Strangest Firearm Actions Ever Designed
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- In this video, we look a five of the weirdest firearm actions ever designed, from crank operated breech-loaders to guns with puck-shaped magazines. We also discuss how successful they were and why most of them failed to make an impact.
fun fact: the colt revolver is YOUNGER than the modern cartridge. the first proto cartridges rocked up in the 16th century but the modern cartridge was patented by samuel pauli (he got the patent for the self contained cartridge in 1812). colt patented his first firearm in 1836 and it was not able to use cartridges.
As a young apprentice, the great John Moses Browning made a harmonica rifle.
I would assume a holdover from his father, since he made them as well.
Also, his father Jonathan Browning, apparently had 22 kids. Dude got around.
@@ihyls hey there's a guy in his 90's here in my town that has 43 kids from 24 different women. Now that's a stupid party trick.🤣
@@jamiebray8532Party hard put em away wet? 😮😂
@@ihyls Not really...He was one of the early mormons. Still, that's 7 kids a wife, ouch.
The Norwegian Kammerlader thing was genius. Ever try to load a muzzleloader while prone, behind cover? Its physically difficult and akward, and its also REALLY hard to get a consistent load, and therefore accuracy. The loose powder lays along the barrel, partially wiped by the patch and ball. To get the powder down properly you really need to stand the weapon up and thump the stock on the ground, thus revealing your exact location and status to the enemy. The Norwegian system would definitely have a distinct advantage, especially in small unit, more dynamic combat like the military was looking for. Strange but beautifully effective im sure. Going to have to research that one!
The Kammerlader was an under hammer version of the standard US military M1819 Hall Rifle.
The Hall had the hammer on top because it started as a flintlock before being converted to a cap lock.
Colt's gaslighting was legendary.
You are the channel my kid self was missing out on. I was fascinated with unusual weapons and mechanisms and tanks and your channel has reignited that passion.
I love seeing the crazy repeating firearm actions. It is out of the box thinking at its finest. Even modern firearms that toe the line between a head scratcher and inspiring, make me wish my fixed income wasn’t so rigid, so I could have one of each..
It locks it's harmonica in place so it can whistle it's lovely tune.🤣
people experiment and try new things, people try desperately to get around colt's restrictive revolver patents...
Good list didn't know about .4 or Cookson before.
Not Mentioning the Kalthoff Repeater?
The harmonica mag ha made a comeback on several modern air guys usually 2 rounds
The dardic was more of an example for his autocannon action
I had to do a double take at that Bennett and Haviland, because... what is this? Just... what... I don't even...
It's an abomination and I absolutely love it.
Patent avoidance is a great generator of silly designs. I don't know what the gun is called but there is another version of the Harmonica-Treeby chain gun. Basically, the chain is converted into a rigid circular ring. So it's like a circular magazine on a 1920s gangster style Thompson submachine gun, but with the magazine acting as the chambers. It actually worked, but it was pretty heavy. The Kammerlader has always seemed to me be a type of gun that should have been produced much earlier than it was. The idea itself goes back to the era of the matchlock. The Norwegian version here is one of the more complicated designs. There are versions where the breechblock-chamber is completely detachable and functions as a cartridge. You can even have several of them pre-loaded. There is a lever with a wedge on it that forces the opening of the breechblock-chamber firmly against the breech of the barrel. The gun even came with a hammer to seat the wedge firmly in place, and there was a lock-thingy to hold the lever against the body of the gun while it was fired. Seems like it would work, though I'd probably want someone else to fire it the first time. The breechblock-chambers have a port for priming, that will line up with a port in the...er, receiver(?). I think the there was a copper ring or seal or gasket or what-have-you between the steel breechblock-chamber and the barrel, and they were tightly fitted, so apparently the designer was aware of the idea of using expansion to seal the breech.
Will admit, I clicked on this vid and was confused because I fully thought the video was called "Strongest firearm actions".
Oddities that happen when playing civ 5 while running youtube on second monitor.