Comments by "ZGryphon" (@ZGryphon) on "Forgotten Weapons Q&A November 2015" video.

  1. Speaking of interesting, charismatic, but not particularly rare or expensive guns, I recently acquired an Ortgies, which (for those of you who may not know) is a smallish pocket auto made in Germany starting just after WWI. It's in 7.65mm (also known as .32 ACP) and has the oddest safety I can recall encountering on an auto pistol. Otherwise unremarkable (except that it's oddly heavy for its size), but well-made and comfortable if you don't mind using a genteel pinky-out teacup grip. Well worth the $300 worth of other stuff I traded for it, just for its "huh, I never saw one of those before" value. Also, I am required by Federal law to add, "An Ortgies was mentioned in a short story by J.D. Salinger, you know." :) (Which reminds me - Ian, I sent you a YouTube PM a bit ago offering the loan of the Ortgies sometime if you have any interest in doing an FW item about it, but I have one of those weird pre-Google YouTube accounts and I'm not sure PMing from/to those even works, so I may as well mention it here too.)
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