Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. From a modern shooter's perspective, it's a pity that France didn't just copy the Swiss 7.5x55 GP11 cartridge. When we'd have much more readily available ammo for French surplus guns. So inconsiderate of France not to account for that . :D
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  2. +Forgotten Weapons And of course, Rollin White hadn't actually invented it, since bored-through cylinders were already being made in Europe before that.
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  3. The only part of the low-quality example that I found aesthetically offensive was the low-effort flowers. Everything else about it looks pretty good. And in general, these damascened guns look classy rather than gaudy.
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  4. I own an M96 and a K31. Love them both, but I'd give the edge to the K31.
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  5. Forgotten Weapons Is there any load data available, or your going to have to figure that out on your own?
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  6. You can thank MacArthur for that .276 cartridge not being adopted. There was valid reasoning behind the decision, it would've been expensive to make the transition. But in the long run I think it would've been the better choice.
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  7. 100th
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  8. Because they already had the G43 magazines, using those means no need to manufacture an internal mag.
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  9. Like the guy said, the most valuable piece of brass on the range. I presume .32 bullets will work for reloading, though I don't know if any load data is available.
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  10. At the time, Colt had the patent on a gun where cocking the hammer indexes the cylinder. Cochran had to specifically omit that in order to not get sued.
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  11. Glenn Rivera I still kick myself for not buying that French military contract 1907 I saw about a decade ago for $250. With a holster.
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  12. That's not entirely true. Officers did indeed have to purchase their own pistols, but pistols were also issued to NCOs.
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  13. Didn't the Royal Navy also buy up Remington's remaining stock of 7mm Rolling Blocks?
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  14. David Smith Even one additional American soldier dying because of it would've been a bad thing.
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  15. +vtfirearms IIRC, the 8mm Lebel cartridges ride at an angle in the tube so that the tip of the bullet won't be touching the primer of the round in front of it.
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  16. Andre Krumins Given the revolutionary advantage the French had on their hands by being the first to develop smokeless powder, everything else about the Lebel rifle was overly conservative. Germany had a significantly better rifle just two years later, and Paul Mauser was putting even better ones that that on the market in three years. Worst of all, the fairly goofy shape of the 8mm Lebel cartridge seriously impaired French rifle development for decades to come.
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  17. If I were rich enough to own something like this, I'd probably have a new magazine custom made for it and take it out to shoot myself.
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  18. The question is whether Mexico would've had the financial resources to make it happen, and to get such a weapon to its troops in useful numbers. In fact, at that time it's an open question whether any nation with an army of significant size had the resources to do so.
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  19. I wasn't even aware of the 1911 model. Kind of a pity that large-bore semi-autos weren't really in demand on the civilian market back then, so that there'd be more than 5 of them and maybe it would actually be possible for me to own one.
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  20. +Bernardo Grando Be interesting to see the other three grip styles that Tiffany was offering in that era.
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  21. Odd that Soviet general officers felt it was so important to have a smaller sidearm than the already small enough Makarov, to the extent that a whole new gun and cartridge needed to be designed.
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  22. Well at least it looks cool...
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  23. Exploatores Most Union revolvers were either Colts or Remingtons, since their vastly superior industry did a much better job of meeting the demand for weapons. There were smaller manufacturers that put out some interesting guns like Starr and Savage (note: completely different company from the modern Savage Arms, founded in 1894). I'm pretty sure Ian has done some videos on them already.
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  24. Ian, was this the "original" .280 British round or the more powerful versions that were created in an attempt to appease the Americans? If the latter, do you think a lower velocity 7mm would've been controllable on full auto for short bursts?
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  25. Old ivory grips are perfectly legal; none of the modern ivory regulations are retroactive.
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  26. .30 Luger was also a somewhat popular round in civilian use at the time.
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  27. Keith Larsen Yeah, I'm sure Browning never intended for anything to happen with those other than firing them himself to verify that the designs worked.
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  28. SMGs were a very new concept at the time.
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  29. +762gunr A gun still in active service would be a little outside the normal scope of this channel.
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  30. kuangsheng Presumably just a lack of them in Australia. I would imagine that most of them are in the US now, with the rest still being in Europe. You'd probably be more likely to find an American Krag in Australia, actually
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  31. I wonder why Egypt picked the Ljungman to copy over the FN49. Especially since they already had FN49s when they started making Hakims.
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  32. ​ @dreamingflurry2729  Gendarmerie aren't simply MPs. They're used for policing civilians as well. It's a distinctly French thing, but it also spread to much of the rest of continental Europe during the Napoleonic Wars when most of the continent had French-imposed governments. While most of France's National Gendarmerie is purely a police force (despite being part of the armed forces), the Mobile Gendarmerie is also used for regular military roles. During the Cold War they even had light tanks and wheeled tank destroyers among their equipment. Most likely this got into France via a Mobile Gendarmerie deployment overseas.
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  33. Should've used a Chilean Steyr-Hahn during the pistol portion, just to maintain the theme. :)
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  34. The problem is that there's no way you can call the P90 a scaled-down F2000. There's more of a case for the F2000 being a scaled-up P90. The F2000 came much later than the P90, after all. Those numbers in their names aren't arbitrary. They reflect the years in which each gun was designed.
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  35. The other purpose of the Liberator was to hurt German morale. For the occupation soldiers to never feel safe, because every civilian might have a tiny gun in their pocket.
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  36. It seems like it would've been much simpler to simply have an open slot for the bolt handle at that back of that dust cover. Since in front of there is the part that's actually beneficial to cover.
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  37.  @M101K3  More likely that it was ammo made somewhere in Europe and then imported to Ethiopia for their use.
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  38. As this video showed, they even make illegal and inferior copies of their own copies.
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  39. Unless you've got really gigantic hands, that is.
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  40.  @dbmail545  .280 Ross has similar performance .276 Enfield, but IIRC did so with more reasonable pressure curves.
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  41. It's only in this particular configuration that it feeds from the top. In the assault rifle and carbine configurations, the magazine goes in the bottom just like most rifles. And in the light machine gun configuration it's belf-fed. When a Marine unit tested the Stoner 63A in Vietnam, they didn't use this "automatic rifle" configuration because there was no need for it. In the SAW role it had no particular advantages over the belt-fed version. So they went with just the belt-fed LMG and the magazine-fed assault rifle and carbine configurations. And were quite unhappy when they had to turn them back in in favor of M16s and M60s. Apparently this Marine unit "lost" a few of their LMG-configured Stoners at this time and "found" them again afterward so they were able to keep using them instead of M60s.
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  42. The Mounties: pride themselves on not needing to use their guns American cops: not so much (In reality of course, most American cops rarely or never end up firing their gun outside of training either. It's just that the cases where they do are what get media attention.)
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  43.  @george2113  Yes, all Luxembourg FN-49s were in .30-06.
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  44.  @user-oy9zy4ds9m  For most of those states, "legitimate reason" means whatever the county sheriff wants it to mean, since it's up to sheriff's departments to approve or reject the applications. So in some counties they almost automatically approve it, while in others they automatically reject all applications, and in still others it's dependent on a "campaign donation" to the sheriff.
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  45. The Norinco 213 is a Tokarev with a safety added, so it's a quality pistol.
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  46.  @christophernemeth421  When exactly did they market themselves as such? I'm pretty sure Youtube never claimed that was going to be a place where "all ideas are welcome".
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  47. They were designed by the same guy, after all. Dieudonne Saive was working on them in parallel, with the FN-49 being the culmination of his experimental work for Britain on a semi-automatic rifle during WW2 (chambered in 7.92x57, because that's what Britain was already using for their BESA machine guns), and the FAL being an evolution of his 1946 assault rifle prototype (chambered in 7.92x33, as a placeholder for whatever would be adopted post-WW2).
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  48. I wonder if rather than a FAMAS Valorise, it might work better to just make a FAMAS G2 and put a scope rail on top of the carry handle? It just seems like a FAMAS without the distinctive carry handle might have less appeal, since that's such a central part of the FAMAS look.
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  49. Not as good for that role as a Bergman-Bayard, but these do also have the look for it.
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  50. Technically, the Galil wasn't designed for 5.56x45mm NATO. It was designed for .223 Remington. They use the same case dimensions, but they're not completely identical cartridges. The Galil was designed a decade before 5.56 NATO existed.
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