Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Sounds like a good point. Where US infantry and armored divisions had the M2 76mm and the organic division artillery assets and TDs along multiple independent artillery battalions/groups firing 105mm, 155mm (both howitzers and field guns) and 8 inch. Never mind air support which while it might not have actually knocked out that many tanks sure the hell shot up the logistics. A tank without ammo or fuel is just as effective as one that is a burned out wreck. I wonder how many Tigers or Panthers broke down between the factory and the train to shipped out on.
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  2. To the Southwest, thousands of them.
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  3. Its Swiss by way of France (no wonder it caught Ian's interest). That space in the hand grip is for storing your chocolate to nibble on while at the range
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  4. It is 0 because your magazine rapidly holds 0. If Ian wants to take some time off I'll gladly step in. 😁
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  5. "And Goldilocks found the Three Round Burst was just right."
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  6. l think I'll pass on the alarm clock version
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  7. The other night I watched "Siege of Jadotville". This was an instance of Irish UN peacekeepers in the Congo in the early 60s. They stood off a force of around 3000 mercenaries and Congolese Katangan rebels or 5 days while equipped with mostly British small arms. Everything from Lee Engield MkIVs to L1A1s including Bren guns. The Irish unit was 125 men all of who survived.
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  8. The bed spring, don't forget the bed spring.
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  9. Oh, and by the way. It's a Rifle, Ball, Rocket, Model 1.
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  10. It should be "I have cases and cases of French .30 Longe in the back
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  11. PIAT, Point It Again Tommy!
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  12. ​ @Slimetime69420  No extra M-16s or M-4s. Joe forgot them in Kabul.
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  13. So you don't like the food? Say hello to my little friend.
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  14. One can reach a much higher level of precision by hand than most people understand. As an example people who hand grind telescope mirrors for reflecting telescopes. It is possible to produce very flat surfaces by hand using The Three Plate Method in which three flat surface plates are produced using two plates to check the third and alternating which plate you are scraping by hand. Scraping is an art all in itself. The trick is of course developing the set of standards and measuring tools required for two individuals in different locations to produced parts within tolerance that will work together. Some would say the development of the first screw cutting lathe really jump started the Industrial Age. Some would say the steam engine. In reality it was a number things working together.
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  15. Forgotten Hangovers
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  16. As long as the springs haven't been compressed and released 100Ks of thousands of times and gotten rusty there's no reason they should have failed.
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  17. Or the Culinary Institute of America
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  18. Two key developments in the ability of the ability to produce tight tolerance work on a mass scale was the development of the first commercial micrometers (Palmer in France and Brown and Sharpe in the US) and gage blocks by Johannson in Sweden. These combined with flat surfaces allowed the inspection levels required. Moores Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy covers a lot of what is really required.
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  19.  @gregsmall5939  P D's might be interested in them for riot duty. I'm not sure what the size the gas cartridges today are. But if they are still 37mm that would be one way to differentiate them from military weapons. At least in a legal situation. Truthfully the old Bloop Tube reminded me of the older tear gas launchers. It's just my opinion but the pump action looks like it would be far more user friendly in terms just carrying the damn thing. That revolving cylinder on the one that was adopted might work. But it's big. And yes they should have stuck to the Hi-Lo 40mm. At least in terms of chambering. I could see the idea behind being able to shoot flares if needed though. If they wanted to fiddle with the design (some things they did make sense) why not look at adapting say the Remington 1100 autoloader action. But only if it allowed a faster follow up shot without an increase in complexity. For sights a simple Red Dot optic that rotates on its mount for elevation. One question. Do they make 40mm Flash Bangs. If the US deploys troops into a combat situation I want them to win. If it takes killing the opposition fine. After all they had a choice and made it. But there are times when I could see it might be useful to take the opposition alive if possible. Intelligence for one thing. Another is why make a martyr out of somebody if killing them just helps create 2 or 3 new enemies.
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  20. When my brother was in the reserves he said they practiced tank main gun firing at the Army Reserve facility in Milwaukee. Indoor facility with a .22 mounted in the breech of an M60 turret.
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  21.  @KickyFut  Since the Legion used some maybe it's for the extra sand to put in their boots.
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  22. How in the world did they test these things. Not as trowels but as the sharp pointy thing. Pig carcasses's? Unwilling volunteers? Willing volunteers? Grave robbing? Or did they finally find something useful for Second Lts to do.
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  23. I remember people complaining about "them goldarn new fangled plastic shells"
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  24. An AK leaves the factory with a "I could of been a Madsen" bumper sticker
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  25. Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo beats 'em all with his appearing and disappearing bullet holes.
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  26. In the early 70s I remember seeing something on TV about gunships in Viet Nam using rockets that had flecette warheads.
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  27.  @ForgottenWeapons  A key to the door would be nice too. Not going to happen of course. Also if you were getting any financial compensation from say RIA then the other auction houses might say thank you, but no thanks
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  28. Maybe that's why US mafioso have such colorful nicknames.
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  29.  @viperscot1  I suspect the high VC count had something to with taking the sting out of Islandwana. Not that the defenders of Rourke's Drift didn't put up a stiff fight.
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  30. And likely each one had a lot of time by an armorer going over them to make sure they functioned properly before being issued.
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  31.  @johnfisk811  That or Sgt Mackenzie will have him forking out the stables forking quick.
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  32. There's an old cautionary tale about the F-86 Saber. There were a number of fatal crashes that were ultimately found to be attributed to an assembly error on the wing leading edge slats caused by a case of an individual on the shop floor knowing "better"
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  33.  @72mossy  Well at least the whole mission in the Congo was pretty clear cut case of greed on the part of the mining companies. Glad he got home safe. I firmly believe we need an organization such as the UN. But not necessarily this UN.
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  34.  @Alan.livingston  I'm not talking about people exploiting the misfortune of others. I'm talking about the new homes that were built in the 30s. I'm sure the number was down. Just like auto sales were down. But Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nash and a few other independents continued to operate. GM and Nash also continued to earn a profit. I'm not saying times were not tough for a lot of people. But the idea that everybody was out of work is plain wrong. Both my Grandfather's had steady work during the 3Os. One was a Tool and Die Maker. The other was a Stationary Engineer. I also realize more real millionaires were made during the Depression than the 1920s. And that was people able to buy stocks and property cheap. And some of them were vultures
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  35. But how does one tension the tracks? Besides if the tanker ever needs his tanker M1 he has already experienced a significant emotional event.
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  36. Probably boxes of 5 colors. Red, Blue, Yellow, Black and White. Crayon is of course pencil in French Techniques for wax colored drawings go back to at least the 1st Century AD.
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  37. Even for a "simplified version" beautifully made. My father served in an independent artillery battalion in Italy (173rd Field Artillery). Made up of part of the 32nd Infantry's division artillery that got split off when the division went from a square to triangular formation. When in Italy they managed to pickup some intesting pieces of equipment. One time he said they got their hands on some of these. He said compared to the M3 Grease Guns they had the Barettas were a Caddilac compared to a Model T. He said it was very easy to shoot with your left hand just supporting the stock behind the magazine. A lot of people make fun of Italian manufacturing (1) but over the years they have produced some very good machinery. Excellent machinists and foundry skills. 1) I think a lot of it has to do with their automobiles. Properly cared for they drive great. Just a little too lightly built for they way most Americans treat their cars. Especially in the days before imports tipped Detroit a new one. At one time if you wanted to buy machinery in certain industries you went to certain countries if you wanted the best. The UK for printing presses. Germany or Switzerland for really high quality machine tools. Italy for textile machinery. The US for machining lines capable of putting out millions of specific parts over decades. Or high quality grinders and gear cutting machinery. Not that other countries weren't able to produce good machinery. But there is always somewhere that's just a little bit better than the rest of the world.
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  38.  @xoxo2008oxox  Hand stitched by Ricardo Montebalm
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  39. I wonder if the escape by balloon was the inspiration in part for Jules Verne's Fantastic Island
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  40. There are any number of locomotives from the Steam Era I wish had been preserved. The M8lwaukee Road's Hiawathas come to mind.
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  41. Plus wootz was sourced from India. It gets termed Danascus because that was were people were trading for the ingots.
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  42. Insert face palm picture. That was bad.
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  43. Ian should have been dressed in sheep's skin jacket, pants, gloves, flying helmet and goggles. And standing in the waist of a B-17
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  44. A mistress. There has to be a mistress in the mix somewhere who is actually a Flobonian agent extracting secrets under the covers 😁
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  45. Bayonets? We don't need no stinkin' bayonets. We've got katanas!
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  46. Tooling today is easier to produce due to two technologies. CNC which is still getting better. And the tooling. Which allows finishing with zero to very little hand work in polishing the molds. But in the future 3D printing will take over more and more. Especially for low volume production
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  47.  @justnsaliga8518  The M4s not starting when being off loaded was probably due more to dead batteries than anything else. At US factories building tanks I would expect the majority needed to be driven on to the rail cars in the plants shipping yard. Not a complete test by any means but you do know the damn thing runs at least.
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  48. A while back I was watching the film "Vera Cruz" here on YouTube and sure enough Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster are walking around with Colt Single Army pistols and 1873 Winchesters. The movie is set in about 1866.
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  49. +Benson Inner a former life these served as cannon at Trafalgar
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  50. And places for it to get out of alignment. In a way it reminds me of the table saw I've got for just general use. It's got a sliding table that movable on the fence rails which are moveable all on a sheet metal box with an cast aluminum table. Cuts nice when set-up properly. But it is a real PITA to get set-up.
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  51. Actually the name of the pistol comes from the test reports. Unfortunately the writer of the report had a broken typewriter. Meaning he had to substitute "t" for "d". Hence lines in the reports such "The tarn plstol repeatedly failed to function".
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  52. And afterwards, a little wine, eating some cheese and catching some rays. Bon chanc
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  53.  @lizzahk  No, it's a Marty Robbins reference.
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  54. No mon ami. He drove a Citroën Traction Avant.
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  55.  @davidmcguire6043  The first you take a Mk II apart its lie one of those Chinese puzzles.
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  56. The Irish is the proper stuff
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  57. I remember a section from James Jones history of WWII in which he describes interviews of German POWs about their opponents. They said the the English shouted, the French sang. But when the Americans attacked they were grimly silent. The Germans said that scarred them more. Jones said it was so the krauts couldn't hear their teeth chattering
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  58. Similiar to other markets. You can have two automotive manufacturers that both produce good products. One well sell better than another for "reasons". Another decent 9mm service pistol. The Agentinian copy of the Hi-Power. They shoot decent. Are reliable and were really cheap. A little rough maybe but they work.
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  59.  @mrjockt  Makes sense. I would expect the troops involved in the familiarization process would be SF or airborne personnel that could potentially be deployed into the area. A just in case situation.
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  60. We just lost two local privately owned (open to the public) that are soon to be paved over with soulless McMansions. Could be worse. It could have been perfectly good farmland. Between lower numbers of rounds and higher property taxes I am not surprised.
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  61. My dad was in Italy (173rd Field Artillery) in an independent field artillery unit. He said they got their hands on some of these late in the war when German or Italian Fascist units were surrendering. He said they shot very smooth with very little recoil. Even the "simplified" version looks to be machined beautifully.
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  62. Being in effective range of most anything can be a significant emotional event. Even the Rock, M1, Antitank.
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  63. More like Steampunk. Or better yet Magnetpunk. Or Coilpunk
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  64. The L85 and my grandfather's axe are 1st cousins
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  65. Probably former FW-190, AM-6, or MiG-15 pilots
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  66. Hell, aliens inhabiting a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy. Plus I expect the USMC guard post outside the Pearly Gates has a couple of these in sand bag emplacements. Just to keep Ol' Scratch's minions at bay
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  67. And now new for th he 2023 model year. The pintel mount is standard equipment on every Rhino 1/2 ton pickup. Ring mount optional. See your local Rhino dealer for more details.
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  68. When it comes to weapons procurement the Sten has to be the exception that proves the rule.
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  69. Rocket Science is kind of a misnomer. It's really rocket engineering. The science may come in on the materials level but it takes competent engineers to make things work. One thing I think that is missing in engineering today is the practice of making engineers work on the shop floor in manufacturing, assembly and servicing areas so that they really have a grasp of just what problems they can create. My last job I found a number of engineering mistakes that caused problems in the service life of machines. These were caused by assembly issues or improper clearances or tolerances. One involved the a problem that would cause a bearing spaced to be crushed because it was possible to be constantly chasing the torque specification because the part holding the bearings in place had too much clearance allowed between the faces. Others involved seals inside an assembly that could be rolled over simply because there was no lead on the part the seal rode on and when assembling there was no way to know. Experience on the shop floor would have solved a lot of these issues.
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  70. And Samsung turned around and used either stills or film footage from Kubrick's 2001 to demonstrate that that the concept of portable devices are nothing new. The tablet props used in the film look thoroughly up to date. Todays smart phones also bear a lot of resemblance to the personal computers used by the crew of ISS MacArthur in The Mote in Gods Eye. Also the author Jerry Pournelle when appearing on Tom Snyder in the 1970s gave a very accurate prediction of a Kindle or Nook when discussing a possible future E-reader including the download process.
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  71.  @MrRobbi373  Yes, I expect Sargent Harper was demanding to know just who nicked his bolley gun made by "John Nock of London".
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  72. There are some superb British engineering/manufacturing firms that come to mind. Cosworth and Ilmor come to mind. The British also had at one time a superb machine tool manufacturing sector. As did the US. A number of factors killed these industries off. Cost was one factor of course. Two others were poor management and government. In the US companies were paying inventory taxes on spare parts and unsold machines. Foreign manufacturers could import machines and warehouse them without going through customs. The machine would then go through customs when shipped to the buyer. This allowed the importer to fill orders in a shorted time frame. Mazak for one was especially good at filling orders this way.
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  73.  @Dreams_Of_Lavender  If Ian were a vampire they way to distract him would be to lay a trail of French Longue
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  74. ​ @cbroz7492  If you are going to cavort. Cavort with the best. I always get her and Susan Hayworth confused. IMO Hayworth was hotter. It's like the eternal question. Ginger or Mary Ann.
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  75. Ian has all of the French .30 longe in existence. All 5 rounds
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  76. USS Wisconsin, hold my beer. She reportedly had a direct hit on a T-34 in Korea with one of her 16"50s
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  77.  @JamesThomas-pj2lx  My father was in an independent Field Artillery Group in Italy. From he told us once his battery broke up an attack by panzer with pretty close to direct fire from 155mm Long Tom's. He said the forward observer could see shells skip off the ground the angle was so low.
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  78. Thanks, now I'm gonna have "kill da wabbit" rattling around in my head all morning
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  79.  @Notsure92  The Martini was probably the best of the Single Shot black powder breech loading service rifles. In terms of handling, fire power. The British were willing to spend the money. The US Army stuck with the Trapdoor because of finances. They did run trials of other rifles but they didn't go anywhere until smokeless powder came into being. The Trapdoor really isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Once drawn brass cartridges were figured out it came into its own. Karl on In Range did the mad minute thing probe and shot off over fifteen rounds iirc. Other good Single Shot Breechloader of the era include the Remington, the Norwegian one (K something, name escapes me) and the really slick Werder from Bavaria. Two triggers. One drops the hammer while the other trips open the breech and ejects the spent case. Insert round. Pull back on hammer which closes the breech and cocks both the hammer spring and the spring for the front trigger.
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  80.  @mrgameboy6261  There's brute force and brutal brute force.
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  81.  @Deridus  All it would really take is either an oral description or a general drawing for the starting point for the development of the Kammerlader. But who knows. It is entirely possible that one or two of Hall's commercial guns made it to Norway sometime prior to 1840.
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  82. Surrender Rifle? Dropped once Rifle? Dropped twice?
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  83. My late father in law got to tour he Canal while enroute to his extended vacation on Okinawa. After his vacation on Iwo Jima was cancelled due to over booking.
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  84. Along with the recreational mortar.
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  85. Depends if your partner is channelling his inner Gerald Ford.
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  86. All to the Immigrant Song playing in the backround. Sometimes the Swedes come up with interesting names for weapons systems. Carl Gustav. They could always use Thor, Odin, Loki etc.
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  87. ​ @rdrrr  People who literally can't figure out how to put batteries in a flash lite. Although I want one of the USB rechargeable ones. Just don't like the price point.
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  88.  @PunishedSpindle300  screw Marvel
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  89. The train story. Well if it's got Burt Lancaster (did all his own stunt work as usual) in it I'm game.
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  90.  @jettz8571  Looking at VietNam strictly from a military aspect the VC and NVA got kicked six ways to Sunday. After Tet the VC were never really a factor. The NVA had the staying power. Afganistan, the place they say empires go to die. Again the Taliban got there collective asses kicked. But staying power and a tribal mentality do mean a lot. Someday, maybe around the time humanity launches its first starship the Afghans will climb out of the Dark Ages.
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  91. Function over form. The closest to a snazzy (1) looking Ruger pistol imo is a Mk ll/lol or lV with custom grips and bull barrel. The best looking firearms ever built were the Woodsman, the Wolverine and the PPK. 1) The word sexy and firearms do not mix imo.
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  92. ​ @joshmitchell1002  One can appreciate the engineering behind a firearm. Or be interested in its history. One can even participate in and enjoy shooting sports. One can appreciate a firearm in its performance. But love a firearm? I reserve the word love for my wife, my kids and family.
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  93. Next up Tombstone
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  94. And not just regular machines. Specialized machines and tooling to do specific jobs.
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  95. Mr Roger's talks guns
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  96.  @happyundertaker6255  Any government.
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  97. Add a longer barrel as in the carbine models. 30 or 40 round stick mag and it's a sub gun. I wonder if anyone ever modified a 1911 into a machine pistol.
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  98. If you use dowels that are case hardened dents and dings should not be an issue.
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  99. I'm surprised the Russians don't have warehouses full of flintlocks left over from the Napolionic Wars.
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  100.  @hermanman8235  Somewhere Pederson must have had a German engineer somewhere in his make-up
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  101. I used to work in facility that produced among other things (1) the rocker arms for ICE engines. We had one Tool and Die maker that worked full time maintaining the die sections of the progressive die due to the wear caused by the process. The single most impressive operation was stamping a small hole on the order of 1mm through steel about 2mm thick. 1) The other things include complete engines, rear ends, body stampings and finished cars all under one roof.
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  102. Father told me and my brothers that when in Italy they got to shoot a couple of these. He basically said that you could rest the magazine on your left hand and fire it.
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  103.  @missano3856  I agree about Pakistan. Israel not as much. They only way they use nukes is if they literally are facing annihilation. Today Iran gets all the notice but how many other states have weapons programs. Or the capability. Japan for instance could have nukes very rapidly if they decided they needed them. I'd be willing to bet that Tiawan has a nuclear program. Australia if they felt sufficiently threatened by Indonesia or found themselves outside the US umbrella.
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  104. Sir, you have just invented an internet meme. All it needs is Monty Python jumping out and yelling "Let's all ignore the Italians!"
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  105. I suspect, and of course can not prove that while this may of been a trials rifle afterwards it was restocked and given either as a presentation piece or intended to be used as a sporting rifle. This speculation is based on the rather nice looking checkering. If a presentation piece any documentation might of been lost due to WWI or WWII
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  106.  @RMJTOOLS  Better a pair of remote operated 20mm turrets from the B-36
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  107. Its damn hard to move silently through that type accumulated dead leaves and branches
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  108. Anti Tankette Rifle?
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  109. The Soviets were perfectly happy with the idea of the workers siezing the means of production. As long as they where Soviet workers.
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  110.  @dakkadakka9189  Not all German cars are excersises in excessive engineering. The original VWs are good example. A simple and very well built vehicle to move you from point A to point B. But then Germans also built the Trabant. A simple poorly built vehicle that might move you from point A to somewhere short of point B. If people think the Germans are maniacal about designing overly complex pieces of machinery they haven't thought about the Swiss. The Swiss build excellent watches", firearms and machine tools. Just pray you never have to work on them "One of the dirty little secrets about the Swiss watch industry is a lot of the parts are made just over the border in France.
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  111. I've wondered if somebody in the era this rifle is from had tried a paper cartridge similar to the old paper hulled shotgun shells. given some of the problems with early copper cased and brass foil cartridges. Well it seems some one did.
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  112.  @rikulappi9664  Not only does Sasha get to fire 15000 rounds on semi-automatic. He also gets to load all the rounds by hand into the mags.
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  113.  @cases2939  The duck hunt "gun" was actually a crude tv camera
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  114. "The "CZ factory was contracted with...." It was probably more of case you will make these and you will like it.
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  115. The French may had the better rifles. But the Prussians had the better artillery. Plus the French started the war didn't they?
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  116. All it needs is a big Hollywood hoop.
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  117. ​ @davepeters4955  I hate to think what their bikes were like. See through tires so you could see how much air was in the tires?
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  118. Ocean Brutality. Recovering the kettle bell is gonna be a little tough.
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  119. Didn't pretty much every nation with a domestic firearms industry look at German weapons post WWll. I am excluding those countries that were building licensed copies with no experience of domestic design work. One thing a lot of countries did as they began to industrialize was look at establishing their own firearms industry along with railroad networks. Building railroads if you produce any of the items domestically gets you a steel industry. Even if all you produce is your own rails. A domestic firearms industry is going to get you a core of trained machinists and tool makers that can then train others. On another note. The first major consumer product that offered a precision made product was the wood pencil industry (1). First you have to form the cores from graphite and a bonding agent. These have to be quite uniform. Then the wood halves of the pencil body need to be machined in multiple bodies. The cores inserted and the halves glued together. The grooves for the cores need to be the proper depth. Too shallow and the body won't close. Too deep and the cores fall out. Another commercial product that relied early on precision machinery was the mass production of pins and sowing needles. Of course all of this. Indeed everything produced by an industrial process rests on a machine tool industry and national or international standards of measurement. 1) The author of On Walden Pond. His family owned a pencil factory.
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  120.  @Jebu911  Perfect is the enemy of good enough. Ian makes the point about the current 40mm launcher being awkward to carry etc. The China Lake 40mm pump certainly beats it hands down on that matter from all appearances. Yes fix the problems in the original. Just dont get creative with "improvements". As to the property rights I have a post on that further up the comments.
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  121. Just so long as it doesn't turn into a firearms version of Orange County Choppers
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  122. The video or videos of Ian shooting FG-42s are very impressive. One I think is titled Is the Hype Real? The answer was yes. In one portion he fires a full magazine and all if the expended brass lands forward and to the right in about a six foot circle. That shows just one small detail that the designers thought out. Regarding any possible fragility of these weapons. Just what was the expected amount of service for one of these weapons. If it is only expected to last x number if hours in combat or x number of rounds building them to last 10x's as long is a waste of resources. As a side question. I'm sure there is probably data in the various archives. How many rounds did the average rifleman fire total in WWll?
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  123.  @itatane  With Pvt Mackenzie from British Muzzleloaders being the Scottish branch of the clan. Bloke travelled to Alberta or BC to do a series of videos with him. One thing I enjoy about British Muzzleloaders is his historical approach not only to the particular firearm but also the context of its usage in both field exercises and training.
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  124.  @hobblesofkarth3943  Oh, you mean those formerly Irish immigrants 🤯
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  125.  @hobblesofkarth3943  As would the residents of Kentucky and Tennessee. Only they'd run you over with their pickum-up trucks and got out the squirrel rifles
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  126. I remember a show on the History Channel about the original ice road guys. One comment was, "-40's not bad, -50 is cold, -60 is damn cold".
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  127. Needs wheels
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  128.  @SpacePatrollerLaser  I knew the Elbonian Defense Minister had a funny sounding name. P something or other
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  129. I know you used to be able to order them from Gander Mountain. Look up Cattleman's Carbine. There are also repos of Remingtons
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  130. Americans tend to associate the word 'crayon' with the wax based crayons used by children in school or coloring books. In other countries the word is often associated with pencils too. In Europe what we called color pencils are sometimes referred to as crayons. I'm not sure but I think the crayons used by lithographers* are primarily oil based and are a whole different ball game than Crayolas *Traditional lithography involves drawing the scene in reverse on a porous stone (hence the litho) surface and then pressing the the paper under high pressure to transfer the image. A lot of the Currier and Ives prints were lithographs. The down side is you can only get a limited number of prints before the master image either needs to be refreshed or the surface prepped for a new image.
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  131. When I saw the oil resivore (sp) my first thought was it had an oil filled recoil mechanism. I wonder how a cylinder off a rear hatch on a car or gas cylinder for a hood would work. Small, light and they take a surprising amount of force to compress.
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  132.  @craigwinter3792  The reference is "Wisdom According to Oddball". Another is "an FG-42 gives you a nice edge".
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  133. ​ @Longshot762x51  A blacksmith/welder l worked with built his own smooth bore cannon. DOM steel tubing with a second section of tube heat shrunk onto the breech end. Breach end was threader with the plug screwed in and welded in place. Bore sized to use aluminum cans. He'd shoot into the hill behind his house.
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  134. The Germans never really perfected sub-machine gun use and tactics. That was done by the mobs stenogaphy department in Chicago. The Germans lacked one essential piece of equipment. A Buick or Cadillac sedan.
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  135. Yah, right after Marty and Doc Brown gave him a ride in the DeLorean
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  136.  @AshleyPomeroy  I think that would be pretty much the case in most navies. The engineering path is not the usual path to ship command. The captain's real job is to fight the ship. In the days of sail you had something similiar with captains and sailing masters.
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  137. Wascally Wabbit?
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  138. Does it come in pink for the female officers?
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  139.  @losonsrenoster  Yes, the command staff were all finalists in the Upper Middle Class Twit of the Year.
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  140. The hand held rock mk1
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  141. No matter the score, did you find it enjoyable? That's the important part.
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  142. In terms of production facilities run by the military building military designs the worst example I can think of is the US Navy and Navy's Board of Ordinance's MK-14 torpedo during WWIl. That is sad tale.
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  143.  @tarmaque  One time period where we might have seen a brass/paper rifle case is post ACW in black powder single shot rifles. Would a case in 45-XX have worked. I can see where water proofing would be an issue. Plus could the cases be treated so they are combustible leaving only the brass base for extraction. Denying any hostiles the possibility of reloaded cases. One issue I see is bottle mech cases. And yes I remember cellulose shot gun shells. And at the time people complained about the new fangled plastic shells.
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  144. Interesting and absolutely beautiful piece of the gunsmiths art. I wonder just what the felt recoil is. More than makes up for not taking that dual. 50BMG water cooled mount to the range. Considering that shooting it would cost the equivilant of a small nation's GDP. Its understandable. 😉
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  145. Especially when the Pathfinders are the Spanish Inquisition
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  146. They easily could have had a motor driven test stand with an offset pin that engaged the trigger with the gun locked in place.
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  147. The important parts of the missile are the electronics. As I understand it the control surfaces are either neutral or full over.
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  148. Plus they would automatically clean themselves, stone out any dents and dings and in general be "schpick und schpan"
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  149. As a retired machinist I know what you mean. Plus you get the well meaning individual who offers to put in his 2 cents. After yuo are past the point of no return. We had a boss checking on what his people were doing on th heir jobs. One guy had a job in the lathe. Taking about .020 off. The boss steps in, stops the feed starts another cut after cranking the tool in and stepping up th he feed. "Thats how yo run a lathe". The reply was "that was my finish pass".
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  150. He should have had a NYPD patrol man's visored cap. Or a Chilean picklehelmet
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  151. In the 80s iirc the military was looking at brass cased shotgun ammo with flachettes. The idea was for Embassy guards. The State Dept likely killed that.
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  152. A lot of the forestry products used in the DeHaviland Mosquitos during WWII originated in Wisconsin forests.
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  153. Probably about as complicated as the operating diagram for the TurboEncapulator
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  154. You probably would have seen a rethink about tactics. Really fast
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  155.  @scmroman  Are you saying Ian is the new King of Cool.
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  156. Pre war the Cavalry was not allowed to have tanks. So they had (in a stern voice) "Combat Cars".
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  157. If you look good you feel good.
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  158. And here I thought the Bren used flat nose silver bullets. Make the undead dead
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  159.  @davidmcguire6043  As I recall the ones that came with my MKII weren't.
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  160. It doesn't look like the high point of Czech QC and construction. Pretty is nice but 1) Does it chamber a round : Sure does. 2) Does the round fire : it appears so. 3) Does the round clear the barrel and head down range : it would seem so. 4) Does it chamber another round and fire : 4 for 4. Remember, perfect is the enemy of good enough. That set-up for stripper clips is freakin" brilliant
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  161.  @akatripclaymore.9679  Does K Mart even exist snymore?
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  162. Nick Moran from the Chieftains, uhm, no.
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  163. Did the Luftwaffe Falschrimjagers even make any combat jumps post Crete. Plus I am under the impression that they were primarily employed in Italy. Given Smiling Albert's service arm being Luftwaffe that makes a certain amount of sense. But I could be wrong. It's happened once or twice 🙄
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  164. Does anybody remember the 3 Stooges short where they are painting stuff with camouflage paint.
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  165.  @eizol568  Well, technically at least 1945. That's also the last time they lost a war too.
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  166.  @VRichardsn  It seems a lot of people dismiss the Italians as much as the French. On an individual level they can be just as good as any other nations soldiers. But in WWII the Italians and the French in 1940 suffered from poor leadership and morale. Plus the Italians never should have gotten involved to start with. They simply did not have the resources to fight a major war with Britian and France. Bennie the Bozo smelled blood in the water with France on the ropes. I think he expected the Brits to cut their losses. But th hey gave the British a hard time in North Africa for a while. North Africa was a place that if you were kicked out of Benghazi and Tobruk as the British were by the Italians eventually the other side would outrun their supply lines.
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  167. If they just would have taken a few average riflemen and had them shoot these in front of the Ordinance Board we could have just skipped the whole M-14
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  168. No matter how much people think small arms will become obsolete as long as humans fight wars small arms will still be here. Especially in conditions of asymmetrical warfare. The small arms may change* but as said boots on the ground matter. *any man portable weapon is small arms be it slings, assault rifles or lasers
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  169.  @SlavicCelery  It would depend on the time and place the 105mm M4 Sherman's were built specifically for the infantry support. But then it is my understanding that they were usually mixed in with 75mm and 76mm M4's. But then a couple of rounds of 105 on a Mk IV or Stug would probably mission kill them. The Self Propelled 155mm was used in direct fire support against bunkers
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  170. Paint ball guns could very useful for IDing rioters. Load the paintballs with a clear UV sensitive dye. As suspects leave shine a UV light source at them and the light up like dayglow
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  171. While this isn't a 'real' China Lake it does put paid to some of the myths. But then I suspect each one of the China Lakes had a lot of armorer time making sure they functioned correctly. If they cycled smoothly then the ability to lay 4 40mm rounds into an area in 3 or 4 seconds could make a big difference.
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  172.  @RMJTOOLS  Mabe initially but the production models along with the YB-60s had twin 20mm. The turrets were mounted on frames that swung down or up after the covering doors retracted out of the way. The Soviets actually kept dorsel mounted turret mounted defensive cannon in use longer than the USAF did.
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  173. I am of the opinion that if brawn brass cases had proven to be a more difficult technology to master. Then there may have been composite cases. Especially in the single shot military rifles post ACW. The problem I see is in the production of bottle necked cases similiar the Martini Henry. The only real options available for composite cases at the time would have been cellulose based or possibly iron. Although i think iron might not have been a good choice due possible metallurgical issues between the case and the chamber. I'll give an example although not iron. I used to rebuild machine tools. One project was for a 6 spindle indexing lathe. The chucks were hydraulically operated. They had a rotating coupling on the back end. My boss decided to have the spool and coupling body chromed. Not a good idea. The coupling is would lock right up.
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  174.  @Mishn0  Rule #1 First liar never wins. See Monty Python's "We Were So Poor" skit
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  175.  @googiegress  And uphill both ways through 1 meter of snow fighting off Grizzlies with our loose leaf folders
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  176.  @jeremywatson9129  It does have kind of a Hi-Power vibe the way the frame and slide look on the front end.
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  177. It's good that they got to be used for something other than their intended prpose.
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  178.  @matthayward7889  And do the design work needed to develop the tooling needed to produce them.
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  179. Squadron Commander addressing his pilots. "Here we're issuing you this great "03 Springfield in case you get shot down behind the lines." "Sir, what about parachutes?" "Parachutes, why would you ever need parachutes? Real pilots don't need parachutes. All they let you do is abandon your airplane if its damaged." "But sir, what good is the "03 going to do us if the plane is burning and we can't abandon it and jump with a 'chute?" "Um, yes Lt Luke. I see you point." In my considered opinion, this was not one of the US Army Air Service's better ideas. And just where does Lt Luke or Capt Rickenbacker stow this thing in their Newport or Spad. That said the 25 round magazine combined with semi auto would of been a great idea.
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  180.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  Richard Widmark was more into the shove the old lady in the wheel chair down the stairs type of thing.
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  181.  @Regolith86  Remember the Nova (iirc) episode where the smith in Door County made one.
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  182. I worked with a guy that claimed he could plop rounds in a ten foot circle at about 300 meters with an M-79. Note the word claimed.
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  183. ​ @Stevarooni  Curiously though. People still were building houses, buying cars etc. Not everybody was broke.
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  184. Many moons ago I worked with a guy that was drafted in the 50s. Infantry. About 5,2. Naturally they handed him a BAR.
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  185. I can hear Carl in the background No you can not shoot thatat the next 2 gun match
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  186.  @ForgottenWeapons  Range Officer. "Shooter will engage the two steel targets....." Shooter "What targets?"
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  187. Lawyer? Now these are lawyers!
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  188. In a peer or neer peer conflict just how many causalities are going to be caused by small arms. Versus artillery. Either conventional tube or rocket. Besides does any one expect the leadership of most countries to give a rats as about the troops on the ground.
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  189. Does Bannermen have it in stock!
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  190.  @stanpotter7764  Hell, I don't want to get shot by a BB gun (might have my eye shot out). Is the .30 Carbine underpowered compared to an intermediate cartridge much less a full powered battle rifle cartridge? Of course it is. But as stated in the video it must be taken in context of what the rifle was designed to do. As to my original post maybe I was being swarmy or pendactic. But sometimes the others just bring it out in me. As to penetration Paul Harrel has a video using the "meat" target.
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  191. Ketchup on Hot Dogs. You bought it. You're the one eating it. If you want ketchup it's your freaking business!
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  192. The usual inventor of any typically seems to get screwed. And then you have the Dr Seldon types. Never invent or build anything. Just file a patent so you can strong arm royalties out of people with lawyers.
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  193. I as going to say crooks not cooks. But this can in some ways be attributed to one branch of engineering not understanding another bronch or discipline of engineering. Firearms and say automotive engines are both machines. But that does not mean an engineer proficient in one would be competent in ths other. Some of this aslo sounds like over zealous cost controls on management's part. Substituting a casting for forged or machined from solid is not a decision to be made lightly. The same could be said for substituting one steel vs another or heat treatment's
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  194.  @captslaq  The same could be said for just about any profession. One example I've lawyers smart enough to pass the bar but were seemingly dumber than a box of rocks in other areas.
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  195. Do you seriously expect politicians of all stripes to really do what is needed to reform the VA? Thankfully I never had to go in (I was about a month from getting my draft notice when they stopped sending them out). Those that did serve and were scarred mentally or physically deserve better. But unfortunately it seems most politicians only care about one thing. The next election. And if they see something that seems better for their district in terms of possibly securing votes they will invariably it seems vote in favor of those programs instead of properly funding the VA and its programs. That's how we get bridges to nowhere. Thats how we get programs that just give money to local and state governments with no requirement that the money spent on those problems will change anything. Federal dollars shoveled into education that produce no results comes to mind. Would more dollars in the VAs budget cure everything? Probably not. Any issues that are administrative cannot be solved with money. That takes policy changes and the will of the VA chiefs officials to enforce them. The VA is not a jobs program after all. I will now get off my soapbox
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  196. The thumbnail for the video it looks like Ian is smoking a pipe.
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  197.  @jonprince3237  Almost every one that I asked on just why the volunteered jump out of perfectly good airplanes responded with two words. "JUMP PAY"
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  198. My dad brought back a 98-K. My brother has it now. The only time it was fired since it came over was in the 60s when my other brother used it for deer hunting. Commercial 7.92 ammo was available. I'm not sure if the surplus ammo market existed yet. My dad said they had gotten their hands on some sub guns but their unit officers took them away from them and turned them over to what ever unit was collecting as much of the German and Italian small arms laying around in spring of 45 in Northern Italy. He told us that the Beretta 9mm sub gun shot really nice.
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  199. Ian actually has four of these. He uses them as the turn signals on his daily driver
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  200.  @davidtuttle7556  Damn, I don't think a quad .50 is going to fit under the tree.
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  201.  @ScottKenny1978  Lower the floor or raise the ceiling. Or both
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  202. Of course it was designed in Imperial units. It was for the Glory of the British Empire. Conversion from Imperial to metric can be done successfully. Including tolerances. One simply needs to be very careful picking the right tolerance bands between the two systems.
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  203. Better than a really high cyclic rate of fire that gets the muzzle pointing at the sky.
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  204.  @SuperAWaC  With .01KT nuclear warheads.
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  205. This is a question that I would think comes up in art and archeology quite often. On the archeology side we see locals (often poor) looting archeology sites and selling artifacts to private collectors. Imagine if the artifacts were a new collection similar to the Dead Sea Scrolls. In the art world, should the Mona Lisa or Starry Night be on the wall of some egomaniac with a "mine, its mine, all mine" mentality? Or should they be where anyone, provided they can get to the museum, can see it. Firearms are a little different. Unique firearms, that are one of a kind. I think I would say museum. Rare and extremely rare, a combination of the two. The less common where there were only say 200 to 2000 produced and have maybe 10% of the total left. Unless the firearm is important from a historical aspect, I would be inclined private collectors is fine. In a way its like the surviving piston engine fighters of the WWII era. Do we keep flying all the P51's until the last one crashes and burns at Reno, or at the hands of an owner that is just maybe in a little over his head? Earlier this year the builder of the Bugatti Model 100 reproduction was making one last flight before turning the A/C over to the museum that bought it. Shortly after take-off it rolled to the left and went straight in killing the builder and totally destroying the aircraft. I know this kind of thing happens but at some point historical artifacts do become part of the shared history of all of us.
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  206. Round 5 hits Mars
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  207. Is it just me or would it make sense for the evaluators in the Board of Ordinance in the 1950s to have been actual combat riflemen with a CIB. There most likely were individuals on the Ordinance Board that did have combat experience but how many of them actually had experienced combat as riflemen. Plus did they do honest evaluations of after action reports and captured German weapons. Specifically the G42, the G43 and the G44. Controlability of these weapons on full auto would have or should have opened their eyes on the usefulness of a full powered cartridge in a full auto rifle. Hell, the test rifles built from M1's would have revealed the stupidity of the idea. Something like the G42 in a 7.62 x 40 or so. The later video firing the EM-2 in .280 shows that had a far amount of muzzle climb also. We've seen reproduction G-42s produced, has anybody tackled this rifle?
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  208.  @lostalone9320  If the RN and the Marines absolutely needed a SVTOL airframe it's my opinion they really should have just upgraded the Harrier. Face it nobody is going to be putting an amphibious force ashore in the face of air superiority. If all that's really needed is a close support airframe a STOL version of the Turcano would probably do. I also happen to think that the Marine MAUs should have a better option for gun fire support. Let's say the US needs to put a MAU ashore in the Hormuz Straight region (I'm not advocating it. This is hypothetical). The first thing the US Navy is going to do is to eliminate any potential threat from Iranian aircraft and SSMs. Second is any sub threat. Once the MAU is ashore if they need fire support they need it now. Now in the 5 or 10 minutes it might take to get the air raft there. This is one thing the LCS might have been good for. It's also another thing modularity might have been good for. If the Freedom LCS class had been built with the modularity concept built in base the modules on 40 ft standard shipping containers. These containers could have different configurations. One of which could be an integrated 155mm gun with its accompanying ammunition load carried in the container. The gun system could be based on a navalized version of the M-203 or the German PZz1000 (?). Additional containers could be carried onboard the accompanying replenishment vessel. Another design option for the containers could be accomodation space for troops assigned to the vessel for shipping security such as off the East African Coast or the Straits of Malacca.
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  209. 17th century kraut space magic
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  210. @buffbeezer Well, it is a desert. The mana ammo from heaven
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  211. Zer uze ist a var crime! Er, Hans, what about the mustard gas?
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  212. I've videos of the Japanese "Knee Mortar" being fired.
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  213. Korean and Japanese industrial firms tend to be very diverse in what they build.
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  214. If the French and Britain had shown some balls they would of saved a lot of lives. Germany was not ready for war. Yes a lot of young men would of died if fighting broke out. But probably a lot less than did. Appeasement wound up handing the Germans a fully functioning arms industry producing small arms, tanks and motor vehicles. Way to go Neville.
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  215. I for one would never make the mistake that they are. I worked with a guy that spent time in Iran in the mid 60s when American Motors set-up a production facility for what was basically the 1964 Rambler American at Pars Khodro.
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  216. So was I. Specifically I was thinking of his busting the M1 myths.
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  217. What about instead of introducing the Kurz they just issued a reduced performance version if the 8x57mm. Although I can see the that might cause issues with existing weapons
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  218.  @modarkthemauler  Well the 120mm in the M1A1 uses semi combustible cases ammunition
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  219.  @johannesmichaelalhaugthoma4215  I've seen that. I think Ian had video with it. Insane rate of fire
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  220.  @samoldfield5220  The quad 50 or the quad 20mm would be very effective in forcing enemy infantry to ground.
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  221.  @joemontgomery6658  Film junkies love Eisenstein but I have always found his work pretentious although the Odessa Steps is a redeeming moment
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  222. So, they tested the idea with a golf ball. I want one. Just the thing for the back nine. What is truely amazing with the M79 is the US Army embraced the KISS principle.
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  223. This is the aspect of military firearms that one should always keep in mind. The service rifles, pistols and machine guns were developed with one function. And that is to inflict grievous bodily harm on another human being. Sometimes this is performed in the pursuit of a greater good. Unfortunately these circumstances are always necessitated by the aggression of one nation state against another. Rest in peace Major Fraser
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  224.  @jeffkearney2488  Only if you have a lawyer throwing
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  225. Rolling Block or Martini-Henry? Herr Werder enters the room.
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  226. ​ @frankkrunk  I would contend every single German engineer proposed and designed weapons from mid war on solely to keep themselves out of uniform
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  227.  @hermanman8235  I wonder sometimes just how well designers who worked on military arms slept. Pon one hand they could justify their work as attempting to help defend their nation. On the other hand some designers and manufacturers were in it strictly for the money. A man like John Garand could justify as working in the defense of his (adopted) country. Other like Hiram Maxim seemed willing to sell to all comers.
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  228. Surplus ones were solid to the Galactic Emporer Marvin Martian for firing the Q-35 Space Modulator rounds. "Oh my"
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  229. Definitely one of the best looking handguns ever. Sure is purrty. Wonder if it would scale up say .380, 9 x 18 or even 9 x 19 safely
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  230. This just screams, "get off of my lawn!".
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  231. Given the number of malfunctions the best option seems to throw the damn thing at the target. Could this be on par with that amazing Zip 22
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  232. The exception to the rule in reproduction firearms is the Italian stuff
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  233. Just my opinion but the USAAF or the USN BuOrd should have put more effort into producing a domestic version of the 20mm Hisso autocannon. The effort on the part of GM (Buick iirc) was lacking. I was watching a video on Soviet efforts to develop first recoilless and then auto cannon for aircraft use starting in the prewar period. In various calibers. They really did develop so very good auto cannon in 23mm and 37mm. Their 37 had a much high muzzle energy than the M4 (1) used in the P-39. For ship board AA use the USN had the 20mm Orliken. Which was a little heavy for aircraft use. 1) Theres that pesky M4 again
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  234. In the Russian version of Dr Strangelove Major Kongski rides the H-Bomb waving uis shashka.
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  235.  @ForgottenWeapons  And if you want to build your own reliable and robust mags it is probably going to cost you that much for the equipment to do it properly. Setting up a home metal working shop is not a cheap exercise.
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  236.  @wingracer1614  Either you need the dies (not cheap, even if you have the skill when you buy the proper tool steels and then heat treat). The other rout is using brakes and shears doing one operation at a time. And you still need the welder. But for anybody handy that's pretty much a given. I suppose if you used say 4140 sheet and flame hardened the feed lips and drew it back just enough to take the stresses from the hardening process that might work. But then there was the guy in the UK that built a 9mm SMG completely out of items he bought at the UK equivalent of a hardware store. The gun ran. As I recall he built it to prove a point as to the politicians could ban whatever they wanted but if somebody was willing to put in the work. Ian had a video on it a few years back.
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  237. I have to wonder if any of these were ever fired beyond possible proofing at the factory. I can just imagine somebody building AKs in a hut in Afganistan and the customer wants one just like the one used by the Quatari Royal Guard.
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  238. Being a retired Tool Room machinist I wonder just how much of the initial rifle prototypes were actually machined by the designers.
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  239. In the history of early self contained cartridges the case was often not of the best design. A classic example is of course the Allin Conversion of the Springfield Rifled Musket with the copper case cartridges. I wonder if there would have been a different path initially until the drawn brass cartridge case was practical. Would a compossite case consisting of a metalic base and primer with a heavy paper based case that was varnished or shellaced to make it relatively water resistant. The bullet could be fixed to the case either with a coating of the varnish or shellac. Something similiar to a shotgun shell but in say 45-70. I would think such ammunition would seal the breach decently, especially in comparision to the paper cartridges used in some rifles of the time. Making the paper based tubes by rolling muliple layers around a mandrel doesn't sound too complicated. This could even be a faily continous process. Plus the cost should be less than rolled brass or copper. The bases could be made from sheet copper or brass. Or did some bright individual go down this path 160 odd years ago
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  240. Can one get loads for trap and skeet
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  241. Should have had all tracers.
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  242. When I think of films set in Shanghai pre WWII The White Countess comes to mind
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  243. Yes, but in one of the Nitro Express cartridges
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  244. Progressive press operations are fascinating to watch. What you can see of it that is. Iretired out of an automotive plant. And no l won't say which one. At one time we did engine machining and assembly. Sheet metal stamping and body assembly. Rear axles and differentials. We had the stamped rocker arms that were fairly common at one time. There was one Tool and Die Maker whose job assignment was refurbishing the punches and dies for the rockers. One thing that impressed me was after going through the progressive operation the rocker arms ot a hole about .040/1mm punched through the pushrod seat. Bang, all the way through the seat in one operation. The seat was about 1/8th of an inch thick iirc.
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  245. That would have driven the Toy Safety Gestapo nuts
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  246. And this was the simple design
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  247. First rule of Pancor, is you don't talk about Pancor The thing I find really ironic about this whole thin is the guns were built in the Peoples Republic of Austin
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  248. I remember seeing the adds for this in the mid 60s. The add featured a guy out trapping in the rain or snow.
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  249. The Yugo of Shotguns
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  250. Their ghosts must still haunt the Pentagon as witnessed by the XM-8 and the current new rifle program
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  251. Looks like it needs some sort of dust cover on the bolt. Looks like a pretty slick piece of work.
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  252. Ian goes chipmunk hunting. They charge when wounded you know. He gets home and the wife says "Hard day at the office dear?" "You don't know the half of it"
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  253. I really don't think the US Army Ordinance Board did not realize the benefits of a smaller round able to do the job required of it. Frankly to kill or wound a human being by means of massive wound trauma. I think what happened is that having read the after action reports regarding the ranges at which most combat took place they did a "what about" in regards to those actions that took place at longer range. It is my opinion that they really did not to give up the capability of troops to engage the enemy at longer ranges. I also do not think the Ordinance Department expected the average rifleman to engage and hit targets at ranges out past 600 yards or meters. Just how many rounds were fired on average during WWII to one casualty (1). If you can force the enemy to take cover and stop him from doing what he wants but rather force him to react to what you do you are a fair way there to winning the fight. I really do think the Ordinance Board screwed up though. A smaller round that can do the job required of it that weighs less means a larger ammunition load per man for the same weight. It means lower recoil, potentially better shooting on the part of the rifleman (2) and other benefits to the infantry. (1) This also might have played into Ordinance Department thinking. Increased volumes of fire means increased strain on logistical system, the production system, costs (the increased costs are mainly going to be in the materials area. There will be a slight increase in costs man hours but mainly it's in the materials. Do you sufficient supply of copper and zinc for brass etc) Plys for the US you are looking at everything has to be produced, transported to a port, loaded on a ship, sailed across potentially hostile seas, unloaded and moved through the logistical system. (2) In reality just how many of the members of the average infantry squad, platoon or company really engaged the enemy with useful fire? 20%, 25%, more or was it less?
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  254. Why not just copy the MG-42 and be done with it.
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  255.  @Armoredcompany  since when does France syare a border with the Netherlands. I think you mean the Belgians
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  256.  @ramal5708  Hence when a P-47 takes off its "tits up"
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  257. We have bolt action rifles and we have bolt barrel rifles. This thing just seems like a back asswards bolt action
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  258. The British did take the Hill. More of a pyrphic victory.
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  259. The sights marked steps of 10💩💩💩💩, 20💩💩💩, 30💩💩, 40💩, 50, 100🙏, 150🙏🙏, 200🙏🙏🙏 and 250🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 yards The designer was inspired by an errant in his sofa
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  260. It would be interesting to see just what the actual forces are that the rifle is subjected to with and with out the compensator when measured with accelerometers. In terms of design (I'm not a firearms designer by any means) I'm wondering if it is really required to have both parts of the system gas driven. Unless they want to reduce wear on the gear system by not using the two gears to drive the counter mass forward.
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  261. British gets their butts kicked in Afghanistan twice. Brit helps them re-arm. Or is this a case of The Great Game.
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  262. This would make a wonderful yard ornament. I wonder what the HOA would say. 🤔
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  263. The best "western" GPMG? The biggest production numbers? How does it compare to the MG-42/G3? Just asking. Shooting video tomorrow?
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  264. Bore sized for golf balls on a par 3 course. There used to be a "driver" that took a blank round that when fired shot the club face forward against springs. The Bloop Tube makes more sense in my opinion.
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  265. 9mm Parabelum
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  266. As I understand it the only troops equipped with the Trapdoor were state militia troops. The Navy Lee was developed in the 1880s
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  267.  @giovannifontana1433  The USArmy actually had Springfield Armory build some Trapdoors in .30-40 Krag for cartridge evaluation. Ian had a video on them. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=.30+caliber+trapdoor&&view=detail&mid=C98375C0AF65E6C1E4B7C98375C0AF65E6C1E4B7&&FORM=VRDGAR
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  268. I saw one on GarandThumb's channel a while back that used washers for projectiles. Plus it fire in full auto.
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  269.  @80krauser  Maybe it was a poor way to state it but s long as we fight wars* small arms will be around. Be it 2021 or 4021. And who knows what will be available then. *the exceptions is arfare that takes place in 3 dimensions to control sea lanes. Or space for that matter. For a modern analogy to the classic space opera simply look at submarine vs submarine
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  270.  William Mulvaney  Maybe if we had just funded the local warlords selling opium and then destroyed the amount not needed for medical usage it probably would have been cheaper in money and lives. The only reason we sent troops into Afghanistan in the first place is because the Taliban told the US to go piss up a rope about bin Laden.
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  271.  @baneofbanes  you're right. Unfortunately they aren't obsolete because humans still fight amongst themselves. We've been doing it as long as we've been around.
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  272. Next thing you know Ian will be collecting French spear guns. Now if somebody would just find a use for Zebra Mussels infesting the Great Lakes Next time I go to Florida or the Gulf Coast I'll have try eating some. Don't dive though.
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  273. And most of us can't count past 1.
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  274. One really nasty thing about chrome is if you have two mating parts that are spinning the chrome will have tendency to adhere the parts together. We had screw machines with hydraulic chucks on the spindles. The back of the spindle had a rotary hydraulic coupling. Even with high pressure going to the coupling the spool would sieze up when the chrome surfaces picked up locking the whole machine. What actually locked up the machine were the hydraulic lines which were bent out of copper tubing.
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  275. I wonder how often somebody has contemplated converting either a 1911 or a Hi-Power into a machine pistol aka the Broomhandle Well at least twice
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  276. And here I thought the never ending box of ammo would .30 French Long.
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  277. The bayonet was intended to keep the enemy out of rifle range
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  278. A firearm can look 'cool', or it can function. Occasionally you get both. But first and foremost it has to function in the parameters of the specification is is/was built for.
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  279. Don't worry about it. Ursula Andress balances it all out
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  280. So what's slicker? The Stoner or the FG-42?
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  281. Now we need you or The Chieftain to do a review of the Polish Lancers Anti-Tank Sabre and Lance. 😂 Yes l know it's a myth.
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  282. I wonder just how many cavalry the US Army and the British Army had sitting in warehouses in 1939. I know the US still had horse calvary in the late 30s. The last US Army cavalry was in the Philippines in late 41 or early 42. PS If I misspelled cavalry I always get them and the Mount outside of the walls of Jerusalem confused.
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  283. Wow. It's a.009 caliber POS.
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  284. I'm surprised it's not a Tanker MAS 36 or 49
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  285. The Swiss design an assault rock. It has 47 pieces and a 17 page operating manual.
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  286. The one that included Syria and Iraq?
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  287. That or the cyanide
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  288. Next it will be Steampunk Weapons
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  289.  @colonelsmith7757  One aspect about US tank production vs Germany or even Britian. When parts gog to the assembly station for those assembly operations they fit. No filing or grinding required. The main US tank, the M4 in all of its various guises was pretty much a world beater when introduced. By '45 it was showing its age but still doing the job for the most part. But even when the M26 finally got to Europe it proved to be vulnerable to the 8.8 cm. But as Col Moran has pointed out in his own videos there were other factors involved in building the M4. Mainly shipping the damn things from the factories to the ports and overseas. Too bad there weren't more Roll On Roll Off type bulls available. Plus you have to add in the bridging equipment the engineers had.
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  290. And here I thought this was somehow going to be about the Mauser factory's train sets 🙄🙄
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  291. The Blackhack war was primarily in the Wisconsin Territory. One of the principle US Army officers involved was John Anderson who would later command Fort Sumter. At the time Wisconsin was also spelled Ouisconsin.
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  292. At the price it should be a smooth action and shoot damn good. Ideally it should be more accurate than the user. Never fight fair.
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  293. I saw that. I can't recall just what they sealed the hulls with. Dipped wax? Shellac?
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  294. Designed and manufactured correctly quite a few rounds probably. But eventually the spring will soften or break.
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  295. The builders last words were probably "watch this!".
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  296. It kind of looks like the ground force adaptation of the aircraft mg the Luftwaffe had
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  297. Try some Limousin from Dancing Goat Distillery
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  298. There are certain manufactured items that laid the foundation for precision manufacturing. One of course is firearms. Another is clocks and watches once they became a mass produced item. A third surprisingly is wood cased pencils. Pencils are also related to one of the first government sponsored chemical research programs. Early pencil manufacture was centered in England due to a deposit of naturally occuring graphite. The graphite was also used to produce molds for cannon balls. The French, being cut off from a source of graphite started a program to come up with an artificial substitute. See, this was fire arms related
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  299. Sounds like a Red Rider BB gun version of the Sten. I can just imagine Ralphie asking Santa for a scilinced Sten.
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  300. Pvt Ivanovich. You have been selected by our units political officer to carry the glorious PTRS anti tank rifle. Poor Pvt Ivanovich weighes all of 65 kilos.
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  301. Paris 1740 So Francois what iz it you du? I build miniatures for ze cinema. What is ze cinema?
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  302. "Lost in the woodwork" great line 👍
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  303. In terms of movies the .44 magnum and most likely the Smith & Wesson model 29 actually in all likely hood made its film debut in 1967's Point Blank. Carried by Lee Marvin. Of course the best guns in the movies are Angie Dickinson's :)
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  304. Who remembers the Nova episode where they got a Door County. WI blacksmith to make one.
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  305. So a weapon built for the US Navy in the 60s has "intellectual property rights". The IPR should of been held by the Dept of the Navy if anyone. When I was working if I developed something at work for my employer they owned the rights.
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  306. The return of the magazine cut off.
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  307. While l seriously doubt these people are doing anything related to actual firearms production turning metal with cutting fluid just brushed on the material will result in "smoke". Flood coolant is of course the better choice. The lathe shown might not even gave coolant. And "gun drilling" is a whole different ball game than drilling with a twist drill. No pun intended. Needs high pressure coolant to flush the chips out and the hole actually acts as the support to keep the gun drill steady.
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  308. I never knew cowboy boots came with laces and waffle stomper soles. 😖
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  309. This will only be replaced once there's a .50 equivilant phaser available
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  310. One thing all Elbonian firearms have in common is they self field strip after 10 rounds
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  311. Coil feeder, progressive die, heat treat furnace to bring link up to Austenizing temperature (1) and quench. Then into the draw furnace to bring the hardness down to I'm guessing around 50RC or so. I wonder what the alloy is and the quench solution. 1) The temperature at which steel changes from a face centered cubic structure where the alloying element (carbon, chrome, molybdenum (2), vanadium whatever is centered in the faces of of a cube of iron atoms to a body centered structure where the alloying elements are in the center of the cubic structure. If the steel is quenched fast enough the alloying elements will stay inside the cubic structure. Drawing or tempering allows a certain percentage of the alloying elements to migrate back into a face centered grain structure. This gives the steel enough of its ductility back while still maintaining enough of the body centered material to provide toughness and resistance to impact and wear. Heat treating steels and any other metal is at once both a science and a black art depending on the scale it's being done at. A similiar manufacturing process is used to produce stamped rocker arms for engines. Although in that case the heat treatment is likely done in a seperate area. Plus the stamping presses are much larger.
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  312.  @grayhantzell1957  Yah, he might of been an Arizona Ranger but he sure weren't carrying that on his hip. Of course with this he wouldn't even have had to ride to Agua Fria
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  313.  @awmperry  Damn right. The San used to be all over Southern Africa until the Bantu pushed them into the marginal areas. The Bantu were colonizers.
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  314. I suspect the reason the NYPD bought them is because Auto Ordinance wanted twice as much for a Thompson. The NYPD probably has their's sitting in storage some place in a police armory the storage boxes gathering dust. It would be interesting to see just what the price difference vs a Thompson was
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  315. Don't worry, that burnt dry look will return soon.
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  316.  @romgl4513  Wendell Wilke
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  317. This thing so Steampunk.
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  318. Wasn't there German factory still in the process of producing G-43s when GIs came through the doors.
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  319.  @ForgottenWeapons  If you were producing nobody was handing you a rifle or anti tank weapon (can't recall the name). Same with the aircraft industry. All those wonderwaffe aircraft were very successful. At keeping the engineers out of uniform.
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  320. vz-52. The Czech equivilant of M1
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  321. Corporal Stein. Brass ones, great big huge fricking brass ones. Notice he also had parachutists wings
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  322. Shooting video with the Bloke and Chap with the rifle https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=werder+rifle&&view=detail&mid=2526B777C2A91A0389B12526B777C2A91A0389B1&&FORM=VRDGAR I have a hard time understanding why someone would develop a single shot pistol when revolvers had been around for 25+ years. As trick as the Werder is that doesnt make sense to me. The only thing that would have made the action even slicker* is to have just one trigger that would drop the hammer at one stage and then open the breech and eject the shell when pulled farther back. *And the Werder is about as slick as a single action gets
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  323. That depends on if the publisher sees a potential trial market for an audio version. There is software that will render text into speech but an actual narrator is far superior. Some of the best non fiction I have listened to was narrated by the author themselves. Any of Simon Winchester's audio books narrated by him are out standing. As are Rick Atkinson's works on WWII.
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  324.  @ZGryphon  When arguing with flat Earthers I have referenced Winchester's Krakatoa. Specifically the section on the aftermath of the eruption when the shock waves circled the multiple times and were recorded on recording barometers. And the only way it works out is if the Earth is a globe.
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  325. So, we will be seeing blasters in a two gun match. Honestly the only blasters I care about are The Blasters.
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  326. Given that the small number of China Lakes built were basically custom built guns cost wise yes. Even a mass produced version would be expensive. How many rounds of 40mm did the grenadeir carry? How many were carried by the other men in the squad? How much would the weight of the pump action cut into the ammo load vs the M-79?
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  327. I really do like that shirt. I'm curious what make and pattern
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  328. I'd be willing to bet he has a key.
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  329. But if it's a Dodge. Has it got a Hemi? 😁
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  330. Everyone who states the round is ineffectual should volunteer to get shot by one. Oh, no takers I see.
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  331. Makes a nice backip to your speargun when going after Lionfish. 😁
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  332. Looks like something you tap a beer barrel with.
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  333. Now imagine this in .45ACP, or .40S&W, or 10mm or .357. Or one in .44 Automag
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  334. Now we know why you can't find 9mm ammo. Ian was shooting it all.
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  335. No, it's the backup gun to the 76mm recoiless rifle Ian shot a few months back.
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  336. This seems to be just about as slick as the Werder
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  337. Yah, and you need to be Arnold Schwarzenegger to shoulder it. The China Lake pump action grenade launcher would beat it hands down.
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  338.  @Doomsday_Report  Time to failure being inverse of cost I assume.
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  339.  @socksleeve  With modern materials the weight could be reduced somewhat. Polymer receiver, magazine tube and stock. The parts that really need the strength are the bolt and chamber/barrel. But wasn't there also an issue with possible chambering of the high pressure rounds from the crew served weapon. The big problem is probably the weight of the ammunition when the tube is full. What I could not figure out is the whole intellectual property thing. The originals were produced by Marine armourers iirc. Hence any intellectual rights should have belonged to the government. The attempted re-incarnation was being done under contract with the DOD if I recall correctly.
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  340. Rube Goldberg designs a machine gun. Although this looks fairly same next to JMBs Potato Digger
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  341. Judging by the foliage I think this one was in the can for a while.
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  342. Of course the Grmans would have produced this. There aren't enough parts!
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  343.  @donjones4719  There was that actor who killed himself in the 1980s by firing a blank loaded pistol against his head. Also I've heard the term "rubber gun squad" used in relation to police officers that were put on administrative duty to keep them off of the streets. And CGI guns are entirely PC.
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  344.  @donjones4719  There is one thing that any one who is not familiar with firearms in the entertainment industry who us working on a filmor TV production should be for ed to learn is just how dangerous a blank round can be. True there is no bullet involved but there is still an explosion. Plus film and TV production companies have long had prop men who where responsible for any firearms being used.
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  345.  @themeatpopsicle  STP!
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  346. As much as you fly has this caused you any issue with airport security.
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  347. What ever pistol Bond carries it can not spoil the cut of his tuxedo.
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  348. Massively overweight contributing to food shortages.
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  349. And now shooting is Ian with the Tiny Cricket
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  350. The reason the early Martini-Henry .577-450 cartridges look like brass foil is because they are brass foil.
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  351. No ammo shortage there I see.
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  352.  @michelguevara151  Depending on the quality lathes can be had relatively cheap. High quality Tool Room or Instrument Shop. Not so much. But it's not so much the lathe. It's all the tooling.
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  353. An intriguing piece of machinery. But one asks why? It seems overly complex for the job. Just my opinion.
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  354. Just about any bolt action conversion is going to be a kludge to a certain amount. This looks like it would be expensive to mass produce. The bolt action conversion that really looked slick was the Manlicher (sp) straight pull Ian looked at in the Beretta factory collection
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  355. There has long been a decree from the French Ministry of Industry that all French firearms, aircraft, weapons systems and automobiles have to have a certain amount of "weirdness" to them. Hence the LeClerc MBT has a main gun in 120mm Baugette.
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  356. Without the Bugs hopefully
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  357. And here I thought it meant being "a chosen man"
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  358. One reason I could see for the dovetails on top of the receiver is not only for an optical sighting system but to give the individual soldier optics for longer ranged observation purposes.
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  359. Depending on the alloy used in the receivers the heat treating process would involve heating to the Austenizing temperature (1200 to 1400 degrees F depending on the alloy if memory serves and then quenched in either water or oil). This is the temperature at which the steel undergoes a phase change and goes from a face centered cubic structure to a body centered cubic structure. What this means is the alloying elements (the Carbon, Vandium, Chrome or what ever is in the specific alloy) go from being on the faces of a cube made up of 8 iron atoms to being inside the cube of 8 iron atoms. The quenching process drives the temperature down fast enough that the steel is unable to go through the phase change back to the face centered structure. However this process also introduces stress into the structure of the steel. This were the second part of the heat treating process becomes involved. The tempering or drawing back of the steel that reduces its overall hardness but also decreases its brittleness and increases its resistance to shock loads. And this is where I suspect the heat treatment process of the steel in the receivers was flawed. The temperatures involved in the tempering process vary by alloy but often also involve bring the steel to a prescribed temperature and holding it at that temperature for a certain period of time. And then letting the steel cool slowly. Over heating the temper will make the steel too soft for the intended use. And under heating will leave the steel harder and more brittle than the specification call for. Unfortunately the Rockwell Hardness tester was not invented until well after the Springfield '03 production started which would of allowed for spotting the problem early on.
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  360.  @PrototypeSpaceMonkey  And if those are unavailable they substitute diving boards from the Elbonian Olympic Diving team
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  361. New mike's, good whiskey. New mikes, good whiskey. Whiskey, definitely whiskey.
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  362.  @dakkadakka9189  Until that German investor stepped forward BMW would either have been bought out by Mercedes, Rover or AMC. Or gone under. Yah, AMC. Actually at the time AMC was lightyears ahead of BMW and Rover in terms of body technology. Engine technology they were a pretty average US manufacture. AMC at the time was looking for European partner for assembly to break into the European market. Producing cars that were smaller than the average American car IMO they would have been well placed to be a major factor in the European taxi market. The reason that BMW was in such deep trouble was their insistence on being upscale. Such an arrangement would have been beneficial to both parties. BMW would have benefited from production technology. AMC from BMWs engineering expertise. This would have gained BMW an established US dealer network and AMC access to the European market. Remember this was at the time that AMC was developing their aluminum block inline six". They had tested OHC versions of the 196 and would test OHC versions of the later big bore short stroke 199/232. These were rejected for further development for cost reasons. OHC engines may or may not have fewer parts. Plus they may or may not be less expensive to manufacture. "The ultimate failure of the aluminum block engine in the market place had more to do with owner neglect than poor engineering. The engine required the head to be re-torqued every 6 or 8 thousand miles due to thermal expansion issues that nobody really had a handle on at the time. Plus due to the aluminum block it required proper coolant mixes. Typically most owners never read the owner's manual.
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  363. I would think the magazine/ammunition hopper/qizmo latch on the side would be subject to accidental opening
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  364. I can just see this in wet freezing conditions.
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  365. And change the round to French .30 Long
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  366. I wonder if John Moses Browning ever sat down and thought. "What if we extend the magazine and barrel, add a front hand grip. Put a stock on the frame and let the hammer fall automatically"
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  367. What's that mechanical click after each shot.
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  368. And the 1st Sgt carried a bull pup 2 pounder
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  369. Ian would have been SOL in the 1920s in terms of left handed shooting Rube Goldberg is still around to some degree in the Maker community today. Some of the useless contraptions that are made (marble machines come to mind) that still look cool in operation. One place you can see a very large collection of mechanical masterpieces from the late 19th and early 20th centuries is The House on the Rock in Spring Green WI Southwest of Madison. Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen is in the same area.
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  370.  @zxggwrt  And Tattoo to do the grunt work. Plus it's "rich Corinthian leather"
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  371. The only rifle to have a film named after it.
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  372.  @Khan.WrathOf  It's not just the krauts. I had a Renault 18i wagon that you had to take the splash panel off to access just about anything from underneath. Other than that it was comfortable and actually drove really nice.
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  373.  @ZOMBYMARIO  Plus all the parts are made to an insanely tight tolerance. Which doesnt mean they don't work. It means they just cost more to make. An old saying in tool rooms and machine shops is for every decimal place the price goes up*. Especially considering the state of machine tools at the time. In reality it took the British to show the world just how simple a sub-gun could be. *If a feature on the part is specified as 8mm +/- .1mm you can spit them out like popcorn. Especially if there is no milling or shaping involved. Just turning operations. It's what screw machines are really good at. But change that to 8mm +/- .01mm or even +/- .05 mm things get dicier. Tool wear shows its effects that much faster. These were the days of high carbon or maybe high speed steel cutting tools.
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  374.  @Khan.WrathOf  Yah, the French do things their own way. But the few French cars I've been in were very comfortable. Aside from a Dalphine I got a ride in once.
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  375. Look photograph of the US Special Forces Sargent sure makes it look like the FG-42 was being looked at or even being used in weapons familiarization in the 50s or later.
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  376. This and the range video make up for it. Shooting that dual .50BMG would likely take the GDP of a small country. Full mag dump on both guns = a small mountain of brass.
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  377. When saw the title my to first thought was "Pull!".
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  378.  @davidtuttle7556  To be honest all I ever wanted to find under the tree was Ertha Kitt in her scanties singing Santa Baby
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  379. It was also the introduction of the Small Block V-8 that had a great deal to do with it. But sometimes I wonder what would have happened if GM had pursued a DOHC 6
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  380. One practical use. When NASA detects an incoming doomsday asteroid one round from this puppy will do the job. Only they'll need to start building Saturn V's again to get it into orbit
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  381. Mr Bond wants his pistol back. Ian really should have been wearing a tuxedo, smoking a Dunhill, a martini in one hand (shaken not stirred) and a hot sultry blond hanging off of shoulder. RIP Sean.
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  382. It sure ain't no FG-42. A really doubt the Ordinance Board had any idea just wtf they were thinking about. IMO all they would have had to do is have a fairly average infantryman of circa 1954 shoot one of the experimental fully automatic M1s and they would have seen it was a bad idea. From the prone position with a bipod. Maybe not so bad. Sometimes I have the idea that if the stock wasn't Walnut or some other hardwood the Ordinance Board automatically rejected it.
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  383. I wonder if a full stainless case would actually be cheaper. I can see using stainless from the possible corrosion standpoint. But stainless in general is actually weaker than carbon steel. Especially the non magnetic 300 series stainless steels. Recommended torque values for Grade 8 SAE or Grade 12 ISO fasteners is around 60 or 70 % higher than stainless fasteners.
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  384. The Irish probably have the most field use of these given the number of times elements of the Irish Army have been deployed on UN peacekeeping missions.
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  385.  @AhHereWeGo  Doubles as a really lousy Brass Knuckle
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  386. One wonders just how much test firing Spingfield and the army did under "combat" conditions given stories about cases failing to extract. If they didn't because of financial restraints then the death of any cavalry trooper that could be attributed to a non functional carbine* can be laid at their feet along with the US Congress. *let's not get I to the whole pronunciation thing
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  387.  @ElCrab  Yes I understand the issue was mainly with the ammunition. But the rifle and ammunition were part and parcel. There certainly was no issue with the strength of the design. IMO it wasn't the best of the single shot rifles of its era. But it wasn't a complete disaster either. Th ed action was strong enough to have test rifles made up in .30 Krag.
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  388.  @ElCrab  Still the reason not to test the Trapdoor under extreme stress was a fatal mistake. Doing so would have prevented its combat issues with the original ammunition. But given there was practically zero ammunition alloted for range practice.
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  389.  @ElCrab  A tually since drawn brass cartridges hadn't really been worked out I wonder if a composite case similiar to a shotgun shell would have worked. The brass base would have provided the gas seal. The paper based portion could have been varnished or waxed to seal it against moisture.
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  390. Plus if the author was in the Marines just how did he wind up in North Africa. The only Marines could possibly have been in the North African, Italian or European theaters would have been either in the Marine detachment on major warships or some embassy personal if they stationed Marines at embassies then.
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  391. The Czechs, the heroes of the gun design world. Complicated little buggar
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  392. It's not just the manufacturing cost. There's the engineering and development work. It's not just a matter of copying an existing item. Then there is the tooling and ma CV hinerh costs. Company A decides to build and market lets say a semi auto version of the Johnson LMG. And they don't have the machine tools needed to ro the job. And the reproduction will have limited sales. The cost if all of this has to covered somehow. And in any liability insurance. Plus th hey are planning on making a profit. After all. It's a business. Not a charity.
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  393. ​ @JohnHughesChampigny  I can think if two specific areas of shooting sports where a reproduction is useful and probably highly desirable. Cowboy Action events and re-enactments. After all would someone really want to risk damage to his possibly expensive antique firearm.
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  394.  @JohnHughesChampigny  Not really. The re-enactors I'm thinking of are Civil War and earlier.
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  395.  @JohnHughesChampigny  Yes I have seen it. As Ian pointed out with the FG-42 repos SMG iirc put as much work into the magazines as the rifle.
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  396. I never knew Rube Goldberg was Prussian.
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  397. I knew about the rifles but the pistol. I would think the artillery would want a little more fire power than this if enemy infantry or cavalry show up. The only real change the system needs is a second stage to the trigger that would drop the block and eject the spent casing. Fire, squeeze the trigger some more and the spent case ejects. That would be even slicker.
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  398. Que the Jeapordy thyme. Not only because of the time factor but because you are so screwed
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  399. It may come from the fact that a Navy especially in the second half of the 19th century was more in tune with the pace of technological change. Also for a Navy if they had to send Naval or Marine landing parties ashore probably would want the most fire power they could get.
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  400.  @Halinspark  The US Navy following the Civil War was probably the more neglected of the services. The purchasing of new sc hips pretty much stopped. And when the Congress did approve new construction the ships were mostly coastal monitors. Absolutely useless for overseas use. People credit Mahan's book on seapower for shaking the US Navy and Congress out of their collective slumber. I prefer to think it was the Samoa crisis which saw the US and Germany nearly come to blows. The possible conflict was prevented by a hurricane. The one US ship in the region was severely overmatched by the German cruiser.
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  401. For what SMG gets for one of these they better be pretty nice. I can just see somebody using one of these from a tree stand during deer season. Or better yet pike spawning season in Vermont. Yes they shoot fish from tree stands in Vermont. Or used to anyway.
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  402. I'll be honest my first thought was who was Vincent and who was Jules. But then the "bank heist" takes place and it fell into place. It could be worse. The 4 million could be in Gold.
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  403. These were issued to the crewmen of Bob Stemple tanks 😖
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  404. The War Department also spent a lot of money building and tooling a plant at the Rock Island Arsenal to build M-7 Light Tanks. I think International Harvester built around 15 of them before the plug was pulled. By the time the design was finalized the M-7 weighed almost as much as the M-4. Not every effort on the part of US industry was successful. One of the worst cases was the GM P-75 Eagle. All because GM did not want to get involved in building engine nacelles for the B-29. The B-29 was the largest single weapons system program on the part of the US during WWll. Surpassing even the Manhattan Project.
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  405. Nice shirt 🤘🤘
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  406. The sights are offset
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  407. Good stuff. I'm not sure that applies universally anymore today. Certain items they are still top notch. Machine tools for one.
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  408. Sights were always adjustable. A hammer, a file, a screwdriver, er prybar
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  409. I had to check the date on this one The stock on this one I notice is from the now extinct Egyptian hardwood forests that once graced its western region. Sadly the cutting of these forests lead to the deserts of Lybia expanding almost to the Nile Creek 🎶😚😚🎶
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  410. One again Ian accesses his ultra superdooper top secret time machine in the basement (do they have basements in Arizona?) to head to the local gun store to buy 9mm Parabelum in 2019. Of course the magazine is overly complex. 1) its German 2) its originally a Luger design. On would think somebody would of said "Hans, the Army wants some fancy pistol cartridge carbine. Well way don't we take the Carbine model and just make a 20 or 25 round magazine that sticks straight out of the hand grip" "Fritz, where is your pride. That would only have ten or so parts. Your wife would hang her head in shame. She would not be able to go out in public. No, so we must design a device that requires at least 30 parts. Plus it will need a special device just to put in the cartridges."
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  411. 12 years. That is quite fast by Congressional standards. 🙄
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  412. The Pom Pom Maxim might have been useful mounted on the early armored vehicles. As would the 37mm hand cranked
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  413. With enough pellet velocity it would be perfect for geese season vs goose season. Although in my area (SE WI) there used to be (and maybe still is) an unlimited special early goose season. Fourty years ago one never saw a year round goose population. Outside from a couple of golf courses. In fact we would only see geese in spring and fall. Now they are year round and congregating anywhere there's green space. And doing what geese do. At one time Mayor Daldy wanted to sue the cities in SE Wisconsin for the pollution causing Chicago to shut down their beaches. Nope. It was the local geese in Sh!+ago crapping on the beaches.
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  414. As the son of a 'surviving' WWII veteran I haertly approve of any and all arguements amongst German high command that delayed or sidetracked German small arms development and deployment in the period.
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  415. Check out Clicksprings YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA He is building a reproduction of the Antikythera Device using hand tools where ever possible. Even to the point of making his own tools using technology we know the Greeks had. Everything from just what the maker would have needed to use for a marking out fluid to how to cut perfect arcs in the mechanisms plates by hand. This guy does extremely nice work. I suspect if he were a gunsmith his firearms would be absolute jewels http://www.clickspringprojects.com/
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  416.  @taccovert4  Although I really don't think it makes that much difference. One thing I've wondered about is in the early days of cartridge adoption there were issues with cases tearing and manufacturing. Did anyone do an intermediate step of producing rifle ammunition with a metal base to provide chamber sealing and a paper based upper section to hold the powder and projectile?
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  417.  @jic1  My thought too. Plus plastic case shells were probably cheaper to produce. During the period when I did hunt it bridged the gap between paper and plastic. I never remember paper being that much of an issue. But then I haven't been in the field for over 50 years. Plus metal base/paper based shells were composite construction.
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  418. The "Home Defense Edition"
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  419. Just the thing for squirrels. Two states over.
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  420. I know it has probably come up, but the Bloke seems to like his in .308/7.62 NATO
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  421. So they machined the bolt with an interrupted thread like a naval rifle*. Any caliber I want? Fine, I'll have mine in 16"50 :) Now that I think about it I am a little surprised that it hasn't been done before. With modern machining techniques it should be a lot easier
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  422. If I had not heard the part about where the pistol was designed and manufactured I would of guessed Germany or maybe Switzerland. A gun made by a watchmaker.
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  423. Where's Annette?
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  424. What is really needed is Phasers set to stun
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  425. Not all weapons are sharp pointy things, throw things or go bang.
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  426. See, Gene Roddenberry stole the design for the Starship Enterprise!
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  427. When one has access to the worlds only time machine one can buy all the ammunition one wants. Plus you can find mint never fired once they left factory (or dropped in the case of the Trench) rare firearms
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  428. Who'd of guessed. A track vehicle with a neckers knob. "Come Natasha, we will go for ride."
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  429.  @FirstDagger  OK, change the Natasha to Inger. Now I'm starting to think of Sven an Ole jokes.
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  430. 80 shots and it still won't do the spinner.
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  431. I wonder if some of the Israelis involved in the design had experience working as slave labor in German firearm plants.
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  432. So we have the Coastal Artillery Branch and the US Post Office to thank for the survival of two American icons. The .50 BMG and the Thompson
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  433. The JMB trinity, M1911, M2 and Hi-Power
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  434.  @spacecadet35  The Poles and Swedes iirc did alright with it. Not a Bren though.
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  435.  @GunFunZS  The video on InRange when they did a comparision between the Spenser and the Trapdoor was very surprising. Chap on BotR has been doing mad minutes with BP single shots but hasn't got to the Werder yet.
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  436. To prove their point about not being controllable they could have just converted a couple of the Polish semi-automatic rifles they were developing
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  437. I hope the Poles burned any documentation and destroyed any tooling to keep it out of German and soviet hands
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  438. I think they probably had in mind crooks using sawed offs. As if that's going to stop somebody intent on bodily harm.
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  439. Not exactly the brightest way to advertise them. There will always be idiots, but why encourage them in their idiocy.
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  440. There's bronze. And then there's bronze. I suspect Aluminum Bronzes would have held up much better. Also think about the pumps used in waste water plants.
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  441. I hope everyone knows Lego did not come up with the concept. They just executed it extremely well. In terms of sustained quality they are really excellent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddicraft
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  442.  @Afrohare  Having raised children who had Legos I'm well aware of the joke about their being plastic landmines. Having stepped on a few in the dark, barefoot.
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  443. "We gave you a contract to make rifles. Where are they?" "Frist you need the tools to make the parts and then you need the tools to make the tools to check the parts." I really think Hall was a if not the true originator of mass produced items he was one of the first. One of the first mass produced items that I now of was the blocks used for handling lines on ships for the Royal Navy. The RN set-up a factory to mass produce block and tackle in Portsmouth iirc. But in terms of looking at manufacturing as a system to produce items industrially I think Maudsley in the UK gets the nod. One more item. The first standard screw sizes in the US originated in the Civil War. Machine tool manufacturers used to be notorious for using their own thread size and pitch combinations. Brown and Sharpe was one of them. It's called "buy our parts".
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  444. But aesthetics don't mean anything in its intended use. The only thing that matters is does it work and how many can we make. In that vein the Sten is is one of the most successful SMGs of the era.
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  445.  @ianmedford4855  When you have been around as long as they have you had better be good at what you do. Can you imagine if they built cars instead of FIAT or Alfa Romeo.
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  446.  @alangordon3283  Communist nations have built some very beautiful machines. Primarily in the aviation and marine worlds. Not because they sought an aesthetic but because of aer and hydrodynamics. As to the subject of this video. I'm surprised fashionable mafioso's never took up the Beretta just for looks.
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  447. Sally Struthers needs a new gig. I always found her pleading for starving children slightly funny. If she would just step away from the buffet* table *Big Ugly Fat F$%@÷=s Eating Together
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