Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. 12:02 - Especially since latheing down a bulged barrel reduces its thickness and can actually make the pistol dangerous to fire.
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  2. 16:55 - Good on Karl for fighting fair. 👏🤝
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  3. 4:20 - Are there any production 9mm Parabellum pistols that are built strongly enough to be able to safely fire the ammo marked as SMG-only?
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  4. 3:40 - And that, viewers, is why you never put your fingers next to the front end of a revolver's cylinder unless it's a gas-trap Nagant.
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  5. 2:12 - I think I heard an airplane going over in the background while you were saying that - how appropriate! :-P
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  6. 12:58 - Chinese Frankenpistols: going up to 11 since before Spinal Tap!
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  7. 3:25 - Horses Do Not Like long pointy things.
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  8. Question: How did Spain handle firearms proofing during the Spanish Civil War? Presumably the two sides weren't agreeing to joint custody of the proof house...
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  9. Anyone else getting Sten vibes from the PPS?
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  10. Better hope there isn't a plane already above the airfield when you fire off one of those flares.
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  11. The prospect of five years in the brig probably wouldn't've been much of a threat to someone who'd been through the French Foreign Legion. ;-P
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  12. I love how gleeful the M2 gunner at 8:13 looks.
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  13. 4:57 - Also, the bit of carving on the right side might well aid in gripping the rifle, which would probably also help.
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  14.  @allangibson2408  And .22 Extra Long, .22 BB, .22 CB...
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  15. 8:54 - It does sound just like a mouse click!
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  16. Good luck reloading one of those cartridges.
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  17. I'm actually surprised that pistol bayonets weren't more common, given that pistol fighting generally takes place at the sort of extreme close ranges where a bayonet would actually be useful.
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  18. 18:09 - Finally, the Army moves away from auto-fouling rifle actions!
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  19. 21:41 - One of the big uses for TEA nowadays is lighting big rocket engines, where you really want reliable immediate ignition (if unburned kerosene and oxygen get a chance to pool in the combustion chamber and only then ignite, the engine tends to explode).
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  20. That complex ammo sounds like it'd've been horrifically expensive to manufacture in large quantities.
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  21. 5:16 - Ah, the China Lake likes it rough... ;-Ăž
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  22. Light weight is basically the only advantage aluminium has (at least, in non-electrical applications).
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  23. Did the jelled fuel create any difficulties with making sure the tanks were filled completely, without any voids?
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  24. Why would stamped metal parts have lower trace-metal requirements than forged ones? Both of those processes involve pressing the metal into shape under force; the difference is basically just whether it's cut before or after shaping.
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  25.  @therideneverends1697  In what way is the M1911 obsolete? Old≠obsolete.
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  26. This thing fires crayons... of lead.
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  27. What could have been...
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  28. 9:59 - "what's wrong with this..." It's a Crossfire. That's what's wrong.
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  29. Well, props to whoever they are, seeing as they did a hellava good job!
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  31. 5:15 - ...How does 80kpsi blow out the back of a cartridge case when the bolt face is in the way?
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  32. 7:58 - "It is, in fact, in a batch with several other Reichsrevolvers..." Alles der Reichsrevolveren!
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  33. 8:35 - Why are Allen screws "obviously not something the military would've accepted"?
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  34. Watching Karl shoot, working a lever action looks a lot quicker and smoother than reaching up to cycle a bolt; I'm pretty curious why militaries essentially abandoned lever-action rifles in favor of bolt guns.
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  35. 6:39 - Did the armorer's kit, by any chance, end up going to the buyer of one or more of the German machine guns?
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  36. 10:53 - Mounting the trowel bayonet with the blade vertical to the right of the barrel actually seems to me like a more useful way of mounting it than the standard underbarrel mounting (which, for a trowel bayonet, would necessitate that the blade be mounted horizontally); with the blade on its side like that, you could wield the rifle+bayonet like an axe in an overhand chopping motion (using gravity to add to the force of the strike, instead of just the soldier's muscle strength), rather than being restricted to thrusting it or making side-to-side chops and slashes. (I suspect this might've been on the mind of whoever came up with that style of mounting!)
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  37. [MADE IN CHINA]
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  38. Well, you certainly opened it... now it's dispersed all over the range.
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  39. What's wrong with straight blowback for a .45? Straight-blowback guns have been mass-produced and work just fine with calibers all the way up to and including .45 ACP.
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  40. It seems to me like the best way to use this would be to fire it as you're in the process of stabbing/slashing your opponent with it, for extra damage.
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  41. 1:25 - Also, it [the magazine] looks ridiculous.
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  42. Squeee!!!!!
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  43. The problem with the idea of going to just one cartridge for both the rifles and the machine guns is that it isn't actually possible to go to just one cartridge. Even if you use the same cartridge in the infantry rifle and the GPMG, you still need a much heavier cartridge for the HMG, one that's way too powerful to be practical in any rifle other than specialized anti-materiel or long-range sniper rifles; as a result, you never get to the point of being able to simply grab rounds from your supplies and use them in whatever, and, as long as you still need to use segregated ammo supplies anyway, it ends up working better if you just give each class of weapon a cartridge optimized for it (an intermediate cartridge for the infantry rifle, a full-power cartridge for the GPMG, and a heavy cartridge for the HMG) rather than trying to share ammo streams between two or more weapons.
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  44. The overall look of the FG-42 reminds me of a shark.
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  45. Hell, even firing it at an enemy in the normal way sounds like it would be pretty unpleasant for the enemy. Magnesium burns hot...
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  46. 11:09 - I'm curious, why would a range be concerned about ferromagnetic rounds?
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  47.  @ForgottenWeapons  Ah, makes sense.
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  48. 8:51 - ...Um, is the explosive powder supposed to be accumulating static electricity like that?
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  49. 1:28 - Also, if hydrogen ignites when you don't want it to, this is very hard to detect quickly, since a hydrogen-oxygen flame is essentially transparent.
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  50. 11:28 - That is a very odd T.
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