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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. In reality is a 500-600 RPM MG.
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. It's an automatic rifle. It does the job of the BAR with half the weight.
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  7. 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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  8. Infact they had to adopt the M1 Carbine in .30 carbine.
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  9.  @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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  10. No. the catch only prevents the barrel to rotate.
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  11. 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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  12.  @rookpl7877  You are welcome!
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16.  @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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  17. The only real problem with the gun is the presence of the oiler. Too much oil in the action in sandy environments is no good. Fot the rest, it was not overcomplicate (IE the bolt of this gun is made of 4 parts in total. The one of an MG34 is made of 28 parts) or too hard to disassemble and clean (the BAR is way harder). Even the"problem" of having the front sight on the barrel shroud, or a rattling barrel, are invented problems that exist only in tabletop theorical reviews (none ever noticed those being problems in over 60 years of use of the MG-42 / MG-3, and it's not that the modern MG optics, all mounted on the receiver, compensate for the change of barrel).
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  18. At 5000$ for sample, an Indian workshop can reach the same and even better quality. Is double the price of a Pardini GT9-40-45, and I really doubt it's better made.
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  19.  @bacanthony3659  $5000 is the price they had in the '80s in today's value, as it's clearly stated in the video. Since they are not made any more and they are rare, they are more valuable today, like many other guns that had no success when they were made. BTW, you could still buy one in perfect conditions for less than $5.000 ten years ago. The price skyrocketed only recently, as a result of internet reviews.
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  20. Only loaded magazines were supposed to reach the first line, like only loaded belts. To manually reload the magazines of this gun during the action was like to manually reload the cloth belt of a Maxim.
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  21.  @PapaSchultz74  The tool was provided. but it was not supposed to be used during action. To load magazines was an activity to do during rest time.
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  22. In 1983 Taurus could manufacture 92 clones without any licence because the patent already expired. Beretta knew it when they sold them the plant with all the tooling, but they didn't care, because Taurus, at the time, could legally only clone the original 92, while Beretta already designed the 92S, 92SB and 92F, three furter steps of evolution. The patent of the model Vektor wanted to copy instead didn't expire yet, so they needed a licence. Today the patent of the 92F/M9 long expired too, infact Girsan can manufacture a copy without any licence.
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  23. Some special unit was given that Colt, without any competition, mostly due to Gen. William M. Keys connections, When they tested them, they found that they couldn't even complete the planned reliability test, since none of them could pass 12.000 rounds count without the slide cracking. http://soldiersystems.net/2012/07/20/marsoc-winning-colt-guns/ "Due to cracks which developed in the pistol slides during Reliability Testing, that test was not able to be completed as planned. Testing was planned for 15,000 rounds per pistol, but stopped early at 12,000 rounds".
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  24. Compared with the tilting barrel design, breechlock rotating barrel actions tend to reduce perceived recoil, but are more demanding in terms of precision machining and, since there are more sliding surfaces, in terms of lubrication needed. The gun can be more accurate, since the bushing of the slide can be tigher, but in a typical handgun fight scenario, that's hardly noticeable.
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  25. The ARX 160 is currently in service.
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  26. Err... no.
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  27. Yeah. the "pistol grip, fixed stock" is more a way to get around the rules that ban the import of weapons with collapsible stocks. This rifle was designed to have or the collapsible stock or the standard rifle "non pistol grip" one.
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  28. Malfunctions happened on fairly old guns with worn-out springs, are not indicative of the performance of the weapon at the time.
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  29.  @taunteratwill1787  It's not his collection. Those are weapons he had the occasion to fire without knowing how they had been mantained for all those years.
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  30. The weapon had been higly successful in the attack role. 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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  31. Yeah. All the Italian and German 20mm AA ammos could be used in this gun. The S18-1100, that was full auto capable, was used as a flak gun too.
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  32. Any SS semiauto released in the '70s had galling problems. It's difficult to think a bunch of guys that used cast alloys could solve a problem much bigger gun manufacturers were unable to. They simply were fascinated by making a stainless steel gun and overlooked the problem. The carburizing treatment was only a late attempt to fix a project that chose the wrong material from the start.
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  33. Long stroke inherently filthy? Hard to clean a rifle where you can remove the gas block? Are you joking?
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  34.  @sergecashman4822  so you base your experience on an AK derivate and a MG? Not to say that you state "you have to oil everything" and then complain about dirt? Oh, yeah. It's not like with the Stoner action the bolt and receiver themself are filled with carbon debries. I wonder if you ever shot anything at this point. Delayed blowbacks are notoriously dirty. Pretty much like Stoner actions.
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  35. The "not fixed barrel" was a non-issue. The barrel rattles only as long as the round is not fired. When a round is fired, the expansion of the cartridge tightens the action that, at that point, works like a free floating barrel.
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  36. Malfunctions happened on fairly old guns with worn-out springs, are not indicative of the performance of the weapon at the time.
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  37. Actually the rifle is very simple. Apart for the burst mechanism, that's an added part, not required for it to work, the parts count is the lowest it could be, and the field strip can be made in seconds without tools, that was not a given at that time. To have access to the gas chamber and the gas ports (that's the thing that requires cleaning, there is not actually much that could happen to the piston and op rod) you only have to remove the muzzle cover. To inspect the recoil spring, you can remove it from the trap door. To remove the bolt you only have to remove the dust cover and the rear buffer ("when the dust cover is off, it just slides out") and it comes out from the rear of the receiver. It isn't needed to remove the receiver from the stock. Like almost every bolt action rifle up to then, and several semiauto rifle after then, this rifle is not made to have the trigger group and the receiver removed often from the stock. While the parts that require cleaning, and/or have to be replaced more often (for the second case, almost universally the recoil spring and the firing pin) are very easily reachable. An M1 Garand, for example, is made with a completely different philosopy. The rifle can be easily disassembled, but is not really field-strippable. To reach the firing pin, you have to completely take the rifle apart (and have several small parts flying around you).
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  38. Not only the tooling, but even the existing parts. The BM59 receiver, stock, rear sight and trigger group were the original M1's slightly modified, and often they retain their original Winchester and Springfield markings.
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  39. Actually the Villar Perosa had NEVER been designed for aircraft use. Unfortunately Ian's previous video contributed to spread this old tale, but it's evident from all the paperwork, relations, manual, ecc... that it was originally meant to be a field light machinegun and it had been used in this role right from 1915 (Italy's first year of war). It and had been adapted to aerial use in very limited numbers, simply because the Army destined the first 350 samples manufactured to the Aviation (that was a branch of the Army at that time) because they wanted it to be in full production first to start to distribute it to the troops.
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  40. It probably needed only a simple compensator cut to make the thing controllable.
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  41. Beretta just introduced the PMX to replace the M12. It's simple blowback, but, thanks to the use of polymers, is lighter than the MP5 for the same barel lenght, and fires form a closed bolt (so no delay for the first round): https://www.berettadefensetechnologies.com/pmx-submachine-gun
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  42. Carcano bolts are not serialized. Most likely, AFTER the war, when that rifle had been imported, the importer grabbed an available bolt and put it in the rifle.
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  43. They used wood for the hunting line. That way they could use the same tooling.
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  44. "not designed here" And different regard for the MGs. Germans built their entire squad tactic around the MG. Brits built their entire squad tactic around the BREN (every rifleman was supposed to know how to use it and, if there were only one alive, he would have used the BREN). For the Americans, MGs were just support weapons for the riflemen. In the US Army squad, only two people were instructed in how to use the BAR (that was not even a real LMG, like the M1919A6 wasn't). In the post-war reports, they were almost surprised to know that, IRL, squads tended to gather around the BAR and almost every firing action was started by the BAR.
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  45. No, it's called an "expander lock" patent US461968A. Due to the position of the pivots, the recoil tend to push the intermediate lever against the frame and not to make it rotate. There's no limit to the power of the cartridge that breech can control, as long as the frame is strong enough.
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  46. Yeah.
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  47. They had a spare magazine, like a lot of other things, but really it wasn't such a issue. Mind that the "fast" fire rate of a BREN (to use only in emergency conditions) was of 4 magazines in a minute, and the gunner had to keep present, that, at that pace, the barrel had to be changed after ten magazines, and the provision of the entire squad was of 20 magazines (so, 5 minutes of fire).
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  48. The Volksturmgewehr was heavy.
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  49. What shown is not a field strip, but a disassembly of the rifle. A normal field strip (to clean the gas chamber, inspect and maybe replace the recoil spring, clean the bolt and maybe replace the firing pin) can be made in seconds without tools, that was not a given at that time.
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  50. Mind that the AR10 entered in several adoption trials along the FAL, and the FAL generally won. The AR10 was sligtly lighter (not even that much after the modification suggested by field use had been implemented), but the FAL was more easily mass producible (stamped steel), robust, and could mount a folding stock. Both had a stock in line with the barrel. It's difficult to believe that, in a trial for the adoption of an intermediate cartridge rifle, an AR15 could have shown so much advantages over an enlightened FAL to justify its adoption.
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