The "angled cuts on the front of the firing pin" are a safety feature that came about in the Model 1898 Mauser. "Safety firing pin, which superseded the one with two-diameter shaft, has lugs that align with shoulders in bolt when action is unlocked. This prevents firing pin from moving forward into contact with cartridge primer unless bolt is fully locked." "Mauser Bolt Rifle", Third edition by Ludwig Olson page 96.
Special edition one per customer pre order. Only delivers in Germany. Cannot be resold on the sellers market. No Scalpers. Also includes cleaning kit and Mauser mascot.
My father served during WW II. During basic training a bolt action rifle was sent around chambered in .50 browning. His sergeant had my father shoot it and asked about recoil which my father noted as being brisk, he and his brother owned a double barrel ten gage, The sergeant, who was a small man, tried it and the gun was sent back to wherever it came from. I note this because of a lack or content on a gun like this. Nobody seems to know anything about such a gun.
TBF, the whole concept of a 'muzzle brake' wouldn't be a thing for another 30+ years... ...but, true to form (IIRC), the Germans would think of it first.
Strange that the first model was labeled "Kurz". That suggests to me Mauser already had at least prototyped a longer version. More surprising is Mauser didn't label the second model "Leicht".
@@jmjedi923 Good point. If it's exercise equipment I should call my health insurance company and see if they'll let me use HSA funds to buy a Tankgewehr!
I did not read the title carefully. The thumbnail had me expecting yet another bolt action infantry rifle. The cut to the GIANT rifles took a moment to process.
2/10ths of a second after the camera fades, there's an almighty crash and Ian spends the next 25 minutes trying to extract himself from 2 Tankgewehrs...
First thought when I saw the two piece stock was that it'd have to be a pretty solid join to prevent recoil from breaking it over time, then I remember its a german gun so there's probably some overcomplicated method for glueing the two parts together.
Firing pin hole on the bolt looks hexagonal on the production model versus the circular profile on the Kurz. Would have liked to see the end of the firing pin on each. Please Keep them coming, even the book reviews (a paper book in 2020) are interesting.
Ian, Irt the angled cut at the front of the striker assay on the production gun as opposed to the flat cut on the kurz. The angled cut is a safety feature that prevents the firing pin from reaching the primer in case of a failure of the striker assembly. If the bolt is no rotated into the locked position, the firing pin will be prevented from moving forced enough to hit the primer.
"So, explain again how you got hospitalized from being stabbed with a striker." "Well, you see, I was sneaking up on this kraut cleaning his rifle. I thought the size of the rifle was an optical illusion until I got real close and he lunged at me with the striker."
@@banan4990 nope. Father Christmas. Yes, I actually do 'Father Christmas' for a couple of churches. Although, to one particularly annoying jerk, I told him I was a Born Again French Lumberjack. I expect he's *still* scratching his head over that one.
Imagine my surprise many decades ago when I first saw one of these rifles in a display case in a local pharmacy. Yep. Right by the pharmacy counter in the back. I did not even know what it was. The pharmacist was the owner and when he got a minute he told me about it. It was brought back from WW1 somehow and had been passed down to him. It was around 2000 when I saw it. I need to go by and see if its still there. He also had live ammo and some fired cases. I will not say what part of Earth it was in because some people do not respect such things. I hope he moved it because it is not a good part of town now.
I believe I saw one in the armory at " MC Armoury " (formerly McGregor Armoury) home of the 'The Fort Garry Horse armoured Reconnaissance' in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada.
Fans: Are those Tankgewehr or are you just happy to see me? Ian: don't worries these here are Kurz so you won't be so tired cleaning these barrels Me: i-i think I need to stop watching videos late at night.....
Love how they, on a quick glance, REALLY just look like WW1 bolt-actions scaled up and made chonky. Kinda looks like this is like two regular mausers, and a tiny Ian. :P
At 8:38 - the grove around the face of the bolt looks bigger on the bolt on the right. Maybe an optical illusion due to the different finish on the metal.
I swear, maxim and vickers guns were the AKs of the day, just slap a new system into it for it to use a different calibre and put it in military service. They did it with the 37mm "Pom Pom" gun, and they were planning to do it with this new 13.2mm gun.
You really hear conflicting things about the impact of first generation tanks on WW1 battlefield. The common colloquial narrative is that the tanks confused and scared the shit out of the Germans, who had nothing to counter them and freaked out and so on. But then you listen to actual historians and it sounds very differently. And I am not talking about some revisionist, pro German biased historians, or anything of the sorts. The British Tank Museum recently released a video on the PAK 43/41 anti tank gun, where they go into the history of towed anti tank guns and they say that German field artillery, which used medium caliber guns, like the 7.7cm gun for direct fire even before tanks showed up, were pretty capable at fighting tanks and in the Battle of Cambrai, a single German field artillery crew defeated the whole British tank assault.
@@thetrippedup9322 How do you know? Are there tons of letters written by German soldiers telling their loved ones that they are freaked out over giant shoe boxes rolling around on the battlefield?
@@TrangleC No, but here I'm purely going off of the idea of me being a human, and how I would react in 1917 if a massive shoebox with guns started rolling across the muddy field, filled with dead that separates me from my enemy. I suppose I am rather entrenched in the classic narrative, though. It is the only perspective I've seen on tanks in world war one. What's the book or talk you got this information from? Even if it isn't specifically about this subject, it'd still be interesting
@@thetrippedup9322 As I mentioned, the recent "PAK" video from the British Tank Museum talks about the beginnings of anti tank gunnery. Unfortunately RUclips doesn't allow me to put links in comments, but you should have no problem finding it, when looking for the RUclips channel of the British Tank Museum. The channel is simply called: "The Tank Museum" I gave up on extrapolating from my own perspective on what those people back then were feeling and thinking when I actually did look into it more deeply and did read some letters. They were nuts. German soldiers were really pissed when the war ended. Not a sign of relief to be found with the vast majority of them. They were pretty much like the Japanese at the end of WW2. Super angry over "being stabbed in the back" by politicians and robbed of their shot at true glory. They also were pretty sure the tides had changed in their favor and they would win the war, which isn't actually all that crazy when you consider that their "Sturmtruppen" tactics really did work and they were on the advance at many fronts when Germany surrendered. I recommend you read (or listen to the audio book) "The Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger. A very interesting account from the German perspective and full of dry upper crust humor of the kind you would expect from a British officer of the time, but which was pretty common on the German side too. The book is full of passages like: "Hans was a great lad. Unfortunately one day when we stormed a trench, he went one way and his face went another way. Shame, really. He was popular with the French girls and they often brought us wine and delicious food on his behalf." You know, this kind of stuff.
@@TrangleC I wouldnt be too sure about that, you can find plenty of testimony from confederate bitter enders trying to organise in Mexico, convinced after a bit of reorganisation they can restart the war and achieve victory. Theyd still lost the war. The Germans are the same, theres units still organised with high(ish) morale but theres a lot more who've collapsed, given up and surrendered or just hanging round in depots refusing to go back to the front. The fleet is in mutiny, the General staff has collapsed, the economy has vanished into the history books and the population is eating acorn coffee and sawdust bread. The Sturmtruppen had failed and everyone knew it, theyd taken the best of the troops in the east, the best weapons they could get by stripping their second and third tier troops of equipment and hurled them at the allied lines and been slaughtered by second tier units. When the British first tier units mounted an offensive the whole army collapsed. Most of that stab in the back myth comes weeks after the surrender when the survivors have had a chance to sleep, eat, reconstitute their unit discipline and the men who had deserted internally rejoin their units making up the numbers so units are getting back up to strength. Its these rebuilt units marching under discipline back into Germany to see the civil war and starvation that starts to create the myth of a functioning military stabbed in the back.
Hey Ian i've always wanted to see you get your hands on a Beretta M93R. It is probably my favorite machine pistol and it's on my bucket list to shoot one.
Imagine if the Kurz model was just shortened into the size of a regular 98 long rifle. Yeah that ain’t very creative but I’m gonna comment so RUclips likes this video more.
I'm assuming the original sight range is because they intended to use it against armoured cars as well as Tanks coupled with the limited experience of knowing how thick the armour would be
Brains are messed up, when you brought up the optical illusion thing I paused the video made a screenshot and copied the top half of one of the barrels over the other. Almost perfect fit yet when looking at it it's still hard to believe they have the same inner diameter.
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"Be vewy vewy quiet. I am hunting a tank. Ehehehe!"
- Obergefreiter Elmer Füdd. Western Front, August 1918 -
ääähm- was ist los, Doktor?
You win the internet for today!
Musik in meinen Ohren
@@davetheelasticgoose4838 You took wrong turn at Cambrai.
😂😂😂🤣
I'm pretty sure they gave the civil engineer in charge of designing bridges the job of designing the bipod.
probably took the extra metal they had from the barrel shortening and made the bipods out of it
you could hang 50,000lbs on each of those legs, the nut&bolt on a ball hitch is not even that thick
*edit* oh tubular.. maybe not
You know that the rifle weighs 35lbs empty, right?
@@ScottKenny1978 what's that in not-american?
@@Wolvenworks 15.9kg empty, 18.5kg loaded (edit: and with bipod attached)
Wow, a whopping 4 inches shorter? Should be called "Tankkarabiner"
The "angled cuts on the front of the firing pin" are a safety feature that came about in the Model 1898 Mauser. "Safety firing pin, which superseded the one with two-diameter shaft, has lugs that align with shoulders in bolt when action is unlocked. This prevents firing pin from moving forward into contact with cartridge primer unless bolt is fully locked." "Mauser Bolt Rifle", Third edition by Ludwig Olson page 96.
Ian out here with that limited edition T-Gewehr
Technically, they’re all limited edition now.
Special edition one per customer pre order. Only delivers in Germany. Cannot be resold on the sellers market. No Scalpers. Also includes cleaning kit and Mauser mascot.
"Table hasn't collapsed yet" is new "Final drive hasn't broken yet".
My father served during WW II. During basic training a bolt action rifle was sent around chambered in .50 browning. His sergeant had my father shoot it and asked about recoil which my father noted as being brisk, he and his brother owned a double barrel ten gage, The sergeant, who was a small man, tried it and the gun was sent back to wherever it came from. I note this because of a lack or content on a gun like this. Nobody seems to know anything about such a gun.
Ah, a 'short' tank rifle. You know, for close quarters room clearing. Of tanks.
Or passing Amazons!
Silent assasin
Kurds: I'll take your entire stock!
I mean, the M82 CQB exists.
Or, *Fully-Autonomous Trash Bins…* (Which, while fictional, are not much easier to deal with compared to WW1 tanks)
It's called "short", but Ian needed to bust out the wide angle for it. I guess short for a tank rifle.
“Short” is a relative term
@@KPen3750 ya know, I say that exact phrase all the time but your mom never seems to agree
@@Ezekiel_Allium lmao
@@Ezekiel_Allium Well. Reality isn't a consensus..
"Aren't you a bit short for a Stoßtruppe?"
"A Tank Hunter kit is available near your location."
I miss the times when bf1 was new
MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!
This and the infiltrator were the most fun. Truly an elite class.
@@Kikker861 agreed
Fucking elite kit campers man
An obrez-version of this would be rad, good for blinding troops in the trenches with that muzzle blast, while probably setting them on fire as well
2 shots only, one per shoulder
Robert Rodriguez cut the stock off aswell
Add a fin grip so they can't even get a proper hold of the thing
may as well make it some high-low system
Id run it
Me: thinks I know everything about the T-gewer
Ian: there is another
thats definitely a "hold my beer" rifle
Hold me weisswurst sausage
The lack of a muzzle brake makes my soul hurt.
Probably made some poor guys shoulder/life hurt
And its presence would hurt your ears. 😉
TBF, the whole concept of a 'muzzle brake' wouldn't be a thing for another 30+ years...
...but, true to form (IIRC), the Germans would think of it first.
You, a German soldier: "Mauser 1918 Tankgewehr Kurz"
Me, an intellectual: "13mm Snubnose"
13mm shorty
13mm midget
!3mm short therefore looks a fatty.
Strange that the first model was labeled "Kurz". That suggests to me Mauser already had at least prototyped a longer version. More surprising is Mauser didn't label the second model "Leicht".
I was expecting that there would be footage of him dual wielding these...
Daniel D'alessandro considering you could probably work out using one of these asa weight that would be impressive
@@jmjedi923 I'm not opposed to it. Gyms are closed due to a lock down so I'm willing to use anything at this point lol
@@jmjedi923 Good point. If it's exercise equipment I should call my health insurance company and see if they'll let me use HSA funds to buy a Tankgewehr!
@@jmjedi923 I am recalling the c&arsenal video and have the comical image of Ian flying backwards after firing both at once.
How to instantly dislocated both of your shoulders at once
You can tell how giddy and excited Ian is about this one ☺️
The people of the internet demand a live shooting demonstration at the gun range 👨🏼⚖️
Mae has already done this with a standard model. Her shoulder has recovered by this time.
Alright, we got the compact, when are we get the subcompact? I'm looking to step my concealed carry game up.
Imagine if this was an Obrez.
Hell yeah! This is what the gun needed.
It always felt unwieldy to me when I used it in CQB in the trenches.
Especially with a bayonet on the end
Wait, you didnt get the obrez model? Or even the bulpup one? Those are way shorter, and the obrez is quite effective on trenches ive heard
@@WingMaster562 Ah, the flash bang of the great war.
Every time I see different gun channels promote each-other I get all warm inside.
Great video as always!
Well yea, 2A friendly people gotta stick together.
@@bigredwolf6 "2A" and "Friendly" don't always go well...
Warm inside? What are ya? Gay?
And considering Ian has been a part of
the C&Rsenal crew. It makes sense.
"Hey the TG is way too big, can you fix this?"
Engineer: "Dont worry I got this"
*Takes out hacksaw*
Thats the least ‘kurz’ looking Kurz rifle I’ve seen
They keep using that word. I don't think it means what they think it means.
Prepare to be surprised by the Maus tank, then.
I think they put shortened guns on pocket battleships.
For concealed carry, of course.
@@TammoKorsai The Maus is considerably smaller than the Ratte. So there is no surpise to be prepared for.
@@maxlutz3674 why does it being smaller than the Ratte mean it couldn't be surprising?
Colloquially known as “die schüldersnappen”
For best results, tape a sandbag onto your shoulder to maybe absorb some recoil
That's not a word. O.o
Each man was expected to fire it twice and tthen on to the next man.
"Schulterbrecher" would be a real German word by the way.
They probably get they it’s not right they were just making a joke.
I keep seeing that table sway, and it instantly causes concern. A good demonstration of just how heavy those beasts really are!
I did not read the title carefully. The thumbnail had me expecting yet another bolt action infantry rifle.
The cut to the GIANT rifles took a moment to process.
You really thought you would see a soldier casually shooting a big gun like that?
@@mirage7487 No I thought it was a video on a standard size infantry rifle. A glimpse of the thumbnail doesn't really give scale.
2/10ths of a second after the camera fades, there's an almighty crash and Ian spends the next 25 minutes trying to extract himself from 2 Tankgewehrs...
For the non German speakers kurz means short well less long perhaps in this case
kurz always means short
@@creepyendy Haha not in this case
Creep
@@creepyendy It also means some guy whose way too into poetry played by Marlon Brando
I would’ve called it the kürzer
When Ian said that this Kurtz model is shorter, my dumbass thought it was bulpup for a moment.
Mcmillan Tac 50 : Who are you ?
Kurz Tankgewehr : I am your grandfather...
The shorter version not converted to .50BMG usually sells for around $25-30K. That is a very expensive rifle he is getting to play with.
First thought when I saw the two piece stock was that it'd have to be a pretty solid join to prevent recoil from breaking it over time, then I remember its a german gun so there's probably some overcomplicated method for glueing the two parts together.
Probably has some kind of interlocking dove tail like cut that was glued.
@@curiousentertainment3008 Or pegs? But yeah too simple...too simple.
It uses intersecting hollow mono-helical screws to bind them. The screws have to be driven simultaneously to engage each other. /s
Someone needs to give Ian an another Tankgewehr so that he has to say the whole backstory for the fourth time
My first thought was "I'm sorry, WHAT?"
THIS is my boomstick!
Gotta upvote an Army of Darkness reference.
Firing pin hole on the bolt looks hexagonal on the production model versus the circular profile on the Kurz. Would have liked to see the end of the firing pin on each. Please Keep them coming, even the book reviews (a paper book in 2020) are interesting.
Glad to see you are doing well Ian.
Not to mention the "Leicht" version: half a pound lighter for more mobility than ever!
Ian, Irt the angled cut at the front of the striker assay on the production gun as opposed to the flat cut on the kurz. The angled cut is a safety feature that prevents the firing pin from reaching the primer in case of a failure of the striker assembly. If the bolt is no rotated into the locked position, the firing pin will be prevented from moving forced enough to hit the primer.
is Kurz Tankgewehr the german for “i cast fireball”?
Small Tank Gun
Arrow of Tank Slaying
@@dirrt5011 Short tank rifle. „Small tank gun“ would be „kleines Panzer Gewehr/Waffe“
"I cast horse explosion!"
Duncan fucking Fisher
9:00 - Firing pin assembly the size of a small bayonet !
"So, explain again how you got hospitalized from being stabbed with a striker."
"Well, you see, I was sneaking up on this kraut cleaning his rifle. I thought the size of the rifle was an optical illusion until I got real close and he lunged at me with the striker."
@@andrewsuryali8540 : Heh :-)
The cuts on the firing pin are to prevent a broken firing pin from hitting the primer out of battery.
i like how the firing pin can be used as a shiv
Those are actually regular sized rifles, Ian just shrunk really small.
One of your more memorable videos Ian. Very cool.
"And the table hasn't collapsed yet" lol
One big ass Model 10 "Skinny Barrel" vs "Heavy Barrel", LOL.
Come on, you saw 'kurz tankgewehr' in the title and some part of you was hoping to see one with a 16" barrel and folding stock.
Funny thing. Most small arms have their rear sight adjustable up to more than a kilometer but this big gun has only half a kilometer sight
Never thought I would be up as early as Forgotten Weapons...
Did your school get cancelled?(mine did)
I was actually able to sleep in for once, and I still woke up early enough to catch a lesson from Gun Jesus
i still haven't gone to sleep. U.S CST
Better performance and lighter weight? Sold!
You sir are the laird of forgotten weapons! If I had one it would be yours. Via loch post.
You kinda look like discount santa claus
@@J0man1 you, Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
@@banan4990 nope. Father Christmas.
Yes, I actually do 'Father Christmas' for a couple of churches.
Although, to one particularly annoying jerk, I told him I was a Born Again French Lumberjack.
I expect he's *still* scratching his head over that one.
I love how it just barely fits in frame
Imagine my surprise many decades ago when I first saw one of these rifles in a display case in a local pharmacy. Yep. Right by the pharmacy counter in the back. I did not even know what it was. The pharmacist was the owner and when he got a minute he told me about it. It was brought back from WW1 somehow and had been passed down to him. It was around 2000 when I saw it. I need to go by and see if its still there. He also had live ammo and some fired cases. I will not say what part of Earth it was in because some people do not respect such things. I hope he moved it because it is not a good part of town now.
I believe I saw one in the armory at " MC Armoury " (formerly McGregor Armoury) home of the 'The Fort Garry Horse armoured Reconnaissance' in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada.
maybe some of the tankgewehr gunners had the bright idea of using it as a sniper rifle,which would explain the extra notches.
Thank you , Ian .
Fans: Are those Tankgewehr or are you just happy to see me?
Ian: don't worries these here are Kurz so you won't be so tired cleaning these barrels
Me: i-i think I need to stop watching videos late at night.....
i got a feeling that a machine gun would be absolutely massive.
Great video Ian.
There are stories of these guns fracturing collar bones and dislocating the shooters shoulder
That is one Hell of a Boomstick.!!!
Its like the rifle version of a Punt Gun.
Love how they, on a quick glance, REALLY just look like WW1 bolt-actions scaled up and made chonky.
Kinda looks like this is like two regular mausers, and a tiny Ian.
:P
Ian pronouncing a French word: Perfection.
Ian encountering a German word: Immediately gives up trying.
Time to mount it on a camera tripod again to compare!
I always love a C&Rsenal shoutout
GunJesus always gives us the best gifts for the holidays
At 8:38 - the grove around the face of the bolt looks bigger on the bolt on the right. Maybe an optical illusion due to the different finish on the metal.
That is one HEAVY DUTY table you got there !
The Kurtz model barrel reminds me of an M2 HB barrel.
Tanks for the memories.
Just what I need for dragon hunting! I'll take both!
When you finally review a gun big enough to break the table while still classifying as small arms, you can retire.
I swear, maxim and vickers guns were the AKs of the day, just slap a new system into it for it to use a different calibre and put it in military service. They did it with the 37mm "Pom Pom" gun, and they were planning to do it with this new 13.2mm gun.
Imagine having a rarer version of a already rare rifle
if you run out of ammunition you can take the barrel and beat the tank into submission with it.
Anyone else see this and think about helsing abridged " _______ loves canons "
*Big tiddied police girl has entered the chat*
Opened the video and definitely thought it was forced perspective to make Ian look very smol
You really hear conflicting things about the impact of first generation tanks on WW1 battlefield.
The common colloquial narrative is that the tanks confused and scared the shit out of the Germans, who had nothing to counter them and freaked out and so on.
But then you listen to actual historians and it sounds very differently. And I am not talking about some revisionist, pro German biased historians, or anything of the sorts.
The British Tank Museum recently released a video on the PAK 43/41 anti tank gun, where they go into the history of towed anti tank guns and they say that German field artillery, which used medium caliber guns, like the 7.7cm gun for direct fire even before tanks showed up, were pretty capable at fighting tanks and in the Battle of Cambrai, a single German field artillery crew defeated the whole British tank assault.
To be fair, even when they found ways to counter it they were definitely still freaked out.
@@thetrippedup9322 How do you know? Are there tons of letters written by German soldiers telling their loved ones that they are freaked out over giant shoe boxes rolling around on the battlefield?
@@TrangleC No, but here I'm purely going off of the idea of me being a human, and how I would react in 1917 if a massive shoebox with guns started rolling across the muddy field, filled with dead that separates me from my enemy. I suppose I am rather entrenched in the classic narrative, though. It is the only perspective I've seen on tanks in world war one. What's the book or talk you got this information from? Even if it isn't specifically about this subject, it'd still be interesting
@@thetrippedup9322 As I mentioned, the recent "PAK" video from the British Tank Museum talks about the beginnings of anti tank gunnery.
Unfortunately RUclips doesn't allow me to put links in comments, but you should have no problem finding it, when looking for the RUclips channel of the British Tank Museum.
The channel is simply called: "The Tank Museum"
I gave up on extrapolating from my own perspective on what those people back then were feeling and thinking when I actually did look into it more deeply and did read some letters.
They were nuts.
German soldiers were really pissed when the war ended. Not a sign of relief to be found with the vast majority of them. They were pretty much like the Japanese at the end of WW2. Super angry over "being stabbed in the back" by politicians and robbed of their shot at true glory. They also were pretty sure the tides had changed in their favor and they would win the war, which isn't actually all that crazy when you consider that their "Sturmtruppen" tactics really did work and they were on the advance at many fronts when Germany surrendered.
I recommend you read (or listen to the audio book) "The Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger. A very interesting account from the German perspective and full of dry upper crust humor of the kind you would expect from a British officer of the time, but which was pretty common on the German side too.
The book is full of passages like: "Hans was a great lad. Unfortunately one day when we stormed a trench, he went one way and his face went another way. Shame, really. He was popular with the French girls and they often brought us wine and delicious food on his behalf."
You know, this kind of stuff.
@@TrangleC I wouldnt be too sure about that, you can find plenty of testimony from confederate bitter enders trying to organise in Mexico, convinced after a bit of reorganisation they can restart the war and achieve victory. Theyd still lost the war.
The Germans are the same, theres units still organised with high(ish) morale but theres a lot more who've collapsed, given up and surrendered or just hanging round in depots refusing to go back to the front. The fleet is in mutiny, the General staff has collapsed, the economy has vanished into the history books and the population is eating acorn coffee and sawdust bread.
The Sturmtruppen had failed and everyone knew it, theyd taken the best of the troops in the east, the best weapons they could get by stripping their second and third tier troops of equipment and hurled them at the allied lines and been slaughtered by second tier units.
When the British first tier units mounted an offensive the whole army collapsed.
Most of that stab in the back myth comes weeks after the surrender when the survivors have had a chance to sleep, eat, reconstitute their unit discipline and the men who had deserted internally rejoin their units making up the numbers so units are getting back up to strength.
Its these rebuilt units marching under discipline back into Germany to see the civil war and starvation that starts to create the myth of a functioning military stabbed in the back.
Ooo! I've been waiting on this ep!
Time to play battlefield 1 again thanks Ian.
Size isn't everything, it's what you do with it that counts Ian.
"There's a tank hunter kit in your AO"
I used to own gun number 309 which had the std long barrel and a one piece stock.
Hey Ian i've always wanted to see you get your hands on a Beretta M93R. It is probably my favorite machine pistol and it's on my bucket list to shoot one.
Basically your early version of the 50 cal but much simpler.
The shortened tankgeweher, for everyday cary
Imagine if the Kurz model was just shortened into the size of a regular 98 long rifle.
Yeah that ain’t very creative but I’m gonna comment so RUclips likes this video more.
Really liked using this in BF1.
I'm assuming the original sight range is because they intended to use it against armoured cars as well as Tanks coupled with the limited experience of knowing how thick the armour would be
Could the lack of tapering on the early version also reflect a concern about pressure for the new cartridge?
There was an aircraft designer called Kurt Tank. He designed the FW-190. I wonder if he was related to one of these rifles?
If anybody didn't deduce it by now, "kurz" (pronounced "kurts") means "short".
damn those firing pins look like replacement cartridges for an ink pen, assuming it was custom made for Andre the Giant
An antivehicle kit is available near your location.
Only in this new world can i go from The Eagles to Tank shooters. thanks ian
Brains are messed up, when you brought up the optical illusion thing I paused the video made a screenshot and copied the top half of one of the barrels over the other. Almost perfect fit yet when looking at it it's still hard to believe they have the same inner diameter.
Man....the kick on that rifle’s gotta be insane....😬
Pretty impressive, for sure, but everyone shooting it seems to have an enormous grin on their face.
*A tank hunter kit is available near your location*
I wish you had shown a picture of the cartridge itself