Comments by "Marvin De Bot" (@marvindebot3264) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Thank you to the estate of the late owner for allowing Ian to pull apart what is an eye-wateringly expensive piece of history.
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  2. Jeff is probably the most unlikely arms company executive I've ever come across.
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  3. "You can remove the lead and replace it with something interesting" - Praise Gun Jesus and pass the ammunition.
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  4. Holy crap! An SMG maker with a reasonable expectation of the effective range of their creation! It's not a bad design, fine for a cheap police/prison/security service SMG. 50 rounds are sufficient for most of those people without a reload being necessary. The foreign buyers are exactly the ones I would expect to be on the list for a weapon such as this.
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  5. Thank you to the owner/owners of these for allowing Ian to disassemble them for us.
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  6. Thank you very much CZ for allowing Ian to shoot this piece, I did not expect you to do so to the point I was thinking "pity he won't get to shoot it". Obviously, it's a developmental piece, it would be interesting to see if the bugs could be ironed out as it's actually quite a nice design and that's coming from a died-in-the-wool Skorpian fanboy.
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  7. The original tubing for the pipe shottie was Jeep steering column tube, it's strong and almost exactly 12ga. Glory to Elbonia!
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  8. Fireplace guy strikes again by buying up just about every surviving pre-production Roth. A pretty solid investment I dare say.
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  9. I was in the Congo in the late 80s/early 90s, the situation then was far simpler and we still could have used a spreadsheet to keep all the factions in order in our minds. Nothing is simple in that crazy place. While I'm sure it would be possible to pull that shot off with a Bren if you know that particular weapon well enough, if you have a #4 sniper why the hell would you use a Bren? This kind of stuff is one of the reasons I don't generally watch movies about places I contracted.
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  10. Thanks to the owner who allowed this video to happen.
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  11. I'd call that a continuation model, not a reproduction. Nice work Brownells.
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  12. That's a really nice, well-designed and manufactured SMG that does not deserve to be forgotten.
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  13. In the Philippines it was WW2 Jeep steering column outers, those are apparently 12ga. Who would have guessed that so many steering columns are of a shotgun bore?
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  14. "This project <that wouldn't exist without me> kinda feels like my baby". Yes mate, true.
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  15. "Today, on Unnecessarily Complicated Engineering Masterpieces, we have a Stamm-Saurer". It's beautiful but, holy crap, so many pieces.
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  16. They make their own tooling? Wow, I'm very impressed. The fact they do their own poloymer parts is impressive enough but to make the moulds and the stamping dies is quite impressive and the amount of top line gear is amazing, this is about as modern as a firearms factory gets. Very interesting as I've never seen anything from this factory before.
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  17. That's really not a bad little SMG. I'm of the "the simpler the better" school of thought for SMGs, the useful range is under 50 metres anyway so KISS doesn't do any harm and makes it a lot easier to build, maintain and operate.
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  18. And Gun Jesus spake unto the masses on the eve of His birthday, praise, happiness and a safe, fruitful 2021 be unto Him.
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  19. Those little french super-folders are pretty dang cool stuff. Kudos for helping out those who help you as well mate.
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  20. You really have to appreciate an honest man.
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  21. Yeah, tragic that huh? So many innocent skorpions were lost without trace, mostly in river crossings, amazing how many just fell of tanks into rivers . . . :D
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  22. This needs to be researched by Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history. He may have some luck at least finding out its very early provenance.
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  23. Thank you so much to the owner of this incredibly rare and valuable piece for not just sharing it with us but for pulling it apart as well. I'm sure that is the jewel of his collection.
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  24. Yup, Australia included. Probably be possible on a collector's permit but not a normal handgun licence.
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  25. Holy crap they let you shoot this thing? Given how fragile the silencers are I'm surprised. ROFL! I just knew there would be some variant on the classic Buggs line coming up there! Now, I will deny it all but I can tell you these were used not up to the 60s but saw field use right up into the late 80s early 90s in certain parts of the world (tho mainly later marks) and I would not at all be surprised if a few were still out there. One thing, I have bever seen one with a cut spring, all the ones I have used have a standard weight "light" spring and indeed the example in your hands has a factory finished spring a fact that should, sir, TBh, be obvious to you. I have however seen them with the gas vent holes brazed up and redrilled to adjust the gas bleed into the expansion chamber. That is the only adjustment I have seen for various loads to ensure they don't run away or go supersonic. Oh, and that is asbestos in the foregrip, not horsehair. I seriously suggest that if the buyer is reading this and intends to use the weapon rather than just let it collect dust on a shelf (a fate as one who has used a MK VI in the field can attest, it does not deserve) that he or she replaces it with woven glass exhaust wrap which looks identical but won't potentially adversely affect your health.
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  26. I've always known it as a fact but it still is a huge source of both wonder and amusement that a Sten mag fits a 1920s German SMG (and visa versa).
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  27. Well, that brings to mind the fact that a WWSD in .308 would be an interesting project.
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  28. Madsens are the perfect LMG for the situation, the things are dead set reliable even in conditions that would kill a modern one in months. It's the Maxim /Vickers of LMGs.
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  29.  @AnthonyHandcock  No, this would be the equivalent of taking a loco with a serviceable boiler and deliberately boring holes in it.
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  30. BUG match officials: "what did Ian bring today?" "The antichrist"
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  31. Gun Jesus - 2021
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  32.  @leroyjenkins4811  Read what I wrote again, but slowly.
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  33. This thing is so rare that every mention online says no details are available and no one has ever seen one up close (tho Wikipedia says the Sth Koreans have one) so chances are this is the only one in the west. No doubt it was aquired either in Iraq, fighting ISIS (who were delivered some) or in Africa.
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  34. Shades of Dad's Army firing practice from Jonesy's van, "Out two three, bang two three, load two three, in two three" 😆
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  35. Oh it helped his sale I'm sure but I still thank him, been a while since I've heard that bolt slap back open.
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  36. Rather nice little close protection firearm actually and more accurate at under say, 30 metres than you may think. Any half decent shooter can put short bursts into a man-sized target at that range and that is all it was designed to do. Pretty much a silenced, 9mm Skorpian. If only the field strip issue wasn't there it would be quite a desirable piece for its intended role.
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  37. I suspect that one was a lot brighter when new.
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  38. "Thank you to the consigner" Exactly! Thank you very much unknown owner for your generosity in allowing Ian to shoot it for us.
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  39. As someone who deals in detecting fakes on a daily basis, I can say it is not that hard to add dirt, even aged dirt. Never mistake dirt for patina (which is much harder). Dirt (as in crud) can be collected and added if the genuine piece is expensive enough to be worth the effort of faking well.
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  40.  @robertreynolds9228  Nothing nobody doesn't already know mate.
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  41. It's more of the phosphor gets blown out from the constant bombardment, it dies before the tritium does.
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  42. I had one (a 4" at that), carried it in Africa for years. It saved my life at least once or twice. I was fortunate, I had a half dozen mags with mine and those would be worth as much as the gun today. I liked the crossbolt safety as we flew transport aircraft and shooting your airplane by mistake is considered bad. The dual drop mag was good as well, protrude for the range spit it for combat.
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  43.  @darkmage7280  Like a lot of stuff, it still does a job. IIRC these have been obsolete for a few years now but they were around for a very long time. Small, light and easily transported; a battery of three of these would make for a bad day convoying on your average Finnish road which tends to have rather substantial ditches on both sides. Remember, the MG42, the Ma Duce, the .30 Cal, M1911, the 89 and 120mm mortars even the MP40 are still in daily use by some army somewhere in the world. If it works and does the job why change it?
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  44.  @williambinions4205  Yes but do you mean Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history or some other Jonathan Ferguson?
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  45. So a crew of 2 could carry 480 rounds in 2 packs plus 1 in the gun gives 500, that's a reasonable amount of firepower.
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  46. I know you watch these sir, I am so jealous! You have done a superb job of putting together what is pretty much a definitive reference collection of Finnish arms. Wow, just wow.
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  47.  @typxxilps  What on earth are you going on about? Apart from some Japanese troops on places like Saipan or Yap "those Russians" were the toughest adversaries in the entire conflict, no one is putting down anyone but you. Grow up.
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  48. Is he an Aussie? He sounds like an Aussie who's been in the States for a while.
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  49. Actually Ian the half-life of radium is 1600 years so it's lost little to no radioactivity. What has happened is the phosphor that is excited by the radium and does the actual glowing has been bombarded to the point it no longer fluoresces. As a rule radio isotopes themselves do not glow, they are mixed with a phosphor that when bombarded with particles by the isotope is excited and glows in the same way a fluorescent tube works.
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  50. I love those shirts but the shipping to Down Under was more than the shirt.
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