Q&A 28: From PDWs to Constant Recoil

I guess thanks for tuning in to another Q&A video on forgotten weapons comm I'm Ian McCallum these are five pages of questions from the awesome folks who support forgotten weapons on patreon and this is a wee dram of guy Jana eldorado Demerara ROM which is really good and should set this off in the right direction so let's just get started my first question is from Bryce who says if you were to outfit a modern squad with your choice of modern rifles machine guns and pistols what would you pick first off I'm very happy that this question was limited to the unit size of a single squad because that allows me to not have to deal with the idea of what like company level heavy or general-purpose machine gun that question gets a little bit tricky I know traditionally I would often have said the PKM but what I'm gonna say for the squad is gonna change that a little bit in my mind so for a military squad I would say pistol glock or whatever your preference doesn't really matter Glocks kind of an obvious like they're the most popular it'd be a service size gun something no smaller than a Glock 19 quite possibly a Glock 17 or modern equivalently or important more you know they they're starting to come out with ones that have various sets of 19 and 17 grip and slide set lengths that matter service sized 9-millimeter Glock would be Just Peachy rifle would be an ar-15 variant I would go with a direct impingement gun rather than a piston gun unless there was some particular reason that I was going to need to use suppressors a lot or have a lot of very short barreled carbines typically I'd say fourteen and a half to 16 inch barrels would be ideal good optics mount on them for all sorts of both day and night optics and then machine gun wise I would say a knight's light assault machine gun in five five six that's something that I actually just recently had the chance to do a bunch of shooting with and there is a video on that coming but it's about two weeks out from when this video posts hold oh by the way that video is already edited and uploaded and scheduled and so those patreon x' those folks on patreon who are in the $20 a month perk level to get really access to videos you guys have already gotten access to that video and you can see it so if you're in that group don't check out that light assault machine-gun video because that's a really cool gun and to my mind it would be a much better squad automatic weapon than the m249 or really anything else that's out there right now it's it's limitation I suppose is that it's not great for heavy volumes of sustained fire but man for what it is good at it is excellent that is extremely controllable has a nice low rate of fire it's light it's handy it's a really cool really impressive gun and so I would say that and some variant on the m4 carbine and Glock with maker aid very nicely outfitted modern military squad so the reason that the PKM gets to be a trickier choice at this point is because now traditionally I would have said the PKM as a squad light machine gun even though it's in a different you know a larger caliber cartridge than the squad rifles well that night slate assault machine gun takes takes over that role really well and it means the PKM would now not so much be a squad automatic weapon but it would be more of a general-purpose machine gun and at that point if it's not the gun that you have guys running around with right next to rifleman maybe you're looking at something that's a little better set up specifically for sustained fire and maybe at that point you should look more towards something like an FN mag that is a heavier gun have your barrel better tripod set up not if I could only own you know one of these guns personally myself it would be a PKM in this class because it is a more Universal gun but if you've got a knight's light assault machine gun in the squad you don't necessarily want a completely Universal 762 caliber machine gun as well so that question gets a little tricky at that point anyway next up is from Mitchell who wants to know my favorite favorite non firearms location historical site or event you've seen abroad and it cursed me when I read through this at first I didn't actually really clearly read eventing there and I was thinking just the location or historical site so I'm gonna go with just those two and I'm going to say the hypogeum on Malta I had the chance to to visit there thanks very much to the Malta Tourism Authority who managed to get me tickets which I in no way should have payable to get access to the hypogeum is a roughly 4,500 year old burial site is a three-level complex that was dug a low ground on Malta I'm in an area kind of overlooking the Grand Harbor in Malta it was discovered in 1902 by a couple of people building a house and of course on Malta the first thing you do when you build a house is you dig a cistern to store water in and then you use the stone that you excavate from that cistern to build your house well they had some workmen digging a cistern and the workmen broke through into this big underground complex that was 4,000 years ago used as a burial site and what's really interesting about this first off it's entirely dug out of Maltese limestone it is not a natural cave complex it is a completely human built or human dug structure underground they didn't have metal tools this predates the use of you know human metalworking so this whole thing was dug out using things like antler and harder stone than the limestone that was all red that that made up the terrain there so the amount of work that had to go into creating this place is really kind of phenomenal and then the architecture inside was the whole place was carved to duplicate the megalithic stone structures above ground so structures most the most common thing we would think of and this sort of realm would be like Stonehenge think about those they want to duplicate that underground and what they would actually do is would carve pillars into the wall these weren't actual supporting pillars they were just aesthetic features you know a little bit of a relief carving to make it look like a pillar and they actually carved a lot of them in curved shapes instead of straight up and down in order specifically and it works it does this in order to give it sort of this fisheye type perspective to make it look larger and more three-dimensional sort of it's fascinating they carved some of the roof structures that would have existed at the time on the above-ground megalithic structures you think of what was the what was the roof structure on Stonehenge well we have no idea none of that stuff has survived well the hypogeum in Malta is the best example of what that would have looked like so I did not film anything there because photography and video is prohibited they have some pretty strict controls on how many people can get into it this is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and in order to preserve the structure and the wall paintings there's like 4,000 year old wall paintings that still survive in there and to preserve that they're very strictly controlling the humidity and the temperature and they let in it's less than a hundred people per day on scheduled tours the lighting in there you know they have lights that are kind of timed to your tour so as you're as you walk into an area lights will come on and then as you move out of that area the lights go off so there's a minimum amount of light pollution inside that would allow like growth of of lg's that sort of thing so typically tickets for for hypogeum tours sell out like four months in advance I was like I said I was thanks to the the Malta Tourism Bureau they they got me into one of the tours but I would highly highly recommend if you're ever gonna go to Malta which is a pretty cool place by the way a lot of history there from all sorts of different eras but if you're going to go as soon as you know your travel dates look up the hypogeum and get yourself tickets it's relatively expensive but for what you're seeing it just just do it it's a fantastic fascinating sights Jacob has our next question he asked what is my schedule like how many hours do I work each week I thought about it I think I work about probably 70 hours a week when I'm at home I will typically wake up at 5:00 give or take schedule varies a little bit based on the season when the Sun comes up but I'll usually wake up at 5:00 and do an hour maybe an hour and a half of work before I get out of bed and that's social media stuff it's a lot of kind of routine maintenance sort of work it's an email correspondence commentaries social media stuff I do a bunch of that before I even get out of bed get up have breakfast workout or run for half an hour or so and then off to work take a break at around noon for lunch go back to work and I'll usually be done 5 or 6 p.m. in the evening so I think that comes out probably about 10 hours a day total usually once I've had dinner I'm done working for the day although I occasionally have phone calls to make or if I'm doing like Skype stuff with people on different continents time zones mean that sometimes I'll do work later in the evening or early in the morning if when I'm doing reading it tends to be in the evening so I may be reading some history book that's related to work in the evening these days I'm trying to spend more time in the evenings practicing French with some online phone apps that's something that I'm really trying to question really like too to get to the point where I'm at least conversational in French so that's pretty much my day and that is a that's seven days a week so I kind of lose track of whether it's a weekday or a weekend so fortunately all the stuff that I'm doing is stuff that I really enjoy doing so it I haven't burned out yet so far so good maybe the rum helps next up is Ryan says what advantages does the toggle locking system have over other conventional systems and do you think there could be any modern advantageous uses for this type of action today I've been thinking about this and I cannot come up with any real advantage for the toggle lock system they do work you know the Luger is a perfect example it worked quite well but it was expensive and I can't think of any good any reason to justify that extra expense given what we know about handgun or rifle design today definitely it's gonna be easier to justify in a handgun just because toggle lock basically doesn't have to be combined with a short recoil system but it generally is most of the historical ones are and short recoil in a rifle is definitely not the most efficient way to operate a gun so in a handgun it's like you know it's a lot more expensive than a Browning type tilting barrel and I can't come up with any good benefit that you get back out of it so I think that's that's exactly why nobody's really done any work building toggle locked guns since the Luger in the Johnson Matt says what is your choice for best personal defense weapon ps90 or mp7 or maybe something different well we actually just I think we took this exact same question on the recent in range Q&A where he was asking just about the p90 versus the mp7 the answer to that is he 90 in my opinion however for when you say personal defense weapon I would give some serious consideration to something like a scorpion as well yeah it's in 32 ACP it has half the magazine capacity of either the other options but it is a much more compact gun it's more compact than either of those other two a lot more compact than a p90 is very controllable the stock is we it sort of mostly usable I found it a more pleasant gun to shoot than the mp7 that said once you get to the point of having a scorpion as a PDW then you kind of have to ask like is there really a good reason to have this instead say a Glock 19 with a red dot on it especially something like one of the new endpoint a Crow's at that point you know full auto is almost never as good as semi-auto and so a good semi-auto service pistol with a good red dot sighting system I think you can really you could certainly make the argument that that is a better personal defense weapon than an iron sighted machine pistol Christopher says do you think there could be a resurgence in RocketBallz or gyro jet type ammo as the push for caseless ammo continues nope I really don't think there ever will be a resurgence in RocketBallz type ammo and the reason is its accelerating it continues to accelerate after it leaves the barrel which means it has fundamental accuracy problems things like wind like it's in the barrel much that kind of ammunition stays in the barrel accelerating for a much longer period of time than a typical conventional bullet it's not very long but it's many times as long as a bullet and that means that if with a bullet pretty much once you pull the trigger the bullets almost immediately out of the barrel and you don't have to worry that much about making sure that you don't move while the bullets traveling down the barrel this was something by the way that you do have to worry about with say flintlock firearms where there is a pretty discernible period of time between when you pull the trigger and when the bullet actually leaves although a lot of that time is spent with the the flintlock action actually firing not as much with the bullet accelerating down the barrel but if you're wobbling in the gun around when you pull the trigger on a flintlock you know you're gonna you can potentially have one point of aim when you pull the trigger and a different point of aim when the bullet actually leaves the muzzle and with a gyro Jack you've got that same problem so you combine that with the fact that say heavily gusting wind can actually have a significant impact on your accuracy because the muzzle velocity of a Jireh jet was something like 30 feet per second like you if I understand it correctly if you shot someone literally point blank with a gyro jet would not break the skin and so that means that you know wind can dramatically affect where that bullets actually going to go differently from round to round to round so for those reasons no I don't think the the rocket ammunition until we figured out a way to make it like self aiming and be able to to change paths in flight until then now rocket balls not not a viable path forward John says any thoughts about a possible collaboration with time ghost similar to a theist doing small arms videos for the Great War there was actually they originally the time Ghost World War two project was supposed to be a giant collaboration of like eight different channels and in range TV was actually one of them and our plan was to do a lot of practical handling videos and we were hoping that o'the eius would also be taking part and the idea was o'the eius would do a lot of the history and development of world war ii firearms and then Karl and I would go out in the field with them and and demonstrate how they were actually used in a practical manner and we had I would say major communications and logistical issues with Indian Spartacus at time ghost and the project completely fell apart and that is why we are not part of it I see glimmers here and there of channels who are still sort of collaborating with time ghost but it doesn't look like they're still even even after the thing got started it doesn't look like any of its really a collaboration it's more synchronous okay occasional synchronous posting which is unfortunate the original idea was really exciting it was gonna be really cool to have an actual coordinated multi-channel world war two massive documentary project and that just fell through for logistical reasons alexey says you have done hundreds upon hundreds of videos about machine guns yet have done practically none on aerial machine guns autocannons and gun pods well I know most are adapted from ground-based firearms I also know most have to be extensively modified to operate under high g-force is the lack of content based on lack of availability or something else it is partly lack availability it's partly lack of information about them in the collector community there are very few people who are actually actively collecting aerial guns because once you get past World War one you've got guns that you can't really shoot and you've got guns that most of them look very similar they're kind of just like long oblong boxes that have some wires sticking out the back and a muzzle sticking out the front they're rare to find they didn't often get taken home as souvenirs by soldiers they don't generally get surplus because military aircraft don't generally get surplus and when military aircraft are destroyed the guns are typically destroyed with them scrapped with them so there are some out there it's a subject I would really like to do more coverage of but finding guns is hard and then learning about them is hard because for the same reason that the same sort of problems that I have accessing them a lot of authors have have the same problems and it's just isn't a lot of scholarship out there on aerial firearms so there is one really good book on us aerial machine guns that actually did a book review of here recently that's gonna be a really important source for me if and when I'm able to get access to some of these things but if I can make that happen I will but I have no idea when that might be Gregory says I noticed you tend to post a variety of videos be they from HK Switzerland South Africa Rock Island more fees etc how many videos do you usually have on backlog just in case that's a really good question what I try to do when I make up take a major trip is get a week of filming and I'll try to do four to six videos per day so I will come back from a week long serious trip somewhere hopefully with about twenty five videos and I'm not going to run all of those back to back I learned my lesson on that a long time ago and what I try to do instead is is keep a couple trips basically in the queue so in a given week I can give you one video from sig and one video from South Africa and one video from HK or Canada or whatever trip I may have taken now it's a little bit different with the auction companies Murphy and Rock Island when I do a video series there those are tied to a specific you know auction that's coming up and so I do run all of those back-to-back and that tends not to be the same problem as as running other content back to back because an auction trip is going to be a wide variety of different guns whereas a specific filming trip usually is a group of guns that have some very specific commonality so HK guns are all HK my South Africa trip was all focused on guns made in South Africa because they're accessible there and nowhere else so the auction auction stuff gets run all as a single single run right now I have I think about 60 or 70 videos that have been filmed but not scheduled or posted and I really like having that much backlog it's not so much that I'm afraid of running out of material and I want to have that there is a buffer to use up what I like about it instead is that really allows me to to keep a variety of guns modern stuff very old stuff world war one world war two stuff pistols shotguns machine guns I like to try and keep everything varied for you guys and having a large backlog helps me do that I also typically don't cover guns that I own in my own collection with the notion that if I do have a problem at some point and I run out of backlog material I will have easy access to those that I can film right on the spot so that's why there are some some guns that you would think I would have done like the cz 52 and 52 57 is a good example I haven't done those they do show up at auctions but I also own examples of each myself and they're there one of the guns that I'm kind of setting aside as you know for a rainy day when oh no I'm out of content and I need something specific well those two are there and I can get them easily Phil says could 6-millimeter Lee have been an effective round that didn't destroy barrels had it come later with better barrel steel or better propellant powders yes it absolutely could have so this is the six millimeter Lee Navy cartridge introduced in 1895 and it was a remarkably small or for the time and remarkably high velocity for the time however by today's standards it doesn't really it's not particularly small bore nor is a particularly high velocity the military load was 135 grain bullet at 2500 feet per second which today by today's standards for a six millimeter that's a very heavy bullet if you look at 243 Winchester we typically have bullets that are three-quarters or less the mass traveling substantially faster so have they had modern access to more modern powders or more modern barrel Steel's the Borah road or the throat erosion that was one of the major problems with the Billy Navy rifle could absolutely have been avoided I think it's worth also pointing out though that the Lee Navy had a lot of parts breakage issues it was not just bore erosion that led to it being fairly quickly replaced Joshua says what are your thoughts on helical magazine designs the only two firearms I'm aware of that made use of them are the Calico and the russian bazan were helical magazines unreliable and practical surely no more clumsy than drums why do you think we don't see them more I think the answer is they're unreliable even traditional drums we don't see all that much use of because they're pretty difficult to make thoroughly a hundred percent reliable and the helical drums are just that much more difficult because you're moving cartridges in two different dimensions or actually in three dimensions a normal drum is typically just rotating a stack like this or horizontally with the helical mags you're rotating you know one direction and you're also cycling all of those cartridges forward at the same time and it's just a lot harder to make that completely reliable we have very high standards for magazine reliability and if you you know let's say you get 99% reliability on a helical magazine 50 rounds that means every other time you reload you're going to get a malfunction in that magazine and people simply wouldn't accept that especially when you can say instead of 250 round mags we'll have 330 round or 32 round stic mags and we'll get zero malfunctions because we know how to make them very very well next page andrew says will there ever be a time when US import laws on firearms get loosened and if so will form firearm companies like Daewoo Norinco or Revell Matt want to export to the US market again the answer to both parts that is like potentially but probably not so the ban on US import military pattern or military-style assault rifles which aren't actually assault rifle is a true assault rifle is select-fire what we have in the u.s. is a 1989 era presidential executive decision to prohibit importation of military looking firearms on the basis that they are not suitable for sporting use that was George Bush Senior who passed that into law who dictated it and that could be reversed on a whim by any subsequent president of the United States it is a directive to the Treasury Department that certain types of guns are not fit for sporting use the the law instructs that importation is allowed for guns of sporting use so if you were to come back and say you know ar-15s are highly or widely and extensively used in sporting competition in the United States and thus they would illegal to import then all of a sudden we could import ar-15s from other countries so as a practical matter this has not really done anything to change the availability of firearms in a general sense in the United States because it has no impact on what can be manufactured here the reason for that is when this executive order was signed the president the executive branch has control over allowing what can be imported into the United States and that doesn't become a constitutional issue what is a constitutional issue is trying to dictate what can be manufactured in the United States and so this import decision has nothing has no impact on domestic American production so if now this is where things get a little bit complicated if that went away which it easily could would we get import of a lot of new firearms that we can't get right now and the answer is not necessarily like in theory yes in a legal sense we could but the companies that really wanted to sell this sort of rifle in the United States have already found the workaround and that is manufacture them in the United States and so we have HK in the United States we have FN in the United States we have a lot of these companies and anything that they want to sell in the US they can as long as they make it here so if that import restriction went away for example it's possible we could buy semi-auto HK for that well China and Norinco is probably the biggest example they would sure love to sell us a bunch of military patterned stuff that we can't get right now but companies like Valmet for example or sol en you know we got a batch of semi-auto fauxmance rifles here in the US prior to that import ban but that company doesn't exist anymore there aren't semi-auto FAMAS rifles being made anymore there aren't Valmet rifles really being made anymore not in the way that they were when that import ban took effect so a lot of the potential imports aren't around to be imported and a lot of remember that changing that would not change the one of the other legal standards we have namely that once a gun is a machine gun it is always a machine gun which is to say that in the United States you cannot convert a machine gun into a semi-auto rifle and that is the way that a lot of military pattern rifles exist in civilian ownership and the rest of the world they will take a full-auto g3 and just modify it so you can't put it into full auto mode and then it becomes legally a semi-auto rifle and that standard is not recognized in the United States so that's your answer could change but it might not change even if it did change Tyler says this may be covered in your upcoming book however do you know who modified OTA rifles and carbines with a safety I've seen plenty of the modified bear tears on auction sites with what looks like identical safeties I know what you're talking about Tyler but I don't know who did it I'm pretty sure it I'm quite certain it was a u.s. importer at some point just like we have Tokarev pistols that were modified with one of a couple different versions of manual safety in order to meet import requirements I suspect that those rifles were modified that way by some particular importer who thought that it would make them more commercially appealing if they added a manual safety because the bear ta doesn't have one by default I've actually seen a couple different versions of them there's one that has a safety back by the tang that's cut through the top of the stock and I've also seen them with a very simple safety behind the trigger that just blocks the trigger at the back of the trigger garden it's not covered in my book because it is not a French military thing that was done it is something I would like to find out more about though Aaron wants to know what book on the subject of broom handles would I recommend preferably both German and Spanish I don't have one to recommend there is no good book on broom-handle Mauser z-- there are a couple of books out there but to my mind they are all way too expensive because they're basically all out of print and they are not nearly informative enough to justify the cost of them if you're interested in the Spanish ones Leonardo and Harris book on the Astra is probably your single best choice because he covers a lot of the different Spanish models but doesn't go into serious detail on the German ones because it's a book about Spanish pistols and it's like 800 pages long to begin with I do know that there is a book what I think is going to be an excellent book on the broom handles being written and I look forward to that being available because I will be really excited to have it myself because I don't know well a good one right now the one 1911 guy says you often stated the dangers of entering the firearm industry and despite this I still have chosen it as my career path while working on firearms at all interest me a truly set up my own manufacturing and brand the flagship product would essentially be a modernized HK p7 that would be built similar to a Glock and Glock magazine capacitive compatible as well as offering benefits of a red dot threaded muzzle double stack magazine at cetera et cetera do you think there is enough interest in such a design or that would just end up buried under the plethora of other polymer frame designs I do not think there is enough commercial interest to justify the manufacture of such a pistol what you have described is sounds like an excellent gun however it has to be more than an excellent gun in order to be successful it has to be an excellent gun that is cost competitive with the other excellent guns that we already have out there and the notion of being able to put a brand new thing into production and be able to meet the cost of something that's been in production and been in development for multiple decades Glocks came out in the early 80s that's almost 40 years now with 30 to 40 years the Glocks have been around developing economy of scale and refining the quality of their build you're not going to compete with that as a brand-new gun I think Hudson is an excellent example of that even before they shot themselves in the foot with their aluminum model that gun wasn't exactly flying off the shelf it was an expensive gun compared to what else was out there and you had to convince people that it was worth spending the equivalent of two blocks to get one hudson and that's a difficult challenge and so if you decide to do this the 11811 guy i would strongly encourage you to have a back-up plan and to make sure that should this attempt and burn in debt and failure that you're not out on the street homeless as a result tim says in your british SMG overview video you mentioned that double stack single feed magazines like on stem are less reliable than double stack double feet magazines now double stack single feed mags are the norm for most pistols what change to make them were libel nothing changed they are still the less desirable option however there is a matter of space and in a handgun frame and slide it's a lot more practical especially if you want a relatively compact gun to have a single feed magazine where you have literally half the width of reach face that you need in order to pick up the cartridge if you notice the difficulty that a lot of pistols have getting reliable like super extended magazines that's in large part because there are single feed double stack magazine demands are typically about thirty rounds well how many how many guns have difficulty creating a reliable 30 round magazine like every rifle out there runs on a reliable double feed 30 round magazine the single feed mags are in fact less reliable however when you cut them down to about half of that length 15 to 18 rounds which is what's typical for modern semi-auto pistols then you've gotten rid of most of the reliability problems just by making the thing shorter you've reduced the basically you reduced the problems involved in building it and at that point it's worth doing because you have these other considerations of how wide the top of the magazine is and how much space you have available for your breech face and slide and frame interface Ryan says did any other military rifles or weapons of any kind get chambered in eight millimeter Kurtz or did they ever get into service with the Vermont even in small numbers or is the cartridge basically unique to the streaming of air 44 and where any non stg44 weapons chambered in at post war there were some other guns that used the 8 millimeter Kirk's cartridge the vg1 5 did that's probably the most numerical very very last-ditch gun that used MP 44 magazines in fact everything virtually everything we see in German use that was 8 Kurt's all used the same magazine which was a good idea in terms of logistics they experimented with some bolt-action rifles in a Kurtz with flush magazines as well they did experiment with an 8 purse at 242 but it never went anywhere never went into production was just a prototype post-war pretty much the same thing there were some experiments in different countries with eight millimeter Kurtz there was a very early foul prototype in eight millimeter Kurtz believed there was actually an e/m to prototype an eight millimeter Kurtz believe it or not and then like the Swiss didn't really use a Kurtz but they they kind of copied the idea and came up with their own seven basically seven five Swit Kurtz cartridge that they built some experimental guns in but there was never anything on the mass production scale of the MP 44 / MP 43 / stg44 which are all basically the same gun nothing else was ever made using that cartridge the reason for that yeah I should say is it's a pretty inefficient cartridge because it's a very large diameter case when it doesn't need to be like if you compare eight Kurtz and 760 by thirty-nine you can get the same case volume by making that cartridge just a little bit longer which makes it significantly smaller in diameter which means your magazines get shorter and it just becomes a lot easier to work with and so everyone who started experimenting with the intermediate caliber cartridge idea did so with brand new cartridges where the Germans had basically taken eight Mauser and shortened it because they already had the tooling in place to do that easily Joe says what the big bore pistols do you own and are there any you'd like to own there are a lot they would be kind of neat but to be honest I'm not a huge fan of big bore pistols they don't speak to me so to speak I only really have one and that's a wildy survivor it's cool it's very cool but there's not a lot that I can do with it there are some people who are serious recoil junkies who love shooting that sort of stuff it's not really me you know I wouldn't wouldn't throw them away if I happen to end up with some other ones pray the most interesting ones to me would be like the the 577 Webley price that'd be awesome that'd be really cool but again I don't think I'd do that much actual shooting with it he'd just be cool Keegan says why is the US military how he's so stubborn about their service rifles also being target rifles for example the 1903 and 1917 / the m16 a1 and a2 why would they take a less combat effective rifle / a more combat effective one it's hard to believe that they cared more about a rifle qualification score than combat efficiency know that that is all that hard to believe although I think the core reason here is you have to have some way to quantify the capability of the gun and it's hard to quantify combat effectiveness you know how what are the metrics on that how do you test for it whereas accuracy on the known distance competition range is very easy to quantify and we have a long tradition of individual marksmanship in the United States or at least we like to think that we do we design things around that idea that the most effective in trencherman is going to be the one who can hit the smallest target at the longest range that is very intuitive and how do you measure that well you have a shooting competition with small targets at long range and whatever does best there is probably the gun that you want to have so it's especially in peacetime it's difficult to break out of that mold when what someone is presenting you is generally going to be a gun that shoots less well on the competition range so you know how do you how you easily accept that how you go well we have this rifle where our average dude shoots a 90 five but we're gonna get rid of it in favor of this one that the average guy can shoot a 70 with obviously you and I both realize that there are other factors that don't come into play on the competition range but especially in peacetime it's hard to convince people of that minion says what's the chance of you doing a collaborative video with Nick aka the chieftain I think very good I don't know when it will happen but he and I have have chatted on the phone I think there's a great potential to do a collaboration there it'd be fun to do some video on from my perspective some video on vehicle based guns you know coaxial machine guns tank mounted machine guns I already did one on the the mm2 31 the port firing weapon from the Bradley's but that sort of thing I think we could do a pretty cool collaboration on I just don't know when it'll happen he's a long ways away and it just involves some organizational working out jason says what's the best reference book on the history of the FN mag especially non-us use I don't know of one a lot of machine guns in particular they're really just aren't any particularly good books on them I do have a copy of ours mechanika which is the corporate official history of FN I flipped through it it appears to have two pages on the FN mag and most of them are taking up lip pictures so right now your best source of information on the FN mag is going to be the internet Jeff says have you considered or attempted contacting the publishers of how to print books that you review to see if they would be interested in doing a fresh timed run to go on sale with your video nope I never have basically because it's just too much organizational work to do a new printing of a book is going to require a couple months of of advance notice to get it all done and then having the the infrastructure in place to actually sell it most of these books are ones that were sold wholesale to various book distributors that's a model that doesn't really work all that well anymore or at least the Internet has created a far better model for doing books and a lot of the books that are out of print are out of print because they were printed several decades ago or more and so the authors sometimes are just dead and sometimes more often they're just not in a position to be able to take advantage of selling of reprinting a book to sell along with a video that I do I'm also not entirely convinced that I have that much pull to make something like that financially worthwhile Leslie asks why have top feeding light machine guns like the Bren and CB 26 fallen out of favor a couple of reasons I think and not necessarily directly to do with the guns themselves I think what's happened is the Box magazine-fed light machine gun has given way to the belt-fed light machine gun which of course elf feed is not going to be from the top it's always going to be from the side and what we also have gotten the the basically universal adoption of small intermediate cartridges like five five six and seven sixty by 39 so with those early box top fed box fed like machine guns they were in full size rifle cartridges like 303 like eight Mauser and those have relatively large and diameter cartridges and when you stack them up in magazines you get relatively long magazines compared to say fi five six if you want a 30-round magazine let's just say a BA are a 30-round magazine on it ba our sticks way out the bottom of that done and once you start messing around with one of those it immediately becomes a little more clear why they would go with a top feed design instead then you can put a 20 or 30 round magazine on top of the gun and not have any problem getting a nice low position or angling the gun up without hitting on the magazine so when we move from those major caliber cartridges to like five five six now your 30 round magazine is substantially shorter and it's easier to put it in the bottom of a gun without having those same problems but I think more substantially the tactical role that those guns played has been replaced with velvet's that they're very few rifle pellet I don't know that they're any rifle caliber magazine-fed squad automatic light machine gun type guns out there in surplus today I'm sure there are a few yes like North Korea has one that they don't count that's not modern Darrius says with the impending adoption of the ng SW concept and the new 6.8 millimeter cartridge in the US do you think there will be any chance for a STONER like modular firearm and I'm gonna cut this off there because I think that six point eight or six point five millimeter cartridge idea is never going to come to fruition I don't think it is practically capable I think it the concept and the desired outcome right now pretty much violates the laws of physics as I am aware of it what they're looking for is like 139 grain bullet at over 3,000 feet per second from a shoulder-fired selective fire infantry rifle and I don't think that can conceivably happen I could see it in a machine gun of the size of a PK or an FN mag perhaps but I don't think it will be in any sort of modular platform because I don't think it is feasible for an infantry rifle or infantry carbine or submachine gun or anything short of basically a general-purpose machine gun I don't think it'll actually happen I think we have a long and storied tradition of army interest and army trials that do not choose a new gun and I think this will be one more of them John says why do you think the Walther MPL slash mpk was unsuccessful bad timing or a Fault in the design I think this is very similar to what I just said about the 19 b1 1911 guys plans to making the pistol I think when the walther machine submachine gun came out there were a lot of other options for submachine guns there were some that were really good at like HK mp5 and Walther didn't really offer any any huge reason why you should buy their gun instead of somebody else's there's nothing necessarily wrong with it there's just nothing necessarily better about it beyond some aspects of personal taste so it doesn't it would have really surprised me had it been commercially very successful the only it could have been would be to be extremely cheap and I don't think you're gonna see that out of a German produced gun Kayla says let's say you have a firearm that's rare obscure and has no part support in the US a part breaks where do you go to get it fixed or there gunsmiths who specialize in making one-off parts and doing these sorts of repairs yes there are I know one whose work I have used in the past once or twice they are typically guys who are like retired tool and die makers they're extremely talented they are extremely expensive because they are not dependent on doing this sort of work they do it because they enjoy doing it and so they don't necessarily want to do a lot of it and so they charge an arm and a leg to ensure that not a lot of people are going to be calling them up every day pestering them to do boring projects they only want to do interesting projects probably the the most public sort of person like this that I've ever come in contact with is Marc Novak at anvil gunsmithing and in fact I'm I'm a little surprised by how public he is about what he does and how much of it he does I think it's extremely cool he's a very talented guy into some great work beyond that it's typically kind of a word-of-mouth thing of you start poking around for you know I broke X who can fix that and if you've got the right social circles of you know oh I know a guy who knows a guy who does that you know and he says one hundred and twelve year old tool and die maker from you know the Stone Age those are typically the guys you want as long as they're cool as long as they're like organized enough to not just lose your project and die in ten years and then you're you're part sitting there in a box which is not an unheard of situation in fact that's a very real hazard of dealing with this sort of thing younger gunsmiths typically don't have the expertise or don't have the name recognition you know there's not a ton of this work out there to do people generally aren't willing to pay for a lot of this sort of work so it's high-end stuff that requires high-end people who don't tend to advertise Nick wants to know what is my preferred brand of gin his is Citadel mine is Plymouth Navy strength Louis says fearless Explorer Ian McCallum has a map to the lost mines of Cordoba and is leading an expedition traveling in a light bush plane but oh no the engine has conked out and stranded the party in the North American wilderness days away from civilization and a cellphone signal the intrepid McCollum Usher's all will be well because he has packed his trusty what first answer is satellite phone but since this is specifically about guns I was torn between two different answers one of them being like one of the there are a number of custom lever actions in like 444 Marlin made up in the Northwest and Alaska for bears that's an interesting answer but I would be very tempted instead to go the route of a 65 Creedmoor steyr scout rifle in fact I'm looking in I'm very curious about actually trying one of those out because I think this is exactly the sort of situation that that rifle is kind of ideal for it's a cartridge that you know it would not be my first choice if I was going on a safari in Africa and had to shoot you know some 4,000 pound carnivore nor of course would it be my first choice to shoot a rabbit or a squirrel but it's kind of a cartridge that will pretty much do anything especially in North America 65 Creedmoor it would be fine on basically anything here short of grizzly bears or polar bears and if you're just in a self-defense oh crap there's a grizzly bear charging me there's a lot worse to have than a 65 Creedmoor and you're not quite so much concerned about getting a purely ethical hunting one-shot kill you want that thing to not eat you and I think 65 Creedmoor would be effective enough at that yeah I and then I like the idea of the gun being very portable I think that's something that a lot of people overlook because I don't think a lot of people are out there actually carrying rifles around for extended periods of time outside of a military environment where they don't get any choice in what they're carrying anyway and having a lighter gun is often a good thing so I will tentatively say six five star Scout now if someone wants to invite me on such an expedition and call my bluff and see if that's actually the gun I bring you're welcome to do it my email address is admin at forgotten weapons and it sounds like a fascinating trip to take James says what is the weirdest or most unique operating system for a firearm that you've run into actually have an excellent answer for this I was recently at the Institute of military technology which is read Knights collection and small arms Museum which is incidentally where I was doing shooting with the light assault machine gun but one of the things that he pointed out to me is I did a video a little while back on a gun that is a prototype semi-auto conversion of a Springfield that I described as being primer activated and he has said rifle now and he took a closer look at it and did spend more time on it certainly than I did and found the patent for it as well and realized that that thing is actually an operating system that is based on cartridge case stretch it's not actually the primer that moves back in the cartridge case that that works that gun it is the entire case head setting back like two millimeters when you fire so it's like a headspace activated action which is really interesting and when I have my next opportunity to go there and have time to do some real filming this last thing was just like a little one-day trip when I have a chance to do real filming there next which hopefully will be sooner rather than later I'm going to revisit that gun and a second one he has a very similar operating system and correct my previous video and I can also add a bunch of information because now having access to the patent I know who the guy was who invented it and exactly how it was supposed to work and the idea of an action based on stretching cases and overlaying headspace is kind of both terrifying and fascinating at the same time definitely the most unique one that I can think of ever having run into Robert says where do you see forgotten weapons in five years will there be more people aboard covering different weapons while you have editors and the team of people I have no idea it would be very exciting to me to be able to expand this into more of an organization in particular I would love to be able to have the time or opportunity to kind of do more of what I started out doing which was documents and photographs and making more of an encyclopedia instead of a strictly video based system which is what this has turned into video has been the best way forward but if I had a clone that I could set to work doing the website doing more archival documentation on the website I would love to do that the idea of setting up an organization and having like a team an international team of people contributing material and turning forgotten weapons into a massive Universal resource is incredibly exciting to me but I have no idea at this point exactly how I would make that work so I have no idea I don't really have a clear picture of where I will be in five years or where forgotten weapons will be in five years I'm kind of more of a mindset to plan a year or two in advance and just kind of follow where it takes me Charles says does your outspoken support for individual gun rights and gun ownership ever cause you problems with gaining access to collections while I imagine this wouldn't be a problem when viewing individual collections I could see some potential problems with gaining access to official collections particularly in countries with much more restrictive laws than the United States it's an interesting question it has never been an issue for me whatsoever what you find is that even in the most restrictive of countries the people who are curating or you know administering major firearms collections are people who recognize and appreciate the value of those collections whether they think those guns should be accessible for ownership by private individuals or not in my experience those people universally think that these are a valuable part of history and that there is no reason why people should not know more about them and so I've never had any pushback from the way I see it I'm not I'm going in there on a basis of I would like to help publicize and document and spread the information this historical information that you are curating and have collected in this whatever the collection is and I've never had objection to that from anyone who's actually closely attached to the collection the bureaucracies sometimes yeah yeah I've got me I've gotten problems from bureaucracy but that's never on a basis of anything specifically about guns it's usually about things like licensing fees and editorial control and that sort of thing even that I've gotten only a little bit of ever Ryan says given how short Germany was on weapons later in World War two was there any attempt to utilize the massive stockpiles of French rifles and machine guns they certainly captured during the opening stages of the war yes they actually did and not just French but largely French it was a lot of foreign firearms were used for second line troops for troops who are stationed in defensive areas where they really didn't expect to get attacked specifically to free up the standard-issue German weapons for use on combat fronts and so she'll tell her own machine guns Athiya carbines even show shows there's there's a couple famous pictures out there of a German SS detachment and these are official German pictures a like four or five SS do with earthy a carbines and a show Shah 8-millimeter labelled show shot like machine-gun doing field exercises and you'll find our 35 shortened lapels yeah they used foreign weapons fairly extensively on the Russian front there was reasonably extensive use especially early on of svt40 rifles before the g43 was really in common use Russian submachine guns were used Italian submachine guns were used old and that was even on an official basis they were buying guns from beretta and then at the end of the war the Volkssturm used literally anything they could get their hands on there are pictures out there Volkssturm guys with Carcano z' and anything that was accessible so yeah the Germans actually did quite a bit of use of foreign weapons in areas where they weren't really expected to be used because the logistical issues were not so much having access to the guns because it's not that difficult to have a big stockpile of guns but the ammunition is a major issue they didn't want to have to like start production of foreign ammunition so once you use up that stockpile then you have a problem because if you've issued let's say you issue shell teller a light machine guns to some Vermont division going off to fight in Russia well either you're gonna start production of seven five French ammunition for those guns or you just ship them the stockpile that you captured well what happens when those guys use up that ammo now now they're in a far worse place because they can't resupply from any other unit that you've got you have to either start making the ammo and ship it to them or you have to give them a whole new batch of machine guns and you do not want to be in a position where you've got like some guys that got into combat and they're you know they can win if they only get one more shipment of ammunition and oops you've got no ammo and you have to give them new guns - Derek asks Ian have you ever run into the Steyr on machine pistol from World War one and will we see a video no I've never seen one everybody on the Internet is very very familiar with they are very popular around the internet but I have had a hard time even finding a finding anyone who has seen one themselves in circles of like serious museum people and high-end gun researchers so it seems pretty clear that such a thing was actually made but I don't think very many of them were made if I ever get my hands on one you bet I will absolutely do a video it'd be pretty cool to finally be able to do a video on that but I'm not in super optimistic that I'll ever actually find one I don't know how many of them actually survived next up Peter says well I can't claim to have seen every forgotten weapons video I think I'm getting pretty close and while we've seen nested recoil springs I've never seen any firearm use a graduated slash variable slash irregular pitch recoil spring the production costs outweigh possible reliability or where or recoil benefits do gun designers just not bother without having a you know a specific college class on variable-pitch Springs I suspect that the reason is there is no free lunch and if you have X length of space in order to decelerate your bolt you can decelerate it slowly at first and and quickly at the end but you don't really gain anything from that like if you don't have enough space to completely decelerate the bolt with a standard you know a fixed pitch recoil spring spring you're not going to be able to do it with a variable pitch one and you don't really benefit from the bolt accelerating quickly or decelerating slowly at first and then more quickly at the end I think there's just not well it's a cool mechanical thing I don't think it actually provides a particular tangible benefit you know firearm I could be wrong on that it's not something I've really thought about in-depth before but that's what I think the answer is jim says with the advent of bump stocks being declared machine guns does this mean they will someday appear on forgotten weapons and can / will / did people get tax stamps on their bump stocks to keep them as legally registered machine guns so first off no the ban on bump stops the redefinition of bump stocks as machine guns did not come with any legal opportunity to register them because the machine gun registry was closed in 86 in theory you could register a bump stock but you could only do so if you are a licensed machine gun manufacturer and it would be a post sample bump stock which I'm sure someone has done somewhere but certainly not in any particular number and for the average dude who bought a mom stock no there is no way to legally keep it however I have very little doubt that that bump stock van will be bouncing through the court system for at least a couple years at the present time possession of bump stocks is illegal if they are not registered and they can't be registered so they're illegal I suspect what's going to happen is eventually that ban will probably get overturned on the basis that that's not how you change the law and you can't do it that way it is interesting to note that even Dianne Feinstein at one point came out against that bump stock ban on the basis that that's not really how you're supposed to do it and it will result in it getting tied up in the court system for years and probably getting overturned eventually so it will be not surprising to me if that happens that a bunch of bum stocks come back out from being underground because I don't think very many people are actually destroying them or getting rid of them will we see them on forgotten weapons no specifically because YouTube itself has a policy of not allowing video of thumb stocks and they don't have the sort of granular interest or control to give a crap if it happens to be a legally registered one as a dealer sample by some SOT they don't care if they see a bump stock videos they will delete it and they will put a strike on your channel there was some bump stock content on forgotten and when all of this started I deleted those couple of videos because the alternative was basically risking having the channel deleted so they will not be showing up on forgotten weapons and I no longer have any I got rid of mine because well I understand why some people are going to put them in a bag in the back of the closet and just pretend that they never existed as someone who has substantial public visibility in this space the last thing I want to do is have any legal machine gun so mine are gone chaddy so no sorry Julian I skipped Julian Julian says I noticed on a bunch of recent shooting videos you haven't been using your custom molded ear plugs any reason for that yeah I lost one of them it was really annoying I kind of pulled them halfway out at a match during a cease fire so I could I was talking to a bunch of people and one of them fell out and fell under a shooting bench and I spent about 15 minutes looking for it and I have no freaking idea where it went and its really annoying and I just haven't had the opportunity to get a new set made and so I haven't been using them I originally had that first set made at the the first desert brutality match and we had a vendor lady who showed up making them on site for people and it was awesome the second desert brutality we did not have a person like that show up so I had been hoping to get a set made there didn't have the chance and I don't know at some point I need to find a place where I can actually have another set made but I just haven't had the chance yet Chetty says do you have plans post forgotten weapons love the content and don't want to see it end though because I kind of talked about this already I don't have posted forgotten weapons plans because I have no plans to stop doing what I'm doing now like I said I kind of operate on this plan of figure out a year or two in advance not try to plan out farther than that because planning out farther than that in this sort of grand style doesn't seem to me to be very practical like it hasn't worked out for me in the past I've I previously made such plans and they just you know life always changes and five years down the road you're not in the same you don't have the same goals so tell you what it would be fun to do a cocktail channel I would enjoy that there's no way that I have time to do a cocktail channel right now though so who knows charlie why do you think there aren't as many guns specifically machine guns that use the constant recoil system found in knight's armament light assault machine gun that one come up several times today first off that is a system that is only only has validity in an actual machine gun in a semi-auto rifle constant recoil is a moot point so the idea with constant recoil it's different than balanced recoil so some of the new russian prototypes that have balanced recoil are actually reducing the felt recoil of the very first shot that you fire constant recoil does not the idea with constant recoil is that you do not get a like a repeated impact on your shoulder as each round fires and causes the gun to do this buying bang bang bang bang bang instead you have basically a constant force exerted on your shoulder as you fire the bolt is steadily decelerated and comes to a stop before actually contacting the back of the receiver so when you first pull the trigger on a constant recoil gun it's gonna kick it's gonna come back and then it's going to continue pushing back like a fire hose until you stop shooting and then in order to hold it on target you will have started putting force back you know equal and opposite force back on the gun to hold it in place when you release the trigger you then tend to see the shooter kind of clunk forward a little bit because they're still pushing on the gun and the gun stops pushing back it's not the same as a flinch by the way but it looks the same and a lot of people mistake the two anyway so has only full auto in fact constant recoil doesn't really do a whole lot with short bursts either if you're firing at two or three round bursts you don't really get as much benefit out of constant recoil the longer you're holding the trigger down the more the more you see that benefit so most of the guns that are being designed out there are being designed primarily semi-auto fire or very short controlled groups and that limits the the pool of potential guns for constant recoil systems that said it actually surprises me as well that there aren't more people doing that and I honestly don't have a good answer for why there aren't best thing I could come up with is that a lot of these guns are basically old legacy systems there aren't a whole lot of brand new light /medium machine guns by the way the constant recoil thing is also really only applicable to a shoulder-fired gun because if you're gonna put the thing on a tripod or a pintle mount you don't really need constant recoil because you've got this big heavy mount that's absorbing that recoil anyway and you don't care so there aren't a whole lot of brand new guns being developed in this relatively narrow field where constant recoil applies and maybe that's the explanation right there you know the the FN 249 has been around for a long time and it doesn't seem to be cost effective for FN to produce a brand new gun to replace it maybe if they did they would give it some constant recoil principles next up is Robert you often say that forgotten weapons were forgotten for a reason and that there were several reasons for adopting a gun quality price for inverse domestic etc but what adoption was the most puzzling for you ie was there a there was a better / cheaper slash more local gun in the trials that for no clear reason lost to something else the best example I can come up with of a weird result in a trials program isn't really a trials program so much as a development program and that's that British l85 the sa80 program is a complete dumpster fire and it's really remarkable to me how much of a dumpster fire it was I can understand the gun having developmental problems but the the fact that they were allowed to not just stick around but multiplying like the farther they got through the development of the l85 the worse that gun got that's really remarkable to me and I can kind of see how it happened like I can understand the rationalization even though I think it's nonsense in that there's a matter of sunk cost national pride and the fact that hey we have this national arsenal and that's what their job is supposed to be and if we acknowledge that they can't do that job then we're opening this big old can of worms so better off to pretend that the gun works and not have to deal with why is this design incompetent but someone really there really should have been some whistleblower at some level who went okay wait wait wait this is crap and we're putting the army like individual soldiers at serious personal risk by giving them this crap gun and it never happened like didn't it took Desert Storm to really bring that to life that's the most remarkable adoption that I can think of Peter asks which of the major participants in the Great War had the best balance of small-arms ie sidearms all the way through heavy machine guns at the conflict I thought about this and I'm gonna say the British the United Kingdom I don't think their rifle was the best I think the best rifle of the war was the 1917 Enfield fielded by the Americans now the British did have some 1914 n fields that are similar but in a forest cartridge and the British revolvers are like I'd rather have a Luger or a 1911 and a Webley revolver but I think the most important two guns of the conflict were the heavy machine gun and the light machine gun and the British had I've had the best of the light machine guns certainly in terms of when you combine quality and quantity not like did they have five of the best design but the sum total of their light machine guns were the best sum total of any nations like machine guns and those are the lowest guns and then the Vickers heavy machine gun is now standing gun itself it's better than the Maxim's it is you know a further iterative development of the maxim gun I have recently started to have some second thoughts about comparing the maxim with the air-cooled Hotchkiss guns heavy guns I think there's a lot going for the Hotchkiss guns that maybe I hadn't come previously just from their simplicity those things just for he can work where Maxim's and vicars are delightful machines but they always leak water maybe they didn't so much a hundred years ago but today they always leak water they kind of always take a little bit of tuning to get running right they certainly can run fantastically well once they're tuned but I get the feeling that with the Hotchkiss you get the same result but you don't have to do the tuning now I'd rather have L said than stripped so maybe there's a balance there but overall getting back to the question the best overall balance of guns in World War one British and because of the Lewis gun closely followed by the Vickers gun the Lee Enfield was not a bad rifle but not quite as good as some of the others and the pistols don't really matter Clement says if World War one had broken out earlier when the French had a significant technological lead on the development of smokeless powder do you think they would have successfully pulled off their military doctrine of Ataka at all you know just a LAN and attack at all costs that is a very interesting question and I think the answer is not really the the two weapons that made that French strategy not work were artillery and machine guns and there was a very very small time period when the French really actually had a lead in fact when it comes to machine guns the French didn't have a lead by the time the French were adopting heavy machine guns everyone else already had maximum guns as well and the artillery well the French didn't really take advantage of their advantage in the artillery anyway so no I think if there was a time when when that strategy would have actually worked it would have been a time before smokeless powder because without smokeless powder you can't have machine guns and the only way that French strategy of the offensive could have worked would be if there were no machine guns gray says which is better HK irons or ar-15 style irons and why is the answer HK sorry the answer is not HK I hate HK iron sights that little drum with one notch and three apertures for whatever reason I can't use that for crap and I don't really know why but it's I've it's not one gun it's every gun I've ever tried that thing on I just really dislike it and I really prefer ar-15 style iron sights Scott says after witnessing the results of project lightning and noting the rarity and fragility of the mags it made me want to see if it would be possible to use a type of modern nylon fusion 3d printing I use for similar applications to make Palio mags for some of these old guns like the show Shaw would you have any faith or interest in helping to test such endeavors excuse me I would be happy to test such endeavors but I don't have a whole lot of faith that they will turn out well it's possible that I'm just not up to speed on modern 3d printing materials but I have a hard time picturing like the problem with the show Shaw mag is primarily one of very thin sheet metal and you can't really make the mag much bigger and still have it fit into the gun you know it has to be a certain dimension internally for the cartridge to feed through it and it has to be a certain dimension externally in order to fit into the magazine well and that really limits the thickness of the material you can use and if steel wasn't strong enough I just can't picture 3d printed plastic being strong enough so I'm I'm happy to you know if someone wants to try making that some of those old mags I'm happy to test them out but I don't really think they're gonna work and to me it because of that I don't see it as really a solution for some of these guns that have very rare magazines Nate 762 Nate says after the advent of smokeless powder why was every major military looking to get a self-loading rifle but not a self-loading handgun actually I think this is a misconception automatic handguns were more prevalent shortly after in the immediate aftermath of smokeless powder being developed than self-loading rifles everyone immediately looked for a bolt-action rifle using the new powder and but there wasn't that much there was very little successful development of self-loading rifles around that time period while there was a lot of successful development of self-loading pistols by 1900 you had a whole bunch of successful self-loading pistols tenure within 10 years of smokeless powder being developed we've got the broom-handle Mauser just a couple years after that we've got the Luger and those are very the Luger is basically a modern pistol by 1900 well you also have the Browning 1911 it was the self-loading rifles that would take a lot longer you had the very first really like large-scale production one with the 1908 Mondragon but you don't have you don't have a major military mass adoption of a semi-auto rifle until the 1930s where you have mass adoption of semi auto pistols by militaries as you know in the first decade of the 1900s the POA Luger 1908 the Germans are adopting semi-auto pistols and our very last question is from octi says being from finland I have to ask the fundamental question have you and Carl had the chance to try a real sound and if so how did you like it yes I have in fact when I went to Finland we were given no choice but to try out a real sauna and I actually found that I enjoyed it a fair amount and when I have the opportunity to which isn't all that often here in the United States but when I have the chance I do enjoy using them still and every time I've only been back to Finland once but I very much enjoyed using Sona back in Finland again I think maybe just the fact that I properly called Sona in the finnish pronunciation I yeah I do like it it'd be really cool to have one in my own house although I don't know if that's ever gonna be feasible but it's something I would love to have if I couldn't so anyone else out there who has never tried sauna I would encourage you to try it I would find a fin and just get them to introduce you to it because they'll do it right and you won't have to worry about like oh I went to a wimpy sauna in some lame hotel that was way too cold find a fin they'll do it right and on that note that is it for another monthly Q&A a big thank you to all of you folks on patreon who made this possible and who supplied questions I apologize if I didn't get your question in I had literally hundreds of questions and my voice is already starting to go after just four and a half pages of them so we'll do this again next month and we'll have another batch of questions for you thanks for watching

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Length: 80min 23sec (4823 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 25 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Slampumpthejam]

RIP Bergmann week, still in our hearts you will not be forgotten

[u/Splatmaster42G]

My favorite part is that he puts the timestamps in the description so I can hop around to questions I care about. Keep up the good work Ian!

[u/Mikofthewat]

I was hoping he’d take that Luftwaffe Survival Drilling on his expedition.

[u/therealdilbert]

a sauna in Arizona, lol. back in the 80's everyone here build saunas connected to the bathroom, I think 90% was turned on twice and then relegated to walk-in storage

[u/eat_my_rubber]

Hey, /u/ForgottenWeapons, I love these Q&A's.