Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Field strip. To have access to the gas chamber and the gas ports (that's the thing that requires cleaning, there is not actually much that could happen to the piston and op rod) you only have to remove the muzzle cover. To inspect the recoil spring, you can remove it from the trap door. To remove the bolt you only have to remove the dust cover and the rear buffer ("when the dust cover is off, it just slides out") and it comes out from the rear of the receiver. The thing can be field stripped in seconds without tools, that was not a given at the time.
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  2. It's not from the '80s, it's from the '50s. In the '80s Bernardelli produced the very good P0.18 ( https://www.gunstorebunker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/BERNARDELLI-P018-MIL-1.jpg ).
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  3. Nothing fancy. The same than using proofloads on 9mm guns. The gun worn out quicker.
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  4. A reminder that you have to be careful in removing safeties.
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  5. Field stripping it is EXTREMELY simple. Much simpler than field stripping a M1 Garand for example. What shown is not a field strip, but a disassembly of the rifle. A normal field strip (to clean the gas chamber, inspect and maybe replace the recoil spring, clean the bolt and maybe replace the firing pin) can be made in seconds without tools, that was not a given at that time.
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  6. They were too stupid to even copy. The FG42 derived bolt suffered of chipping locking lugs (the armorers were supposed to stone them. Yes, your locking lugs are falling apart, stone them) because the locking lugs were smaller than the original ones and cut at a straight angle, while the original ones, cut sligtly angled, didn't slam metal on metal on closing.
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  7. Infact. The Germans gave away almost for free rifles that they would have not used anyway (except in very dire situations) because they were early iterations. A pragmatic approach.
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  8. The first samples were real rifles, in 6mm Flobert or .22 Short. Then it was deemed too dangerous, and they were made blanks. Germans simply had less time to evalute the incidents (Hitler came to power later), or cared less.
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  9. It does.
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  10. They developed a pneumatic fire rate reducer (rallentatore di tiro Pavesi) that reduced the ROF selectively to 500 or 300 rpm.
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  11. The ballistic of the 7.62X51 was a false target. The 7.62x51 was a very good design for the time for it's intended purpose. It's ballistic couldn't be replied by a round without making it uncontrollable in full auto (apart for the engineering marvel that was the 7.92X41 CETME). It was a question of deciding what they wanted. Or full auto controllability, or long range accuracy and power.
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  12.  @2Potates  You can exactly reply a 7.62mm ballistic with a 7mm bullet having 20% less recoil and overall weight of the cartridge. But the fans of the 7.62 will always say that the heavier bullet will have better penetration against hard materials and pierce bigger holes into soft tissues.
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  13.  @lardomcfarty9866  I've seen people complaining about the holder "looking down the barrel without checking" because the gun was pointed towards the camera.
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  14.  @AbitantedelVault  Le Breda 37 e 38 erano considerate "eccellenti" nei report alleati, non si capisce cosa avrebbero di "antiquato".
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  15. You can buy a gun of your choice, you know?
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  16. Italy is the second industrial powerhouse in the EU. When Germany wanted to lift the lockdown, German car manufacturers advised Merkel that they couldn't resume production, because italy was still in lockdown, so they could not receive the Italian made parts of their cars. "some Beretta products are acceptable"? Ask to the Argentine outfitters, whose shotguns fire thousands of ammos a day with sketchy mainteinance, what shotguns they rent, to make sure the customer doesn't have to stop hunting due to a jammed or broken weapon. When there is serious work to do, there is one shotgun manufacturer. The others are amateurs.
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  17. The 7.62 NATO had been designed after WWII exactly because modern powders allowed to replicate the performances of the 30-06 Springfield in a MUCH SMALLER case. The 7.35 Carcano had to use a 1891 case with a 1891 designed action made for 1891 pressures.
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  18. This is the father of the Walther.
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  19. Glisenti M915. Hotter than the standard pistol Glisenti M910.
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  20. The S has some change over the previous model. The combined safety-decocker feature, different lenght of the levers, and the separated plastic grips instead of the one-piece wooden grip.
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  21.  @hannibalkills1214  I know what the point of the Gurttrommel was, and that it was better than a dangling belt, BUT IT WAS WORSE THAN ANY MAGAZINE ANYWAY, the Guttromel was a "necessary evil" to use a belt-fed MG as a LMG, but to use a belt-fed MG as a LMG was a sub-optimal solution. "an established position to provide covering fire"means that the MG is no more a LMG but it became a fixed-position HMG. It's not how it works if the squad is moving. It's fire-move-fire-move-fire... One of the most common WWII picture is the German machinegunner with one or two belts over the shoulders "el frito bandito" style (they decided that, compared to the guttrommel, the dangling belt was not that bad after all), but it was certainly not an optimal solution. 50 rounds in the MG42 are 2.5 seconds of fire regardless if they are fired continuosly or in short bursts. No "training" of the soldier can change the mechanics of the MG.
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  22.  @hannibalkills1214  "not advance in the same rate as the riflemen" doesn't mean he can stand in a fixed position to consume a 300 round belt at will. Reality doesn't work like that. US Army experts, analysing WWII infantly clashes, noticed that riflemen tended to gather around the BAR and the BAR was almost always the weapon that started the fire exchange. And US GIs were armed with M1 semiauto rifles and carbines (while the BAR was a suboptimal LMG), not with almost useless bolt action rifles.Yet the difference between the squad automatic weapon (20 rds) and the semiauto rifle (8 rds) was enough that the movement of the BAR dictated the movement of the squad. If the MG is slow, the squad is slow. I know the lafette mount, and you certainly know it was not always possible to use it. That's why the MG42 has a bipod as well. 2.5 seconds of fire at 6 seconds interval is reasonable. 3 seconds of fire at 2 seconds interval is better.
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  23. There had been several. Korth, H&K P9, Geiger GRP... Germans seems to be particularly attracted by roller-delayed mechanisms.
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  24. "not designed here"
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  25. During WWII, and after, they manufactured fuses for artillery shells.
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  26. A machinegun that shoots pistol ammunitions. The Italian and German definitions ("pistola mitragliatrice", "machinepistole" so "pistol-machinegun") are more fitting.
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  27. The locking mechamism is unusual in it's operating principle, but the pieces are pretty simple to machine. The frame is actually stamped, so the simplest it can be.
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  28. A minority of them is caused by the design. IE, as said, the BM59 is a copy, not even a Beretta original. The jamming is caused by the fact that the Garand barrels they used had several gas port sizes, from .95" to .120", but in a BM59 configuration a gas port below .110" is not enough to cycle the rifle. In the Breda PG, and several others antiques, the problem likely is a worn out magazine spring, that doesn't lift the next round fast enough. Those magazines were not made to be used for decades.
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  29. All those pistols, like the Bernardelli P08, and this one, have the half-cock position. That's what was intended to replace the decocker, as, if you hold the hammer, pull the trigger, allowing the hammer to just slightly move forward, and release the trigger, the hammer will safely seat in half/cock even if you suddenly release it. From half-cock, the first double trigger pull is more pleasant too (same weight, but shorter pull).
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  30.  @Cyan_Nightingale  "much better" in respect to what? The BM59 was not adopted without competition, see the Franchi LF59, that in itself would have been an outstanding battle rifle, easily on par with the FAL and G3. The BM59 won because it was not inferior, thus being (for the aforementioned reasons) more economic. As said, many countries didn't adopt an intermediate caliber AR until recently. The 5.56 NATO cartridge had been standardised only in 1980. Before, it only existed the .223 Remington. A cartridge that the US Army decided to use, but not NATO standard.
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  31.  @hendriktonisson2915  The ZB.26 had been tested prior to the adoption of the Breda 30. No army replaces an MG just adopted only because there is on the market something marginally better. All the "Breda 30 bashing" is a modern "internet era" thing. At the time the opinions were MUCH more blurred. Allied reports praised the Breda 30 in comparison to the Bren.
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  32. This weapon was not a "last ditch" in the sense of putting the more gun that's possible in the hands of the more peoples that's possible (like the German or japanese ones), It was a "last ditch" intended to be issued to experienced soldiers, only easier to manufacture than a MAB38. The front safety solved a real issue of early SMGs, and had never been a problem in combat situations. The fact that a design is unusual does not mean that's failed.
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  33. It's considered a lever delayed blowback. The acceleration of the bolt carrier in respect of the bolt face can be obtained via a lever or inclined surfaces.
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  34. +canicheenrage What I meant is: "the water cooled HMGs of the time had the reliability advantage of weighting a lot". As said, they were overbuilt in respect to the work they had to do. The more you remove weight, the more is difficult to mantain the same reliability, because parts become more subject to external factors.
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  35. The grip safety also lower a quite hefty block placed just behind the magazine that, if not lowered, prevents the bolt to come back if in forward position or to go all the way forward if in rear position, so no, an accidental discharge is not possible.
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  36.  @garetz2011  The sear is in two parts for the disconnector to work. Also the sear of the MPL can slip for a hit, especially when in semiauto, since the trigger can only push, but doesn't pull it.
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  37. The 9mm M38 cartridge was a sort of super +P+ 124 grains, 428m/s 732Joules of energy at the muzzle.
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  38. Actually is YES. Almost all the bolt actions designed after WWII have a one-piece bolt very similar to the Carcano one, while two-piece Mauser and Enfield style fell out of use.
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  39. Who had the best economy. That was the only thing that counted.
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  40. Nowadays an HMG is a 12-13mm machinegun, usually mounted on a vehicle. A MMG is a machinegun made for suppressive fire (so long bursts, that requires long belts and heavy barrels, to not hoverheat rapidly) from entrenched positions or vehicles. in NATO countries, MMG and GPMG are usually in 7.62 NATO. A LMG is a MG made to be carried by foot and used by infantry squads during the action, so it has to be lighter than the MMG, at the cost to not be used for suppressive fire (also because the gunner can carry a limited amount of ammos). In Nato countries LMGs can be in 7.62 NATO or 5.56mm NATO.
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  41. Not by any means. Allied intelligence reports of the time actually praised the weapon, comparing it favourably with the BREN. It was no perfect, but almost all the bashing is an internet era thing, when people tend to simply repeat what they heard before, every time extremising it to seem more interesting.
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  42. Not only the price. I can't figure out a DA/SA, metal framed, semiauto pistol that had some market success (and many that hadn't) in the '80s (and this one hit the market already in the '90s) that was worse than this. Worse takedown than any? Check. Low capacity? Check Heavy? Check. Fragile? Check. Crappy trigger? Check. ... Talking only of metal framed SA/DA guns in .45 ACP this thing got out contemporary to the Beretta Cougar (the base of the actual PX4) and the Tanfoglio TA90 (base of all the current Tanfoglio and IWI Jericho/Baby Eagle lines).
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  43. On the commercial (not a Beretta original) BM59 is caused by the fact that the Garand barrels they used had several gas port sizes, from .95" to .120", but in a BM59 configuration a gas port below .110" is not enough to cycle the rifle. In the Breda PG, and several others antiques, the problem likely is a worn out magazine spring, that doesn't lift the next round fast enough.
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  44. In the '70s several bullet trap grenades had been developed for .223 Rem. IE the French APAV40
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  45.  @grrrexky  For that matter (no, the irony didn't pass over my head), tested by the Allies after the war, Italian shells proved to be more reliable than German ones. Not a big feat if you count that, of 4 hits of the Bismarck on the Prince Of Wales, only two shells exploded.
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  46. The main part (few hundreds BTW. The OVP had always been a rare gun. The Beretta MAB 18 was far more common) of the OVP had been transferred to Italian East African colonies first than WWII, and had been used there in the first stages of the conflict.
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  47. The Double Eagle, like the Seecamp conversion, is made on a standard 1911 frame, not with this extra-high frame.
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  48. Because to say it was inaccurate justifies the conspiracy theory. The Army expert that tested it, testified it was as accurate as a brand new M14. That's nothing to write home about for a bolt action, but more than enough to hit a man-sized target at a maximum distance of 80m.
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  49. This is way better than the Double Eagle, but the Double Eagle was aimed at the market of those that liked the 1911, but wanted a DA/SA one (since that was all the rage then), and this can't pass for a 1911 design. We know there wasn't really a market like that, but Colt thought there was one. The All-American 2000 instead was only an ugly and poorly made attempt at entering into the polymer, striker-fired, guns market.
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  50. This rifle is actually very simple, with a very low parts count. The filed strip can be made in seconds without tools (that's not a given at that time). Simply Ian decided to do a complete disassembly. That's another thing. To have access to the gas chamber and the gas ports (that's the thing that requires cleaning, there is not actually much that could happen to the piston and op rod) you only have to remove the muzzle cover. To inspect the recoil spring, you can remove it from the trap door. To remove the bolt you only have to remove the dust cover and the rear buffer ("when the dust cover is off, it just slides out") and it comes out from the rear of the receiver. It isn't needed to remove the receiver from the stock. Like almost every bolt action rifle up to then, and several semiauto rifle after then, this rifle is not made to have the trigger group and the receiver removed often from the stock. that's why they have screws. While the parts that require cleaning, and/or have to be replaced more often (for the second case, almost universally the recoil spring and the firing pin) are very easily reachable. An M1 Garand, for example, is made with a completely different philosopy. The rifle can be easily disassembled, but is not really field-strippable. To reach the firing pin, you have to completely take the rifle apart (and have several small parts flying around you).
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