The 1892 was called "le tueur des tranchées", the trench killer, because it was used mainly to kill soldiers who were too damaged to be saved. When I shot with it, it made a hell of a huge cloud of smoke, way more than on your video. But it probably came from a different bullet being used.
I know this is an old comment, but if anyone is wondering: 8mm French Ordnance was originally a black powder cartridge, but by WW1 had smokeless powder loads. Could have shot a black powder load.
Just discovered this channel today, and haven't stopped watching episode after episode. Great show, great host, and thank you to everyone else involved!
Just FIY I finallly caught up with you. It took me six days and so far it was a blast (also thousands and thousands of soldiers died). Wonderful work Great War team!
Don't blame my country, Spain. The massive production of Ruby pistols was a surprise and Basque factories were not ready for it, they solved the demand the best way they could. Surprisinly it was a very reliable handgun. Most remaining units still work perfectly today, one hundred years later! For a simple but high quality Colt or S&W revolver is not such a big issue, for a cheap semi-auto... hum... I bet your sons won't see a lot of present Hi-Point pistols working flawesly in 2116.
Any chance you know or could get in contact with Ian Mccollum over on Forgotten Weapons channel and one day talk about some of the real oddities and rarities seen and used on the WW1 battlefields? That would make an awesome video!
+Armageddon2077 Could be done but for the moment we're sorta burning 40 hours minimum a week keeping up with the standard stuff. Special projects will follow as we get more help and pull ahead!
+C&Rsenal Ian over at Forgotten Weapons is very very knowledgeable and very good at making good looking videos. I can highly recommend what he does and he sent me to check this channel out. All I know about guns I know from his channel because it's so entertaining to watch.
The previous episode made me want want to make a non-gun version of that little french carbine and i looked up, and WWI had a ton of different mostly forgotten but good looking firearms. Good thing i'm subscribed to this channel! Very good quality videos!
Awww I have been watching/listening to these in the background a few days ago and went to put on the next one and realised that I have caught up. Good job on the series, can't wait for the next one!
Did soldiers never really get the chance to use their Ruby pistol that much? I thought that with so much trench warfare, you wouldn't want to try and fight in such close quarters with a rifle. So having a fixed cartridge to your gun seems insane? That means even in the worst circumstances, you couldn't even use other dead soldiers magazines if you needed them. Absolutely crazy.
I totally love these videos...for almost a year now i been scouring every documentary of WW1 i could get my hands on...always trying to piece it together. I am so glad you are doing it in a way that breaks it down week by week. My great grandfather was in WW1 (USA) and i have his pistol holster from the war. i find it fascinating that decisions made 100 years ago during the war time are affecting things today in our time..
the coolest aspect of team-up vids like this one are the subtle nuances weaving themselves into the broad events of the war. Something like the mag/pistol matching from the cabals of Spanish arms manufacturing. Imagine the French chain of command trying to wrap their heads around staggering casualties all the while outfitting their officers/soldiers in something that worked. I bet there are equally fascinating tales on all the other supply-chains (food, gear, clothing, etc). Anxiously awaiting Thursday! :-)
+Russ Trotter It's fascinating to see the military respond to the limits of the arms, and then the arms developing to match the needs of the military, over and over.
+Nastrael Rowe As C&Rsenal suggests, it's difficult to imagine just how little credit the generals of the time gave the men under their command. You may think generals today don't think much of their troops, but compared to the leaders of the WWI-era armies of the world, modern armies consider their common soldiers to be geniuses. WWI generals often didn't seem to be entirely convinced that theirs were even human, let alone reasonably intelligent adults. For another great example of this, consider that the British Lee-Enfield rifle had a detachable box magazine - James Paris Lee INVENTED the detachable box magazine - and yet British soldiers were expected to use stripper clips to load their rifles through the open action, just like everyone else. They were only issued the one that came with the rifle, because if you give them more than one, they'll just lose the bloody things. Or sell them and blow the money. Waste of valuable government property, either way. Life was cheap and rifle parts weren't.
+Nastrael Rowe Officers carried small arms mainly for self defense because job of an officer is to stay alive and command troops and not kill enemies. Any officer, that led a platoon, company or a battalion to attack, and by some miracle happened to have IQ over 80, would carry the same main firearm as his troops.
+Kavetrol Tbh it wasn't so much a lack of intelligence that caused officers to go to battle with pistols and swords but rather pride, we got to remember that unlike modern times the officer corps during WWI was pretty much exclusively from the upper classes (outright nobility in cases UK, Germany and Russia) with your pedigree mattering more then your military talents (though it wasn't as bad as it used to be) so use a weapon of the "unwashed masses" would an insult to your pride. Obviously this kind of attitude was reduced (especially among the junior ranks that actually were close enough to the front to be in danger) as the war dragged on.
SampoPaalanen I meant in the context of looking different than all the troops and sticking out as a priority target. I understand officers background and upbringing, but if someone increases their chance of death because of 'what will people think', than he is a classic example of a moron. Rommel, for example, carried a riffle from day one and was proud that he got proficient at using bayonet during his officer training.
+gluffoful Thank you very much! Even in our unpleasantness, we put a LOT of thought into invention, design, and execution. We're very happy to have a diverse audience who might not all reach the same conclusions but appreciate hearing the truth as it was.
Working with other knowledgeable RUclipsrs is such a great idea. You guys always come with new ways to make your channel even richer with various content. How much did your workload grew since the beginning of series? Are current donations sufficient to support all of this?
+Milan Pekovic We are not at a break even, yet but the support on Patreon helps of course. The workload is staying the same but the challenges vary. In the beginning it was about getting episodes done and since we get more experienced it's about finding new formats and fine tuning.
Great stuff, this was the perfect thing to watch today. I just got back from the range, one of my friends and I took out some of our old surplus rifles and called it Milsurp Monday. We tried them out at 100 yards, very deadly on the life-size bad guy target but we had a difficult time being very precise.
+bigghoss762 Nice, I've got an Russian SKS of tula 1952 that i've modernized with an ATI folding stock, had to do some filling and dremeling to get my Bayonet to fold nice, and to get the detachable box mags to fit. May not be the most high speed, but its damn fun to shoot, and in a pitch I could use it to defend my home, and family. Haven't got any true old guys like a mosin, lee enfield, k31 or anything. Eventually though. My fathers got a nice Mauser action that was turned into a sporter in 30-06, and an old 1894 whinchester chamber'd in 30-30 done before 64. Which rifles have you, and your buddy got?
leathery420 I sure hope you kept the original parts for that SKS. :( I have a Mosin Nagant M44, Lee-Enfield No.4 MkI, an M48 Yugo Mauser, FR7, and an Inland M1 carbine. He has some 1903 Springfields, a Schmidt-Rubin, Some Lee-Enfield No.1 MkIII's and a Brromhandle Mauser and some other stuff I haven't seen.
bigghoss762 Of course I kept the stock and mag. The stock was refurbished a year after the rifle was put together anyway. So it's not totally matching parts or anything. Rifle parts say 52 with matching serials, except for then stock. I haven't tried to bubba the original stock or anything, I wouldn't do that. Only reason I did it to the SKS is because I live in Canada, and AKs are prohibited because they are scary. If I could buy a cheap ak I'd probably have left it as it was. I understand wanting to keep nice ones whole, but some of the awesomeness of Milsurps is being able to modernize an old design on the cheap. If i want a modernized AR-15 with all the bells and whistles its gonna cost upwards of grand. Sure you wouldn't take a hex mosin, and chop her down into a scout sporter, but some beater mosin why the hell not? Ps that's a nice collection y'all have, I'd like to amass one equally as nice or nicer one day.
Awesome video. I love the fascinating tidbits of information that Othais provides. I know it may be hard and you probably won't be able to get the actual pieces of equipment, but I hope you do more of these episodes on larger items like mortars, flamethrowers, artillery pieces, ships, subs, planes, etc...
As much as I enjoy Ians presentations at Forgotten Weapons, it's very cool to see a live demonstration of the firearms themselves. I'm sure Ian would love to fire the weapons he's demonstrating, but given that they're about to be auctioned I guess the owners want to keep their specimens in prime condition.
I love history especially the civil war and the first world war. The little 32 cal pistols are greatly under estimated. Looks to me like the French understood the function of the pistol in warfare better than many They are an emergency weapon for use by officers to defend themselves and control their own troops if necessary and are only for very close ranges mostly under 25 yards.
.32acp was the most common pistol caliber in WW1. It's more capable than most people give it credit for. In the standard 71gr FMJ loadings the bullet will easily meet FBI penetration criteria, and the bullet typically yaws so that the wound is larger.
Well done for introducing the weapons section :) !! very informative, and practically interactive. A good idea would also be to immerse the viewers into field re-enactment; reviving the battlefield and viewing all the possibilities of World War I warfare. Medical displays, trench warfare, gas attacks..etc etc. Keep up the good work !!
+Kurt Degs Well, we have to have goals and of course we are thinking of other ways to present other invention of World War 1. But time and money are always an issue.
+Kurt Degs We have a good collaboration thanks to the fact that our production needs are so parallel. So TGW only spends time and editing and not travel or actual ammo/filming costs. Hopefully there will be video producers from other disciplines that can help.
I've seen some pages of World War I re-enactment groups (via Facebook) from Europe. Help that I can offer from my side would be books/info regarding Malta and World War I, since I am Maltese.
I enjoy the specials about rifles and pistols. Forgotten Weapons has also done some history re. the Ruby pistols. BTW, I'm also impressed by the demonstration shooter ;)
Yes, the rifle rounds (all) of the ww1 era bolt action rifles are more powerful than the rounds of modern assault rifles like the AK, because they were designed for much longer ranges. They had unrealistic ironsights for up to 2000m, because it was thought, they will be used for volley fire on marching lines and collums of enemys, who would fight in a napoleonic era style. The trenches and modern artillery made that concept obsulete. In WW2 the combat ranges became even shorter, because of mobile and urban warfare. So the Germans (and Sovjets) devolped a shortened rifle round, a so called intermediate round, for use in an semi- and fully automatic maschienenkarabiner (called Sturmgewehr for propaganda issues), for more firepower in real world combat distances. They shortened the 7,92x57mm Round of the Mauser rifles to a length of 7,92x33mm. (the Russians developed at the same time the famous 7,62x39mm, for use in a light machine gun ans a semiautomatic carbine, but not yet for a true assault rifle. Later this round was used for the famous AK-47 / AKM)
Are you able to upload full length replays? some of us live on the other side of the world and being able to attend the live hangout is not much of an option at times. All in all loving these videos.
Another fascinating insight.Othias and Mae add a great new dimension. Resisted Facefook and Twatter for so many years now but i admit i am getting tempted.
+SilentOtto There is a lot of truth to that but there are also a lot of stories of men doing amazing things with pistols. Also when you get into room to room urban fighting or down in a tunnel or some such thing, a five and a half foot long rifle is pretty hard to use. Think of a pistol as a combat only knife. You wont need or want it very often but when you do, it's a life saver. Also remember that a lot of the men in an army were not front line troops. You had millions of cooks, truck drivers, pilots, cavalry, artillerymen, etc. These people couldn't lug around a 12 pound, five and a half foot long battle rifle all over the place but they could also come under attack or get trapped behind the lines and needed something to defend themselves with. A pistol was easy to carry and better than nothing. Later, small SMGs and carbines would be developed for that role. That's the reasoning behind the adoption of the M1 Carbine by the US in WWII.
wingracer 16 "There is a lot of truth to that but there are also a lot of stories of men doing amazing things with pistols." I posted my comment because it was funny, not because it's definitively covers the role of pistols in the military.
Love segments that break down on the weaponry of the Great War and laughed my butt off on how the same basic gun could have problems with the magazine not being compatible!
Essentially the Side arm replaced the officer sword and most countries they were as much if not more of a status symbol. American's and I believe the British were the main two that handed them out to basic infantry units as an actual back up weapon.
Can you please show the length, weight etc. of the guns also in the metrical system? I'm sure thet espacially since the german channel was closed there are many people in the audience that are used to the metrical system.
I wonder if you could cooperate with Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons on some of these gun videos. He is really knowledgeable about this era of firearms, and he got me to check out this channel!
***** Yup that's me! I don't consider myself an expert and no matter how much I learn it's never a term I'll apply to myself. I still consider myself intermediate, someday I'll feel comfortable calling myself an expert-in-training.
***** There is no set date yet however I do know we are all one step closer to its release. All the footage has been shot, now everything is at the editting and stitching phase.
Indy, all rifle of ww1 are more powerfull than an ak47, the ak47 use an intermediate cartridge (7.62x39mm) less powerfull than a regular rifle cartridge (like the 7.62x54R used in the mosin-nagant)
It was common for armies back then to use the same caliber for both rifles and pistols, because using one set of tooling to bore and rifle the barrels is cheaper. So, French 8mm, Russian 7.62, etc
+ForeverDoubting We are working on the German rifles and will publish it soon. The unedited version is not available because it's a stat killer on RUclips since the favour content that gets watched till the end.
+ahmmetb3h We're staying with rifles and pistols for now. Grouping machine guns is in the future, but takes more time to put them in a sensible order. But they are on the way.
The drum line at the part when the lady was shooting the revolver sounds an awful lot like the drum line in one of the pieces in the Halo CE game soundtrack. Could I gain a link to that specific audio clip to compare?
The 1892 revolver was a beautifull work of french arquebusery. And reloading it with the right hand was easier for most people who are right hand! Just switch the gun on left hand then reload with right hand: easier and faster when you think about it
The nation were a huge pile of different weapons were ever used would have to be the Russian Empire during WW1. S&W Model 3's, Nagant Revolver, Mosin Nagant, Winchester M1985 (I think. The final lever action gun being adopted into an major army in 7.62x54mmR) and huge array of other rifles like the Berdan and such. Might make a good episode
Great epsode but pretty crappy hanguns - But i guess that was the norm. Well a part from the brumhandle and the Colt. And the Luger i guess - But wasn't the Luger easy to jam in a trech?
But what happened this week 100 years ago? Not that I don't like the indepth look at the nations weaponary, but I was hoping for the weekly recap. With love from The Netherlands.
At first I thought it was using a firing pin design since there is no visible hammer. But actually it uses a hidden hammer to fire. John Browning and his designs.
They were issued two magazines for officers the machine gun crews carried on in a little box on the back and that only had a single magazine. Also it’s been disproven over that last couple years about the mag interchangeably as most of the manufacturers did make them close enough with the tolerances that they would work with each other
+The Great War It'd probably be a bit more challenging to demonstrate, but has there been thought on putting this kind of detail into aircraft of the Great War? Vehicle development and mechanization were two incredibly influential aspects of the war, and seeing the individual developments on all sides might be an interesting point of discussion. Just some thoughts, I've really been enjoying the series as a whole thus far.
SteamPoweredRudeBoy We are of course dreaming about showing things like tanks, artillery and aircraft in great depth. But those are of course really rare and would require us to go on tour. So, at this moment, it's still a dream.
hey othais, got a question to you :) do you think battlefield 4 weapons are like in a real life (i mean the looks of the models)? thanks in advance and nice videos!
Can I personally recommended a book which I have just finished called not forgotten by Neil Oliver, it mainly focuses on the many ways we remember the fallen in the UK whether it would be monuments or words. Apart from the great war amazon store is their any more titles you highly recommended? I personally enjoy Jack Sheldon work
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love that you are covering ALL aspects of the WWI.
+Sandy Addison We're happy to help.
+Sandy Addison Thanks, glad you like that approach.
The 1892 was called "le tueur des tranchées", the trench killer, because it was used mainly to kill soldiers who were too damaged to be saved.
When I shot with it, it made a hell of a huge cloud of smoke, way more than on your video. But it probably came from a different bullet being used.
Wow sounds gruesome.
I know this is an old comment, but if anyone is wondering: 8mm French Ordnance was originally a black powder cartridge, but by WW1 had smokeless powder loads. Could have shot a black powder load.
@@kanrakucheese even though it’s was adopted 1892? That’s just really cool, there must be some reasoning behind it
Man, this channel is so damn awesome.
+jmatt781 Thanks!
+The Great War Can Indy give a brief bio, what he studied at college, his jobs, why he moved to Sweden etc?
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+The Great War Thank you. Is there any information/clips on Indy's acting?
Steve Christie Not really. He does mainly voice acting, you can hear him in a few video games.
Ive been watching for a week non stop and I can't believe I'm still a year behind
Isn't binge-watching great?!
Until you catch up and go from watching six months in one night to one week at a time.
Your not alone in this!
Completely worth it!
help
Just discovered this channel today, and haven't stopped watching episode after episode. Great show, great host, and thank you to everyone else involved!
+yellowgut Welcome to the family!
I have been a fan since day one, but I have found these gun videos just now. They are awesome, you guys rock!
Just FIY I finallly caught up with you. It took me six days and so far it was a blast (also thousands and thousands of soldiers died).
Wonderful work Great War team!
+Vítězslav Ureš Thanks, glad you liked it.
Don't blame my country, Spain. The massive production of Ruby pistols was a surprise and Basque factories were not ready for it, they solved the demand the best way they could. Surprisinly it was a very reliable handgun. Most remaining units still work perfectly today, one hundred years later! For a simple but high quality Colt or S&W revolver is not such a big issue, for a cheap semi-auto... hum... I bet your sons won't see a lot of present Hi-Point pistols working flawesly in 2116.
Still have my astra produced one. shoots solidly over a 110 years later
This is one of the best collaborations on RUclips
+Armageddon2077 Thanks!
Any chance you know or could get in contact with Ian Mccollum over on Forgotten Weapons channel and one day talk about some of the real oddities and rarities seen and used on the WW1 battlefields?
That would make an awesome video!
+Armageddon2077 Could be done but for the moment we're sorta burning 40 hours minimum a week keeping up with the standard stuff. Special projects will follow as we get more help and pull ahead!
+C&Rsenal Ian over at Forgotten Weapons is very very knowledgeable and very good at making good looking videos. I can highly recommend what he does and he sent me to check this channel out.
All I know about guns I know from his channel because it's so entertaining to watch.
The previous episode made me want want to make a non-gun version of that little french carbine and i looked up, and WWI had a ton of different mostly forgotten but good looking firearms. Good thing i'm subscribed to this channel! Very good quality videos!
Awww I have been watching/listening to these in the background a few days ago and went to put on the next one and realised that I have caught up. Good job on the series, can't wait for the next one!
+marram101 Thanks!
Did soldiers never really get the chance to use their Ruby pistol that much? I thought that with so much trench warfare, you wouldn't want to try and fight in such close quarters with a rifle. So having a fixed cartridge to your gun seems insane? That means even in the worst circumstances, you couldn't even use other dead soldiers magazines if you needed them. Absolutely crazy.
That is such a cute little pistol! I seriously want to fire one.
I totally love these videos...for almost a year now i been scouring every documentary of WW1 i could get my hands on...always trying to piece it together. I am so glad you are doing it in a way that breaks it down week by week. My great grandfather was in WW1 (USA) and i have his pistol holster from the war. i find it fascinating that decisions made 100 years ago during the war time are affecting things today in our time..
+Lord Razoun Thanks, glad you like it.
the coolest aspect of team-up vids like this one are the subtle nuances weaving themselves into the broad events of the war. Something like the mag/pistol matching from the cabals of Spanish arms manufacturing. Imagine the French chain of command trying to wrap their heads around staggering casualties all the while outfitting their officers/soldiers in something that worked. I bet there are equally fascinating tales on all the other supply-chains (food, gear, clothing, etc). Anxiously awaiting Thursday! :-)
+Russ Trotter It's fascinating to see the military respond to the limits of the arms, and then the arms developing to match the needs of the military, over and over.
+Russ Trotter Glad you liked it.
"You only have the one magazine."
Wait, what!?! How? Who? Why!?!
+Nastrael Rowe "If we give them two they'll just waste ammo and lose the other"
+Nastrael Rowe As C&Rsenal suggests, it's difficult to imagine just how little credit the generals of the time gave the men under their command. You may think generals today don't think much of their troops, but compared to the leaders of the WWI-era armies of the world, modern armies consider their common soldiers to be geniuses. WWI generals often didn't seem to be entirely convinced that theirs were even human, let alone reasonably intelligent adults.
For another great example of this, consider that the British Lee-Enfield rifle had a detachable box magazine - James Paris Lee INVENTED the detachable box magazine - and yet British soldiers were expected to use stripper clips to load their rifles through the open action, just like everyone else. They were only issued the one that came with the rifle, because if you give them more than one, they'll just lose the bloody things. Or sell them and blow the money. Waste of valuable government property, either way. Life was cheap and rifle parts weren't.
+Nastrael Rowe
Officers carried small arms mainly for self defense because job of an officer is to stay alive and command troops and not kill enemies.
Any officer, that led a platoon, company or a battalion to attack, and by some miracle happened to have IQ over 80, would carry the same main firearm as his troops.
+Kavetrol Tbh it wasn't so much a lack of intelligence that caused officers to go to battle with pistols and swords but rather pride, we got to remember that unlike modern times the officer corps during WWI was pretty much exclusively from the upper classes (outright nobility in cases UK, Germany and Russia) with your pedigree mattering more then your military talents (though it wasn't as bad as it used to be) so use a weapon of the "unwashed masses" would an insult to your pride. Obviously this kind of attitude was reduced (especially among the junior ranks that actually were close enough to the front to be in danger) as the war dragged on.
SampoPaalanen
I meant in the context of looking different than all the troops and sticking out as a priority target.
I understand officers background and upbringing, but if someone increases their chance of death because of 'what will people think', than he is a classic example of a moron.
Rommel, for example, carried a riffle from day one and was proud that he got proficient at using bayonet during his officer training.
this channel is awesome!!!!
Thanks.
+The Great War it's so cool that this vid was put out a year ago and you still reply to comments
It is. I can't express how much I love this channel. This special is just so interesting, with the economic link to Spain etc etc. Just great.
these videos are great, it's so nice to see a focus on WW1 weapons, they often get a bit overlooked by the fascination with WW2 weapons
+MrSevenLemons We agree and have been happy to change our usually 1940's footing for the centennial.
Not my favorite topic, but it is such a pleasure to listen to someone who really knows what they are talking about, regardless of the topic.
+gluffoful Thank you very much!
Even in our unpleasantness, we put a LOT of thought into invention, design, and execution. We're very happy to have a diverse audience who might not all reach the same conclusions but appreciate hearing the truth as it was.
The "Ruby": perhaps the inspiration for the Hi-Point C-9?
Working with other knowledgeable RUclipsrs is such a great idea. You guys always come with new ways to make your channel even richer with various content. How much did your workload grew since the beginning of series? Are current donations sufficient to support all of this?
+Milan Pekovic Thanks for the compliment!
+Milan Pekovic We are not at a break even, yet but the support on Patreon helps of course. The workload is staying the same but the challenges vary. In the beginning it was about getting episodes done and since we get more experienced it's about finding new formats and fine tuning.
best channal for Verdun players. !!!!
For the past 3 this channel is all I've been watching. I Love it!
3 days*
+Nicholas Peterson Welcome to the family.
I love this channel!! You guys and othais are so insightful! Thank you!
I love military materiel history so I'm loving these videos! thanks guys!
+Carrick Swift Thanks!
MUCH, much better editing in this video compared to other versions, keep it up!
Awesome. This channel is great.
+c0ketehwhale Thanks.
+c0ketehwhale I agree.
Great Channel. I am really enjoying it. I cannot wait for your upcoming videos on British, US and German rifles and pistols.
+Neptune Bluez On the way. We're looking at Germany and probably Austria-Hungary next given what's rolled in.
+Neptune Bluez The next live event for the German rifles will be this Thursday. We will have an edited version of course.
+C&Rsenal I am looking forward to it. Thank you.
+The Great War Thanks for the info about Thursday's live show.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!
Great stuff, this was the perfect thing to watch today. I just got back from the range, one of my friends and I took out some of our old surplus rifles and called it Milsurp Monday. We tried them out at 100 yards, very deadly on the life-size bad guy target but we had a difficult time being very precise.
+bigghoss762 Sounds like fun!
+bigghoss762 Nice, I've got an Russian SKS of tula 1952 that i've modernized with an ATI folding stock, had to do some filling and dremeling to get my Bayonet to fold nice, and to get the detachable box mags to fit. May not be the most high speed, but its damn fun to shoot, and in a pitch I could use it to defend my home, and family. Haven't got any true old guys like a mosin, lee enfield, k31 or anything. Eventually though. My fathers got a nice Mauser action that was turned into a sporter in 30-06, and an old 1894 whinchester chamber'd in 30-30 done before 64.
Which rifles have you, and your buddy got?
leathery420 I sure hope you kept the original parts for that SKS. :(
I have a Mosin Nagant M44, Lee-Enfield No.4 MkI, an M48 Yugo Mauser, FR7, and an Inland M1 carbine. He has some 1903 Springfields, a Schmidt-Rubin, Some Lee-Enfield No.1 MkIII's and a Brromhandle Mauser and some other stuff I haven't seen.
bigghoss762 Of course I kept the stock and mag. The stock was refurbished a year after the rifle was put together anyway. So it's not totally matching parts or anything. Rifle parts say 52 with matching serials, except for then stock.
I haven't tried to bubba the original stock or anything, I wouldn't do that. Only reason I did it to the SKS is because I live in Canada, and AKs are prohibited because they are scary. If I could buy a cheap ak I'd probably have left it as it was.
I understand wanting to keep nice ones whole, but some of the awesomeness of Milsurps is being able to modernize an old design on the cheap. If i want a modernized AR-15 with all the bells and whistles its gonna cost upwards of grand.
Sure you wouldn't take a hex mosin, and chop her down into a scout sporter, but some beater mosin why the hell not?
Ps that's a nice collection y'all have, I'd like to amass one equally as nice or nicer one day.
Awesome video. I love the fascinating tidbits of information that Othais provides.
I know it may be hard and you probably won't be able to get the actual pieces of equipment, but I hope you do more of these episodes on larger items like mortars, flamethrowers, artillery pieces, ships, subs, planes, etc...
+Benjamin Thompson While we are limited on what we can provide, hopefully FW will get some more help from other specialists.
+Benjamin Thompson We will see what we can do. Trips to museums would be great for example but that's not something that's easily coordinated.
Excellent "sub-series", great idea, smooth execution!
+VRBANVS REX Glad you like it!
Thank you for the expertise info! Very interesting! I'm looking forward to more!
I'm loving this series. keep it up
+Joshua Powers On it!
+Joshua Powers Glad you liked it and there is more where that came from.
As much as I enjoy Ians presentations at Forgotten Weapons, it's very cool to see a live demonstration of the firearms themselves. I'm sure Ian would love to fire the weapons he's demonstrating, but given that they're about to be auctioned I guess the owners want to keep their specimens in prime condition.
since the german channel has been closed, can you please let us know the metric sices too?
+heinerle dietrich Will add them for the next episodes starting with the German guns.
thanks a lot :)
Good job on the ruby's, y'all
+Jeffrey Reardon Thanks!
Never thought of WW1 as an era for semi-auto pistols.
Great series! Keep up the good work!
+allingtontee Thanks, will do.
Is it grossly American of me that these might be my favorite videos in the series lol
I love history especially the civil war and the first world war. The little 32 cal pistols are greatly under estimated. Looks to me like the French understood the function of the pistol in warfare better than many They are an emergency weapon for use by officers to defend themselves and control their own troops if necessary and are only for very close ranges mostly under 25 yards.
.32acp was the most common pistol caliber in WW1.
It's more capable than most people give it credit for. In the standard 71gr FMJ loadings the bullet will easily meet FBI penetration criteria, and the bullet typically yaws so that the wound is larger.
Well done! Love the gun episodes.
+davo171 Thank you!
Well done for introducing the weapons section :) !! very informative, and practically interactive. A good idea would also be to immerse the viewers into field re-enactment; reviving the battlefield and viewing all the possibilities of World War I warfare. Medical displays, trench warfare, gas attacks..etc etc.
Keep up the good work !!
+Kurt Degs Well, we have to have goals and of course we are thinking of other ways to present other invention of World War 1. But time and money are always an issue.
I Understand :) but still keep up the good work, very well presented and never miss an episode.
Regards to all !!
+Kurt Degs We have a good collaboration thanks to the fact that our production needs are so parallel. So TGW only spends time and editing and not travel or actual ammo/filming costs.
Hopefully there will be video producers from other disciplines that can help.
+C&Rsenal +Kurt Degs - Exactly, if you know someone like Othais but for Uniforms, do tell.
I've seen some pages of World War I re-enactment groups (via Facebook) from Europe.
Help that I can offer from my side would be books/info regarding Malta and World War I, since I am Maltese.
I enjoy the specials about rifles and pistols. Forgotten Weapons has also done some history re. the Ruby pistols. BTW, I'm also impressed by the demonstration shooter ;)
Yes, the rifle rounds (all) of the ww1 era bolt action rifles are more powerful than the rounds of modern assault rifles like the AK, because they were designed for much longer ranges. They had unrealistic ironsights for up to 2000m, because it was thought, they will be used for volley fire on marching lines and collums of enemys, who would fight in a napoleonic era style. The trenches and modern artillery made that concept obsulete. In WW2 the combat ranges became even shorter, because of mobile and urban warfare. So the Germans (and Sovjets) devolped a shortened rifle round, a so called intermediate round, for use in an semi- and fully automatic maschienenkarabiner (called Sturmgewehr for propaganda issues), for more firepower in real world combat distances. They shortened the 7,92x57mm Round of the Mauser rifles to a length of 7,92x33mm. (the Russians developed at the same time the famous 7,62x39mm, for use in a light machine gun ans a semiautomatic carbine, but not yet for a true assault rifle. Later this round was used for the famous AK-47 / AKM)
where is the next video? I'm dying to see more about all this. I'm a gear geek, and I love hearing all this.
+Joe Kendrick It's going to be out in October hopefully.
+Joe Kendrick In the meantime check out Othais' channel: ruclips.net/channel/UClq1dvO44aNovUUy0SiSDOQ - plenty of geeky stuff there for you.
You guys should do a special on machine guns. I know there were not many at the time but I would like to hear about the Lewis and MP18
Cannot wait to see Austro-Hungarian video. Great channel and love the content. It is great for my procrastination issues :D
Ehehehehe. I love you guys. And I love this series. Keep it up. If I had any money at all I would pay you.
+King Solomon I Sharing the show with others helps just as much and is free!
+King Solomon I Exactly, spread the word!
Great series, I hope you can show or at least discuss the MP18 in the next gun special.
+Funny Farmer We'll have to scrounge one up first. But don't worry, other special arms are being borrowed as we speak!
Love these
+TheAmityboopfliction We do too!
Great cooperation! 😀
+Venno's video gallery thanks!
+Venno's video gallery Thank you! We're steaming ahead with more.
Are you able to upload full length replays? some of us live on the other side of the world and being able to attend the live hangout is not much of an option at times. All in all loving these videos.
+raybot1 We are thinking of it but full lenghts videos are a risk because people rarely watch them till the end.
+The Great War stat killer?
+C&Rsenal Exactly.
Another fascinating insight.Othias and Mae add a great new dimension.
Resisted Facefook and Twatter for so many years now but i admit i am getting tempted.
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm still surpised Twitter has become as big as it is, was hoping it was just a fad.
+Hedge hog You can also get the announcement on reddit if that's more your thing.
+Hedge hog Just use subscribe on youtube?
I do :)
Especially the weapon reviews please!
+allingtontee There is more detail over at our channel if you're liking the topic.
Someone once said that the main purpose of a pistol on the battlefield is to provide souvenirs to the opposing forces. :)
+SilentOtto There is a lot of truth to that but there are also a lot of stories of men doing amazing things with pistols. Also when you get into room to room urban fighting or down in a tunnel or some such thing, a five and a half foot long rifle is pretty hard to use. Think of a pistol as a combat only knife. You wont need or want it very often but when you do, it's a life saver.
Also remember that a lot of the men in an army were not front line troops. You had millions of cooks, truck drivers, pilots, cavalry, artillerymen, etc. These people couldn't lug around a 12 pound, five and a half foot long battle rifle all over the place but they could also come under attack or get trapped behind the lines and needed something to defend themselves with. A pistol was easy to carry and better than nothing. Later, small SMGs and carbines would be developed for that role. That's the reasoning behind the adoption of the M1 Carbine by the US in WWII.
wingracer 16 "There is a lot of truth to that but there are also a lot of stories of men doing amazing things with pistols."
I posted my comment because it was funny, not because it's definitively covers the role of pistols in the military.
Love segments that break down on the weaponry of the Great War and laughed my butt off on how the same basic gun could have problems with the magazine not being compatible!
Well, you should tune in at 6pm tonight for more.
Thanks! I'm watching every episode (finished French Uniforms) to see every little detail, so hope to see it soon. ;)
I've got the Mle 1892 Pistol of my great grandfather in my room, with holster . So proud he fought the Marne and the Somme with it :3
There was no french in somme. nice story.
Pe Pe He wasn't a regular soldier, he was a military surgeon ;)
Pe Pe And there were french soldiers during the battle of Somme, learn history
I would like to see more of these :D
+Jeff Carver If everything goes according to plan, the next video is coming out on Monday.
are you going to make video of austrian rifles and pistols as the steyr gun factory was and still is to this day
a state of the art gun manufacturer
+Richard Krotec We already made the live stream and will upload the video early next year.
Essentially the Side arm replaced the officer sword and most countries they were as much if not more of a status symbol. American's and I believe the British were the main two that handed them out to basic infantry units as an actual back up weapon.
great stuff Indy with sub titles ty
I look forward to the German rifles. That will be fun!
that vest is dope
Right?!
Mae Guns
i just found this channel today and will be binge watching the entire WWI series
... thanks to that turn-of-the-century swag
Love these vids. When are y'all gonna do a video on British rifles/pistols?
+Ross Childs when Othais gets his hands on them
Can you please show the length, weight etc. of the guns also in the metrical system? I'm sure thet espacially since the german channel was closed there are many people in the audience that are used to the metrical system.
+DerpNerd Sure thing, will add them for the next episode when we talk about German small arms.
Will it also be an episode about Italian weaponry?
+marco spaziani Absolutely. We have half of what we need so far already.
Amazing
I wonder if you could cooperate with Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons on some of these gun videos. He is really knowledgeable about this era of firearms, and he got me to check out this channel!
pretty shooter
+Rush Yahr Thank you!
***** Yup that's me! I don't consider myself an expert and no matter how much I learn it's never a term I'll apply to myself. I still consider myself intermediate, someday I'll feel comfortable calling myself an expert-in-training.
***** There is no set date yet however I do know we are all one step closer to its release. All the footage has been shot, now everything is at the editting and stitching phase.
***** sorry, I know that is so corp sounding but as soon as we get wind of an expected release time we'll let you know :)
If you need a fix in the meantime, C&Rsenal has released a some episodes with a few of the German pistols and rifles we discussed.
the Lebel would be perfect for me, being left-handed.
Excellent video.Where can ill get grip?.
4:28 is pure badass ;)
+Florian Haydn I try :)
Could you please add metric next to imperial measurements next time?
Thanks.
Great channel btw keep up the great work!
+Αποστόλης Μ. Will do!
Will you be doing British rifles and pistols?
+Gibbo263 yes
+C&Rsenal Will you also be covering the mediocrity of the Canadian Ross rifle?
norcofreerider604 We already have an hour long episode on it at our channel!
+C&Rsenal Awesome, thanks for the reply. I've checked out your channel before but I may have missed that video.
Just wondering will there be a British weapons special?
+Robbie Aird Sure thing!
+Robbie Aird Yes, we're just making sure to get a few good pieces together.
Indy, all rifle of ww1 are more powerfull than an ak47, the ak47 use an intermediate cartridge (7.62x39mm) less powerfull than a regular rifle cartridge (like the 7.62x54R used in the mosin-nagant)
Thank you!🎉
Indy, you might want to consider letting Othais edit all your questions and comments before going to print…
Hi, love you'r show and i was wondering if you guys have any plans on doing WW2 week by week like this?
Best regards from Serbia.
+FusionHAA We are of course thinking about it but so far we are pretty busy with WW1.
It was common for armies back then to use the same caliber for both rifles and pistols, because using one set of tooling to bore and rifle the barrels is cheaper. So, French 8mm, Russian 7.62, etc
Hey what happened to the episodes on the German rifles & pistols ? I can only find the episodes about the French weapons.
+ForeverDoubting We are working on the German rifles and will publish it soon. The unedited version is not available because it's a stat killer on RUclips since the favour content that gets watched till the end.
The Great War Sweet ! Thanks for the reply :D
is the next one going to be altilery shells or machine guns?
+ahmmetb3h We're staying with rifles and pistols for now. Grouping machine guns is in the future, but takes more time to put them in a sensible order. But they are on the way.
+ahmmetb3h Artillery is also on our list but that's far in the future.
+The Great War +C&Rsenal thanks guys, keep it up! You're doing great
The drum line at the part when the lady was shooting the revolver sounds an awful lot like the drum line in one of the pieces in the Halo CE game soundtrack. Could I gain a link to that specific audio clip to compare?
The 1892 revolver was a beautifull work of french arquebusery. And reloading it with the right hand was easier for most people who are right hand! Just switch the gun on left hand then reload with right hand: easier and faster when you think about it
+Eifuceka And what about Mdle 1873, 1874 and Le Star ?^^
Yeah its a great channel
The nation were a huge pile of different weapons were ever used would have to be the Russian Empire during WW1. S&W Model 3's, Nagant Revolver, Mosin Nagant, Winchester M1985 (I think. The final lever action gun being adopted into an major army in 7.62x54mmR) and huge array of other rifles like the Berdan and such. Might make a good episode
+Speed Reaper Yep, we're working through the list now. The Winchester is going to prove to be a bother but we'll find one.
Could you in the future display the gun characteristics in metric system too? The imperial system barely means anything to me.
I have already asked that direct on the Othais Channel. They will do it for the next video ( except the ones already shot).
+M4ssL4gg Yeah, sorry about that. We will have both.
could you please put in measurements in the metric system and kg as well in future episodes? Much obliged!
+IceMakesYouMelt Will do, starting with the next episode.
Great epsode but pretty crappy hanguns - But i guess that was the norm.
Well a part from the brumhandle and the Colt. And the Luger i guess - But wasn't the Luger easy to jam in a trech?
But what happened this week 100 years ago? Not that I don't like the indepth look at the nations weaponary, but I was hoping for the weekly recap. With love from The Netherlands.
My bad didn't look at the schedule, still you're doing a great job and I look forward to the next video.
The most important tactical use of the officers' small side arm was against his own potentially insubordinate soldiers.
Will you also cover machine-rifles (don't know the exact term, lighter than machineguns) like the Chauchat ? And what about artillery ?
+scarfacemperor Definitely the Chauchat and any similar models we can get. Probably not artillery as that's not really our focus at C&Rsenal.
For now we're focusing on rifles and pistols. Machine guns will take some time to put together, but they are being looked into!
Great :)
What a beautiful shooter in the video!
At first I thought it was using a firing pin design since there is no visible hammer. But actually it uses a hidden hammer to fire. John Browning and his designs.
can you make a video of the mondragon rifle (first automatic) rifle
"Here's a pistol cobbled together in Spain with one magazine that may or may not fit. Now go fight a war"
They were issued two magazines for officers the machine gun crews carried on in a little box on the back and that only had a single magazine. Also it’s been disproven over that last couple years about the mag interchangeably as most of the manufacturers did make them close enough with the tolerances that they would work with each other
Hi
What about the colt 1911 used in the AS (artillerie speciale = french tanks corps of ww1) ?
Are there any other plans to have live shows with experts on other fields? Great show Flo!
+Stephen Johnson Thanks! Do you have any particular ideas?
Uniforms of the great war?
+The Great War It'd probably be a bit more challenging to demonstrate, but has there been thought on putting this kind of detail into aircraft of the Great War? Vehicle development and mechanization were two incredibly influential aspects of the war, and seeing the individual developments on all sides might be an interesting point of discussion. Just some thoughts, I've really been enjoying the series as a whole thus far.
SteamPoweredRudeBoy We are of course dreaming about showing things like tanks, artillery and aircraft in great depth. But those are of course really rare and would require us to go on tour. So, at this moment, it's still a dream.
+Stephen Johnson We will have an episode on those at some point. Not sure if it's going to be a live thing though.
Amazing channel once you finish with WW1 will you do WW2
+Ben Adams (22benad) We are considering it. And don't forget the time frame in between.
hey othais, got a question to you :) do you think battlefield 4 weapons are like in a real life (i mean the looks of the models)? thanks in advance and nice videos!
Can I personally recommended a book which I have just finished called not forgotten by Neil Oliver, it mainly focuses on the many ways we remember the fallen in the UK whether it would be monuments or words. Apart from the great war amazon store is their any more titles you highly recommended? I personally enjoy Jack Sheldon work
+Stephen Johnson Thanks for the tip. Currently no new sources popped up except this one: astore.amazon.com/thegreatwarchannel-20/detail/0820328189