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

  1. Practically a Scotti action, but without the slide closing on the bolt face and preventing it to rotate by itself. However, as a matter of fact, an angle of those bolt lugs IS cut at 45 degree to facilitate closing. Pylon probably "only" extended that cut.
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  2.  @zoiders  You are not a WWI veteran, so you can stop talking down to people "from the field". Yours are no more than armchair guessing. Metallic link belts and magazines won, sorry. Canvas belt became obsolete. Metallic and canvas belt are not the same. There were no metallic belts in WWI. Magazines are still used. Canvas belt are not. The FIAT-Revelli magazine was a way to have a 50 rounds magazine in an era where simply staggered 50 rounds magazines would have been unreliable. A belt doesn't work everywere. A canvas belt easily collect mud and get wet. wetting the ammos too and mantaining them wet Storage and transport of canvas belts requires special attention. Refilling canvas belt in the field requires time and precision. Much more time and much more precision than refilling magazines. Canvas belt are damaged quite easily, and are easily subject to stretching or shrinking due to the weather. All the simplicity of the belt is paid in terms of complexity of the gun, since a cartridge has to be extracted backwards form the belt, then rised or lowered out of the way of the belt, then pushed into the chamber. A cartridge only has tro be pushed out of the magazine or strip. Belts require much more time to be changed than magazines or strips. To discard a damaged belt that causes feeding problems costs all the ammos in it. A damaged magazine or strip costs less ammos. Canvas belt are so problematic than even the advent of synthetic fibers, that would have solved some of their problems, didn't manage to save them from becoming obsolete.
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  3. It's evident that I have to repeat myself instead. I said (several times) "AT THE SAME CONDITIONS". In most countries YOU CAN buy an AR15 to keep it in a closet. IT'S CONSIDERED A RIFLE LIKE ANY OTHER, and yet, the buyers do not necessarily chose AR15s. Because they are less obsessed with AR15s than Americans are. AR15s are mainly a north American thing. In other countries is conceivable that you can buy an AR15, and yet you prefer to buy another rifle.
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  4. "Yea....and Italy is basically the only exception to that rule in Europe." In France YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELONG TO ANY SHOOTING CLUB TO OWN A MILITARY STYLE SEMIAUTO. YOU CAN SIMPLY KEEP THE RIFLE IN YOUR CLOSET IF YOU WANT. In Austria YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELONG TO ANY SHOOTING CLUB TO OWN A MILITARY STYLE SEMIAUTO. YOU CAN SIMPLY KEEP THE RIFLE IN YOUR CLOSET IF YOU WANT. ... "I see you still dodged the question of whether you own firearms or not" "I get the impression that you are just an AR-hater despite you not owning guns yourself" is not a question to me. I don't care of your impressions, and that was just a silly attempt to switch the discussion from the topic (of which you clearly don't know much) to the person.
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  5. It seems that you have very little to say about the subject, haven't you? Fact is that there are many countries were you are not required to have a "sporting purpose" to buy an AR15. For how much incredible it may sem to you, there are countries, where, AT THE SAME CONDITIONS the buyers do not necessarily chose AR15s. Some of them choose to buy an AR15, and some of them some other rifle. Because AR15s are mainly a north American thing. And that's the subject, for how much you like to talk about me instead (that's your silly attempt to switch the discussion).
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  6. For how much you like to talk bout me now, because evidently you have nothing to say about a subject (gun laws and preferences out of the US) you know nothing about, fact is that there are many countries were you are not required to have a "sporting purpose" to buy an AR15. For how much incredible it may sem to you, there are countries, where, AT THE SAME CONDITIONS the buyers do not necessarily chose AR15s. Some of them choose to buy an AR15, and some of them some other rifle. Because AR15s are mainly a north American thing.
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  7. I already listed three.
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  8. There was a 30 rounds version that was loaded with a single, very long, stripper clip (is on the wikipedia page). There's also a picture of one with detachable magazine. (you can google: Getty images cei rigotti ).
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  9. Oh, well, if "a guy" said it....
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  10. It's not locked by the finger. it's called an expander lock. Due to the direction of the respective inclined surfaces, when the bolt is pushed back by the recoil, it can only push the lever downward and not rearward, so the bolt is locked. https://patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
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  11. The 6.5x52 Carcano cartridge had been the first 6.5 cartridge officially adopted by any army. There was not a standard at that time. BTW, the 6.5X54 Mannlicher Shonauer adopted the same bullet dimensions of the Carcano. The 7.35 barrel had, between the lands, exactly the diameter the 6.5 barrel had between the grooves. That means the Italians could obtain brand new 7.35 barrels simply shortening and reboring million of worn out 6.5 barrels they had in the arsenals since the end of WWI.
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  12. There is no WTF with this one. The thing is made to be held with the left hand while the reload operations are made with the right one. No loss of speed, and, since you have your left hand around the magazine holder, you can't miss it while changing the magazine, even if you are operating in the darkness, or not looking at the weapon at all.
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  13.  @222TripleJ  the only problem with the Italian classification is that people consider the one used only by the US "right" by default. The Italian classification was done exclusively by mass. A tank was light under the 10 tons, medium between 10 and 20 tons, heavy over 20 tons. L6/40, light tank weighting 6 tons adopted in 1940. M14/41, medium tank weighting 14 tons adopted in 1941. P26/40, heavy tank weighting 26 tons adopted in 1940. The Brits classified their tanks light , cruise and infantry. the Germans didnt' have a classification, they only numbered the models (Panzer II - III - IV). The US classification was so good that their "Heavy" tanks were so heavy to be scarcely useful, had been practically unused in WWII, and the entire concept had been replaced by that of MBT later but, for some reason, the P26/40 being a heavy tank was "laughable".
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  14.  @kino_61  The Reggiane 2000 had the closed cockpit since the first day of war. The closed cockpit Macchi C.202 and Reggiane 2001 entred in line in 1941. The Cr.42 was phased out of first line use in 1941, around the same time the Brits phased out the biplane Gloster Gladiator. The last purchaser of the Cr.42 had not been the Regia Aeronautica, but the Luftwaffe, that purchased 63 samples in 1943, to replace their biplanes Henschel Hs 123, that they found very useful, but whose production couldn't be restarted. The RAF had sergeant pilots as well, throughout the war and well into the '50s. The US had them until 1942. Most of the Luftwaffe pilots were NCO. Same for the Soviets.
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  15.  @DinnerForkTongue  In which way? The USAS is simply a semiauto shotgun and, thus not having the double possibility of the SPAS, IT'S 3.3 LBS HEAVIER. The USAS is more the fat and less gifted friend.
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  16.  @DinnerForkTongue  You want to use it in full auto? Good luck.
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  17. ​ @RandomUser-cx9kn  "the (clearly) worst design" in respect to an AK derivate and a rifle that had not been adopted by ANYONE? The most fearsome contender was the SOCIMI AR871, an AR15 derivate wit a long stroke gas piston action (like the Daewoo K2).
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  18. There is no real difference in the operation of the two guns MAC channel shown, but only in the form of the bolt carrier. In the AR15 the bolt carrier is pushed rearward by the gas (direct impingement) and nothing else while, when this happens, the bolt is simply solidal with the receiver. In the MAS 49 what MAC called "the gas tube with a tiny little hole" is what in the AR15 was called "a piston" (a "stationary piston"). In the AR15 the "piston" (really the bolt) doesn't push the carrier at all, the gas does. The bolt it only seals the gas until the carrier retreated enough, exactly like the final portion of the gas tube in the MAS49.
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  19. Actually it was soon found that bayonets mounted on rifles were among the worst weapons for trench raids. It was too easy to divert the bayonet with one hand, and hit with anything you had in the other. Almost anything (figting knives, dismounted bayonets, showels...) worked better.
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  20. There is difference between disassembly and field strip. This rifle is very easily field strippable but, like almost every bolt action and semiauto rifle up to then, and several semiauto rifles after then, this rifle is not made to have the trigger group and the receiver removed often from the stock. You'll see the same screws in the Gewehr 43.
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  21. A neat gun, even if a breechlock .380 ACP is overkill.
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  22. It was produced just before Germany betrayed Japan.
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  23. The people they were mostly facing carried Mosins and PPSh
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  24. No frame mounted decocker I know fully decocks.
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  25.  @hendriktonisson2915  Unfortunately, much of the surviving guns had been turned into Fiat-Revelli 1914/35, and then used in N.Africa until exhaustion (it was conceived to be a stopgap weapon anyway, until the full adoption of the Breda 37), so there are very few surviving samples, generally in museums, that don't allow to shoot them.
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  26. You should review the PM-12S competitor. The Franchi LF57.
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  27. The last burst of a magazine will always be a surprise, and you can't fix it by simply pulling the trigger again. However mind that this is a first. The subsequent implementations of the burst mechanism obviously improved it.
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  28. People seems to like to point out the limitations of the Villar Perosa, forgetting that, as long as it had no competition (so until 1918) it was simply the best thing around.
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  29. It works like that. In 1942 FNAB contacted the Army, shown the prototype and stated "we can make X samples of this gun per year at this price". The Army tested the gun, the price was acceptable, SMGs were needed, so "OK, start production". Since the price was right, the Army didn't care what the manufacturing technique was.
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  30.  @hendriktonisson2915  The Germans didn't want to change ammunitions. They wanted to use the same ammo with a spitzer bullet. So did the Swedes. As already said, instead, after WWI the old 6.5mm Carcano cartridge had always been on the verge of being replaced. First with the 7.35×32mm of the Terni 1921 (a true intermediate cartridge) and then the 7.35X51mm, so there was no point in doing a modification that would have forced to modify all the sights of the existing rifles, when new cartridges in new rifles were about to be adopted.
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  31.  @CtrlAltRetreat  The Italians wanted to adopt the 7.35X32 (not the 7.35X51, that came later) because they wanted to adopt a semiauto rifle (the Terni 1921) and correctly recognised that, for semiauto fire, an intermediate cartridge was better, hence the 7.35X32. The conservatorism of the high brass prevented the adoption of the Terni semiauto, bu they still wanted a semiauto, in a full blown cartridge, so a new rifle, and tested many, In 1938, still testing semiauto rifles, they recognised the convertion to a semiauto would have likely required a long time, but they didn't want to fight the next war with long worn-out, WWI Carcano rifles, so they adopted the M38 short rifle, that was a new rifle anyway. BUT there is a trick. You can take an old, worn-out, 6.5 long rifle barrel, and turn it in a brand new, 7.35 short rifle barrel, only cutting and reboring it. You can't turn an old worn-out 6.5 long rifle barrel in a brand new 6.5 short rifle barrel. Even cutting it, it will remain worn out. So, since they had to manufacture new rifles and new ammos anyway, to adopt the 7.35x51, was economically convenient in respect to adopt a 6.5 spitzer.
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  32. Pretty spot on. In the subsequent years the Italians came up with several very interesting LMG designs, but the Breda 30 had already been selected, and the improvings were not considered worth to revert a decision taken only few years before. Already in 1932 the Terni arsenal LMG put in a single weapon all the best features of the various entries of the previous selection ( no oiler thanks to the Brixia 1930 mechanics; Breda 1930 tilting magazine, barrel change, bipod, barrel shroud and pistol grip; FIAT 1928 stock and barrel; http://www.archeologiaindustriale.org/cms/fucile-mitragliatore-modello-terni/ ) In1937 Scotti introduced another "Breda 1930 lookalike", retaining the style of the barrel and the general ergonomy but with his patented gas operation and a vertical detachable magazine ( http://alternathistory.com/files/resize/users/user32336/%20%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%20%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%20%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB.%207.7%20%D0%BC%D0%BC-700x327.jpg it was aquired in few hundreds of samples and used as a tank weapon first than the introduction of the Breda 1938), and the Scotti naval antiaircraft rifle, an assault rifle in all but name ( https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/6f/8e/716f8e33be4f124274a6de9457462b65.png there were versions with buttstocks).
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  33.  @randymagnum143  I'm sure your opinion on the matter has the utmost importance to you, and you find your fairy tales more interesting than reality, but sadly the world doesn't share it and it's not inerested in them.
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  34. As I know there had not been any fallout. Taurus' plant was originally made by Beretta to manufacture guns for the Brazilian Army (a contract Beretta won in 1974). When the contract expired Beretta sold the plant with all the tooling to Taurus, that could start producing its own 92 clone, because at that point the patent expired too. Beretta didn't care, because at that time Taurus could only manufacture clones of the original 92 (the model whose patent expired) while Beretta was manufacturing the 92F already.
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  35. It's interesting that Allied reports on the use of captured weapons, and instruction manuals written for the Allied gunners issued with the captured Breda 30 don't mention the reloading system to be an issue AT ALL. All those are modern day armchair considerations.
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  36. Infact the lighter cartridge is faster at the muzzle, and has a flatter initial trajectory, but it loses speed faster too, so ther is a point where the two trajectories align.
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  37. In theory the system is as safe as pure blowback. It simply exchange the mass of the bolt with the acceleration of a part of it. In practice, using riflle ammunitions, it's difficult to fine-tune, being always on the verge of having a too harsh extracion (not enough mechanical disadvantage) or not having enough power to cycle the action (too much mechanical disadvantage).
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  38. ... The only reason I dislike this rifle, is the silly "'70s futuristic" look.
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  39. Ha he reviewed a Franchi LF-58 prototype, the resemblance would have been stronger. That's a real STG-44 style tilting bolt action and stamped steel receiver in .30 Carbine.
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  40.  @JohnDoe-nf7up  The SSP was a slightly modified M1971, that Colt could have put on the marked in mid '70s along with the Beretta 92 and CZ75, but they preferred to miss the "wondernines" train. BTW the fact that the SSP didn't win the JSSA program shouldn't have prevented them to put it on the market anyway (like SIG, FN, Walther or Steyr did with their bids).
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  41.  @donnerschwein  A hint. MG42/59 had been licence-manufactured by Beretta. Those are recognisable by the "old style" muzzle booster.
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  42. It had more to do with costs. Several semiautos and semiauto conversions had been tested and deemed to be reliable already before WWI. Malfunctions happened on fairly old guns with worn-out springs, are not indicative of the performance of the weapon at the time.
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  43. It's quite a complex design.
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  44. The correct reload procedure for a right handed person is: hold the gun with your left hand by the safety / magazine holder and USE YOUR RIGHT HAND TO REPLACE THE MAGAZINE AND OPERATE THE CHARGING HANDLE. is not like you have much to do with your right hand (that's supposed to be your most able one) until the reload procedure is completed, so its better to use it to reload the gun.
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  45.  @andyrihn1  Uh, no. In the service life test only the 92F and the H&K P7 reached the 7000 rounds threshold with all three pistols intact. The P226 cracked a frame at 6523 rounds fired, but was allowed to pass, since the requirement was just for a service life, on average, of over 5000 rounds. the P226 failed the dry mud test, with only 79% reliability in those conditions. Being that significantly lower than the 1911 control weapon, it should have been eliminated due to the rules of the competition (notice that instead, in the XM17 trials, there was conveniently not a M9 control weapon around to be seen). It was allowed to keep on competing, because the Army wanted at least two manufacturers to compete on price, so it was simply decided that the dry mud test result was "not so important" and the result was simply not considered. So, not counting the result of the tests were the 92F performed better than the P226, then the P226 performed better than the 92F.
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  46. You were firing single base propellant cartridges (more unstable than the double base used for 6.5 ammos) more than 40 years old. The stabilizer content at least halved, and the flame temperature doubled, in respect to new ammos.
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  47. "after taking the time to look at these guns in-house and assess them and do some engineering work, presumably, Colt came to the conclusion that no, they weren't actually interested in further developing" a functional gun, and that people would have drooled over the Double Eagle instead.
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  48. It had been made in 20mm and 37mm.
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  49. The bolt is more complicate to manufacture, the extraction is weaker (it's easier to open a stuck bolt action by force without breaking anything) and the Steyr-Manlicher is practically the only straight-pull that didn't show problems in trench warfare.
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  50. It doesn't. Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, the designer of the Fedorov Avtomat, witnessed the battlefields of the Russo-Japanese war, and made some interesting observation. In the mud and snow, Mauser-style rifles had soon their magazines clogged in frozen mud and became single-shooters. Mannlicher style rifles, due to the action being cleaned by the passing of the en block clips, remained operative as repeaters.
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