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  1. Looking forward to see you in action! Hope we can pull this off and get you here!
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  2. My dad had the M55 wire stock Reising on Guadalcanal, when in back line defense of Bloody Ridge and Henderson Field. He only had one malfunction, when the trigger mechanism would not release, and it fired full auto until the mag was empty. He cleaned the firearm and had no other problems. He was PFC Chas W. Lyon 1st Marine Div. , 1st Marine Air Wing, Marine Air Group 14, Service Squadron !4.
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  3. This tickles me given I worked on making Mass Drivers back in the late 2000's (2007-2009). This is working on the same logic and design philosophies I was as well. This stuff has matured a lot in over 14 years, a lot of it of course still comes down to issues with gates, coils, batteries, and capacitors. But this is a big step forward for man-portable mass drivers. So this was pretty cool to see as a former developer in the field.
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  4. I live in the Vercors and here it’s a real pride that the people didn’t give up during WW2. Sadly we don’t hear enough about this beautiful and tragic part of our history 💔
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  5. Very kind of you Ian! Humbled by your overly generous endorsement. One day, we'll end up on the same range somewhere, one day..... 😀
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  6. I thoroughly enjoyed the f*#$ out of this video.
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  7. I’m the guy that Ian ran into just before he shot this video. Yes Ian I weighed my.300WM and it’s 14.8 lbs dry so I used my dads .308 (epic fail) and my Ruger 556E (better but still failed as expected). I’m down to my son’s .223 and my .300WM. Stay tuned and thank you for being a good person in real life). Jerry in the Green Tacoma 🇺🇸
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  8. You may not read these old comments, but thanks for always putting the final sale prices in your descriptions!
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  9. Might get lost in the comments here, but Ian, I want to thank you for being one of, if not THE, leading historian cataloging as much as you possibly can across a wide array of firearms and engineering. I'd like to imagine one day an entire bookshelf of my home dedicated to your published works, as well as those books being used as reference material for other students of history and engineering, firearms designers, and hobbyists for centuries to come. It isn't recognized very often, but you have devoted a very substantial chunk of your life to doing work that most people don't even think about. Thank you for doing what you do, I sincerely hope your name is high up in the history books, have yourself a happy new year!
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  10. I can safely say as a drinks industry worker (with scientific knowledge of the processes involved) , Ian did a fantastic presentation of that distillery operation.
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  11. 8th in Breacher? Hells yeah! Congrats Ian!
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  12. Thank you for the history of why the TP9 uses the “proprietary” B&T suppressor. The oversized shroud w/ tri-lug on the TP9 really drove me crazy…but now I can deal with it. I have mounted the same optic and thought, wow, this is perfectly sized for the TP9! And now I know why. Thank you.
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  13. Im a southern Baptist pastor, and this has to be one of the absolute best videos I’ve seen in awhile. So good and done with so much class. Thank you for this!
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  14. when we fased out the G3 we asked germany if they wanted them back they declined so we still have af lot of the G3´s in storage for use if a general mobilisation is required
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  15. Your "Riau" pronounciation is actually pretty spot on, Ian.
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  16. Darn it Ian, whenever I think that I've got a nice gun idea, you jump in like, "Been there, done it" ;) , I've just got myself a trashy Polish AKM with a bent barrel, in order to do exactly that, just using a Mini-Beryl gas block/front sight, and old Beryl side-folder stock... I work in a gun store in Poland so sometimes I get some old surpluss firearms that are too messed up for sale, and that's also why I'm using Polish parts, it's much easier to get the regional product... Also, I'm going to cut my barrel a tiny bit longer, i'm going for about 10 inches (I want a gun, not a repeating flashbang...) It's nice to see though that I'm sometimes getting similar ideas as Gun Jesus did, even if I'm a bit late ;)
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  17. Thank you Ian, I have been subscribed for over a decade now, and your ability to hunt out really interesting firearms to bring to us is what make this my favourite firearms channel on youtube
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  18. Thank you so much, Ian! It was a pleasure hanging out with you.
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  19. The fact that your kickstarter was so successful proves that people do still value the hard work it takes to make quality content that fills a channel like yours. We didn't just back your book, we backed you.
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  20. 6:38 Dmitri Kochetov is actually quite a notable man. Coming from the line of Tula gunsmiths, a brilliant student, he was employed as an army gunsmith during WWI, where he used not just to service guns, but to invent some new devices such as flare launchers. In 1920 he was employed as the head of hunting arms department of Tula Arms Factory, and worked on the design of a shotgun that was later given as a gift to Lenin. He was involved in designing civilian firearms, and his most brilliant child would be a TOZ-8 rimfire rifle, designed in order to compete with german sports rifle designs and a new rifle designed by Alexey Smirnsky (another soviet designer and participant of Stockholm Olympics in 1912, he also designed a PE top mount for Mosin). Also he designed a first soviet civilian hunting rifle, NK-8,2
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  21. Good stuf. I am a brit engineer who lives in China, and I know many 1st gen post opening up toolmakers. Its amazing to me what many of these guys can do with a ramshakle old lathe and scraps of rough old tools. They learned their trade without insert tools, or even a full set of drills. Toolmaking skills in warlord era must have been amazing.
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  22. This would be a cool piece of history to own, but I'm a veteran of the 187th and I feel like touching something issued to the 327th might burn my skin. Just joking of course, nothing but respect to my brothers in Bastogne. Went ahead and bought a mug to support the channel. Thank you, Gun Jesus!
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  23. Hi Ian. That was very nice of you to say at the beginning of the video. I love being an RO and coach. It was a pleasure serving you guys at this match. God Bless.
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  24.  @CZProtton  former soldier. I was issued a VHS-D1 and later a VHS-2D, original model, prior to product improvement. in the field it was perfectly serviceable, if a bit heavy. I absolutely hated the 3 point sling, mostly due to the doctrine of use. We had to use the guardsman's carry, rather than the legionaire's carry, so the gun always hung in front of you or even between your legs. On terrain, I reverted to legionaire's carry, so when unslung, it would hag by my side almost like a pistol and was much easier to swing behind on my back from that position when I needed it out of the way. The sights on my rifles were copies of HK sights, drum sight on the VHS-2. Very pointable and easy to align. Quite open and a very good sight picture. Utterly useless in low light conditions. The weight of the rifle was terrible. 3.9kg empty for the VHS-2D is far, far, far from ideal. Maintenance was quite easy and it really wasn't a pampered diva that demanded constant polishing and rubbing, doctrine of use aside. In terms of accuracy, "good enough for government work" as they say. I'm probably a better shooter than most, but no marksman and at 100m 5 shot groups the size of a closed fist, so 2-3 MoA roughly, with irons. I did have a problem with my particular rifle, as the flash hider would loosen after 3 shots and then the bullets would start flying willy-nilly. When it wasn't important, I didn't bother tightening it to prevent, to not damage the rifle and to not make cleaning and maintenance more of a chore. in filed, I'd either take it off or overtighten it. Having an AK style pin system to hold it in place would have been better. one last thing i noticed is that in the field, it sticks out like a sore thumb and de-camouflages the soldier. because it has a very large profile and is pitch black, it is impossible not to see in the field. it becomes a really obvious big black blob. they should start making them in FDE or just camo tape them, which is what I did with mine on one particular field exercise and the difference was staggering. The proprietary mgazines for the VHS-2 were much better than the original ones and I much prefer the G-36 style latch method to the AR style. the VHS-2 is an improvement in every way over the VHS-1, except the weight. Ergonomically better, easier to disassemble and maintain. Materials were also improved significantly. The VHS-1 could rapid fire 120 rounds before the barrel became too hot. VHS-2 upped this to 350 rounds. It's no ultra-modernized AR or AK, but it is perfectly good rifle that can hold it's own no problem with any competitor out there. In terms of bulpups, it is one of the better ones.
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  25. Wow! I'm an engineer at the company that makes that hammer forging machine. Very cool to see it in action. I'd love to get you in contact with them if you want to learn more about the process and history of it! Something very interesting about the process is that while it looks like the barrel is constantly spinnin in the machine, it actually stops rotating before every hammer blow, which happens many times a second! And while we call it "cold hammer forging" the material can still reach temperatures up to 400 degrees Celsius. Also that "blue housing" is actually what we call the "Hammer Box" very original name I now 😂
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  26. Around the 9 minute mark, I actually have a correction. There is a hole drilled already, with enough space for a cleaning kit. I have a red wood version of this PSA Spiker, and I just had to order a new butt plate with the trap door and it was good to go, the cleaning kit and spring snapped right in.
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  27. I supported you on kickstarter yesterday. Really hope you make the 2 million goal so you can (hopefully) come here to the Netherlands. Keep on being awesome Ian, gunfinger to you!
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  28. I have an M05 field jacket and a wool jacket and the fit, finish, overall quality and wearability is absolutely through the roof. The responsiveness, not just in shipping/delivery, but when I sent questions about sizing was quicker that pretty much any Stateside vendor.
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  29. Hi, Ian. This was very educational, and you did a great job. You both learned and taught. The camera work was very well done as well. The butcher, or chef, I don't know which, did an outstanding job of teaching you how to properly butcher an animal to get the best cuts of mean without ruining it by cutting where you should not cut. I will save this movie and send it to my son. It is more likely that he will have an opportunity to go hunting. I have seen butchering tutorials before, but this was done by an expert. I am sure you will enjoy eating a delicious meal. Thanks for sharing! Stay healthy!
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  30. Yall are brutial, the poor site is trying to hang on by a thread. The support is overwhelming, good luck!
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  31. Its Koróvin. From корóва - cow
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  32. I served in Iraq with the proprietor of Two Rivers Arms. Great folks there.
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  33. You could showcase one Gras rifle every Tuesday and call it Mardi Gras.
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  34. The adoption of the M240 by the US was driven by the absolutely dismal performance of the M73 as a tank coaxial machinegun. The relatively flimsy receiver of the M60 (and resultant light weight) was useful as an infantry weapon, but it caused problems when the gun was mounted. Firing the M60 caused it to beat itself apart and it would eventually get to the point you could change everything from the flash suppressor to the buttplate and the receiver would not hold them in close enough formation to be reliable. Once upon a time the unit armorer had a "stretch" gage for the receiver and he could check for excessively worn receiver. Replacement receivers were actually once a repair part. By the late Seventies, early Eighties armorers were condemning receivers at an alarming rate and the stock of replacement receivers was exhausted. To solve the problem Ordnance took away the gages. If the M60 was used as a pure infantry weapon and only fired off the bipod or the shoulder it would last maybe 30,000 to 40,000 rounds before it got to that point. If it was mounted, using the mount adapter, like on its tripod, on an ACAV, or a gun jeep 12,000 rounds was enough to stretch it beyond limits. It's a pays yer money, takes yer pick kinda situation.
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  35. My wallet, seeing me drooling over this... : "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
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  36. Russel: I want you all to know how hard this is and how complicated this is and why we are behind schedule. Gun Jesus for past 9 years: Do not ever get into the gun manufacturing business. Also Gun Jesus: So...we’re going to make and sell a gun.
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  37. I am lucky to be able to attend Leszek Erenfeicht's lectures on history of small arms in Warsaw and the man's knowledge and experience, as well as his storytelling skills are incredible.
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  38. Finally all the atgeirr combat sequences in the sagas make sense. Thank you so much distinguished professor McCollum. 💡
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  39. Hi Ian, thanks to write the subtitles in English instead of use automatically generated ones! Easier for non native English speaker to understand and learn English 😉 Salute you from France
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  40. Ian, congratulations on this one. This video is one of the most accurate, precise description of the situation at hand I have ever come across. You manage to pinpoint all the fundamental issues that are floating around in this case in less than 20 minutes. Also, one of the things that I asked myself when I learned about the trial for the new standard rifle: why would any company participate in a trial when they see what happened to HK? It just gives the impression that the MoD here in Germany is not a reliable business partner when it comes to long-term contracts. Especially, when they do not even lift a finger to figure out what the actual problem is.
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  41. As an opto-mechanical engineer who works in the the custom space, I'm impressed that they were able to keep that price with an indeterminate run quantity. It's super reasonable, under the circumstances. 50% down is also pretty common for the space.
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  42. Hello forgotten weapons I'm a new person on ur channel but what I'm seeing I really like what you do keep it up
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  43. I found my previous comment from 6 month ago and I still stand by it today however I just realized this was the first forgotten weapons video I ever saw and I've just about watched all of them and what an absolutely brilliant time I've had the technical assessment, description, and history are perfectly described and I enjoy the content and presentation equally , Thankyou
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  44. Apparently before Glock came around for SMGs it was "will it take MP40 magazines?"
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  45. I also saw picture of this particular weapon being used in the Crimean war by Italian Bersaglieri, so I think that the french just copied the Italian original patented blueprint
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  46. The single-shot airgun with the Type 56 stock was/is the SPA B5; took me two minutes of google-fu to find it :P Time to get one before everyone else does when this video goes live-live!
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  47. Ian, if not for you I would probably never have taken interest in the historical rifles of my home country. Thanks for your persistently great presentations over all these years. Vive l'amitié 🇫🇷🇺🇲
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  48. I'm sorry but can we all just pause for a moment, send some scouts out to scope the lie of the land, and then wait for the reports to come in before we confirm that Ian is ABSOLUTELY SMASHING IT in terms of delivering... oh, I dunno, endless free youtube content, high quality analysis of relevant issues present and historical, tertiary-academic-level publications... talk about adapting to the changing strategic landscape of these damn Covid times. Keep crushing it mate, much respect from down under.
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  49. Yo, Ian. Just watched the original posting of this video. Wow. How far has this channel come? Being enthusiastic without being political. +1. Focusing on engineering and tooling. +1. Historical context and relevance. +1. If your retirement has not been taken care of by YouTube, boo. You are a National Treasure.
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  50. "By Grabthars hammer, what a savings!"
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