Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Denmark's m/75: A Lease-to-Own Rifle" video.

It is missing the deflector bracket that we made ourselves. The G3 has a tendency to kick brass out very perpendicular to the rifle, so Denmark made a big wonky looking "clasp bracket" that hooks into the grooves in the receiver. If placed right it will make the rifle eject brass at about 45 degrees forward. If placed a little too far forward you'd get a pling-ing-ing-ing sound and the case would just lie there in the bracket, having done a couple of funny looking loops before coming to a rest. I was lucky enough to get a seriously good example and would pretty consistently shoot 198 or 199 out of 200 at 300m on a 6" center. Never got that perfect 200 though.
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@adrianparker-e9f Ian was sort of incorrect that we made the "final payment" in '96. We made the "last payment" in '96 and asked the Bundeswer for shipping instructions and they pretty much replied "your own local metal recycling facility would be most convenient for us, thank you very much". For that reason 25.000 were put together of the best parts and put into storage, and the second best replacement parts were kept to service them. In case of general mobilization that pretty much means that all back-end logistics personel will be equipped with them. Which sucks, as it is objectively a better combat rifle than the M16 (yes, I served with both for extended periods of time). TL;DR: It was a legally pure renting but turned into lease-to-own by declining to receive them back.
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I was issued the G3 first and the M16 6 years later, and I have shot several .308/7.62 hunting rifles. The G3 has a pleasant "distributed" recoil compared to a bolt action in the same caliber. If I had to go to war (again) and was given the choice between the Swedish AK4 update of the G3 and the latest iteration of the M16 I would chose the former without even blinking. Sacrificing 10 rds per mag and about a kg of extra weight in exchange for a rifle that hits a human sized target all the time, every time, in adverse weather conditions at 500-600 meters, and has the oomph to go through civilian cars, garden sheds, shallow ditches, etc, is an easy choice to me. Those of my buddies who were less good shots liked the M16, but it never won me over. The correct NATO cartridge change (as the US is figuring out now with the .277 Fury) would have been 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser. The 7.62 was too powerful and the 5.56 was too weak.... Oh, and that you put locking in quotes means you don't understand the mechanics. The bolt head stays in place until the bolt carrier has moved 7mm. The easiest way to think of it is to compare it to balls on a pool table. The "ping" from the cartridge sends energy through the bolt head to the wedge so it starts moving (like two touching pool balls being hit), which pushes the bolt carrier backwards until there is enough space that the rollers can retract, at which point the bolt head starts following the bolt carrier. It's as much a locking system as a rotating bolt head. It's just two different mechanisms that actuate the unlocking.
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@JohnSmith-yv6eq I know. I was a sergeant for 15 years. I tried many other rifles, and I saw how other people's rifles reacted. I think mine simply opened slightly too early (it was VERY picky with shoulder contact with live ammo as well). But since it was one of the most accurate rifles in our battery I didn't want the armourers to fiddle with it. I won several medals with it. And as I said, I managed to get around it's "funny idea" by just keeping it absolutely sloppered up in oil. But MAN was it hell to clean after blank fire. I mean, every file is always more dirty with blanks due to the blank fire compensator, but mine was GROSS. I would pick out entire "cakes" of gunk. Never saw that in another rifle.
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The G3 is omnipresent. The G3 is eternal. The G3 transcends time, space and physical dimensions. Also, as of 2023 the G3 became the official rifle for the Army Reserve because the regular army has grown so much that we don't have M16s for everyone.... Just Danish things....
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@jimmychristensen498 Someone did not pay attention when the Sgt said "You need to jam it into your shoulder HARD".
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@rlwe The air force guards were the last to replace them... in 2007.
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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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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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Only the home guard had two selectors, and I can assure you that in the army which mags you got was a luck of the draw. I got three lightweight and two clonky bois.
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Obviously a switch. Generally there will be "upgrade packages" to older models to keep everything the same.
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Nope. The M/66 was covered in a previous video. This is the original M75. Later nearly all of them were transitioned to polymer furniture. When I was a conscript in '95 only one guy in our battery got a wooden one, and it was MINT looking wood for some unknown reason.
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And yet in both Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan the other coalition members constantly commended us for being admirably professional in everything we do. Especially the yanks were borderline fearful of us. The "leaned back" Danish attitude came across as subtly threatening to them. Their officers were only used to get that kind of attitude from Seals and Rangers. It was quite amusing.
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@neutronalchemist3241 Of cause we did. And mine worked best when the vent holes were half clogged up...
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They are now the official rifle for the Army Reserve because the regular army has grown so much we don't have M95s and M96s enough for everyone. So we are coming up on 50 years of service shortly....
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Many artillery units used the M75 up until 2004. The air force guard used it until 2007. So by proud Danish tradition we take more than a decade to fully transition. That being said, the clusterfuck in Ukraine seems to have stirred things up quite a bit, and people seem to accept that, yes, there's going to be tax increases so we can get a military that isn't laughable.
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