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

  1.  @jimmychristensen498  Someone did not pay attention when the Sgt said "You need to jam it into your shoulder HARD".
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  2.  @johndaniels1197  "Ma Bell" was also a common name for it if my computer history memory serves me correct?
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  3. Authentic WWII examples, in legal status and good condition, are expensive because they're all 80 years old and most have been shot until the barrel is wallowed and the parts rattle. You can buy a new faithful 1911A1 clone of very good quality for $375, if all you care about is the formfactor and functionality. That's not expensive by any means for an all-metal gun, with this many parts, that only gets produced in limited quantity.
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  4. Also known as the Detroit Typewriter...
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  5. This is a boomstick. A very large boomstick, but a boomstick none the less. But sometimes a big angry boomstick is EXACTLY what you need.
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  6.  @beargillium2369  Old gunner here.. yup, that shit ain't the slightest bit smokeless when you're firing 155mm/6" Howitzers.... I've coughed my lunges out more times when I care to remember when we'd been shooting up wind and the breach block opened..
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  7. What is even more mind bending is that he has all the unubtanium development versions. Fireplace guy must have been collecting for a lifetime...
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  8. A liiitle bit longer than that, but not much. I just saw it break 750,000 five minutes ago...
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  9.  @CritterCamSoCal  That's the military approved way of saying: "They minced us into sausage meat, stuffed us into our own intestine, smoked us over medium coarse pine dust and exported us to delicacy stores in Moscow with a 2000% export tax to properly express the fine craftsmanship.. I believe the kitchen has arranged for you to have us for dinner Monday and Thursday until supplies run out Mr. President."
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  10. Just vote with your vallet instead.
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  11.  @brorjordas1979  Nope. I invented it on the spot... but thanks for the compliment! :P
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  12. The "no snagging" design idea seem to have worked out well. I can't imagine this thing grabbing your shirt or jacket in any way even if you carry it ghetto style.
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  13. Ian can command people's attention for 18 minutes (or 18 hours if he needs to). Marketing reels needs to have a wider reach, and brevity is, unfortunately, a key part of that.
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  14.  @robertlinke2666  You don't. You just tell Rookie he gets to be the hero that saves everyone from the rapidly approaching enemy. Rookie fires rifle grenade. Rookie makes an imprint on the other side of the trench and his shoulder lands in Norway. Enemy dies. Everyone except Rookie is happy. At least that's the theory.
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  15.  @robertrobert7924  You can, but the application process, police intelligence vetting, tax stamping, inspection of storage facility, purposefully lengthy process time and what not makes it so hard that only wealthy and determined people can do it. Which is the entire point. We only want real collectors to have these for preservation reasons.
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  16.  @damirblazevic4823  Former artilleryman here: Most mortars only have one charge size, so if you want to hit something nearby you point it at the sky. Most modern large caliber howitzers use variable charge sizes for different distances, however, sometimes you want to come in at an acute angle due to terrain features or buildings being in the way of the optimal trajectory. And then there are the modern GPS guided stuff like Excalibur rounds. Those are "artillery glide bombs". So you fire at an agnle like 78 degrees to get them to max altitude, after which they de-spin themselves and glide to target.
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  17. Some components are as old as 106 years. It's seen 4 governments and god knows how many soldiers have been issued these two pistols now merged into one.
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  18. Until you get a dud blank. Then you have 5 seconds to throw the weapon behind pretty significant cover. If it happens on the first grande you'll have 5 grenades going off at once, or one grenade going off flinging 4, now primed, grenades everywhere.
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  19. Just wait until you discover their wine and cheese... just saying! :P
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  20. There is tons of room under the stock-tube for your wrist and under arm, so I don't think turning it 90 degrees inwards while holding the pistol grip is any problem at all. Then you can grab the charging handle overhand, unlock and pull back to eject. The sear catches and you pop in a new shell. From the looks of it you'd probably close and lock just with your thumb.
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  21. Well isn't that the nature of anti material rifles? "Take one for the team before the entire team gets taken by THAT thing!" :P
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  22.  @ScottKenny1978  Yeah. Imagine having this thing go off while carrying it in a shoulder sling...
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  23.  @Easy-Eight  "Imma gon hurl lead at you so hard you land three counties over... and so do I, but in the opposite direction!"
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  24. "Dip it in the bucket. Count to 10. Pull it up. Let it drip for 5 minutes over the bucket before hanging it on the rack. If the lacquer gets so thick it drips for more than 5 minutes give it a squirt of thinner... any questions?"
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  25. No, that is correct. Colt were some of the first to mass market automatics with reliable extractions, so their ammo specifications were adopted far and wide. There are a slew of European guns already from the 1920s that use various ACP cartridges. Today the 38, 44 and 45 are rare though. Almost everything is in 9mm ACP or 9mm Parabellum now.
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  26. WOW! Get me this in .30 Super Carry! I like EVERY aspect of this gun. Trigger-only safety and striker fired. And I especially that it's not going to come with the Sig "brand tax". Good job technical side HS, and nice of Springfield Armoury to recognise the value of their partner.
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  27. "There are only two hundred of these, and the stocked version is made of unobtainium. I happen to sit here in front of 5 of them. Two stocked. With one version of each interesting iteration in the development." I don't know who the guy with the fire place is... but he must both like Ian very very much AND have the coolest gun collection on the face of the earth! Both of which are sentiments I can 100% get behind! :P
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  28. Aimpoint needs to release the exact specs for the mounting as an open standard. Every handgun manufacturer needs to be able to offer slides in this system, and every red dot manufacturer needs to be able to interface with it. This will lead to more Aimpoint sales, provided they stay at the front of the pack and don't go hamfisted on the price.... Which it sounds like they are specifically trying to avoid with automated manufacturing.
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  29. I think it added to the "suspense" that there were a couple of extra neat machines they weren't willing to show. Kudos to S&B for being willing to let Ian in, let him "do da thang" and go through the final edit and go "blur that and that, and you're good to go".
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  30. Since Ian is a left hander the VHS-1 is the chick he's just not compatible with, no matter how much he likes the looks. We've all been there: Toying with the idea is entertaining, but committing will be nothing but pain.
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  31.  @recoilrob324  Bwaaahahah! I'm stealing that fuck out of that one!
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  32. Winchester did assembly in Spain precisely for this reason. The precise wording of the law would probably dictate whether "some part of the manufacturing process" would have to occur for every gun, or just some guns, to qualify.
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  33.  @styx7027  Break it. Lock the bolt open (so it can close again without squashing the first shell). Cock the hammer (so the feeding elevator goes down). Plop in 8 shells. Close it. Hit the bolt release. You're now in battery and ready to fire (Unless it automatically engages safety upon closing or bolt release. Didn't see a mechanism for either, but there's a lot going on, so I could easily have missed it.) I'm assuming there is a mechanism for lifting the elevator when you close it too... But how that disconnects from the hammer is... more steam punk magic.
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  34.  @rlwe The air force guards were the last to replace them... in 2007.
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  35. In the previous video on the sniper variant a former air force guard attested that they didn't get them replaced until 2007.
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  36. Jesus man... you pretty much just confirmed that this is a thing because you really wanted one for yourself.... and that's pretty effing cool! :D
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  37.  @robertlewis8295  Thanks for clarifying. My metric brain always gets confused about "grain of powder". I constantly think "the size of the individual powder flakes". But assume that wasn't really a thing with black powder.
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  38.  @unter1103 I was in both Bosnia and Kosovo (and later Afghanistan) trying to stop the madness. Talking about "the right side" in this conflict is, sorry to say, absolutely dumb as rocks. My personal set of experiences makes me lean ever so slightly for and against a specific set of parties involved, but I perfectly understand that I don't see the entire picture. And nobody really does. It was a bitter ugly fight fuelled by disinformation, paranoia, old cultural wounds, greed, corruption and "soviet hangover"-style complete and utter disregard for human life. On every single side in the conflict those that paid the highest price were the ones who just wanted the madness to end. The amount of dead women and children I saw there still shakes me 30 years later. Please consider letting go of the notion of "the right side", and consider saying "How do we prevent everyone from turning into rabies infected animals at the drop of a hat, so something like this can never happen again."
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  39. I call it edutainment. I get entertained with education that I will never need :P
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  40. Too bad we won't see Henry run this variant though the Practical Accuracy range and compare it to his Finnish Mosin... but considering its rarity (and location in Belgium) that is understandable.
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  41.  @timecapsulechronicles  If that is largely driven by real estate loans, then it's a good thing, but if it's largely driven by consumer loans then it's a bad thing. Without seeing the distribution between the two the statement is worthless.
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  42. Probably has something to do with his field of expertise...
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  43.  @courier6634  It absolutely does if your goal is to make people keep their heads down as long as you have bullets.... It doesn't work particularly well at actually hitting anything past 25 meters though...
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  44. Keep hanging on to it. They're getting rarer and rarer, and not many were ever produced. It may not reach big-dollar value in your life time, but it could end up being a game changer for your grand kids.
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  45.  @crushingexistentialism  It needs speed holes, though....
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  46. If you remove the blank-fire muzzle restrictor, and you could find a compatible live cartridge, then yes, this would fire at least one round. But since it's straight blowback I think those two thin pipes containing the spring would crinkle like the bendy section of a drinking straw once they hit end of travel, and the bolt would not go forward again....
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  47.  @__Mr.Long__  Dude! We might end up seeing the ENTIRE Romanian gun engineering enthusiast community in a single comment thread! Only Gun Jesus can conduct such miracles :P
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  48. Спасибо за поддержку Ian :)
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  49. Mine was mint with live ammo but would foul up after just a couple of clips of blank. I always had an extra bottle of oil when doing blank fire exercises, so I could slather it constantly. That made black oil drip out everywhere, but it would keep it running. My personal experience is that people who couldn't get full/short burst working simply didn't jam the rifle hard enough into their shoulder, as they would complain, and I would pick up their rifle and have it work fine.
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  50. If people ever wonder why the Polish hate for Russia knows no bounds this tale of a single gun holds two shining examples of a century old tradition: If both Poland and Russia are involved in the same story Poland ends up with a back stabbing, a rectum reaming and a black eye for good measures, despite being the ones coming from a place of good moral standing, determination and valour.
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