Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. What is the most fascinating is that the Finns manage to turn them into actually really good guns....
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  2. The thing just is that the BREN 805 is an AR at it's core. And it had problems other AR derivatives had solved long since. But the anecdote about not wanting a telescoping stock but then wanting a telescoping stock probably says the most about it's development: too much brass wanting to have a say in things they were no longer qualified to speak up about due to too much time behind a desk and not enough time in the mud, fog, mountains, rivers, ditches and forests...
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  3.  @rustys.1070  I can make a laundry list of combat rifles I'd ditch for an M14. Granted, I can also make a laundry list of combat rifles I'd rather have. But all things considered, a well maintained M14 is a perfectly serviceable rifle at normal engagement distances.
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  4. 50 Cal bolt action. 10x optics. Mouse fart trigger pull. "... A detachment of snipers during operation Storm". Yes. Yes that does sound terrifying. All kinds of terrifying. A whole lot of things, that your instincts tell you constitute cover, do in fact not constitute cover when there is a precise twitchy shoulder cannon pointed at you.
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  5. And in both cases we substitute "sticky fingering" with "finding" because we like that it actually happened.
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  6.  @stuartburton1167  One a minute doesn't sound far fetched if the assembly has enough steps and each step is fully jigged. 5.5 man hours per gun 330 steps of one minute each.
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  7. Introducing the Zastava M93 Black Arrow: For when you absolutely positively need a T-Rex scattered three counties over!
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  8.  @sandorbence2067  Weirding out at overly-specifics of a gun modification, the hot digital technology of the day and an obsession with boobs and thighs doesn't sound like an AI at all. It does, however, sound exactly like every nerd owning a PS3 at the time.
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  9. Yes, it solved the problem of bounce-back that the MG34/42 never got right.
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  10. Strangely enough that was the saying of the famous Danish jewellery thief Carl August Lorentzen. He wrote it over the entrance to his 18 meter long tunnel out of prison, that he escaped through on Christmas eve 1949.
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  11.  @Florkl  It has happened plenty of times that the industry heavies finally come to their senses and make a royalty free industry standard, and everyone else just switches. We don't have all the details of this yet, but a 12 months exclusive with Glock does sound like Aimpoint has decided they want to do the right thing, but the biggest manufacturer they could partner with wanted a pound of flesh in return.
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  12.  @bbb462cid  I absolutely agree. A rifle will never ever be better than it's ammo. Throwing lathe made projectiles and pico-gram measured powder at a wallowed out bore can, at best, take a bad group with random outliers into a bad group with fewer outliers. But on the other hand a super tight rifle suffers as much as a decent one from ammo where the projectiles dance Moringa more than they spin and the recoil varies between sturdy push and donkey kick between each shot.
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  13.  @benjenkinson1470  Trust me the US Navy is looking into that... Being able to fire shells from a ship without the massive booms and muzzle flashes would be totally their thing...
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  14. I don't want to even guess at the price. Norwegian salaries are good by any standard, so even if the gunsmith is willing to "eat" all the RnD hours that went into his personal copy, and build subsequent copies for just material and labour cost, something as nice as this is going to be.... ugh....
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  15. It still is a funny folding slide despite knowing the proper nomenclature! :P
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  16. "Ulfberht" not "Ulfberth".
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  17. This book is funny as fuck! I'm not gun nerdy enough to feel like buying either of the first two, but this one looks to be a fun conversational piece that you could even show to people who don't care about guns. The funny markings on the guns and the portrayal of the different warlords makes it more of an entertaining history book than a gun reference.
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  18. It's the eternal argument of logistics vs perfection. Yes, a custom cartridge specifically designed for a PDW would be ideal, but on the other hand, the personel handed a PDW are the ones who are expected to only use it if the shit has hit the fan. So the logistics guys go "Ain't no way we are having one more item to keep track of".... Which is a little bit silly, as the people with PDWs are very very rarely going to need resupply. Odds are very good that the 3 mags they have will last until the conflict is over... or until they're in a body bag.
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  19.  @Tony-om5kr  Percussive maintenance is any kind of "maintenance" which requires hitting the damn thing. Some times with a flat hand. Sometimes with a fist. Sometimes with a hammer, your helmet, the butt stock of your rifle, an empty shell casing, or, if things are dire, the head of a dead fellow/enemy. AKA: "The use of excessive force has resolved the issue" :P
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  20. Long eye relief scopes make a ton of sense for armies that rely on "fewer in number but better trained". I routinely shot 198 out of 200 at 300m (longest range we practiced) with my G3 when I was in the army. And it was clear that the rifle had more to give, but the iron sights did not. We went to a Canadian made M16 clone after that, which had a 2x optics. That thing did not improve my accuracy, but it was in the way like hell when on the reaction range. A much narrower forward mounted optic would have been ideal for that. Better field of view where you just pre-aim over the top of the optics, look down, fine adjust if needed, shoot!
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  21. Excellent reminder on how the internet works! :P
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  22. Two years later and this joke is still bad enough to be actually funny. But I am obliged by internet rules to ask you: "Will you see yourself out?" :P
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  23.  @nicolaiby1846  No it makes perfect sense when you've had 10 beers. Even Norwegians speak perfect Danish when they're drunk! It's a little harder for the Swedes. They have to near dead from alcohol poisoning to speak proper Danish. If they're just normal 45-degrees-off-axis-drunk it still sounds like they're mixing German and Danish for some reason...
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  24.  @AshleyPomeroy  The Germans have stopped using serialized screws. Instead each screw is made from it's own unique composition of additives in the alloy. This is because serial numbers can be tampered with, which can cause messy paperwork somewhere for someone. And Germans do not like messy paperwork. Paperwork, in and of it self, is very important. But it can't be messy. That would be un-German.
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  25.  @kevintran7208  Loctite (with the correct heat rating) is a perfectly viable solution for civilian owners working on a clean bench at roughly room temperature. But an armorer working out of an M113 in freezing conditions needs another solution.
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  26.  @MrWhatdoyouthinkof  Having manned a Browning M2 in my army days... I've had my fill... for ever..
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  27.  @therideneverends1697  Uh, controlled substances and the Danish army don't mix. At all. It was a judgement call by the security officer. He asked if he should knock someone else out who wasn't home for the weekend, or if we were cool with him just stepping in (security officer is normally only on call) and we'd share 4 people's work among 3. We were, at the time, in DEFCON nothing-at-all, there was no live ammo (other than small arms ammo) on the base itself, and almost everyone was home for the weekend. Nobody out on exercise, etc. So we figured that would just mean 3 hours less sleep for each of us per night, but otherwise be a boring ass weekend guard duty. Being good sports we didn't wanna call in someone on base who might have planned a Friday and/or Saturday bender/booty-call planned. Seemed like a fine plan.... Until a fist fight broke out early in Saturday morning because some conscripts couldn't hold their liquor when they returned from town. Righty, one man short, one at the gate, one on the timed patrol so I had to get out of bed again before getting any sleep, throw some weight around, lock one up, get the other to the infirmary, spend quite some time calming the non-combatant-but-close-to-becoming-combatant-friends of the involved, take reports, and ah.. my time to do the patrol. So my buddy got to sleep a little while the security officer did paperwork... Now would you believe me if I told you that THE EXACT SAME THING happened early Sunday morning? Yup. This time my buddy insisted that I got his sleeping slot (all of two hours) because I "got hit twice". So at 10AM on Sunday I got up, feeling about as fresh as raw sewage, and did my 1.5 hours patrol round, thinking that I just had to hang in there until noon when we would be relieved, while drinking some 700mils of absurdly strong coffee while I walked. Walking in the ice cold light drip, while drinking bean based tar, did wake me up. Or so I thought. At 9:43, according to the security log, I was taught differently.
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  28. Very rare due to small number ever purchased. Very interesting back story. All matching serial numbers. Nothing short of perfect condition. Complete accessory kit, also mint... Where's the fireplace?!?... Oh THERE it is! This guy is the Hugh Hefner of model guns!
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  29.  @casuallatecomer7597  Elephants, blue whales, 1911 owners' mothers, etc...
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  30. "I want my AK bling.. but not so bling that people say it's bling... you dig?"
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  31. If Aimpoint does the right thing, and release the exact specs to the public, then we will effectively have a universal standard. The problem will arise if they try to make it some licensed shit. But by the sound of it, a 12 month exclusive period with Glock was the price they had to pay to get a major manufacturer on board form the onset.
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  32. "This bad boy can brew 6 cups of coffee per Japanese platoon we come across... if the weather isn't too cold. If that's the case Private Spade will just have to spot more enemies instead of drinking coffee..."
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  33.  @jameswarner8038  It is not a "foreign accent" when you're speaking a foreign language. He just speaks Spanish the best he can. His French and Finnish is also really good. His Danish... not so much. But at least he tries, and we forgive anyone trying and failing because Danish is next to impossible.
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  34. They spent about 5 seconds checking out who this "Ian McCollum" guy is and someone said to management: "We're not going to get a chance THIS good ever again. If we want to appeal to firearms museums and collectors we need to move on it right now." And this is where the difference between a good company and a bad company shows up.. in the bad company the reply would have been: "We haven't budgeted for that this fiscal year, so we're not doing it (because that might cut into my personal bonus)".
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  35.  @BadgerUKvideo  An excellent movie. Fantastic acting by Caine and a high degree of realism on what it would look like if someone who once was the top dog, but knows he isn't any more, would go rogue.
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  36. My lower back, my ear drums and my cavity fillings also hurt just looking at it. But I'm sure the reaction of those those at the business end makes it worth the pain.
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  37. Someone further up the comments (who's apparently Chinese) said the literal translation of the slang name for it is "long bore box cannon". I think that fits perfectly! :P
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  38. Chinesium is what old PC cases were made of: an alloy that exhibits every undesirable property all at once. It's heavy, it bends if you sneeze on it, it breaks from metal fatigue the third time you bend it back, it galls if you rub hard plastic against it, all while being slightly magnetized so if you try sawing or filing it the chips clump up, sticks to your tools and won't vacate the area you're working on. As an ardent PC modder back in the day I am all too familiar with this abomination of an alloy that due to it's unholy bastardized composition manages to insult every element in the periodic table with a straight face.
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  39. This could have been built over two iterations. That is, the first iteration saw the bipod and windage adjustable sight, which would already make it a layman's DMR rifle, and then later the Valmet top cover was mounted to upgrade it to a scope solution, which just happened to invalidate the sights of "version 1.0".
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  40. While I like videos on the high profile classics, videos like this one where an interesting string of facts lead to a truly forgotten weapon are also very much appreciated!
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  41.  @Melody_Raventress  Indeed. The sea is an indiscriminate killer of anyone who does not have it as it's natural habitat. In Denmark (which has an awful lot of coast line per land area) we have no less than two sayings about this among sailors and fishermen: "Only a fool does not fear the ocean" and "The ocean is a cruel mistress. If you lose respect for her she will stab you while looking in your eyes".
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  42. "Certificate of Authenticity by Ian McCollum" = A one page laminated sheet, with the front page containing closeup photos of relevant bits, short explanation as to why that defines what and how, and date/signature of Ian. Back side contains a brief historical overview that puts the gun in its rightful context. 10/10 would pay extra for at any gun auction.
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  43. And let's not forget that the SMG to rule all SMGs, the MP5, is not a simple blowback gun. The guys who worked on this one clearly knew what they were doing. I imagine the recoil impulse on these wouldn't be too far off the sensation the roller delayed system provides. And even as an undying MP5 and G3 fan I must admit that this system looks more gunk resistent.
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  44.  @TeletubbiesRcute  Obviously not. But it is still more complicated than a one-piece bolt and a spring, as is what is needed for simple blowback.
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  45. I can't afford these books, but I think it's really freaking cool that Ian-and-publishing-crew are doing such a great job of publicising niche publications and making sure they don't look like a niche publication at all. I have a number of very-specific-interest books myself, and it really shows. Some are simply photocopies of typewriter text and not-too-great hand drawings. These high gloss pages with glorious photos, razor sharp print and attention to decorative details really lift a niche topic into the lime light, giving it every chance to become a more broadly appreciated topic. That Ian will accept nothing less than the highest standards of historical accuracy (and admittance when the past is so murky that details will be partly educated guesses) is of cause the most important thing. But it's really rare to have both in the same work.
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  46. Oh... so "fairly sizable".
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  47. When fired from the hip, yes. It's easier to keep it forced down like that. Heck, it's easier to keep rifles with no front grip down if you fire from the hip too.
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  48. Ordinance Department: "I need a heavy uggadugga that will absolutely positively make sure that the guy, his Jeep, the trees and buildings a hundred yards behind him, and any size boulder that might obstruct my line of sight are all turned in to unidentifiable split-splat or rubble in five seconds flat. And I need it to operate for a hundred years straight with only basic maintenance. And it has to be cheap. And I want it to come with a ton of mounting and configuration options." Browning: "Say no more. I gotchy fam."
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  49.  @Hybris51129  Exactly. The sword will inspire you to make the wrong choice at the personal level (the experienced swordsmen that are charging you are going to slice you like peperoni in short order) but the right choice at the army level: buy time, however short, for applicable maneuvering to counter the breakthrough.
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  50.  @simoncleret  You can just nix the "French" part of your statement and you'll have the situation in every country at several occasions in the past, present and future.
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