A.N.C.A.: How do we get more people to got to the firearms museum? Guy: How about get Ian McCollum from forgotten weapons. A.N.C.A.: How though? Guy: Well we have a French gu- Ian: *B O N J O U R*
@@DrBunnyMedicinal I remember commenting on a video here around that time mentioning the museum and some of its content. The museum has some incredible and unique stuff, including 2 big train mounted siege mortars from WW1.
@@bofoenss8393 "The museum has some incredible and unique stuff, including 2 big train mounted siege mortars from WW1." Ooh, that does sound utterly fascinating and definitely unique. Alas, Romania is really FAR from Australia. And that's by Australian standards!😞
"Of course I'm going to find a french rifle." I absolutely love the fact that he fully admitted his obsession over the french guns. That definitely made me laugh.
Ian did such a phenomenal job documenting French battle rifle history that the French anti terror unit invited Ian to put his gropy little mitts on everything he wanted in their gun vault..... so yeah, if he doesn't admit it himself he knows full well that his audience WILL :P
I think Ian deserves considerable credit for his obvious dedication, over the course of a few years, to improving enormously his pronunciation of foreign names, places and other relevant words. It shows a big difference from, say, 8 or 10 years ago. And it’s not an easy endeavour, especially given the significant number of countries he’s visited in recent years. A few phrases of the local language, especially with some genuine attempt to replicate accurate pronunciation, I’ve found goes a long way to connecting with the locals and, ironically, when you do make a fair attempt to ‘do in Rome…” so to speak, my experience has been that they are, more often than not, quite happy to converse with you in English.
I never even knew of Berthier rifles until Gun Jesus enlightened me, the more I look at them, the more I like them. He’s changed my opinion on a few French firearms. This is a cool example of a Berthier for sure.
Royal Tiger had some cool examples a week or two ago if you haven't checked them out. The ones with heavy wear are quite cheap if you want one as a wall hanger. I'd already have one (that bottom-ejecting clip design is super neat), but as a lefty I don't want another right-hand bolt gun!
Hello, Ian, Romanian guy, here! I'm a really really big fan of your channel and one of the exactly 16 people in Romania who love guns and their engineering! I wanted to wish you a great visit in my motherland and I'm really glad you checked out the Military Museum since it's got a lot of really cool stuff. I hope you also checked out the backyard full of AFVs and Artillery!
Small world. Only 16 out of 19 million Romanians love gun engineering and history, and I happen to work with one in Denmark and find another on RUclips. I'm 14 to go I guess! :P
@@__Mr.Long__ Dude! We might end up seeing the ENTIRE Romanian gun engineering enthusiast community in a single comment thread! Only Gun Jesus can conduct such miracles :P
No idea when he actually visited, but last year at least, the backyard was being reorganised, so a lot of the stuff normally exhibited* there wasn't actually accessible. *parked mostly at random with little to no information.
Allocating rifles geographically rather than standardizing demonstrates a pragmatic approach. Preserving the original rear sight and adapting the bayonet compatibility maintain functionality.
All of this channel's comments on FW are clearly AI generated. I wonder if the likes are from bots.. Just saw this channel's content, out of curiosity. It's all BS.
I’m actually in the middle to trying to write and make my first video on a Romanian handgun. I’ve been shoving a ton of information into my head for the past week about Romanian history and trying to get an inside look about Cugir Arsenal. What a coincidence that you’re currently visiting Romania and putting out a video on a beautiful piece of their history!
Ian is capable to come to Italy and start talking about a napoleonic era french musket because "that is what the Carabinieri adopted after the french left Piedmont"
I had a Romanian Mosin M44 I paid $55 bucks for in 2006. Sold it a few years ago for $250. I see now it is worth about $800. Man I wish I would have kept that gun. 😔
Bummer! According to sources, Romania only made 70,000 (total) of these over a 3 year period (1953-1955), with only about 2,000 - 3,000 in 1953. Compared to the Soviet Union's 7 million, Romania's total production is 0.01% of that. Pretty rare piece. Mine is a 1955. Love that thing.
Must have went to the same show. In 2004 I bought a Romanian M44 for $75 with a spam can of 7.62x54 Yellow Tips. Mine had 1/4” of preservative grease and took a lot of scrubbing and soaking to clean up.
Visited the Museum just 2 weeks ago. Now im smacked by the idea that i might have run into Ian there if i went on a different day 😂😵💫 Really hope you enjoyed Romania Ian!
Beautiful! Thank you for this! I've a Berthier carbine my grandfather brought back from the trenches but it is a bit lighter as the front barrel band is gone and the wood somewhat cut back and curved up to the barrel. I've the original 'pig sticker' bayonet with sheath and leather frog as well.
Hi Ian, enjoy your stay in Romania and, like always, thank you for your very informative and interesting productions. Cheers from Sydney Australia, your subscriber Nick.
I really enjoyed your explanation of the shortened Berthier rifles-turned-carbines, no matter how far away you are monsieur Ian there always will be French firearms that will await you.
Interesting historical insight into the Romanian Berthier Carbine Conversions! It's fascinating to see how practical solutions were implemented to address shortages. However, it's unfortunate that so few of these conversions survived World War Two, leaving them scarce today. Preservation of such pieces of history is crucial for future generations to understand the intricacies of firearm evolution and wartime adaptations
The last time i was this early, I'aan ibn Khalaami had the secrets of Kraut Space Magic revealed to him by the spirit of Georg Luger in the H&K Grey Room
Really nice to see you here in Romania, sir. I am sure you found a lot of interesting things. Maybe you will make a tour of the museum video. Keep it up.
It was an interesting choice to sleeve the original muzzle back onto the shortened, machined-down barrel. I am sightly surprised those features weren't directly put onto the shortened barrel, considering that their arsenal machined down its diameter and also swapped out the front-sight.
That end of the barrel bit sleeve on there is really cool. I imagine the tolerances are tight enough that it's just pressed on there? Or did they have some kind of lock tight to put in there? Also did the bother to try and match up the rifling? Does that even make any difference if they did or not?🤔
There's no join in the bore. When they cut the end off, the end piece will have been bored out significantly. The end section of the remaining barrel is then turned down on the outside so the old muzzle section can fit over it, leaving the bore untouched. I'm not sure how exactly the old muzzle section is attached, but presumably it's pinned in place or similar.
A shortened sight radius would result is more extreme drops over the adjustment range which might work with the decreased velocity of a shorter barrel.
Wow, A.N.C.A was really in the Zone with their decision to invite Ian! In fact, under the leadership of the awesome Sandu Marinescu, they often have very good ideas like this! I think this video explains their decision-making process well: ruclips.net/video/yvsR-xciOTg/видео.html
Interesting, but when Ian says the museum has one of these shortened rifles with an original carbine bolt, I can't totally agree with him. Indeed, it could be a carbine bolt, but it could also be the original rifle bent bolt, as the early 1907-15 rifles kept the bent bolt of the 1907 colonial rifle they were designed upon. It could be interesting to check if the bolt matches the barrel, except if the rifle has been rebarreled of course
Did he mention the museum name? The national army museum. I guess that’s the ANCA logo in the background lol. I’ve been to Bucharest and they have a nice military museum with many many guns and a great collection of vehicles including a radar truck, a MIG19, and a Soviet space capsule.
Someone must invite Ian to do a tour on Argentina's National Arms Museum and let him get his hands on the Rifle Criollo and the Halcón, MEMS and FMK family of submachineguns at least.
Iean has at least 6 clones, it's the only explanation for him being omnipresent. I think the scientist dropped a garlic clove in the growing tank ,this explains the odd french obsession 😄
3:06 I do not think that when you shorten the barell you should ground those steps. I think that when you loose balistic properties you should add material to those steps or rise complete rear sight with shim.
Another thought provoking video. Here is the thought that it provoked in my head. If you part off the muzzle end to keep the bayonet mount and then you shorten the barrel and then you graft the muzzle back on, what about the internal rifling? I doubt that you could design the cutoff to maintain continuous timing of the rifling and a butt joint of random mismatched rifling would not do good things for accuracy so how was that handled?? 🤠❓
The front part is cut and drilled out. The new barrel length has a milled front part and the "old" front part with the bayonet lugs and front post is slipped over.
I have never seen a conversion like this. In relation to the muzzle: How did they keep that part fixed after sleve it over? Welding? Thermal interference? Greetings from Argentine Patagonia. (I don't know if I'm using the correct technical terms because I'm not an English speaker).
Eso me llamó la atención también. Parece la forma más complicada y cara posible de hacerlo. La solución griega de simplemente cortar los cañones y modificar las bayonetas suena mucho más lógico y simple.
@@bulukacarlos4751 Argentino de familia italiana con grandes historias de la PGM y SGM, seguidor de Forgotten Weapons desde hace muchos años, habitante del putrefacto partido de La Matanza de toda la vida, y tampoco sé cómo se dice en inglés "sunchado térmico".
If You check the history of the Balkans You will see, that WW1 didn’t end, like in other places. You also had Balkan wars, Hungary revolting with a communist regime against the WW1 splitting of the country etc. so the 1920’s were too busy to do this rearming and working on changing the rifles… Then came the Hitler-Stalin pact and new WW in the other direction.
I wonder if any were converted to 7.9 like many Carcanos were. I have wanted a Berthier carbine for my C&R collection for a while but the only ones readily available are beat up bad bore specimens from tiger imports.
ian were any of these rifles converted to 8mm mauser? i imagine at the out break of war and eventual occupation it would be hard to get 8mm lebel ammo shipped to Romania.
I will be in Bucharest this summer actually, can anyone give me more information on this museum like opening times and prices for visitors I would love to see it .
@Ian: As of now, the lede says "Romanian had more than a million rifles in its inventory after World War One, but they were mused between...." Should that be "mixed between" or perhaps "split between?"
The 3 round magazine always sounded weird to me, did they ever tried to make like a 5rounds berthiers ? is it too complicated because of the cartrige or did they just thought "meh, 3 rounds is good enough" ?
A.N.C.A.: How do we get more people to got to the firearms museum?
Guy: How about get Ian McCollum from forgotten weapons.
A.N.C.A.: How though?
Guy: Well we have a French gu-
Ian: *B O N J O U R*
Yup, thats lore accurate 😂
Ian McCollum is documented to be able to sniff out French guns at over 20 nautical miles
@@JPR3DPlus one ocean and two continents.😁
😂😂😂
I visited that museum in October 2017 and my first thought was "Wow, Ian would have the time of his life here!" Absolutely amazing museum.
Called that one well, clearly! 😆
@@DrBunnyMedicinal I remember commenting on a video here around that time mentioning the museum and some of its content. The museum has some incredible and unique stuff, including 2 big train mounted siege mortars from WW1.
@@bofoenss8393 "The museum has some incredible and unique stuff, including 2 big train mounted siege mortars from WW1."
Ooh, that does sound utterly fascinating and definitely unique.
Alas, Romania is really FAR from Australia. And that's by Australian standards!😞
"Of course I'm going to find a french rifle." I absolutely love the fact that he fully admitted his obsession over the french guns. That definitely made me laugh.
Ian really seems like a good egg who doesn't take himself too seriously.
@@petesheppard1709 either that or his nose is tuned to the combined aroma of garlic and gun oil
He literally always has, this isn't new. He's A major Francophile.
The Romanian army was modeled after the French Army so they were equally obsessed.
Ian did such a phenomenal job documenting French battle rifle history that the French anti terror unit invited Ian to put his gropy little mitts on everything he wanted in their gun vault..... so yeah, if he doesn't admit it himself he knows full well that his audience WILL :P
I really like that re-sleaving of the muzzle end so it can keep the original bayonet, that's just neat!
I think Ian deserves considerable credit for his obvious dedication, over the course of a few years, to improving enormously his pronunciation of foreign names, places and other relevant words. It shows a big difference from, say, 8 or 10 years ago. And it’s not an easy endeavour, especially given the significant number of countries he’s visited in recent years. A few phrases of the local language, especially with some genuine attempt to replicate accurate pronunciation, I’ve found goes a long way to connecting with the locals and, ironically, when you do make a fair attempt to ‘do in Rome…” so to speak, my experience has been that they are, more often than not, quite happy to converse with you in English.
A little bit of respectful effort goes a really long way, partly because of how much less common it is to see someone making the effort.
I never even knew of Berthier rifles until Gun Jesus enlightened me, the more I look at them, the more I like them. He’s changed my opinion on a few French firearms. This is a cool example of a Berthier for sure.
Go take a cold shower then go for a long walk in the woods and have a word with yourself (joke) 😅
You say that and next thing you know you'll have five different variants of the Berthier...
French has Lots of good ideas in military stuff, but they always look goofy and ugly
Royal Tiger had some cool examples a week or two ago if you haven't checked them out. The ones with heavy wear are quite cheap if you want one as a wall hanger. I'd already have one (that bottom-ejecting clip design is super neat), but as a lefty I don't want another right-hand bolt gun!
Finally! Some Romanian content!!! Can't wait to see more !
I've always thought the Berthier had the most elegant look of that era. The slight curve of the stock covering the magazine just looks right.
Hello, Ian, Romanian guy, here! I'm a really really big fan of your channel and one of the exactly 16 people in Romania who love guns and their engineering! I wanted to wish you a great visit in my motherland and I'm really glad you checked out the Military Museum since it's got a lot of really cool stuff. I hope you also checked out the backyard full of AFVs and Artillery!
Small world. Only 16 out of 19 million Romanians love gun engineering and history, and I happen to work with one in Denmark and find another on RUclips. I'm 14 to go I guess! :P
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
12 now, keep on counting
@@__Mr.Long__ Dude! We might end up seeing the ENTIRE Romanian gun engineering enthusiast community in a single comment thread! Only Gun Jesus can conduct such miracles :P
No idea when he actually visited, but last year at least, the backyard was being reorganised, so a lot of the stuff normally exhibited* there wasn't actually accessible.
*parked mostly at random with little to no information.
Allocating rifles geographically rather than standardizing demonstrates a pragmatic approach. Preserving the original rear sight and adapting the bayonet compatibility maintain functionality.
All of this channel's comments on FW are clearly AI generated. I wonder if the likes are from bots.. Just saw this channel's content, out of curiosity. It's all BS.
@@me.ne.frego. Fake news. FW has been around for years.
Why yes my good sir, I definitely am a robot, you got me there
@@fitfox_1419 You definitely are a robot, and a very not bright one.
I’m actually in the middle to trying to write and make my first video on a Romanian handgun. I’ve been shoving a ton of information into my head for the past week about Romanian history and trying to get an inside look about Cugir Arsenal. What a coincidence that you’re currently visiting Romania and putting out a video on a beautiful piece of their history!
I'm still scarred from the time Ian spent almost a full week on *just* the Berthier
Who can forget forgotten bergmanns?
And by scarred I must assume you mean "filled with joy".
Ian is capable to come to Italy and start talking about a napoleonic era french musket because "that is what the Carabinieri adopted after the french left Piedmont"
Depth of knowledge that never disappoints. Enjoying seeing things from our somewhat long lost friends in eastern Europe. Thanks
I had a Romanian Mosin M44 I paid $55 bucks for in 2006. Sold it a few years ago for $250. I see now it is worth about $800. Man I wish I would have kept that gun. 😔
Too bad money is worth less than it was in 2006. 😂
Bummer! According to sources, Romania only made 70,000 (total) of these over a 3 year period (1953-1955), with only about 2,000 - 3,000 in 1953. Compared to the Soviet Union's 7 million, Romania's total production is 0.01% of that. Pretty rare piece. Mine is a 1955. Love that thing.
Must have went to the same show. In 2004 I bought a Romanian M44 for $75 with a spam can of 7.62x54 Yellow Tips. Mine had 1/4” of preservative grease and took a lot of scrubbing and soaking to clean up.
Visited the Museum just 2 weeks ago. Now im smacked by the idea that i might have run into Ian there if i went on a different day 😂😵💫
Really hope you enjoyed Romania Ian!
Beautiful! Thank you for this! I've a Berthier carbine my grandfather brought back from the trenches but it is a bit lighter as the front barrel band is gone and the wood somewhat cut back and curved up to the barrel. I've the original 'pig sticker' bayonet with sheath and leather frog as well.
Hi Ian, enjoy your stay in Romania and, like always, thank you for your very informative and interesting productions. Cheers from Sydney Australia, your subscriber Nick.
Welcome to Romania. Hope this is not the only video shot in Romania.
I really enjoyed your explanation of the shortened Berthier rifles-turned-carbines, no matter how far away you are monsieur Ian there always will be French firearms that will await you.
Since I will be in Bucharest next summer for a couple festivals, I will pay a visit to this museum. Thanks for the tip!
im soo happy that im own an orignial Berthier 1890 mod for WW1 with 5 Shot clip.
That particular rifle has seen some wear that is for sure.
Now THAT is a Real Historian!
Interesting historical insight into the Romanian Berthier Carbine Conversions! It's fascinating to see how practical solutions were implemented to address shortages. However, it's unfortunate that so few of these conversions survived World War Two, leaving them scarce today. Preservation of such pieces of history is crucial for future generations to understand the intricacies of firearm evolution and wartime adaptations
Welcome - Bine ați venit 👏
The last time i was this early, I'aan ibn Khalaami had the secrets of Kraut Space Magic revealed to him by the spirit of Georg Luger in the H&K Grey Room
Does this mean a revision / re-compilation of "The Berthier Saga" ? My M-1916 carbine is so happy !
I have a few really cool berthier sword bayonets thay are some very interesting pieces
Very interesting. Thanks. Jim Bell (Australia)
Really nice to see you here in Romania, sir. I am sure you found a lot of interesting things. Maybe you will make a tour of the museum video. Keep it up.
Theres almost enough guns from romania to have their of FW playlist 😃
Very cool. Thank you Ian!
Romanian Contract firearms are simply amazing. The high standards show.
It was an interesting choice to sleeve the original muzzle back onto the shortened, machined-down barrel.
I am sightly surprised those features weren't directly put onto the shortened barrel, considering that their arsenal machined down its diameter and also swapped out the front-sight.
Thank you your amazing homie
Bine ai venit în România. 🇷🇴🤝🇺🇲
Did any country other than France convert Berthiers to a different cartridge?
Romania was sent lots of berretta m38s. Id pay good money to give a good home to 3 or 4 of them. If i could bring them home which is not likely
"was sent"
That end of the barrel bit sleeve on there is really cool. I imagine the tolerances are tight enough that it's just pressed on there? Or did they have some kind of lock tight to put in there? Also did the bother to try and match up the rifling? Does that even make any difference if they did or not?🤔
There's no join in the bore. When they cut the end off, the end piece will have been bored out significantly. The end section of the remaining barrel is then turned down on the outside so the old muzzle section can fit over it, leaving the bore untouched. I'm not sure how exactly the old muzzle section is attached, but presumably it's pinned in place or similar.
The new (cut) barrel extends up to the mouth, the sleeve merely comes over a small portion of a cylindrical area on the end of the new-length-barrel.
A bit of jb weld in that hole and it's as good as new! 🤪
What has been demilled can be remilled
Ian, have you ever covered the Kentucky Military History Museum in Frankfort and the George M. Chin collection?
A shortened sight radius would result is more extreme drops over the adjustment range which might work with the decreased velocity of a shorter barrel.
Excellent. Neat job on the sling point blank plug.
Yoy never know, maybe that item saw service in WW2 Russia ?
I wonder how many frequent flyer miles Ian has stacked up?
Wow, A.N.C.A was really in the Zone with their decision to invite Ian! In fact, under the leadership of the awesome Sandu Marinescu, they often have very good ideas like this! I think this video explains their decision-making process well: ruclips.net/video/yvsR-xciOTg/видео.html
I think that particular weapon could tell a few stories.
Interesting, but when Ian says the museum has one of these shortened rifles with an original carbine bolt, I can't totally agree with him. Indeed, it could be a carbine bolt, but it could also be the original rifle bent bolt, as the early 1907-15 rifles kept the bent bolt of the 1907 colonial rifle they were designed upon. It could be interesting to check if the bolt matches the barrel, except if the rifle has been rebarreled of course
Dang I live close to Cugir, I thought I saw Ian on the street 😂
Pozdrawiam serdecznie
Did he mention the museum name?
The national army museum. I guess that’s the ANCA logo in the background lol.
I’ve been to Bucharest and they have a nice military museum with many many guns and a great collection of vehicles including a radar truck, a MIG19, and a Soviet space capsule.
Someone must invite Ian to do a tour on Argentina's National Arms Museum and let him get his hands on the Rifle Criollo and the Halcón, MEMS and FMK family of submachineguns at least.
Weirdly not everyone is familiar with these rifles. It might have been nice to mention some things like the caliber, type of magazine etc.
Go watch his video on the Berthier then lol
@@bower31 Oh good. Homework. 😜
i hope he gets to check out all the cool romanian stuff like the pa md 2000 prototype or other interesting stuff
Carbines, the only time my lady gets excited by something shorter.
Last time I was this early, I was born.
ANCA - we watched this on HoWaW!
Slowly, gradually, Ian is creeping closer to Ukraine.
Gonna get us some videos on captured Russian Spetsnaz guns that aren't available in the West if we're lucky.
If only weapons could talk!
“Of course I’m going to find a French rifle in Romanian museum” haha
Good video.
Iean has at least 6 clones, it's the only explanation for him being omnipresent. I think the scientist dropped a garlic clove in the growing tank ,this explains the odd french obsession 😄
3:06 I do not think that when you shorten the barell you should ground those steps. I think that when you loose balistic properties you should add material to those steps or rise complete rear sight with shim.
Another thought provoking video. Here is the thought that it provoked in my head. If you part off the muzzle end to keep the bayonet mount and then you shorten the barrel and then you graft the muzzle back on, what about the internal rifling? I doubt that you could design the cutoff to maintain continuous timing of the rifling and a butt joint of random mismatched rifling would not do good things for accuracy so how was that handled?? 🤠❓
The front part is cut and drilled out. The new barrel length has a milled front part and the "old" front part with the bayonet lugs and front post is slipped over.
I wish Ian could have worked the bolt; it looks like the handle is back and the breech is closed.
"...by kind erangement of A.N.C.A."
me, listening only at the time. "ANKHA?"
I have never seen a conversion like this. In relation to the muzzle: How did they keep that part fixed after sleve it over? Welding? Thermal interference? Greetings from Argentine Patagonia. (I don't know if I'm using the correct technical terms because I'm not an English speaker).
Eso me llamó la atención también. Parece la forma más complicada y cara posible de hacerlo. La solución griega de simplemente cortar los cañones y modificar las bayonetas suena mucho más lógico y simple.
@@me.ne.frego. ¿Por tu alias estimo que también argentino? No sé como se dice en inglés "sunchado térmico" por eso le mandé "Thermal interference"
@@bulukacarlos4751 Argentino de familia italiana con grandes historias de la PGM y SGM, seguidor de Forgotten Weapons desde hace muchos años, habitante del putrefacto partido de La Matanza de toda la vida, y tampoco sé cómo se dice en inglés "sunchado térmico".
Is that the Sentinel Arms Striker in your Forgotten Weapons logo?
If You check the history of the Balkans You will see, that WW1 didn’t end, like in other places. You also had Balkan wars, Hungary revolting with a communist regime against the WW1 splitting of the country etc. so the 1920’s were too busy to do this rearming and working on changing the rifles… Then came the Hitler-Stalin pact and new WW in the other direction.
I wonder if any were converted to 7.9 like many Carcanos were. I have wanted a Berthier carbine for my C&R collection for a while but the only ones readily available are beat up bad bore specimens from tiger imports.
ian were any of these rifles converted to 8mm mauser? i imagine at the out break of war and eventual occupation it would be hard to get 8mm lebel ammo shipped to Romania.
It would pretty hard to convert it to 8mm Mauser. Think of the shape of the cases, more trouble than it was worth.
I will be in Bucharest this summer actually, can anyone give me more information on this museum like opening times and prices for visitors I would love to see it .
The price for adults is 20 lei.
Is that the same place that has a one off Orita M1941 in 9x23mm Steyr?
Nice!
It's ok to cut things down but could you actually hit what you aimed at with this thing .
Absolutely. The sights are perfectly good.
@Ian: As of now, the lede says "Romanian had more than a million rifles in its inventory after World War One, but they were mused between...."
Should that be "mixed between" or perhaps "split between?"
And I thought rifles from Ethiopia were rough!
I wonder if the rifling matches up to the cut portion.
Was captured 8mm Lebel from France sent to Romania?
Them keeping the full length bayonet makes sense because the Wallachians have a history of wanting to stab their opponents.
That carbine shows the worst case of blood pitting that I have ever seen on a weapon. Blood eats steel if not properly cleaned off.
I have my Romanian M69 .22 trainer. Could you do a video on that rifle.
Are you still in Romania?
1:29 Walachia… French 🇫🇷 rifles are now confirmed capable off using silver ammunition 1:29
The "Giving birth-eir." That rifle has always looked like it was pregnant.
Its like those cricket rifles but it shoots big boy bullets
Ian always seems to find a French gun.No matter where he goes.Or what country he’s in.
wait, YOU WERE IN ROMANIA?
Those crusty logos are kind of impressive to see in 2024.
I have a Remington made version.
How was the rifling twist aligned?
That’s 👍
I wonder if there are any of these in Russian museums, taken from surrendering Romanian troops after Stalingrad or other WW2 battles?
@forgotten weapons
Can you do handgun made by singer sewing company
Didn't he do one already?
The 3 round magazine always sounded weird to me, did they ever tried to make like a 5rounds berthiers ? is it too complicated because of the cartrige or did they just thought "meh, 3 rounds is good enough" ?
Yes, the 1916 model had a 5 round clip ruclips.net/video/iM0BCU7IAS8/видео.html
Lances and sabers were still considered main weapons for cavalry when the 3-shot carbines were designed.
Fourth from Indonesia here
Hey early team, let's go!
French rifle...*happy Ian noises*
Romanian Berthier Carbine Conversions
I wonder if Romanian soldiers used them in Operation Barbarossa?
The conversion was still going on in 1938. These are not an easy find because of losses in Barbarosa
Romanians are still using them, instead of modern weapons.