Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. gamesbok you needed to spend more time lifting weights than games controllers to carry one it's true but you don't see any of the many veterans who relied on it in battle complaining about that do you, as for the size of the mag it's 30 .303 rifle-calibre rounds in each one coming out of one of the most accurate, stable and reliable machine guns ever made, if that's not enough to hit the target you're the problem not the gun mate
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  2. Matthew Harger Well it WAS a prototype, all that could have been sorted out in gradual improvements between the wars if they'd stuck with the basic design as they did the Lee-Enfield. Look at the size and complexity of the Gewehr 98 of WW1 compared to the otherwise similar Kar 98 of WW2, the Germans just shortened it and simplified it and came up with a far better-balanced weapon
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  3. RedXlV maybe they were worried about the Germans finding out about them and using how crap they were for propaganda or something
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  4. pianomaN - by artillery and machine guns? Many times. By Mauser rifles alone? Never to my knowledge
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  5. Wish someone would make one and put it in, that'd be awesome
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  6. HotCuppaCoffee only if you've a bias toward the American style of revolver, the Webley after all stems back to a long line of powerful, reliable British-made revolvers with a signature style to them that clearly caught on enough to keep going
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  7. Kind of goes to show what gun critics REALLY know about these weapons doesn't it. Yes it was over-complex and expensive to make, but the 19 round magazine and faster semi-auto fire-rate, combined with similar toughness, durability (if well-maintained) & accuracy to that of the Lee-Enfield rifles and of course the sheer POWER of the .303 round, all would have given this rifle and those holding it a considerable advantage over German and Turkish weaponry of the day and been a godsend to hard-pressed British troops. Wish I had a time machine.
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  8. Kevin Collver unless you get magazines out of other Enfield's, load them up and put them in your webbing beforehand; I know that was never standard practice but I did read about a few soldiers doing that to cut down on reload times
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  9. Schwanzel Stock go back to school
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  10. Be interested to know what the combat record of this gun was, how it actually performed in the dirt, dust and heat of battle, what it's crews thought of it
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  11. Hector Maddock-Greene Damn right, we should have issued them just generally for god's sake with the Enfield as the back-up or secondary arm until being gradually phased out. Oh it might have had some problems at first but it would have been steadily improved over the mid-war era causing most of those to be ironed out by WW2, just like with the Garand's development. could have made a real difference then and saved a fair number of lives
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  12. HotCuppaCoffee also if you think early S&W designs were all beautiful you need your eyes checking lol
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  13. Trygve Blacktiger it IS, just a very bad one that for some reason they tried to sell as a kind of carbine, hence the solid stock and unnecessarily huge magazine well to give the impression of greater range and ammo-power. To be fair that WAS what the British had requested, but I think they had something more like the Reising Model 60 in mind
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  14. Not Pulverman it was just an idea to explain it, as you say it's not very likely but they must have had SOME legitimate reason to their minds for doing so, and they clearly didn't see a use for the weapons. What I don't understand is why they didn't either just melt them down like you said or, even more practically just give them to the Home Guard, funnily enough the direct equivalent of the Volkschturm you mentioned; terrible design or not it was still a modern sub-machine gun and would have increased their effectiveness in the face of a potential invasion considerably, much more than the old World War One P17 rifles and Lewis Guns they were given as it was
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  15. tommy gun those were rarely issued or used and an additional accessory, this is comparing the original standard rifles
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  16. Heart of Fire hey we just ordered a design FROM Smith & Wesson and this is (somehow) what they came up with, it's still an American weapon whether you like it or not lol
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  17. DUCSDREAM And actually it was, but only right at the end of the war and not very widely. A shame, it could have been an excellent weapon with a bit more development and simplification and possibly made a real difference if issued widely enough 
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  18. Jediknight 129 sometimes it takes someone who knows what they're doing to give the impression of not doing lol
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  19. Might have saved a few lives though and they could've ironed out the kinks. A semi-auto, 20-round weapon that nonetheless fires accurately and with controllability in a world still dominated by bolt-action would have made a fair bit of difference if it had been made and issued widely enough, and a bit earlier in the war, with a little more development beforehand obviously.
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  20. I want to be a shell casing so I can ZWEEE down there 😂
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  21. 'Say hello to Mister Nock'
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  22. Seem to recall reading somewhere that the Kriegsmarine also used these in a similar way to the Royal Navy using Lanchesters
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  23. The British Army is phasing out their 5.56 FN Minimi's (our version of the M249), along with their LSW's, as they've decided they're not satisfactory for accuracy and stopping power. We should replace them with these in 7.62
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  24. Didn't they use rather shiny ones of these on 'The A-team'? :)
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  25. Can't find it on Kickstarter when I try clicking the link in the description?
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  26. The way I see it, just add a pistol grip and you're good to go
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