Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Holy Crap. This gun sold for $132,250! That's a nice boat for the soldier who picked this up off the battlefield.
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  2. Most of those guns were carried in parachute packs as a survival weapon. They weren't carried as a sidearm. It was the weight limits of early ejection seats that made the overall weight of every item in the pack important.
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  3. My brother served in the Delta from 1968-69 and tells me some of the M37E1 guns in 7.62 were mounted on convoy escort jeeps and supply trucks to keep the heads of the VC down when traversing dicey spots. He was an artillery gunner at a firebase, and he took one off a damaged truck and mounted it on an ARVN M1919A2 tripod for firebase defense. The guys liked it better than the M60 because it could fire all night long while never needing a barrel change, and all they had to do was dump a bucket of water on the barrel when it started glowing red.
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  4. Well, Mauser is much easier to spell and pronounce, so there's that.
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  5. Andre the Giant's pocket gun.
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  6. The good old days. Just step out the factory door and start shooting up a historic structure.
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  7. Forget my lousy AK for home defense. I need a 37mm cannon!
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  8. It's not just rich white guys having fun with these. I have a Coastie friend that was involved in drug interdiction while working with the Colombian Coast Guard. There were sections of the coast they made sure they stayed at least 3,000 yards offshore because some of the drug cartel soldiers were using Barrett rifles to discourage naval vessels from investigating too closely. That was when there were actual drug running subs in use. He was on an 87 foot patrol boat armed with two M2 50's and engaged in a two hour running gun battle with a position onshore armed with at least one and possibly two Barrett rifles. The problem was solved when a Colombian Navy frigate arrived and ended any opposition with its 76 mm gun.
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  9. If Remington made a reproduction in .22LR with four or five rounds, I'd buy one. Neat little gun.
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  10. My uncle fought with the Seventh Army from D-Day to the Rhine. He was one of the assigned guys in his company to carry a Thompson. After about two weeks of humping that around, the firing pin broke and he was able to get an M2 carbine. He never took his eyes off that gun until the VE-Day. He never told me how the firing pin broke but i suspect it wasn't an accident.
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  11. Rats! I should have tried harder to convince my dad to spend the $49 for a Solothurn from Hunter's Lodge when I asked for it for Christmas back in 1962,
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  12. The kind of gun you prowl around pawn shops looking for in hopes someone's grandfather left one behind.
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  13. Only in the world of guns do have things that are "rare" and "exotic" because using one can give you a black eye and maybe some broken bones!
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  14.  @kenibnanak5554  Yes, that why I wrote "the Delta". It was the common shorthand for the Mekong Delta in 1969. I really hate that we have so many people on here that are 16 years old and only know what they get from video games. I just got off the phone with him and my description of "glowing red" was me not remembering correctly. He said it was the barrel shroud that glowed, and it was more white than red. That's when they dumped water on it, waited for the steam to clear, and resumed firing. There were nights when there were firing every weapon they had on base, including beehive from the 105's to keep from being overrun. The M37 was the one machine gun they trusted to work all night. Meow Mix, he is indeed still alive after suffering a pretty serious heart attack two years ago. He's pretty tough, and the best brother a guy could have. I'll relay your thanks.
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  15.  @ForeLab  The problem wasn't extinguishers,it was fire detection. The soda acid extinguisher was in common use by 1895, and an interior picture of the armory would undoubtedly show many of them hanging on the support posts around the plant. The reason for so many fires back then was the lack of anything but the eyes and nose of a night watchman to detect and report a fire. The concept of firewalls didn't exist, and many of these old plants were timber framed with brick infill. Once a fire got into the attic area, it was nearly impossible to extinguish before the structure burned to the ground. The motto of many fire departments back then was "We've never lost a foundation".
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  16. I apparently should have invested in guns instead of stocks.
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  17. The Cook brothers are considered two of the heroes of the Confederacy. Even though they were both from England, they adopted the Confederate cause after they moved to New Orleans in the 1850's. Ferdinand married a New Orleans woman, Mary Jane Wilcox, described as "one of the fairest belles of the City", in 1852. He moved to New Orleans after the marriage and was later followed by his brother Francis some time in 1855. Athey were representatives of Novelty Iron works of New York City, where they worked from about 1850 until the outbreak of the war. The company manufactured mostly cotton and sugar machinery, so locating in New Orleans was a logical move. Both brothers learned engineering and metalworking at Novelty, then regarded as one of the finest machinery companies in the nation. There was also another brother, Frederick, who ended up in New Orleans, and Francis and Frederic established the Belleville Iron Works in Algiers, outside New Orleans. They made mostly agricultural equipment, but also spent some time making prototype rifles in hopes of selling them to the US Army. They even wrote to then US Secretary of War Jefferson Davis in 1856 about establishing an arms factory in the South since none then existed. Of course, that suited the Union fine, so nothing ever came of it. When the Civil War began, Ferdinand resigned his position with novelty and it appears Frederick made his way back to New York since he was a Union sympathizer. The remaining two brothers, Ferdinand and Francis, set to work immediately converting the Belleville company to producing rifles. The company was renamed Cook and Brother and a new factory, initially the Nashua Iron Works, was established in New Orleans. Although I don't know for sure, I assume the Belleville factory was sold to help finance the new rifle company/ The removal of the rifle company to Athens had some of the same heroics as the Russians removing their factories in the face of the advancing Nazis. I could write a book on that alone, and this is already getting close enoough to a book. The brothers had no intention of going through that turmoil again. They reserved at least 250 of their rifles for a local defense company to defend the plant and the Athens area when it was clear that the Union forces would make their way through Georgia. They even made a few small artillery pieces. The plant defense force did fight the Union forces as part of a larger local militia at Griswoldville, GA and Hardeeville SC, and several factory workers were killed in the battles. As Ian said, Ferdinand gave his life for the Confederacy on December 11, 1864, stuck down by a Union sniper during the Hardeeville battles. After the War ended, Francis managed to get a Federal pardon after spending some time in Union custody because he was a Confederate officer. Because he was a British subject, he managed to escape imprisonment as a traitor. Even though he managed to stave off several years of attempts by US Marshals to seize the factory, the local sheriff auctioned it off in 1868 to pay of the company's substantial debts that were never made good due to the collapse of the Confederacy. The buildings and grounds were purchased by the Athens Manufacturing Company and used as a cotton mill. To the best of my knowledge, the factory burned to the ground sometime in the 1890's. Ferdinand gave his life and Francis gave his fortune, both for the Lost Cause. The only reason I know some of these details is the brothers are distant relatives. As far as I can tell from my genealogy program, they would be cousins six times removed. I found out some of the information while researching that line of the family. As you might imagine, I'd love to have one of the Cook and Brother rifles. Unfortunately, I don't have a spare $30,0000 readily at hand.
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  18. You could still buy the 1795 musket that was "sporterized" and mostly converted to shotguns from the Sears catalog in the 1920's. They were a cheap hunting gun and were apparently pretty popular at $5.00 to $8.00 each. If nothing else, using a 130 year old converted musket as a shotgun in 1928 shows the durability of the musket.
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  19. I have a Forehand & Wadsworth British Bulldog (actually Forehand Arms by then) in .38 S&W from 1901, just before the company was sold to Hopkins & Allen. It is a quite well made little revolver with much of the bluing still intact. It doesn't have much of a collector market since F&W sold these by the thousands, but the gun still shoots well today. It's surprisingly accurate at 25 yards for a gut buster carry gun.
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  20. Ah, back in the days when Youtube allowed we peasants to go directly to a gun auction website. Thank goodness the Trust and Safety Team prevents such shenanigans today.
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  21. This was also the last use of gliders by the Germans. Only 12 of the 22 gliders dispatched against Vassieux-en-Vercors actually landed in the right place, with the rest either landing too far to the north or crashing upon landing. Thus, the actual numbers of German troops (who were mostly Russian or Ukrainian) were combat effective upon landing numbered only about 150 of the 400 dispatched. It showed once again why glider operations were just not effective, especially in terms of the numbers of troops lost as part of the operation, and the difficult of piloting gliders to a specific spot. The biggest problem for the Marqui was their almost complete lack of heavy weapons. Air dropping artillery and the attendant ammunition was impossible in 1944, but the air drop operation did include at least 14 British 3" mortars and somewhere between 2 and 5 4.2" mortars, along with at least 150 bombs for each mortar. These should have provided enough mortars to stop or significantly delay the German advance up the Massif. Unfortunately, all those containers, dropped from one B-17, landed among the Germans, who retrieved them and turned the mortars against the Marquis and the civilians in the villages on the plateau. On such events does the turn of many a battle come.
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  22.  @shaku2182  Maybe, but it kept working for eight hours.
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  23. Don't know but, according to him, a crate of the first M-2's were delivered to his unit sometime in early August, 1944. He was able to get one, and used to all the way up to VE Day. I know they were used during WWII, mostly in the Pacific, but his story was that some got to delivered to Europe in hopes of getting some testing in winter conditions. He passed on in 2007 so all I have left is the memories of what he told me.
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  24. Quite a modern looking rifle for 1899.
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  25. Tank you for the subtitles. Max speaks better English than I speak Russian, but his Russian accent still makes it difficult for me to keep up at times without help.
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  26. Yesterday has become today!
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  27.  @puppetguy8726  Not at all. Look up Sanborn Fire Maps. Even back in 1895, they detailed all the fire protection available, both in and around industrial buildings. You couldn't get and keep insurance unless you complied with the local and national fire prevention laws, plus the requirements of the insurance companies. A lot of insurance companies had their own fire overhaul departments that sent trucks to the scene of any major insured fire to preserve, to the extent possible, the interior and contents from water damage. Many plants installed their own cisterns and fire hydrant systems. Most insurance only paid for the actual structural loss, not for the inventory or business interruption. Fires were a major cause of businesses failing back then. Any place that handled gunpowder or other explosives had a lot of rules they had to comply with. I think we have this idea that turn of the century America was kind of a Wild West when it came to fire prevention rules. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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  28.  @Agentcoolguy1  It sounded to me like he thought some of these might have been carried as normal sidearms.
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  29. "Unintentional" two and three round burst. Right.
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  30. Problem: Watermelons cost $1.5 and we're selling them for $1.00 Solution: Get a bigger truck to deliver more watermelons This has never been the road to business success.
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  31. Considering the original spec was for a weapon with a service life of one year, the old M3's have done pretty well for themselves. I was in Belize in 1998 hiking in the jungle near the Guatemala border when we ran across a Belizean army patrol. They took a break for a while and, after swapping smokes, they let me take a look at what they were carrying, It was a six man patrol, and three of them were carrying original M16A1 rifles, one was carrying an M3A1, one was carrying a Sten, and the last had an M14. Talk about ammo logistics problems.
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  32.  @GlamStacheessnostalgialounge  Assuming Ian has misspelled the name and it's really Schlegelmilch, buttermilk is a good name for a rifle, just like Buttermilk was a good name for Dale Evan's horse.
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  33. Cleavage and machine guns. The thirsty will be emerging from the woodwork.
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  34. Most of the sniper rifles used in the Falklands War were the L42A1's, but these were conversions of the L1A1 with a new, heavier barrel and firing the 7.62 NATO cartridge. All the wood forward of the barrel band was removed to lighten the rifle and a few more detail changes, like a new magazine suitable for 7.62 were added. These weren't quite the rifles of the Mark 1 (T) in the video, but they still used a lot of the original parts. Some were still being used by the SAS during the first Gulf War. Quite a life span for one basic rifle.
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  35. I've never found Steve to be creepy. He and Ian are doing two different but somewhat related things. Ian, who I believe is a mechanical engineer, is taking apart old guns and showing us how they are made and how they work. That's a very mechanical thing, as it should be. Steve is taking apart old food and trying to give his audience an idea of how it was made, how it looks and feels, and how it tastes. That's a much more subjective thing than showing us a firing pin. Steve gets much more excited when he finds a rare ration or is able to eat a 65 year old ration that's still good. Ian is a cool, methodical engineer. I enjoy both of them, and I'd bet they'd get along great in person.
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  36.  @Taistelukalkkuna  I know. I should have kept chewing on the old man's leg until he coughed up the forty-nine bucks! RIP Dad.
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  37. First a new book and now mag dumps from 5.56 and 7.62 machine guns. You won't have very many more better days in the rest of your life, Ian. Enjoy it.
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  38. The EM-2 weighs 7.7 pounds. The M-16 weighs 7.17 pounds. Not enough weight difference to prompt such an ignorant vulgarity. If the EM-2 adopted plastic furniture the weight would have been nearly identical, or maybe a little less.
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  39. According to Rock Island, this rifle uses a standard M-14 magazine. Is this incorrect? It would be kind of downer to spend $25,000 to $40,000 plus fees to end up with a machine gun you can't fire because it uses a magazine that's unavailable.
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  40. I have a Ruger 10-22 with a serial number of 40000. Mine must be worth...uhh...I don't now, maybe $300?
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  41. I remember seeing an ad for this in (I think) American Rifleman when I was about 13, so that would make it 1959. The entire outfit, including all the spare parts, accessories, cleaning tools, about eight wood cases full of stuff was, as Ian said, something like $189. Ammo was around a buck a round, although I remember you could get it down to about fifty cents is you bought fifty rounds. I pestered the Old Man about the Solothurn for months but he wouldn't spring for it. Looking back, I can't blame him. He was an industrial engineer and was making something like $800 a month so the idea of spending $189 on something as wildly impracticable as a 20 mm cannon was out of the question. The good thing was he did buy me an M-1 Garand from the OCM program for $20 just to shut me up.
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  42. The Dutch East Indies had a separate government and purchasing arm from the mother country. They were ordering non-standard equipment compared to the Dutch Armed Forces all the way back to 1938, including aircraft, guns, and even tanks. While they were naturally concerned with the Netherlands falling to the Germans, it had no effect in the Dutch East Indies, who were preparing to fight it out on their own against all comers.
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  43.  @johnanon6938  Actually, you're right. My dad was pro guns and my mom hated them, so getting any kind of gun before I moved out at 19 was always a battle. Once I moved out, that changed real fast!
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  44. Well, Rats! I'm just finally getting ready to lay down and a Forgotten Weapons video shows up. That will be another six minutes and thirty-five seconds lost sleep today.
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  45.  @nirfz  There were certainly individuals who stole, mostly for their own use. That hasn't changed since then. What I'm saying is there was no organized black market for stolen firearms. The first reason was almost no one wanted to buy a current production gun marked for the USN. That was a big time crime in 1895 and, unlike today, people actually did go to prison for it. Secondly, as Ian said, you could buy almost the exact same rifle by going into any place that sold guns and saying "Give me that". No ID or background checks, just the cash and maybe your signature. Hell, you could send your order off to Francis Bannerman for field artillery and Gatling guns and get them by return freight. Black markets only exist when there's an artificial scarcity of a good. There was no scarcity of firearms in 1895.
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  46. While two battleships were ordered by the Ottoman Empire, only one of the seized vessels, Reşadiye, was from that order. Fatih Sultan Mehmed, the second ship, wasn't even ordered until April, 1914, and laid down in June, just before the outbreak of war, so there was no chance it would even have been delivered. The second ship was the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro, sold to Ottomans in 1913 and renamed Sultan Osman I. She was just finishing sea trials and was ready to be turned over to a Turkish crew when Churchill decided to seize both Turkish vessels. This almost led to open warfare on the docks of Newcastle, as the Turkish captain and 500 crewman threatened to take the ship by force. Churchill ordered the ship held by force if necessary, and it was only the Turkish lack of arms that allowed a negotiated settlement. The Sultan Osman I was renamed Agincourt and added to the Royal Navy. She was an impressive looking ship, which is what the Brazilians wanted. Her seven 12" twin turrets had the most main battery turrets of any dreadnought, and the twenty 6" guns of her secondary battery were the heaviest of any dreadnought ever built. The seizure of these ships, especially since they were both paid in full, caused an uproar in Turkey, and was one of the events that saw the Ottoman Empire declaring war on the side of the Germans.
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  47. Maybe to arm Vopo's with a semiautomatic rifle that was easier to carry and less menacing looking than an AK?
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  48. I'd love to go but since i'd be traveling by myself, $3375 plus a $580 supplement for a single room on a seven day tour is completely out of my price range. Dinner is only included on the first night. Breakfast I'm sure are the typical continental breakfasts included with the hotel charge. There's no mention of the star rating of hotels, just "first class accommodations". That can mean a wide range of things in Europe. Most tours will say something like two or three star hotels so you have a better idea of what to expect. Mycost would be $565 a day not including lunch or dinner. That will easily be another $25 euros per day in any kind of decent neighborhood restaurants, and a lot more in tourist places. I'd have to add air fare from the US to Brussels and then back from Paris. There's an 11 day tour at the end of June covering many of the same points but with two days in Paris and more time at some of the battlefields. It's all inclusive at four star hotels, unlimited non-alcoholic drinks on busses and at meals with a glass of beer or wine at lunch and dinner. The cost is $5,250, or $480 day. The minimum cost for your tour with meals is $507. Even the single room supplement is $52 a day on the 11 day compared to $82 for your tour, and September is the low season in Europe. I'm retired on a mostly fixed income. I'd really like to go, get to meet you, and hear your narration, but the cost is just too high for what's essentially a budget tour.
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  49. It's difficult to imagine that any military would want a rifle that was loaded with single cartridges when stripper clips were so well establish in major militaries. Certainly a nice sporterized appearing gun.
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  50. All the banging, whistling, talking, and crashing in the background made it hard to understand the Swedish guy at times. From what I could understand, I'm sure glad I don't live in Sweden, and the gun bureaucracy is just one reason.
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  51.  @baneofbanes  He apparently wants to let us know that nothing in North America is old enough to be truly historic, or at least not Euro-historic, because those of us over here don't understand history.
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  52.  @davidmeyer3795  Probably so, but Germans have had car liability insurance for a long time and still have trouble with Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung.
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  53. It didn't take those in charge to recognize this idea. A broken leg generally wasn't enough to do more than get you sent to a rear area hospital. Once you were discharged, you were immediately courts martialed and ended up in the brig for a couple months on bread at hard labor or Leavenworth. Most guys didn't want that to be the end of their service since they knew they'd get no GI benefits and have a lot of trouble getting a job.
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  54. Matt, I'm sure that's true. Ian says that the standard M-14 mag won't fit while Rock Island says they will. I'm just trying to ascertain which is correct.
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  55. Harrington & Richardson still makes a line throwing gun that's basically a sawed off shotgun converted with a very heavy barrel and using a 45/70 black powder blank. It will throw a line out about 150 yards and is the first step in establishing a breeches buoy between ships. I had the misfortune of firing one of these and, even though I've fired a lot of full power rifles, the bruise from this one took about a week to heal.
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  56. Usually I want one of each of every gun on Ian's show. In this case, I'll just stand aside and let someone else have mine.
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  57. Cue up the G36 fans!
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  58.  @nirfz  There wasn't any kind of "black market" in the US in 1895. Even then, arson investigators were pretty good at their jobs. Most such fires were set to collect on the fire insurance, mostly for the structure, but sometimes to cover inventory at an inflated cost. Arson was considered a capital crime in many states in 1895, and you could hang if it was proved you set the fire. Not saying it didn't happen, because it obviously did, just saying it was less common than we might suppose today, and many of those who did it were caught and aptly punished.
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  59. All that for a little more than a month before the end of the war.
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  60.  @Mishn0  So that means it wasn't historic then?
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  61. Up to 2 dislikes now. Probably two people who don't like any revolvers.
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  62. Seems like it was designed to have a grip and trigger assembly that mimics a Colt 1911.
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  63. Yep, my Century conversion has slamfires and stuck cases. I always thought this was just a Century problem so I'm interested to find the same issues plagued the French conversions as well.
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  64. France, a country which spent four years trying to find any kinds of weapons to fight against tyrannical occupiers, now wants to make sure it's as difficult as possible or impossible for citizens to get any kinds of weapons. The EU, an organization with a long history of fighting a guerilla war, is "helping" with the regulations. Makes sense to me.
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  65.  @dzejrid  And this is in Canada. Anything else valuable to add?
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  66. I'm always amazed at how well you learn disassembly for the hundreds of guns you've reviewed. I have a hard enough time with my AK.
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  67.  @AdamosDad  The Newport News was a great cruiser. She and other members of the Des Moines class were the most effective heavy cruisers in any navy. It's just too bad that she fired over 60,000 rounds in combat with no major problems and had to suffer that barrel detonation while on yet another fire mission in 1972. The Navy's biggest mistake was not repairing her and retaining her in service. The time will come when we need those big guns for another war and now she's gone.
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  68. Emmanuel, in the early years of the war, the French Milieu was the main source of weapons, just as they had been for all organized crime groups before the war. By mid-1944, the main source of weapons was from dead Vichy and German troops plus raiding police stations and isolated arsenals. The Americans and British dropped many thousands of containers of small arms, mainly Sten guns, plus thousands of pounds of plastic explosives. The problem for the Marqui fighters at Vercors was not a lack of small arms, it was the lack of heavy weapons, as I wrote above.
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  69. By heavy weapons in this case I mean light to medium mortars. There was no way to get heavier artillery on the massiv and very few fighters with any training on how to use them anyway. You're correct about the quality of "troops" fighting the Germans. Many of them were excellent guerillas but terrible infantry. The two skill sets are much different. It would have been much better for France, the Allies, and those that died in the battle if they had remained guerrillas. However, that would not have given De Gaulle the propaganda victory he so desperately needed.
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  70. Flo and his team should have been kept on for the WWII series. Compared to the Great War series, the WWII one, apparently being run by Indy Nidel, is really terrible by comparison.
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  71. Don't forget Western Auto, once one of the biggest sellers of .22 rifles and 12 gauge shotguns, all made for them by other companies under contract.
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  72. @FREN Well, there is the bell tower of San Miguel Mission, built between 1610 – 1626, El Morro, from 1539, and Jamestown Church from 1639, not forgetting Bacon's Castle in Virginia, built in 1665, plus the Newport Tower in Rhode Island from at least 1670, so we do have a few things here.
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  73.  @Deadtileyedie  It's pretty sweet for such an old gun. Well cast and machined with a nice finish. Probably looked even nicer when it was new and sitting in the showcase. It was my first handgun I bought when I was 18 (that's how old you had to be in 1964). The dealer had two of them, and this one cost me $2 more than a ratty looking one. I summoned up my courage and plunked down my twelve bucks. :-) I keep hearing conflicting information about if it's strictly black powder or will handle smokeless. Just to be safe, I handload my own ammo for it with a 10% decrease in smokeless powder charge . It handles this load fine, but I don't think I want to try a 118 year old gun made on the cusp of smokeless powder with a modern round.
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  74. Sold for $28,750, so that would have been quite the return on investment for $150.
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  75. The US Navy developed the Mark 57 Gunfire Control System late in the war. It wasn't really a better optical control system than the original Mark 51 director, but it added radar for use in reduced visibility conditions. One Mark 57 then controlled four Mark 51 directors. The Mark 51's were still useful in good visibility, but any massed gunfire lasting more than a minute or so caused the targets to be obscured by gun smoke. That's when the Mark 57 took over and controlled the four 40 mm quad mounts instead of the four separate Mark 51 directors.
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  76. Slaw, that was the most amazing rewriting of Polish WWII history I've ever seen.
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  77.  Matt Eagle  No reason to believe me at all, but those that served can tell if I'm being truthful.
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  78. Of course there wouldn't have been as many lost charging handles if not for the rather silly rule about removing the bolt.
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  79.  @Agentcoolguy1  I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
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  80. Nice looking guns, but no apparent advantage over all the other 9mm parabellums flooding the market in the 50's.
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  81.  @johnfisk811 Quite true. Concrete floors were in their infancy in 1895, so wood block flooring was about the only thing strong enough to support heavy machinery. These did tend to get oil soaked over time, and the older the factory, the bigger the issue. In many cases. the first outside sign of fire was the structure was fully involved, hence the old saw about never losing a foundation. This is why night watchmen were so important then. It wasn't primarily to keep out burglars. They were the only hope of getting fire equipment and men there soon enough not to lose the whole factory.
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  82. I bought one of the Century Arms 7.62 Nato conversions in 1991 for $220. The bore was well done, and armory had redone the parkerizing and refinished the wood. What Century didn't do was enough testing after the conversion. Apparently they shortened the barrel so they could cut new metal for the 7.62 chamber, shortened the gas tube to match the 9/16" barrel offset, and left the original French springs and recoil system in place. A friend of mine ordered one at the same time. I think these were among the first Century conversions. Mine would never fire a full mag without a jam of some kind, some of which got stuck so badly it required a rod and rubber mallet to free it from the chamber. My buddy's rifle would happily go through multiple mags without a problem. Type of ammo didn't matter in mine, but his could fire cruddy surplus ammo all day. Mags for the 7.62 guns are also crazy expensive now, $50 and higher last I looked. Unless you can confirm from the owner his gun is a shooter, avoid the Century conversions. I've heard of slamfire issues with the 7.5 guns, but they can be fixed with a change ot the firing pin, again from what I've heard. I will say mine was a good shooter when it was feeding rounds properly, about equal to a Garand in accuracy. Unless you're like Ian and just an aficionado of French guns, there are many better shooters than the 56/49.
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  83. No, buying guns is like any other collectible. You concentrate on what you know and buy those rather one each of every collectible gun. All collectibles will have a volatile price action so they shouldn't be more than 20% of a portfolio. I could buy an MP43 for about $500 in 1960, a brand new Colt .45 for $52.50, or a Boys anti tank rifle with all the accessories and seven extra mags for $110. Not a bad investment for any of them.
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  84. Dang. Do you have guards around that display when it's in public? Very professional looking execution.
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  85.  @bikecommuter24  S&W Model 10 revolvers were standard Air Force issue from about 1950 until the early 90's. Everyone from pilots to the Air Police carried them. The Aircrewman wasn't a sidearm. It was a survival pistol packed in parachute packs, later replaced by the AR-7 .22 caliber takedown rifle.
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  86. Dunno. I'm just looking for an authoritative answer.
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  87. Amazon is selling the book for $30 plus $4 shipping, not a bad price for a niche book like this one.
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  88.  Hoghs  I have a Norinco copy of an Ithaca 37 bought before the Norinco ban. It's a very well made and finished gun. I've put at least 500 rounds through it over the years with no failures or breakages.
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  89.  @Schmidt54  My high school German is pretty rusty but Schlegel is usually something like a chicken drumstick and Milch is, pretty obviously, milk. How that combines in German seems to not have a direct English equivalent.
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  90. I'm almost sure it's an MGL or Hawk MM1. A Manville gun would probably not be in very good shape if it was in normal use because the winding spring would have broken and they aren't replaceable unless a new part is machined by hand. They would also be worth too much money on the resale market to use in ordinary police work. I saw an original Manville gas gun in our armorers office when I first became a peace officer in the early 70's. It disappeared shortly afterwards and I imagine it was sold to a firearms dealer or collector.
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  91. As long as you have a self directed IRA or pension plan, investing in some scare but not rare guns is a good kind of 30 year investment, kind of like gold and silver coins. There's a good chance that scarce guns will become at least semi-rare in 30 years, as will numismatic coins. Unfortunately, my pension plan didn't become self directed until late in my career but, for young guys, it's worth looking into.
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  92. Indeed, it would have been. The Old Man has passed on to his well deserved reward now, but I'm sure he must roll over a little seeing the prices those cannon fetch now.
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  93. I bought a Model 30P in 1983 for off-duty carry. At 15+1, it was the highest capacity 9mm carry gun at the time. It was big enough it just barely qualified as a carry gun but it gave me a good feeling knowing I was carrying the equivalent of a mag and a half in any other 9mm carry gun of the time. It was a fine gun, well built and accurate. I traded it for a Llama .45 Colt revolver Model 29 look alike with six inch barrel and $100. I don't regret the trade but I would like to latch on to another Model 30P if I could find one.
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  94. Woo Hoo. How do I sign up to work with Ian!
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  95.  @erikdingman9806  Why? What exactly was a poor display of our appreciation of history? 80,000 of these muskets were produced, and many of them were converted to percussion long before they were declared surplus. All the ones that were converted to shotguns were these previous percussion conversions. There are over 100 of the originals flintlocks still around and thousands of the percussion guns. What do you think should have been done with them?
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  96. Cinnabun, I think it's very unlikely that collector quality bolt actions or semiautos are ever going to be seized. There's no registry of many of these weapons as there is for machine guns so seizing them would be a logistical nightmare. I have...err, a friend has four rifles, one bolt action and three semiautos. They were never registered anywhere and were bought either before any federal checks or by private sale. How would the government ever seize those guns?
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  97. Amazingly, the .45 Colt round is still in use today, albeit with some modern changes so the round will eject reliably from lever action rifles. It's now at 146 years old and still going strong. It's one of the few patented rounds that survived until the expiation of the patent and became a widely used round in its own right. I have an Astra .45 Colt revolver that, at first glance, appears to be a copy of the S&W N frame guns, including the "Dirty Harry" .44 magnum. The internals are completely different, and the fit and finish certainly rivals the best N frame revolvers produced by S&W. Comparing target work with an S&W Model 10 I own that's in like new condition, the Astra will consistently shoot better groups at 50 yards. The.45 Colt is still a hard hitting round, and it's a great combination with the Astra 6" barrel revolver. These guns show up fairly regularly and sell for $250 to $450. If you're in the market for a modern .45 Colt revolver, you won't go wrong with an Astra.
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  98. The link to the article on Ian's website doesn't work for me. (8:00 CDT, 8/20)
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  99.  @legionitalia309  Yeah, I had a buddy with one and his worked great. I know several other guys from the range that had ones that worked like mine.That's what makes these rifles so frustrating. You can't tell just by looking at them which one will work and which one won't.
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  100. "I feel like Ian is way, way less creepy, though. Like 100% less creepy" iatsd, I was responding to what Mike Lilienthal wrote. That's a quote above. You either think I was responding to someone else or your reading comprehension is sorely lacking.
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  101.  @Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry  These guns were inside a pack that was one of two attached to the straps of their parachute. 12 rounds of the low power ammo was also in the pack. I imagine most of those guns were never fired. Pilots at the time generally carried a four inch S&W Model 10 as a sidearm.
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  102. Very unpleasant looking guns. They remind me of a Sten gun with a vertical magazine.
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  103. It was just a matter time before Youtube started attacking you since you talk about guns. The only answer is for large and popular channels like yours to abandon this platform which is now being set upon by hall monitors and pearl clutching leftists.
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  104. Rats! Fat fingers did it again.
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  105. If you have to confine yourself to Paris, the best resistance/liberation museum is  Le Musée de la Liberation de Paris - Musée du Général Leclerc - Musée Jean Moulin. There are several others that I think there are better, and devoted only to the history of the resistance, but none are near Paris.
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  106.  @MichaelBerthelsen  Shh...quiet...I'm now asleep.
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  107. @FREN So it would seem. It's people like him that make many of us not fond of Europeans.
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  108.  @michaelscott8567  And you have lack of reading comprehension. All my ancestors came from Europe. I am, however, not European. I'm an American. My ancestors came here to be Americans, not remain German or British. My remark was about some people presently living in Europe, not a general remark regarding everyone from the whole of European history. Seriously, this is one of the dumbest comments I've ever read
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  109. Hard to beat the Browning M1919 for longevity. Introduced in 1919 and still inservice with countries like Columbia and South Africa. Not bad for a weapon celebrating its centennial this year.
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  110.  @mp40submachinegun81  Okay, so you wanted it, and you were willing to pay the price to get it. Nothing wrong with that, but you have to admit that's different than "needing" it.
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  111. Blitz, that was a little self deprecating humor. Look it up, you too could develop a sense of humor.
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  112. My Kel Tec P-11 is not a Devel by any stretch of the imagination, but it shows how materials have advanced since 1980. The P-11 weighs 17.1 ounces and has a 12 + 1 capacity. I've shot about 500 rounds through it and it has been totally reliable. It cost a heck of lot less than Devel as well.
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  113.  @Kampfhamster81  They are already kept under lock and key in stout gun safes. If just removing the bolt makes the gun useless, why bother going through all that? Where's the bolt stored? In another safe? If a thief can get in one, he can get in the other. It's silly.
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  114. I've never understood why the US was (mostly) fully equipped with self loading rifle by Pearl Harbor, at the end of 1941, yet it took the British sixteen years to accomplish the same thing. Why this gap? There must be a reasonable explanation.
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  115. I swear I remember Springfield selling these in the early 90's for something like $200, and there seemed to be a fair number of them in stock. I wonder why there are only 12 known today?
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  116. Thank goodness I wasn't a a male born in France around 1895. The chance of surviving WWI made any other war look like a good risk. The general collapse of fertility rates after wwI in Europe affected France more than any of the other major powers, and it meant that the Great Depression affected them more and they went in WWII with a greater "shortfall" of men of military age. This led directly to the surrender of France in 1940 and all the aftereffects of that action. .
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  117. Thanks for giving us the realized prices. It's always fascinating to see how much (or little) some of these guns go for.
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  118.  @michaelscott8567  Yeah, I proofread my own posts just fine. Everything in the US is of European origin or made by Europeans? WTF has that got to with disliking the current state of many European countries? I'll ignore the fact you think Christianity, gunpowder, and lithium-ion batteries came from Europe.
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  119.  @MFGordon  Indeed, I remember these converted flintlocks still going for less than $50 from mail order houses like Kleins up to the late 70's. They were neither scarce nor collector's items. To some degree, unconverted flintlocks were even less desirable than the converted muskets since they were so difficult to use in modern times. There were plenty that were bought for the collector value though, but prices and supply don't stand still until a person who wants one shows up today and still wants to pay the prices we did 50 years ago.
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  120. I have a wonderful brother who gave me a generous monetary gift for Christmas. Part of it just went for this book. Thanks, Bud!
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  121. There was some resistance to the self loader as being nothing but an "ammo waster" in British service. The problem with the Farquhar-Hill was it really was it was too long and too heavy to be an infantry rifle. It was closer to a semiauto BAR than an infantry rifle. If the war had continued, I'm sure the gun could have been further developed with a useable magazine and had the size cut down to something closer to a Lee-Enfield in size. With the war over, the British had millions of service rifles in inventory and no pressing reason they could see for a self loader. They always viewed infantry tactics as skilled riflemen backed up by Brens and machine guns. With that mindset, training riflemen in accurate shooting was more important than a lot of lead downrange and most of it not hitting anything.
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  122. Probabily. A lot hunters in that time period would take a train or stage to their hunting grounds. The shotgun would have to be carried in their "grip", or suitcase. It was an obvious advantage not to have both ends of the gun sticking out your luggage.
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  123. There is no way in God's green earth I could complete these evolutions. Maybe 45 years ago, not today.
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  124. Confusingly enough, there was another Type 92. This was the Imperial Japanese Navy standard flexible mount gun used in multiplace aircraft. It was indeed a direct copy of the Lewis gun. The IJN and IJA used separate procurement processes but used the same Kōki date numbering system for both services. That's how we ended up with two Tpe 92's. Thwy were referred to as the Army or Navy Type 92 to lessen the confusion.
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  125. Yeah, I have a Model 94. Maybe it's me, but I spend more time dropping rounds than I do loading them.
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  126. LOL. You get a plus for that one, :-)
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  127. Bo, I don't know if this is really worth discussing with you, but stocks are not a "legal pyramid scheme". With good stocks, almost no one loses money. Everyone involved, from the company to the investor, makes money over the long term. Unless you just hate capitalism, which I suspect is the case, studying up on the stock market can help you make some money instead of whining about the people who do.
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  128. Slaw, let's start with a source that the Polish command, after beating the Germans, was going to then attack the Soviets.
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  129.  @jayzenitram9621  Form Wikipedia - "The characteristics of a quick-firing artillery piece are: Buffers to limit recoil, so the barrel can quickly return to position after being fired. A breech mechanism which allows rapid reloading Single-piece ammunition, e.g. a cartridge containing both shell and propellant, also called fixed ammunition. (This criterion was sometimes taken as the definition of quick-firing, but many quick-firing guns dispensed with it, using separate ammunition in which the shell and propellant case were loaded separately). The use of 'smokeless powder' - nitrocellulose, nitroglycerine or cordite - which created far less smoke than gunpowder, meaning that gun crews could still see their target.
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  130.  @rogerwilco2  I agree. I've looked at several tours of both WWI battlefields and WWII Normandy to the Rhine tours. This tour is in September because it's the low season with rock bottom prices. Everyone else is back from their August holidays and hotels, restaurants, and museums are mostly deserted. For what's really six days with only hotel breakfasts and just one dinner, food and drink will be a not inconsiderable extra expense. As I said in another comment, there's no star rating for the hotels, something you always find with European tours. Just a phrase like "first class accommodations" doesn't mean much. The single supplement is way too high compared to other tours, and that's not affected by the quality of the tour guide. I get the feeling Battlefield Tours set this up because they knew there would be at least 35 Gun Jesus fanboys that would pay what's about a 20% surcharge so you can pal around with him for a couple days.As long as people have the money, and spending that kind of money to be with someone you like is worth it, more power to them and the tour company. I just know I can't spend that kind of money no matter how much I like and respect Ian.
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  131. Good for you, brother. Now it's just a matter of waiting around for Youtube to decide that all channels even mentioning a gun are verboten.
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  132.  @franzschmid9079  Understood, but if someone's in the house and can find the rifle he can probably ransack the place and find the bolt. It just seems like a false sense of security.
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  133. Another example of how the framers of the Second Amendment weren't thinking of just single shot muskets.
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  134. Considering the direction of the Nazi government in 1936, Walther may have concluded that the next Olympics might not include Germany. Little did they know it would actually be twelve long years until the next Olympiad, an even longer 16 years before West Germany in was once again allowed to compete. Form then, it was another 40 years before a united Germany was finally represented in the 1992 games, something I never expected to see in my lifetime.
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  135. The point I'm trying to make is an organization like the EU, which has no law enforcement or military experience, is providing all the mandatory umbrella firearms regulations to member states like France, and France has to find ways to comply with them. France should be making their own laws that take into account their experiences in WWII.
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  136.  @johnfisk811  "Cocked it all up" is a term that makes it sound as if Churchill's decision was capricious. The British had just gone through a war with their major ally using ammunition that wasn't used by the British. That created massive logistical problems, since ammunition showing up at the front might be the wrong types for most of the guns in use at that front. Churchill was determined, and I think rightly so, not to repeat that mistake, since both countries were adopting new ammunition at about the same time. Churchill hope the US would adopt the .280 round and even the EM-2 rifle. The US was adamant the an intermediate round was not powerful enough for a battle rifle, and Canada had already committed to adopting whatever round the US chose. Australia wasn't far behind on that decision, so it was clear that the 7.62 NATO round was going to be the winner. We can argue id the round itself was really the right one but, for the first time in history, the armies of what would be major allies in war would be carrying, if not the same rifles, at least the same ammunition. It may be hard to realize looking back over seventy years what a big deal that really was. While interesting, none of this answering my original question. Why did it take so long for the British to adopt a self loading rifle? Even if we use the adoption date of the EM-2 as benchmark, that was still fourteen years after the M-1 was adopted in 1937.
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  137. One does not think of a Model 1911 as being a .22 with a shoulder stock.
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  138. Mac, I was only referring to the first wave. All the sources I've read say it 12 or 13 gliders that landed close enough to be effective in the inituial fighting. I've seen pictures of several wrecked gliders so they were apparently not all really nice landings. As for the rest of details, I don't really care.
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  139. Ian, the link to the auction goes to a Mosin Nagant rifle rather than this unicorn.
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  140.  @Jorvard  I'm just going from memory here but, having lived through the time of the Berlin Wall, I recall at least one picture of a vopo running across to the west while discarding an SKS. The vopos (Deutsche Volkspolizei) were not a typical police force. They were paramilitary, their members had military training, and they were equipped with APCs and artillery.
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  141. They are only offering to arrange a flight. It's not included in the price. If it's like other tour companies I've dealt with you won't get a cheap fare from them either.
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  142. Good enough if a big guy is running straight at you and you don't try using it as a carbine..
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  143. Sounds like there's a primer activated kid spewing in the background.
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  144.  @erikdingman9806  There are tons of them in museums. It would be difficult to go to any museum that covers early US history. and not see at least one example of the 1795 or its many variants. There are also a fair few of them available on the collector's market, just not at prices you probably want to pay. Gun collecting is like that, and the market is higher today in relative terms than in any time of my 55 years as a collector. If you want one, scare up the cash from somewhere and buy one. 50 years from now, you'll have a tidy profit.
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  145.  @ladam836  Could be, but they still wouldn't make a profit.
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  146.  @GlowRiderzEntertainment  It This isn't the Old Army pictured. It's the much smaller British Bulldog. I just tried it with a dollar bill as an indicator and the only things that stick out beyond the edges of the bill are a small portion of the barrel and small part of the swell of the bird's head grip. It was built and sold as a pocket pistol, and it feels fine in a jeans pocket. It's smaller than most modern snubbies.
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  147. BTW, "British Bulldog" describes a generic style of revolver. It wasn't a trademark of Forehand & Wadsworth. It was a trademark of Webley, but there were hundreds of thousand of unauthorized copies made made, including this one. It became the Kleenex of revolvers in the 1890's though about 1920. Unless it's a name brand like Forehand, H&R, or Iver Johnson, I wouldn't be shooting it. Some of the copies were well made, but some were terrible and downright dangerous with anything but a weak black powder load. Trouble is identifying which non-name brand was any good isn't easy.
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  148.  @matthias1031980  Actually, English is one of the few major languages that is completely genderless. All the major European languages use gender except for Italian, but even they have some bits of gender. I think it all stems from Latin. Having gone to Catholic school for 12 years, Latin was another one I was forced to learn. Many gendered words in Latin make no sense, so I just had to memorize. Of the ones I remember, a pair of standouts are garden, which is male, and tree, which is female. Seems like a tree in a garden should be female too, but not in Latin. I'm kind of glad I did learn Latin now because it makes me a better English speaker. I was a respiratory therapist for a number of years, and knowing Latin made it way easier to at least guess at the meanings of many of the medical terms we had to memorize. Other students who never took Latin were lost. Same with making good guesses about the meanings of other English terms I had never seen before. I sure hated it at the time though.
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  149.  @s1n1stersixsgaming8  Makes sense. We have plenty of those in English too. Archer, Baker, Brewer, Butcher, Carter, Clark, Cooper, Cook, Dyer, Farmer, Faulkner, Fisher, Fuller, Gardener, Glover, Head, Hunt or Hunter, Judge, Mason, Page, Parker, Potter, Sawyer, Slater, Smith, Taylor, Thatcher, Turner, Weaver, Woodman, and Wright are all family names derived from the occupations of the first families in that occupation. The occupational name eventually become the family name.
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  150. The Russian progressed from some of the simplest to the most complex firearms in the last 60 years.
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  151. Mostly FM Model 1922's along with an assortment of various Tokarev pistols.
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  152. Looks can be deceiving when you don't even take the time to look anything up. But, I think we both know you're just trolling anyway.
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  153. Kiwi, that's a good point. However, you also take the risk that a machine gun won't be legal forever so you have the risk of confiscation, much as we saw with gold coins in 1933. Semiautos and bolt actions don't have the same risk.
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  154. I'll take two - one for the bow and one for the stern.
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  155. Air Force pilots rarely carried 1911's. They were too big for the survival vests and the ammo and magazines weighed too much. Up until the Beretta 9mm, the standard gun was a S&W .38 Special of several different models, but primarily the M&P and Model 10. The standard sidearm of the Air Police also remained the .38 until the introduction of the Beretta.
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  156.  @Longfang91  Indeed, although so was the BAR. I've never had the "luck" to be able to actually fire a Chauchat, but I've shot with the BAR a fair few number of times. Only going by what I've seen in Ian's videos, the Chauchat had a much much heavier and more abrupt recoil. The long moving barrel recoil system of the Chauchat seems to make the already heavy recoil of the 30.06 that much worse. The 8mm Lebel was also no slouch in the kick department.
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  157. Makes me wonder if the former owner knew the effect of standard FMJ ammo and wanted it that way. Talk about a lot of lead downrange.
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  158.  @SwitchAndLever  You're welcome. The result of spending too much of my adult life reading about naval history. :-)
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  159. My neighbor's dad had two of these when I was a kid. He was one of the soldiers in a unit tasked with inventorying remaining German rifles and other small arms right after the war. As a reward for his work, he was able to bring back two of these .22 rifles. One was a Walthers that, from memory, looked and performed identically to the Walthers model single shot rifle shown in the video. The other was a stripper clip fed semiauto version made by BSW. It had a tiny clip that held, as I remember it, either seven or eight rounds, and it performed the same as the KAR98K stripper clip. I know he had at least 10 of these stripper clips, and my friend and I shot both the single shot and semiauto versions in Boy Scout target matches to get our target shooting merit badges. Both were in excellent condition, never having been issued, and they were great shooting guns. Unfortunately, both my friend and his dad are no longer with us, and I have no idea what happened to these rifles. At the time, we had no idea that these weren't just cooler versions of our JC Higgins .22 rifles.
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  160. I'm getting a feeling of deja vu for some reason...
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  161. It's single shot. The gunner doesn't stand behind the gun to fire. The gun layer sights the gun, gets off to the side, and it's fired using a lanyard by the gunner standing to the left hand (facing forward) side of the gun.
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  162. Looks like it's fixed now.
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  163.  @clamum  No, everything isn't included. The only meals are hotel breakfasts except for dinner the first night. There's no mention of providing any kind of beverages on the bus, and you will surely need some. I don't know what the plan is for handling lunches. Most tours like this provide some kind of box lunches so people don't get scattered all over looking for restaurants. There's no mention of including them, and certainly not at the price quoted. You'll be too tired to want to look all over an unfamiliar city for a restaurant so you'll end up eating at the hotel restaurant. That can be a pretty price choice and I see nothing about at least providing a fixed price dinner option for tour guests. If you think all you have ot do is pay your airfare and that's it you'd be in for a rude shock.
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  164.  @dennisspencer1113  The Solothurn was the Cadillac of anti tank rifles then. Several wholesalers were selling them in the same time period (1960-65) for $150 to $200 including everything - case, optics, bipop, tools, cleaning kit, a couple extra barrels, ten mags, a few practice rounds for dry firing.IIRC, you could get 20mm rounds for about $40 per 50 live rounds. I don't remember the shipping weight, but I know it had to come by truck so there was no chance sneaking it up to my room. I used to sit there panting away over the ads, but I could never convince my mom or dad I HAD to get a 20mm cannon for some reasonable purpose. Back then, you could buy a six year old Ford for $200, and I sure wasn't going to get a cannon that cost as much as a used Ford. Rats!
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  165. You're posting to the wrong video. This about a battlefield tour next September.
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  166.  @rickansell661  Having the guns kept in armories if there was really some major problem with Swiss soldiers committing suicide with them makes a lot more sense than having bits scattered around the house. However, this study (https://smw.ch/en/article/doi/smw.2018.14646/) seems to find differently, and many more suicides were associated with a military weapon after the soldier was no longer in the reserves than while he was. I just think we tend to come up with knee jerk solutions that really don't solve the apparent problem.
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  167. The Brits got close to just using a removable magazine but just didn't want to abandon the charger concept.
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  168. There were a couple guys who bought this thing for backup since we were carrying Colt Pythons at the time. I had a chance to use it once at the range. I was never a great shot, but I could usually hit a target somewhere at 20 yards. I managed one hit is this hot mess. I don't know if it even had an ejector since I had to dig out the spend rounds with a knife blade. This one was just about the worse gun I've ever seen in person.
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  169. Mac, has your local museum done any kind of publications or outreach to French historians regarding your and their data about Vercors? What's the name of the museum? Why haven't these rare photos of the battle been published by now? How exactly are you able to do excavations showing the position of landing of every glider 74 years after the event? Are you an archeologist? Since you believe that all books have mistakes based on them using the first book written on the battle (and what is the name of that first book?), what are you doing to correct what you believe is misinformation about the battle? As you can see, now we have another commenter who thinks he has the right information and you don't. We are never going to get anywhere with the history of this battle until we can all agree on which sources have the true and correct information.
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  170. I have seen his book, "Témoignages sur le Vercors Drome Isere". Are you saying his book has all these errors he only corrected in the museum? How did he do that? Did he do some kind of addendum in writing? Is there a way I could get a copy? Can write to the museum? What is the name of the museum? [Corrected typos]
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  171. So, n to even a picture of the guns? We need to buy the book to see it?
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  172. That gun seems to share a lot of things with the H&R Model 700 .22 magnum I had when I was a kid in the late 1950's. It was a sweet gun for varmint hunting and I wish I still had it.
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  173. I remember when the first Action Arms .308 Galil rifles showed up for sale in the early 80's. They were crazy expensive for the time, something like $800 when you could get a G3 for $500. I can see from the Rock Island price estimate that I should have bought one then. Rats!
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  174. Very strange gun to be produced in the 1920s when Winchester and Remington pump guns and Browning semiautomatic shotguns dominated the world. I wonder what they thought was their target market?
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  175. A variant of this gun was used on the German Navy commerce raiders of WWII and crews reported it was a very successful weapon.
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  176. The North Vietnamese and Vietcong used MAT-49's captured from the French. Ian says this in the video.
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  177. Goodness me. I'll change it right away.
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  178.  @tonyverdechi9157  The original M1921 was the water cooled version of the .50 cal machine gun. It took another 10 years to come up with the M2HB, a reliable air cooled version for ground use.
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  179.  @mp40submachinegun81  Why did you "need" to have one? Or was that same as you "wanted" to have one?
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  180.  @smartacus88  You're generally right, but I've had success finding shops that have been around a long time and asking owners to let me look at their old and ugly inventory, since I'm a gunsmith and like fixing up old stuff. You'd be surprised what some shops, especially those in small towns, have had on the back shelves for 30 or 40 years.
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  181.  @electricpantalones  Give me a break. You have no idea what a pawn shop is? Do you live in the US? No, it's not a specific chain. Learn to use Google and drive from town to town. You'll find plenty of pawn shops.
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  182. I have an 1895 Hamilton 23 jewel railroad pocket watch that has guts about half as complicated as the clockwork of the G11. I still wouldn't want to carry it it into battle with me. The downside is it doesn't look like a space gun.
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  183. Interesting and mechanically weird gun, but I think I'll stick with my Ithaca 37. Nothing headed back toward my face or potentially attacking my fingers.
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  184.  @Deadtileyedie  I've probably shot 200 rounds through it over the years and the lockup is still tight. It seems like the light smokeless load works safely. The casting quality and workmanship gives me confidence the guin was built to conservative standards. I wouldn't mind a modern gun in the same size and style in .38 Special to stick in a shorts pocket when I'm out for a walk during the summer.
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  185.  @Deadtileyedie  A lot of BB's were in .44 since so many repeating rifles were also in that caliber. I've handled a folding trigger example of a no-name BB and it felt distinctly fragile compared to mine. A gun like the one you had was a good display piece but shooting it...I think I'd only do with the gun in a vise and a 30 foot lanyard. :-)
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  186. Just and FYI. Every time you fire a round, your audio drops to about zero.
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  187. It appears from the comments that I'm one of the few people here today that doesn't play shoot em up video games and is older than fourteen.
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  188.  @Schmidt54  Indeed, things like that are the reason I switched to Spanish class. My dad was German, so I thought I should learn the language. I gave up after two years. I just don't have a German speaking mind. There are still a few funny ones I remember though, like a hospital ambulance being a krankenhaus krankenwagen. I just chuckle every time I say it. I used to drive my wife crazy yelling out "It's a krankenwagen" when an ambulance went past. :-)
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  189.  Mississippi Ditch Fisher  My knowledge of German was about enough to ask for directions to the john when I was visiting there. My dad's relatives were impressed I even knew that much.
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  190.  @matthias1031980  LOL. I often thought as much trying to remember if a table was male or female. The biggest problem for gendered language is figuring out what gender a new noun should have. There was quite a battle in France while "purifying" the language from mostly English invaders. One such word was "computer". There were many suggestions about a translation, but it was IBM in 1955 that came up with "Ordinatrice électronique". That's feminine. Most French dictionaries now have it as just "ordinateur", so now it's masculine. However, most French speakers still call it a "computer". So much for forcing people to use the "official" word.
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  191.  @Schmidt54  You're more than welcome. I've always been amazed at how well many Europeans under about 35 can speak English. All I had to do was stand around for five minutes looking confused and someone who could speak English would come up and ask if they could help. I've visited 36 different countries and always took the time to learn about 20 of the most used phrases so I could communicate, at least a little. The country that was the hardest was Thailand. It has its own alphabet, and the language has nothing to do with any romance language. I did manage to learn things like "Do you have a room tonight?" or "Where is a good restaurant?". Thai's are naturally a courteous people, but knowing just those few phrases got me a room when there were none to be had or a table in restaurant when other tourists were told it would be a two hour wait. It doesn't take much, and most people are just pleased you've even made the effort.
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  192. I own an Astra revolver that's an identical copy of the Model 29 with a 6.5 " barrel. It's so identical that some parts like the grips and parts of the trigger control group are interchangeable. In my younger cop days, I also owned a real Model 29, and the Astra workmanship, fit, and finish is almost identical to a Model 29. It's chambered in .45 Colt, and the weight and barrel length make it quite a pleasant and powerful gun to shoot. Astra made these as kind of a poor man's Dirty Harry gun, and about 4,000 were produced in several calibers from .38 Special up. I think they made a limited run of .44 Magnums as well. They aren't rare, but also not common, and examples in excellent condition got for $500-$600. It's a nice alternative to the Model 29 in price and shootability for most people.
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  193. Much too expensive for an average shooter to buy
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  194. Anything made after 1986 isn't legal. That's why this one is semi-auto. There seems to be a general idea you can buy any full auto weapon with just a $200 NFA transfer stamp. It's not true.
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  195. The FRA is pretty clear with a May, 1986 date for an automatic weapon to be legal for possession or ownership. There are exceptions for some classes of dealers and manufacturers, and there may be other exceptions I'm not aware of them. Unfortunately, machine guns are a bit out of my price range.
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  196. No. The shotgun shell that worked with the LeMat is about half the length of a typical 20 gauge shell. There's not enough room between the hammer and loading gate on the revolver for a full size shell to fit. I rather doubt the barrel could safely fire a modern 20 gauge shell in any case. I've personally never seen one, but I'm told a company n France still makes LeMat shotgun shells.
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  197. An additional problem was the political situation in Czechoslovakia. The Czechs were already ruled by a socialist dictatorship right after the war, and the Soviets clearly had designs on the county. By February, 1948, the Soviets staged a coup and installed a pro-Soviet government. I imagine no other country wanted to risk their rifle production a country that unstable.
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  198. Smurf, there are times when being dickish is appropriate.
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  199. What a great video, Ian. I can't imagine doing this kind of work. For silver engraving, soaking the area with Coca Cola and then blotting it off will remove most of the oxidation without changing the silver color.
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  200. Trevor, did you happen to feel a breeze blowing past your head when you wrote that comment? There's a movie called "Dr. Strangelove that will explain everything in this thread.
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  201. He wasn't kidding. Infowars actually sells that crap. Watch any Alex Jones video and there's usually a five minute commercial for this kind of thing at the end.
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  202. It was introduced in 1935 as the gas gun version shown here. There was a machine shotgun and a 37 mm introduced just before WWII.
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  203. I think the biggest problem with caseless ammo is always going to be production costs and replacement of existing ammo stocks. We have about 125 years of experience producing cased ammo and and have gotten production costs down to ridiculously low prices. That's a big deal when a production contract for 40 million rounds ins't unusual. Having to tool up for producing caseless ammo and cucking the hundreds of millions of 5.56 rounds we have in inventory just isn't cost effective when caseless ammo is one of those "gee whiz" kind of solutions to a problem that doesn't exist.
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  204. I'm a ham radio operator. That harpoon gun would be fantastic for launching a wire antenna over the biggest branch of the tallest tree in your vicinity. I wonder if this would count as discharging a firearm in city limits?
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  205. Mobius, if this can only fire a .38 special blank, I think it wouldn't be considered a firearm at all, at least for what most laws say about firearms.
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  206. Well, I've been watching Ian long enough that I did recognize it as a French carbine. Not much else though.
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  207. The biggest problem with water cooled MG's was the tank getting holed by a stray round or shrapnel. Without the water jacket, the gun was reduced to firing nothing but short bursts before the barrel overheated. The other issue is water supply itself. Even in areas where water was available, it had to be put in cans and lugged to the gun since it boiled off about two gallons an hour with intermediate rates of fire and more like five gallons with continuous fire. Even in areas with plentiful water, it was common for the soldiers to urinate into water tins and use the urine for cooling since it obviated lugging cans down to the water supply and back In desert areas, urine was the primary coolant supply. One of the upsides in areas where water was used as a coolant was each gun provided about a gallon of very hot water when the action was over so the guys were able to do some washing up and shaving with hot water that didn't require a fire with the attendant smoke that gave away a position.
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  208. Side loading and tube magazines had been around for at least 35 years in 1928. It wasn't a new feature.
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  209. Most intermediate caliber rifles of the period used stripper clips and five round magazines. I can't imagine there would have been much of a question about that round performing in the same manner, It was just an obsolete loading method the Swiss used when most other countries had long abandoned it.
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  210. 楊程鈞 I meant other experimental intermediate round guns. Was it difficult to infer that missing word?
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  211. Laird, Rockhumper is mostly correct about gun values. Guns don't always gain value any more than other commodities. S&W model 29 is a good example. It's the "dirty Harry" .44 Magnum, and S&W couldn't keep up with demand in the early to mid-70's. The list price was $750 but many new in the box guns were going for $2,000. Those same guns can be bought for $850 to $1,000 in good condition, not much of a return from an investment held 45 to 50 years. Good guns will generally at least keep pace with inflation, and buying truly rare variants quickly before it becomes generally known can bring a nice return.
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  212. BWAHAhaha... April Fool!
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  213. The hammer price was $21,750. The buyer had to pay an extra 10% auction fee so about $23,500 all together. I suspect two people wanted this real bad and there was a bidding war. While the gun is fairly rare, that's still a very high price for a current service military rifle. If its just going in a collection, the follow on cost is nil but, as a shooter, you're looking at $40 mags and steel case ammo that's about twice as much as standard .223 brass. As Ian said, using the 62 grain brass case ammo was a prescription for failure to feed and extract problems. Compared to the Steyr Aug with optics for about $2,500, this is a pretty finicky and expensive piece as a shooter.
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  214. It's too bad the extractor didn't operate when the gun broke apart like what we see with a Webley. It may have been more successful without the extra extraction step. Still, it was a very modern revolver for the times.
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  215. And here I thought the BAR kicked a lot. Given the slow rate of fire combined with the horrendous kick, it's not hard to see why the Chauchat wasn't exactly loved by US troops. •
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  216. Not surprisingly, it would appear the server is getting hit pretty good. I have yet to get any of the sections to download successfully. It will probably improve in a few days.
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  217. Ian, you are one lucky SOB! :-)
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  218. Holy Cow! Rock Island is valuing the first example up to $16,000 and the second at up to $12,000! Those seem like amazing prices for unidentified rifles with zero provenance.
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  219. One nice thing about owning an AK is that once you understand it you also understand about half the other select fire rifles in the world/
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  220. This was made when the S&W Model 3 DA revolver was already an international success. This is one of those guns designed by an engineer to show he could do it. It seems like it never had any realistic hope of sales, it was too large, too complicated, and, I'm sure, too expensive. The only thing I can assume is this was made to get around S&W and Colt revolver patents.
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  221. Thank you, Ian, very educational.
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  222. You lucky dog!
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  223.  Superdude70  That's not what he said. You need to listen again.
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  224.  @davidlatorre9829  Which is not the same as none were ever produced. Since I shot one in 1957-58, I know at least some were produced.
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  225.  Superdude70  Okay, then it's your understanding of the word "production". Simply because it was never put in series production doesn't mean it was never made at all.
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  226. This is what happens when a bunch of soldiers are sitting around wondering what would happen IF....
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  227. At least every sergeant's unit would need one of these. In a large department, that's potentially millions of dollars worth of rounds. My department trialed these when Taser was developing the round. It did a good job, having enough force to knock a suspect down, or at least to make it hurt like a bitch, even if the the electrical connection failed. It had a lot of innovative ideas, but the cost was going to be astronomical, and Taser hadn't even yet developed a training round. This kind if thing will return someday in light of the widespread rioting this year.
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  228. Sometimes staying inside the box isn't such a bad idea...
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  229. After a couple hours of combat, you could build a defensive position just out of ejected links.
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  230.  @1Notten  It does include lodging but you have to share a room. Unless you have your wife or friend going (and they have to pull the full cost as well), you'll have to bunk in with a stranger or pay the $580 private room cost.
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  231. I remember the days in 1965 when I could buy a complete Boys outfit including wood case, a couple mags, 20 rounds of ammo, a cleaning kit, tool kit, the bipod, and the skids, all for about $100. How I wish I would have picked up one then
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  232. Wait,, what date is it?
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  233. It has no feed ramp and no extractor. There's no way that a Ruger rotary mag will work reliably. My Ruger 10-22 will fire hundreds of rounds in a session, but that's because the rifle was built to handle the tricky feeding of the rotary mag. Without an extractor, the case won't get out of the way before another round tries to get in the chamber. I've seen the same thing with cheap aftermarket mags in the 10-22. The choice of magazine was the real downfall for this gun...well, in addition to all the other weird "features".
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  234. Thanks for these WWI fortification videos, Ian. I can't imagine any war in the past three centuries that was worse to fight for the common soldier. Hunkered down inside that concrete and steel with hundreds of artillery rounds landing every minute with no place to run. If you survived the initial bombardment, you knew the next thing coming were waves of the enemy and hand to hand combat in the trenches. I think I would have thought seriously of suicide and getting it over with.
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  235.  @Kampfhamster81  I'm not Swiss so I only know what I read. My understanding was the rifle had to be kept somewhere in the house under lock and key. Maybe that's some kind of closet rather than a safe. The question remains - where is the bolt kept? If the rifle isn't secured against theft, how is the bolt any more secure?
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  236.  @franzschmid9079  It seems long past the day that 500,000 Swiss soldiers streaming out of their houses with a rifle and 50 rounds of ammo are really going to be fighting off invaders anyway. Keep them at an armory or some other base where soldiers will have to go to pick up other equipment anyway. It seems like a Swiss tradition that just won't die.
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  237. It looks cool but, in the real world, I'll still take my 870
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  238. I used to teach map reading. the easiest way I found to teach people how to read a topo map waws have them use cardboard and glue to construct a 3D model of the a map. GPS and satellite photos aside, knowing how to read a topo map is still basic to being able to navigate off concrete.
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  239. LOL Rowboat = launch Floor = deck
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  240. A working home production handgun would have held obvious advantages for countries with international arms embargoes against them. Why they chose stainless steel castings for a gun that was not going to have much in the way of sales outside the area is a mystery. Selling a gun with poor rifling as a feature is kind of an uphill battle in the best of times.
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  241. That rifle has more and bigger springs than any two other guns I've ever seen. I can't understand how SIG ever thought this could have been a military or commercial release.
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  242. Seems like an ideal starting place for a good machine pistol. Not the heaviest bullet but you could throw a lot of lead down range and not run out of ammo very quickly.
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  243. The problem is that many of the people that could afford the tour couldn't tolerate the altitude and many of the people that could tolerate the altitude don't have the kind of money a tour like this would cost. Kind of a Catch-22, and it's one of the reasons Italian WWI tours aren't very popular.
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  244. To Bias, have you ever been told you have difficulty understanding satire?
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  245.  @ScottKenny1978  I understand that, but the US had millions of 1903 Springfields and 1917 Enfields on hand as well. That didn't stop the Army from standardizing on the Grand in 1937. I also realize the Axis armies mostly had bolt actions in service most of the war. Again, that doesn't explain why the US took the jump and the other countries, but especially Britain, did not.
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  246.  @ScottKenny1978  At least as many people were unemployed in Britain during the Depression as in the US, so I find that explanation hard to accept. As far as a walking fire rifle, that must have had appeal to every army, so why was the US the only one adopt the self loader as standard before WWII? I keep reading why the M-1 was invented, not why is was the only issued as standard to a large army. I'm still interest in particular why it took the British so long to come to the same conclusion, even as they started fighting guerilla wars against opponents armed with the likes of the AK-47 and surplus StG 44s.
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  247.  @ScottKenny1978  Whoa, wait a minute. The RN didn't have fire resistant bulkheads on ships in 1982? I've been an amatuer naval historian for about fifty years and never heard of such a thing. And how exactly would a bulkhead be made fireproof? The nature of a steel bulkhead is such that it's already about as fireproof as it's ever going to get. Every RN warship in service in 1982 had steel bulkheads. The only aluminum in use was for some superstructure components, and there's no evidence the they contributed to the sinking or fires on any of those ships. I'm going to need a link before I buy into that. The uS Congress was famous for being the most penny pinching legislature on earth. They never wanted to spend money when there was any way to avoid it. The M-1 was also not a cheap gun to make, especially when compared t the 1903. To some extent, this was part of the many make work programs initiated during the Depression, but the Army was able to convince some of their powerful friends on the Armed Services Committee that a self loading rifle could save money if we had to enlist few men, with each man having the firepower of two riflemen carrying the 1903. Maybe the British never made that pitch to the government? The British saw war as closer in the horizon that the US since we expected to remain neutral even if war broke out, yet we had the better battle rifle in terms of firepower. I've still yet to see a cogent explanation for this.
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  248.  @GeorgiaBoy1961  The US had studied the SMLE when they were looking at an SLR. The idea of a 10 round capacity was one of the goals, but having the entire 10 rounds loaded from a single enbloc clip. This worked with the original .276 round, but the 30.06 was just enough larger the designers couldn't find a way to make enough room in receiver for ten rounds without having to make the floor plate extend below the bottom of the rifle, something they wanted to avoid, since a smooth lower profile made it easier to shoulder and stack the rifle. Thus, the eight round clip was the compromise
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  249. If an experimental rifle had cost me an eye, I think i would have gone into woodworking, or anything but experimental guns.
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  250. Yeah, but eye protection works pretty well with wood. Not so much with flying gun parts.
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  251. Technically innovative but much too late and much too complicated. I suspect it was also much too expensive.
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  252. This all sounds very complicated. Probably a better marking system than the French ever had for their rifles.
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  253. Given the jungle environment of SE Asia, something like the AR would have been invented. It may have been an FAL carbine in some kind of intermediate cartridge, but we wouldn't have spent almost 20 years in SE Asia flailing around with a full length 7.62 rifle going up against the AK.
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  254. It would be nice if you would provide a link to that previous video you mentioned.
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  255.  @ForgottenWeapons  It also doesn't show them if you have annotations turned off. It's a lot more reliable to put a link in the description.
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  256. Ian has already said just him.
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  257.  @mfree80286  Indeed. I wasn't trying to say the British should have gone to a removable magazine then, only that they were taking steps that were leading to one. By 1949 the result of British and Belgian engineering produced two world beating rifles, the FN FAL and the British EM-2. Both had removable mags and the EM-2 had what should have been the standard NATO round. It was US resistance to an intermediate round that produced the less than ideal M-14 and stuck Britain with a semiautomatic battle rifle in the L1A1 SLR
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  258. Ian, I'm sure you're aware of the situation with Patreon. I've cancelled my account with them so they are no longer an option for me to support you. Given that your channel is concerned with a currently unpopular subject, I hope you can find an alternate payment platform that will pass on our money without trying to determine the content of the channel.
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  259.  @Punisher9419  I'm about to be 73 and I can't afford it. I think it's lot more likely to be filled with trust fund students, software millionaires, and 50 year old stockbrokers than old people.
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  260.  @ramjb  I don't know how I ended up on such an old video, but I've been studying naval history as a hobby for about 60 years now. My other hobby is amateur radio, for with I hold an extra class license. I take particular interest in radar history. and the technical aspects of radar. The Graf Spee was equipped in Fumo-22 radar, not Seetakt. That radar set was on Deutschland, and both ships were used as sort of test beds for each type of radar. The Fumo 22 could have been used for gun laying, but the radar only had better than 50 meter circular probability of error out to about 8 kilometers, and German optical rangefinder had similar results out to about 14 kilometers in clear weather. The Kriegsmarine was interested in radar only for surface search and range estimation in 1939, so Graf Spee's gunnery accuracy was the result of superior German optics and crew training, not radar. The Admiralty actually did display a keen interest in the radar on the Graf Spee, and sent an experienced radar engineer to the River Plate to inspect the radar and electronic systems that remained. Unfortunately, his report has never surfaced. If and when it does, it will answer a lot of questions about exactly what kind of radar the Graf Spee actually had. Photos of the relatively small mattress radar antenna on the AGS had the British worried that Germans had a working microwave radar or, even more alarming, had perfected the cavity magnetron the British were working on. What they did find was the Fumo-22 operated at 600 MHz, a far higher frequency than the radars in use by British warships at the time, which operated in the 43-75 MHz range. The British were unaware that the Germans had developed an Ultra High Frequency (UHF) radar, and the knowledge gained from the Graf Spee allowed the British to develop jammers in only a few months. The British Type 79 operated at 43 MHz. Since higher frequencies required much higher power input, and the transmitting tubes of the day were incapable of high power inputs, the Fumo-22, with an input of only about 150 watts, had a range of about 20 kilometers on a good day, and usually about half that. The ranging when a target was located was far more accurate than a Type 79, but it was not far enough out to make it practical for any kind of radar gun control. However, the Type 79 operated at 20 kilowatts, so it could locate ship size targets out to an average of 60 kilometers. It was a tradeoff between range and accuracy in 1939, but the problem was solved with the British perfection of the cavity magnetron and the type 271 radar in 1941. The Germans never even came close to catching up after that.
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  261. I swear my Ruger 10/22 has more recoil than the Type 96 Nambu, If the gun does that well with soft points it should a really outstanding job with FMJ ammo.
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  262.  @axelpatrickb.pingol3228  None of those survived beyond 1945? None of the men born in 1910 were casualties in WWII. Sure. Right.
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  263. I know that cameras don't have great sound systems but it still seemed awfully quiet compared to firing the same rounds from a Beretta 92.
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  264.  RocketSurgeon  I can see you've never fired one of these. Just watch the problems Ian had trying to reload.
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  265. There is also a Dutch police pistol that Ian did a previous video on that has a safety. I think the idea was that a revolver with a safety is more "safe" than a revolver without one.
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  266. Yeah, do it, Ian. I'd love to learn more about movie prop guns, and you are best guy on Youtube to give us the straight dope.
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  267. Ah, so four gliders didn't have a real nice landing then. Your post made it seem as if every one came in nice and soft and all landed exactly where they were supposed to land. As for the rest of the details, I have never seen an order of battle for the forces that landed at Vacours that was that detailed. What is your source for those details?
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  268. Okay, now we have badweetabix coming up with a completely different set of numbers than Mac couy. Bad, I'll ask you the same thing I asked Mac, what is your source for this information and provide me a link.
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  269. Thanks for posting a timeline of the questions and answers. I'm not equally interested in all the topics, so the timeline helps me jump ahead to the questions I'm most interested in.
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  270.  @jamesjanson6129  That may be it. I'll look it up. My memory is obviously not as good as it could be, but the last time I saw that picture was at least 50 years ago, and I remember a vopo escaping with his SKS, but i could very well be wrong.
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  271. How about "Street Sweeper" as a dumb name?
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  272. The Ton Ton Macoute wasn't part of the army, more like Papa Doc's private mafia. All the pictures I've seen of them in action, they are using Mauser pattern rifles. By 1957, the army was equipped almost exclusively with M1 Garands with a smattering for various submachine guns, including Thompson's, Grease Guns, and Masdens. Maybe this was a purchase made for the Ton Ton Macoute and not the army.
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  273.  @semirzerzour9966  No problem. Your English is far better than many Americans who have it as their supposedly first language.
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  274. Sure seems like the suppressor didn't do much.
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  275. Hans Muller  Hans, thanks for the rundown on Swedish gun laws. It may seem to you that the rules are pretty simple and uncomplicated. To me as an American, they are overly complicated, must cost quite a bit of money to comply with, and seem to have a certain amount of difficulty that's there to discourage gun ownership without jumping through a lot of hoops. You say you don't have a need for guns for personal defence. I find it difficult to believe that being Swedish somehow has changed basic human nature, so people there don't try to rob, assault, and murder other people. That's why I own weapons. So far, after having guns for over 50 years, their only use has been at the range. I hope it stays that way, but owning guns, to me, is no different than owning homeowner's insurance. I hope the house doesn't ever burn down, I have fire extinguishers to help stop that from happening but, should the worst come, I want to have enough insurance to make sure I can go on with my life.
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  276. Akshay Anand  I'm pretty sure you understand the other reasons m8.
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  277. Akshay Anand  umm, yes, you do. I'm not going to elaborate on Ian's channel since his goal is to keep it non-political. There are hundreds of videos about the current situation in Sweden if you really are this ignorant.
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  278. Send a message to PewDiePie. I'm sure he can help you out.
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  279. It's not all that difficult to make black powder. You just need saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal. Saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, is available in fertilizer and is used in food preparation and storage. You can generally get it at a drugstore just about anywhere. Same thing with sulphur. It's widely used as a pesticide known as "dusting sulphur" and is pure enough for use in gunpowder without grinding up matcheads, a good way to burn down your house. Believe it or not, I made black powder when I was 13 years old as part of my Boy Scout firearms merit badge. How times have changed.
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  280.  @therideneverends1697  In 1950's America, it was a valuable skill. In 2018 America, I'd sure never be doing it as part of the Boy Scouts, and I'd probably labeled a terrorist for even tryng it.
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  281.  @therideneverends1697  Given the BSA's current financial problems and pending bankruptcy, I imagine teaching teenagers how to make black powder is the last ting they's want to do.
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  282. I imagine the weight and swing of the bipod doesn't help when shooting from the shoulder.
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  283. ​ wingracer 16 Steve starts arranging extra mags while shouting "Nice!".
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  284. Ian was about a hundredth of a second away from a negligent discharge with the S model.
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  285. "Not interesting, terrible video". Feel better, Maybe?
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  286.  @jamesrae5351  I haven't posted on this thread for eight months. You've NEVER posted on this thread until now. What exactly is your problem?
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  287.  Superdude70  Why do you bring up a thread from 11 months ago? Get bent.
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  288. So we have a gun designed to look like something it's not for people that just have to have one.
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  289. My former department had one of these specifically for breaching, as Ian said. The SWAT guys were the custodians, and it was used at least four times that I remember. This was back in the 80's and early 90's when we had clandestine drug labs all over the county, and some of them had two or even three door systems to prevent a typical raiding team from getting in. Unfortunately, I was just a grunt, so I never got he chance to fire one, but I did see the results of using it. Our armorer was a top notch reloader, and he came up with round similar to the Hatton. It had a slug made with frangible aluminum in some kind of binder. The details were on a need to know basis, and grunts didn't need to know. They raided a house modified by a well known speed "manufacturer", and he had set up three steel doors with six hinges each, all chrome steel. After our raid, the hinges were not only destroyed, but the slug tore the underlying sistered wood door frames apart. They went through eleven of the twelve rounds before they were in. It was a very impressive performance.
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  290. The problem is few corporations want to support a firearms channel in this climate. Once the firearms related companies are tapped, the well will be dry.
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  291. It's seem like your noise cancelling mike is getting overwhelmed by the blast so we don't hear your first sentence or two when you stop shooting.
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  292. The G11 Weebs are out in full force for Christmas!
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  293. If I was actually concerned about carrying the most effective round in a semiautomatic pistol, it would be a .357 Sig, not a ,50 that only offers an increased bullet weight.
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  294. What a handful that thing must have been trying to hit the attacking tiger.
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  295. Dang! 2000 videos. That is a heck of a lot of work, and well appreciated.
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  296. Talk about going from a guy who.just liked French rifles to real celebrity! Congrats, Ian, AKA, "Gun Jesus".
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  297. Oh, no. Anyone but C&Rsenal. Not hour long videos where we can't get Othais to shut up except for some cleavage shots from Mae. Not hour long videos regardless of subject. Ian, this is going to be a disaster.
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  298. I have no idea about the history of the gun but, having bought and sold a few Webleys in my time, it has a nicer finish and nicer grips than any Webley I've ever seen. Webley was never good at that kind of bright mirror finish bluing. Makes me wonder if it was a custom job for one owner.
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  299. Even at this late date, most police officers still want a Remington 870, Ithaca 37, or similar pump shotgun. There's a calming effect on suspects when you rack a round in the chamber, and we prefer a shotgun with as few trick parts as possible. Some of the guys would spend hours tricking out their patrol rifle but wouldn't want Franchi shotgun. We wanted a shotgun that looked mean but was as simple as possible to get into action. You'll never be under more stress than having to use a shotgun in combat, and the last thing I would have wanted was two weird safeties and magazine disconnect.
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  300. Very cool. I had no idea any of these were still around and operating.
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  301. Dang, the muzzle climb on full auto seems pretty bad for 5.56, but at least the gun works.
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  302.  @zombieranger3410  "to move around quietly in a place trying not to be seen or heard, such as an animal does when hunting" In this case, it's hunting old guns as prey without letting on to the owner the real value of what he may have in stock.
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  303. Well, that sucks.
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  304. A heavy, not very accurate, and not very comfortable semi automatic copy of an MP-38 for $5000 and up, depending on country. I think I'd spend the money on a real historic firearm instead.
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  305. Colt had metallic cartridge revolvers out by 1871. I really don't understand how a double barrel pistol could have sold well in 1877.
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  306. Well, everyone has their own idea of a fun way to spend the weekend. :-)
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  307. That thing looks more steampunk than yesterday's weird pistol.
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  308. It's videos like this that got you a million subs. Congratulations.
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  309. And just when I thought I'd have seen just about every useless variation of a gun ever made, along comes a steampunk Sten gun.
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  310. Maybe it just doesn't matter with this series, but the auto translate does a terrible job. I hope this makes more sense to Russian speakers.
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  311. I'm glad there are subtitles.
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  312. The ammo even sounds too hot. I guess the Turk's idea was just to deafen the opposition.
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  313. The General Motors FM-1/2 version of the Grumman F4F Wildcat was used on escort carriers to hunt and kill German subs. The number of .50 caliber guns was reduced to four from six since the Navy found four guns was more than sufficient to seriously damage or sink a sub. The main advantage was so many more rounds could be carried with four instead of six guns, and that gave the aircraft enough ammo to continuously engage a surfaced sub, cause enough damage to keep it on the surface, and then sink it with a combination of machine guns fire and the six rockets carried by most FM's. Gun camera films of them attacking a German sub with "only" four guns shows the power of the Browning .50.
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  314. The most reliable magazine I've ever uses is the rotary mag for my Ruger 10-22. I bought mine in 1964 when I turned 17, and I've run at least 5,000 rounds through the rifle since then. I have two mags I swap out every so often, but they are the original two mags I bought in 1964. I've recently supplemented them with a 30 round Ruger magazine. In all that time, I've never had any failure associated with the magazine, and both my original mags still run today just like when I shot my first rounds through them.
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  315. And so it starts. Instead of Ian giving us compact and knowledgeable videos about guns and gun history, we will have Othais rambling on enough to make this a one hour and fourteen minute video. This collaboration is going to be a long term disaster for Forgotten Weapons.
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  316. I wonder what Marston would think of the whole concept of "steampunk"?
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  317. I'd really like to see some testing on the various type of surplus 7.62x39 ammo. There must be more of that available as surplus than all the other surplus combined.
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  318. I'm glad you're one of the authors, Ian. While i don't dispute Larry Vicker's gun knowledge, I find his writing in books where he was the only author were not easy to follow.
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  319. What the heck are all those white stripes for? Disassembly reminds me of trying to get out the motherboard in an old HP laptop I used to own. It really looks like it was supposed to be a high tech rendition of a zip gun made in a garage somewhere.
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  320.  DeVon Taruex  Damn autocorrect. You'll be sorry when I can come back from the grave 25 years from now and go on a shooting spree!
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  321. ROF from the magazine sounds almost identical to the belt feed.
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  322. Having only telescopic sights make sense for a civilian hunting rifle. I don't know that it makes much sense for the security market. Most shots in that environment will be snap shots at fairly close range, an ideal situation for iron sights with maybe some tritium sights. A telescopic sight would be a liability in that circumstance.
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  323. Apparently there were metallurgy problems with the gun. The would break extractors and firing pins regularly, but only in below freezing weather. The raid on Columbus occured on March 9, 1916. I don't know what the actual weather was that day but Columbus is relatively warm in winter. The average low for March is 39. The guns may have run well because the weather was more to their liking.
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  324. https://www.ammoland.com/2017/06/7-62-nato-vs-308-winchester-ammo-whats-the-difference/#axzz5aa9hRQHR
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  325.  @Schmidt54  Well, English is no walk in the park for a non-native English speaker to learn either, and English can be a very convoluted language. One of the reasons I like Spanish is most of it is straightforward, except for the things they have imported from English, except for that whole gender thing, something that gave me no end of trouble with German too.
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  326.  @Schmidt54  You write better and have a better command of English than 99% of the native speakers I know. You're right, it is personal investment of time, talent, and sweat that really determines how good you'll be at any language. I think the difference in Europe is you can drive eight hours and be in three different countries speaking three different languages. Learning different languages is almost a necessity. Over here, I can drive for five days and still be in the same country and speaking mostly the same language. People in the US don't see it as necessity to learn another language, and they are the poorer for it.
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  327.  @gustavmeyrink_2.0  At least Italian isn't stuck with genders for everything like we see in French or German. That's interesting that you say English is the easiest language to learn. Of my non-native English speaking friends, about half agree and half say it;s really terrible to learn. English has more non-standard spelling, pronunciation, a grammar rules then almost any major language. The only way to learn those is memorize them. I suspect those good at memorization think English is an easy language to learn.
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