Comments by "Matt Hayward" (@matthayward7889) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Camera facing Ian: mild spring day. Camera over Ian’s shoulder: Siberian winter
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  2. I sometimes wonder if Ian ever thought he’d be shooting prototype rifles at an H&K facility when he started FW all those years ago?
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  3. Some weapons manage to look futuristic for over 100 years.
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  4. “I don’t think it has any redeeming qualities” Don’t hold back, Ian 😂
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  5. High capacity, caseless, optical sight? The G11 of the 1800s 😂
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  6. I know a lot of people are calling for you to take this to a BUG match, but surely it’s better suited to ‘two gun’ ?
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  7. Just shows how knowledgable Ian is, even speaking unprepared 👍
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  8. Still not sure it would be any faster to deploy than grabbing an MP5k out a briefcase that flicks open. Cool as hell though! Just one thing: Has it made bolt action brief cases obsolete?
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  9. 12:12 I think there is more engineering in that buffer than in an entire Sten gun !
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  10. 08:05 “he looted it fair and square in combat” 😂😂😂
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  11. I imagine anyone who bought a cheap .40 off the STI website is now frantically checking to see if they’ve got an ex-Delta force gun!
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  12. Find someone who looks at you, the way Ian looks at a type 96 I know it doesn’t have the history, or technical aspects of a typical FW video, but I still came away feeling like I’d learned a lot about how it works
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  13. Anyone else’s rant: *skip* Ian’s rant: *fascinating historical disassemble*
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  14. Interesting way to use up some otherwise discarded receivers. I’m sure The Chieftain approves of Ian’s shoulder patch!
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  15. The British of course used a bullpup rock, with the handle behind the stones main mass. Unfortunately the design team, although experienced stonemasons, has no experience in weapons design. It’s wasn’t until the A2 version that it worked satisfactorily.
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  16. 2:34 hello doggies!
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  17. That 7.62x54 sounds like it’s really giving the plate a hard time! Always good to watch someone who loves doing their job!
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  18. Also shows Ian’s experience and skill firing on full auto! As Others have pointed out im sure on people with little to no experience this would have been really useful
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  19. I love these gauss weapons, will be great to look back on these in even ten years, let alone twenty and see what technology brings
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  20. Any time Ian says “but I digress” or “I’m getting ahead of myself” I find myself thinking ‘no! Please carry on!’ Id love to own this Gorgeous rifle, and it’s fascinating history. Cheers Ian!
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  21. Me: Ooh, Bren gun smashes like button Ian “welcome to the first in a series of videos on the Bren” Me: hell yes!
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  22. Quite impressive they made a pistol that, totally clean, performs about as well as most guns after a McCollum mud test
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  23. I’m mildly amused by the irony of SAC crewman ejecting, and goes from being armed with multi-megaton gravity bomb to a low pressure .38 The .38 would be rather easier to tote around though!
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  24. Mmmm, modular machine gun goodness... I know we take it for granted today, but the idea that you had a family of weapons from the MP5K to a belt fed, sustained fire MG21 with the same controls, as well as the options to have belt or box feed, must have been mind blowing at the time. Wonder if the bottom feed stopped crap getting in the action, and contributed to its reliability?
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  25. So many issues with rifles over history seen to come down to ammunition. Gorgeous looking rifle!
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  26. Forgotten weapons is, and has, always been better thought of as ‘fascinating weapons’
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  27. What’s that expression? “When Ma deuce speaks, everyone listens”
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  28. These SA forgotten weapons videos are every bit as brilliant as I thought they would be!
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  29. I can’t imagine how excited Ian was to fire this for the first time!
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  30. Top feed? WWII? Genuinely effective? Yes please mate!
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  31. Come on Ian, if you don’t try to dual wield to them, are you even trying to teach us anything?
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  32. Such a nice looking gun, shame the receivers had to be butchered to make them legal
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  33. Trying to imagine what the rest of the maltese collections look like!
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  34. I like how Ian talks about Elbonia, exactly how he would any other country
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  35. I know a big part of FW has always been education, but I love these videos explaining operating principles or classes of weapons
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  36. SA farmer is denied his carbine, modifies it and becomes a gun designer. This is awesome, and, having grown up on a farm, doesn’t entirely surprise me!
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  37. “I see your three barrel Chiappa, and raise you a four barrel Lancaster” “Fold”
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  38. As a massive fan of the SLR, any version of the FAL is good to watch I imagine there were a fair few Aussie FAL’s facing off against AKs in Vietnam!
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  39. 4:48 proper ‘old west’ ricochet 😂
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  40. "...and likely shoot you. This was a problem" Ian's dry humour is one of the many reasons to love FW!
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  41. “Do you want a go?” Most redundant question ever :)
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  42. I read this as “Dutch Lager trials” Which would less interesting, but more fun 🍻
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  43. Yeah, that slide still seems a little too close to Ian eye for comfort
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  44. Ian casually lifts a spare aircraft machine gun off his lap. Legend.
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  45. 1:53 with that outfit Ian looks like he’s hunting a T-Rex or something.
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  46. Perfectly Anglo-American: quintessentially British SMG in a quintessentially American cartridge
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  47. Liberator II aka the ‘noisy cricket’ Looking incredibly 1950s!
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  48. Cousin to the “unsafe in any direction” vertical turret rifle
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  49. Ian seems to be having a blast (no pun intended) in all these South African videos Also, SA really know how to name their guns!
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  50. Must have been absolutely horrific. Some incredibly brave Frenchman!
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