Ian's Customs: Tanker M1 Scout
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Today we are looking at the Tanker M1 rig I put together about 15 years ago. This is an original WW2 production receiver rebuilt with an 18" 7.62mm NATO barrel in the 1980s by Arlington Ordnance. In pursuit of a universal do-it-all practical rifle, I then added a forward scope mount with a Burris 2-7x pistol scope, and a muzzle brake from Smith Enterprises. To go along with the rifle, I have a really nice single-clip index holder from Comp-Tac (which I really wish someone would put back into production...) and a much less practical flashlight fitted to a cut-off M1 bayonet.
I really had forgotten just how enjoyable of a rifle this turned out to be, despite its weight...
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>didn’t want to pay for a picatinny rail
>goes through 12 dremel wheels
Honestly I admire your dedication
The second I saw the bayonet handle mounted light this thing became 1000x cooler
That is how he attained enlightenment as Gun Jesus
Honestly it's a clever way to mount a light.
@@ianh2950 it really does. i feel like a well designed bayonet lug mounted light might sell good with AK people in particular.
@@terrorform242people already sell all manner of shit to be mounted on sks bayonet lugs
>used an already butchered parts kit as a base
>scope has a removable mount, isn't just drilled and tapped into barrel/receiver
Even back then, Ian bubba'd responsibly...
Maybe except the flashlight mount, but that thing is still ingenious.
Also, bayonet flashlight combo, that would be awesome.
@@olekzajac5948 Flashlight mount is not destructive (except for the bayonet) so this is acceptable.
@@sir0herrbatka I was talking about the bayonet, but as I've said, this solution is both ingenious and kinda ridiculous and definitely better than taping a light to the rifle directly.
@@olekzajac5948 Well he did mention the bayonet was a scrapped bayonet as well so who knows what sort of condition it was in. All we know is it had some amount of blade left.
That flashlight mount is gheeeeeeeetooooooo
The more we see Ian’s old rifles, the more we uncover his Bubba history.
Bubba-gump shrimp company
Let he who is without bubba, cast the first stone
the rumor come out:
does ian mccollum is bubba
That flashlight setup is the most Bubba yet.
@@mcintoshpc Is that a Game Grumps reference on a Forgotten Weapons video?
That flashlight "assembly" is bonkers. Ian earned his membership in the esteemed "drunken russian field improvisation armorer" club right there and then. A true gem all around.
That is the most cursed light mount I've ever seen. That includes fiction.
Absolutely disgusting, I love it
i made one for my ak but less field expedient, i replaced the grips with rail and as the ak bayonet encircles the muzzle, i lathed my preferred amd-65 brake (which normally can't be used with a bayonet due to diameter) down to flange into the bayonet and secure it better than the normal latch, eliminating movement
It is not awesome; it is Billy Bobsome.
It makes me imagine a flashlight that could attach directly to the bayonet lug
"never shot it out to substantial range"
*Henry Chan breathes heavily*
Rooftop Chanman you mean?
Hahahah that’s hilarious
Words cannot describe how much I'd like to see Ian run this at a serious 2-gun match lol.
ruclips.net/video/Q-w8BzPpZIU/видео.html
@@amajewski56 Sir! Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)
a night shooting class would be way more awesome lol
Or tested by 9 hole
with the light XD
What we expected Ian's collection to be:
- half a French armory with guns dating back to 1850
- A bergman pistol that has been presented to Kaiser Wilhelm
What it is actually:
- a krinkov kit that he found in a ditch somewhere and outfitted with an Airsoft stock
- a cut down garand with a scope mounted to it
That Remington "Auto 8" is pretty boss too. Auto 5's are wonderful to shoulder and the sights intuitively fall right into your eye line. Now add three more rounds to that ammo capacity and hot damn
To be honest i think those scrap/surplus made guns are more interesting than overly fancy show pieces for someone important. Others are made for show and other ones most likely for actual use. Nobody is laughing for scrap made pipeguns when it is pointed directly to someone in dark alley.
I saw the ak vid a while back and a few tbans have been catching my eye in videos with the same stock lol
@@Sosaparks It's actually a stock pattern from the Chinese Type 56-2 (doubtless copied by the Chinese airgun manufacturer in question). Given the Sino-Soviet split, they were running guns to the mujaheddin during the '80s through Pakistan. There were even some NORINCO M-16 clones showing up there back in the day.
@@danspragens4935 apparantly the airgun might not be a copy so much as made by the same people possibly out of spare stock parts.
I feel like Ian is confessing the sins of his earlier bubba life to us with these videos. 🤣
I feel like the bubba-ness is slightly absolved by the fact that the rifle itself was a bubba'd cut down barrel M1 converted to 7.62 NATO.
Until he got to the flashlight. That was....something.
Of course. What would the world be without Gun Jesus who began life as just another "Bubba"!? It s called EVOLUTION.
What's bubba means?!
That rifle will flip you like a cheese omelette
I think most his customized stuff has largely already been bubba’d to some degree or in some manner when he acquired them which renders later owners (him) immune to bubba status, in this case he just customized an M1 tank bubba.
only reference on the internet I can find about the Comp-Tac Garand clip holder is a 2006 six forum post by Ian AKA Elf-boy (lol the hair) gushing about it
If anyone is able to find anything else I would be very interested
I have a reweld "tanker" 30.06- bought it in the mid 80's and had the very trouble that Ian spoke of- the operating rod dragged and I always had trouble with it-could not get more than 2 shots out of a clip. This past year, while on Covid lay-off- I took it out and 'fixed' it, tried to straighten out the old rod, carved away some of the interior wood, finally got a new rod from Numrich, which was sized for the tanker. Now the rod works with no drag- anxious to try it- haven't shot it since the mid 80's- hopefully the problem is solved. Thanks Ian for a great (as always) clip!
P.S. I had a friend that shot it way back when- it is a 30.06, no muzzle brake, and when he fired a few shots, his exact comment was: "This thing was forged on the anvil of hell by the devil himself", I always get a smile when I think of that...
To avoid bending the op-rod again, I would suggest getting a Schuster adjustable gas plug so you can vent excess gas from the gas system. Bent op-rods are a symptom of an over-pressure gas system, and an adjustable, venting gas plug can ameliorate that issue.
Get a op-rod guide from Fulton. The one that comes with the kit has the spring stops too far forward, which causes the op-rod and spring to bind.
The one from Fulton has the stops further back on the guide, which gives more travel.
"Ian's cursed gun collection" should be this series
Should send a pic of Ian’s custom weapons to Brandon for his cursed gun images.😂
Been done. Bug-eyes and a low "wooooah..."
cursed? This thing look awesome
If you don't have at least one gun which makes people nauseous to look at you are failing at life.
@@spanishcastlesinspace2899 😂
Ian’s hobo rifle is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen today
That hobolight really got a chuckle out of me. But if it works it aint stupid.
@@schullerandreas556 he went about it a weird way though didn't he.
Gosh, if that's what hobos own then i want to be a hobo.
Amen
Pretty fancy hobo!
Please make a playlist for Ian’s Customs!
Imagine if Ian Custom's was a company.
i litterally just checked the playlist to see if he has a playlist for his own guns haha
@@marcondespaulo Elbonian's would be a huge contract
@@badopinionsrighthere Back in the 1950 era Beretta would have put the mod into production. Cross reference early BM-59. Geoff Who passed on several guns, I don't want to think about missing.
I've got you: ruclips.net/p/PLdFp7aiPKLuhEJ61GRpm8FO0gIOna1H5C
I'll update it as they are released.
Ian remembering why he did it the way he did and just being happy is nice.
these old bubba goes to college guns makes Ian so much more relatable.
The best thing about this is that even as your knowledge and budget improved, and as better options became available, you kept it the same. You've made a time capsule of your own armory
Very true, a real glimpse into the mindset of the user. A time capsule!
I think it's similar to showing similar one offs, prototypes and bubba'd collectors items as an insight into the contemporary thinking of the weapons life , and design elements borrowed from/influencing other designs.
Othias: Let me say that Ian and I see eye to eye on many things and I admire a lot of the work he does. But there are some things that Ian does or says that I just profoundly do not understand.
lol
Standing face to face.. I believe that Ian vs Othias.... . Is muzzle vs nipple
I’d love to see Ian’s Scout Garand vs Othias’ Scout KelTec. That’d be sweet!
We mere mortals cannot hope to comprehend the workings of the lord.
@@notforsaletoday1895 yes we can, he regularly publishes books on the subject
Ian, since you haven't tested it on long range: Send it to 9-hole reviews and let them shoot it!
Excellent idea.
Yes please!!!
I 4th this motion!
If need be, let them shoot at it!
Brilliant idea
Much like when you hit your 40s and rediscover and embrace the embarrassing music's from your youth, I absolutely love how Ian is finally in a position to be comfortable and at peace with his bubba past.
I feel that the bayonet torch 🔦 was an act of pure confessional catharsis.
Honestly considering the number of Suplus rifles that have Bayonet mounts but no rails of any type.
Surprise no one has made bank by making a rail piece that can snap on to a Bayonet Lug so you can attach lights lasers what have you to that.
@@ericzaiz8358 I was thinking the same thing tbh.
"I was poor"
Ha ha, that's how I feel when I look at my first AR builds vs the newer ones
get in the PSA NcStar Tapco pit. the water is nice.
Seeing an adult man with a pony tail joyfully geek out over a piece of cydex is the best thing today 😂👌🏻
Thanks Ian
Kydex
Quydex
The fuck is cydex
Thanks gun bubba
@@draxxsklounst6595 yo momma
"In perhaps hunting a civilian context..."
Ian no
@J F the most dangerous game...man
Well I'm sure they're in season somewhere
@@krissteel4074 yes, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and most of Sub-Saharan Africa.
@@terry7907 you can cancel Afghanistan from the list; the politicians have lost another one.
@asdrubale bisanzio who is a person of culture, and why?
Run this at Desert Brutality this year. The Internet needs it.
that is the coolest way i've ever seen someone put a weapon light on an old rifle. really nice looking gun.
I love seeing how he lowkey tacticools his budget armory. it's actually really practical and showed he used what he had to the best of his ability to surprisingly functional results.
I was mostly ok until he broke out the light. Sometimes ingenuity just looks really ugly but still presents all the same functionality. I like it
I thought it was a great idea.
To be honest, I thought a WML built with bayonet mounting hardware was a great idea back in the 1990s before rifles had All The Rails on them. Seriously - I was surprised that wasn't a standard sort of thing for SWAT teams back then.
Murphy’s 6th rule of combat:
If it looks stupid, but it works, then it ain’t stupid.
I think the light is pretty legit, before everything had rails and mlok and whatnot even special forces were mounting lights with duct tape and hardware store shit.
The SAS pretty much did the same thing by clamping D cell MagLites onto MP5 scope mounts lol.
"I don't know if there's enough market"
Well, you just created the market with this video.
Thousands of viewers will e-mail CompTac asking them to bring this product back.
Yup, a seriously great product that people now know exists.
I wonder if someone could 3D print some if they had an original to use as a template? 🤔
@@tanstaafl1960 Maybe, but it functions based on how that formed plastic bends. Standard PLA won't do. You would have to have real knowledge on plastic/resin types.
@@tanstaafl1960 Better to use a vacuum former with Kydex -- it warms the plastic then wraps it around a form. For an example (NSFW): ruclips.net/video/TuiOcD4YJq0/видео.html
@@squarewheels2491 You think ABS might work, or not flexible enough?
Little known fact, ian made this video just hoping the viewers would send him their kydex holsters for the m1 clip.
Hahah my thoughts too 😅
And it'll probably work 😂
Ian's light mount caught me so off guard. Never in a million years would I have expected him to pull out that thing, but I absolutely love it.
Not gona lie I really want a custom model of this pro grade bubba m1 for Left 4 Dead 2s hunting rifle slot .... also the light is pure genius imho.
This gun means you can't make fun of Othais' kel-tec any more.
Othais’s Sub Nine now looks cool.....the ping means the bad guys make their move.
Not only can Ian not Othais, but this gun in comparison to that cursed kel-tec proves that Othais can't Ian.
In these dark days seeing Ian’s bayonet light has raised my spirits.
If this goes to a 2 gun match I think the pistol should be an Iver Johnson M1 Enforcer, so two shortened M1’s can share in glory together.
That's a really attractive rifle, even considering the somewhat dated elements.
The fact that you were able to put it together even without the knowlege and experience you have today should be a point of pride, in my opinion.
It's got a vietnam sf bitch mod vibe too, looks awsome.
Ian, was it you who said that the M1 Garand would be the earliest rifle that they feel they could arm a squad with and have them still be competitive or mostly viable in the modern world?
There's something really special about seeing how giddy Ian is talking about his old projects
"Yo king, how much eye relief you want?"
Yes.
Yeah, that's a Scout Rifle for you. That's gotta be front-heavy!
All.
😜😜
When I was learning clays at around 14 there would always be an old farmer with a pitted old side by side with hammers. He'd load his own with black powder and he had loved that gun since 1928. he would always beat those of us with better kit
Later I had a little Record air pistol. Kinda like a smaller heavier 1911. It was a crap pistol with crap sights. But I LOVED that gun. I shot it all the time in the bark yard. I could hit flies at eight feet. bees in flight, anything. I never sighted, both eyes were open and I hit everything. I have never managed to shoot like that with anything else. If you love the gun and just shoot it you can become very good indeed. Never forgot those old farmers with their shitty old shootguns...
At the end of the day a shotgun shoots where you aim it,no matter what gun all the other things are luxury and skill is what's important here.
How much you wanna bet I could throw a football over them mountains?
I love my Trophy Match 1911 but shoot much better with my cheap little M&P.
Smith's is once again producing the muzzle brake "due to popular demand"
And, Comp-Tac is most definitely still in business.....got a couple of holsters from them a few months ago.
That is good information. It would not surprise me if Comp-Tac would make more of those clip holders as custom items.
@@Bolo2028 I'd buy some if the cost, and shipping to Canada, wasn't too exorbitant.
@@VosperCDN You could just get your local kydex guy to make you some. There's a holster maker every few miles in america and canada
I built four "Tankers" very much like Ians back in the day, when Blue Sky Garands were all over the place for under $300. Most of the Blue Sky guns that came in from Korea had garbage bores anyway, so rebuilding them like this was no major loss. I built two for customers and two for myself. The two for myself never really worked all that well, the ones I set up for customers ran perfectly. Last I heard, one of them was knocking around in a bush plane in Alaska. Ah, the good old days...
Got mine in Alaska back in the early 90's. Runs great and it's been all over Alaska bear and caribou hunting.
Seeing Ian get happier and happier as he shot it was cool :)
Also, I’d love to see this cool rifle at a two gun match!
I've been watching the channel for years and can't remember such a green-ed up desert. Looks nice!
We have gotten more rain this summer than any year since 1920.
@@ForgottenWeapons Just that area of AZ?
So used to just seeing sands then we see it looked like Arizona was terraformed
@@LadyAnuB in east Texas we had so much rain that my corn didn't pollinate.
@@daviddawson1718 is that a thing? I live in a country with way more rain then Texas gets and we happily grow corn. Love to know more about it
Ians Customs sounds like a great show.
Just so long as it doesn't turn into a firearms version of Orange County Choppers
@@mpetersen6 That was Red Jacket Firearms LLC on TV as "Sons of Guns." Geoff Who remembers.
I'd watch the shit out of that
This seems like the type of mods you'd see coming from a US Marines armory, or even Special Operations Unit armories. It was so common to see jury rigged solutions for flashlights and older WWII era rifles repurposed for more specialized roles in Cold War era conflicts.
Reminds me of one time here in the Philippines, around 2015 iirc, our Navy needed to arm it's ship personnel. So they tool bunch of M3 Grease Guns in the armory, cleaned them up, given a paint job, added suppressors, picatiny rails and red dot sights, and gave it to them.
@@WingMaster562 I'll bet they worked well. I wouldn't feel poorly armed for CQB with a grease gun.
"Back then I was poor..." But you were rich in imagination and, being less experienced, undaunted by cold hard reality.
*M1 and M1A and M14 and Mini 14 Scouts
to quote Phuc Long on the op-rod thing, "it always bad day when you bend your rod."
I really love this series. It feels like Forgotten weapons series of Ian himself. Quirky, weird but yet interesting and fun collection of guns which Ian adores. Thank you for awesome content as always!
That light/bayonet mount is some left field thinking
@@BruceLortzHI while yes it would be better, it would take away all of the charm imo.
I've had my Alington Ord. T26 7.62mm for almost 30 years. Scoped and accurrized it shoots sub MOA with M316 Mod 0 hand loads RL15 175gr. SMK and M118LR clones
Needs a big ol conical flash hider like the LE Jungle Carbine. 😆
Also this needs to be tested by 9HR
Dude, that would be awesome
This !
That and a comparison to the Steyr Scout
@@Karyovin comparing this to a Steyer Scout is like comparing an M2 Bradley to a technical truck: they are both "light" in that they aren't a tank, but one of them is quite heavy, and they really aren't in the same league.
@@jacobmccandles1767 True, it's just they are examples of the Scout Rifle concept.
Another piece from Ian's Funnies
"Ian's Cursed Sporterizations"
I really want to see this in a 2-gun match. It seems pretty much perfect for it. You might even be able to get a spinner with it. 😜
That bubba'd flashlight mount is fucking brilliant. What an absolute delight
You know, I gotta ask, why didn't someone think of using the bayonet lugs for a light before...that's really kind of brilliant!
Probably the pain in the ass of cutting the steel parts reliably.
@@ScottKenny1978 in Ian’s case yes. But I’m surprised a light maker hasn’t made a mount for the bayonet lug. Or machined it into the body of the flashlight. For that matter why not a bipod or some other accessory. Although mounting a bipod there would problem shift your point of impact.
@@allenbt11 I meant cutting the locking lugs of the bayonet. It needs to lock up *with no motion* or it has inconsistent barrel harmonics.
In addition to shifting point of impact between bayonet/light fixed and not.
For some reason the bayonet-light setup screams “Resident Evil” to me.
"You do not have the Dremel Wheel"
I would have left the blade alone ...
after watching this, I believe there's a high probability that somewhere deep in Ian's basement, a tacticool chauchat is waiting to be revealed
"This is my Tanker/Scout M-1. Let me show you its features!" -Ian
Gonna let 9hole Reviews try it out?
Yeeeaaaah.
Really enjoying a delve into Ian's collection and the explanations behind his choices. I personally find them quite cool so far.
And man that thing makes a thunderous noise on camera
The ingenuity behind that weapon light is breathtaking! Absolutely love it.
Ian is the OG bubba of the M1 rifles. That light assembly is nothing short of ingenious in the early 2000s on a budget.
Everyone is calling this “bubba” but honestly I don’t yet see enough bad welding, cutting disk marks, or JB weld to be “bubba.”
The bubba is completely contained within the flashlight assembly.
@@TsorovanZeroThat’s fair.
You forgot the most important reason for choosing an m1:
That satisfying PING when you run out of bullets.
The PING then the clip flying into your face, if that first one is anything to go by.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Its a sound your enemy love
Do you mean the sound of letting everyone you are shooting at know your weapon is empty?
If you can find more of those clip holders, you should absolutely bring it to 2G-ACM with your Hi-power
"at the time i was poor" necessity is the mother of invention
This is something RussianBadger would do with Payday2's guns customization
23 round 8 round clip
... I legit have done this and use it in Payday 2. Works.
I run a crit build with the gallant (the in-game equivalent of the garand) with a tanker barrel, green laser sight, clip pouches on the stock, a 23 round mag, and it basically always headshots XD
@@Yourantsally yeah I swear Payday 2 Garand is broken as fork
@@Yourantsally ah yes
4boolet + 4boolet = 23 boolets 😂😂
I have way more fun talking about custom builds when they are an interpretation of an idea. Particularly when the end result looks "unique" but each part has an element of thought behind it.
Yeah. I've got an AR15 where each element on it was specifically chosen for specific purposes.
There are a few blind alleys on it, and the overall result is an abomination, but I keep it around as an example of following a concept process. (And as a reminder that one can turn individually good parts, even when assembled assembled properly, into a cumulative dumpster fire if you keep listening to the Good Idea Fairy.)
@@geodkyt no joke, that makes me feel way better about what my ar has become. 7.62x39, side charging handle, and possibly getting a gas piston to make this the most wannabe ak47 that ever was
Good to see the Arlington Ordnance Tanker back in action with even more details from your 1st video.
Dear gun manufacturers,
Take this rifle, re-chamber to 7.62, put a good composite plastic stock, good barrel, flash hider, AR-style sights, picatinny rifle, and keep it under $1,000.
YOU'LL SELL THEM ALL.
If it works, it ain't wrong. That flashlight mod although crude, probably works fantastically. So sayeth Gun Jesus
He should have kept the blade on the bayonet for maximum tacticool points
It's not like a flashlight has to be perfectly zeroed either. So it's perfect.
I was going to laugh about the weapon light....
But I think we had some shockingly Similar setups in Iraq '03.
There was no good commercially available tactical kit back then.
Man this elbownian scouting rifle seems pretty good. The lights on brand though xD.
This is the most Fallout thing I think I've ever seen from this channel and I'm here for it.
Cool gun Ian. I see the appeal from yester-year. I really dig that it's in 308. A lightweight ar10 with a lw 1-6 would be the modern equivalent. Hmm call KE and let's start setting up stoner 2025. 7lb (or less) 308 'scout' rifle with optic would be awesome 🤙 thanks for sharing
It would be AWESOME to see you run that in a 2 gun. You may get some sneers and jeers at the start, but I think you would do well and shock some people with it
Glad to see items from Ian's personal collection, would love to see more of these vids!
Getting a head start on your What Would Garand Do rifle I see
Though many disagree, I'd still like to see a modern 16" 10 shot en bloc, .223/5.56 Mini-Garand. It would allow a maneuverable carbine, legal in places AR-15s aren't, & still suitable in a home defense role by any.
Back in the 90s ? Seen kits to convert enfeilds to 223
I had an Arlington Ordinance "tanker" .308 conversion just like this one minus the scope. It was a great-shooting, well-balanced, totally reliable short-barreled version of the M1 Garand. Picked it up for $560.00 in 1995. Still kicking myself for sending it down the road when I became enamored with a bolt gun I wanted and needed some money to complete the deal. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Given enough time it's starting to look like Ian will single handedly populate Herrera's proposed "Blursed" gun images video.
Tho they will be "blessed" guns
Who's Herrera? Lol
@@steelwhisperer the ak guy
@@steelwhisperer Brandon Herrera. AK Jesus.
Ian:
Me, in 2021:
Poor in the 90s/00s gets you a lot more in surplus firearms.
@@Stevarooni I was born too late for the Great Age of Surplus. Didn't have significant income until about 2018 or so.
The old Federal Ordnance Warehouse sold Tanker Garands and their M14SA for around $300, in the late 80's and early 90's. They had racks of SKS from everywhere for under $100.
@@ronmorton4569 Now you're looking at 6-7 times that for an SKS or 4 times that for an M14 (in my area, at least). Guh.
@@BlueLoneWolf54 I remember SKS rifles at Ben Franklin department store in Burlington,VT for $79, probably around 1990.
Every engineer in the world knows that zip ties, velcro and duct tape can fly you to the moon (But maybe not back)
If it works once, it still worked
I put my m1 garand tanker chambered in 30.06 inside a bm59 folding stock with the amega m1 garand scope mount i love it so much
I bet the modern equivalent of this "do-everything, hunt and maybe defend yourself if you need to" rifle would be the commercially-available modern AR-10s. They don't usually come with a bayonet to dremel though! So you gotta use boring ole m-lok for a light.
The collective scrambling of m1 owners trying to recreate this will be interesting
I’ve been wanting to make a scout M1 since I saw him use it in a much earlier video haha
Some of us have wanted one for a long time, but I just can't bring myself to chopping up my M1 Garand, if I had a second of no historical value one maybe.
@@DB-yj3qc oh don't do it to a historical piece!
Take it to a 2 gun match!
Jeff Cooper would be proud. A great set up Ian and looks like a lot of fun as well as being practical in a variety of situations. Thanks for sharing!
This does keep the idea of a scout rifle alive...not light ...but heavy hitting and a great trigger
I think Jeff Cooper would have approved of the honest wear marks!
Jeff Cooper would have declared it "not a scout".
As a former Tanker this makes me very happy.
I was infantry for 5 years , tanker for 16 , good times , where were you at ?
But how does one tension the tracks? Besides if the tanker ever needs his tanker M1 he has already experienced a significant emotional event.
@@mpetersen6 We did track tension by pumping grease into a grease fitting which created pressure keeping the track taught
@@StabbinJoeScarborough interesting
@@StabbinJoeScarborough 1-5 Cav at Hood.
Outstanding concept. Outstanding video. My only common sense peve, why grind the blade off a bayonet to affix a flashlight when you could have had said bayonet blade & flashlight when you needed it on said short-barreled rifle? If you really need one... best to have the other.
That's pretty neat and unique. The bayonet/light mount idea was classic!
When you unlock all the attachments on the starting weapon
It looks like it could be a good home defense weapon in California and other anti-gun states. No pistol grip, magazine, less than 10 rounds, etc.
The only problem with home defense is over penetration, a 308 or 30-06 can go through 3-4 walls before stopping
@@RCgenral Use frangible ammo maybe? You might get underpenetration problems instead, but even an underpenetrating 308 or 30-06 would be pretty good at stopping attackers.
@@RCgenral agreed, unless you use frangible rounds, or live in a brick house. Your other option is a lever gun, but I prefer similar-auto.
Nobody:
Ian: anyway this is the gun I drew in kindergarten
That kindergarten i want to join if i could travel back in time
Btw is the term 'kindergarten' german?
@@HSS_yt me too haha!
I'm actually not sure of its origin dude! I'm from New Zealand, it's a common term here and is the name for the place you go before starting primary school, i think it's ages 3 to 4 from memory..
I'd be interested to know it's history though!
@@HSS_yt Isn't Kindergarten inherently German? It just combines Child and Garden.
I have to agree, 2-7x is a really an unappreciated scope, in any form. It works well at 2x with both eyes open, and 7x is still probably more then most honest shots need.
My dad told me a great story about his rifle. He was a accountant/ supply clerk in Vietnam. He came across an M1 that someone had done exactly this modification to and since could not be issued. He had no idea who did it or where the rifle came from. He kept it mounted in his M37 during paperwork runs. Eventually he traded it and a ton of ammo and MRE's to a couple of SOG guys that came to pick up supplies and mistakenly ended up with a pallet of steaks. Fast forward to a few years ago, he bought a tanker from Springfield Armory. It's now mounted on my mom's wall under his urn; never fired.
Gun Jesus praises a product and a market magically materializes. 🙌
Btw, I’d love a couple of those clip holders. Never seen them
"I wanted the ultimate do-it-all, jack of all trades, practical rifle...Haha omg we've all been there! Ian's Funnies.
That flashlight mounting has to be one of the best things I have seen, on something like the Vz. 58 it might be a lot better than taping a light to the handguard, lol.
That looks like a lot of fun, I'd love to see you run it at a two gun match. I'm really liking these trips through Ian's gun cabinet videos.
First thing I thought of when I saw the flashlight was Brandon Herrera screaming tactical hose clamp🤣🤣🤣
My 95' Arlington Ord. T26 in 7.62 Nato is bedded and unitized to shoot 1 MOA with my Mk 316 Mod 0 and M118LR handloads. My M80 ball loads hold the X ring all day long.
That MacGyver'd weapon light is sweet. Gets the job done! The rifle as a whole has a certain "I made this with what I could afford and what I thought was best at the time" beauty to it. If you have a custom pistol, you should definitely do a two gun match.
He shoots a lot of two gun mate