Comments by "Simon Nonymous" (@Simon_Nonymous) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. I had to Google Glencarin (sic) Bill, as I only them as lamp glasses due to the shape (and own a few too!)
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  2. aw no down range footage Ian? :-(
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  3. Well I was about to do my usual "please call it 7.92 x 57 mm" rant but read up a bit more and looks like I was wrong. What an interesting story though.
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  4. Sorry - I called it a Bren even when I was told it should be called the LMG, but then again I called the L1A1 a gat.
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  5. would it be that hard to do with a redoing of the board as a jpeg or PDF to print at home then some clever 3D printing to give you the pieces? Get inventing Braydon Jones, if you can make it. I will buy it.
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  6. I nevr knew that - fascinating! Thank you.
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  7. Absolutely! What also fascinates me is the longevity of the weapons that emerged with the move to smokeless powders.
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  8.  @andrewpease3688  yeah maybe so!
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  9. yes that would be a good double feature, especially if all done like Rob does it inperiod costume. Oh bring the Bloke and Chap on the Range over too. Should only be a few days worth of video.
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  10. A couple of questions/observations on a great video... - the gas plug, I think that the button to release it could also be pressed in then turned with the nose of a live round? - pressed steel fore grips vs wood or polymer? Any thoughts about why?
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  11. absolutely - I've used both .303 and 7.62 versions in my life, and loved the thing! The original Zb26/27 with the 7.92mm round and straight mag looks as if it already knew we'd knock it into 7.62 NATO
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  12.  @dentonw6ir0qf15  I might have this wrong but I think it's sort of the other way round - there were Northern Ireland issue mags for the LMG which would at a pinch work in the SLR due to a better/stronger spring. Happy to be corrected if I am wrong as always!
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  13. Isn't hindsight wonderful? As is the question: well what should they have used instead based on the power to weight ratio of the time, and what was actually able to fit in the wings of fighters at the time?
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  14.  @seytanuakbar3022  source of your story please?
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  15. Genuine fact - 10% of alcohol in your blood stream will leave your body in your urine.
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  16. I love this approach - instead of choosing the optimal weapon to "game the game" we have Ian picking something marginally less effective than a slingshot. Way to go, and ooooh fit bod too. Nice.
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  17. Foreword by Martin Pegler, author of "From out of nowhere" - the book is sold!
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  18. And yes, you should be sipping a single malt from a cut glass goblet, and smoking some sort of rare cheroot or Balkan Sobranjie in an ivory holder sculpted from walrus ivory.
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  19.  @zsoltmolnar1143  highest rate as 'a per centage of people murdered where the weapon is a knife'. Homicide rate per head is less than one quarter than that of the USA . Thank you.
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  20. A good format - and as always, Ian will actually ask the question that should have been asked, but thanks to the Patreon for getting the ball rolling, as essentially it is a good question. Just one question or point re the STEN being brought in as Germany had used SMGs in the Battle of France; was it more a case of wanting arms then and there to replace the more costly rifles and MGs lost in the retreat from France as cheaply and as quickly as possible? My quick research suggests the STEN cost less than half of a rifle in money terms, and could be knocked up it any bicycle repair shop where someone could weld, ie a lot quicker than a rifle. And Ian - if you need some English accent coaching, please do contact me :-)
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  21. My first ever full bore rifle, at the age of twelve. A good job we only got ten rounds at the annual range practise in the Cadets!
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  22. 'Hopefully you will find this interesting' - I've never been disappointed yet Ian. Thank you.
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  23. After - Ian says so at about 5:10,
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  24. No but I know a man who might. If it's still in the UK, there was a running AMX13 5 minutes walk from me.
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  25. What a lovely man - it would be a privelidge to share a long train journey with this chap.
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  26.  MrMajsterixx  and they still are.
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  27. Ardbeg fan - visiited it at least twice :-)
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  28.  @Yandarval  have I missed the point here (as I usually do). UK military nomenclature is even more idiosyncratic than our day to day language. 😜
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  29. Get to the Czopper!
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  30. I posted the same - perhaps a letter O could be confused with a number zero 0 or some other explanation.
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  31.  @truckerallikatuk  oh someone replied on my post it is a standard NATO abbreviation so not actually in French.
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  32. I always enjoy your videos Ian. A thought passed through my head about the computer games I play, eg DayZ, SCUM EXILE, where the firearms technology is basically current/futuristic. Would the period 1850 - 1870 make for a much better game as firearms technology made such big leaps?
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  33.  @zoiders  he'll be back to tell you you're pretentious next ;-)
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  34. He has the patience of a saint.
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  35.  @Touay.  oooh nice quote - is it yours, or where is it from? :-)
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  36. Pardon?
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  37.  @Piromanofeliz  spot on. The M16 is exactly the same, as the top of the stock is in line with the barrel.
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  38.  @edwalmsley1401  or when they stuck a round lead ball down the barrel instead of a kind of arrow. APFS was a thing in the thirteenth century I am led to believe.
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  39.  @ultranitro437  weirdly enough - I plugged in my Playstation1 yesterday and yes... not optimal by todays standards!
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  40. Good video but so glad my country had the Bren gun; if the barrel needs to come off quick, put a handle on it. Meanwhile the M60 happens.
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  41. I loved this pistol as soon as Ian uncased it yesterday... so two silly questions! 1 - how hard is it to shoot right handed with a pistol like this if you are a lefty (as compared to long firearms?) 2 - the heating up. In a normal blow back, is a lot of that heat going straight out of the barrel, whereas in this design, some is trapped in the mechanism for long enough to transfer heat to the pistol? Greetings from the UK!
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  42. Lovely stuff. I remember the first episode of yours, sipping Scotch in a hotel room.
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  43.  @pkt1213  quite right. I always know what day it is, it's whisky day. Cheers!
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  44.  @FTWIHA  from someone who can't write or punctuate, I'd be very reluctant to take any guidance on writing styles from a nob like you, especially when TomFynn was simply quoting a song writer far wittier than you could ever be.
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  45. Ian, your French is already in progress every time you say carbine instead of carbine. But seriously, I am impressed you want to learn another language just to know more about weapons. Formidable mon brave, á bientót!
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  46. +lptomtom for once I do have to say Ian, it is a flechette pronounced flesh - ate to rhyme with bet; two t's and an e in French always rhymes with bet, and in spoken British English we say it 'right'. I can get the carbine being said car-bean (as it is in French), but what is a saybow? No it's a sabot - sa bow - as it is in the original French. Having lectured you all, please forgive my Englishness, and let me thank Ian yet again for being good enough to do these sessions and educate us all. Peace all. NB - if you're in England, and come to the Royal Armouries at Leeds, please announce when/where - I owe you a drink and a meal for the knowledge you have shared!
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  47. joezzzify I think both the rear sight and the foresight are modified to get the line of sight higher than the pan magazine so switching between the two mags might not be so easy, plus it's removing the sighting axis further away from the bore axis. As Ian says, drum/pan mags have loading/jamming issues that stick mags are less vulnerable to.
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  48. go0fy11137 it worked very nicely thank you in its 7.62 NATO reincarnation, and its long service with the UK military reflects a sound design and a lovely weapon to fire. Also saw action in Korea, Malaya, Borneo, Aden, the Falklands...
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  49. pinz2022 Don't panic! Don't panic pinz!
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  50. Just a thought but what's the provenance of Jake's mention of General Pershing? It sounds rather unlikely hence my question of "did he really?" NB Paul; as you started this conversation with a bit of a silly post, thanks for at least reading  the several responses challenging what you said!
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