Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1.  @atomic_wait  Nah. Even in Australia, that word was a bit more verboten back then than now. Not to say that it wasn't used, but it wasn't used with the affection that it is today.
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  2. When your intention is not to quickly mow down hundreds of your citizens, but to mow down a couple of them and make the rest scatter, this makes perfect sense.
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  3.  @leoncolwin8645  Rims aren't that bad. They help with ejection and the magazine is designed so they don't jam, feed easily and reload easily. In fact the fire rate of the Lee Enfield was famous and well above what you would expect of a 30-06 or Mauser. I don't think barrel life expectancy was that much of a priority when you're sending millions of men to die. There's always plenty of guns literally laying around in the dirt to pick up, and it's much quicker to make a new barrel than it is to make a new 20 year old soldier.
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  4.  @pleaseno779  We made plenty of other guns, and had multiple factories punching firearms out. Mostly the Lithgow Small Arms factory, of course. But also Lysaght, Carmichael, Electrolux and others manufactured firearms during WW2. As well as other manufacturers making components, whether metal or wood, including say sporting goods manufacturers like Slazenger for the timber of the rifles.
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  5. Black powder throwing basically large chunks of real estate. :) By modern standards the .303 is a slow whoomph sound, but compared to the .577 on black powder it sounds like a .204 Ruger lol
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  6. and lack of sighting in at 100
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  7. Also, for those who don't know, the British method of measurement was different to the US method, so a 308 is 7.62 mm but the 303 is 7.92mm. The case width at the rim is 13.7mm or 0.54 of an inch compared to 12.0 or 0.47 of an inch. India created a lot of .410 shotguns out of surplus WWII .303's It's a far bigger round than many people realize.
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  8. Australian made ammo is sometimes packaged that way. 5 rounds per group, as 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 round magazines are common sizes so there is usually a number of "blisters" to open to suit any military magazine size.
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  9.  @antt5112  Part of the question was how well the cartridge suited the service rifle and how much it was optimised for it. Was it the best design cartridge OR rifle? Absolutely not on either category. But you have to admit after making them for Higher Velocity smokeless ammo since what, 1907, it was pretty well optimised.
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  10. Basically it's between these and the Owen, which served the Australian Army for almost 30 years and is also a VERY simple design. Evelyn Owen was even younger as a gun designer and Australia only had a fraction of the industrial resources of the Soviet Union at the time. Sadly he also died very young.
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  11.  @dracarysblackfyre6030  Lysaght made them not Lithgow. Lithgow was busy pumping out Lee Enfield 1 3* for all they could punch out. If Lithgow got involved it might have made the gun look prettier but they worked just fine as they were.
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  12.  @trooperdgb9722  well, like most words bugger has meanings based on era and interpretation. As does, well, special, joy, or gay. I don't think the Flintstones were encouraging same sex acts. Ken Oath is a good one to bypass things still. :)
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  13. Special forces and police departments will choose firearms based on things like accuracy, control and also minimal collateral damage. Being a hostage target accidentally hit by an armour piercing round with smaller post penetration damage over say a 9mm is potentially an advantage in those circumstances, and the lack of damage on intended targets can be presumably be resolved by a high fire rate and a 50 round magazine if required.
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  14. We used them until the early 70's, so it outlasted all of it's ww2 contemporaries
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  15. and the .276 Pederson was created from the research the British did a decade earlier on the .276 Enfield. That one got away too.
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  16. you can probably tune that up to the shell length, lube and tighten everything and get it working pretty sweet. 1 in the chamber, 1 in the transfer, 3 in the tube. Would certainly be quicker than many shotguns. Now you just need a lefty version.
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  17. Solid steel plate would do them some harm, but shooting paper you'd be able to just pick them up. With the lack of tight rifling you wouldn't need perfection either.
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  18.  @baneofbanes  Facts, dude. Many American companies were more interested in making a profit than winning a war. Backed up by Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.
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  19. Maybe need to send some drill bits rather than screwdriver bits.
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  20. They really are a cool piece of kit. The question is, would this be the choice of front line combat troops to invade the universe? Handing them over to the Daniel Jacksons of the world, I get. To Colonel O'Neill, on the other hand it seems the wrong tool in the wrong hands.
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  21. The same position was held in jungle warfare in Vietnam where American troops would happily throw away their M16's to pick up an Aussie SLR. Small rounds are not as effective through even small obstacles.
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  22.  @abysswalker2594  if there is not regular commercial ammunition available it doesn't require a licence. it's quite a common firearms regulation across commonwealth countries. So if you plan a brace of pistols like an early 18th century pirate you're good.
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  23. The charlton was a super cool piece of kit. Has been covered here in a full video.
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  24. Needed a mechanism that didn't need rezeroing each time. Not like you get a couple of fouling shots in battle and an opportunity to re-zero on paper. Lets be honest though, minute of german head was probably good enough.
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  25. 7.62x39 is still used today.
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  26. Add the Owen into that list and I'll agree.
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  27. .312 also = .303 Brit. Not something I think is underpowered or doesn't leave a big enough hole.
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  28.  @MagnusVictor2015  Most portable anti-tank or later anti-materiel rifles were smaller than 20mm. the Boys anti tank rifle was 14mm, the Mauser Anti Tank Rifle was 13mm.
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  29.  @drscopeify  exactly. Had armies been prepared in formation in the field as per the Napoleonic Era, the British were ready.
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  30. For those not in the know, Elbonia came from Dilbert back in 1991 as a supposedly freshly independent (and very impoverished) former Communist nation. Giving them faulty products would be completely in line with that. Did they make the Liberator in .410?
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  31. 303 Brit still getting plenty of use today. 7.62 Russian has a long wait to win that battle.
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  32. I guess you never heard about the 303-25, 303-270, 303-22 or the 303 being used to make 410 shotguns :)
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  33. That's an interesting question. Imaging a 60v battery powered air rifle that had an onboard tank and compressor just sending slugs. It wouldn't be a hard concept, and would be cool too, just not this kind of future cool. Might well be easier to build a functioning one for home trials though.
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  34. 303 Brit is still widely used today, as is 7x57 Mauser. They're still all capable of hitting a deer or a more erm bipedal thing with destructive force and high enough accuracy.
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  35. I've got a new 308 and a WW2 303. Any accuracy benefit from the cartridge is relatively small, most of the benefit is from the quality of the optics, and the benefit of 21st century production methods versus stuff punched out in the millions during WW2.
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  36. Firing the martini seems awfully expensive, but when you consider how long the bullet is actually in the air the cost per second of bullet time is probably no different to any other rifle. :) When you can sit in silence counting the seconds until payload delivery it's a different world that AR guys just wouldn't understand.
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  37. Looks like substantial improvements made on last time. Starting to be cool What they need obviously is stronger coils and higher voltage output. The extra 2 coils help a bit. You'd think that they could use a smaller lighter 60v battery since the limitation of power isn't the battery itself but the limitations of the coils and capacitor. But for now, for off the shelf swap and go availability, that's really up to the owner to choose the battery that suits them. Sooo... given the bigger capacitor is getting pretty decent recharge for the coils given it can mag dump full auto, the coils are still the biggest limitation. If that's the case, then what you really need is more coils for more acceleration, to get those rounds up to a higher speed and greater stability. To me, this means that I'd be thinking of a total redesign for the new version. What this screams at for me is a bullpup design. Since there is no chamber, or really a firing group, what you're really looking for is maximum barrel length in the design. A bullpup design should allow a few more coils to fit in for the same length. The jump from 8 to 10 seems to have improved it. With a bullpup design I'd be thinking more like 14 for the same length. I'd LOVE to see this thing as a full p90 style design, extended magazine running along the top. But I expect that having the magazine anywhere near those coils is going to be a bad thing, so maybe a magazine that runs along the capacitor, either as a top or bottom feed is fine.
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  38.  @pinsandscrews6459  honestly pump shouldn't be in the same category as lever and bolt.
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  39. Would it have beaten the 276 Enfield that Britain was going to adopt before WW1?
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  40. That is a lot of bang in a small package. I haven't said that for a while either.
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  41. I think you can definitely design the projectiles to spin themselves as they move through the air with some aerodynamic design, but right now the velocity limitations are a bigger issue than the spin limitations. The faster the projectiles move, the easier it is to use the shape and or weight distribution of them to impart spin as well.
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  42. "Terrible"... but still said with a huge smile on his face. That folding setup was pretty cool, but could have been designed a fair bit better to improve the gun ergonomics
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  43. More powerful coils, or more of them could do it. using the same coils (but more of them) in a bullpup design I can see a jump to 300 fps being relatively simple. At 500 fps this starts to become more than just a toy or concept but a very serious weapon. Remember that you can throw heavier slugs in there and they will accelerate effectively to the same speed as lighter ones so the potential energy dump starts to go up very easily.
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  44. Americans: Claim "patriotism", but expected a 300% profit on the Thompson during war production. Australians: don't go waving flags everywhere, but are happy to make Owen guns at a 1.5% profit. Shows what Americans are really patriotic about. Not defending their country, but making money.
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  45. A gunsmith could probably sort that out with a little bit of time, but a highly valuable weapon on loan isn't going to be sent to a gunsmith to tinker with.
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  46. Good to see that they demanded one thing, and when it came to the choice they chose something that was completely different to what they'd said they need. The joys of bureaucracy
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  47. 303 Enfield? Went from black powder .303, all the way though .22 lr to .22H to .22-303, .25-303, .270-303, .276 Enfield, .30 carbine, 7.62x39, 7.62x51, .303 smokeless, .303 High Velocity, .410 musket, .410 shotgun, .45 ACP and even made it to semi automatic and fully automatic versions. Oh, and a grenade launcher version using the same receiver.
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  48. The worry I have is lack of range if everyone is armed with these. It's basically a small pistol round as far as range is concerned. For a well trained special forces team who have a known target within close range with all the intel, or a REMF looking for a convenient spray and pray device to sit on a passenger seat of a truck, these are ideal. The problem in the field if that's your only choice is that ANY enemy capable of engaging you at a longer range than you can will do so unless they are total morons.
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  49. And since you didn't have to go to one whole line, what's that ACTUALLY adjustable down to? 0.2 moa or so?
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  50. Ahh, but the .303 Lee Enfield was not just used as a black powder rifle, but also got used as a trainer rifle in .22lr, a .410 musket, a .410 shotgun , in 7.62x39, 7.62x51, sporterised into .22H as well as .22-303 .25-303 and .270-303 as a hunting rifle, as a sniper rifle in .303 and 7.62x51, the jungle carbine, the cavalry carbine, and of course the trial .276 Enfield, .30 Caliber, and even automatic versions of it. You've even covered the De Lisle .45 ACP.
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