Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Krieghoff 8mm Mauser Carcano for the Volkssturm" video.

@jarink1 They got carried by their own dreams. For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds.
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@yulusleonard985 Ammos for the MG34 comes in nice belts. They are not loaded with rifles' stripper clips. The logistic is already differentiated long before the first line.
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The people they were mostly facing carried Mosins and PPSh
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Italy surrended to the allies. In the north Germans build a puppet state to serve their interests.
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More Mosins and PPSh
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@justforever96 As already said, loading belts "was a backline activity". If you believe Germans loaded their MG belts in first line, you should check your brain (or, better, having it checked by someone with a functioning one) before talking of the intelligence of others. As for logistic, as already said: "the Volkssturm was armed with a pletora of different weapons, that had different spare parts and would have required different training that none could give to the militians." The idiocies you are "sure of" are your business only. Simply the Germans had grandiose (that was quite usual for them late in the war) plans to distribute HUGE quantities of rifles to the militia. For that quantity, convertion was convenient, and so they started to convert. But that quantity was also completely unrealistic given the conditions of their industry. "For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds." "you don't also want to be digging out warehouses of captured enemy ammo and distributing it to units all over a chaotic front with the limited transport you have left." So, you already dug into those very same warehouses FOR THE RIFLES, and ignored the crates of million rounds sitting there already packed and ready to be transported. Then, "with the limited transport you have left" you carried the rifles to arsenals to be converted to single shooters, so consuming THE LIMITED INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY YOU HAVE LEFT, to make a single shooter out of a repeater. Then "with the limited transport you have left" you carry those single shooters to "a chaotic first line" WITHOUT SPARE PARTS OR TRAINING FOR THE GUNSMITHS, believing they could be good for something, instead of taking the rifles, the ammos for them, and simply delivering the rifle along with the ammos. Now, let's see what the Volksturm really had. On 15 January 1945, for example, the Volkssturm in Gau Bayreuth had a total of 1,148 rifles Model 1888 ( needed obsolete 8mm "88 patrone" cartridges), 1,265 rifles Model 1898 (from World War One), 543 Karabiner 98k, 5 Gewehr 43 (semi-automatic rifles), 17,562 Italian Carcano rifles, 1,974 French captured rifles, 64 Russian rifles (Mosin-Nagant), 1 Romanian rifle, 34 Dutch rifles, 129 Belgian rifles, 134 Czech rifles, 13 Polish rifles, 2 British rifles, 34 Austrian rifles, 173 9mm pistols, 2,038 7.65mm pistols, 982 6.35mm pistols, 1 Italian pistol, 19 French pistols, 25 Belgian pistols, 3 MPi 40, 2 MG 13, 4 MG 34, 2 Polish machine-guns, 2 Czech machine-guns, 1 French machine-gun, 1 Austrian machine-gun, 2 Czech heavy machine-guns, 1 mortar 5cm, 1 mortar 8cm, 1 French gun, 4,436 pieces Panzerfaust, 690 grenades Eierhandgranaten, 720 grenades Stielhandgranaten. So, surprise surprise, not talking of all the OTHER calibers. Only the Volksturm of a single German region of 2.2 million people had more Carcano rifles than the entire production of converted rifles of Krieghoff and FNA Brescia. So, surprise surprise, the Germans dug into those warehouses in search of ammos after all. So, surpsise surprise, to add a logistic supply line of converted 7.92 Mauser single shooter Carcano rifles to the already existing and vastly preponderant supply line of 6.5 repeater Carcano rifles, only complicated the German logistic. Who would have told?
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They got carried by their own dreams. For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds.
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@johnstacy7902 Easily done, since 6.5 Carcano and 7.62X39 cartridges have practically the same dimensions of the base. Back when the 7.62X39 were hard to obtain in the west and there were plenty of surplus Carcano ammos, 7.62X39 cartridges were made by necking down and reforming Carcano brass.
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It won WWI It's more "How to know you’re on the losing side of a war: you’re issued a Mauser"
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In Italian a "calibro" is a caliper, and it measures in mm.
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They got carried by their own dreams. For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds.
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@MarvinCZ That's a backline activity. Only loaded belts are supposed to reach the first line. Rifle's ammos instead comes in nice stripper clips. Another supply line.
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@MarvinCZ Instead the Volkssturm was armed with a pletora of different weapons, that had different spare parts and would have required different training that none could give to the militians. Had not the Germans got carried by their own dreams, all of them could have been equipped with a single, quite simple, repeating rifle using a single ammunition. A lot of common logistic.
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They got carried by their own dreams. For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds.
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They got carried by their own dreams. For one and half million rifles, ammo availability would have been a problem. For 15.000, 50.000 or even 200.000 rifles, there were plenty of Italian made ammos already available. Better issuing a repeater with 400 rounds and call it a day (hardly a Volkssturm militian would have survived enough to fire all of them anyway) than issuing a single shooter even with 10.000 rounds.
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On the positive side, you have to remove very little metal. The cartridges have about the same dimensions, while the 8mm Mauser was a much larger cartridge that required to remove much more metal from the chamber. Also you don't need rarer 7.35 Carcano rifles to convert. 7.35 barrels were obtained from worn out 6.5 Carcano barrels anyway. On the negative, to have much higher performances with only slightly bigger dimensions, the 7.62X51mm NATO works at much higher pressures, 4150 bar vs 3300 for the 7.35X51 (CIP specs). The possibilities for the action to "explode" for the higher pressure are zero. 7.62X51mm NATO are still within the specs of 7.35X51mm proofloads, and much lower than 8mm Mauser proofloads, that the action could handle after having removed much more metal, but certainly it will shorten the life of the rifle.
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@hendriktonisson2915 But the M38 in 7.35 and the much more common M91/38 in 6.5 (President's choice) have the same barrel lenght and aesthetics, only the caliber differs. ;)
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@hendriktonisson2915 in 7.35, about 285.000 M38 (94.500 handed to Finland), in 6.5 about 600.000 91/38, about 200.000 91/38 TS carbine and about 1 million 91/38 Cavalry carbine.
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@gondolaservicepeschieradel4115 "we"? Or you are near to be one century old, or you are adorning yourself with the bones of some dead guy. As for the "honor" of being the lackeys of the Germans and handing your own peope to them, is better to not talk too loud about it.
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