Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Somehow I suspect it would waste less ammo if the firing cycle was electronically controlled so that one press of the button means you get a 5-10 round burst. With a microcontroller you could also probably make the loading procedure automatic (that is the gun cycles in the fresh rounds until live by the press of one button). Has anyone done that yet?
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  2. I'm certain there's a mod for Factorio with this 😂
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  3. Captive pins are useful. But if I were to try and keep engineering costs down when designing a gun, one thing I'd make sure to do would be to have one of the receivers have an indent of some kind with a magnet attached to the base and making sure that all the body pins and other small parts are made from magnetic metals. So whenever you pull pins out and want to avoid losing them you just stick them on that indent and the magnet holds them in place until you need to put the pins and small parts back in their proper place again.
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  4.  @MongooseTacticool  Well deserved. From the show he seemed like a decent guy. But I guess you can never know for sure with some people.
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  5.  @drud3792  Civilians also report that Russian soldiers were the one doing the handcuffing and the summary executions. The propaganda from both sides are turning the intelligence situation into a giant shitshow. It's impossible to know truth from fiction out of Ukraine right now if you only look at media reports and testimonies. I'm not saying I believe that the Ukrainian military are saints by any means (seen enough horrific shit out of Donbass since 2014 to believe that). What i'm saying is that there's no reliable reporting currently of what is going on in Ukraine now, and who is doing what.
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  6.  @johnmortin5603  So tanks don't like open fields of operations because anti-tank weapons exist... Any other genius and insightful conclusions from you?
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  7. ​ @szlatyka  I agree. A revolving action for belt fed ammunition makes more sense than it deserves
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  8. The design is really sweet. It's a shame that Magpul didn't manage to launch their Magpul PDR. It looks very similar to a P90... but it was gonna fire 5.56mm rounds rather than SMG rounds :D
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  9. Say what you will about plastics, but they don't warp or swell from humidity to throw off your zero like wood does.
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  10. It might see some applications if they develop powered exo skeletons for infantry somtime in the future. I'm thinking that if the exo skeleton is armored, then it's not a certainty that the operator will have sufficient manual dexterity to allow for directly operating the action of a weapon. Especially if the weapon is mounted on the outside of the frame of the exo skeleton.
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  11. Erm... The M2 Browning Machine gun is basically a "rapid fire anti-material rifle" as well. The "anti material rifles" of many countries actually fire .50 BMG rounds.
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  12.  @antonhengst8667  The M2 is pretty darned accurate though. Even at longer ranges. Plus: full auto capability.
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  13.  @allangibson2408  Yes. Also, while I can't confirm the source. I heard about some crazy antics with the M2 in Vietnam. Apparently someoned had mounted a scope to an M2 and was able to use it for highly accurate long range shots by being gentle with the trigger so as to only fire it in a semi auto fashion. While this is a rumour I can't substantiate, i'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt due to the ballistic properties of the .50 BMG cartridge and general knowledge about the accuracy of the M2 platform. Will it be as "portable" as an M82 using the same cartridge? No, of course not. Do I believe that you could, theoretically hit targets at ranges similar to what you can do with an M82 if you put a magnified scope onto an M2? I'll have to say yes.
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  14. Leave it to the merchant class to ruin a great engineering idea...
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  15.  @martinswiney2192  speaking to a professional welder, he told me that pretty welds aren't really a matter of durability most of the time. But rather it is about how much extra work you need to put into the weld with an angle grinder afterwards. A pretty weld saves manhours in the long run. But that's about it.
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  16. I do like the fact that it's got a fixed stock though. Telescopic stocks sends the wrong message to the troops that the equipment is supposed to adapt to the soldier rather than the other way around.
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  17.  @vidard9863  Civilians always die to some degree in war, that's just the nature of war. But you know jack shit about military history if you think that every army in every war engaged in wholesale slaughter of civilians or violated women on sight. So it demonstrably makes a difference how the enemy troops view the civilians in how they behave towards them. But if you arm civilians and use civilians to attack enemy troops with, then enemy troops will always regard all civilians as hostiles. The job of a civilian is to get the hell out of the warzones and let the military forces fight. But you, being an unethical and dishonourable monster thinks it's better to force civilians to fight and paint giant targets on their inexperienced and militarily usless backs just to protect some oligarch presidents useless hide.
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  18.  @vidard9863  See the Vietnam war or the war in Iraq for examples and stop being ignorant. In the beginning of the Vietnam war, U.S troops were not running around committing atrocities. If they saw some vietnamese kids running around nearby, they viewed them as just harmless kids. But then the scumbags of the Vietcong started using children and women in their tactics, for example by using them as suicide bombers. Counting cynically on the american troops to not see the harm coming before it was too late. After a bunch of american troops had gotten killed by child suicide bombers, they stopped giving af and treated every civilian man, woman and child as a potential hostile, with massive civilian casualties as a result.
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  19. So Sten gun and a Tommy Gun had drunken sex one night, and this is the result.
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  20. I think I could hear Ian tearing up just slightly at the end there. I would be sad having to leave that shooter behind too. 😁
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  21. Stay tuned for the upcoming video reviewing the phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range. 😁
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  22. A sliding top cover is a really sexy idea I must admit. Anyone else had a folding top cover fall down on your fingers like I've had? 😁
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  23. You could up the firing rate of the swedish k quite easily. Just remove the main spring and put a pingpong ball behind it. You'll shred through a full magazine in no time.
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  24. Why add a carry handle? You could just as easily carry it by holding on to the thumb hole Sure the rifle would be held upside down that way, but it certainly would reduce the costs.
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  25. Isn't the cheek rest on that stock a little bit low for the iron sights?
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  26.  @0neDoomedSpaceMarine  And the finnish defenders were severly under equipped, out gunned and outnumbered. So no, the soviets does not get to blame their massive failure on "lack of good officers". All you're doing here is engaging in massive cope.
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  27. Part of me wishes that the end stage of this machinery consist of more machines. One that links them together, and then another one that inserts cartridges in the links only to wind a long MG belt onto giant rolls. 😁
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  28. I'd like to bolt it onto a truck
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  29. Have to admit, even though it's not terribly practical, by virtue of getting slippery when wet, i'm a real sucker for guns that have these very sleek shapes. So even though it's just a concept pistol, it's a fairly good looking concept pistol.
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  30. Coonan The Barbarian 😈
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  31. Ironically enough, if you fired this at Jaws when the shark is under water, you'd definitely kill it. But if you used something like a .50 BMG, the bullet would shatter against the water surface because the .50 is supersonic, while the 4-bore is subsonic.
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  32. It's true. Us Norse invented firearms before every other civilization on earth.
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  33. I guess someone was hoping that Jurassic Park would become a reality so they could hunt Brachiosaurus.
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  34. Am I the only one getting some AMT Hardballer vibes from the look of this piece?
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  35. Accurate and quick follow up shots with that looks really difficult.
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  36. I hate the SL-8. That thumb-hole is idiotic since it restricts your thumb from actually reaching the fire selector.
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  37. LuukvdHoogen: Some bullets are made of lead. But enviromental restrictions have caused the industry to make new innovations with bullets and buckshot made of other metals (like steel). The problem is that lead has very good properties for making bullets. It's relatively soft and so deforms easier in the barrel, whereas harder metals put greater wear and tear on the inside of the barrel.
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  38. Wes Hebert: The lead wasn't "in the earth". Lead is mined from rock that encases the lead and prevents it from seeping out into the biosphere. When we mine lead and dump it out in forests and other places of the biosphere it ends up causing damage to living things. That said, I do agree that the supposed lead pollution from firearms is greatly exaggerated. There are much worse culprits in terms of lead pollution, while firearms are causing a largely negligible level of lead pollution.
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  39.  @AGTheOSHAViolationsCounter  You can, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops to own a gun. Also guns can't be used for self-defense at all.
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  40.  @lavrentivs9891  No, no kudos to the police whatsoevere. They retreated when they should have fired. Sets a bad example when you allow violent rioters to get their way and be allowed to throw rocks at police, burn cars and destroy stuff with impunity. If you act like that, you should be shot. You made the choice to risk your own life by doing that, not the police.
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  41.  @SonsOfLorgar  Legally speaking, yes. But at the same time, the courts being the way they are, it's almost impossible to get off scot free if you shoot someone with a firearm as a regular civilian. Even if the situation is within legal bounds. Both the courts and the police take a dim view of civilian gun ownership in general. Which is why the asinine Rikspolisstyrelsen is constantly pushing for rolling back gun rights all the time by incrementally extending the limitations of gun ownership. The institutions are always against you basically as a gun owner, even if the law technically permits you to get a license to own a firearm.
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  42.  @SonsOfLorgar  The only claims I made about the law have been correct so far. If you're going to argue that i'm wrong about something, then you best quote me first.
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  43.  @lavrentivs9891  Then you don't know about guard duty or law enforcement i'm afraid. ZERO police forces in the world (including swedish police) are taught to "prefarably shoot a suspect in the leg". Aiming for anything but center of mass is considered dangerous and discouraged of not outright forbidden. So whenever a cop or a guard armed with a weapon draws it, they're going to shoot to kill, as they have been instructed to do. There is no "shoot in the leg" or "shoot in the arm" for them. It's dangerous because legs and arms present much smaller targets and they move about more compared to the center of the torso. You might end up missing the target and hitting an innocent bystander behind them if you do. And no, it makes no sense to expect a civilian without training to have the presence of mind to issue "warning shots" when two people are currently trying to break into their home trying to kill them. That's why courts are utterly idiotic. They sit around and expect an untrained civilian to have the same disciplined mind as a trained professional in situations that even put trained professionals to the test, and then they sit there and think that they can pass judgement on someone who was in a life threatening situation, when the judges and lawyers themselves have never experienced anything similar.
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  44.  @znail4675  There is no such thing as "suited". Anyone who do not have a criminal record should be more than welcome to own a gun. I don't care about your objections.
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  45.  @AshleyPomeroy  I'm not following.
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  46.  @Schrodingers_kid  Nah, not quite as much damage as possible. Putin is portraying himself as a "liberator" of Ukraine at home. Because he knows that most Russians have tangible sentiments and ties to Ukraine. The image of a liberator will be hard to sell if he has the troops flatten every single town and city on sight. It'll make him look like a butcher. And trust me, the Russians definitely have the means to turn every Ukrainian town or city to gravel. They are pulling their punches for a reason. They want to capture the cities first and foremost. But at the same time, Russian troops once in action, aren't very reliable. They look out for number one first, and will bend the rules and skirt orders if they feel it is safer for their own lives to do so.
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  47.  @johnmortin5603  It's not nearly as forested as Finland is.
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  48.  @PeterMuskrat6968  I've talked to plenty of Marines who would disagree about getting equipped with the good stuff. So they had to "make do" a lot of the time.
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  49.  @phunkracy  Some of these people are not educated about warfare because they dismiss equipment as obsolete/useless because there are weapons that can take them out. By that logic all military equipment except nukes are useless, because nukes can take anything out. From entire tank brigades to Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers.
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  50.  @thetimebinder  The supreme court is unconstitutional.
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