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

  1. Nice! Thanks for sharing! :D That's a story you're going to break out to your grandson the first time he displays an interest in guns! :P
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  2. Just out of curiosity, as I only know the US gun market as Ian presents it to me, what would it ballpark cost, all stamps and fees included, to own a new C9 in 9mm and a box of ammo, big enough to load the magazine after a few practice shots (so maybe 20rds or whatever size they come in).
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  3.  @BackwardsPancake  Strictly speaking they only need to make the "fire control computer" the regulated part. They don't track metal tubes and whatnot from which you could fashion a firearm with only hand tools, skill and patience.
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  4. They originally had about 1000 receivers, and they're hellbent on getting as much appeal and as much extra-stuff-you-can-buy to go along with those. Because once the last one has been sold it's lights out for the business. If I lived in the US (and had the dole) I would 100% buy one receiver and every single configuration kit they have. That gives you 5 "different" weapons in a slew of different configurations (drum vs stick, different stocks, 9mm vs 7.62, light vs heavy bolt, different barrel options, etc) all on one receiver. So you can have a lot of "different" guns, but only one at any given time.
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  5.  @spacewater7  The "test cartridges" you get preinstalled on printers contain about 15% as much ink/toner as a real one. But people who don't realise that think "uh, a new set of cartridges is more expensive than a new printer... so I'll just buy a whole new printer!" but you're losing A LOT of money over time that way. A full set of toners for my laser printer is about two times the price of the printer. But each color is 3000 pages and black is 5000 pages compared to the 400 and 600 pages, respectively, I got with it from factory. It doesn't take a PhD in math to calculate that buying a new printer is a stupid idea, even when factoring in that the printer needs the drum replaced every 50k pages, and a drum is about the price of a black cartridge.
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  6.  @StefanGotteswinter  Quality advice right there. I didn't... and the first time I used it I realized why the extra money was a good investment.
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  7. The heavy weight is a good thing for marksman purposes. It sucks from a tactical standpoint, but that's only a problem for people who're actually at war. The rest of us just hump it in the car and go to the range and enjoy being able to fire 500 rounds in a practice session and still have a functional shoulder the day after :P Also, a 4x scope for 1.5-2 minute of angle is, imho, plenty for everyone who isn't an army trained sniper. Sure, at every gun range you'll find the chubby guy in the cammo pants, who never did service, insisting that mounting the Hubble Telescope on a battered surplus rifle is the right thing to do... but... we try not to laugh :P
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  8. With HE projectiles the plate may very well not get pierced. But that helps fck-all if you land 200 meters behind the contact line as a bag of soup.
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  9. I'm not saying the French police doesn't need "some internal culture adjustment"... but I simply can't wrap my head around the concept of having "riot" and "innocent bystander" in the same sentence. If I was somewhere and a riot started I would be moving away from the riot, at a brisk pace, right away. People just standing by the side of the road, munching popcorn, while watching hooded perpetrators throw cobblestones at the police, really need to develop a sense of something they clearly don't have....
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  10. The cool part is that once you have the receiver you can buy all their parts kits and have all their guns. But only one gun at the time though. And looking at their kit prices they know that. They charge the premium for the receiver, whereas all the extra paraphernalia is relatively cheap. It's a shame that they only have a fixed number of receivers. After the last one is sold its... over...
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  11.  @kanrakucheese  For maritime people "the lay of this line" comes across crystal clear even today. How you "do up" a rope (called a line in maritime lingo) is called it's lay. A box lay, an 8 lay, etc. So considering this is 70 year old text the meaning is perfectly fine despite the tone being a bit overly formal.
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  12. Nah, same here. I fundamentally don't like guns (two tours on Balkan tend to give you that idea) but I like the mechanical and historical aspects and Ian always delivers like a boss on those two.
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  13.  @Corrosion37  How about you stay out of how other people speak, and in return I'll stay out of you not starting a sentence with a capital, proceed with meme language, and not ending with a period.
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  14.  @peekaboopeekaboo1165  But Taiwan was defended by the nationalists, and the communists have (thankfully) not been able to do anything about it. Just face it man: The communists won the civil war on the main land but lost it on the islands. And the more the communists refuses to play by the internationally established rules of mutual respect, the greater the chance that everyone else is just going to go "We recognize ROC's claim to the mainland, as we do not recognize communism as a valid form of government."
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  15.  @victorarnaud304  Since the GIGN is a police(-ish) division and not a military division they were obviously under different budgets. And by the time the GIGN became the president's personal security you can probably guess how easy it must have been to let a remark slide in the right place at the right time.
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  16. Having seen Ian's gun vault... nope... If it's French and he wants it, he has it.
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  17. @Phoenix-x5e EVERYONE will pick an MP5. People have differing opinion on how well the roller delayed system works for 7.62 and 5.56, but everyone agrees that for 9mm it is just the most butter smooth and easily controllable system ever invented.
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  18. If you have any questions about what the Soviet "Union" was like for the "member" states that weren't Russia just remember that Estonia's answer to "What is the most fundamentally important aspect of a service rifle?" was "That it's in a NATO caliber!". Everything else can, with reasonable accuracy, be derived from that.
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  19. Yup. If this hadn't been required to be an upgrade kit, it could have been a really nice bulbup rifle. Getting rid of the 3 round burst ratchet would probably have been a good idea at the same time, as it would have allowed the magazine to sit even further back.
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  20. Having Gun Jesus say "There's exactly nothing wrong with it. I just don't need what it does" is a whole lot better than a ton of expensive marketing. Being pretty confidant that they would get that verdict, however, tells me they did their homework. They may want to address the deflector issue though, as they're the only game in town for people with nerve damage or missing fingers. Some of those are bound to be left handed either by nature or by circumstances...
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  21. Only touchy for Russians, the Chinese and the seven North Koreans who know about it.
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  22. He pretty much said "Don't be a LARPer, guys..." in much nicer words. The only problem is that he's preaching to the choir. The folks he phrased this to reach are unreachable.
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  23. If we're at point blank range I'd take the MAC.
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  24. It's kinda funny. One little knick on a gun looks awful. Fifteen makes it looks like it would barely function. 10,000 makes it look trusty and venerable.
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  25.  @PipoZePoulp  Gunnilations 7:62?
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  26.  @legallyfree2955  What? You have no need for a filament noodle the size of a football?!?
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  27. We haven't had iron sight made out of iron for a long long time. Iron is soft and rusts incredibly easy, so people switched to steel pretty quick :P
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  28. The magazine capability is a "situation has gone FUBAR" feature in the SAW role... But it would be nice if it actually worked, because that's precisely when you need reliability the most.
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  29.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  Cannons of this size don't use "cartridges" like that. You load the grenade and the propellant separately. For reference a 155mm standard HE grenade weighs 47kg/104lbs alone and the maximum charge is some 1.5x longer than the grenade. Imagine how heavy and unwieldy that would be if you also added gigantic brass casing. The whole thing would be as tall as a short soldier.
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  30. For what they are they aren't actually that expensive. The problem is just... what they are. Expected barrel life: 300,000 rounds of .375 Magnum. And that's without the modern advancement of PTFE oils... These guns are every kind of no compromise overkill. My favourite kind of overkill. Also the kind of overkill I can't afford. But still...
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  31. "Austrian ring trigger manually operated pistols" is not a mouth full at all... But it is the gun nerds equivalent of "talk dirty to me"! :P
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  32. I actually heard it as distinct from Taiwan. Maybe Ian doesn't know how to correctly pronounce Taiyuan, but it didn't sound like Taiwan ("Thaiwon") to me.
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  33. All weapons go through New -> Dated -> Old Useless Junk -> Historically Interesting -> Hot Collectors Item..... It's the Old Useless Junk phase that is the bane of quite many things. But that is also the phase that eventually get the remaining examples so rare that collectors keep the remaining items as original as possible.
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  34.  @jten1116  It is very likely that they, or at least the men of the highest ranking in the area, went on raids themselves. It's a misconception that people were either raiders or victims. The law at the time was pretty much "It's only yours if you can defend it". And alcohol distillation wasn't common until some 300 years later, so they would have been drinking mead and ale like everyone else. It's not until the Russian occupation that Finland developed a vodka culture (which is a perfectly valid reaction to Russian occupation if you ask me). Yes, I'm fun at parties :P
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  35. As he said it could pretty much be any kind of metal. "Butt plate is butt plate!" meme here :P
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  36. Probably started by someone at Singer's PR department. Singer's sewing machines where the original "Apple products". People would accept nothing less unless they were absolutely broke and couldn't even afford a mistreated second hand one.
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  37. I have shot well in excess of 10k rounds through the 7.62 version of this mechanism.. And my G3 was "very well broken in" when I had it issued. If your example was able to fire without being fully in battery I can't help but thinking that someone must have been actively tinkering with it at some point. The roller-delayed rotating bolt face that HK uses is otherworldly reliable... as long as you keep sand out of the rollers.
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  38. Oh you can get good looking modern firearms. But you get to pay for the luxury. But back in 1886 a quality revolver was outside the reach of most people anyway, so the "price to looks factor" actually hasn't changed :P
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  39. Yeah. It's one of those features that would have been copied over and over if this one had been a little earlier and been a big international success.
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  40. It's a sniper rifle. It can stab people reliably at up to 1000 meters if it's zeroed correctly. And if you run out of ammo it can still stab people reliably at about 1.3 meters. That's a drastic drop in range but still more effective than throwing your empty shell casings at them...
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  41.  @frankieslefttoe8210  Huh? It was only an import ban. There were tons and tons of US manufacturers who made equivalent products to the ones that couldn't be imported. So if shootings dropped that has to be due to other factors, because actual availability sure as hell wasn't limited.
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  42. Of cause Fireplace Guy has the only known surviving example. Of cause. And we're all happy that he let's Ian put his mitts on all his rarities.
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  43. $1000-$1200 to get a collectors item is nothing. Heck you can't buy a decent graphics card for your computer for that kind of money these days... Here in Denmark a Browning A-Bolt III Composite in 30-06 costs ~$1000 with VAT and registration tax for comparison, so some cool vintage rifle in original configuration should easily run you ten times that.
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  44.  @Exarian  Yeah, when they hit you with "But it shoots full auto you nimrod!" you have to be some seriously wicket word contortionist to be able to slither out of that one...
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  45. Every person I've met with this "oddly mismatched body construction" have been stupid strong for their weight class. It's like the gene sequence that implements 20% extra arm length also make each unit of muscle mass 80% stronger than normal.
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  46. I third this idea!
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  47. It would be stupid not to. Because once the limited run production is over, the rifles which has the correct scope will rise more in value than the scope alone is worth. Kinda like "an all matching gun" from the era where they serialized every part is worth more than one that's coupled together from parts.
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  48. I'm not envious.... I am NOT ENVIOUS! NOT ENVIOUS AT ALL!.... shit... I'm envious... :-/
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  49. Hope your coffee smells nice...
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  50. You may wish to remove "pocket" from that description... Unless your pants are a whole lot bigger than most. But "portable handheld howitzer" probably sells just as well :P
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