Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Armaguerra Model 1939 Semiauto Rifle" video.

  1. It was designed to use standard Carrcano clips.
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  2. 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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  3. It uses regular Carcano clips. They are not that hard to find. ;)
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  4. Good find! A shame for the field strip anyway. Can we hope you'll do it another time?
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  5. Breda 37 and 38 were very good MGs. The breda 30 was the only weapon fielded by the Italian Army in WWII that required an olier. All the derivate of the Hispano-Suiza HS.404, used by the allies in WWII, some of which is still in service, used oilers.
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  6. It was not common. Italian rifles of the time tended to reuse the Carcano carbines sights. It's possible that this had been inspired by the big rotating knob sight adjustment of the ZB vz. 26 LMG.
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  7. No military rifle would have been approved for use without the possibility to field strip it. You only have to know the passages. As for the charging handle, the same spring that closes the bolt has to be compressed in opening it. Seeing how powerful it is, the designer probably concluded that some form of lever action was needed to do it.
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  8. Today it's easy to say that a detachable magazine would have been better, but, back then, it was a real problem to manufacture a magazine that was, at the same time, so cheap to be discarded on the field and so well and consistently built to not have feeding problems. LMGs like the BAR or the BREN were plagued by feeding problems caused by badly manufactured magazines, and those were valuable pieces of equipment, not relatively cheap infantry rifles. Infact both the SVT 40 and the Gew 43 had detachable magazines, but they were really intended to be loaded with stripper clips. Even the M1A and the M14 had stripper clip guides. At least en-bloc clips were faster than stripper clips.
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