G33/40: Special Carbine for the Gebirgsjager
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When the Germans took over control of the Czechoslovakian arms industry, they took some time to work out what out to be mass produced at the Brno factory. In the interim, they decided to restart production of the Czech vz33 Mauser carbine as the Gewehr 33/40 for German mountain troops. This was a truly short carbine with a 19.4 inch (490mm) barrel, which the Czechs had used for mostly police applications. German had used a short carbine back before World War One, but with Spitzer ammunition it was deemed too harsh shooting (both blast and recoil) to be worth the reduced length. Well, that calculation was different for mountain troops.
The G33/40 also had a distinctive added metal plate on the left side of the stock to help protect it in mountain use. The G33/40 would remain in production for three years, from 1940 until 1942 (after which the rifle production changed to standard K98ks). About 130,000 were made, with 945 receiver codes in 1940 and dot codes thereafter.
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Ian’s hammer-space/pocket dimension is always ready to produce any firearm to compare with the subject of any video.
I could see that in a tabletop RPG. Very high skill level in firearm knowledge, can speak French, and can pull any firearm out of nowhere (with ammo) once per round. ^-^
Disadvantages: disliked by social media (looking at YOU tuotube...)
@@jeromethiel4323 The main disadvantages would be min-maxing along with a few classics like Obsessive, Perfectionism, and/or Know-It-All, or possibly Avarice (depending on your play style) so you can collect 'em all.
Gerber rifle. For all of life’s stages.
There’s gotta be a joke out there for Johnson’s no more tears shampoo
Rubbel die Bratwurst und gewinne tolle Preise für dich und deine Liebsten!
(Not for use for teething.)
It gets cold up there in the mountains....
😂😂😂😂
As a Gebirgsjäger who served for 6 Years with the 23rd Gebirgsjäerbrigade and in the 231st Battalion i'm especially happy for a Video like this!
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Prost! From North Alabama!
Horrido from ex 5./231
Servus 👋🏻
did you get a unique shortened rifle or did you get the same as standard infantry?
did you use the G36K or the G36C
I had one of these as a teen in the 1970’s. Czech VZ33 version. It was as new condition but the bolts had been indiscriminately thrown in by the NZ importer, so unusual to find matching numbers. Mauser manufacturing tolerances being exact, it didn’t affect headspace. Pretty sure mine was 1934 manufacture.
It was absolutely beautiful. Had a very soft rifling form - lands were almost semicircular. I had a scope fitted and played with handloads. Managed a five shot .629” at 100 yards with the old Lapua 170gr step-base spitzer. It was very lively to shoot and I wish I had it now. 👍🏻
Very lively is definitely a kiwi-isn.... I'm sure the recoil is quite *stout*. Thanks for sharing 👍😎
So yours was made by Mauser and not Brno?
@@ericwethington no, it was Czech pre-war production. Made by Brno to standards that would shame many good commercial rifles. The Mauser depicted in the video was likely built when the B17’s and Lancasters were flying overhead. Essentially the same rifle but with slightly different fittings.
The reference to Mauser involves their insistence on parts being extremely uniform regardless of whether a rifle was made in Berlin, Liège, or Peking. Parts are very interchangeable. And yes it’s still a Mauser.
@@ThreenaddiesRexMegistusProbably that the Czechs know how to build fine guns on their own
@@bosknight7837 they always could. That and a welter of other advanced and leading industrial technologies, micro to macro. Never implied anything else. I said as much in my first post if you were paying attention rather than trying to find stuff to correct me on. A comment about Mauser Werke’s rigorous demands of contractors is not casting any aspersions on the Czech capabilities, but instead stating a known fact. It’s the same attention to detail and innovation that led to them offering a quality bolt-action rifle to the crowned heads of Europe while Remington was peddling a single shot, rolling-block rifle to their armies, with some even adopting these quaint relics. Now they’d call it maintaining brand integrity.
BTW - I’ve done a lot of warranty and custom work on Remingtons and like them, just not those clunkers, but let the slings and arrows fly as they will! 😁
I got a Dyson hair straightener mid-roll ad for this. Guess we all know how Ian keeps his hair so shiny and straight.
Lucky you. I got two guys of doubtful gender promoting an 'Easy Life'.
Lucky you. All I got was two chaps of doubtful gender promoting their 'easy life style'
Lucky you. All I got was two chaps of doubtful gender promoting their 'easy life style'
Little known fact: Dyson started-out producing rifles & submachine guns for the Ebolian National Guard. Only when the Guard needed vacuum cleaners did Dyson branch-out...
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That was funny. Thanks. I keep posting a reply but it gets removed repeatedly. ESG clearly at work on this site. German insignia on title screen is also defaced.
That's a nice looking carbine. Looks short and handy for confined spaces.
Confined spaces... like mountains!
Wait a minute...
Hearing, huh. What is it good for...when high/in ZE mountains 😕
Comes with a built in flashbang feature!
Greetings from Hungary!
Ian, I am sorry,but I need to clear things. There are some towns in Slovakia with the second part of their name being Bystrica. The Brno-owned factory was indeed in Slovakia, but the town's full name is Považská Bystrica. During German occupation,there was an ammunition factory there as well, which used slave labour. A couple of years ago, my father found(in Hungary) a single piece of sabotaged 7,92 mm Mauser ammunition which was produced in that factory.
This is indeed true. "Bystrica" means something like "(a place with) fast-flowing water".
love the font they use and stamping quality on serials
Another amazing lesson about history of guns. Thank you Dr. Ian👍💯
8mm out of a barrel that short? Hmm, It appears we found the original flashbang dispenser before the HK51 was invented!
I think the little Carcano conversions to 8mm would the worst. But there were other really small 8mm carbines.
HUH?😂😂😂
even better, the swedish used something like this in 8×63mm called the gevär m/40
Im glad to see you redoing some of your older videos. So much more information. The history of the Czech occupation arms production is an excellent microcosm of all the problems German arms production got itself into as the war progressed.
I like the fact you are updating your older videos.
i have have one that that was gifted to my father by a norwegian police neighbor. fully registered and marked with both nazi and norwegian police, original cartridge.
most of the guns were assigned to the army and navy after the war but a small number were kept by the police and my i am very lucky to have this in my collection.
I have one too, but mine was used on Svalbard ,bought it from the same man. Knallgod rifle.
Ian, once again you delivered spectacularly, well done. The G33/40 is very interesting simply because it's short and it got a unique stock making it ideal for mountain troops. The stock essentially makes it an improvised stick and due to having a short barrel makes it a perfect compact gun.
Greetings from Czech Mountains ! Super video 👍🏼
The happiness of seeing a gun that i own on this channel :D
For anyone curious: T stands for Tschesiche, czech in german
Tschechische to be exact....
I don't know why but German bolt actions are the most beautiful rifles
they smooth af
They are a bit pointy, and delicate - like a greyhound, or a sports car. They look like they don't belong on a battlefield. Like they would be too fragile.
The SMLE looks much more rugged and durable.
@timbirch4999 maybe but their looks are to die for
Just a wittle guy!
Never knew this gun existed until I played Enlisted. I now like it because it is obscure.
My section sgt in the last unit I was stationed in had one of those. He was very proud of it.
Great look into this weapons history.
Thanks! I knew of this rifle due to your older edition! Thanks Again.
I own the predecessor to that rifle. The Czech built Model 1390 with even shorter barrel based of the Czech VZ-24 (built for the Persian Military in the later 20's and early 30's and sometimes called the Camel Carbine). A later version of it was built by Iran called the Persian Model 49 using Yugoslavian Mauser Machinery. It's very accurate to five hundred yards (even after almost 90 years). But the shorter barrel and lighter weight makes recoil with military 8mm loads a bit hard on the shoulder.
Don't know if Ian has ever done a video on the Persian Mausers. But it would be a good topic.
It's just an attractive rifle.
10:27 The Czechs turned the bolt handle of a Mauser into a melon baller… Neat
A 33/40 was the first rifle I bought when I started with shooting. I already collected deactivated rifles for a couple of years before. Thats a thing in Europe. So I knew al little about history. But shooting it is not really fun. It weighs 3,3kg. Normal K98 is about 4.8 with wood stock and over 5 with laminated stock. The twist ratio is also different with these guys and they have not only a bang, they have also a kick. I sold mine soon and now have a G24(t) instead. ( After a couple of years with searching for a good one ) Much nicer to shoot and for my opinion the best 98 model.
Very nice to see those two together.
Hope you do a video about the G24(t). Very interesting model. Only two years in two options. Ca. 100 thousand of the first and about 150 thousand of the second, so pretty rare in terms of 98k
Thanks for the interesting video and for showing a nice looking rifle.
i always found them extremely cool. they so nice looking and short
Oh wow that's a cool little carbine :)
Got two VZ33's, one sporterized and turned into a very sweet 257 Roberts, the other, original, only missing the unique front sight "wing". My 33/40's came to me as drilled and tapped barreled actions, one now a 220 Swift, the other 22-250 AI.
Neat little rifles, but the 7.92 VZ33 is a beast! Accurate, but severe recoil.
The 7,92 carbines are LOUD and kicking like a beast. Have tried one and do not like to try it again.
Recoil is much more gentle if between the rifle stock and your shoulder you interpose your purse.
Have to agree. Never shot the carbine. But my kar98k is full-size and has heavy recoil. Anything smaller must be a handful to fire.
Good carbine for mountain troops in 1940 but not for cavalry troops in 1905 when their horse is esentially flashbanged after every shot lol
“sorry horsy, your sight and hearing loss was not service related”
Donkeys FTW
@@dallesamllhals9161(hiyahs with donkey pride)
Cavalry was essentially toast with the invention of automatic weapons - they just didn’t realise it yet.
@@allangibson8494 The riders or the Gener#¤&(%poor horsies?
That Czech(oslovak) flag in the thumbnail has it's colors flipped.. the red is on the right when hoisted vertically!
I see the German insignia was defaced too.
@@causewaykayak😂😂😂😂😂 probably a japanese version, if you know what i mean
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Enlisted's default weapon for some reason
ikr a kinda weird choice lol. Kar98az or some G98 variant would've made more sense at that point.
@@darthshaggy9697I think the intention for balance is that every starts with a short carbine version of their mainline bolt action rifle, except for the USA/Britain who all start with 1903 Springfields. The Kar98az is baaically a Kar98k as far as barrel length goes. Of course back before the merge they started with a Kar98k and a Kriegsmodell Kar98 in Normandy and Berlin respectively.
It's not "Zubrowka Brno", it's "Zbrojiovka Brno". Zubrowka is a kind of hard liquor, it's made with bison grass, "zubr" being a general slavic term for bison. Zbrojiovka means "armoury", "zbroj" being "armour".
Close enough ;)
zbrojovka, but yes you are correct
@@JiriStransky-sr8uq oof, you are right, my bad
i laughted so hard when i heard his prouncounation. irony is that i cant spell it neither.
@@vendybirdsvadl7472 irony is that "can't... neither" is a double negative, mate.
I had one for a couple of weeks before I traded it to Eric Kincel for a nice AR. It was in great condition but I knew I wouldn’t shoot it as much and Eric would be a good steward. I did fully disassemble it and took digital pictures that are archived somewhere to document it’s features and differences to a K98. I might have to look for that file…
Czech involvement = something different. Even to a bolt-action rifle.
The muzzle blast issue specifically pertained to the use of 7.92x57 IS ammunition in the 98az carbine. The Czechs used 7.92x57sS ammunition i.e., the heavy bullet ammunition introduced for German machine guns in late WWI. Germany standardised on the 7.92x57sS ammunition in 1934 and-supposedly-used up all the earlier type ammunition in training exercises, before invading Poland. The peculiar barrel rifling of the Vz 33 and 33/40 rifles, 7.88mm bore diameter and 8.28mm groove diameter, may increase felt recoil.
My uncle in Germany has one of these with a small scope on it. I'm not sure if it's of the same period. I'd be interested to know. He showed me this rifle some years back and told me it was for gebirgsjager. I honestly wasn't sure if he knew what he was talking about as he doesn't know guns. Now his father was the district jaegermeister and did use this to shoot deer and boar. He also has a an old luger that was issued during the war to my Opas brother. I'm looking to get both as they've just been sitting in the cellar for 50 years. Thanks Ian!
A couple other notes on the 33/40 - the front sight hood is unique and specific tot he 33/40. Not swappable with other Mausers. Also, if you pull the action from the stock, there are lightening cuts on the receiver to reduce weight.
My father was a Gebirgsjäger of the German 144. Gebirgsdivision and they had a shorter K-98. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe!
The Germans not forcing Brno to keep making zb.26s was probably a massive fumble on their part. Especially when it uses their standard 8mm Mauser caliber.
I had one of these years ago, but I had no idea what I had at the time. I wish I had kept it.
Germany arguing over which guns they should be making at a Czech plant and not making a decision for 3 years is so accurate to how they did anything under the Nazis it’s almost cliche
The greatest weapons but no imagination.
Ian has a stack of WW2 Mausers under that table.
maybe, the morph up on demand.
The metal plate is to protect it against the rock.. the bit on the inside will be under and left when slung and will strike the clifface.. same reason why lamchesters were made so solidly due to naval ships being made of steel
Aww, its a baby Mauser. And it has the same manufacturer code as my first k98k, an Russian capture that's a total hodgepodge of parts. The receiver and barrel are from the mid-war since it was made in 1943, the stock is from the early part of the war, from the Mauser factory and the trigger guard and original magazine floorplate are stamped so they're from late part of the war. I don't remember the code of the floorplate but I remember that I had to replace it since it gave out. I ended up replacing it with a steyr floorplate that I got for a good price. Oh and the bolt is mismatched too, but I believe its an early war mauser made bolt if my memory serves me correctly. Overall, an excellent video. 😎👍
Your pronunciation of gebirgsjäger was pretty good
Games like Enlisted are the only reason I know about these obscure rifles.
I don't think the G33/40 could top the recoil, report and muzzle flash of the 8x57 Dutch Police Carbine, which is diabolical.
Never saw how diabolical were the recoil, report and muzzle flash of the 8x57 Dutch Police Carbine, but there's maybe worse with the French 1892 Berthier carbine : a weight just over 6 pounds and a length of just little more than 90 cm, but firing the powerful Lebel 8 mm cartridge. My grand-father who used it during WW2 told me that if you didn't care and hold it firm, it could give you a strong slap and even break your shoulder. And the muzzle flash was impressive also...
Hopefully Ian will remake his video on the Gewehr 98/40 and its parent 35M rifle.
These were used after the war by the Norwegian police and as a rifle on trains to kill animals that were hit by the train. The police carbine was marked "Politi=Police"
And Kongsberg used them to build hunting rifles in the 70s/80s.
Quite normal for mountaineers to tap their boots/crampons with their ice axe to prevent wet snow balling up under the soles. I suspect soldiers might do the same with their rifle, hence the metal plate otherwise you’d trash the stock pretty rapidly!
Is the large sight hood to cut out glare when operating on snow or was it a carry through from Czech production?
I believe the sight hood is mostly to prevent it from getting bent. There are cheaper ways to prevent glare I think
According to german weapons magazines ( Waffenzeitschriften) the sheet metal ( Blech) was realy to protect the stock from the shoenails of the mountain boots . In contrast to boots of ordinary soldiers ( known as Knobelbecher/ dice cup), the mountain boots had not only shoenails on underside of sole ( german: Sohle!), but also one row of nails on the sides, so the sheet metal protects the stock, for example in formal drill. Btw., german names of Brno and Bratislava are Brünn and Pressburg.
@ Ian seemed to think it was unusually large for its normal function, that’s all.
Dead right.
Spot on, that's exactly what the plate is for.
Anyone else feel like Ian is feeding us 5 + year old videos? I'm not complaining. I'm just concerned.
When covid first started, Ian said he has a LOT of videos for a rainy day. Just in case travel and museums become too difficult to visit.
Im concerned that something has happened to him and he is now relying on old videos to maintain an image.
A good starter weapon in Enlisted
Love your videos Ian, but a couple things to correct:
0:22 is wrong. The factories already existed in Brno before WWI ended, they had been an arms factory and artillery workshop for years under the Vienna arsenal called "K. u. k. Waffenhauptfabrik - Filiale Brünn".
1:05 is wrong as well. Germany never annexed Czechoslovakia. Germany annexed the predominantly German Sudetenland, made Bohemia & Moravia a protectorate, while Slovakia declared independence and became a German satellite state.
Had the chance to hold a vz. 33 once. Those few inches less barrel can really fool you into believing that the whole rifle was scaled down a bit.
I can almost imagine the local Czech engineers and workers fueling up this confusion about Brno factory production profile and delaying the ramp-up of production : "But Herr Mueller, are you sure we want to re-re-tool? Perhaps we should re-tool or re-re-re-tool afterwards? Take your time, it's an important decision".
Hehe, I read a book, probably by Ludlum, where the Allied intelligence provided the Germans with great managers who were to use their knowledge... in the opposite way to specifically make production ineffective. In fact, I know that something like this happened in one of the Polish factories under German occupation. The resistance movement persuaded the factory boss to mismanage.
@@Zbigniew_Nowak Reminds me of a WW2 bucket I had, factory marked "Kartoffeleimer" (potato bucket) in enamel military stencil writing.
Maybe an indication why they lost the war - not a water bucket, not for onions, but strictly a Kartoffeleimer.
Makes me want to shout 'Zack Zack' everytime I say the word.
"We know you already make 8mm rifles and machineguns, and both are excellent, but we think that shutting the place down to re-tool for a few months of wasted production is well worth it, especially when we tell you to go back and to re-re-tool again to whatever a new shiny toy comes out or tell you that "no actually what you were making before was good enough go back and do that again""
I can see a dilemma for the Czech managers of those factories. You have responsibility for a workforce of people from your country who need to be paid in order to feed their families. At the same time you are being made to produce arms for the invader of your homeland. It must be tough acting as both a collaborator and saboteur.
@@paulketchupwitheverything767absolutely. I think you can be good at both, the trick is to be very slow at one thin ( collaborating ) and very fast at the other ( sabotage ). And not to get confused:)
A lot of swiss k31s had boot marks on the side of the butt stock from alpine troops knocking snow off their boots.
Thanks for the informative video! As someone interested with all Mauser variants I've come across all sorts of conflicting info with the G33/40. One is that due to so many of the guns ending up in Norway with the Police/Border Guards carrying them? But other info says many were sent to the Eastern Front. And due to the giant front sight hood catching on things a lot of the post war guns had the hoods tossed in the bin resulting in Chinese copies flooding the market 10-15 years ago off of eBay to "bring guns back to 100%". The prices on these guns on auction sites have also fluctuated wildly, most often upwards.
Footage of the funeral for mountain troop General Dietl shows the Gebirgsjager honor guard carrying the G33/40.
The smaller guys are saying the recoil is pretty harsh? Add a hardened steel buttplate.
The recoild is harcher than one would think.
GODDAMNIT HE KEEPS PULLING RIFLES OFF FROM HIS LAP
I don't know how much access you can get to them all, but can you start to do a series on black powder muskets and the beginning of rifles during the American Civil War? I was recently researching the war production capacity of cannons for the Confederacy and while researching the many arsenals, I was amazed at how many variants of muskets that were made (and calibers) and also imported from foreign nations and also the number of small mom & pop factories that sprung up that produced quantities ranging from 500-5,000. I would think the Smithsonian Institute would have the best collection of them.
German here. Your pronouncing of "Gebirgsjäger" was actually pretty good! 3:52
My maternal Grandpa, Narvik and Caucasus veteran, must have carried one of those
My old man was of mountain troops att. UK 1st Commando up to spring '45. They used a 3.5" howitzer. from their first engagement at Walcheren through to the Baltic and the capitulation. Small arms were various incl. Standard brit Mk. IV., Thompson and Sten. Service revolver carried as issued. All were disarmed by the british government at conclusion of hostilities. I always found that shocking.
Edit for (numerous) typos.
Again Ian gets the facts right.
8mm Mauser + carbine = flamethrower
Forgot the Kicker after the flamethrower 😁😁
And portable avalanche starter for mountain troops.
My first centerfire was a Mauser cut to 18" with a brake...I was 9.
First field use led to the world going white for a second until the color and sound came back to reveal a dead caribou.
Had one years ago, purchased for $800 at a Pennsylvania Gunshow.....needed money during bad times of late 2008-2009....sold for $1,800
I have a VZ33, fired it with my son last Saturday. He (24) fired 5 rounds and said he couldn’t fire anymore as his shoulder was killing him 😂 Obviously my 30 years in the army made the difference for me as I fired clip after clip 😉
You sure that wasn't your daughter 😅
Love Mausers. Obviously its a no brainer bolt action rifles are outdated and obsolete. But the aristocratic, historic and class of owning a manually loading historic firearm will always go hard.
Obsolete these days as a service rifle, but in specialized roles and civilian contexts, bolt actions are still very usable.
Some rich german/ austrian hunters still use handmade breakaction/ tipdown rifles and combination guns like Bergstutzen, Büchsflinte, Drilling or even Vierling.
I believe that the “rings” on the body of the receiver are also turned down to make them smaller than that of a typical Mauser in an additional weight reducing measure
Hope you do another video or update on the folding stock prototype of the G33/40. Rock Island had one for auction back in 2010, so theyre ridiculously rare.
Ooh! It’s the ladder rifle!
I had a 98 short rifle like that in 30 ought 6 another gun I should have never sold
It looks like a fairly decent hunting rifle. Although a little heavy by today's standards.
I thought that the side plate on the butt was to protect the wood from being damaged by boot cleats after being stacked in the snow. Swiss K31 rifle butts tend to be beat up because they would be stacked together, and would freeze up, so the soldiers would literally kick them free.
We have 45cm (a bit under than 18") barrel length, which is the minimum legal barrel length for hunting in Hungary (and hunting purpose is easier than sporting purpuse as for licensing). This rifle / carbine would be great as a bush gun, tracking, stalking in the woods.
2:38 Somebody needs to make a compilation of every time Ian has done his signature hard swallow.
I think there are also circular cutouts in the sides of the magazine well to take a little weight off there, as well.
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Beautiful rifle. I just wonder how far Czech engineering would have gone in terms of semi-auto rifles and other innovations had they not been invaded. Btw, Germany "annexed" Czechoslovakia is a very polite way of putting it, lol. I would ask the people of Lidice how they liked the annexation, but it was kind of wiped off the map by the new German government.
Was from early 10th century to 1806 regular part of HRE. In 955 Lechfeld battle, first campaign where a realy german army appeared on battlefield, bohemian levie was rearguard of german army.. And from about 1400 to 1918 part of Austria/Habsburg territories. So starting in middleage, when a native dynasty ruled, to wwll a large german minority lived there, and some bohemian towns ( Städte) had a germanstyle lawset. When in 1918 Czechoslovakia was founded, there had been in reallity a bit more germans than slovacs, and german people had been, at least in first years threated bad, was one of the reasons, why a man named Henlein (?) a supporter of Hitler was successfull among german inhabitants of Czechoslovakia. When in 1919, treatises of Versailles and St. Germain, the Allied nations would have used their brains better, wwll surely would not have happened.
Wasn't the Sudetenland a Germanic enclave forcibly allocated to the newly founded Czechoslovakia after WW1. In keeping with the American Wilsons demands that populations got self determination swathes of land were forced at gunpoint into changing nationality. The South Tyrol could be another example ... remember the Polish Corridor and loads of other examples of compulsory freedoms 😂.
@@causewaykayak : The socalled Sudetenland was in Austrohungarian time a part of Bohemia / Böhmen ( austrian part of Austria/ Hungary) and Moravia/ Mähren (hungarian part of Austria/ Hungary). In 1919 ( Treaty of St. Germain) Austria lost Bohemia, and ( Treaty of Trianon) Hungary lost Moravia. From middleage to 19th century. Bohemia and Moravia bordered german Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, the thuringian principalities, and prussian province Silesia. For this reason for centuries german speaking Austrians, Bavarians, Saxons , Thurigians and Silesianw moved into Bohemia and Moravia. Those german speakers lived mostly along the borders.
@@brittakriep2938 Thank you. You know great detail. Are you an Historian or just incredibly well informed 🤗
@@brittakriep2938 Supplementary question if you please. Was Glass making a famous speciality in these areas. I once saw a play about a journey man (geselle?) glassmaker who produced most beautiful drinking vessels. It was most interesting.
Secondly the Allied powers were not at all smart. WW I was totally uneccessary. I went to a military type school, and even there it was taught that WW1 was the result of a ambitious diplomats and cruel dynasties making secret treaties. The people's duty was to obey without question regardless of cost. Looks like we are seeing a repeat in our own times. Anyway thank for the history. 👍🏼
This is a gebirgsjager. It jager gebirgs.
Don't make fun about german language, if you don' t know spelling and grammar. C'est ne pas honoreuse. Antworten bitte auf Deutsch!
@@brittakriep2938 Yes, the Germans take their humor very seriously, it's no laughing matter.
@@MosoKaiser : There are good jokes about german language, but mostly in german language, see comedian Heinz Erhardt, a master in using german language in a funny way.
The irony is of course that in the Wehrmacht, the full lenght rifle was called a Carbine while the carbine was called a Gewehr :P
The only logic I can work out is the weapon's original user.
If a design was meant for infantry it's a Gewehr.
If it's meant for mounted troops (including artillery and bicyclists) it's a Karabiner.
Ge-BIRGS-jäger, just to clarify the pronunciation, for anyone wondering.
So the Short carbine is a "Rifle" and longer, arguably short rifle is "Carbine".
In military german a Gewehr was usually a fullsized battlerifle. A Karabiner ( in Austria also Stutzen was used ) was a shorter rifle , mostly for cavallry. After wwl ( Allied nations made trouble) the rather long fullsized battlerifles and carbines been standardized to one model 98k. Was shorter than wwl Gewehr and longer than wwl Karabiner, but called Karabiner. That those shown rifle was called Gewehr is indeed unusual, i only can assume that someone ordered this name ( in reallity the important Nazis often had not been realy correct in traditions) or because this rifle was the battlerifle of the Gebirgsjäger. Today in german Military nearly everything traditional is forbidden, or german terminology is replaced by english words.
In civilian context Gewehr is umbrella term for all kind of long gun, when a correct description is not necessary. But attention! In old texts, before about 1800, Gewehr is also used as umbrella term for all hand weapons, even swords or spears. Reason: Gewehr consists of Ge- ( meaning a lot of/ for example Gesang - a lot of singing, or Geschrei - a lot of shouting) and Wehr ( meaning weapon or defence/ sich wehren - to defend yourself).
Btw., bayonnet is in german language either Bajonett or Seitengewehr.
All military carbines should have a kick plate.
The Gew 33/40 was also issued to some paratroopers.
I had a DOT 44 k98k in mint condition! But i sold it, regretted my decision and bought a BYF 41 k98k in even nicer condition.
After that i got a mint 1943 springfield armory m1 garand ❤
Love old historical cool guns.
Just sold a 1912 winchester 1886 original mint 45-90.. and I'm starting to regret that 😂😂😂
Ian, thank you for the video. Just a little thing. If you have the Czechoslovak or Czech flag displayed vertically, the white stripe must be on the left., not on the right.😉
Gun Jesus "they take over production of the Gewher 24T...." and pulls one out from under the table. Only GJ can do that!
Makes me think of the FN M1924/ M1930. Bought by the Dutch police after WW2, Better known as the Wilhelmina and Juliana karabijn. And yes they kick as a mule and are loud.
It's 'Ge-BIRGS-jäger'. The emphasis is on the second syllable.
My dad's unit. They had G3s though.
Flags, when rotated like this should be mirrored, at least the czech one should. White and red fields should be switched. Not a big deal tho.
FINALLY!
Great video, but just so you know, the way the czech flag is positioned in the thumbnail is incorrect - when you hang czech flag vertically, the white is supposed to face to the left.
Hey Ian, can you do a video on the CZ-G2000 ?
Wherd when they put pu new production that they did not stat making semi automatic or sturmgever insted, i understadn when alresy making the mauser was good to keep the production up but now when starting new production!