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

  1. I already listed three.
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  2. For how much you like to talk bout me now, because evidently you have nothing to say about a subject (gun laws and preferences out of the US) you know nothing about, fact is that there are many countries were you are not required to have a "sporting purpose" to buy an AR15. For how much incredible it may sem to you, there are countries, where, AT THE SAME CONDITIONS the buyers do not necessarily chose AR15s. Some of them choose to buy an AR15, and some of them some other rifle. Because AR15s are mainly a north American thing.
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  3. It seems that you have very little to say about the subject, haven't you? Fact is that there are many countries were you are not required to have a "sporting purpose" to buy an AR15. For how much incredible it may sem to you, there are countries, where, AT THE SAME CONDITIONS the buyers do not necessarily chose AR15s. Some of them choose to buy an AR15, and some of them some other rifle. Because AR15s are mainly a north American thing. And that's the subject, for how much you like to talk about me instead (that's your silly attempt to switch the discussion).
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  4. "Yea....and Italy is basically the only exception to that rule in Europe." In France YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELONG TO ANY SHOOTING CLUB TO OWN A MILITARY STYLE SEMIAUTO. YOU CAN SIMPLY KEEP THE RIFLE IN YOUR CLOSET IF YOU WANT. In Austria YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELONG TO ANY SHOOTING CLUB TO OWN A MILITARY STYLE SEMIAUTO. YOU CAN SIMPLY KEEP THE RIFLE IN YOUR CLOSET IF YOU WANT. ... "I see you still dodged the question of whether you own firearms or not" "I get the impression that you are just an AR-hater despite you not owning guns yourself" is not a question to me. I don't care of your impressions, and that was just a silly attempt to switch the discussion from the topic (of which you clearly don't know much) to the person.
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  5. It's evident that I have to repeat myself instead. I said (several times) "AT THE SAME CONDITIONS". In most countries YOU CAN buy an AR15 to keep it in a closet. IT'S CONSIDERED A RIFLE LIKE ANY OTHER, and yet, the buyers do not necessarily chose AR15s. Because they are less obsessed with AR15s than Americans are. AR15s are mainly a north American thing. In other countries is conceivable that you can buy an AR15, and yet you prefer to buy another rifle.
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  6. Infact the lighter cartridge is faster at the muzzle, and has a flatter initial trajectory, but it loses speed faster too, so ther is a point where the two trajectories align.
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  7.  @CtrlAltRetreat  The Italians wanted to adopt the 7.35X32 (not the 7.35X51, that came later) because they wanted to adopt a semiauto rifle (the Terni 1921) and correctly recognised that, for semiauto fire, an intermediate cartridge was better, hence the 7.35X32. The conservatorism of the high brass prevented the adoption of the Terni semiauto, bu they still wanted a semiauto, in a full blown cartridge, so a new rifle, and tested many, In 1938, still testing semiauto rifles, they recognised the convertion to a semiauto would have likely required a long time, but they didn't want to fight the next war with long worn-out, WWI Carcano rifles, so they adopted the M38 short rifle, that was a new rifle anyway. BUT there is a trick. You can take an old, worn-out, 6.5 long rifle barrel, and turn it in a brand new, 7.35 short rifle barrel, only cutting and reboring it. You can't turn an old worn-out 6.5 long rifle barrel in a brand new 6.5 short rifle barrel. Even cutting it, it will remain worn out. So, since they had to manufacture new rifles and new ammos anyway, to adopt the 7.35x51, was economically convenient in respect to adopt a 6.5 spitzer.
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  8.  @hendriktonisson2915  The Germans didn't want to change ammunitions. They wanted to use the same ammo with a spitzer bullet. So did the Swedes. As already said, instead, after WWI the old 6.5mm Carcano cartridge had always been on the verge of being replaced. First with the 7.35×32mm of the Terni 1921 (a true intermediate cartridge) and then the 7.35X51mm, so there was no point in doing a modification that would have forced to modify all the sights of the existing rifles, when new cartridges in new rifles were about to be adopted.
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  9. You mean a simple blowback system? Practically every round can be fired using a blowback system, but, in a simple blowback, what prevent the action to open too early (when the pressure in the chamber is too high, so the walls of the case are stuck to those of the chamber, and pulling back the case can cause a case rupture) is simply the weight of the bolt. The more powerful is the cartridge, the more heavy the bolt has to be. A MAB38 (wooden stock 9mm SMG)already weighted around 4 kg. A full power rifle round would require a bolt so heavy to make the rifle unmanageable. So delayed blowback systems are used instead. Lever delayed like in the Famas, roller delayed like the HK G3... but delayed blowback system are really not more simple to produce than gas actuated ones.
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  10. The problem with toggle delayed actions, like that of the Pedersen, in sporting firearms is that there is a VERY slight difference between too little angle (the action is too locked, and doesn't cycle) and too much angle (the lock doesn't delay the opening enough). In military firearms that's less important because there's ONE service cartridge, not many different for case material, bullet weight, propellant...
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  11. "after taking the time to look at these guns in-house and assess them and do some engineering work, presumably, Colt came to the conclusion that no, they weren't actually interested in further developing" a functional gun, and that people would have drooled over the Double Eagle instead.
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  12. Now imagine to be on Omaha beach. Germans are shooting at you from small openings in concrete bunkers. You could have: 1) a MKII hand grenade. You have to get close enough to throw it into the bunker. 2) a knee mortar. You have to shoot and hope the bomb hit the right spot 3) a M91/28 grenade launcher, or a Brixia mortar. You can aim at the bunker openings from over 100 distance. What would you choose?
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  13. It's interesting that Allied reports on the use of captured weapons, and instruction manuals written for the Allied gunners issued with the captured Breda 30 don't mention the reloading system to be an issue AT ALL. All those are modern day armchair considerations.
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  14. Pretty spot on. In the subsequent years the Italians came up with several very interesting LMG designs, but the Breda 30 had already been selected, and the improvings were not considered worth to revert a decision taken only few years before. Already in 1932 the Terni arsenal LMG put in a single weapon all the best features of the various entries of the previous selection ( no oiler thanks to the Brixia 1930 mechanics; Breda 1930 tilting magazine, barrel change, bipod, barrel shroud and pistol grip; FIAT 1928 stock and barrel; http://www.archeologiaindustriale.org/cms/fucile-mitragliatore-modello-terni/ ) In1937 Scotti introduced another "Breda 1930 lookalike", retaining the style of the barrel and the general ergonomy but with his patented gas operation and a vertical detachable magazine ( http://alternathistory.com/files/resize/users/user32336/%20%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%20%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%20%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB.%207.7%20%D0%BC%D0%BC-700x327.jpg it was aquired in few hundreds of samples and used as a tank weapon first than the introduction of the Breda 1938), and the Scotti naval antiaircraft rifle, an assault rifle in all but name ( https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/6f/8e/716f8e33be4f124274a6de9457462b65.png there were versions with buttstocks).
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  15. The heavier the firing pin, the easier for it to activate the primer. The long travel and the fact that it can't sart moving until the bolt is in battery is meant to slow the ROF too.
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  16. Ha he reviewed a Franchi LF-58 prototype, the resemblance would have been stronger. That's a real STG-44 style tilting bolt action and stamped steel receiver in .30 Carbine.
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  17. No frame mounted decocker I know fully decocks.
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  18. The heavier the bolt and the longer the bolt travel, the slower the fire rate. The spring tension has little importance (but it must be enough to reduce the speed of the bolt to values compatible with the survival of the receiver before the bolt impacts with it). Service SMGs (this one, the M3 Grease Gun, the STEN...) have fare heavier bolts than what's simply required to safely shoot their respective ammos, exactly to reduce the fire rate to the desired value.
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  19. There was a 30 rounds version that was loaded with a single, very long, stripper clip (is on the wikipedia page). There's also a picture of one with detachable magazine. (you can google: Getty images cei rigotti ).
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  20.  @donnerschwein  A hint. MG42/59 had been licence-manufactured by Beretta. Those are recognisable by the "old style" muzzle booster.
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  21. A shame Drachinifel contributed to spread that bogus info (he never stated the quality being "all over the place, generally trending towards bloody awful. Ocasionally in spec", but that's internet). Infortunately he does not read Italian, so he has to rely on what he finds in English. Second hand sources, wartime propaganda, etc... A common problem between self-made historians. The only source for the problem with Italian naval shells was Adm. Iachino, that had to justify his fiasco at Gaudo / Cape Matapan, and had been debunked by other sources, (IE Adm. Emilio Brenta, or the same Fire Director Officer of the Vittorio Veneto ad Gaudo). Reality is that in the conditions of the clash at Gaudo, no WWII battleship would have hit anything. As a matter of fact, the Italian 152mm and 203mm are the only Cruiser naval guns that obtained some +20km hits during WWII (even twice in the same battle, so it was not a fluke).
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  22. You were firing single base propellant cartridges (more unstable than the double base used for 6.5 ammos) more than 40 years old. The stabilizer content at least halved, and the flame temperature doubled, in respect to new ammos.
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  23. It rested on the base of the barrel when the bolt was opened, so directly ahead of the new bullet, and was expelled with the next shot.
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  24. Practically a Scotti action, but without the slide closing on the bolt face and preventing it to rotate by itself. However, as a matter of fact, an angle of those bolt lugs IS cut at 45 degree to facilitate closing. Pylon probably "only" extended that cut.
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  25. As I know there had not been any fallout. Taurus' plant was originally made by Beretta to manufacture guns for the Brazilian Army (a contract Beretta won in 1974). When the contract expired Beretta sold the plant with all the tooling to Taurus, that could start producing its own 92 clone, because at that point the patent expired too. Beretta didn't care, because at that time Taurus could only manufacture clones of the original 92 (the model whose patent expired) while Beretta was manufacturing the 92F already.
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  26. It works like that. In 1942 FNAB contacted the Army, shown the prototype and stated "we can make X samples of this gun per year at this price". The Army tested the gun, the price was acceptable, SMGs were needed, so "OK, start production". Since the price was right, the Army didn't care what the manufacturing technique was.
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  27. You should review the PM-12S competitor. The Franchi LF57.
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  28.  @JohnDoe-nf7up  The SSP was a slightly modified M1971, that Colt could have put on the marked in mid '70s along with the Beretta 92 and CZ75, but they preferred to miss the "wondernines" train. BTW the fact that the SSP didn't win the JSSA program shouldn't have prevented them to put it on the market anyway (like SIG, FN, Walther or Steyr did with their bids).
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  29. A neat gun, even if a breechlock .380 ACP is overkill.
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  30. The 6.5x52 Carcano cartridge had been the first 6.5 cartridge officially adopted by any army. There was not a standard at that time. BTW, the 6.5X54 Mannlicher Shonauer adopted the same bullet dimensions of the Carcano. The 7.35 barrel had, between the lands, exactly the diameter the 6.5 barrel had between the grooves. That means the Italians could obtain brand new 7.35 barrels simply shortening and reboring million of worn out 6.5 barrels they had in the arsenals since the end of WWI.
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  31. The complain about the dispersion at Gaudo had been made by Adm. Iachino, but he had to justify his fiasco of the subsequent night someway. We have the direct witness of the Fire Director of the Vittorio Veneto, that didn't considered the dispersion of the salvos to be anything out of the ordinary. Simply the Vittorio Veneto fired from very long distance, in two different actions of 10 and 19 salvos each (between the two, the British ships were completely covered in smokescreens, so the Vittorio Veneto had to re-adjust the aim when it spotted them again) vs. two ships that, with a time of flight of the shells of over 40" could manuver to avoid the shots when they spotted the blasts. The Battle of the Espero Convoy already demonstrated that, even at half that distance, it was nearly impossible to hit a ship that was performing evasive manuvers (or in the battle of Denmark Strait, when POW decided to break the contact, the Bismark wasn't able to land a hit any more).
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  32. For 1934 It was simple to make too. The BAR, BREN, MG34 and Type99 (and both the BREN and MG1934 had been selected in 1938, the Type99 in 1939) had more complex machining. Among the most used LMGs of the time, Only the DP28 could be considered simpler to manufacture. But generally, though I like it, it seems like a promising prototype put in production before all the elements had been figured out throughly. Very good and simple operating mechanism, barrel change mechanism, general ergonomy, controls, gas settings… But three sets of lugs (it's a nightmare to match bolts and receivers)? That bipod (I’ve seen better in WWI)… no handle to grab a scorching hot barrel… And that magazine… It could have easily been so MUCH better.
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  33. For strange that it may seem, it had been higly effective. The number of Villar perosa MGs in the Italian infantry battallions increased throughout the war, and the weapon had been copied by it's enemies ( "Frommer-Stop M1917" and "Sturmpistole M-18"), that probably had the occasion to appreciate it so much that they wanted it themself.
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  34. Nothing to do. Of italian guns, it resembles more a Bernardelli P18, that was in itself inspired by the SIG P220 family.
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  35. It had been made in 20mm and 37mm.
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  36.  @kino_61  The Reggiane 2000 had the closed cockpit since the first day of war. The closed cockpit Macchi C.202 and Reggiane 2001 entred in line in 1941. The Cr.42 was phased out of first line use in 1941, around the same time the Brits phased out the biplane Gloster Gladiator. The last purchaser of the Cr.42 had not been the Regia Aeronautica, but the Luftwaffe, that purchased 63 samples in 1943, to replace their biplanes Henschel Hs 123, that they found very useful, but whose production couldn't be restarted. The RAF had sergeant pilots as well, throughout the war and well into the '50s. The US had them until 1942. Most of the Luftwaffe pilots were NCO. Same for the Soviets.
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  37.  @222TripleJ  the only problem with the Italian classification is that people consider the one used only by the US "right" by default. The Italian classification was done exclusively by mass. A tank was light under the 10 tons, medium between 10 and 20 tons, heavy over 20 tons. L6/40, light tank weighting 6 tons adopted in 1940. M14/41, medium tank weighting 14 tons adopted in 1941. P26/40, heavy tank weighting 26 tons adopted in 1940. The Brits classified their tanks light , cruise and infantry. the Germans didnt' have a classification, they only numbered the models (Panzer II - III - IV). The US classification was so good that their "Heavy" tanks were so heavy to be scarcely useful, had been practically unused in WWII, and the entire concept had been replaced by that of MBT later but, for some reason, the P26/40 being a heavy tank was "laughable".
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  38. Crew served weapon. it feed from one side, where there are the full box of ammos, and eject from the other side, where there are the boxes of spent strips.
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  39.  joe8075  Infact. The Italians had been among the first to realise that long bayonets were a thing of the past. At the same time they adopted the M91, they shortened the bayonets of the Vetterli rifles in their inventory too. From this: https://dygtyjqp7pi0m.cloudfront.net/i/10294/11016278_2.jpg?v=8CE2D78D89B4B00 To this: http://images.lavetrinadellearmi.it/_vda_11974_103261_b_103261_92703.jpg At that point, they had a nice pile of good steel blades cut from the Vetterli bayonets, why waste them? So they recycled them into fighting knives: https://www.kubel1943.it/foto/DSC_0065(1408378130).jpg
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  40. It doesn't. Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, the designer of the Fedorov Avtomat, witnessed the battlefields of the Russo-Japanese war, and made some interesting observation. In the mud and snow, Mauser-style rifles had soon their magazines clogged in frozen mud and became single-shooters. Mannlicher style rifles, due to the action being cleaned by the passing of the en block clips, remained operative as repeaters.
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  41. ... The only reason I dislike this rifle, is the silly "'70s futuristic" look.
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  42. Had the SA80 been designed by actual gunsmiths, it could have ended up to be something similar.
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  43. More than the metallurgy, I think the problem was the hurry to press it into service. The M1 Garand was developed for more than ten years. This, for maybe one year. Having a little more time they could have ironed out the problems. IE, to put a dust cover on that opening in the receiver was not really complicate. But, in 1917, the priority was to manufacture a lot of rifles in the shortest time possible.
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  44. It's two metal surfaces (in this case slide and frame) wearing rapidly when sliding against each-other, because the crystal structure of one captures and "tear away" the surface crystals of the other. Stainless-on-stainless friction is particular subject to galling. It's the reason all-stainless-steel semiauto appeared so late on the market (the 1983 Randall 1911 had been marketed as the first really reliable all-stainless-steel semiauto pistol). In 1976, when the Mamba had been marketed, the problem had yet to be solved.
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  45. People seems to like to point out the limitations of the Villar Perosa, forgetting that, as long as it had no competition (so until 1918) it was simply the best thing around.
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  46. Oh, well, if "a guy" said it....
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  47. ​ @RandomUser-cx9kn  "the (clearly) worst design" in respect to an AK derivate and a rifle that had not been adopted by ANYONE? The most fearsome contender was the SOCIMI AR871, an AR15 derivate wit a long stroke gas piston action (like the Daewoo K2).
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  48.  @inhumanfilth681  The .41AE was the way to go, since you could convert a 9mm by only changing magazine, barrel and recoil spring and NOT the slide, but so it went.
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  49. Italy surrended to the allies. In the north Germans build a puppet state to serve their interests.
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  50. The people they were mostly facing carried Mosins and PPSh
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