Comments by "Not shaped for sportive tricks" (@notshapedforsportivetricks2912) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Wow! I have never seen a 2-stroke machine gun before.
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  2. Thanks for the details. It's always nice to get the info first hand. Minor glitches didn't affect the high quality of the film.
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  3. Aah, but what about switching from an L85 to a Lee Enfield? 😊
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  4. There's no standard term, as I understand it, and it probably varies between countries anyhow. For weapons carried onboard ships, the term I've heard most often is small arms, but that covers everything from a 9mm pistol up to a 0.5 inch machine gun. Weapons carried in vehicles I've heard referred to generically as side arms, but again that can include pistols, carbines, standard service rifles and anything inbetween. Sorry that I can't be more specific.
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  5. The problem was that they only tried the plan twice. Everyone knows that the third time's the charm.
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  6. Historically in England proper, a place was classified as a city if it had a cathedral. This led to some anomalies during the industrial revolution where burgeoning industrial centres were still towns next door to places a tenth of their size which were classified as cities. So I suppose that Stanley has a cathedral now.
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  7.  @jarink1  I can see you've played Knifey Spooney before.
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  8. Lovely Ian! Now give us a chorus of Men of Harlech.
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  9.  @WithTwoFlakes  Thanks for that. It's somewhat disappointing to hear, but then most things are nowdays.
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  10. They were nothing if not persistent. After one session at The Holy Drinker in the 1880s they decidex to build their own submarine called der Fenian Ram. It had wheels, if I recall correctly.
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  11. I know what your thinking. Has he fired six shots or only .... Hey Trevor! What number comes before six? Dunno, Ian. Twelve?
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  12. ​ @iW4FFL3Z  And a Robertson screwdriver for Canadian commandos.
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  13. Used to play on one of these at the local park when I was a kid.
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  14. It is scientifically impossible to do a video on the Martini-Henry without mentioning zulus. Don't feel too bad.
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  15. In the Great War british officers learned pretty quickly after trench warfare was established not to wear anthing that made them too obvious a target. So swords were abandoned along with distinctive uniforms. Sidearms were usually retained in a belt-and-braces approach, but the smelly was usually the preferred weapon, or sometimes a sharpened entrenching tool.
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  16. A gun cheaper to manufacture than the Owen would involve origami of some sort, qouldn't it?
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  17.  @51WCDodge  You mean that someone WANTS to own New Jersey?
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  18. If you can remember the plan in the morning, you were't in the bar long enough to think it through.
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  19. Before it wound up in a canadian museum, the gun was probably deployed somewhere on the outskitrs of the empire against the fuzzy-wuzzies.
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  20. Interesting that imperial measurements outlived the metric ones. Good.
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  21. In the name of Cthulhu, what inspired Electrolux to get into firearms? Was it for a particularly energetic form of door-to-door salesmanship or what? Are you absolutely sure that you don't want a new vacuum cleaner, madam? (Flicks off the safèty)
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  22. Police! Hands-up or it's three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys.
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  23. Yeah, but it's a bugger to carry in a shoulder holster.
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  24. I think that The Simpsons did something like it with pharmaceuticals
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  25. I think that the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard had Ross rifles, but its been years since I watched Dad's Army.
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  26.  @AnthonyHandcock  Wow. Thanks very much for the info. Great memory!
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  27.  @mudcrab3420  Does anyone know what rifles they gave Mainwaring's mob in the recent movie. (I've got to be honest, I couldn't bring myself to watch it.)
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  28.  @mudcrab3420  Yeah, it didn't sound very good, did it? Thanks for looking, though.
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