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

  1.  @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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  2. 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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  3. Ian actually has four of these. He uses them as the turn signals on his daily driver
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  4.  @davidtuttle7556  Damn, I don't think a quad .50 is going to fit under the tree.
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  5.  @ScottKenny1978  Lower the floor or raise the ceiling. Or both
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  6. 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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  7. Better than a really high cyclic rate of fire that gets the muzzle pointing at the sky.
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  8.  @SuperAWaC  With .01KT nuclear warheads.
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  9. 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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  10. Round 5 hits Mars
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  11. 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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  12.  @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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  13. 17th century kraut space magic
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  14. @buffbeezer Well, it is a desert. The mana ammo from heaven
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  15. Zer uze ist a var crime! Er, Hans, what about the mustard gas?
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  16. Korean and Japanese industrial firms tend to be very diverse in what they build.
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. So was I. Specifically I was thinking of his busting the M1 myths.
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  20. 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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  21.  @modarkthemauler  Well the 120mm in the M1A1 uses semi combustible cases ammunition
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  22.  @johannesmichaelalhaugthoma4215  I've seen that. I think Ian had video with it. Insane rate of fire
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  23.  @samoldfield5220  The quad 50 or the quad 20mm would be very effective in forcing enemy infantry to ground.
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  24.  @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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27.  @jeffkearney2488  Only if you have a lawyer throwing
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  28. Rolling Block or Martini-Henry? Herr Werder enters the room.
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  29. ​ @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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  30. Surplus ones were solid to the Galactic Emporer Marvin Martian for firing the Q-35 Space Modulator rounds. "Oh my"
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  31. 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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  32. This just screams, "get off of my lawn!".
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  33. 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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  34. The exception to the rule in reproduction firearms is the Italian stuff
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  35. 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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  36. In the Russian version of Dr Strangelove Major Kongski rides the H-Bomb waving uis shashka.
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  37.  @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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  38.  @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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. Can one get loads for trap and skeet
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  43. Should have had all tracers.
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  44. When I think of films set in Shanghai pre WWII The White Countess comes to mind
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  45. Yes, but in one of the Nitro Express cartridges
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  46. 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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  47. That would have driven the Toy Safety Gestapo nuts
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  48. And this was the simple design
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  49. 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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  50. 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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