Comments by "Pete Sheppard" (@petesheppard1709) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Excellent complement to your previous RPG video! Jeff was a bit unclear about how a HEAT (shaped charge) works. The warhead explosion (outside the target) causes a copper inverted cone to form a very high velocity slug of molten metal that punches through armor and supposedly splatters around the inside of the vehicle. There have been reports of the 'jet' just punching through and not doing much damage inside. Many 'bazooka'-type weapons are designed to have the propellant charge burn inside the tube, for safety.
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  2. Thank you! There’s always something new to learn!
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  3. Good video of a brutally simple gun, but what impressed me was the deal to simply swap useless guns for Stens.
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  4. If you check out old photos of military camps, you often see rifles leaned against each other in pyramids. This was called 'stacking arms'; it was a way to keep the guns close to hand and off of the ground. Stacking rods and swivels were a means to interlock the first few rifles that the rest leaned against.
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  5. Ian, you do know how to have fun with style--throwing the dummy gun... :p
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  6. The problem with the handguns is that (as far as I know) there were no speedloaders--no HKS for sure!--for the Enfield revolvers in the World Wars, so the true combat comparison would be loading the revolver rounds one at a time vs the stripper clips of the Mauser pistol...
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  7. Bonus Fact: An Oerlikon was featured in the movie "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" as an anti-tank gun used to penetrate the vault in the bank robbery
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  8. Thanks! I was thinking about the M1/BM59 connection when I saw your comment. I got to handle Beretta M1-pattern rifles back in the mid-'90s and they are beautiful rifles indeed!
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  9. There is also Glock stamping their .45 pistols '.45 Auto' rather than '.45ACP'...can't let that horsie defile their perfection... :p As well as trying to market their own cartridge, the .45 GAP.
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  10.  @calihernandez3105  I know...I live with it every day. :p
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  11.  @evancrosley2857  Indeed. I'm totally satisfied with my WASR. I wanted a plain, 'Ivan issue, service grade' AK, and the WASR fills the bill. Still, the chance to have picked up a Poly or Norinco, dirt cheap...
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  12.  @provenancemachining  For a collector, that's a good call.
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  13. My arms started to burn a bit as I watched Stage 3...
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  14. Wow! Gorgeous!! My next thought was, if 20 shots don't finish the job, I hope #21 is willing to wait a while...
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  15. What pot metal is the lower assembly cast from?
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  16. I thought of it as an 'open purchase order'.
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  17. @Eugene Stoner DONE! Search YouTube for their review.
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  18. A firing video would be sweet!
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  19.  @ben501st  And Ian's a master!
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  20. Considering the reversible mag, it's also easy to imagine the downward mag spewing rounds as the gun recoils.
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  21. Aaron had a Chauchat video with Ian recently on his channel. Is that the same video?
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  22.  @lemageelias7625  Exactly! Yankee humor... :p
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  23. Too many collectors fail to realize that the military could not care less about blemishes, as long as the rifle functions to spec. Soldiers use what they are issued, even if colors don't match exactly. I would be perfectly happy with a BRN-16A1 that has a 1-9 barrel.
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  24. What boggles my mind is trying to grasp how they did all this, with any semblance of consistency, back in the dawn of metallic cartridges, when it was by hand and eye...
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  25.  @jeremymcadam7400  So true! But the early cartridge makers figured out how to make ammo on an industrial scale, starting from nothing but an idea and using eyeballs and hand tools.
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  26. How to accurately annoy an attacker...😜 It's also fun to see how you interact with the other contestants.
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  27. More! MORE!!
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  28. It could well be that the lackluster performance with the MP3S was due to arm fatigue--firing from a rest might have been enlightening.  Presuming you were shooting 115gr, I wonder if the MP3 would have liked 124 gr better.
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  29. I looks like you could drop the 1928 mods right into a 1921. Correct?
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  30. So many...
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  31. Can't you just hear publishers' laughter upon reading a manuscript?
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  32.  @myparceltape1169  HA! 'Old' is age plus 30; I work on a sliding scale. 😉
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  33. It looks like a very nice sporting rifle.
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  34. A bit early for April Fool's, but greatly appreciated. We need all the chuckles we can get!
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  35.  @richardelliott9511  Not really. Just different approaches to buying and enjoying guns. The idea of multiple guns of the same type is boring to me; except for spares of 'working' guns, I like variety, so I consider my guns one of those 'accumulations' :)
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  36. Talk about a Christmas present!! 😃 If possessing a .50 rifle was a life or death issue for me, this would be at the top of the list...bullpup?? More like a bullDOG--and about the weight of a GPMG at that! I imagine freehand firing would be relatively easy. Tight fit and fine machining; when the parts slide together anyway. That muzzle brake looks like it was nicked from an M48. LASTLY, was I the only one who thought 'Blish' when Ian pointed out that brass collar?
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  37. I imagined Bloke getting his hands on it.
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  38. I'd like to see it fired!
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  39. Did I see a little recoil anticipation right at the end??? 😛 Watching yesterday's tabletop, I was wondering about how the 3-rd mechanism would affect trigger pull, like the US system does. LASTLY, how does that wire stock compare to an underfolder, comfort-wise?
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  40.  @Aperson156  Thanks! I was expecting Ian to mention it; however crudely done, that's part of the gun's history and provenance.
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  41. At 1:00, I wish you had run the close-up of the Webley you were describing.
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  42. You speak for a lot of us!
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  43. Hopefully a shooting vid tomorrow... Also, the handguard looks straight from a Galil.
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  44. I wonder if they were able to get any input (even backchannel) from the M14 developers. That could have helped them avoid developmental pitfalls or deadends. THEN, the rifle came into Italian service at the same time the US started ditching the M14.
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  45. Wow. This had to be a tough video to make, but a necessary tale of caution. I've been following Ian long enough to see him get burned more than once; it's a testament to his character that he could be so even-handed with this discussion.
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  46. Gov't procurement...
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  47. At night...
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  48. Video suggestion: Discussion of cartridge terminology, especially differences between rimmed, semi-rimmed, rebated rim and rimless. Firearms nomenclature is notably murky...
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  49. I have a Galil-style sidefolder on my WASR, which is very comfortable for me. Hopefully, a wire stock is about the same, because I WANT one for my rifle...
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  50. Perfect for 1 April video...a totally serious April Fool's gag!
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