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

  1. Mostly FM Model 1922's along with an assortment of various Tokarev pistols.
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. I'll take two - one for the bow and one for the stern.
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  5. 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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  6.  @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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  7. 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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  8.  @SwitchAndLever  You're welcome. The result of spending too much of my adult life reading about naval history. :-)
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  9. 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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  10. I'm getting a feeling of deja vu for some reason...
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  11. 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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  12. Looks like it's fixed now.
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  13.  @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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  14.  @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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  15. You're posting to the wrong video. This about a battlefield tour next September.
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  16.  @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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  17. The Brits got close to just using a removable magazine but just didn't want to abandon the charger concept.
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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. So, n to even a picture of the guns? We need to buy the book to see it?
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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. The North Vietnamese and Vietcong used MAT-49's captured from the French. Ian says this in the video.
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  27. Goodness me. I'll change it right away.
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  28.  @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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  29.  @mp40submachinegun81  Why did you "need" to have one? Or was that same as you "wanted" to have one?
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  30.  @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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  31.  @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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34.  @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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  35.  @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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  36. Just and FYI. Every time you fire a round, your audio drops to about zero.
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  37. 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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  38.  @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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  39.  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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  40.  @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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  41.  @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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  42. 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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  43. Much too expensive for an average shooter to buy
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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. Smurf, there are times when being dickish is appropriate.
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  49. 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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  50. 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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