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

  1. Yeah. Standard MAB38 mags. They were very good (double feed) and there was plenty of them.
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  2.  @blackore64  The problem with the Sturmgewehr 57 is not that it doesn't fit into the "assault rifle" term. It's that it doesn't fit into the "battle rifle" either. Due to it's weight, it's more similar to an automatic rifle, like the BAR or the Breda PG. Adopting it, the Swiss were thinking of a pretty static defensive war, where they would have shot on the invaders form prepared positions, possibly having the high ground, so weight was not that important, while accuracy was.
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  3. The magazine is form a Beretta .22LR carbine of the ’60s-’70s (as the Olimpia), so it’s not difficult to find spares. http://armeriarcm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IMG_20171116_105128.jpg However Mr. Osorio filed the tip in front of the magazine and cut a notch for his magazine release button, so it requires adaptation. https://youtu.be/ZpRxORxA2gg?t=92
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  4. In all the pictures taken at the time, and all the preserved samples, the safety is still there. It was not a problem at all IRL.
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  5. It reminds me the Breda M39, a similar shotgun-style 7.62 NATO battle rifle that competed with the Beretta BM59 for the Italian Army contract. https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/08/21/the-breda-model-39-a-1950s-prototype-italian-military-rifle/
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  6. Just like tilting barrel, and many pure blowback designs (IE the Beretta, from 1915 to present days) have not a fixed barrel anyway.
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  7. Just to say one, when Ian extracted the bolt, it was already assembled backwards. The plug should be ahead of the spring, not behind it.
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  8. The Western Cartridge 6.5x52mm ammos Oswald used are probably the best Carcano ammunitions ever made. They had the correct dimensions and construction (the open bottom of the cartridge was important to make it seat in the deep rifling of the Carcano), but used modern propellant and manufacturing methods.
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  9. Lahti-Saloranta M/26 "assorted mistakes". Type 11 Type 96...
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  10. Joe Langley
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  11. Contrary to popular belief, the reason to not allow civilian sales of 9X19 cartridges, while civilians can buy 9X21, 40 S&W, or 10mm without problems, is not to control people. Is to control security forces. What the government wants to avoid is a policemen, or a soldier, to enter in a gun shop and privately buy cartridges for his service weapon.
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  12. Larger caliber is not more powerful, is only larger.
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  13. It would have probably been enough to use a buffer pad to stop the bolt travel (like it was used in other designs) instead of having the bolt slamming metal vs metal.
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  14. The Thompson SMG is an heavy design in itself. The walls of the receiver are way thicker than what's necessary. That's why it weighted almost 2 lbs more than the grease gun.
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  15. Several Soviet designers had to keep on working from the gulag, but to infer without basis that there were problems with a certain product was even more dangerous. For who denigrated a product that later tests would have proven capable, there was almost certain execution.
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  16. If you have steel bars and cutters but not presses. As you can see, the machining of the receiver was pretty rough. It's precision machining to be expensive and time consuming. To cut a straight line with a blade is no more time consuming than welding stamped parts.
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  17. That would have not been wasted anyway, since there were enough MGs to use all of them, and much more.
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  18. Reciprocating.
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  19. You can see one in Total Recall.
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  20. Not when you are firing at 2km distance.
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  21. Pure short recoil systems (like those used in handguns) and long bottleneck cartridges doesn't match well. In a short recoil system, in the moment the barrel stops, the case, in respect to the chamber, abruptly passes from "0" to the max speed. Long rifle cases have a lot of surface that's stuck to the chamber's walls, so, even if the pressure isn't high, with this abrupt acceleration there are high chances to damage the cases, sometimes break them, and so jam the action. To avoid this, there are several possibilities. To unlock the bolt from the barrel first than the rearward motion of the barrel ended, so allowing the residual pressure of the gasses to start extracting the case first than the barrel stops ("chiusura labile", like in the Fiat Revelli 1914). To use a lever action to ensure that the bolt recoils slightly faster than the barrel ( Browning M1919, Brixia 1920, Breda SAFAT...). To reduce the locking surface of the case (fluting the chamber). Or to reduce the friction between the case and the chamber (lubing the case). Pure blowback weapons are safer in this repect. It's only a question to have enough mass in the bolt so that the energy of the cartridge can't move it rearward enough first than the pressure reaches safe levels.
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  22. With the benefit of hindsight since: - they had to manufacture billions of brand new rounds during the war, and it would have been easier and less expensive to manufacture rounds requiring less materials. - the millions of 30-06 would have been shot anyway, in existing machineguns, even only in the ones placed on vehicles. A different infantry round, one that would not have forced to adopt the .30 carbine to have something lighter, would have been better.
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  23.  @Caseytify  How did they pay for the billions of new rounds they manufactured, that were even more expensive? They were adopting a new semiauto rifle (a pretty expensive item) for ALL the Army. ANY previous study concluded that semiautos enhanced the consumption of ammos, so regardless the quantity of ammos in the storage THEY WOULD HAVE ENDED. For much of their expected service life the NEW rifles would have used NEW ammos, and, since the new rifles would have mostly used new ammos, it would have been better if the new ammos were cheaper to manufacture. ALSO, by adopting a lighter service ammo, they would have avoided to adopt a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT action and ammo for the carbine. A problem that was immediately recognizable. They doubled it with the .30 Carbine. More M1 carbines were manufactured than M1 rifles during WW2. Yeah, and it would have been better to spend some money and test it BEFORE the war, instead than adopting it without having tested it, and spending some year IN the war with tropedoes that didnt' work. Sometimes, stupid decisions are not justified by the mindset of the time. They are simply stupid. Comparatively poor countries in respect to the US had working torpedoes. Japan started war also for the US announcement that it would have built a fleet bigger than the world's second and third ones combined. So they had some money to spend. Yeah, I explicitly stated it: "With the benefit of hindsight".
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  24.  @edward9674  Infact it didn't. Italy had been one of the first nations to realise that the old sword-bayonet was awkward and unvieldly for anything. The Carcano bayonet was way shorter than others of the period, but witn 30cm (11.8 inches) blade was still too long to be a knife-bayonet. More of an in-between. Some year later Italy shortened the 52cm blades of the Vetterli bayonets in its inventory, that passed from this: https://www.il91.it/images/baionette_1367.jpg to this: https://www.il91.it/images/baionette_1368.jpg that was practically already the lenght of a WWII knife-bayonet. At that point they had a nice pile of good steel blades (the tips of the shortened Vetterli bayonets). Why vaste them? So they made fighting knife out of them. https://www.collezionareexordinanza.it/uploads/products/9_2017-03-12_fullsizerender-6.jpg
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  25. Generally straight pull actions didn't perform very well in mud-dirt (the Steyr Manlicher being a partial exception). The Swiss reported the problem even in practice shooting in "operative" conditions.
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  26. The locking block locks the gun and bolt rigidly until it rotates out of the way.
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  27.  @tiortedrootsky  Bolt and barrel are locked even if the bolt retreats slightly faster than the barrel, because their relative movements are geometrically determined. You can shape the locking block to avoid any relative movement before separation, but that would actually be a minus. The slight movement provides primary extraction that prevents a too abrupt separation of the case from the chamber (that's indifferent for a pistol, but important for a bottleneck rifle cartridge).
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  28.  @tiortedrootsky  Despite the fluted chamber being originally a patent of Giovannino Agnelli, owner of Fiat, no version of the Fiat Revelli 1914 had a fluted chamber, nor is known for case separation issues.
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  29. It would be so tricky that you can do it only if you really want to do it.
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  30. +PurpleIsALetter So? Have you googled enough to find that project that should prove me wrong?
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  31. You didn't mentioned any model. You made an unsupported statement, failed to prove it, and keep on failing. So, what's this machine pistol the Austrian started to experiment first than the Italians? Name it and prove me wrong if you can. Fact is that you can't, so you are only spinning out hoping to not seem too dumb.
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  32. Sorry guy, but you seem pretty desperate now. "Googling" doesn't work any more?
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  33.  @Auriorium  Actually your question is grammarly correct. He's just a moron.
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  34.  @ProSimex84  It's very heavy too.
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  35. Exceptionally reliable, exceptionally stable while firing in full auto (you can se Ian's clip of him firing it), very accurate, optimally designed magazines. Every competitor failed in one or more of those departments. Yeah. Obviously the army, once the reality of mass warfare kicked in, preferred more simple to manufacture versions, but had not been the only one. Other nations started the war with comparably complex or even more complex SMGs (Thompson, MP35, Lanchester, KP31...), and kept on manufacturing them until the end, yet they were not on par. Roy Dunlap's classic "Ordnance Went Up Front": "The Beretta 38 is my favorite gun of its class, as it was of the Eighth Army. As easy to fire and control as a .22 sporting autoloader, it had terrific punch and range. The special 9mm cartridges loaded for it made it effective at 300 yards and dangerous up to 500 (when you consider that the .45 Thompson is an even-money bet at 100 yards, you'll understand why we liked the Beretta). It would operate well with German, British or American 9mm Luger ammunition," ... "the later model guns were equipped with bayonet studs, and with a fixed bayonet and a ten-round clip they were the answer to a soldier's prayer for guard duty of any kind - prisoner chasing or just keeping them out of the mood for argument. All the guns were really accurate and a pleasure to shoot. No one ever bothered with any other kind of submachinegun if he could get hold of a Beretta M38 and keep it. The New Zealand boys especially loved them. Even the Germans liked it, and they hated to admit anything was good except their own stuff."
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  36. This was inadequate too. I can't figure out a DA/SA, metal framed, semiauto pistol that had some market success (and many that hadn't) in the '80s (and this one hit the market already in the '90s) that was worse than this. Worse takedown than any? Check. Low capacity? Check Heavy? Check. Fragile? Check. Crappy trigger? Check. ...
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  37. When it was in use it was no "good", it was "the best". The weapon had been higly successful. So much that the Austrians copied it, double barrel, bipod 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, there were only bolt action rifles and showels. 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 field 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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  38. The .32 short develops twice the energy of a .25 ACP and it falls just short of a .32 ACP. Not super powerful, but nothing to laugh about.
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  39. The P018/P1 was an all forged steel gun. However casting is perfectly fine if done right. The CZ75 is notoriously casted, both frame and slide.
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  40. It's an automatic rifle. It does the job of the BAR with half the weight.
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  41. Free floating barrels ARE fixed. Free floating means they are in contact with the receiver only at the base. Where they are usually screwed to it.
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  42. Infact they had to adopt the M1 Carbine in .30 carbine.
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  43.  @bruensal7182 Dave Emary , former Chief Ballistic Scientist at Hornady Manufacturing Inc and notorious contributor to several specialized magazines, on the "terrible Carcano calibre" and rifles. http://personal.stevens.edu/~gliberat/carcano/emary.html
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  44. No. the catch only prevents the barrel to rotate.
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  45. It's a short recoil breechlock. The locking block keeps the barrel and the bolt linked togheter during their rearward movement, until it rotates out of the way. It work exactly like a Browning 1917-1919, but the locking block rotates instead of falling.
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  46.  @rookpl7877  You are welcome!
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  47. The Benelli B76 had a push-type double action trigger (the trigger pushes the transfer bar, like in a single action pistol, doesn't pull it like in almost all the double actions). One of the advantages was the very low bore axis (there's no need of any space over the hub of the trigger). That would have solved any problem of this 1911.
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  48. The locking lugs all around the barrel are kind of an overkill too. They are not really needed. By simply interrupting the ridges on top of the barrel of a standard 1911 (so that they lock-unlock by rotating the barrel) you would have had the same number of locking surfaces (three) mantaining the slim profile of the 1911. The Beretta Cougar / PX4 only have one locking surface of this kind.
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  49. Who had he better economy. I'ts not an answer to who had the better rifle cartridge like it's not an answer to who had the better underwear.
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  50.  @brydonphillips9060  Someone that tinks the Allies won WWII because they had the best rifle cartridge is better to keep it to himself, regardless if he's drinking or not. The importance of issuing a rifle cartiridge instead of another, in the general outcome of WWII, is negligible. But, if you belive the rifle cartrige decided the war, then the best ammo was the 7.62X54r.
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