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

  1.  @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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  2. Very unpleasant looking guns. They remind me of a Sten gun with a vertical magazine.
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  3. 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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  4. Rats! Fat fingers did it again.
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  5. 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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  6.  @MichaelBerthelsen  Shh...quiet...I'm now asleep.
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  7. @FREN So it would seem. It's people like him that make many of us not fond of Europeans.
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  8.  @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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  9. 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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  10.  @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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  11. Blitz, that was a little self deprecating humor. Look it up, you too could develop a sense of humor.
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  12. 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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  13.  @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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. There is no way in God's green earth I could complete these evolutions. Maybe 45 years ago, not today.
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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. LOL. You get a plus for that one, :-)
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30.  @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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  31. 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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  32.  @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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  33. Another example of how the framers of the Second Amendment weren't thinking of just single shot muskets.
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36.  @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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  37. One does not think of a Model 1911 as being a .22 with a shoulder stock.
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  38. 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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  39. Ian, the link to the auction goes to a Mosin Nagant rifle rather than this unicorn.
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  40.  @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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. Sounds like there's a primer activated kid spewing in the background.
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  44.  @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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  45.  @ladam836  Could be, but they still wouldn't make a profit.
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  46.  @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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  47. 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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  48.  @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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  49.  @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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  50. The Russian progressed from some of the simplest to the most complex firearms in the last 60 years.
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