Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Forgotten Weapons"
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@luisnunes3863 Drachinifel is simply wrong. Or better, Drachinifel does not read Italian, so he has to rely on what he finds in English. Second hand sources, wartime propaganda, etc... A common problem between self-made historians. The only source for the problem with Italian naval shells was Adm. Iachino, that had to justify his fiasco at Gaudo / Cape Matapan, and had been debunked by other sources, IE Adm. Emilio Brenta. Reality is that in the conditions of the clash at Gaudo, no WWII battleship would have hit anything.
As a matter of fact, the Italian 152mm and 203mm are the only Cruiser naval guns that obtained some +20km hits during WWII (even twice in the same battle, so it was not a fluke). Tests conducted by the allies after the war simply concluded Italian shells were more reliable than German ones. Italian 381 had not been tested by the Allies for accuracy.
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Sorry, but those are only modern day guessings. The ones above were the opinions of the ones that had to DAILY use those guns in combat.
It's not the first time that real world observations contrast to popular harmchair beliefs. IE it's often repeated that the bottom opening of the Manlicher magazine design was a problem, cause it allowed dirt into the mechanism. In real world that had never been a problem, and contrast with what Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (the designer of the Fedorov Avtomat) observed in the Russo-Japanese war. He then observed that, in those extreme conditions, the Moisins quickly became single shot weapons, cause the magazine was stuck with mud and ice, while the passing of the en-block clips kept the action of the Steyr rifles tidy.
Other than how much dust and dirt can get into the action, an even more important thing is how much dust and dirt is needed to lock the action. An action with very tight tolerancies needs very few dirt to be stuck. A "wobbling" action (even more a wobbling action with an heavy bolt and firing pin, so with a lot of momentum) is not stuck that easy, and is largely self cleaning.
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@thetabletnonya948 It's not a problem of hollow point. They want to control how much ammos a cop shoot and where. It you give a cop 50 rounds for his service weapon, outside the training range, at any moment he must have the 50 rounds you gave him, or report when, where, and why he had to shoot the missing ones. IE, if in a protest rally, where there are many cops, many protesters, and the situation is tense, someone is shot, the public autorities and the judiciary have to know if it had been a cop that lost his head and now tries to hide it.
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The Isard spring has 28 twists, the 1911 32, the Astra 27. The thickness of the wire is about the same. In all likelyhood they had about the same stiffness when new.
The stiffness of the mainspring has practically no importance in keeping the action of a blowback handgun closed for enough time to safely eject the case. It's the mass of the slide that does all the work. The only real function of a stiffer mainspring is to mitigate the felt recoil and the force with which the slide slams into the receiver at the end of it's travel, so a stiffer spring prolongs the life of the frame/slide. However, the force that has to be absorbed is the same for blowback and short recoil pistols. Infact, IE, the Hi-Point mainspring has the same stiffnes of the Glock. More than pointing to the dimension of the spring, Ian should have measured the stiffness of the spring. A smaller spring can have the same stiffness of a bigger one, it wears out quickier, and so has to be replaced more often, but the durability of the spring was probably not the main concern of the designers of this handgun.
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+May your swords stay sharp! (mysss29) 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. 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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+DWSimmy Yes. IE Nuova Jager imports AR15, AK47 AK74, and sells 29 round magazines for them, on the italian market.
As said, to obtain a defense licence is harder than a sport or hunting one. You have to do some kind of job that puts you at risk, or to be in danger for other reasons, so security guards, jewelers, someone that had been threatened in the past, employees that normally carries big sums of money, even taxi drivers and gas station attendants. If you have it, you can carry one or more loaded pistols out of your house or workplace. If concealed or not, it doesn't matter.
Mind that a rifle, in the EU, is a weapon that is longer than 60cm and has a barrel longer than 30cm. Below those measures, in Italy, the weapon is not prohibited. It's simply considered a pistol. So, a Fabarm Martial Pistola 11" (a 11" barrel, pump action, shotgun) is a pistol.
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@Paladin1873 Fact is that almost all the rifles, SMGs, LMGs, HMGs etc... that are not ambidextrous have the charging handle on the right side, M1 Carbine included (maybe because right handed shooters doesn't find it so convenient to place it on the left side?). To say that Beretta's charging handle is: "bassackwards" when is exactly where the same M1 carbine have it...
"intuitive" in weapons is a WAY overused word. People are supposed to know their weapon and there is no rule, or intuition, "forward for fire, rearward for safe". The safety is bigger, more easy to operate (especially with gloves), to see and to remember than that of the M1 carbine.
The push button magazine release of the M1 Carbine is supposed to be used with the right hand tumb when at the same time the shooter is pulling out the magazine. Those are two completely different movements to do at the same time. With the paddle lever of the Beretta carbine, you only have to grab the magazine to activate the paddle. It's ambidextrous and simpler, so nothing had been " flubbed". You can see in the actual video that the magazine doesn't need to be "rocked" at all. It goes straight in and out. You are tinking of the M14, not of this gun.
A peep is what you want, not necessarily what's better. Many rifles have no peep sights. To judge the sight picture without having handled the rifle makes no sense at all. Many successful rifles/AR have the rear sight further forward than this one. An open notch sight MUST be placed further forward than a peep sight.
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