Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. A badly bubbaed weapon that Ian did put his hands on and described for fun.
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  2. All the Carcano videos have been already filmed, so the pronunciation will remain the same in all of them.
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  3. The 9mm M882 ammo had a 124 grain bullet traveling at 1250 fps. 583 joules of energy The standard military .45 load had a 230 grain bullet traveling at 830 fps. 477 joules of energy.
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  4.  @marcuscook5145  I'm comparing the military loads the author of the comment carried. The result, like it or not, is that the 9mm had not " half the kinetic energy" of the .45 ACP but had more kinetic energy than the .45 he carried. M882 is not a "modern 9mm load" by any mean. It's almost 40 years old.
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  5. Sometimes I wonder what the viewers actually see when they watch theese clips. It's acutally a lot easier to strip field this than a BAR. The bolt of this gun is made of 4 parts in total. The one of an MG34 is made of 28 parts.
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  6. The Swiss never adopted it. It had been mainly used by the Italians in N. Africa.
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  7. Simply a disassembly is not a field strip. Wen you find a screw (IE on the Gew-43), it's not the designer being an idiot, and not knowing that a screw requires a scredriver. It's the designer telling you that you don't need to disassemble that part on the field. There is nothing that can really go wrong there and, in the improbable case it does, there's nothing you can do to fix it on the field. The rifle is not really complicate. Burst mechanism apart (an added part, not required for it to work) it's made with less parts than most current gas operated ARs. The bolt is an incredibly simple 6 parts one, charging lever included.
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  8. Yeah. It can fire bot the 9mm Luger and 9mm Glisenti, but for it was specifically developed and commonly used the "9mm M38" cartridge, that's a sort of super +P+ (124gr, 428m/s at the muzzle, so 732J of energy, that's in 357 SIG territory).
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  9. Just to say one, when Ian extracted the bolt, it was already assembled the wrong way. The plug should be ahead of the spring, not behind it.
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  10. The weapon had been higly successful, so much that the Austrians copied it, double barrel, tripod and all. At the end of the conflict a total of 14.564 MGs had been produced (so, more than 29000 barrels, VS only about 5000 MP18), and 836 millions of 9mm Glisenti rounds for them. Mind this. THERE WAS NOTHING BETTER AROUND. When the guy with the Villar Perosa, after having thrown a couple of offensive grenades into the enemy trench to stun the enemies, came over the edge with the SMG in his hands to clear it, he didn’t find the guy with the MP18 waiting for him. Because there was not any MP18, or anything similar. What he had in his hands was incredibly better for that role than anything the enemy had. After having adopted the Villar Perosa, the Italians took almos three years to develop the OVP18 and the MAB18 (that were nothing more than a single Villar Perosa barrel mounted on a Moschetto TS stock) not because the Villar Perosa was unsatisfactory, but because it was so satisfactory that none felt the urge to modify it.
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  11. For what it does it's simply bloated and overweight. What's offensive in this handgun is that they still had the Colt 1971 prototypes floating around, that only needed a decocker and a threated barrel to be a much superior pistol. Why they chose to use the Double Eagle trigger group, that was notoriously flimsy and prone to breakages (it was simply a mass produced Seecamp 1911 double action conversion, so an aftertought, for how much well conceived) for a pistol destined to high round counts is beyond me.
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  12. It's more an evolution of the MAB 18/30.
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  13. More a professionally fine tuned one.
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  14. Not "as a civilian" but "as a hunter". Many countries limit the number of rounds a shotgun used to hunt can have.
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  15. To counter cavalry charges. When those rifles had been designed, cavalry charges were still a thing (they had been made obsolete by machineguns, not bolt action rifles, but in late 19th century machineguns were still viewed as a rare and exotic thing) and, to counter cavalry charges, the rifle had to double as a spear.
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  16. It's a shoulder's rest. It's useful when you shoot in prone position.
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  17. 80 years ago maybe. Already the Bernardelli Semiautomatico of 1949 was a mechanical improvement, and later the Beretta gas action was on anoter planet, reliability wise, than any other semiauto shotgun.
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  18.  @someguy5444  A Beretta A300 is sold around 700$, a Stoeger (a beretta subsidiary) M3000 inertia driven for around $500,
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  19. The safety is on the frame on any 92 model that has not a decocker. It's the slide mounted decocker that makes sense.
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  20. Italy sent the Beretta-made MG42/59, Germany the MG3. You can discern them because the German ones have the muzzle booster like that of this video (inverted cone over a dome) , while the Italian ones have the "inverted cone over a cylinder" one. Those are the Beretta ones https://youtu.be/YDt4kGc1_q4 https://youtu.be/nDCSQEjutOA
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  21. Unfortunately Ian left out the fact that's actually a locked breech gun. It's called an "expander lock". In theory there's no limit to the power of the ammunitions this gun can use, as long as the frame is strong enough. https://patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
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  22.  @notsureyou  If you use a full blown round for standard infantry, then you are going to need another round for SMGs, and if you want to use semiauto carbines, lighter than the main infantry rifle, you are going to need another round as well. That way the US had to provide 30-06, .30 Carbine and .45 ACP. That's why, right after the war, the Soviets came up with ONE round for infantrymen (7.62X39 in SKS and AK, to replace the Mosins and PPSh) and ONE round for MGs (7.62X54r).
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  23. Google "C.O.M. Westarm" or "Westarm fucile" and you'll easily find several images of the sample n.33, fully developed with a civilian/hunting stock, a flash hider and a scope. It was on sale some year ago in Italy.
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  24.  @nonamesplease6288  There were tested 50 rounds magazines at the time?
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  25. To handle high pressure ammo, a top break frame should be so massive and heavy to preclude any serious sale.
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  26. Simply commenters on the net tend t exagerate things. A weapon becomes "the best ever" or "the worst ever, better to throw bullets at the enemy by hand than being equipped with this piece of crap" basing on very small differencies or often repeated tales. In reality, the difference between the "best" and the "worst" was a question of nuisances.
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  27. Actually several LMGs adopted the Revelli action. It was infact scalable down until pistol dimensions (the FN Five-Seven and the Ruger 57 still adopt it).
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  28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dogali
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  29. At that time the Somali government had good relations with Italy. It would have been surely possible.
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  30.  @eloiseharbeson2483  .30 Super Carry is 45.000 psi and 1250 fps out of a 4" barrel. .30 super Carry 100gr, 380m/s, 470Joule of energy. 8mm Roth Steyr, 116gr, 332m/s, 409 Joule of energy. With a 100gr bullet for both, they would be pretty close.
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  31.  @MEGALODONGERS  It almost seems the designers of the .30 super Carry got carried by the idea of the superpressure. More than doubling the pressure, they obtained a meagre 20% raise in energy when both are fired from a 5″ barrel. A “8mm RS Magnum”, with a 1mm longer case (so 30mm overall lenght, still compatible with 9mm Para pistols) and a shorter 100gr bullet, enhancing the internal volume of the case, and so the load, without increasing much the pressure, would have probably obtained similar results, remaining also compatible with blowback firearms, so being much more versatile.
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  32. The 7.35 Carcano has practically the same dimensions than the .276 Pedersen (same base diameter, 11.4 mm; same case lenght 51.4mm-51.5mm; and only one mm more OAL 72.5mm-73.5mm), so ten rounds can likely enter in a M1 clip. To me, even better than the 7.35 Carcano, but not in competition because none used it, despite having been widely available for more than 30 years, would have been the .30 Remington. Rimless, same energy than the 7.35 Carcano in a smaller package. (base diameter 10.7 mm, OAL 64.1mm).
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  33. Not really, this is made for suppressive fire. The MG42 is a point weapon.
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  34. The front safety solved a real issue of early SMGs, and had never been a problem in combat situations. Any historical picture and any preserved sample has the safety in place. It's simply a severe case of "if it's different from what I'm used to, then it must be wrong".
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  35. There are "better" 1911 around. This is not one. It's unnecessarily complicated, and fragile too.
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  36. The only reason of the non reciprocating handle is to prevent the gunner from using it as a forward assist, that's obviously unsafe in an open bolt design. What the handle does while the weapon is firing is not that important.
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  37. Yes.
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  38.  @stevec1141  IE you can see here a rapid fire test with Carcano rifle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4c5Zr7hzzA In the '30s Carcano rifles were used in competitions with collapsible targets. 6 silouettes of a kneeling man at 200m. Six hits in 5.5 to 6 seconds were normal. With 4.6-4.7 seconds you had hopes to win win a competition. Someone could do it in 4.2 seconds.
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  39. You can google "coltello balilla".
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  40. And they came up with the DP-28, whose pan magazine requires the gunner to expose his head over the weapon to reload, and whose barrel requires him to grab the red-hot muzzle to replace it. Or the MG-34 MG-42, whose "drum magazine" (really a can containing a 50 rounds belt) requires double the time of the Breda 30 magazine to be changed. Or the BAR, whose pencil, not exchangeable, barrel forced the gunner to stop firing after only about 150 rounds of rapid fire (as Ian stated, the Breda was originally issued with 2 spare barrels, that had to be changed after 200 rounds of rapid fire. After the first battles the provision was raised to four, so there was the necessity to rapidly fire more than 600 rounds with that weapon)...
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  41. Generally straight pull actions didn't perform very well in mud-dirt (the Steyr Manlicher being an exception). The Swiss reported the problem even in practice shooting in "operative" conditions.
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  42. If they are not pressed by war needs, armies rarely want to be equipped with others' surplus weapons.
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  43. Had they correctly copied the FG2 bolt, whose bigger and slightly angled locking lugs close without slamming, no chipping would have occurred, but hey, what could the Germans know?
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  44. The Breda 38 is an heavy tank MG ( http://beutepanzer.ru/Beutepanzer/italy/spg/DA_47_32/DA_47_32-17.jpg ), the Suomi KP is a SMG. Maybe you meant Beretta MAB38 vs Suomi.
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  45. Moreover, since the left hand gives to the gunner the exact position of the magazine holder, it's imposible to miss it, even operating in the dark, or not looking at the weapon at all.
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  46.  @nindger4270  Yeah. And magazine-fed LMGs easily overheat if they don't have a quick exchange barrel and several spare barrels. That's why the ZB vz.26, the Bren, the FM 24/29, the Breda 30... all had a quick exchange barrel. That's why the BAR overheating was a common occurrence in WWII (but there the open bolt action at least avoided cooking-off an entire magazine) and that's why the Swedish added a quick exchange barrel to the BAR to make the M/37 LMG.
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  47.  @nindger4270  Unfortunately, as said, the BAR stopping working in action due to overheating was a common occurrence in WWII. Maybe they didn't see the same people (see, for example, Robert R. Hodges Jr., Robert R. Hodge "The Browning Automatic rifle" p.42).
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  48.  @ineednochannelyoutube5384  It' hasn't. No barrel change that requires to open the receiver and extract the bolt is considered "quick".
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  49. Obviously Colt didn't made anything out of it. It worked. In the mid '90s the patent of the original '92 had long expired, and anyone could have made a clone (like Taurus already did).
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  50. Just for a clarification, in Italy, and most Europe, this rifle can be purchased with a 12.5" barrel with flash suppressor and a telescopic stock (according to the EU law, a rifle must have at least a 30cm / 11.8" barrel and a total lenght of at least 60cm / 23.6". With the 12.5" barrel and the stock collapsed the rifle is 78.7cm long with the flash suppressor and 73.7cm long without it, so perfectly compliant). Those features are not available in the US only due to US restrictions on imports. So what’s the market this rifle is intended for? Essentially not the US market, but places where the AR15 is not so dominant among the “black rifles”. Not because the law prohibits it, but simply cause the customers are not so obsessed with it.
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