Hearted Youtube comments on Forgotten Weapons (@ForgottenWeapons) channel.

  1. Being someone who's followed this channel for a while, I'm amazed to see how far its come... from niche guns, to things that literally defy all conventions... All coming from a very dedicated guy who devoted his time to something he loved and we find enjoyment in. Seeing the early videos, next to this is really special. Congrats Ian, you've come a long way and done a fantastic job! Heres to more forgotten weapons!
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  2. I've been trying to make my beater Auto 5 a "retro tactical" fighting shotgun for kicks. Here comes Ian with a Model 11 with a similar concept along with info on the folks who did the work for him. Ian, you really are the gift that keeps on giving.
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  3. Hey Ian, great work as always. Slight correction : "N°" isn't shorthand for "nombre", it's for "numéro". Nombre means number as in "this much as an absolute value" (cardinal meaning) while numéro means "the Nth in this series" (ordinal meaning).
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  4. I used to knew the dude that designed this. The prototype he mad was with an Ak47 like gun. Rest in Peace Misel, known as Slovenac. Great dude, great dad, great mechanic, motorcycle driver, and most of all, a great friend. PS - When the Serb Army attacked Petrinja, Misel used this for scarring the enemy. And on the military radio you could hear the Serbian screaming "Run away, the crazy Ustase are throwing grenades 500 meters" "Bezite bre, lude ustase bacaju bombe 500 metara"
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  5. In case anyone was wondering about the term "grabby arms", it's a genuine translation of a real Danish firearms-related term. One of the reasons Danish weapons have been so successful over the years, is that we make it damn near impossible for the enemy to reverse engineer our guns, by filling them up with grabby arms, dingle swingers, counter-threaded stubby cams, crescent-flippers and that bendy thing nobody can remember the name of so they just hold up a thumb and wiggle it around a bit to describe which doohicky thingamajic they're talking about (every Dansih armorer does this, I swear). We're so good at this, that we've managed to confuse even ourselves to the point where we no longer have any serious arms manufacturing going on in the country. So yeah, try invading us now and see what happens...
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  6. The Mas-222 (or any semi auto rifle in civilian caliber with a max 5 rounds magazine) was available on presentation of a valid identity card to anyone at least 18 years old. The french MAS-222 also has a longer barrel for legal reasons. Another thing about the markings : All MAS-223 were intended for the US market and have serial numbers starting with SA (Serie Amerique, American block) All MAS-222 were intended for the french market and have serial numbers starting with SF (Serie France, French block) All MAS-F1 not produced for the miltary have serial numbers starting with SP (Serie Particuliere, Special block)
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  7. Absolutely stunned by the criticism of Ian. I've known him since 2011 and he absolutely is as he appears on camera - a true gentleman!
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  8. A few comments: Yohannes died fighting the Mahdists, yes, but these were a sudanese fighting force. He was defeated in the battle of Gallabat - possibly one of the largest battles of the entire “Mahdist War” Taitu had a military regiment. Women actually have a decent trackrecord of being involved in governance and even military affairs in Ethiopian history (especially the 19th century, during the Mesafint period) Arthur Rimbaud, famous French poet, was actually among tue arms dealers to Ethiopia Very nice that you delved a bit into the pre-1890s period of Ethiopian history. I find this is always the focus and think it is a problem.
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  9. Douglass and Tubman both spread the word to not join up with Brown, believing the operation to be a suicide mission. Those 200 rifles were supposed to be in the hands of his men during the raid - he went ahead with the operation with only 10% of the manpower he had planned for. Additionally, he stopped a train as it was passing through the arsenal, but allowed it to pass through. As far as I'm aware, no one knows for sure why he allowed the train to move on, but it's probably related to the lack of manpower. Those on the train of course sent a telegram at the very next stop, and that's what blew the operation.
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  10. You out did yourself yet again. I always like to see these old guns in modern practical shooting scenarios (E.g. FG 42 vs. BAR) . I have been a fan of this channel for years and it has been a pleasure watching it change and grow. There have been few, if any, creative decisions I wasn't 100% on board with. I feel you do a very good job of selecting intresting items, researching the crap out of them and then presenting them in a clear, easy to understand manner. All while being as polite and diplomatic as possible. I know this is a labor of love but there is significant historical importance to creating a video catalog of all these firearms and I appreciate you keeping up the work despite the platform's... distaste for this particular aspect of human history.
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  11. Im British, fighting in Ukraine, carrying an Argentinian produced select fire FAL that was sold to Bulgaria and then donated to Ukraine.
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  12. Interesting take - we came to many of the same conclusions in our review on The Great War channel as well! Great minds, I guess. ;)
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  13. Thank you so much for this video, Ian! I am an icelander and have shot one of those unique guns. That was an interesting experience as the guns are very heavy but pattern really well. I can also confirm that Jón was a genuine legend here by the arctic circle :D
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  14. Well.. that's an LC... we used 'em few; only for do door guards and naval exercises, vessel boarding and that kind of stuff, the three that i'd held felt heavyer than my CETME L, i also felt better with the cheek againist the bakelite stock of the L than againist the LC wires stock, i didn't liked it. Also, that flash hider was the standard on the 98% of the CETME Ls of the Tercio Norte of the Royal Spanish Marine Infantry only the 1st serie CETMEs had that three lugs flash hider that you've in your L, the normal thing on my Tercio was the one on your LC, i think it was the 3rd serie/batch; the sights are the same one than on the L, but on the shooting range we only did 50m 100m and 200m with 'em, while with the L we did from 50m to 400m. The LCs that we had were much more realiable than the Ls, using the same mags and ammo, when we had an stopage with the LCs it used to be the mag; they were less used and less beaten, they still in few number on the inventory of the Armada, the CNP (Cuerpo Nacional de Policía = the cops) and the Guardia Civíl, and thankfully they'd gave few use to 'em too.
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  15. I can jump in to the optics question (I'm an opto-mechanical engineer). There are some polymer lens technologies worth looking at but they are still pretty young and somewhat expensive to process (though they appear to be well funded so that may change with time). Some of these may not only replace lenses but eliminate them from the stack because of some cool games you can play with polymer. However, there is a limit. Controlling color at these high magnification ratios requires flint glasses and last I looked may still require them, those are the heavy ones. Moreover the higher magnifications really should be using bigger bells on the output (past 6 your just making things larger, not clearer in most conditions. It depends on your pupil size say the time). Overall it won't change a ton though. Most of the weight is in the housing so reducing length would be the priority, but there are physics limits there. Titanium is a viable material for that (over aluminum 6061 or 7075) but it's obviously expensive and the weight savings aren't dramatic. Ultimately these are field sights, not race optics. Toughness isn't going to be something the market will want to compromise on I suspect.
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  16. Greetings from the other kilt wearer :) You did much better than me (I timed out on every stage) but I did hit a plate from the truck, and didn’t go prone during stage one - and I had never shot from either a moving vehicle or standing up before! Great fun, I hope to be there again next year.
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  17. To make it better just buy exactly enough BDC's so the snipers will never have access to the right type.
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  18. I've watched five reviews for this gun in the last hour. Not because of the gun itself but the style of review between each reviewer's two cents. By far gun Jesus is the most in-depth and unbiased just by presiding facts and history.
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  19. Hey Ian, I've had the BD44 for a little over a decade and I've only put a few magazines through it. I can't believe this long in production and the magazine problems haven't been solved. The issue isn't the mag stops, it's the magazine catch recess on the magazine. It's too loose. The magazine points down and rams the cartridge into the trunnion. You have to hold the magazine, push it forward to keep the magazine lined up correctly for feeding. The bolt can be a bit of an issue too, it occasionally will try to exit via the ejection port. It's also prone to slam fire with reloaded ammunition.
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  20. "Did anyone see where my speedloader went?" was a common phrase from Ian when we shot pretty much any pistol stage.
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  21. Ian, Ok, it's way past time for me to say this... I've been watching your videos for years, and from where I sit, you literally piss excellence. You're incredibly poised, well spoken, well prepared, with seemingly no major flaws or any big flashy ego ever showing through. Just a superb professional, every time. You present great quality, very interesting, not overly fancy or complicated, concise and easy to watch videos in an incredible volume. I believe your vids are equally valuable to both novices and experts alike. Your work reigns supreme atop so many others' in a really perfect niche. I watch a lot of YouTubers across a broad spectrum of interests (many technical), and I must say that you sir, really are among the very best. You don't seem to let your apparent success "go to your head" either. Keep up the great work. Stay safe out there. Jim, a Veteran, Spokane.
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  22. Like most academics, I suddenly found myself teaching online. I adopted the FW Q&A format with my students. Folks, it's harder than it looks. Maybe I need a smoking jacket. Anyway, I love the Q & A posts. Keep up the good work.
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  23. There's no such thing as an obsolete rifle, just happy little failures.
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  24. Mind you, "run away like a little girl" is by no means a negative remark here, it's actually the smart thing to do in this situation.
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  25. Man, ArmaLite didn't do anything like that for me when my book on the AR-10 came out... Still, congratulations, Ian; you deserve it!
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  26. OHHHHHHH- Jingle Bells! Lobbing Shells! Double Vid Release! Ma Deuce Fun on Forgotten Weapons! May It Never Cease! Dashing through the brass, With a Bereted Francophile O'er the top we go, Smiles for all, for Miles *BOOM-BOOM-BOOM* Artillery and Half-Tracks, Sniper rifles too, 20mm Lahti Guns, Because he cares for me and you! OH! Jingle Bells! Lobbing Shells! Double Vid Release! Ma Deuce Fun on Forgotten Weapons! May It Never Cease! Merry Gun Je-sus Christmas, To YOOOOOOOOU!
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  27. I have never been given such a Christmas gift and likely never will again. The accuracy to the lore and story I got to be added to is something I will carry with me for the rest of my life. While my time at Misriah was short I still hoped the efforts made might do some good. I got called back to jumping feet first into hell, I guess it was where I belonged. I’ve thought about that prototype a lot since then. It was juvenile glee to begin, total obsession to finish, and agonizing revisions to the end. The CAWS program became a bigger foe than the covenant. Swimming in the deep end with stimmed engineers and bumping shoulders with efficiency AI… jumpin’s a lot easier… you wouldn’t see me smile till they fielded the production M90.
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  28. My wife, a professional chef (she's even taking her CEC practical soon), watched entranced. She has now added a trip like this to her bucket list.
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  29. The automatic shut-off in gasoline pumps is actually kind of a gas tap system, (obviously it works with way lower pressures). The Ljungman company had several patents in this field, so it may not be too far-fetched for them to get some ideas on gas-operated semi auto rifles. An engineer could explain or dismiss any similarities between these technologies better than me but I think it's an interesting bit of info.
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  30. One of few channels where like “oh I have little interest in this topic” but click anyways just to hear Ian’s insight as never know what he’ll bring up to reference historically etc Make great content my man
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  31. I gots me a reproduction 49 pocket to carry when I'm out gold panning because I'm a history nerd (I also have a ridiculous prospector hat)
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  32. Bond has, like everyone else, a Box of Regrettable Holsters.
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  33. I remember the Red October match, especially the night range and just how much muzzle flash it had.
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  34. The rear sling bar should be attached to the safety, make the sling useful at both ends 😆
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  35. This is so cool. I grew up hunting, but we never processed our own meats. I had a great uncle who owned a meat packing operation, so we'd just drop it off there and pick it up a couple days later all wrapped in butcher paper. Watching the sausage being made, so to speak, is fascinating.
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  36. This is getting ridiculous. I could use a couple of backup LPKs. Looks like a good time to buy them
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  37. The R stands for Rafale not repetition. The 3 round burst or rafale 3 coups actually works very well due to the fact the firing rate is so high, you get a descent group in those bursts. I'm ex legionnaire of 1 REC 1988-1993
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  38. Your videos are good for the hobby and industry as a whole. As a non-owner of firearms you do a lot to strip away the negative emotional aspects that surround firearms by breaking it all down, literally and figuratively. I'm interested in owning firearms because of your and Paul Harrell's channel. Thanks a million.
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  39. The SARs were used mostly not by specopsy types but by "specialists", i.e. medics, heavy weapon gunners, APC drivers, logistics guys, some officers/NCOs etc. Little fact about the modkit's charging handle - it was a load of crock. It got loose VERY quickly and went flying into the bushes within a month of use or sooner. Same thing (well, not as often) with the magnifier mount - over time it got wobbly and wasn't true to the barrel. Some weapons suffered from a slightly jiggly receiver cover, to which it was attached, that only amplified the problem. I used to shim an empty 5.56 casing between the magnifier and the rear iron sight so it would be usable and over time I didn't even bother to mount it. Just kept it in my chest rig pouch and used it as a hand-held viewing aide. Ah, good times :D
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  40. my dad would be pleased... He was a FFI sergent then joined the regular army "till the end of the war". Nice job Ian
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  41. Ian I don't think you get enough recognition for your seemingly flawless use of a wide vocabulary and the way that you have succeeded in making a living from something you enjoy so well. I genuinely enjoy your videos.
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  42. It's good to see Ian doing what he does I don't know how many times I've "tuned in" and left going "I learned something new today" still have my only dropped once shirt Hope you are doing well 🤙
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  43. Congratulations Ian. Your channel is a quite important archive, and I surely appreciate it very much. Subscribed since the begining, and even back when you were only putting out written content on your website. All very enjoyable and informative.
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  44. Hawke branded scopes are used in Britain on 12ft lb air rifles, not much else. They range from about $30 to $200 new. The most expensive ones are perfectly ok on rimfires but you wouldn't use them on centrefire rifles.
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  45. My hairdresser I had an appointment with right after watching one of Ian's other Ethiopian videos turned out to be Ethiopian herself. Boy, oh boy was I glad for having had a little refresher on Ethiopian history when I was sitting in her chair. Needless to say that I spent way more time getting my hair cut that day than necessary .... such an interesting country with an incredible history.
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  46. In 1943, USSR actually did some testing comparing Lend-Lease M1s and SVT-40s. The result was heavily in M1s favour, with M1s suffering 1,75% malfunctions compared to 9.75% on the SVT-40s. Indeed, the issues of quality control were well understood by Soviet experts, but unfortunately you cannot get an experienced industrial base without making mistakes. Consider that just 30 years prior the Russian Empire had a literacy rate of 30%. USSR was beating the odds here. I would like to correct something that Ian said about USSR's adoption and then move away from the SVT. In 1940 the production of Mosin rifles was halted and stopped. The plan was to fully move to the SVT as the standard rifle. Even the sniper variant would be SVT only - the PU scope was developed specifically for the SVT, and it wouldn't be until 1942 that it would be adapted to the Mosin. Mosin used the older PE scope. When Germany attacked, USSR did not have a running Mosin production. In autumn of 1941 the factories were restarted, and the idea of moving to the SVT fell off specifically because it was more expensive to manufacture than the Mosin. And USSR was having to equip tens of millions of men. The submachine guns were considered a good enough substitute for the volume of fire, since they were easier to produce. Had USSR entered the war a year later, perhaps it wouldn't have returned to the Mosin. But with less than a year of production experience on the SVT-40, without having fully scaled it up, it was not practical to push ahead with the semi-auto concept if it meant being unable to provide enough rifles for the army. The Red Army had 30 million people serving throughout the war.
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  47. as a chinese who saw the title of the book, i m very suprise and glad ian choose this subject ,since there is no normal gun owner let alone gun collector in china,we dont really have someone like ian who has access to a lot of collection and also can make video about it, i m very excited to see what the book have to tell, if you ever decide to come to china we have Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing ,i would love love to see ian made a video tour of the gun in it
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  48. There are a bunch of cocktails named after guns. You talk about the gun. Greg talks about the cocktail. DOne.
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  49. Wow, the interactions between Ian and his guest was just so well balanced and the timing perfect. Bring him back on any time. This snippet litterally felt as polished as a big budget tv show. Keep up the good work
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  50. I’ve been watching for about 8 years. This video finally made something click. I think it’s time to make a patreon. Thank you for all the awesome content.
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