Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Royal Armouries" channel.

  1. ​ @KrikZ32  not when it means the grip is made longer to fit wider hands, not thicker (dimension perpendicular to the barrel) or wider(dimension parralel to the barrel)
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  2. ​ @SpaceGhost1701  how?
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  3. ​ @zoiders  it's definitely possible to shoulder fire an FN MAG '58. Especially with a short hanging belt or the 50rnd canvas belt pouch used in the Swedish armed forces while moving between stationary firing positions (primarily by marine infantry and national defence militia) That said, the guys able to shoulder firing it are generally 6ft(180cm) or taller and with backrounds either as endurance weight lifters or as farm boys on low-automation family farms.
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  4. ​ @toadwine7654  he refered to the "trick", not the firearm. And the "trick" itself is convergent invention (similiar conditions produce similiar sollutions independent of eachother), not consecutive.
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  5. Well, unless the assailant is high as a kite, and even if they are, getting an eye popped is going to be a serious disincentive to any thought of attack they might have entertained up until that point. Not nessesarily due to pain but due to the sudden loss of stereoscopic range finding, loss of peripheral vision to one side and severe facial bleeding and irritation that will add to the general confusion at the very least. All this combined will make any subsequent attempted attacks clumsy and inacurate as well as allowing the attacked to evade by staying on the blind side until they can get away, get assistance or turn the tables completely and subdue the attacker with far less personal danger.
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  6. Elbonian procurement 101😉🤣
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  7. As someone with some familiarity with the Ksp58B version of the MAG'58, I can definitely see why since the rate of fire is closely proportional to the gas volume of the ammo, which is proportional to powder temperature, which is proportional to casing and breech temperature. For those who know nothing about automatic firearms, this means that an FN MAG'58 has an increasing heat^rate of fire curve, as each round fires increases the heat of the breech which transfers to the casing of the next round fed into it and increasing it's combustion temperature compared to the previous round fired, which will eventually lead to an out of battery explosion if the heat of the breech is allowed to rise past the point of instantly cooking off the round beeing fed into the breech by heating the brass above it's cook off temp before the breech has time to close and lock, risking damage to the gun and operators.
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  8. Best carbine in Fallout 2 😁
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  9. ​ @neiloflongbeck5705  doesn't change the fact that every safety regulation is written in someones blood, usually many someones, enough someones to impact profit margins more than the time "saved" by allowing the shortcut behaviour that the regulation forbids.
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  10. Yes, the PKM and the FN MAG'58 are diverging branches from the same ancestor. And iirc, the Brittish were the first to adopt the 7.62×51mm version of the FN MAG, while the first country to adopt it did it in 6.5×55mm mauser.
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  11. Yes you are, but mainly the big ones 😂
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  12. ​​ @michaeltempsch5282  for non Swedish viewers: A similiar purpose red metal safety clip is still used by Swedish home guard militia soldiers on their HK G3 derived ak4B/C rifles during non-training guard duties, like guarding the royal palaces. And unlike the Danish or Brittish palace guards, the Swedish ones are not exclusively ceremonial. Their primary duty is as a military anti-coup defense and quick reaction force for the defense and evacuation of the monarch, court staff of the palace, the ministers of government and members of parliament. Regardless if it's the off season green fractal pattern combat uniformed guards at night, grey dress uniformed guards in off season daytime with modern carbines/rifles or tourist season 19th century blue and silver cavalry uniformed guards with sabre and 6.5×55mm m/1896 mauser carbines, they are all carrying live rounds in the firearms, the swords or bayonets are service sharpened and they are trained and authorised to if, when and how to use them to defend the lives of themselves and/or others if need be. When I did two palace guard tours as a conscript, we were, however, jokingly advised to not use the bayonet if it could be avoided due to how it would look in the press... And that any weapon use had to be defensible in court on the same level as if we were civilian private security.
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  13. The MG3 isn't a derivative of the mg42, it IS the mg42 under a new name and organisation. And length of service ≠better.
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  14. I'd bet that Kalibri has french text on the safety is because this specific gun was intended for the Swizz market.
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  15. The GPMGs cousin, the PKM does have legitimate contention with that claim, especially the modernised 7.62×51mm version of the PKM
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  16. ​​ @kestrels-in-the-sky  Ksp58A (aka. FN MAG, in the original 6.5×55mm Swedish Mauser spitzer round) Or, a Strv103C.
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  17. Belt fed Browning 1919 in .22LR exists... so does hand cranked .22LR gatling guns... on 19th century style field gun carriage to scale.
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  18. I'd say the rimmed cartridge and the extra recoil stroke belt extraction and round suspended in the bolt face of the open bolt system that a rimmed cartridge requires. A PKM using a rimless cartridge that strips the cartridge from the belt as the mechanism is released to chamber and fire in the same way as the FN MAG would be the ultimate GPMG with currently existing tech.
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  19. Or a doubled recoil spring, both works, but trying to combine them makes it into a pistol caliber magasine fed unlocked open manual bolt action long barrel heavy pistol
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  20. It isn't the MAG is a mostly flipped upside down and belt fed BAR. And on top of that, the PKM, which is the best competitor to the FN MAG'58, is a belt fed evolution of the Czhec predecessor to the BREN.
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  21. Which in turn is a modification of a finnish SMG mag
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  22. I prefer the G3 paddle over the FN FNC button
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  23. Sounds like that would have been a bonus if he'd ever ended up as a PoW😅
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