Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "British Naval Small Arms of WW1 - with C&Rsenal" video.
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Regarding hot brass. When I was in Army ROTC, we were one of the first units to enroll women as a test. Anyway, we took the Freshman class out to fire for familiarization one Satuday in the Fall and I was assigned as a safety NCO (all the Juniors were NCO's, I was a Cadet Sergeant First Class). So, we're having a great time, blasting away, when one of the female cadets screams. All the range safety personnel yelled, "Cease Fire!" while the range officer and range NCO ran to find out what had happened. Somehow, Lord knows how, hot brass from somebody (probably not her) had found its way down in her fatigue shirt and was caught in her bra! I think the thought in all male cadets' minds was "Here, I'll help you get it out", she being pretty and from we had seen when we ran into her at the pool, had a nice figure.
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1) It's “Rifle Number 1 Mark III*” - and I've read extensively on WW1 and WW2 and no one ever called it the “Smelly”. 2) Sir Charles Ross deserved to go to prison for the damage he did to the Canadian war effort. Having said that, the Ross Rifle remained in service as a sniper weapon as they could be expected to take better care of it than the PBI in the trenches and it was supposed to be more accurate than the Lee-Enfield. 3) Arisaka's easy recoil. It fired a 6.5mm round as opposed to the British standard .303 (7.7mm) 4) Mauser 1912. Eleven other Latin American countries besides Chile adopted the 7mm Mauser as their standard caliber and it made sense for the Chilean army and navy to use the same round and rifle. 5) The Remington Rolling Block was one of the most popular single shot shoulder weapons (made as both rifles and carbines) ever made, adopted by 44 countries. 6) M1892 lever action is the little brother of the highly successful M1886 and was made as both a rifle (“Musket”) and carbine and was a product of the genius firearms designer John Moses Browning. It was designed to fire pistol ammunition, by far the most popular being 44-40. This allowed one's sidearm and long arm to fire the same ammunition. 7) .455 Browning M1911. In the 1980's I stumbled on a .455 Browning in a gun shop. The shop had not examined it closely was selling it as a garden variety used .45ACP M1911. I was attracted to it as it looked to be a genuine M1911 (not an M1911A1), something I had only seen in museums. When I examined it, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was stamped with “CALIBRE .455” and “RAF” and the Royal Broad Arrow. Needless to say, it left with me. I can still find ammunition for it, one small US manufacturer makes about one run a year. I shoot it once or twice a year, I don't want to shoot an antique out. Note that the .455 Webley Automatic Round is not the same as .455 Webley Revolver Round (also known as .455 Eley). 8) Confusingly there were two M1917 revolvers! The Colt New Service Revolver. Introduced in 1898, the US Army adopted it as the M1909 as an interim step to replace .38 caliber pistols prior to adoption of the M1911. It was adopted by Canada in 1898 in 45 Colt to arm its troops in the Second Anglo-Boer War and subsequently adopted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “New Service revolvers, designated as Pistol, Colt, .455-inch 5.5-inch barrel Mk. I, chambered for the .455 Webley cartridge were acquired for issue as "substitute standard" by the British War Department during World War I. British Empire Colt New Service Revolvers were stamped "NEW SERVICE .455 ELEY" on the barrel, to differentiate them from the .45 Colt versions used by the US (and Canada).
The Colt New Service was a popular revolver with British officers and many of them had privately purchased their own Colt New Service revolvers in the years prior to World War I as an alternative to the standard-issue Webley Revolver. British Empire and Canadian forces received 60,000 Colt New Service revolvers during World War I and they continued to see official service until the end of World War II. The U.S. Army Model 1917 was created to supplement insufficient stocks of M1911 pistols during World War The Colt M1917 Revolver was a New Service with a cylinder bored to take the .45 ACP cartridge and the half-moon clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position. Later production Colt M1917 revolvers had headspacing machined into the cylinder chambers, just as the Smith & Wesson M1917 revolvers had from the start. Newer Colt production could be fired without the half-moon clips, but the empty cartridge cases had to be ejected with a device such as a cleaning rod or pencil, as the cylinder extractor and ejector would pass over the rims of the rimless cartridges. As a result of these issues, a commercial rimmed cartridge the .45 Auto Rim was developed that allowed the M1917 to be fired without the need for moon-clips. After World War I, the revolver gained a strong following among civilian shooters. The M1917s saw action again during World War II, when it was issued to "specialty troops such as tankers and artillery personnel."[11] During the Korean War they were again issued to support-troops. The M1917s were even used by the "tunnel rats" during the Vietnam War. The Smith and Wesson Hand Ejector was the basis for the other hand cannon designated M1917. “From 1917 to 1919, Colt and Smith & Wesson produced 151,700 and 153,300 M1917s in total (respectively) under contract with the War Department for use by the American Expeditionary Force. The revolver saw prolific use by the "Doughboys" during World War I, with nearly two-thirds as many M1917s being issued and produced during the war as M1911s were.[6]
The military service of the M1917 did not end with the First World War. In November of 1940, the Army Ordnance Corps recorded a total of 96,530 Colt and 91,590 S&W M1917s still in reserve. After being parkerized and refurbished, most of the revolvers were re-issued to stateside security forces and military policemen, but 20,993 of them were issued overseas to "specialty troops such as tankers and artillery personnel" throughout the course of U.S. involvement in World War II. Overall, the two variants of the M1917 enjoyed over fifty years of service in the U.S. armed forces.
The British Army adopted it during World War I, and the Home Guard and the Royal Navy used it during the Second World War
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