Ian, excellent video. I own an SVW45 (German) and a SVW45 (French). Others might be interested to know that Mauser used a shiny plastic grip that I believe was made from a petroleum product on some or all of their SVW45 production. This is in contrast to the early composite grips made from a material like Bakelite. The grip on the pistol in the video appears to be this shiny plastic grip that only seemed to appear on the SVW45 pistols. In the 1980s/90s when Interarms imported their batch of these pistols many pitched these original grips, assuming they were not correct/original and replaced them with what many thought these "should" have, the Bakelite grips. As well, I should mention that the steel grips have some sort of rubber like coating on them, perhaps a thick paint, that may have been applied to prevent the steel from stick to wet hands in freezing weather. Bottom line to fellow collectors is not to try to make your collectible firearms "correct" as chances are good you are actually destroying the original condition of the firearm.
I've always wanted a P38. Such a cool looking gun. It's a shame nobody's still making them. Edit: What I meant to say was that it's a shame there's no new production runs of the P38. I understand that they made so many that it's still inexpensive, I'm just lamenting that they *stopped* making them.
@@beargillium2369 True enough. I'm just lamenting that the only modern options we've got for a WWII era military design are the Browning Hi Power and the 1911. Those are great, don't get me wrong, but I want a modern production run of P38s with some slight updates. I would sell kidneys for a double-stack mag version of this gun.
@@nextcaesargaming5469 I've always wondered if the single-stack magazine was a patent thing - the Hi-Power had a double-stack magazine, and that was 1935. Having a great new double-action pistol with only eight rounds seems like one step forwards, one step back.
I once had a BYF 44 with all the German code and waffen markings you would expect except it did have the star on the slide to indicate it went through French hands at some point.
When I hear stamped metal grips all I can think of is how hot or cold those things would be. Where I live it gets to 120 F quite often and I can't imagine trying to grab your holstered weapon after standing in the sun for more than about 2 minutes.
Years ago, I had a buddy who had one of those. He refused all my offers to buy it, I wonder what ever happened to it when he died back in the mid 90's, I had already taken a job hundreds of miles away by that time. To bad I really liked the P38.
I shot the slightly modified version in the mid-1980s as a service weapon in the German Armed Forces. Here it was called the “P1” and was largely identical to the P38. The handling was not perfect, but the precision was amazingly good. I liked it!
The French didn't need coloured safety markings, after all the crayon is a French staple of le arte and there were plenty on hand to fill in yourself 🖍️
9:00 And then, Manurhin in France domestically produced P1, which are closely related to P38. Those are identically to the Walther P1 fielded by the Bundeswehr until the 90s. Depending on who you ask, either: - All P1s were made by Manurhin, then some were shipped to West Germany to be branded by Walther, or - All P1s were made by Walther, then some were shipped to France to be branded by Manurhin Who knows!
Had an uncle that was a navigator on a B17. He said that he had a 45 1911 that he carried and couldn't hit the side of a barn with it. He tried a P38 that someone had captured and he loved it. It just fit him right and could hit what he aimed at, but his commander made him get rid of it and wouldn't let him carry it.
I shot the slightly modified version in the mid-1980s as a service weapon in the German Armed Forces. Here it was called the “P1” and was largely identical to the P38. The handling was not perfect, but the precision was amazingly good. I liked it!
I love that that many of the close ups in this video show witness marks indicating the machining processes involved in manufacture - surface grinding, fly cutting, facing on the lathe. It makes my inner engineer happy!
That one is pretty rough “ wartime standard”. I have one that has a better finish. I’m surprised that Ian never mentioned the name Manurhin. The French company that was running the old Mauser Factory.
My grandfathers older brother had a P38 that he was given by a Norwegian resistance fighter during WW2. He lived in a small cabin in the mountains right by the Swedish/Norwegian border and was visited in the middle of the night by four men on skiis, they said they knew him through a common friend and asked to stay the night. He obliged and they ended up staying for a couple of days waiting out some bad weather, when they where leaving they gave him the pistol as thanks and in case "the wrong people" came around asking questions. He would often show it as a conversation piece and there is an old photo from his house where it is visible on a table and he just referred to it as "the nazi pistol". He died 90 years old in 2009 but the whereabouts of the pistol is still unknown, it was never found when they cleaned out his house and he never told anyone where he kept it. But it's probably for the best that it remains lost since anyone that finds it can get up to seven years in prison as a result.
I love the way that an American RUclipsr knows more about french modern history than the average European. Myself included. Thanks Ian and I'm forever greatful for your input towards my understanding of how Europe is today through your knowledge of guns. I'd love to meet for a pastice and not a shootemup.
Wow, I owned ( legal on a pistol licence) a P-38 here in Australia back in the '80s... love it to bits and always love a P-38 vid, especially when I'm in the first 100! 👌
The P38 is truly an iconic gun along with many others and the fact this one was made by the Germans makes it even more special especially for you Ian. The P38 is iconic especially for pop culture in Operation U.N.C.L.E, Megatron's alternate mode in Transformers Generation 1 and being the Arsene Lupin's signature weapon.
Yes but production of much of the war materiel was spread around, especially after 1943. Mauser probably also got a contract for the P.38 because they were big enough to set up another production line. In the same vein there were three different companies producing Panther tanks and parts for the Panther.
The kudu antelope is also known as the "Grey Ghost" The P38 was among a variety of pistols used by the South African Police before the standardisation of the Beretta 92 clone, the Z88.
I thought the "grey ghost" was applied to the Walter PP pistols that were phosphate but my star Mauser was blued. Oh I once had one of those East German PP ;pistols that was gray and had a 1001 code or something, I forget. Was rough and the grips were cheap wood.
I remember one murder case from Los Angeles where that odd ejection pattern was an issue. P 38s are not all that common, and one suspect was known to have one.
Same with the P5. If I remember correctly the reason for it was being able to clear potential malfunctions easier for right handed shooters. In practice though, it simply yeets shells at you.
@@John_Buckson It's about how the french don't want to rely on foreign arms supplies but now they're phasing out the local produced Famas rifle to replace it with HK416 made by the germans.
Makes sense. 9x19 was a well established european caliber and the P38 a known good design (served into the late 1980s with the west german army as the P1 with minor modifications). As shown easy to assemble, easy to use, quite safe (That safety system will bend the trigger before it fires the gun). And a nice shooter (I still shoot a post WW2 german one)
9x19 wasn't actually a well established European calibre until post WW2 and it became well established because of guns like this one being basically everywhere after WW2, as well as Browning Hi-Power's becoming more widespread. Before that point it was primarily a German round only with a few exceptions, with the main usage of 9x19 interwar being from countries who got their hands on copies of the German MP-18 or it's later variations such as the British copy, the Lanchester Submachine Gun. Post WW2 you had not only German pistols and submachine guns mostly chambered in 9mm, you also had Sten guns being basically everywhere.
"Grey Ghost" may also have a connection to the Grey field uniforms of the Weremacht, a ghost out of the past when Interarms was marketing these pistols.... either way, catchy advertising...
Nice video I had a Inter Arms imported P38 for a while In the H block But mine had wood grip panels instead of plastic or metal I was told that the owner before me broke the plastic grip panels So he used some Oak to make grip panels
Yes, the P38 was used by some of the large german states (German police is organised on the state level) and when they switched in the 1970s/80s sold of in large numbers. Since german police officers do not shoot all that much the weapons where in good condition and quite a few hunters bought them here in germany as a backup / mercy kill weapon (Instead of using a blade for that job)
We have a Spreework P38 that was assembled form parts for the Czech post war police built by CZ. 5K parts sets were built by CZ in 1946. It has the proper Nazi proof marks but is nicely put together. It has no import markings at all. We would love to have a review done on this variation of the P38.
At 4:31, that will be the very last piece of the pistol to rust. That's a lot of grease. But then again it must have worked, the pistol is around eighty years old.
Here is a story for you all: My bosses friend owns a gunshop here in the UK, and had someone hand in a P38 recently. It was from a deceased estate, and long story short, the old boy who brought it back looked after it for 80 years. Full Nazi markings and is prestine with original ammunition, it was also accompanied with officer papers and morphine. Fortunately, the shop has the appropriate licence to keep it, so it won't be destroyed.
Unfortunately, it is still likely that the gun will be cut up. Even if the RFD has a Sect5 that allows firearms to be taken on in an unplanned way (many have a quota and have to be specific about how many Sect5 guns they handle), the local Police force may confiscate it as pistol "hand ins" usually have to be checked against the forensic database - even if its obvious they've been out of circulation for decades. On top of that, the market for "live" section pistols of common types is virtually zero in mainland UK, and so most end up being deactivated.
@@Outlaw_Deadman1996 UK gun laws are directly responsible for a dramatic reduction in all kinds of crime. If owning guns is more important to you saving thousands of lives every year, you're a sociopath. Funny how the people who fearmonger abt crime the refuse to do the one thing that will stop it.
Some rough finishing or lack of finishing. Czech made 038’s in 1945 had rough looking finishing on the slides as they went into overdrive to produce guns
It seems like gun manufactures went backward with modern pistols for the sake of a rail. The lock breech action is incredibly violent in function and tends to have more recoil than necessary. Not to mention the lock up leads to inaccuracy as the barrel has to have room to move through the slide so it doesn't fit tightly its why the usp has the O ring to help with accuracy.
Informative video as always, and pretty timely for me. My local gun scalper has one of these up on his wall for his usual rip-off price. I knew something was wrong when I saw that it was black Parkerized, so I didn't even bother to look at it closely. But didn't know about these French post-war guns. I'll go take a closer look at it, it will be interesting to see if it's an occupation pistol and not somebody's clumsy "refurb", but I'm certainly not paying $1600 for it! :)
I am confused, if it was an 'occupation pistol' was it not made in France? But then the Interarms import stamp says it was mad in Germany. So was it made in Germany, the parts made in Germany or just stamped in error? The French also built the Fiesler Fi-156 Storch during the war. After the war they modified the desigh to use a French radial engine and continued production for a time.
Providing ones own firearms, artillery and other such military equipment seems like a good idea, given the present day conflict. Relying on others along with all the clauses that comes along with it, seems like a very foolish way of having ones country hamstrung in an emergency.
The P38 is a little too small for my large hands. During my military service in the Bundeswehr i had the P1. It was a safe and easy to handle pistol. Unfortunately it had too few rounds in the magazine. During times of the left-wing terrorists RAF in Germany I carried the P1 ready loaded uncocked in my pocket with my hand on it during night inspections of the large military barrack I was stationed in. it was partially surround by a forrest up to the fence and for stupidity reasons the lights illuminated it from outside to the inside - instead the other way round.
@@YaBoiZackbannedmefordissent Well, 20.5cm long, 10.5cm wide // 8.1inch, 4.1inch With a firm grip of the pistol in my palm, my indexfinger put through the trigger guard tipped the handle on the other side.
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It was the classical french movie's gun until the 70's. An icon in the hands of Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Paul Meurice...
It was the Man from UNCLE carbine as well, and Megatron. I think it popped up in The Professionals a couple of times as well.
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Ian, excellent video. I own an SVW45 (German) and a SVW45 (French). Others might be interested to know that Mauser used a shiny plastic grip that I believe was made from a petroleum product on some or all of their SVW45 production. This is in contrast to the early composite grips made from a material like Bakelite. The grip on the pistol in the video appears to be this shiny plastic grip that only seemed to appear on the SVW45 pistols. In the 1980s/90s when Interarms imported their batch of these pistols many pitched these original grips, assuming they were not correct/original and replaced them with what many thought these "should" have, the Bakelite grips. As well, I should mention that the steel grips have some sort of rubber like coating on them, perhaps a thick paint, that may have been applied to prevent the steel from stick to wet hands in freezing weather. Bottom line to fellow collectors is not to try to make your collectible firearms "correct" as chances are good you are actually destroying the original condition of the firearm.
I've always wanted a P38. Such a cool looking gun. It's a shame nobody's still making them.
Edit: What I meant to say was that it's a shame there's no new production runs of the P38. I understand that they made so many that it's still inexpensive, I'm just lamenting that they *stopped* making them.
there are plenty to be had out there, literally 700+ on gb alone right now
@@beargillium2369 True enough. I'm just lamenting that the only modern options we've got for a WWII era military design are the Browning Hi Power and the 1911. Those are great, don't get me wrong, but I want a modern production run of P38s with some slight updates.
I would sell kidneys for a double-stack mag version of this gun.
@@nextcaesargaming5469 Walter still make the PPK too
@@nextcaesargaming5469 I've always wondered if the single-stack magazine was a patent thing - the Hi-Power had a double-stack magazine, and that was 1935. Having a great new double-action pistol with only eight rounds seems like one step forwards, one step back.
@@nextcaesargaming5469We also still have the Tokarev that are still in production.
It's incredible to think about the mix of German and French marks on these pistols, telling a story of transition and necessity.
I once had a BYF 44 with all the German code and waffen markings you would expect except it did have the star on the slide to indicate it went through French hands at some point.
Still have my 43, no French star.
When I hear stamped metal grips all I can think of is how hot or cold those things would be. Where I live it gets to 120 F quite often and I can't imagine trying to grab your holstered weapon after standing in the sun for more than about 2 minutes.
And that would have actually been a problem since France's first post-War engagements were in Algeria, which is largely desert
Years ago, I had a buddy who had one of those. He refused all my offers to buy it, I wonder what ever happened to it when he died back in the mid 90's, I had already taken a job hundreds of miles away by that time. To bad I really liked the P38.
I shot the slightly modified version in the mid-1980s as a service weapon in the German Armed Forces. Here it was called the “P1” and was largely identical to the P38. The handling was not perfect, but the precision was amazingly good. I liked it!
The French didn't need coloured safety markings, after all the crayon is a French staple of le arte and there were plenty on hand to fill in yourself 🖍️
This is why the US Marines were limited to the Pacific Theatre: to prevent the depletion of French crayon stocks.
As a Bundeswehr conscript in the late 80s, the P38 was my service pistol
Back in the 1980's, I had a Manurhin P-38, still kick myself for selling it.
The Megatron pistol, I like it!
I bought my P38 because if this.
"This pistol is so good, it can single handedly defeat a truck"
9:00 And then, Manurhin in France domestically produced P1, which are closely related to P38. Those are identically to the Walther P1 fielded by the Bundeswehr until the 90s.
Depending on who you ask, either:
- All P1s were made by Manurhin, then some were shipped to West Germany to be branded by Walther, or
- All P1s were made by Walther, then some were shipped to France to be branded by Manurhin
Who knows!
The P38 is one great pistol. I would not feel underarmed if I had one for my personal protection. Had one and sold it. Wish I had not.
Had an uncle that was a navigator on a B17. He said that he had a 45 1911 that he carried and couldn't hit the side of a barn with it. He tried a P38 that someone had captured and he loved it. It just fit him right and could hit what he aimed at, but his commander made him get rid of it and wouldn't let him carry it.
I find that interesting because it’s the same kind of senseless mind set the Air Force had in the 70’s and 80’s when I served.
I shot the slightly modified version in the mid-1980s as a service weapon in the German Armed Forces. Here it was called the “P1” and was largely identical to the P38. The handling was not perfect, but the precision was amazingly good. I liked it!
The P1 were also branded (and maybe manufactured) by Manhurin in France, so it's closer to this P38 variant than you might think!
Incredibly cool pistol. I particularly love the grips. _Grey Ghost_ does have a certain ring to it.
I love Ian's French gun videos the most because he has that little extra bit of enthusiasm over reviewing a gun from, say, Elbonia.
i recall Manhurin were producing Walther PPK's for a time.
They also produced P38's as the P1
I always enjoy your videos, and learn a lot. Thank you Ian!
I love that that many of the close ups in this video show witness marks indicating the machining processes involved in manufacture - surface grinding, fly cutting, facing on the lathe. It makes my inner engineer happy!
engineer here. Tons of milling/endmill marks on that thing lol.
That one is pretty rough “ wartime standard”. I have one that has a better finish. I’m surprised that Ian never mentioned the name Manurhin. The French company that was running the old Mauser Factory.
Hayashi from Jet Set Radio Future first introduced me to this variation of guns.
F for German and G for French. Very simple.
German would of course be a "D" if they were intended as initials. (Deutsch/Deutsche)
On this episode of the Francophile Files...
Franco Files, if you like. :)
Franco Philes ;)
@@Drosophilax Touché.
I really miss my post war P38. I should have never got rid of it.
My grandfathers older brother had a P38 that he was given by a Norwegian resistance fighter during WW2. He lived in a small cabin in the mountains right by the Swedish/Norwegian border and was visited in the middle of the night by four men on skiis, they said they knew him through a common friend and asked to stay the night. He obliged and they ended up staying for a couple of days waiting out some bad weather, when they where leaving they gave him the pistol as thanks and in case "the wrong people" came around asking questions. He would often show it as a conversation piece and there is an old photo from his house where it is visible on a table and he just referred to it as "the nazi pistol". He died 90 years old in 2009 but the whereabouts of the pistol is still unknown, it was never found when they cleaned out his house and he never told anyone where he kept it. But it's probably for the best that it remains lost since anyone that finds it can get up to seven years in prison as a result.
The seven years is why the Germans won ww2. No freedom in Europe
I love the way that an American RUclipsr knows more about french modern history than the average European. Myself included. Thanks Ian and I'm forever greatful for your input towards my understanding of how Europe is today through your knowledge of guns. I'd love to meet for a pastice and not a shootemup.
Wow, I owned ( legal on a pistol licence) a P-38 here in Australia back in the '80s... love it to bits and always love a P-38 vid, especially when I'm in the first 100! 👌
Mind if I ask whatever happened to it?
@@buncer I've no idea
Outstanding video, Appreciate it !
The P38 is truly an iconic gun along with many others and the fact this one was made by the Germans makes it even more special especially for you Ian. The P38 is iconic especially for pop culture in Operation U.N.C.L.E, Megatron's alternate mode in Transformers Generation 1 and being the Arsene Lupin's signature weapon.
But isn't that Walther? My mother put them together in Spreewerk. She just said Walther. It is definitely a development by the Walther company.
Yes but production of much of the war materiel was spread around, especially after 1943. Mauser probably also got a contract for the P.38 because they were big enough to set up another production line. In the same vein there were three different companies producing Panther tanks and parts for the Panther.
@ Then it must be Walther P38, manufactured by Mauser.
The kudu antelope is also known as the "Grey Ghost" The P38 was among a variety of pistols used by the South African Police before the standardisation of the Beretta 92 clone, the Z88.
Blocky metal pistols are so damn aesthetic
Beautiful piece of art ..id love to own one!
I thought the "grey ghost" was applied to the Walter PP pistols that were phosphate but my star Mauser was blued. Oh I once had one of those East German PP ;pistols that was gray and had a 1001 code or something, I forget. Was rough and the grips were cheap wood.
Any theories as to why the P38 ejects to the left?
So it doesn't hit your comrades on the right wing.
I remember one murder case from Los Angeles where that odd ejection pattern was an issue. P 38s are not all that common, and one suspect was known to have one.
Same with the P5. If I remember correctly the reason for it was being able to clear potential malfunctions easier for right handed shooters. In practice though, it simply yeets shells at you.
0:50
*My, how the turntables.*
What do you mean by this?
No hate just curious
@@John_Buckson It's about how the french don't want to rely on foreign arms supplies but now they're phasing out the local produced Famas rifle to replace it with HK416 made by the germans.
@@dungu8180 aaah
My first dart gun as a kid was one of these!
Fascinating. Thanks!
Makes sense. 9x19 was a well established european caliber and the P38 a known good design (served into the late 1980s with the west german army as the P1 with minor modifications). As shown easy to assemble, easy to use, quite safe (That safety system will bend the trigger before it fires the gun). And a nice shooter (I still shoot a post WW2 german one)
How was 9 x 19 mm "a well established caliber"?
9x19 wasn't actually a well established European calibre until post WW2 and it became well established because of guns like this one being basically everywhere after WW2, as well as Browning Hi-Power's becoming more widespread.
Before that point it was primarily a German round only with a few exceptions, with the main usage of 9x19 interwar being from countries who got their hands on copies of the German MP-18 or it's later variations such as the British copy, the Lanchester Submachine Gun.
Post WW2 you had not only German pistols and submachine guns mostly chambered in 9mm, you also had Sten guns being basically everywhere.
I am really looking forward to the next video because I have a SVW 46 P38 with sheet-metal grips that I know almost nothing about.
Megatron!!
wounderful things, love this channel :D
If I remember correctly the French thru Mahurin built Walther PP and PPK "clones" during the 50s? I think I remember seeing one in .22lr.
Cool video. It looks like a sweet pistol.
I think I have a P-38 marked by Manurhin. I'll have to go look.
"Grey Ghost" may also have a connection to the Grey field uniforms of the Weremacht, a ghost out of the past when Interarms was marketing these pistols.... either way, catchy advertising...
Never been this early.
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New Sat morning cartoons
Nice video
I had a Inter Arms imported P38 for a while
In the H block
But mine had wood grip panels instead of plastic or metal
I was told that the owner before me broke the plastic grip panels
So he used some Oak to make grip panels
Wow. Not often Ian uses direct sarcasm like that!
I have one that apparently a west German police pistol
Yes, the P38 was used by some of the large german states (German police is organised on the state level) and when they switched in the 1970s/80s sold of in large numbers. Since german police officers do not shoot all that much the weapons where in good condition and quite a few hunters bought them here in germany as a backup / mercy kill weapon (Instead of using a blade for that job)
I have one of these, but it is marked ‘Manhurin’ on the slide. I bought it in the late-70’s.
love it
Ghost of mauser, ww2 production
We have a Spreework P38 that was assembled form parts for the Czech post war police built by CZ. 5K parts sets were built by CZ in 1946. It has the proper Nazi proof marks but is nicely put together. It has no import markings at all. We would love to have a review done on this variation of the P38.
Moje matka je tam ke konci války montovala. Hrádek n/Nisou. Ale říkala vždy jen walther. Pochybuji, že je to Mauser.
First I heard of the Grey Ghost, he was ending Singh Pirates in Bengali.
It's a more elegant weapon for a more civilised time.
Wasn't this the favorite pistol of French actor Jean-Louis Trintinant in one of his crime movies?
At 4:31, that will be the very last piece of the pistol to rust. That's a lot of grease. But then again it must have worked, the pistol is around eighty years old.
I'm guessing you have one of these too Ian?
I do; I actually have one of the L-block ones assembled at Chatellerault.
Another fun piece of p38/p1 history is the manurhin p1's made for the West Berlin police. German pistol made by the French for the Germans.
Love it
Here is a story for you all:
My bosses friend owns a gunshop here in the UK, and had someone hand in a P38 recently.
It was from a deceased estate, and long story short, the old boy who brought it back looked after it for 80 years.
Full Nazi markings and is prestine with original ammunition, it was also accompanied with officer papers and morphine.
Fortunately, the shop has the appropriate licence to keep it, so it won't be destroyed.
That's wonderful to hear! Even though your country's gun laws are absolutely garbage, greetings from across the pond
Unfortunately, it is still likely that the gun will be cut up. Even if the RFD has a Sect5 that allows firearms to be taken on in an unplanned way (many have a quota and have to be specific about how many Sect5 guns they handle), the local Police force may confiscate it as pistol "hand ins" usually have to be checked against the forensic database - even if its obvious they've been out of circulation for decades. On top of that, the market for "live" section pistols of common types is virtually zero in mainland UK, and so most end up being deactivated.
@@Outlaw_Deadman1996 There's absolutely nothing wrong with UK gun laws
@@damirblazevic4823 As an American, I absolutely disagree.
@@Outlaw_Deadman1996 UK gun laws are directly responsible for a dramatic reduction in all kinds of crime. If owning guns is more important to you saving thousands of lives every year, you're a sociopath. Funny how the people who fearmonger abt crime the refuse to do the one thing that will stop it.
“I … still… function!” Long Live Megatron!
Seeing that postal also gives me megatron vibes lol
Megatron Was a P38 (possibly a post war German P1, not up on my Transformers history)
Had a post-war Mahurin made P-1.
yep used to have until stupid UK laws took my 9mm collection from me
A french P38!
-Ian: Hold my Chauchat
Some rough finishing or lack of finishing. Czech made 038’s in 1945 had rough looking finishing on the slides as they went into overdrive to produce guns
Cool
I have to wonder since this was such a prevalent post WW2 "french" gun, if this is why Lupin III uses this model.
39k pistols in not much more than a year. Those german workers were efficient no matter who was in charge.
I love guns. My dad lost my .38 about a year ago. Im still fucking furious
Sheet metal grips.. ouch talking about possibly digging into your hand.
fun fact: in the zombies mode of call of duty WWII, the p38 counterpart becomes the “gray ghost” when upgraded in the pack a punch machine
Lots of postwar P1's around, alloy better sights and reasonably priced.
It seems like gun manufactures went backward with modern pistols for the sake of a rail. The lock breech action is incredibly violent in function and tends to have more recoil than necessary. Not to mention the lock up leads to inaccuracy as the barrel has to have room to move through the slide so it doesn't fit tightly its why the usp has the O ring to help with accuracy.
Interarms sucked with naming them but at least they got the import marking done in style, not all bad.
Informative video as always, and pretty timely for me. My local gun scalper has one of these up on his wall for his usual rip-off price. I knew something was wrong when I saw that it was black Parkerized, so I didn't even bother to look at it closely. But didn't know about these French post-war guns. I'll go take a closer look at it, it will be interesting to see if it's an occupation pistol and not somebody's clumsy "refurb", but I'm certainly not paying $1600 for it! :)
0:50 This has really changed, unfortunately...
I think Bodie carried a P38 at some point in The Professionals.
Make one on the post war Walter P1, Germans truly make the coolest pistols
The P1s were also made by Manurhin, so expect Ian to show up with a FRENCH P1...
Someone's secretly a YF23 fan.😂
I am confused, if it was an 'occupation pistol' was it not made in France? But then the Interarms import stamp says it was mad in Germany. So was it made in Germany, the parts made in Germany or just stamped in error?
The French also built the Fiesler Fi-156 Storch during the war. After the war they modified the desigh to use a French radial engine and continued production for a time.
Occupation by France of West Germany.
After 1945 West Germany was occupied by the allies for a while.
@GigAnonymous I was thinking that French factories were converted to make German arms in France.
Ian literally explains this completely in the first 30 seconds of the video.
Can you do the"Silver Ghost" next?
what makes it French? secret baguette container, hon hon hon
Lighter for the Gauloise in the grip. Can't be a proper french 1950s Le Gangster without a Gauloise and a Citroen Traction Avant
I wonder how these compare to German P-38s as far as price goes.
A tweak to the barrel, you have an U.N.C.L.E. gun 🙂
Merci je savais pas que c'était un gun français 😂
Surprised the French didn't just take.the factory and workers back
Le Megatron
1:43 Huh!?..erh..lefthanded only?
^west-Jute humour? mayhaps😲
The 92FS’s father.
Megatron
Hi Al
We're running out of actual forgotten weapons sadly...
Hello, I am here at Luigis where they have a 1543 Milanese wall crossbow...
Not any time soon.
@@ForgottenWeapons Very pleasant to hear
Gun Jesus strikes again!
And when when Morph's woke up their French guns were missing and Ian was never heard from again!... Anyways, thats how I lost my C&R license!
Mauser apparently didn't give a damn about quality as long as the French kept paying. Tool marks look like it came from a Pakistani workshop.
Late war fit and finish. They just kept the production lines running the same.
Providing ones own firearms, artillery and other such military equipment seems like a good idea, given the present day conflict. Relying on others along with all the clauses that comes along with it, seems like a very foolish way of having ones country hamstrung in an emergency.
Look like og Megatron toy
The P38 is a little too small for my large hands.
During my military service in the Bundeswehr i had the P1. It was a safe and easy to handle pistol. Unfortunately it had too few rounds in the magazine.
During times of the left-wing terrorists RAF in Germany I carried the P1 ready loaded uncocked in my pocket with my hand on it during night inspections of the large military barrack I was stationed in. it was partially surround by a forrest up to the fence and for stupidity reasons the lights illuminated it from outside to the inside - instead the other way round.
You must have hands like Johnny Bench man. My P38 feels chunkier than a full-size 1911 in my, admittedly not very big, hands.
@@YaBoiZackbannedmefordissent
Well, 20.5cm long, 10.5cm wide // 8.1inch, 4.1inch
With a firm grip of the pistol in my palm, my indexfinger put through the trigger guard tipped the handle on the other side.