Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Bavarian Lightning: The 1869 Werder Pistol" video.

  1. What happened after M71 introduction? Bavaria had Gendarmerie, Border Guards ( Customs Service), Prison Guards and Forresty officials for the rifles. Before 1879 ( introduction of M79 Revolver), there had been in service of german armies ( Yes, armies: First Army- Royal prussian army,incuding troops of grandduchies, duchies, principalities and free cities, second army- royal bavarian army, three corps, third army : royal saxon army, two corps, fourth army: royal Württembergian army , one corps) as Pistols: Bavaria noted Werder pistol, Kingdom Saxony: A Revolver in 10,4 mm looking like an oversized Smith & Wesson Nr 1, navy : Colt and british percussion revolvers, other troops : Smoothbore prussian M52 percussion pistol. So Bavaria had before M79 revolver noticed, we nned more pistols, so some Werder carbines had been converted to pistols. When after wwl Bavaria became a Republik, some of Werder pistols had been still used by bavarian rural policemen. ( Perhaps more modern pistols had been given to army, also in other states some modern police pistols had been given to army, which gave dated M79 and M83 revolvers to police.)
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  2. Peter August : I am no expert, but german . Artillerie, reitende would be grammatical wrong with no added word, but Artillerie reitend would be corect.
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  3. Heros Stratos : there had been four armies in the time 1871-1918, the prussian , bavarian, royal saxon and wurttembergian army. The troops of the greatdukes and dukes had been integrated into the prussian army, but the nonprussian regiments could keep their names and regiment flags. The saxon and württembergian armies had their own general staff, but these armies had been always under prussian/imperial command, while the bavarian army and general staff was only in wartime under prussian/ imperial control. Also the jackets of the nonbavarian troops had been in ,prussian blue', while the jackets of the bavarian troops had been in ,bavarian blue'.
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  4. John Burnett : You clearly noticed, that revolvers are not a german thing. Also the M79 and M83 revolvers ( Reichsrevolver) had been of good material and good made, but totally oldfashioned when introduced. In Austria and Switzerland the ,homegrown' revolvers had been better.
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  5. Pete Beatminister : Wasn' t there a Remington rolling block pistol cal. .50 for a short time after 1867 in use of the US- navy?
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