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

  1.  @bravo_cj  But, and I say this as someone who loves the G3 because I served with it, the roller delayed systems are REALLY picky about cleanliness. Get any amount of sand in there and you have a bolt action rifle with a charming crunchy sound effect going on.
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  2.  @chosentwice1839  The MP5 is still relevant to this day with a lot of elite forces. It's a gun where you pay a lot extra for not much more than what the competition (and H&K themselves with the UMP) offers for a fraction of the price.... But in elite forces the name of the game is to have every advantage, almost no matter how small, you can get in every scenario because the sum stacks up to a tangible higher success rate. But for a civilian wanting a PPC, you're right. There it only makes sense for people who think the term "having a budget" is synonymous with "poor people... probably upper middle class or worse!". Hell, even for high end security forces a UMP or Evo 3 is probably the most sane choice.
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  3. With shells as heavy as a 150mm you lower the gun, place the shell on the ramp, ram it, shove in the propellant, close the breech and insert the primer, elevate the gun and go boom. The M109 can also elevate to heights where the loading ramp can't be extended, which also means you can't get the hydraulic rammer behind the shell, so the only viable option is to lower the barrel between shots.
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  4. LOL. It's so clear that an Icelander told Ian how to pronounce Otterup in Danish :P Also: "20. Kreds" directly translate to "20th Circuit" which in English would probably have been called "20th Chapter" of the DDSG & I.
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  5. Watch the ejection pattern. Some cases leave rather lazily while others are express yeeted to the moon. And it lines up perfectly with subsequent bolt travel.
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  6. That "Krink" he showed off not too long ago, where the magazine was under the chamber, so the bolt had to pull a cartridge backwards first, was also pretty dope. It looked like a mini AK, with one chromosome too many, until he opened it and everything made sense.
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  7. ... And names the new country Elbonia!
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  8. Obviously. And to keep spying eyes away from their cutting edge classified sniper program you waste a lot of the budget on making an under ground 500m shooting range to make sure they don't even know what wind is. Then someone realizes this mistake and you spend more money on installing fixed-step blowers that can only blow perfectly perpendicular to the shooting direction. And now, to make ends meet in the budget, the snipers spend more time in the classroom than on the shooting range. With enough theory and paper tests they only need to shoot about 10 shoots a month during their 3 month hyper modern training course.
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  9. Our new overlords are going to be shot with each and every specimen he owns before he lets that happen :P
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  10. Oh my god! A French rifle that had escaped Ian! Looks like a perfectly good and reliable little squirrel hunter to me! :P
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  11. I found it. It's not Swizz but German and is called the Korth PRS Automatic Pistol... and it actually IS a 1911 lower.
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  12. If my DIY skills were that good I'd be very happy...
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  13. I think he had to film at a location with significant echo.... Or just no loud speaking at the Sako factory...
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  14.  @JerryEricsson  A) "If you pay in peanuts only monkeys will sign", and B) If you do onsite training with no requirements you need to take both of those statements equally serious. And since you brought up the subject of blatant child abuse: You blame the schools and "today's workers", and call that common sense, because your dad blamed you for his own inability to raise children. When you teach someone YOU have the responsibility to verify that they have understood everything. YOU have the responsibility to develop a teaching style that is suitable for the target audience. YOU have the responsibility to foster a good learning environment. And observe that this comes from a professional soldier who've taught thousands of classes to both professionals and conscripts. And trust me when I say that most conscripts don't exactly reek of motivation.
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  15.  @XIII1987  Congratulations good Sir. You win the Internet WOOOOSHHHH Moment Award of 2021. A win so clear and decisive that we're still waiting for the runnerups to cross the finish line. Well done Sir! :P
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  16. For 7.62 Tokarev I'd assume it would hide the flash very well. For 9mm the holes looked a bit on the small side. But the point of having a flash hider on an SMG is mostly for rapid aiming, as everyone within the guns effective range will instantly know where the shooter is anyway.
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  17. Pvt Snuffy is the best beta tester of firearms on the planet. If it has an issue he WILL find it.
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  18. Uhm... if Ian is doing an extra chapter for the 2nd edition of his book... you should send him pictures of the arrangement and serial number. Perhaps he can sniff up enough to make a serial number table with "most likely configuration" data for us gun nerds to get nerdy over :P
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  19. Stay strong brother, and LISTEN to those with combat experience. Don't try to prove yourself. A brave soldier full of holes is useless, but a cautious soldier without holes can fight again tomorrow.
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  20. Thanks for the info. And Ian is fluent in French, so he probably understands Frenglish too :P (As a Dane: You're perfectly understandable!).
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  21.  @richard8808  That in it self is valuable to some people. Getting a "bug fixed" version of something existing appeals to practically minded people who need day to day reliability and price effectiveness. Obviously snobby enthusiasts will always harp on about "the original" and stuff like that, but at the end of the day if the "knock off" is objectively better in the metrics you care about insisting on having the original is an exercise in mental masturbation more than it is a pragmatic decision.
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  22.  @gingergorilla695  It's easier, safer and more rational to solve that kind of problem by acquiring extended distance in short order. And then let the five o deal with it.
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  23. I don't think there's a currently active government who hasn't done that at least a few times...
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  24. Everything that needs practical verification sounds like a job for Henry over at 9-Hole Reviews :P He is by far my favourite Chinese rooftop Korean! :P
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  25. Every pistol either mostly or fully suck in the exact same way. A Glock 17 doesn't change the picture all that much. Unless you do serious range time your odds of hitting a moving target, under duress, at 15 yards are slim to none.
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  26.  @kittehgo  He did, gingerly, say "Where the nationalist party set up their own state" :P
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  27. Well it did. But this is the first gun I've seen where "firing it resolved the issue". Normally if you have gunk in a gun and you force it to chamber you get exactly one shot, a failure to feed, and gunk in places even harder to get at without a field strip.
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  28. Ian has forgotten more about firearms than I'll ever learn...
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  29. It always helps immensely when the interviewer is deeply knowledgable on the topic and also understands that an interviewer should facilitate rather than force the topic. There was never any doubt Ian was the former, but being his chill self it would turn out that the latter came naturally to him as well....
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  30.  @causewaykayak  Health and safety working practices tends to go out the windows when feeding the family is on the line. If they got more international coverage the price would go up and soon after shop equipment would too.
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  31. Especially not when you can buy an exact copy for $375. But collectors items are collectors items.
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  32. The prices reflect how many people feel like you. As a Dane the 1911 has no cultural connotations to me so all I see is a big heavy tilting barrel hand canon with limited ammo capacity. That said it is still roughly the mental image I get when someone says "a pistol" without specifying any further, so I guess it's omnipresence in films from my youth cannot be argued against.
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  33. Ian did such a phenomenal job documenting French battle rifle history that the French anti terror unit invited Ian to put his gropy little mitts on everything he wanted in their gun vault..... so yeah, if he doesn't admit it himself he knows full well that his audience WILL :P
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  34.  @worlds3061  He said "among"...
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  35.  @alphacentauri1760  If by high end you mean "will handle going from 20k feet altitude to 20 feet under water" then you need 0 high end sets. The tacticool toy soldier heart may be pounding in your chest at the tought of that capability, but you don't NEED it. You want it. It's cool. It's nice. It's awesome. But it won't give you any tangible benefit in any situation you're ever going to encounter.... I have several electric guitars that fall in this category. I am, after three decades of playing reasonably regularly, still nowhere near good enough to wring out what they have to offer. The difference is just that I'm honest about it.
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  36. I don't usually lol when my fillings are ratling out, but hey, each to their own! :P
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  37.  @That_NJ_guy  If you don't want to buff it: a good quality leather oil, or at the very least saddle soap. Personally I prefer both. If you want to buff it you need a leather grease with carnauba wax or similar. If you oil leather it will be neigh on impossible to ever buff it again.
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  38.  @jackhacker5738  You're factually correct, but the big brass feed block just makes this visually more in line with how classic steam punk is usually portrayed.
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  39. Interviewer: How many modern guns were inspired by Browning's designs? Ian McCollum: Yes.
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  40. If it had been that simple they'd probably have done that. Availability, lead times, budget and deadlines tend to get in the way of logical approaches.
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  41. Yup. It doesn't get more bad ass and knowledgeable at the same time than that... plain and simple..
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  42. AMEN BROTHER! :P Also, I'm stealing "besmirch" without any feelings of guilt what so ever!
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  43. A sniper rifle in it's day. A designated marksman rifle today. Not that anyone who had their brains splattered over the ruins of Stalingrad would ever care for such a distinction.
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  44. Henry-the-gun-whisperer is going to conclude that with a little bit of care, love and clairvoyance this gun IS in fact a 1.3 minute of angle gun despite no-one else being able to reproduce the result :P
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  45. The only thing wrong with brass is the weight. It looks cool, it machines gorgeously, it is very corrosion resistant and it spit shines to a mirror finish with very little effort. If it had been the weight of aluminium the entire world would be made out of it.
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  46. This may look like crap, but the base is still a Mauser. It would not hold up to the definition of a sniper today, as those routinely push head-shots out to 1000m and beyond. But when this was in it's heyday the requirement could've been closer to "consistent torso shot at 800m and consistent head-shot at 500m" which, despite the crude looking effort, the rifle can absolutely produce if the barrel isn't worn to smithereens. The Spanish economy wasn't exactly stellar at the time, so if the procurement branch went with "if it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid!" I can certainly get behind that. I've handled a lot of military equipment that looked like dog shit in moonshine in the Danish army in the 90s too. But it worked the way it was supposed to. And that's what matters in an army. In my book military decisions can never reflect badly on the factories/arsenals who manufacture for them. The army never goes "Make this really appealing to gun nerds with deep pockets! Caress every little detail with the greatest care" Channel your inner artisan and let the firearm spirits guide you!". They go just "Must do X, Y and Z. The cheapest gun that fulfils those requirements gets the contract. And if you can make it unappealing to steal it that's actually considered a bonus.".
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  47.  @E5rael  Only if you insist on always having the latest and greatest. I have a 5700XT and a 1440p monitor, so I can run everything just fine. I run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1200p with mostly everything set to High or Ultra and get 75FPS which is perfectly adequate to enjoy the game.
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  48. I didn't get a good look down the hand guard from the barrel end, but it looks like you can get "rags on a stick" down there, and you can get strips of rags though the M-Lock holes.
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  49. Given his recent fascination with Finnish firearms... I'm worried he might just casually start speaking fluent Finnish one day...
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  50. The current M4 (M3E3 in US designation) Carl Gustav 84mm is shorter, lighter, way more powerful, has even less recoil, and a truly huge plethora of ammunition. It is also in current use in some 50 armies, so I'm not really sure what you mean by "brought back"?
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