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

  1. The project is neat for being something made for fun, but, to have sense, he should have simply rotated the M14 gas system 180° so to have the gas piston at hour 12. That way he could have mantained the entire AR15 lower as it was.
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  2.  @jic1  It seems he had at least an handle and a trigger group.
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  3. It's the simplest way a strip fed MG can work The same bolt that pushes the case into the chamber, pull it out of it and back into the strip. It had several advantages. In respect to other strip fed MGs there was only an ejection port (not two, one for the cases and one for the strip) so the action was more closed. In respect to magazine fed MGs, the reload is faster (you don't have to detach the empty magazine), in respect to belt fed MGs, there are no dead times to change belt and the strip present the cartridges more accurately, so jammings are less likely.
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  4.  @doraran5158  I'm someone that gave you an information. You could thank for it, or even ignore it. You preferred to childishly try to demonstrate that you were not wrong in saying "Mussolini was the former head of the Italian Socialist Party" (he was not. He was the director of a socialist newspaper that was kicked out of the Socialist party as soon as he adopted an interventionist position for Italy in WWI). Now, obviously you resort to insults, in the futile hope that they give more strenght to your flawed position. The head of a newspaper is the head of a newspaper, not the head of a party. It's really funny you prefer to look like someone unable to discern tne difference instead of admitting of having been wrong.
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  5.  @doraran5158  Fact is that your clutching at straws is really funny. Simply you wrote: "Mussolini was the former head of the Italian Socialist Party". Not "one leader", "one important figure" or equivalent expressions but "THE HEAD". Simply he wasn't. He was the director of a Socialist journal that was kicked out of the Socialist party as soon as he adopted an interventionist position for Italy in WWI. The study of history is based on correct informations. One can accept the information and thank for it, or childshly clutching at straws because he doesn't want to admit he was wrong. The rest of your message is just unnecessary piling of well known crap to avoid the point.
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  6.  @doraran5158  You wrote: "Mussolini was the former head of the Italian Socialist Party". "The head" means the most important leader. The one in command. He was not. He countred for something but was not "the head" by any means. When he adopted an interventionist position for Italy in WWI, he was kicked out of the party. The political rant is not of my interest, sorry.
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  7.  @doraran5158  Mussolini was not "the head" of the Socialist party. He was not even a high executive. He was the director of a socialist newspaper.
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  8. Mussolini loved only himself.
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  9.  @pierluigiadreani2159  According to what sources, please? Not by distrust, but internet made possible to everyone to pull some number out of his ass.
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  10. Only fascists.
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  11.  Dock None  Err... No. Despite the Italian Partisans being communists for more than 2/3, the CLNAI was managed on strictly equal basis by the four major groups (Communists, Socialists, Catholics and the Partito d'Azione), since the objective was to get rid of the fascists and the Germans.
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  12. +Antwon Jenkins "notoriously under-powered" according to who?
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  13. Christopher Penta Since the action was originally designed for an heavy MG / automatic cannon (the Scotti 20/77, patented in 1928), and was used in an aerial MG too (12.7mm Scotti) there are no dubt that the action is apt to this. To made a Scotti LMG of the Mod.X only needs a detachable magazine, a bipod and a quick exchange barrel. Is a modification that can probably be made even on already made rifles. Over the Breda 30 it would have had at least the advantage of minor production costs and less weight. Hovever the Breda 30 was surely an unsatisfactory design, but not so abysmal.
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  14. It seems like the story of Glisenti 1910 and Beretta 1915.
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  15. There had been no stealing. The pivoting locking block had been patented by Mauser in 1911. When Walther used it, the patent had already long expired. Walther own patent (that applied only to their particular shape of the locking block) was submitted in 1936, and expired in 1950, so it was free to use for anyone in 1951.
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  16. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age...
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  17.  @ScottKenny1978  The Beretta 92 too didn't have a decocker in 1974, but it was added later, due to Italian Police request, with the 92S. CZ (that didn't evolve the design until 1992, when they added a firing pin block) only came later, with the CZ75BD. In the meantime, after having experimented many unintentional discharges caused by the agents attempting to manually decock an hammer when still full of adrenaline for a shooting, many Police Departments in the US made mandatory for SA/DA semiauto to have a decocker too.
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  18. A service DA/SA handgun needs a decocker (that was not the case of the M34, that was SA only). That had been the request of the Italian Police to Beretta. At that point Beretta put it on the slide (92S model) because that's the safest place to put one. The slide mounted decocker is the only one that decocks the hammer completely, since it at the same time rotates the firing pin out of the way of the hammer. All the frame mounted decockers only leave the hammer in half-cock position.
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  19. The pistol used to kill Ghandi.
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  20. That's the safest place to put a decocker. Frame mounted decockers only decock to half-cock position. That way the space between hammer and firing pin is open for debris to enter. A slide mounted decocker rotates the firing pin out of the way of the hammer while releasing it, so it can decock the hammer completely.
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  21. 1) For what's the use of handguns in battlefield, to cut the weight can easily save more of your soldiers' lives than to have a more powerful caliber. 2) in a total war like WWII, workers and tools are needed to manufacture more useful tnings than complex handguns, so a simple blowback can, again, save more of your soldiers' lives than a complex breechlock.
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  22. Thus having adopted the P38, the Germans manufactured and issued much more Walther, Mauser and Sauer in .32 ACP during the war. For what was the use of a pistol on the field, a simple blowback was favoured over a complex breechlock. From this point of view, to adopta a blowback in .380 ACP from the start was probably the right decision.
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  23. Another example of magazine fed gun adapted to belt fed and issued is the Fiat-Revelli 14/35
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  24. Far too heavy to be a battle rifle.
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  25. The bottom placement prevented to use a bigger magazine (it would have been an hindrance in firing from prone position) and drums are complicate, heavy and expensive for what they do.
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  26. The Savage 1907 has a CW rifling, so the bullet is forced to accelerate rotating CW and, for reaction, it imparts a CCW force to the barrel. Since the barrel must rotate CW to open the action, that contrast with the opening. However, since the recoil momentum is MUCH stronger than the rotating one of the bullet (otherwise the bullet will never leave the barrel) that can't lock the action.
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  27. Just like tilting barrel, and many pure blowback designs (IE the Beretta, from 1915 to present days) have not a fixed barrel anyway.
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  28. It's considered lever delayed. Lever delay (the acceleration of the bolt carrier) can be obtained via a lever or via inclined surfaces (like in this case).
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  29.  @EnjoyCocaColaLight  It's unsuited for individual automatic fire.
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  30.  @ozfifer7392  For example, the class under 2200 joules can be defined "Lightweight Rifle Cartridges", or LRC. The 2200-3000 joules class "Medium rifle cartridges", or MRC. The over 3000 joules class "Full Power Rifle Cartridges" or FPRC. There are already definitions for the infantry rifles that use the first and last class of ammo (Assault rifle and Battle rifle), we only need a term for the rifles that uses the MRC, for example "Squad Rifle" (that doesn't make less sense than the other two definitions).
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  31.  @blackore64  The problem with the Sturmgewehr 57 is not that it doesn't fit into the "assault rifle" term. It's that it doesn't fit into the "battle rifle" either. Due to it's weight, it's more similar to an automatic rifle, like the BAR or the Breda PG. Adopting it, the Swiss were thinking of a pretty static defensive war, where they would have shot on the invaders form prepared positions, possibly having the high ground, so weight was not that important, while accuracy was.
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  32. 13.3kg. It's rather heavy even for a LMG.
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  33.  @pdalia  The Gewehr 41 didn't work that well. Well designed mechanisms work. Ill designed ones don't. Indipendently by the nationality of who designed them.
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  34. In 1930 quick exchange barrels were pretty estabilished. To not have one in an air-cooled MG that even fires from a closed bolt is a pretty inexcusable mistake. Air-cooled, fires from a closed bolt, and it hasn't a quick exchange barrel = It's a magazine cook-off waiting to happen.
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  35.  @Jargolf86  The Breda 30 was surely slower reloading, had a more open shroud and a ridged barrel to aid cooling and, after the first battles, it was seen that its two spare barrel provision wasn't enought, and it had been increased to four. May be this barrel could resist a little more than that of the BAR (whose overheating was a common occurrence in WWII despite the open bolt that at least avoided the cook-off of an entire magazine), but it could surely overheat.
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  36. That was the MG15.
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  37. It's not easy to strip a gun of 2/3 of it's weight. It's easier to design a new one.
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  38.  @ineednochannelyoutube5384  It' hasn't. No barrel change that requires to open the receiver and extract the bolt is considered "quick".
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  39.  @nindger4270  Unfortunately, as said, the BAR stopping working in action due to overheating was a common occurrence in WWII. Maybe they didn't see the same people (see, for example, Robert R. Hodges Jr., Robert R. Hodge "The Browning Automatic rifle" p.42).
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  40.  @nindger4270  Yeah. And magazine-fed LMGs easily overheat if they don't have a quick exchange barrel and several spare barrels. That's why the ZB vz.26, the Bren, the FM 24/29, the Breda 30... all had a quick exchange barrel. That's why the BAR overheating was a common occurrence in WWII (but there the open bolt action at least avoided cooking-off an entire magazine) and that's why the Swedish added a quick exchange barrel to the BAR to make the M/37 LMG.
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  41. It's not exactly a competition between the best but, between this and the BAR, this is probably better.
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  42. While taking this monstrosity into serial production, Colt had the beautiful 1971 and SSP prototypes in some drawer.
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  43. Why the eagles are looking backward? It seems like they are laughing at the shooter.
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  44. The sad thing is that it didn't need any R&D really. It would have been enough to phone Bernardelli to ask them to manufacture a series of "more 1911 lookalike" P018 to market as Colt DA/SA pistols. Like IWI phoned Tanfoglio to manufacture a series of "more Desert Eagle lookalike" TA90 to market as Jericho 941. The gun already had all Colt wanted (Browning action, DA/SA, all steel construction, 1911-style safety, a built-in decocker in the last iterations...) and the manufacturer was obscure enough in the US to not make anyone say that Colt "copied" another gun (like for the Beretta-Vector-Colt Affair).
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  45. This was inadequate too. 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. ...
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  46. There are "better" 1911 around. This is not one. It's unnecessarily complicated, and fragile too.
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  47. It happens so often that "glock leg" (shooting himself while holstering or drawing the gun) had became a common term. Striker fired handguns are basically single action pistols with a cocked hammer, without safety and with a crappy trigger.
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  48.  @williepelzer384  Males didn't like the recoil too. An FBI Agent is not necessarily a gun enthusiast.
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  49. The Italian Variara SMG, that was an insurgent weapon used by the partisans, had cast aluminium grips, and the polish Błyskawica, another insurgent SMG, had cast aluminium buttstock. If an industrial production line had not been estabilished, to cast aluminium parts is easier than stamp or machine steel.
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  50. It’s rather questionable if an opening half way through the barrel, from where the spilled gas has to fill a relatively large space (like in the first pistol shown) can really act to delay the opening of the action until pressure drops to safe level. Probably it acts just like a buffer, preventing the slide to slam into the frame at a speed dangerous for the integrity of the gun (and detrimental for the comfort of the shooter), while the action is largely a pure blowback.
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