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

  1. "It's black friday, or our season of rampant commercialism" - yet another reason to love Ian and Forgotten Weapons.
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  2. Seeing WWI era guns getting disassembled really explains why the Browning style handguns really dominated the market.
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  3. P38 v Glock is a red herring. The correct answer is Browning High Power
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  4. NGL, the fact that "flapper locking systems" got going in the 1920's always makes me laugh just a bit.
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  5. I think it's kinda funny hearing Karl's voice in the backround of these earlier 2-gun action matches; before the start of In-range videos.
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  6. Whomever does the closed captioning on these videos (which might be Ian), thank you so much. You do an excellent job in communicating the nuance of Ian. I don't struggle with my hearing, but having grown up with people in the Deaf community, I run subtitles all the time. Yours are particularly good!
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  7. Teddy was a dude's dude. But surprisingly progressive in the right ways.
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  8.  @solidsnake4167  Time to sell my crackhouse to get an FG-42. Unfortunately it's more of a Crackhome.
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  9. "I gave this three clicks of adjustment. I have not looked this up" - Ian being absolutely honest in his videos. Love it!
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  10. An early Karl in the wild moment! You can catch his voice at the end of this, a solid 2 years before inrange channel rolled out.
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  11.  @sdivine13  The STG bolt and the AK bolt have next to nothing in common. STG is a tilting bolt and the AK pattern guns are rotating bolts. MK said he was inspired by the M1 bolt system.
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  12.  @bretth6393  He records batches of videos at a time and releases them over a while. I am pretty sure his trip to France happened Summer 2019. Same situation as the HK Grey room videos. He'll record as many as he can. He doesn't release them the same way as the auction videos, because those are dependent on when the auction happens.
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  13. Is it going to be a collaboration with cold steel? The ColdTek defender.
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  14. There's also pistols from WW2 that fired grenades. See also: Leuchtpistole 42
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  15. Kurt Bergh a good balance point of simple ruggedness and complexity that adds to the function.
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  16. I can never help but feel that this gun was designed by German's attempting to out Swiss, the Swiss.
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  17. Microstamping is literally the dumbest thing. All firearms already leave unique firing pin marks. Also, figuring out a firearm used in a crime 98% of the time doesn't push a case along at all. Since most crime firearms are used in so many crimes that you can't pinpoint them to any specific individual. Classic Spartacus defense.
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  18. The poly cartridge case is basically a civil war invention.
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  19.  @sdivine13  source? All the interviews I've seen, with MK say otherwise.
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  20.  @sdivine13  The book that was linked, in MK's personal letters, he cites that the M1 garand was influential in his design. From the pictures in the website, it is quite clear that the design springs from the Garand and not the STG. The argument that it is taken from the STG44 is sad and very inaccurate. It's as bad as people arguing that the VZ58 is another version of an AKM because it vaguely looks like it from the exterior.
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  21.  @sdivine13  Yes the M1 is a rotating bolt, o never said it was a tilting bolt. I said the STG are tilting bolts...the AK and the M1 are both rotating bolts. Also, the USSR did receive a M1 for their research. Also captured arms typically return to research and development factories. You can bet that MK absolutely handled M1 rifles by 1946.
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  22.  @rags417  false dichotomy.
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  23. I feel like the AI slop only gets people who aren't used to looking at proper film photos. The focal plane is something AI cannot get right at all. There will be something significantly to the fore or aft of the picture that is crispy sharp. AI doesn't understand depth, because it doesn't see like people do.
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  24.  @damonjenkins2185  it's not often a country has a war with birds and loses.
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  25. "It was just in my Whiskey Collection" - I mean, she was an impressive person before this...
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  26.  @sdivine13  Lastly, if it's "designed from the blueprints of the STG* (your words) Why are the internals completely different? Why is the trigger group basically an M1 trigger group? Why does it use a different locking system? Because it is a completely different system and not built from STG blueprints.
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  27.  @sdivine13  rotating bolt not rolling bolt. And you're carte blanche saying that the Russian government says without a doubt that the AK is from the STG blueprints. Prove it. Give one good primary source.
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  28.  @zoiders  Confusing the BAR Police with the BRENaboog bois is not a fair comparison! BAR Police love a flawed design and know it's not perfect. BREN'ners maintain that weapon was the most perfect weapon ever created (just a hair behind the SMLE).
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  29.  @sdivine13  https://youtu.be/KfJLX61OMFA - for being a "gunsmith" you know fuckall about guns and gun design.
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  30.  @sdivine13  also, you must not understand basic firearms design.
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  31.  @simonrival1613  The US had adopted the updated design as well. However the legacy models will stay in service for a long time. In the last video, someone who served in Afghanistan talked about having a M2 with a serial number in the three hundreds range. So, yeah that one is OLD.
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  32. The mechanical clicking noises of that gun when opening is sheer perfection.
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  33.  @ivankrylov6270  Recreating any firearm without a data package is a difficult proposition. It gets harder when you have a small sample size of already created units. When you have a weird version of long stroke action that no one else is really using..... yeah. It's one of those seemingly easy things. The reality is something different. Heck, Hungary couldn't manufacture CZ Bren 2 under guidance and licensure from CZ. That's with a data package.
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  34.  @sdivine13  You won't find it. Because it's simply not true.
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  35.  @Gojiro7  Congrats on replying to my comment from 2017. What a simpler time that was eh? I would say that the electronics industry is one where the simple version isn't always the best. The Raspberry Pi is the simplest item. But is it the best?
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  36.  @thatsnotafact7840  does the cruise missile say WAUSER WAUSER WAUSER PATRIOTIC WISSILE?
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  37.  @curtisthomas2670  Because some mouthbreathers are convinced the STG44 is the AK-47. And they're very different firearms. But unmentioned people are stupid enough to believe that a completely different operating system is the same thing. Basically they could argue about intermediate cartridge design, and they might be able to say something. But no...it's like arguing that cheddar cheese and horseradish are the same thing, because they often flavor beef.
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  38.  @sdivine13  You said rolling lock action for the M1.
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  39. I'm guessing avoiding paying for a technical package is a larger part of it all.
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  40.  @Idogames4  This isn't a defense of the M14 - but, I can't shake the feeling the FAL has gotten MASSIVELY overrated for a long time.
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  41. "His mating call is well known. 'Do you have any french .32 loungeouix?'"
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  42.  @sdivine13  As far as "rolling bolt" you're thinking of the roller put on the M14 rifle bolt. I also do not say that MK worked in a vacuum. He's the face, but usually other engineers perfect the firearms. Same thing as John Browning he was a massive inventor, but other people tweaked his designs.
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  43. In the end, the USA went to the M240B, which is a grand rework of the BAR. So we got there eventually.
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  44. DesRoin It's not that complicated, it comes all down to size. Micro-Uzi machine pistol - full size Uzi sub machine gun.
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  45. Also, machine pistols are usually pistols first that are made automatic. Examples a G18 is a fully auto G17 essentially.
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  46. In the USA, going "dutch" on a meal out is a term for splitting the bill. But can overwhelmingly be perceived as being cheap. I guess the old statement stands: if the klompen fit.
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  47.  @rags417  Top five countries with Gun ownership - 1. USA 2. Falkland Islands, 3. Yemen 4. New Caledonia 5. Serbia. Top 5. country Murder Rates 1. Honduras 2. Venezuela 3. US Virgin Islands 4. Belize 5. El Salvador. - Lastly "Of the 86 countries where we have identified mass public shootings, the US ranks 56th per capita in its rate of attacks and 61st in mass public shooting murder rate. " - Once again False Dichotomy. Statistically Gun ownership does influence suicide rates (only with men). Do some research before you assume you know better than the whole world sir. Also if you want to know one of the big differences, depending on where you look at specific statistics for "mass murder/shootings" varies. According to where I live, Australia has had at least 7 mass murder events within in the last year. Gun laws be damned.
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  48. Minor Correction: JMB made many of the finest mechanical creations. He also made many cartridges. He basically made everything.
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  49. Gusto Glock is known for inventing the pistol. It's why it's so reliable. (clearly not serious...but people will correct me on this one I feel it)
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  50. That's the Western way. The Eastern way is overbidding the contract and losing most of the money due to corruption.
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