually humiliate". Admittedly, not the best choice of words there.
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  7.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Video: about why real-life antitank rifles weren't generally used as sniper rifles. Master Gecko's comment: "Next episode: why don’t real soldiers teabag dead enemies", fairly-obviously intended to mean "why don't soldiers teabag dead enemies in real life". Dick Jifferson's reply to Master Gecko (for context): "im willing to bet a few have been teabagged irl, unfortunately" David Venegas's reply to Master Gecko: "Real soldiers do sexually humiliate killed enemies and civilians.", fairly-obviously intended as pointing out that "some soldiers do sexually humiliate killed enemies and civilians in real life", in the same vein as Dick Jifferson's earlier reply, rather than as a defense of sexually humiliating dead enemies and civilians. guppy719's reply to Master Gecko: "I guarantee you a real soldier has in fact teabagged a dead enemy.", again in the vein of "there is at least one real-life soldier who has actually teabagged a dead enemy".
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  8.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Do I what?
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  9.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  Do I what?
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  10. Convention of the gun gods!
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  11. In fairness, that was actually the case back during the World Wars, when the "sniper"/"sharpshooter"/"designated marksman" roles, and the rifles for those roles, hadn't yet separated; a sniper would have basically a standard bolt-action rifle, just one individually selected for having superior individual accuracy.
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  12. 7:46 - Maybe the Bergmann #3 was conceived of as a purse pistol?
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  13. Why did self-loading machineguns and self-loading pistols both come on the scene before the end of the 19th century, while self-loading rifles took decades longer to appear?
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  14. 5:36 - Also, remember that kinetic energy rises with the square of speed, so even a relatively-small increase in muzzle velocity produces a substantial increase in kinetic energy.
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  15. Caution, do not attempt to use the corkscrew as a corkscrew with the gun loaded. You will shoot someone with it.
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  16. Nothing wrong with your English; I've seen plenty of native Anglophones with worse! I'm glad your grandpa never had to trust his life to the Cursed Bitch.
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  17. 3:58 - "They bought Arisakas from the Japanese..." Oh, the irony...
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  18. The overall look of the FG-42 reminds me of a shark.
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  20. Squeee!!!!!
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  21. 6:39 - Did the armorer's kit, by any chance, end up going to the buyer of one or more of the German machine guns?
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  22. 10:53 - Mounting the trowel bayonet with the blade vertical to the right of the barrel actually seems to me like a more useful way of mounting it than the standard underbarrel mounting (which, for a trowel bayonet, would necessitate that the blade be mounted horizontally); with the blade on its side like that, you could wield the rifle+bayonet like an axe in an overhand chopping motion (using gravity to add to the force of the strike, instead of just the soldier's muscle strength), rather than being restricted to thrusting it or making side-to-side chops and slashes. (I suspect this might've been on the mind of whoever came up with that style of mounting!)
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  23. 8:35 - Why are Allen screws "obviously not something the military would've accepted"?
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  24. 6:25 - "PCP air gun" giggles
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  25. The problem with the idea of going to just one cartridge for both the rifles and the machine guns is that it isn't actually possible to go to just one cartridge. Even if you use the same cartridge in the infantry rifle and the GPMG, you still need a much heavier cartridge for the HMG, one that's way too powerful to be practical in any rifle other than specialized anti-materiel or long-range sniper rifles; as a result, you never get to the point of being able to simply grab rounds from your supplies and use them in whatever, and, as long as you still need to use segregated ammo supplies anyway, it ends up working better if you just give each class of weapon a cartridge optimized for it (an intermediate cartridge for the infantry rifle, a full-power cartridge for the GPMG, and a heavy cartridge for the HMG) rather than trying to share ammo streams between two or more weapons.
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  26. 4:20 - Are there any production 9mm Parabellum pistols that are built strongly enough to be able to safely fire the ammo marked as SMG-only?
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  27. Regarding the audio, I don't think you have to worry about how it turned out; I don't think I'd've even noticed the remaining traces of echoing if you hadn't apologized for them at the beginning of the video!
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  28. The prospect of five years in the brig probably wouldn't've been much of a threat to someone who'd been through the French Foreign Legion. ;-P
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  29. 4:57 - Also, the bit of carving on the right side might well aid in gripping the rifle, which would probably also help.
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  30. What could have been...
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  31. 34:00 - Come the heat death of the universe, the AK (in whatever caliber) will still be the go-to insurgent weapon.
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  32. 57:24 - Aren't the unit cost, logistical burden, etc., part of what makes a gun "the best rifle for the infantry" (or not)?
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  33. 52:44 - "Unless something radically changes..." There'd probably have to be a change in the laws of physics for caseless ammunition to become a serious contender.
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  34. 37:19 - Like the iPhone.
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  35. IIRC, the various sides in the 1946-48 Arab-Israeli war got shipped huge quantities of weapons that'd fallen into U.S. and Soviet hands in 1945 with the German surrender; that could easily explain the Syrian Sturmgewehrs.
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  36. I'm actually surprised the Islamic State didn't have full-up industrial ammo production going on.
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  37. 1:23 - I'm kinda surprised that motorcycle cavalry never really became a thing.
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  38. 6:48 - That C is actually a Cyrillic S.
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  39. Anyone else getting Sten vibes from the PPS?
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  40. Better hope there isn't a plane already above the airfield when you fire off one of those flares.
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  41. Did the jelled fuel create any difficulties with making sure the tanks were filled completely, without any voids?
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