Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1.  @notschramm3461  A Co 1-50th here, 3rd Plt "Terminators". It would be many years later when I learned the true meaning of SPORTS: SLAP the soldier PULL him around the corner OBSERVE for witnesses RELEASE the soldier TELL no one SEEK legal advice
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  2. Ha ha! You win for today veli!
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  3.  @redwolfexr  There isn't a loophole to exercising our rights. The Attorney General and Congress were allowed to get away with violating the Bill of Rights in 1934, and now we have to correct their criminal misconduct by whatever means necessary.
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  4. Wait until you have to carry linked 7.62 NATO as part of a gun team in a Weapons Squad in a Light Infantry, Airborne, or Airmobile unit.  Loads of fun!  We used to frequently find piles of linked 7.62 NATO that AGs, and ABs had dumped from their rucks at night while moving through the woods.
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  5.  @scvmfvck  Shootings at Parkland vs Mao Zedong and Stalin massacres is an easy choice.
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  6. I was in 7 different Combat Arms units.  I never saw one of my ABs or AGs dump rounds from the ruck, but found several piles in different training areas.  These were blanks, not live rounds.  Even the blanks weigh so much that you end up with a spine-crushing ruck.  When I did my time as an AG, we didn't have any ABs, so I got to carry the combat load in ammo plus tripod, T&E, pintle, Steiner binos, and my packing list.  It required my Weapons Squad Leader and Gunner both to lift me up after I had donned my ruck on the ground. We normally expended all of our live ammo, so I never saw things escalate to Judicial Punishment.  My point is that 7.62 NATO is too heavy of a round to carry practically by dismounted Infantry in any significant round count, especially for gun teams and riflemen.  Even 5 x 20rd mags of 7.62 NATO is very heavy and bulky for a rifleman to carry.  The Army Ordnance Board refused to learn the lessons that had already been learned in The Great War, which drove the development of the .276 Pedersen, and continued to insist on a .30 caliber, high pressure cartridge with over 40gr of case volume.  This is a recipe for reduced combat endurance for any dismounted unit trying to prosecute the fight and maneuver.
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  7.  @OldieBugger  Russian accents are one of the worst butcheries of Suomi I’ve ever heard.
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  8. AKs are one of the most failure-prone assault rifle designs on the planet. These two myths need to die, and inevitably do with experience. First time I shot AKs in high volume, 3 or 4 of them broke.
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  9. SBR provisions were a comedy of errors, not intentional. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings didn't even want to mention or discuss rifles. His main goals were banning pistols, Submachineguns, and Sawed-off shotguns. Congressman Knutson from Minnesota was afraid that people's rifles would be lumped in with Short Barreled Shotguns. The initial legislative proposal set Short Barreled Shotguns at 16" minimum barrel length. Congressman Knutson proposed that both rifles and shotguns be limited to 18" for extra credit to appease AG Cummings, but Cummings was very evasive about even discussing rifles with any regulations because he knew that could "poison-pill" the legislation. When they went through the final round of formalizing the NFA language, it almost made it without the Knutson modification, but Knutson spoke up when they said "shotguns with a shorter barrel than 16 inches", to remind them they had discussed both shotguns and rifles at 18". That's where SBRs came from. Pistols were scratched from it after testimony from the NRA President at the time. If you read through the entire NFA proceedings as I have done, you see what a clown show it was. Cummings openly admitted that it was unconstitutional.
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  10.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  False equivalency. Practicing medicine and exercising your right to keep and bear arms are entirely different things from a Constitutional standpoint. Study critical thinking pillars and the intellectual standards to prevent yourself from forming fallacy arguments. It will save you a lot of time and wasted effort in the long run.
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  11. @Albo alt USAF purchased 3 different 20" AR-15 models from Colt in the 1960s-1980s. Colt RO 601 "Green Rifle" Colt RO 602 Colt RO 604 which had all of the 603 (M16A1) improvements except the forward assist. That included the Type E stock with cleaning kit compartment, heavy buffer/spring guide, full fence lower receiver, raised markings upper, 1/12" twist rifling, chrome-lined chamber and bore, and bird cage flash hider.
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  12.  @jtplays7411  Finnish is 100% phonetic. That’s your only freebie. The rest is a brutal undertaking as an adult. 23 different post-positions rather than any prepositional phrases in English, called astevaihtelut.  Then you have to use a vocal harmony to change the objects to conform to the post-positional phrasing.  There are no articles, which is harder for Finns to adjust to English and other languages with them.  Instead of saying, “I’m going to the house.”  Minä mennen kotiin. (Dictionary house is “koti”.) or “I’m from Helsinki.”  Mina olen Helsingistä. or “I’m going to Helsinki.” Minä mennen Helsingiin. Just when you think you’ve figured out the astevaihtelu and vokaaliharmonia, things change. Seinäjoki the city's astevaihtelu in one form is Seinaäjoelta if someone is "from there", not Seinäjoistä. “H"s are all pronounced as well. 16 cases for nouns in the singular, 15 in plural. English-speaker: "What are noun cases?" 6 different verb types with concepts that don’t exist in English. A Finnish-English dictionary or Finnish-any language dictionary is almost worthless, other than maybe Estonian. The words are not usable in most cases because they haven’t been converted through the astevaihtelu or vokaaliharmonia algorithms. In usage, it means if I give you a newspaper and ask you to translate it with your dictionary, you won’t even be able to get the headline in many instances, let along the first sentence of the first paragraph.
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  13. I've owned many of them, and I had lots of problems with every one.Tried several proven techniques to improve reliability, like throating the breech, different recoil springs, more lube, 230gr ball only, extractor tweaks, still had issues across 4 different pistols, and the failure to go into battery was the most common malfunction with all of them. After thousands of dollars, I just stuck with modern pistols that actually work out of the box, don't need constant TLC, and haven't looked back.
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  14. Those were Romanian AKMs, select fire, not any of the civilian guns. Most of my experiences with AKs have been Warsaw Pact military variants, and all of them have been very crude and of poor construction, no matter the nation or origin. The only quality manufacture rifles inspired by the AK are Finnish Valmet and SAKO rifles, as well as Galils, and those are all very heavy, except for the Valmet Rk76 with sheet steel receiver, and the Galil SAR carbine.
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  15.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  Multiple Supreme Court rulings on the 2A established it as pretty absolute. The first offenses against the 2A perpetrated by various States were slave or freed slave ownership/possession of firearms. The next set of violations of the 2A were perpetrated by organized crime puppets in NYC who banned pistols, stilettos, and blackjacks to keep the citizens more vulnerable to racketeering. So if your argument is that the 2A isn't absolute, the case law that supports your assertions fall under those unconstitutional cases.
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  16. The manufacturing quality of Rk series simply exceeds all of the others by a large margin. I prefer whatever AKM variant with the lightest barrel profile for practical purposes, as long as it proves to be a reliable sample, which isn’t a given with any of the Euro and Asian models. I have Maadi AKM and ChiCom Norinco in my personal collection. Norinco is far superior in terms of “quality”, while the barrel profile on the Maadi is light, and aesthetics are the beautiful early 1970s Soviet AKM through-and-through. Sights are not zero-able on the Maadi. Front Sight tower is canted so badly, there is no way to mechanically achieve an even remote zero.
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  17. Viraqua:  It was actually initiated by the USAF soon-to-be Chief of Staff since the Army was no longer procuring spare parts for the M-1 and M-2 carbines that were used by USAF Security Forces and SPs to defend Air Bases.  The Army stopped M-1/M-2 Carbine spare parts purchasing after the Korean War, and the USAF didn't want to be manning their posts with Garands or M14s slung on their shoulders. After the Army Ordnance Board declared the AR15 totally unsuitable for any military use, the USAF Chief of Staff directed the Pentagon to begin type-classification and standardization of the AR15 to become the Air Force's new service rifle.  When the Army Ordnance Board received orders to contribute to this process, they were incensed, and began further efforts to sabotage the AR15.  Even the sabotaged AR15s out-performed the hand-selected M14s.  You can read all about this in great detail in The Black Rifle, Vol I.  Excellent book on the technical and drama history behind the AR15. When Special Forces, SAS, and SEALs got their hands on the AR15, they wanted it immediately.  Army Ordnance saw that there was a good possibility now that the AR15 would out-shine their baby, the M14, so they worked even harder to destroy any chances of the AR15 being adopted.  Once McNamara and his analysts found out about all this, they inserted themselves into Army Ordnance Board's inner workings and steered much of the program in order to overcome the corruption that was inherent in that team, resulting in the successful adoption of the AR15 for the Army, USAF, and Marines. Then there was further criminal misconduct with the proofing of production rifles using different ammunition than what was being issued after the initial production lots of the correct M193 with extruded powder were expended in Vietnam, and it was replaced with production lots using ball powder that drove the port pressures around 10,000psi higher than the design was engineered for. Like everything, the story is a lot more complicated and requires a lot of research to understand.
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  18. tommy gun The vast majority of the AKs I've seen problems with were overseas, or guns made overseas, real AKs, not semi autos. It's record for reliability is highly inflated.
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  19.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  As an academic, you should be formally trained in the intellectual standards and avoid false equivalencies. Own and accept your error, get remedial training, but don't ever double down on such an amateur mistake. It's beneath you and you know you can do better. Nothing I said was condescending.
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  20. Great video, as usual. The only thing I would note is that the .280 British is nothing like the 6.8 SPC. The .280 Brit used very long-for-caliber projectiles with high SD and BC, whereas the 6.8 is severely limited by magazine length and case length, only allowing low BC projectiles with tangent ogives, and limited case intrusion to work with. There have been several high BC intermediate cartridges introduced over the years, but the 6.8 is not one of them. The .280 British is one of the more well-known offerings.
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  21. Valmet is pronounced Val (like fall with a v), met ( I met you at the gun store).  Suomi is phonetic.
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  22.  @kappega  “y" in Finnish is a vowel sound that isn’t heard in English or any of the Indo-European languages that I’m aware of. To make the sound, point your lips like a volcano-shaped kiss with a tight ring, and try to say the long vowel sound of “Eeeee” in English, or “I” in most Euro languages. It sounds like a mix of “u” and “ee”. Very unique to Finnic language groups.
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  23.  @dss8345  From 2005 to 2016, I shot a lot of high-volume courses with Finnish Defense Forces and Active Reservists around the seasons. A lot of the courses we did were in the dead of winter. Already in the 2000s, there were a high number of guys with AR-15s and ArmaLite AR-10s. The conclusion I came to for what I would want in this category of weapon based solely on reliability, lightweight, portability, and ergonomics was an 11.5” AR with normal Stoner Internal Expansion Gas System. Nothing wrong with that at all. In course-after-course, I never saw a proper-built 11.5” 5.56 AR-15 have a malfunction. I did see quite a few malfunctions with Arsenal AKs in 7.62x39mm. I never saw an Rk62 or Rk92 or Rk95 malfunction, but they are boat anchors with almost no optics or LAM-mounting capacity. Moving forward, I think a 12.5” with a reflex suppressor option would be cool, so no real sacrifice in velocity or portability. All the guns need to be coated in something other than black, preferably OD Green or a two-tone OD and that M05 Grey from the intermediate season camo you see Ian wearing in the beginning of the video. Black weapons are TGT indicators for drones and human eyes.
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  24.  @Salmar80  😍😍😍
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  25. It should have been named Selektiver Feuerkarabiner (SFk-42/43/44). It's not a machinegun (like a Maxim, M1919, or MG42) submachinegun (MP38, MP40, Thompson, or PPSh), or automatic rifle (Chaucer, BAR). Most firearms of that time that were machineguns were automatic fire mode only. Most SMGs except the M1921 and Kp31 were open bolt, full auto only, so putting "machine" in the nomenclature of the MKb42 only made sense if it was full auto fire mode only. Select-Fire Carbine more accurately describes the weapon, without adding a purpose in the name like "Sturm", since soldiers will use their assigned weapons for both the defense and offense.
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  26. It's one thing to hear about how the SA80 was influenced by the AR-180, and another to see how they actually modified AR-180s into bullpups as proof of concepts. Another great video.
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  27. tommy gun Bulgarian AKs are some of the ones I see regularly failing in high volume shooting courses. Seeing firing pins worn, failure to feed issues, and difficult-to-diagnose problems in a course, necessitating back-up rifles. People who have never seen Eastern European manufacturing or Russian industry see the words I think, and assume some mystical level of manufacturing prowess, when these are both under-developed societies compared to US industry, with high levels of alcoholism and substandard employee quality that is needed for reduced margins in Total Quality Management, something that is a voodoo magic in the post-Soviet sphere.
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  28. Many of the AKs we've had fail on us in courses were Arsenals. They're made in Bulgaria, which is not the world's best industrial center for quality control, if you aren't familiar with underdeveloped nations and their standards. No matter what AK you put in the mud, the dimensions are the same, the open receiver design is the same, and the mud ingestion is the same into the fire control mechanism, resulting in dead trigger. Happens with beach sand too. Its a very poor design when it comes to being exposed to the elements in many ways, including corrosion. You can literally have the working parts fuse together if you don't maintain them well in high humidity.
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  29. Rust and corrosion are an issue on the AK, so it requires maintenance on more surface area than the AR. You can pretty much neglect the exterior of the AR and keep the internals lubed, and it will run for many lifetimes. The AK selector and top cover will start to have issues, as will the mag release and gas cylinder latch. If you ever have to actually use the AK in the field for extended periods, you start to see a lot of its weaknesses, which are based on poor materials selection for a military pact that had a lot of steel to utilize, with very crude assembly methods that could be duplicated by anthropomorphic apes.
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  30. Tom Splittstoesser That 11,500rd sample was just one day out of literally over 2 decades of shooting many different types of assault rifles around the world. There are AK variants I have experience with that you will never see in the US or outside of certain nations, in addition to the run-of-the-mill mass exported models from Eastern Europe or Eurasia. At the end of the day, almost all AKMs and variants were made in a sub-standard production chain, designed under difficult conditions in post-War Russia, without the resources we take for granted in the West. It was meant to be a mass-producable by nations with very limited production capacity, with limited resources, poverty-level factory workers, but still be able to issue a standard service rifle. That's really the way I've come to look at the AK, after quickly retiring the romantic ideas I had about it from childhood, which all proved to be false the more I worked with them. It's an inherently-unreliable design when it comes to debris ingestion, certain parts longevity, and compatibility with other Warsaw Pact magazines. It's the bottom of the barrel on the planet in terms of what we are capable of producing, but good enough for the regions where higher quality and more reliable designs are outside of their manufacturing base.
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  31. It also mirrors what coalition military partners have experienced in wide surveys of multiple versions of the AK in their own high volume shooting courses over many years, so they could analyze the actual performance of the weapons with sample sizes large enough to make conclusions about what direction they would go with their next assault rifle purchases. As a result, none of them have chosen to stick with the AK. It's a crude design from the late 1940s with early 50s improvements, meant to be able to say that we at least have some type of weapon for general issue to Soviet conscripts and 3rd-world illiterate peasants, with the minimal amount of resources consumed in a really bad manufacturing system, with centrally-planned economy. In that understanding, it was a successful design for sure, but for a professional soldier who will actually train with the rifle, It's one of the worst options available.
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  32.  @Joe-hz1nw  For pistols, I think a full-size 10mm makes more sense than a magnum revolver. Put in the reps with a .40 S&W of the same frame/design, then touch up with the 10mm before the hunt.
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  33. Mikko:  Then why do so many of my Finnish friends own machine-gun collector's licenses, with impressive collections of machine-guns?
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  34. Tony Pepperoni In a combat zone, huh? Is that why everyone I know involved with training Iraqi Army and Police, as well as Afghan Army and Police, had nothing but problems with AKs? These guys were begging the US for M4s from the start, and finally got them to replace their AKs.
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  35. Mike Allen I've used them. That's why I said it.
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  36. ***** The untold pallets of ammunition I have fired through various AR15/M16/M4s says otherwise. TDP guns just run in my experience. The FakeR-15s are about as reliable as AKs, which fluctuates depending how much the FakeR-15s deviate from the TDP. It's funny to watch nations who were contaminated with AKs during the Soviet times leap over to M4s and not look back.
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  37.  @Joe-hz1nw  Sometimes I take for granted how free my State is. Does Alaska infringe on the right to hunt with semi autos? I didn’t think they did. The universe did everything in its power to make me a bolt gun guy, and I have burned through pallets of ammo through bolt guns (precision rifle shooting and testing), yet I still am firmly a semi-auto guy through-and-through. A lightweight 6.5 Grendel is a joy to carry in the mountains and thick forrest, with very minimal muzzle climb and ease of keeping on-target for a 3-5rd shot string at close range.
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  38. The thinking behind the .30 Cal Light Rifle was they wanted streamlined logistics without losing performance from what the M-1 Garand and M1919 Machine-guns offered, but wanted more mobility and increased firepower for the riflemen and machine gunners. Instead of fielding a weapons mix of .45 ACP M3 and M1928 SMGs, .30 Cal M1 Carbines, .30 Cal Rifle Garands, .30 Cal Rifle BARs, and .30 Cal Rifle M1919 MGs, they figured they could encompass all of these weapons into 3 shoulder-fired weapons firing the same cartridge.  These would be: M14 7.62 NATO for Riflemen and everyone else M14A1 7.62 NATO Automatic Rifle to replace the BAR M60 GPMG to replace the M1919 All 3 weapons were horrible failures, with the M14 being quickly replaced with the AR15 (M16/M16A1), but the malfunction-prone M60 unfortunately lived on into the 1990s and early 2000s.  I used the M60 extensively in several light Infantry units, and we always had issues with them. "Ca-chunk" was a common FTFire mode of that system, along with FTExtract and FTEject.  It was the most handy to carry GPMG I've ever used because of the half-bullpup layout and comfortable handguard, but they just didn't run.
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  39.  @BaconSlayer69  I have never used an 11.5” AR-15 in competition. These were all Finnish Military events, and the 11.5” AR-15s were owned by Finnish personnel who bought them on their own. In the US, my 2nd and 3rd personal AR-15s were 11.5” guns in the 1990s. Never experienced malfunctions with either of them, and shot them in high volume. US military adopted the 10” Colt XM177, which was later superseded by the 11.5” XM177E2 and GAU-5A/A for USAF. SOG primarily used XM177E2s once they were available, and stacked NVA bodies like corkwood with them. With M193, you’re in the 2820-2870fps region from an 11.5” gun.
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  40.  @RingedStag  I have used the Rk92 and 95 intermittently from 2005-2016. I honestly can’t remember the guys with Rk95s ever folding the stocks, other than maybe for transport in bags. A fazed length stock like that isn’t very friendly with basic kit, let alone armor for a lot of people. Most nations with the budget for it have gone away from folders and over to telescoping, LOP-adjustable stocks for that reason, or a combo of the 2.
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  41.  @foleymaj  When I was working with the Estonians, they all had Gallil full-length rifles in Pasi APCs, while the drivers were issued the short Galil SAR carbines. I don’t recall any of them folding the stocks either. Just one more thing to worry about when you can just leave the rifle in a ready position. Pasi is one of the most spacious, well-designed APCs I’ve ever seen, though I was never a mech/armor guy so I will defer to the armor nerds on that.
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  42. Tom Splittstoesser 1000rds? That's just breaking it in. I've put more through them in a day than that. We did 11,500 rounds one day with a SPENDEX. 4 of the Romanian AKMs (real ones) broke. They did not appear to be heavily used guns at all before that. In the courses I run working with coalition partners, we've had enough problems with various AKs that I would not choose one as a go-to assault rifle, especially against an M4. Your sample size of one rifle is not indicative of the trends in performance with Warsaw Pact AKMs and variants.
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  43. I've experienced many failures with AKs covering over 2 decades now across the variants. I guess that's all anecdotal too. Look, most AK cool-aid drinkers bought into this reliability myth because they heard it from someone, then ran with it, without ever testing the statements. I was the same way, until I started shooting it in tens of thousands of rounds of volume. Not reliable.
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  44. Whenever I think about dangerous game territory, I think semi auto with a quick close-in optic capability. AR-15 in Grendel or lightweight AR-10, but I have 30 years of close quarters marksmanship experience to boot.
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  45. Not in my experience. Parts durability with the AK in the field is nowhere near what it is touted as. Things break just from shooting it, especially Eastern European variants from Romania. The only ones I have not seen a lot of problems with were East German MPKiMS-74 5.45, and Finnish Valmet Rk62 or SAKO Rk92 and Rk95, but the Finnish guns are a completely different standard of rifle-making when looking at quality across the board, including their mags and ammo. No other AK manufacturer even approaches those levels of quality, but they are heavy as sin.
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  46. I've watched Arsenal AKs malfunction with no dirt in them on a regular basis in both cold wet and warm wet environments. Something to do with critical dimensions with firing pin protrusion and primer activation not being correct across several guns. In competent armorer hands, they could be made to work with new firing pins, but Arsenals are made in Bulgaria. If you're not familiar with Bulgaria and their industry standards, it will be an interesting subject for those who want to explore it. They're neighbors with Romania, for reference.
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  47. I've had dozens of AKs fail on me in live fire training over the years, to include failure to fire, FTFeed, FTeject/stove, FTExtract/stuck, or breakage of the parts, nowhere near the mud. It isn't the reliable weapon a lot of people advertise it to be, especially ones who have never shot real ones.
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  48. He said he would have used a scope, but just didn't have access to one. This was from Finnish Sniper instructors interviewing him before he passed. I have one of his spent cases from one of his firing positions from the Battle of Kollaa, mounted on a Plaque.
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  49. I did a ton of shooting with AR-15s in high volume training sessions in Finland from 2005-2016. I would choose a short AR-15 with an 11.5” or 12.5” barrel over any other carbine in that class. I never saw an 11.5” AR-15 go down in countless high volume courses, where the temps were often -27˚C. We had Arsenal AKs going down more frequently than I expected.
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  50.  @djl5634  You're talking about the locking mechanism. I'm talking about the recoil system operating principle, and how the cyclic rate is balanced against the recoil. I've spent quite a bit of hands-on time with the MP44 and other constant recoil system, select-fire weapons. You will immediately know when you shoot one, especially if you've also shot a lot of other SMGs, LMGs, GPMGs, and HMGs. With most machineguns, the action returns to battery very quickly and in automatic, will naturally fire the next round before your muzzle has recovered to your intended point of aim. With a constant recoil system, it's timed to arrive once you have recovered. The Stg44 does this. The M60 is really close, as it has a lower cyclic rate, but not quite there like an Ultimax100 or Stg44. (Former SAW Gunner, Scout Observer, Weapons Squad AG, Gunner when we still had the M60, Weapons Squad Leader when we had M240, and guy who spent many years working with foreign partner nations in Europe.) When someone mentions how the MP44 works, I see it in my hands from experience, after many years studying it before touching it.
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