One of the other reasons you'd keep your non-firing hand back on a revolving carbine is the sideblast when firing caused by the cylinder gap. On powerful rounds that pressure can be enough to remove fingers.
no it's not even the 500 magnum doesn't remove fingers if you have your hand on the cylinder - it definitely badly burns your hand and maybe even tear the skin but removing fingers completely is about as believable as a 50 BMG creating a shockwave that kills you if it travels past you without actually making contact
@@knine258 Its been tested on multiple occasions by Mythbusters, hickock, and several other gun youtubers. It can severely damage your hand/fingers if not actually severing fingers. No one was brave enough to use their real hand for some reason.
The designer of the Ruger Mark Series based his design on the Japanese Nambu*. He fixed the flaws and made his pistol arguably the most reliable semiautomatic .22 you can buy.
After that intro, I just *have* to leave this here, courtesy of Drachinifel from his I-400 guide: "For millennia, man has faced a quandary: The desire to hit someone, but they're really far away. This has lead progressively to the development of: The thrown rock, the thrown, pointy rock, the far thrown rock, the really far thrown rock, the flying pointy rock on a stick, the refined pointy rock on a stick, the spicy refined rock powered by fire, and, by the end of WWII, the happy fun times refined spicy rock transported by the big metal bird."
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During an episode of Lock n Load with R. Lee Ermey, the Gunny showed us the Colt carbine but straight up told the audience that he refused to shoot it.
The judge and governor revolvers are hot garbage. Only purchased by morons or people who want it as a joke. I use to work as a gun dealer. So I'd sell it to them and take their money.
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey S&W makes better guns, but the idea of a revolver shotgun is, at best, gimmicky. There's a story out there of someone who shot a cop with a Judge loaded with .410 shotshells and the pellets were defeated by the cop's skull at a moderate handgun range and he was able to return fire.
The video mentions they don't have great range due to the projectile losing power and they are expensive. In 40K the only ones using Bolters are Astartes and Sororitas, who are very fond of close quarters combat, and the commissars who use their bolters to punish cowardice rather than general combat, so they are used by a tiny fraction of the imperial forces and only up close. I guess GW did their research about gyrojet guns... or it was just a luck.
change the grip angle, change the calibre (from 32 to 45) and add a grip safety the developments from 1902-1911but base everything from the FN1905 design which is a browning design
the funny thing is about the Mars pistol, if i remember correctly, the inventor was really convinced it was a good pistol. so much so that when the army asked him to make changes to improve it, he outright refused and little change was made to the gun other than tiny things being done by the other members of the workforce.
i think it was the Borchardt C93, the first auto-loading pistol. iirc, the German Army wanted to have that camel-back looking thing removed from his pistol (it was the spring housing), but he dont wanna. so they held onto their Reichsrevolver until the Mauser C96 came along. then Luger got rid of that thing and made some more improvements wich became the Luger P08
The main problem was that is was designed around .45 Mars which had around twice the energy of .45 ACP. The general mechanism itself was OK, and had he settled for a sane cartridge and simplified it may have been a successful gun. It was the refusal to adapt to the market rather than push the market that was the downfall.
The Gyrojet pistol featured in the Bond film You Only Live Twice. The film makers thought it would be cool to have as a gadget for Bond and his allies to use. They even made a mini rocket projectile to place into the tip of a cigarette, and when lit would fire and stun the enemy. That featured in the film as well, and did actually work.
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@@rooster6461 like seriously, I respect normal vegans (as a pescatarian the life style of a vegan looks pretty difficult) but those that try to preach it to you and trying to shove that life style down one's throats are just an annoyance
It's not the work of a single person. This channel is run by some companies just like 5minute Craft. They hire an army of script writers, voice actors, video editors to churn out these. It's a huge business.
As much as I love it, I’m surprised the Nock gun isn’t on here. It was a 7 barrelled single-shot smoothbore muzzleloader that was intended to be fired from the tops of ships onto the enemy’s top deck. However the gun had far more recoil than it was reckoned to have and would often break the shoulder of all but the strongest men who fired one and was feared by captains as a fire risk to the ships rigging. Only around 600 were made even with a second model that lowered the calibre of ball used (from .50 calibre balls to pistol balls if I recall) to reduce the recoil. These days it’s largely remembered as the gun Sergeant Harper uses in the Sharpe novels and tv show.
Check out the "Grendel P-10" .380 pistol made by George Kellgren, the founder of Kel-Tec. It was the strangest pistol I've probably ever owned. It didn't have a detachable magazine as it fed by stripper clips. It was super lightweight and recoiled harshly. The only way you could remove the ammo was by unchambering all ten rounds. Still wish I had it despite its flaws.
Wasn't the gyrojet intended for use in space against cosmonauts? I recall someone saying a normal gun would put you spinning due to the recoil and the lack of gravity, and shooting mini rockets wouldn't. (Maybe it was in Forgotten Weapons)
I dont really think a regular gun has enough recoil to put you spinning (considering the gyrojet was a pistol, só im thinking of a regular pistol for comparison
@@porrod4313 any amount of force would send you spinning in space. Deflating a party balloon in space would be enough to send you spinning without a counterforce. Ion engines are being developed for long duration unmanned probes due to fuel efficiency and only pushes with the force of a piece of paper resting on your hand
No. Chain fires in percussion revolvers are actually caused by loose fitting caps that allow powder to trickles into the recoil shield, where the flash from a cap firing can set off the leaked powder. The loose fitting caps on the other chambers allow them to chain fire as well. This is an old misconception of why and how chain fires in percussion revolvers happen, but some very good research and live fire testing has been done in recent years that has proved the real cause.
8:48 that was the same bonus gun they put in Resident Evil Village God I hate that gun so much Edit: if you beat the game under 3 hours you can get that bonus gun I was hoping for a bazooka but they gave me a peas hooter 😭
I wouldn’t be surprised if this shows up in r/CursedImages. Edit: idk why but the face at 6:40 cracks me up lol. Your animations are getting better with every video!
to correct a misconception here, most armies of the periods in this video, the exception being the US Army with the Gyrojet, would require their officers to purchase their own sidearms. they weren't "issued" per se, but they were recorded as being in said officer's possession by a quartermaster. The Imperial Japanese Army and Navy had a similar system, and it was entirely up to the officer's discretion to which sidearm they were to purchase and wield. most carried swords as a status symbol and as a weapon, but the Nambu type 14 was also widely liked and used, with some sources stating over 400,000 produced by 1945.
The Nagant 1895 Revolver. The gun was out dated by the time and the means of reloading (lack of spring and the twist required to work the ejector rod)), the 7.62 Nagant (a cursed cartridge), and abhorrent trigger pull, and unique locking cylinder makes it a very unique weapon in history. I have one, it's fun, but also miserable to shoot.
That's the revolver you can theoretically put a silencer on correct? Might be clunky and outdated but I wouldn't really call it cursed unless it was hilariously unreliable/ posted risk to the weilder.
@@AssaultnVinegar yes you can actually silence the Nagant. it's due to the fact that the chamber moves forward when firing, thus making a gas-tight seal (absolutely essential for silencing). that also make the bullet fly faster since there's less hot gas wasted.
@@user-rg2hk9uz9u don't remember if it has reliability issues. the only issues i remember is that it reloads like an old revolver (eject one by one or replace cyinder), and that apparently it has a heavy trigger pull
@@user-rg2hk9uz9u pretty sure you are confusing it with the nambu. For all its flaws the Nagant is a pretty rock solid/safe design and not really any way for it to go off in the holster unless the hammer was cocked back and you managed to snag the trigger on something but I'm fairly certain, and I'd have to test this with mine to be sure but I don't think the flap holster will close with the hammer cocked back.
While I love colt revolvers they weren't the best available at the time that was the Remington. Remingtons had a solid top strap and it was much easier to change cylinders
So fun fact, the Nambu Type 94 is was actually considered better and more reliable than the type 14 Nambu. Its construction was meant to help ease manufacture, hence the external sear. while not a good pistol it is, to my understanding, better than the type 14.
I like how at the beginning, one dude kills one mammoth with one arrow and right after that 3 guys with spears kill one gazelle. I think the animators mixed something up.
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Type 94, the safety "issue" isn't really a thing since the manual safety blocks the sear bar, 94 is also more compact, semi auto, faster loading and holds one more round if you count the +1 in the chamber.
There is a malfunction gun almost similar to Nambu Type 94 pistol (11:27) was SIG Sauer P320 pistol (now using by US military under M17 as full and M18 as compact) where the P320 pistol dropped the gun on the floor and shot fire by hitting back of slide. Remember, don’t hit the back of SIG Sauer P320 pistol slide (very hard) or otherwise, it will firing the bullet self like Nambu Type 94 pistol.
Sig said they fixed that issue but now the Canadians found out it can be fired if dropped hard on its side or flexed hard enough upon holstering.... in other words it has just about every possible way to have an ad
Gyrojet style projectiles have inherent problems themselves. If they aren't done accelerating by the time they are out of the barrel (and gyrojets still accelerate for some time after) they are more susceptible to wind and also have poor performance at close range. If they do all their accelerating in the barrel then they aren't much better than conventional ammo and in some ways, worse. To me, it's one of those ideas that looks great until the nuances of it start getting uglier and uglier. My opinion is that they are a dead end unless you envision them having post launch guidance.
What song is playing at 3:54? I've heard it in many other videos all across youtube and I've never been able to find it! I know it's probaly ome of them royalty free songs but I've never found the name
Very amusing video. I happen to have one of the source books Simple History used (the one with "Exploding Guns to Malfunctioning Missiles") and that book never fails to make me laugh my head off. About the Nambu 94, I suppose all those stories about the "suicide special" must have been based on at least a handful of legit true cases since 1): there were so many stories coming out of the battlefield of these things happening and you just couldn't discount them all. 2): For a Japanese soldier wanting to kill himself and the enemy while pretending to surrender, you can't pull that off with a hand grenade since no American soldier would allow a Japanese soldier with a primed hand grenade near them (plus Japanese hand grenades of WWII were not like Western ones) so the Type 94 allowed them to pull it off convincingly. 3): How else could we have known about the exposed sear on that pistol? I do believe that there is some truth to all those stories, although the Type 94 wasn't entirely unsafe - that safety did its job.
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@@jethroneemo2150 That is a myth. Revolvers can and do jam, even in reasonable conditions. When a revolver does "jam" (cylinder locks up) the gun is essentially useless in a combat situation. You need to sit down with tools to clear a revolver cylinder lock up. With a semi-auto you can just rack and slide and continue firing. Revolvers also misfire (FTF, Failure To Fire) just as often as semi-autos because usually a misfire is the fault of the ammo (primer usually), not the gun itself, unless the firing pin is damaged. The benefit of a revolver with a double action that in the clearing of an FTF is just pulling the trigger again, instead of clearing with the slide in a semi. So that advantage is true. Revolvers also cannot FTE (Failure to Eject), which most people call "jamming" during a firing sequence, however casings can rupture or get stuck or hung up in a dirty cylinder, which is a FTE in my books. The myth of semi-autos constantly having FTE malfunctions in semi-autos is purely due to operator error, most frequently "limp wristing". I used to work at a range/gunsmith and I have seen many revolvers jam up that definitely were not caked in mud. Oftentimes it was the fault of the ammo, but it could still happen. I love revolvers, and own several "classic" S&Ws from the "best days of manufacture" and they're some of my favorites to shoot. But I've had a couple malfunctions with them over the years too. To this day, the most reliable handguns in my experience were the Beretta 92FS, and the CZ-75 platform. Both semi-autos. We even had a rental Italian made Beretta 92 Inox that I decided to "torture test" over six months. I never cleaned the thing. By the end of the six month period it had probably fired 15 - 20k rounds in mostly inexperienced hands, and it never malfunctioned. I know people are going to ask "but what about GLOCK?" Glocks are just as reliable, but they're also a common novice gun, so that led to many operator errors and FTEs due purely to inexperience.
@@shotgunsurgeon3849 lol. I have shot THOUSANDS of rounds out of revolvers. And NEVER had a jam. It's NOT a myth. If you have a revolver and it jams, you are an imbecile. Glocks are NOWHERE NEAR as reliable as a revolver. I have shot a hundred or so rounds out of a Glock and have had a jam. Seen them jam at the range several times. Not to mention its worthless safety. Not the thing for a novice to use. As for the Beretta 92FS, I agree, that is a fine gun.
FUN FACT The Gyrojet rounds were designed for use in the vacuum of Space and in low- Gravity fields because that's where everyone theorized a new front of warfare would be, and for those purposes it was brilliant. Almost no recoil (rockets build up speed gradually instead of being thrown violently) makes it the only weapon that can be fired in low-G environment without throwing the marksman into an endless spin.
I remember reading a passage in a book about the Nainbu 94; the passage basically said that when officers were given the pistol with the ceremonial saber that was customary to give to officers, the officers actually preferred the saber over the Nainbu because the Nainbu was considered more deadly to its wielder than the target.
I’ve owned a little .380 and the trigger was missing but it had one of those slides (pin) on it on the side and you just had to flick it a tad to shoot it..
A bigger issue with the gyro jet guns was the properties of a rocket. A rocket, unlike a gun, takes time to reach its maximum velocity. At close range the rockets would literally bounce off a person. A big problem for a pistol. This was "complimented" by its poor long range accuracy, into a terrible combo.
It’s worth mentioning that officers of the IJA were required to purchase their own sidearms after they were commissioned. Many actually purchased US and European designed guns cause the Japanese produced Type 7 and type 14 Nambus were actually much more expensive. The type 14s and type 94s were usually issued to non coms or to tankers or pilots who actually needed a sidearm as opposed to a rifle. That’s why there were only around 70,000 type 94s made
Even though you did a video already of the Chauchat machine gun. It belongs on this list. It was THE worst most cursed gun to ever go into service. That thing was unforgivably horrible. Never forgive France for Chauchat!!!!!
Wikipedia says that the Glisent was much expensive but still a good firearm. Its inspired by the Luger design, in fact it was also called "The Luger of poor"
0:34 my grandpa has something like that revolver rifle very beautiful never been fired bc the black powder would be hard to clean so we're looking for a cylinder that can take normal modern bullets to not dirty it but we don't know if it will work
Hahaha, the bit with the Japanese soldier dropping the gun and it goes off and saves him, that was good visual comedy in a very serious video, fitting too
I liked the part where one guy took down a wooly mammoth with a bow and one arrow and then, the very next scene, it took three dudes throwing three spears to kill one impala.
It's a shame, because the Glisenti could have resulted in a proper firearm, but it's development simply wasn't finished when WWI came around. The later model (1914) referred to as "Brixia" actually corrected the frame weakness and removed the grip safety. These were the models utilized by Italian troops in WWII at Bir El Gobi, where they proved to be somewhat reliable, if not good enough for the intended purpose of officer usage. Though even the mod. 1910's usage is over-exaggerated, as in June of 1915, a month after Italy joined WWI, the Beretta Model 1915 was adopted as the service handgun for the Royal Italian Army.
When you look at it, the British Musket was a mass produced weapon. The idea was if enough rounds were heading down range a few are bound to hit. Unfortunately, it was prone to both misfiring and Stormtroopering. That's why the Kentucky Long Rifle out preformed it. The Kentucky Long Rifle had not only better quality due to the original purpose (hunting rifle), but also out ranged the British Musket by several meters. So needless to say, make sure it's 1: cost effective, 2: reliable, before mass production. The AK-47 is a pretty good example of these "requirements"
The cooking off problem was a problem for any revolvers of the day. You can help prevent it by loading wax or lard after you load the ball, that way a spark won't pop every round
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One of the other reasons you'd keep your non-firing hand back on a revolving carbine is the sideblast when firing caused by the cylinder gap. On powerful rounds that pressure can be enough to remove fingers.
this technique is anachronistic for that era. back then, people put their supporting hand in front of the cylinder, which was period correct.
Ouch!
no it's not even the 500 magnum doesn't remove fingers if you have your hand on the cylinder - it definitely badly burns your hand and maybe even tear the skin but removing fingers completely is about as believable as a 50 BMG creating a shockwave that kills you if it travels past you without actually making contact
@@knine258 Its been tested on multiple occasions by Mythbusters, hickock, and several other gun youtubers. It can severely damage your hand/fingers if not actually severing fingers. No one was brave enough to use their real hand for some reason.
@@knine258 look up the side blast of a revolver
The designer of the Ruger Mark Series based his design on the Japanese Nambu*. He fixed the flaws and made his pistol arguably the most reliable semiautomatic .22 you can buy.
Well the Nambu Type 2 was… fine, albeit underpowered; the Type 14 Suicide Special was the dark comedy it was
I have a ruger mark 4 and it’s definitely the best 22 pistol I’ve ever shot
Edit: typo
@@goose607 there's no VI, but IV
@@918Mitchell he misread. the newest you could get is Mark IV, not Mark VI
Nambu, not "Namboo". It's a gun, not a Star Wars planet.
After that intro, I just *have* to leave this here, courtesy of Drachinifel from his I-400 guide:
"For millennia, man has faced a quandary: The desire to hit someone, but they're really far away. This has lead progressively to the development of: The thrown rock, the thrown, pointy rock, the far thrown rock, the really far thrown rock, the flying pointy rock on a stick, the refined pointy rock on a stick, the spicy refined rock powered by fire, and, by the end of WWII, the happy fun times refined spicy rock transported by the big metal bird."
Drach is awesome.
Every time I go to the range, when I'm ready to start plinking, I like to say, "We came a long way from throwing rocks, haven't we?"
Lol! 😂
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"The Nambu was possibly the worst firearm ever made"
The Zip 22: "Hold my beer."
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Put USFA out of business. Now THAT’s quality.
During an episode of Lock n Load with R. Lee Ermey, the Gunny showed us the Colt carbine but straight up told the audience that he refused to shoot it.
Ermey, was a "wing wiper", he was never a "field Marine", check out his duty stations.
@@boondocker7964 Because REMFs always get shrapnel wounds just like the Gunny.
@@boondocker7964 who cares he’s a good actor and pretty fucking cool.
I seen that episode called "Rifles" when RUclips had allowed it.
And I thought he would shoot it
Interesting side note there is currently a 410 shotgun that uses the revolver type cylinder and apparently it's pretty popular.
a Taurus judge revolver or Rossi circuit judge revolving rifle. They are fairly neat, but not very good firearms.
How about the S&W governor
The judge and governor revolvers are hot garbage. Only purchased by morons or people who want it as a joke. I use to work as a gun dealer. So I'd sell it to them and take their money.
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey S&W makes better guns, but the idea of a revolver shotgun is, at best, gimmicky. There's a story out there of someone who shot a cop with a Judge loaded with .410 shotshells and the pellets were defeated by the cop's skull at a moderate handgun range and he was able to return fire.
@@HeavyMettaloid that shooting is on video from the officers dash camera.
What gun was the worst?
Colt Model 1855 Revolving Carbine
Mars Pistol
Glisenti Model 1910
Gyrojet - rocket-propelled pistol
Nambu 94
All
Gyrojet was a cool, but kinda pointless gun
Anything in CoD Vanguard
Number 4
Mars Pistol. I Think.
Gyro-Jet Pistol
•uses rocket-propelled ammunitions
Now we know what inspired Warhammer 40k Bolter guns.
That actually may be true
@@maotisjan it is.
Also the inspiration for torgue weapons in the borderlands series.
The video mentions they don't have great range due to the projectile losing power and they are expensive.
In 40K the only ones using Bolters are Astartes and Sororitas, who are very fond of close quarters combat, and the commissars who use their bolters to punish cowardice rather than general combat, so they are used by a tiny fraction of the imperial forces and only up close.
I guess GW did their research about gyrojet guns... or it was just a luck.
@@ismaelsantos5378 both
The more I learn about early semi automatic pistols the more I'm surprised how much John Moses Browning got right with the Colt 1911.
So right that the US military changed only 3 minor things I believe, and stayed in service for 75 years. The M2 50cal he designed is still used.
The Colt 1911 is like the AK-47. It's cheap to produce, reliable, adequate and well loved. It doesn't get better in terms of semi-auto pistols.
C96 is pretty good too for these years.
change the grip angle, change the calibre (from 32 to 45) and add a grip safety the developments from 1902-1911but base everything from the FN1905 design which is a browning design
M1911 just didn't appear out of nowhere. It was developed from Browning's earlier pistols
the funny thing is about the Mars pistol, if i remember correctly, the inventor was really convinced it was a good pistol. so much so that when the army asked him to make changes to improve it, he outright refused and little change was made to the gun other than tiny things being done by the other members of the workforce.
i think it was the Borchardt C93, the first auto-loading pistol. iirc, the German Army wanted to have that camel-back looking thing removed from his pistol (it was the spring housing), but he dont wanna. so they held onto their Reichsrevolver until the Mauser C96 came along. then Luger got rid of that thing and made some more improvements wich became the Luger P08
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*Borchardt C93 and Mauser C96, respectively
@@paleoph6168 yeah i have mistaken lmao
The main problem was that is was designed around .45 Mars which had around twice the energy of .45 ACP. The general mechanism itself was OK, and had he settled for a sane cartridge and simplified it may have been a successful gun. It was the refusal to adapt to the market rather than push the market that was the downfall.
Vanguard in a nutshell
Call of Duty: Simple History
Battlefield 1
vanguard sucks
Facts
all too true
One rule if you want to make a good weapon : make sure the gun is reliable , easy to use and more importanly always reasonable in designing .
And less jammed
@@eradicatormkivgaming agreed
So basically the Russian philosophy of gun making
@@dragonstormdipro1013 nah its applied to all gun designing and planning
@@dragonstormdipro1013 remember John Moses Browning has done that before the Russians
The Gyrojet pistol featured in the Bond film You Only Live Twice. The film makers thought it would be cool to have as a gadget for Bond and his allies to use. They even made a mini rocket projectile to place into the tip of a cigarette, and when lit would fire and stun the enemy. That featured in the film as well, and did actually work.
The type 94 was definitely not the greatest handgun but quite far from the worst, as seen in a video from forgotten weapons.
Seen it too, early Type 94s can actually be good guns if fed the right ammo
Thank you for being smarter than half this comment section.
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No one:
Literally not a single person:
No one in the history of ever:
Vegans: BE VEGAN!
@@rooster6461 like seriously, I respect normal vegans (as a pescatarian the life style of a vegan looks pretty difficult) but those that try to preach it to you and trying to shove that life style down one's throats are just an annoyance
7:02 I just like it when after the Italian soldier got stabbed, the Austrian-Hungarian soldier just stood for a few seconds and then ran slowly
Hes like: bruh did that dude really fail to kill me even when he had a pistol in cqc
Reminded me of another video here about Men who cannot be easily killed by shot because they were drugged, and charge with swords
4:08 I see that simple history has improved itself on animating the M1911. Probably the best thing to see in this video.
Looks like a Kimber Super Carry instead of a traditional 1911.
0:19 that explosion looks like squidward 🦑
It is too funny and so sad at the same time to see that guy using the Glisenit got bayoneted because the damn gun just don't have the stopping power.
It’s impressive how this guy always finds the most obscure stuff throughout history in such a short period of time:0
weired history channel,check it out
For this video he probably just looked at Forgotten Weapons.
It's not the work of a single person. This channel is run by some companies just like 5minute Craft. They hire an army of script writers, voice actors, video editors to churn out these. It's a huge business.
How could you possibly think this is a one-person operation?
As much as I love it, I’m surprised the Nock gun isn’t on here. It was a 7 barrelled single-shot smoothbore muzzleloader that was intended to be fired from the tops of ships onto the enemy’s top deck. However the gun had far more recoil than it was reckoned to have and would often break the shoulder of all but the strongest men who fired one and was feared by captains as a fire risk to the ships rigging. Only around 600 were made even with a second model that lowered the calibre of ball used (from .50 calibre balls to pistol balls if I recall) to reduce the recoil. These days it’s largely remembered as the gun Sergeant Harper uses in the Sharpe novels and tv show.
Check out the "Grendel P-10" .380 pistol made by George Kellgren, the founder of Kel-Tec. It was the strangest pistol I've probably ever owned. It didn't have a detachable magazine as it fed by stripper clips. It was super lightweight and recoiled harshly. The only way you could remove the ammo was by unchambering all ten rounds. Still wish I had it despite its flaws.
Wasn't the gyrojet intended for use in space against cosmonauts? I recall someone saying a normal gun would put you spinning due to the recoil and the lack of gravity, and shooting mini rockets wouldn't. (Maybe it was in Forgotten Weapons)
I dont really think a regular gun has enough recoil to put you spinning (considering the gyrojet was a pistol, só im thinking of a regular pistol for comparison
@@porrod4313 any amount of force would send you spinning in space. Deflating a party balloon in space would be enough to send you spinning without a counterforce. Ion engines are being developed for long duration unmanned probes due to fuel efficiency and only pushes with the force of a piece of paper resting on your hand
@@whee38 oh i see. I mean, gyrojet guns still have recoil
@@porrod4313 They did also have a carbine gyrojet
As opposed to the Soviets who knew what the people wanted- LASER PISTOLS. Pretty slick, but no idea how well it worked.
Do rifles and lmgs next.
I want to see that Italian monstrosity that needed a box of oil attached and still jammed.
if the chauchat doesn't make the list i'd literally revolt
I think he did
No. Chain fires in percussion revolvers are actually caused by loose fitting caps that allow powder to trickles into the recoil shield, where the flash from a cap firing can set off the leaked powder. The loose fitting caps on the other chambers allow them to chain fire as well. This is an old misconception of why and how chain fires in percussion revolvers happen, but some very good research and live fire testing has been done in recent years that has proved the real cause.
9:49
the inventor : Robert Mainhardt.
I love how at 9:21 the bullets that game out of the Pistol were cash signs lol.
yep
2:05 realistic eyes look so cursed in Simple History's artstyle
5:00 great attention to detail that the soldiers closed their eyes to aim back in ww2 nowadays you won't see it
10:40 you clearly haven't heard of the zip .22
8:48 that was the same bonus gun they put in Resident Evil Village God I hate that gun so much
Edit: if you beat the game under 3 hours you can get that bonus gun I was hoping for a bazooka but they gave me a peas hooter 😭
10:45
ZIP22: Allow me to introduce myself
I wouldn’t be surprised if this shows up in r/CursedImages.
Edit: idk why but the face at 6:40 cracks me up lol. Your animations are getting better with every video!
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I'm surprised there's no mention of the Zip .22
That gun basically took everything about ergonomics and threw it out the window
Also the poor safety on the gun, if my memory doesn't trick me, you can never know if it's on safety or not
You owned one? That's cool! What's it like?
@@SkipTheKip oh no, i mean i saw it on forgotten weapons, sorry for the misunderstanding
Ah
Yea I saw that vid too funnily enough!
I think the gun had to be USED in combat to get on this list
1:52 if you want to skip Mech Arena sponsorship thing
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@@Cherno35 your welcome
to correct a misconception here, most armies of the periods in this video, the exception being the US Army with the Gyrojet, would require their officers to purchase their own sidearms. they weren't "issued" per se, but they were recorded as being in said officer's possession by a quartermaster. The Imperial Japanese Army and Navy had a similar system, and it was entirely up to the officer's discretion to which sidearm they were to purchase and wield. most carried swords as a status symbol and as a weapon, but the Nambu type 14 was also widely liked and used, with some sources stating over 400,000 produced by 1945.
7:01 Haha! That solider successfully stabbing that other soldier was funny. I bet in his mind he was like "huh... Neat! Onward!" 😄
The Nagant 1895 Revolver. The gun was out dated by the time and the means of reloading (lack of spring and the twist required to work the ejector rod)), the 7.62 Nagant (a cursed cartridge), and abhorrent trigger pull, and unique locking cylinder makes it a very unique weapon in history. I have one, it's fun, but also miserable to shoot.
That's the revolver you can theoretically put a silencer on correct? Might be clunky and outdated but I wouldn't really call it cursed unless it was hilariously unreliable/ posted risk to the weilder.
@@AssaultnVinegar isnt it notorious for misfiring while holstered or am i thinking of the nambu
@@AssaultnVinegar yes you can actually silence the Nagant. it's due to the fact that the chamber moves forward when firing, thus making a gas-tight seal (absolutely essential for silencing). that also make the bullet fly faster since there's less hot gas wasted.
@@user-rg2hk9uz9u don't remember if it has reliability issues. the only issues i remember is that it reloads like an old revolver (eject one by one or replace cyinder), and that apparently it has a heavy trigger pull
@@user-rg2hk9uz9u pretty sure you are confusing it with the nambu. For all its flaws the Nagant is a pretty rock solid/safe design and not really any way for it to go off in the holster unless the hammer was cocked back and you managed to snag the trigger on something but I'm fairly certain, and I'd have to test this with mine to be sure but I don't think the flap holster will close with the hammer cocked back.
You could've at least done a panning shot here... 2:43
7:36 Djeez this guy shoot worse than a storm trooper
9:04
did the Animator not get the memo about "almost no recoil" ?
those sequences shake the entire viewpoint ffs
While I love colt revolvers they weren't the best available at the time that was the Remington. Remingtons had a solid top strap and it was much easier to change cylinders
07:58 great only for James Bond movies.
3:27
Known as a chainfire, not cooking off.
So fun fact, the Nambu Type 94 is was actually considered better and more reliable than the type 14 Nambu. Its construction was meant to help ease manufacture, hence the external sear. while not a good pistol it is, to my understanding, better than the type 14.
I like how at the beginning, one dude kills one mammoth with one arrow and right after that 3 guys with spears kill one gazelle.
I think the animators mixed something up.
Nah, its just that the first guy is the world's first Chad and therefor only needs one arrow to down a mammoth all by himself
@@weldonwin I'm not implying the chad is unrealistic.
I'm just saying 3 spears for a gazelle is a bit overkill
@@FUCKINGRI0T people may be hungry and want the animal dead quickly
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Question for my fellow commenters. If you had to choose between the type 94 nambu or the type 26 revolver to take into battle, which would you choose?
I own both. I'd take the type 26 over the type 94.
I'd probably take the revolver. 🤷♂️
What about you?
Type 94, the safety "issue" isn't really a thing since the manual safety blocks the sear bar, 94 is also more compact, semi auto, faster loading and holds one more round if you count the +1 in the chamber.
@@Bran_Nuthin Type 26. Superior manufacturing, and more reliable.
Type 26.... mainly because I know a handgun is a last ditch dump rounds type weapon so I'd want it to dump all of them every time
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6:57-7:02 when your pistol is too weak to stop a charging rifleman in BF1.
More cursed guns:
- 6P9 (also known as that weird Makarov pistol from FarCry)
- Calico M900
- PM-63
- Wimmersperg SPZ MP
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Love your channel!!!
Can you please make a video on video on the boxer rebellion? Its a very interesting topic
There is a malfunction gun almost similar to Nambu Type 94 pistol (11:27) was SIG Sauer P320 pistol (now using by US military under M17 as full and M18 as compact) where the P320 pistol dropped the gun on the floor and shot fire by hitting back of slide. Remember, don’t hit the back of SIG Sauer P320 pistol slide (very hard) or otherwise, it will firing the bullet self like Nambu Type 94 pistol.
saw it on yt where the dude hit a hammer on the back of the slide
I could've sworn that was fixed a few years ago
Sig said they fixed that issue but now the Canadians found out it can be fired if dropped hard on its side or flexed hard enough upon holstering.... in other words it has just about every possible way to have an ad
I think if they were able to continue development of the Gyrojet gun we'd have much different firearms today
Gyrojet style projectiles have inherent problems themselves. If they aren't done accelerating by the time they are out of the barrel (and gyrojets still accelerate for some time after) they are more susceptible to wind and also have poor performance at close range. If they do all their accelerating in the barrel then they aren't much better than conventional ammo and in some ways, worse. To me, it's one of those ideas that looks great until the nuances of it start getting uglier and uglier. My opinion is that they are a dead end unless you envision them having post launch guidance.
A lot of ppl who don't know much about flight and terminal ballistics think that, usually just because the idea SOUNDS futuristic to them
5:26 That's not true the most powerful production handgun in the world at that time was the Model 1847/1848 colt walker/dragoon revolver.
I thought most of the myths around the type 94 have already been debunked.
Clearly some of the people researching this video didn’t get the memo and are going off of surface-level reports and misinformed reputations
What song is playing at 3:54? I've heard it in many other videos all across youtube and I've never been able to find it!
I know it's probaly ome of them royalty free songs but I've never found the name
Look at the Horse eyes 2:22 its scary😨
Very amusing video. I happen to have one of the source books Simple History used (the one with "Exploding Guns to Malfunctioning Missiles") and that book never fails to make me laugh my head off.
About the Nambu 94, I suppose all those stories about the "suicide special" must have been based on at least a handful of legit true cases since 1): there were so many stories coming out of the battlefield of these things happening and you just couldn't discount them all.
2): For a Japanese soldier wanting to kill himself and the enemy while pretending to surrender, you can't pull that off with a hand grenade since no American soldier would allow a Japanese soldier with a primed hand grenade near them (plus Japanese hand grenades of WWII were not like Western ones) so the Type 94 allowed them to pull it off convincingly.
3): How else could we have known about the exposed sear on that pistol? I do believe that there is some truth to all those stories, although the Type 94 wasn't entirely unsafe - that safety did its job.
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I assume the problems with semi-auto pistols are the reasons why the British largely kept their revolvers in service well past the wars…
Yup. A revolver NEVER jams unless the user is a dumbass and keeps it caked in mud. And even then a misfire nearly impossible.
@@jethroneemo2150 That is a myth. Revolvers can and do jam, even in reasonable conditions. When a revolver does "jam" (cylinder locks up) the gun is essentially useless in a combat situation. You need to sit down with tools to clear a revolver cylinder lock up. With a semi-auto you can just rack and slide and continue firing.
Revolvers also misfire (FTF, Failure To Fire) just as often as semi-autos because usually a misfire is the fault of the ammo (primer usually), not the gun itself, unless the firing pin is damaged. The benefit of a revolver with a double action that in the clearing of an FTF is just pulling the trigger again, instead of clearing with the slide in a semi. So that advantage is true.
Revolvers also cannot FTE (Failure to Eject), which most people call "jamming" during a firing sequence, however casings can rupture or get stuck or hung up in a dirty cylinder, which is a FTE in my books. The myth of semi-autos constantly having FTE malfunctions in semi-autos is purely due to operator error, most frequently "limp wristing".
I used to work at a range/gunsmith and I have seen many revolvers jam up that definitely were not caked in mud. Oftentimes it was the fault of the ammo, but it could still happen. I love revolvers, and own several "classic" S&Ws from the "best days of manufacture" and they're some of my favorites to shoot. But I've had a couple malfunctions with them over the years too.
To this day, the most reliable handguns in my experience were the Beretta 92FS, and the CZ-75 platform. Both semi-autos. We even had a rental Italian made Beretta 92 Inox that I decided to "torture test" over six months. I never cleaned the thing. By the end of the six month period it had probably fired 15 - 20k rounds in mostly inexperienced hands, and it never malfunctioned.
I know people are going to ask "but what about GLOCK?" Glocks are just as reliable, but they're also a common novice gun, so that led to many operator errors and FTEs due purely to inexperience.
@@shotgunsurgeon3849 lol. I have shot THOUSANDS of rounds out of revolvers. And NEVER had a jam. It's NOT a myth. If you have a revolver and it jams, you are an imbecile.
Glocks are NOWHERE NEAR as reliable as a revolver. I have shot a hundred or so rounds out of a Glock and have had a jam. Seen them jam at the range several times. Not to mention its worthless safety. Not the thing for a novice to use. As for the Beretta 92FS, I agree, that is a fine gun.
FUN FACT
The Gyrojet rounds were designed for use in the vacuum of Space and in low- Gravity fields because that's where everyone theorized a new front of warfare would be, and for those purposes it was brilliant.
Almost no recoil (rockets build up speed gradually instead of being thrown violently) makes it the only weapon that can be fired in low-G environment without throwing the marksman into an endless spin.
The madlads literally made the precursor to bolter pistol.
I remember reading a passage in a book about the Nainbu 94; the passage basically said that when officers were given the pistol with the ceremonial saber that was customary to give to officers, the officers actually preferred the saber over the Nainbu because the Nainbu was considered more deadly to its wielder than the target.
Love the detail and realism put into the action of the guns.
Also, does this mean that the gyrojet is the forefather of the bolter?
Reminds me of COD custom weapons 😂
2:59 wouldn't this be an easy enough issue to fix???
I’ve owned a little .380 and the trigger was missing but it had one of those slides (pin) on it on the side and you just had to flick it a tad to shoot it..
Cave Johnson: Our turrets fire 65% more bullet per bullet!
Gyrojet: The entire cartridge IS a bullet
Saw a real Glisenti. Your animation is a little generous there. Glisenti: Proof that not all Italian guns are beautiful and function flawlessly.
[Cries in pasta sauce]
A bigger issue with the gyro jet guns was the properties of a rocket. A rocket, unlike a gun, takes time to reach its maximum velocity. At close range the rockets would literally bounce off a person. A big problem for a pistol. This was "complimented" by its poor long range accuracy, into a terrible combo.
My eighth grade social studies teacher used one of your videos in her presentation, the highest honor I can bestow
I remember the Gyrojet Rocket pistol in Shell Shock: Nam' 67. Boy did that pistol pack a wallop and Charlie stood no chance against it.
Was watching all weapons in bf1 and got to the mars pistol when this appeared
Wow your animations have gotten so much better since you first started. Keep it up SH
It’s worth mentioning that officers of the IJA were required to purchase their own sidearms after they were commissioned. Many actually purchased US and European designed guns cause the Japanese produced Type 7 and type 14 Nambus were actually much more expensive. The type 14s and type 94s were usually issued to non coms or to tankers or pilots who actually needed a sidearm as opposed to a rifle. That’s why there were only around 70,000 type 94s made
Nambu Type 94: I'm the worst pistol ever made
Zip .22: Hold my beer
Don't forget the Kimball .30 carbine semi automatic pistol: a colossal failure but later on, AMT came up with the Automag III which worked just fine.
I renamed all guns
1 : cursed sniper relover
2 : cursed prototype of 1911
3 : pistol relover
4 ; rocket luanching pistol
5 : skinny deagle
8:30 WARHAMMER 40k
7:03 my man didn't need to die by using a trashy gun
The first gun would be hard to hold since you might get your fingers burned
Even though you did a video already of the Chauchat machine gun. It belongs on this list. It was THE worst most cursed gun to ever go into service. That thing was unforgivably horrible. Never forgive France for Chauchat!!!!!
Wikipedia says that the Glisent was much expensive but still a good firearm. Its inspired by the Luger design, in fact it was also called "The Luger of poor"
0:34 my grandpa has something like that revolver rifle very beautiful never been fired bc the black powder would be hard to clean so we're looking for a cylinder that can take normal modern bullets to not dirty it but we don't know if it will work
11:35 It's nice to see Simple History have fun with itself.
Had to watch it back a few imes before getting the joke!
oops
Hahaha, the bit with the Japanese soldier dropping the gun and it goes off and saves him, that was good visual comedy in a very serious video, fitting too
The Chad Caveman:
Needs 3 spears to kill a deer but only one arrow for a mammoth.
I liked the part where one guy took down a wooly mammoth with a bow and one arrow and then, the very next scene, it took three dudes throwing three spears to kill one impala.
It's a shame, because the Glisenti could have resulted in a proper firearm, but it's development simply wasn't finished when WWI came around.
The later model (1914) referred to as "Brixia" actually corrected the frame weakness and removed the grip safety. These were the models utilized by Italian troops in WWII at Bir El Gobi, where they proved to be somewhat reliable, if not good enough for the intended purpose of officer usage.
Though even the mod. 1910's usage is over-exaggerated, as in June of 1915, a month after Italy joined WWI, the Beretta Model 1915 was adopted as the service handgun for the Royal Italian Army.
Gyrojet pistol: (exist)
Soldiers: "It cost $400000 to fire this weapon... for 12 seconds..."
TT33 Tokarev.
For reference, the general advice if your TT33 Tokarev breaks down is to throw it away and find a new one, as it's not worth fixing.
When you look at it, the British Musket was a mass produced weapon. The idea was if enough rounds were heading down range a few are bound to hit. Unfortunately, it was prone to both misfiring and Stormtroopering. That's why the Kentucky Long Rifle out preformed it. The Kentucky Long Rifle had not only better quality due to the original purpose (hunting rifle), but also out ranged the British Musket by several meters. So needless to say, make sure it's 1: cost effective, 2: reliable, before mass production. The AK-47 is a pretty good example of these "requirements"
Bro in Battlefield 1 the Mars Automatic combined with the Martini Henry was a goated class set up
9:21 the funniest scene out of any simple history video. Convectional Comedy isn't exactly what you come here for.
The cooking off problem was a problem for any revolvers of the day. You can help prevent it by loading wax or lard after you load the ball, that way a spark won't pop every round
9:20 "It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds."
0:49 HEEEEEEEEEY
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Brandon Herrera's cursed gun images: who are you?
Simple History's cursed gun in history: I'm you but educational
Forgotten Weapons: I'm both of you but even more educational
Forgot pepperboxes. Revolvers that you manually turn, each chamber is the barrel, awkward hammer placement... the whole shabang.
Chain firing wasn't a big issue if the revolvers were properly loaded.
Imagine trying to fire a new pistol you were just issued and the receiver just explodes and flies off the gun
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