In response to the M14 comment. Everyone has different experiences, but my unit used the M14 EBRs we had in Afghanistan extensively. It definitely provided an ability that the M4/M16 platform couldn't. We didn't take it out on every mission, and it by no means was a perfect solution, but it was a good asset to have. Several times in a fight, only myself and the 240s had a capability to engage the enemy effectively and only myself had the ability to actually ID enemy fighters. Having the optic alone was great and despite the weight, having the magnification coupled with an an/pvs 22 night sight gave us an even larger advantage in the dark. Reliability wise, once I got a hold of some good magazines I really didn't have any notable issues. Overall, I would have rather had an M110 and it didn't need to be brought out every day, but having the ability to engage at 600 meters and actually see what was out there was a great asset. Training was a large issue though. We got them once when we got in country and the other two times about 2 weeks before deployment. There was no real training provided and I ended up with it twice by default simply because I knew how to use an M14 and I was familiar and somewhat experienced in long range shooting. A lot of units didn't have people that already had the base skill set to use it or the doctrinal understanding of how to employ it and so it never got utilized. Sorry for the large comment, love the content Karl and Ian.
Ian: He was alcoholic, depressed, died overweight... Karl: I don't know how much that's related to firearm design or how much that's just related to the normal human condition.
Ex-infantry, current cop here. I agree having a bunch of incompatible batteries are a pain, but with a battery in each device it's easy to waterproof all the electronics. O-ring on the battery cover, done. With an exposed rail of some sort you have to somehow make a waterproof plug system, or corrosion will mess up the connection in a hurry. Waterproof, removable connectors typically fail to be either waterproof or easily removeable.
aircraft have mil-spec water proof plugs, steal some from aviation. they aren't easily removable, their usually safety wired on, but do they really need to be quickly removable? how often are you taking off your peq-15?
Since the 1980s forward import restrictions, the assault weapons ban, and ATF sporting purpose interpretations discouraged manufacturers from investing in box fed shotguns. More recently (2011) the ATF finally ruled that detach mags are not inherently unsporting; and that’s why there’s finally interest from manufacturers to invest in it.
Thank you Russell, your insight and logical analysis of things really makes a great additive contrast to Ian and Karl. Would love to see you on one of these QAs.
googleplus ain'tthatgreat the more guns in circulation the harder that is to do. Declaring them nonsporting would make them all destructive devices With a tax free registration period.
I always wondered why in the entire life of the 12 gauge/shotgun shell there doesn’t seem to be much interest in developing a rimless shotgun shell. I can’t imagine it’d be that technologically challenging. The market may not buy in to it, but shotguns have been around for a *long* time. And rimless cartridges have been around for a really long time. Did nobody put those two together at a point in time when the normal shotgun rounds didn’t have the market inertia they do today?
Let's also not forget that most basic thing--the legal limitation of fowling pieces to a two-shot magazine was created to protect wildlife so a viable population would remain. True history and a proven logical law. That's why your tube-feed pump or auto has a two-round block, why the Marlin bolt-action shotguns had two-round detachable magazines, etc. For multiple centuries, shotguns purposed for hunting vastly outnumbered shotguns purposed exclusively for defense. Now we have more urbanized population, and in the United States much more restricted availability of hunting areas than ever before, such that even if your average working-Joe wanted to take his kid hunting like Grandpa took him, he can't--Grandpa's farm or hunting cabin got sold off twenty years ago when property taxes got too high or developer offers got too compelling. Now, for him, the shotgun is for home defense, dissuading looting rioters, or zombies.
Problem is, you need a bunch of very different companies to sign on to it. You need the firearm manufacturers (and not just one rifle), the optics manufacturers, laser manufacturers, light manufacturers. You need a big force to get these industries in line. Most likely it would take a large military asking for it to get the ball rolling.
From an engineering standpoint, adding a power line mod to a Pic (1913) rail would be simple. It would literally be as easy as having an embedded +5Vdc line that's insulated from the rail with a bare metal section of the rail for ground, with two spring loaded contact pins on the accessory. Alternatively, you could have micro USB ports in the rail valleys. Standardizing on something like USB makes it a cakewalk and you could even have data sharing between cameras and whatever else you mount. Throw the battery in the handgrip with a micro USB charging port and then use your car charger to boost it at any opportunity. LiPo battery swaps would take 5 seconds with the right latch and contact arrangement. Hell, you could mount a tiny solar panel on the top rail. Making it grunt proof would be the real challenge - dirt and water ingress mediation would be tough.
Been to Svalbard a pair of times where due to Polar Bears you're required by law to carry a gun anytime you leave the settlement. The governor there gives guidelines regarding firearms which more or less go like: if you carry a rifle it has to be at least 308, although 30-06 is the most popular caliber out there. When it comes to shotguns slugs are mandatory but rifles are preferred to shotguns due to malfunctions. And regarding handguns if not mistaken 44 magnum is the smalles. I personally haven't seen anybody carrying one overe there. And last but not least, people are encounraged to carry a flare gun to scare bears off when the situation allows you to do so as this seem to be very effective. That being said if you're camping in bear country you should also know some safety basics regarding the does and donts of setting a camp which many people have very little to no idea about.
I think 460 Rowland/Roland (idr the spelling. Sorry) might be worth looking into. Supposedly it is in the same ballpark as 44 mag, but it's rimless and there's a kit that allows you to drop it into a Glock. A G21 iirc.
Wrap buffer tube in copper wire, put magnet at the end of the bolt carrier (or the weight thingamajigger). Then firing the gun can help charge the battery
But then you have to fire the gun to charge, and the majority of your time with a rifle you are not firing it. Also that direction of motion isn’t great for generating a current (read efficient Joules/Watts), that’s why you see most use applications use a way of converting whatever motion into rotational force and spinning a shaft of the generator with a counter weight. The scifi (but still possible) solution is a piezo device that converts all the vibrations from you carrying and shaking the rifle into a current (then becomes calories/watts and the efficiency starts as >100%), you do a lot more carrying than shooting (if you didn’t know the bulk of electric lighter and grille igniters are piezo generators and they’ve proven to be extremely robust and reliable). The issue with the ‘hot shoe’ (literally the same way flash modules connected to cameras) idea Karl suggested is first and foremost needing to protect the unused contacts, it would be very expensive and in reality most would only ever use a few of the contacts anyway. The biggest point I see is that the AR has essentially stayed the same for decades but it’s peripherals have greatly advanced, imo that is why the AR to seems perfectly modern where many see the AK as out dated. If that trend continues there is a good chance what ever power supply you integrate into your AR in 2019 may not be adequate to power whatever future gadget we are lusting after in 2040, even with today’s tech using a stand-alone battery based supply to power both thermal sight/NODS along with an ir/white light is asking too much. Another point is my belief that the trend moving into the future will be to eliminate removable batteries all together and focus on being rechargeable, if the aimpoint of the mid 21st century is powered by an internal rechargeable unit your gun based charging unit would be retrograde and entirely useless.
....take it from a Canadian....bolt actions are also 5 round max. That is why the old Lee Enfields are pinned to only hold five rounds. Lever actions and pumps can hold more.
@@TheWolfsnack You are wrong, I also live in Canada. I'm also a firearms owner, there is no capacity limit for manual actions. I've never seen a pinned lee magazine, I've owned two No4 mk1's.
As a machinist that does r&d for high production runs . The ak is a simpler/easier weapon to make on a wide scale . Most of the parts are easier to make and also the specs on the individual parts are wider . The trigger did the ak fit example can be made from basic forgings with no machine work on most of the parts , vs ar/m16 with ground parts .
Good points. And the AR is probably easier for small shops to make, hence why the AR market has such a massive amount of companies making receivers and components. Anyone with CAD and a CNC machine can make a low production run of AR receivers. On the other hand, stamped metal requires a lot more specific tooling.
Ian, I understand your sentiments on camping completely. Ever since getting out of the Marines, I haven't really cared to go hang out in the woods. I mean, maybe if I had beer, and people who are actually friends, instead of people I'm forced to be around, and not have to do random stupid shit, but I really just don't care to. I appreciate real walls and a real roof, too.
31:40 the last time I went to a gun show I wanted to buy 1 of those $5 Chinese sks chest rigs. The gunshow boomers were selling them for like $30- $50. Asked them all if they were insane, they're like $5-$10. "I know what I got! This is a good deal, you cant yet these anymore, this is a collector's item, they're very rare now!" Then why do so many tables have them pops?
callhoonrepublican I am sorry to tell you that surplus shit does that. If you’re the casual surplus buyer you come off as just wait until a few years down the road when you see flecktarn prices, you’ll think ‘damn that stuff used to cost nothing’ and there’s a good reason for that if you care to research. From here into the future if you have a random thought that you would like to have a certain surplus item BUY IT RIGHT THEN AND THERE! The surplus market is kind of crazy in that way right now, if you don’t buy it asap chances are you’ll regret it. Funny enough it’s not just boomers doing this, recall the SADF rigs what is an SADF battle vest going for these days lol?
Speaking of polar bears - they're the reason that the danish Sirius Patrol in north east Greenland use Glock 20s as sidearms, 9mm parabellum wasn't cutting it - they also use M1917s as their long arms with M2 rounds for bear and civilian hollow point for enraged musk ox.
Thought on the action shooting with a flintlock: closer to run & gun than to 2GACM, but try to duplicate the circle of fire at the Battle of Lexington. 6 man teams, run, fire a volley, run, reload, run to next target array, repeat for 12 miles.
So a really serious historical battle re-enactment where you get a score, sounds interesting. Bet you could get a decent clutch of re-enactors interested on top of firearms enthusiasts.
@@yomaze2009 There are various run and gun/ dry land biathlon events where you run a distance- shoot - run another distance. In theory it wouldn't be hard to add a teams-with-crap-guns division to this. As far as would people show up, it would likely be a small group.
Phew! Been waiting all morning (since the Full30 email) for this to be released on RUclips. ;-) P.S. - I would *definitely* go to Barrow, AK. Anywhere the opposite of hot is a place I'll visit
Yep. There's not really an upper limit on how many layers you can put on, but there's only so many layers you can take off before people start screaming and the police arrive...
From Kalashnikov's obituary in the NYT: The general often claimed that he never realized any profit from his work. But in his last years he urged interviewers not to portray him as poor, noting that he had a sizable apartment, a good car and a comfortable dacha on a lake near the factory where he had worked for decades. Work and loyalty to country, he often suggested, were their own rewards. “I am told sometimes, ‘If you had lived in the West you would have been a multimillionaire long ago,’ ” he said. “There are other values.”
Reference the medic equipment. The basics go a long way. There is no need to get hyper advanced in the selection of equipment. Bandage, tourniquet, gauze, tape and scissors. If needs be you can make a chest seal to manage a sucking chest wound from plastic and tape. Take training, stop the bleed is an excellent first class. But much like shooting, medicine is all about the basics.....
Nutnfancy devoted like 6 hours to cover first aid kits. LOL I am mostly in agreement with you that training and typical IFAC kit stuff is most important.
With regard to comms encryption, I second Karl's recommendation of Signal. I would avoid WhatsApp, since it's owned by Facebook, which is obviously not a privacy-oriented company. As far as radio comms, as a licensed amateur radio operator myself, it is in violation of FCC regulations to use encryption as an amateur radio operator. However, there are a lot of legally accepted modes that would be very difficult for a 3rd party to find and listen in to if they don't know what modulation you are using. Most common is analog FM, but there are also a variety of digital modes now (DMR, D-Star, C4FM/System Fusion) that are less commonly used and would sound like unintelligible noise to a 3rd party just listening in on the frequency if they are not tuned to the exact modulation type that you are running.
"it is in violation of FCC regulations to use encryption as an amateur radio operator" what, really? well anyhow, then just code your transmission. just read off a bunch of numbers or nato alphabet. like "cb lingo". what they gonna do, triangulate your ass and fine you?
@@pdittrich This is what I was thinking. Technically a so called numbers station is encrypted. The radio signal is in the clear but the message itself is an encryption.
The FN Fiveseven is a pistol with a double feed magazine. But it uses a bottleneck cartridge with a bullet geometry more like a rifle than common handgun calibers which maybe why they were able to do a double feed mag.
Many of the best submachine gun magazines are double feed and use pistol ammunition. That's not a particular challenge. The Russians make a double feed 9mm pistol. It does make the slide a bit more difficult to engineer.
The shotgun/pistol 2GACM is one of my favorite series of videos from InRange. The option to ditch the shotgun at any point in the stage made it really interesting to watch and seems like a valuable training emphasis. Any extra decision making on the clock is educational in my view.
14:15 Brunost/Gjetost: if you haven't tried it, the taste is like salty toffee (or rather creme caramel), with a smooth, cold butter-like texture. It's evaporated milk whey mixed with cream and sugar (exact ingredients and proportions vary, but the whey is always there). I used to make it, and it's absolutely wonderful. Buy it if you get the chance.
Germany actually used Hi-Powers without the magazine safety... So that's a win too. Also WW2 German Navy had Anti-Ship missiles too, the HS 239. Also, last but not the least, the Panzerfaust was awesome.
Lets not forget the Fritz X which sank the battleship Roma. But with US you have the clear advantage of having the first nuke ever soooo there is that.
On the other hand the Hs 293 had a low hit probability right from the start, and in 1944, with effecitve allied jammers even less. Furthermore, the missile was risky to use for the launch aircraft, as the launch aircraft had to fly strait and level, from release to missile miss (or far more rarely missile hit). The US ASM-N-2 Bat (anti-ship radar-guided, "fire and forget" glide-bomb kit for a 2000lb GP bomb) was a better option in that case, being fire and forget, and having a range of up to 20nmi. As for jets, the allies had the P-80 and Gloster Meteor in service at wars end (both faster, than the Me 262) and the DeHavilland Vampire (as fast as the Me 262). Most importantly though, the allies did not only have far superior bombers and better field artillery, they also had nuclear bombs and proximity fuzes for artillery at wars end.
HS239 is less of an anti ship missile if you compare it to the american BAT active radar, self guided glide bomb. HS239 is more akin to guided bombs than they are missiles. It would require just putting a rocket motor on the BAT to literally make it into the world's first air launched anti ship missile.
@@oloflarsson407 P-80 did not reach squadron service in WW2. Vampire did not even reach RAF service until 1946. Agree with all else... biggest Allied advantage possibly was logistical.
A really good prebuilt and sealed trauma kit is North American Rescue INDIVIDUAL PATROL OFFICER KIT (IPOK), get it with combat Gauze. Its small and vacuumed sealed, fits in a cargo pocket, has everything you need. I carry one every day.
Twist fiocchi's arm for rimfire ammo, they did a run of 9mm rimfire after the original stock was long gone. They would probably want a large order and deposit.
You see what you gotta do is use that but make a bunch of words mean 1 and a bunch of others mean 0 and what you do is you get a message turn it into 1’s and 0’s encrypt that and then use the modified navaho to send those 1’s and 0’s now you got a nearly unbeatable way to pass on message... although I think the translation/encryption untranslation/unencryption process might take as long at cracking it so it might not be the best choice
Both of which were already behind the times when they were introduced into service due to their structural weaknesses and downsides. Straight wings were phased out pretty swiftly because of that.
@@DerLoladin Perhaps, but people tend to overlook the Me 262's own shortcomings, of which there were several. Reliability of the Jumo 004 engine was bad at best, and the maintenance requirements were staggering, even for an early jet engine. Reports from the period indicate that the average service time for the 004 engines, assuming nothing had gone wrong (so standard maintenance) was in the region of 22 hours. That was just to keep them flying. Every 20 hours flight time the combustion chambers needed to be maintained (on top of the standard day to day maintenance), every 30 - 50 hours the engine had to be removed and sent back to factory for a full overhaul. Logistically the 262 was far, far inferior to either the Meteor or P-80, which considering that logistics was a major weakness of the German military machine was a serious problem with the aircraft. 262's also had structural issues, more than one came apart in flight, usually killing the pilot, pretty much all the early jets had similar issues, most likely because the technology was still new and no one really understood the way various stresses would build up in very high flight speeds, especially compressability problems as aircraft came close to the sound barrier.
@@DerLoladin The me262 contrary to popular belief from crap '90s "documentaries" does not have swept wings that have an aerodynamical impact. It was designed with a completely straight wing, but as the original engines it was supposed to have ran into trouble and got changed, the center of gravity shifted so that they had to compensate by cranking the wing back 15 degrees. This is again too little to have an impact, and wasn't meant to have an impact. Now, the Germans *had* actually swept wing designs of the me262, like the H.G. III variant. They weren't even built to prototype status, they had at the most windtunnel models. But the original did not have an aerodynamical swept wing.
Both the Meteor and P-80 were capable of full aerobatic maneuvers, the 262 was not. Its only advantages were having guns that could destroy a fighter in a single hit (if they could hit in the first place) and slightly higher speed compared to a painted P-80 at 20,000 feet.
@@noth606 Yep, that and using Sauna to cure everything from colds to coronary thrombosis. When I was 8, I got the flu at my great uncles' farm. His answer: shot of vodka, and sauna.
Non restricted rifles, in Canada are only limited to 5 round magazines if they are separate [ ie box] from the rifle. You can legally own a lever action with a tube magazine with whatever # of rounds they hold. I choose a .45 Colt [ 10 rounds ] and a 45-70 [ 9 rounds ]
I found a flaw in Ian's plan for a parts kit build from Lego. Toys 'R' Us is gone now. Also, 1:00:45 Karl was referring to the Browning BLR and I very much like mine. Very smooth action. Only 5 rounds in the magazine though.
My younger brother knew someone who was hit 3 times by late war German 9mm from an MP-40 and then shot the German who had shot him. They both went to the aid station on the same jeep. That must have been an awkward drive.
On an AR, it would probably be easier to get a power supply in the handguard. Gettign the power around the buffer tube--and the threaded end of the upper receiver would be a kludgefest.
Area 51 is so remote that there's no way to assemble the raid less than 20 miles away - in a town with less than 100 residents. Whoever _does_ show up will get picked up by state police as they trickle in.
@@cptreech 3,000 RPM / 6 barrels = 500 RPM per barrel, which will still get very hot very fast, especially if you're just hosing bullets continuously...
A company DID come up with a powered rail system a few years ago. Saw it at shot the year it came out. One is the Tworx and another is the RIPR. THere was also a conplete rifle that came out with the system. It was the Beretta intelligent rifle.
If you want to recharge the batteries, might be a way to put some coils in the buffer tube so the bolt carrier flies through it. Would need an alternating magnetic field on the BCG which exacerbates the whole need for standardisation, but in terms of packaging and recovering energy from use it would work
or as someone else already suggested, permanent magnets and coils, like one of those "shake to charge" rechargeable torches could work well. Just think of it as an inverse coilgun ;-)
In addition to the 262 there were a lot of German prototype jet fighter designs that were still being worked on like the Ta 183, which has a lot of the design characteristics of planes like the MiG-15 and the F-86 Sabre
For ease of manufacture, I'd say the simplest THING to make is round-receivered SMG's like the Sten that are open bolt. With a bit of extra tooling and a lathe you can make one in a bicycle shop as long as you can get barrel blanks, and utilize the lathe to pull a broach or button rifling tool through, it wouldn't be the best without a sine bar, but at least it won't be keyholing.
0:14:23 I don't see the OAL or magazine length as being the most relevant point of comparison. Some of the loadings had projectile weights approaching the low end of 7.62 nato, and the bullets were of course comparatively longer. Look at the case lengths (~20% increase) and the muzzle energies. Also it is extremely important to note how they "optimized" or powered up the cartridge repeatedly until it was nearly as overpowered as the later NATO standard. Even the spec that was nominally adopted was arguably not exactly what they set out to design originally. If I'm not misremembering, the earlier versions didn't even share the 12 mm base diameter, but were smaller. The whole discussion is pretty hard to do in a vacuum because of the various influences and compromises that were made late in the development. Probably conceptually the 6.5 grendel is most similar of any extant cartridges in the same niche. I wouldn't really wan't anything stouter in a conventional assault rifle - the final .280/30 is kinda pushing it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... Yins go together like peanut and jelly I can tell you're really good friends who love guns and that's awesome. It took me 3 days to finish this Q&A lol with work and family stuff and it was amazing. Thanks for taking the time to make this. Awesome video as always.
Related to a standard battery system for all rifle components, in audio and video you have a similar idea in 48v phantom power? Across almost all companies that make audio equipment you can power microphones with voltage provided by the camera or mixer via phantom power through the ubiquitous XLR connector. So XLR + Phantom Power = Pic Rail + Karl's magic gun power?
The Nukes of WW2 had to be transported by a propeller driven bomber. Which can be shot down by a Fighter Plane. They just worked out because of the immense numbers of Aircraft and money the US had to manage to get air superiority. Without that they aren't any help. If you arm a country with quality built ME262 this air superiority is hard to achieve against them. (The ME262 had radar for night fighting and an ejection seat) -Additionally: considering all the WW2 bombs still found in and around the area that was under german hand in WW2 (in th nearest city to me they find on average 2-5 a year still that have to be defused) I''d say the quality and technology of allied bombs was quite bad. (heard once that the allies had to invent different fuses for bombs because of the fear of patent infringement of the german ones, the US had to pay the Mauser factory money after WW1 for something similar)
@@13thbee16 The first British Jet, the Gloster Meteor commenced operations in July 1994. All sides in WW2 developed their own radar systems. That said, as a system for air battle command and control, the US's Microwave Early Warning (MEW) radar was reckoned to be the best according to my late father, who was a British ground radar boffin then. From his archives I have video of how a MEW was used on D-day, to direct air operations over the Normandy battle space. In particular, they were able to direct outgoing strike aircraft away from patrolling German fighters, so the latter could never find any aerial targets to engage.
Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't bring that up. MAD has ensured nobody has used nukes in anger since 1945, but being the only country with them would change that dynamic.
Personally I would go for a 10mm handgun for bear country. In my opinion the vast majority of people will be able to inflict far more damage with a semi automatic 10mm such as a glock or any other than a 500 s&w and with the proper projectile it would be plenty effective in that role.
Beretta Defense Technologies is working on a system that does the universal power on a rifle. If i recall, MAC discussed it with one of thier exec's in his "Beretta Factory Tour" video. The system uses picatinny rails that are energized by a battery pack that is on the left sode of the buttstock.
The American 180 would be interesting to consider in the best rifle for a Canadian question although being full auto probably not allowed it could be an interesting discussion.
a bit late to the part here, but for power-on-the-gun, all you really need is to get DoD to draft an update to MIL-STD-1913 adding a positive contact to the center of each "land" on the rail, and grounding through the rail. Plastic rail covers are easy enough to make to protect unused positions, then you can have a rail system that makes power available for attachments. Once DoD has added it to MIL-STD-1913, people will start making accessories to use it.
And very poor quality weapons, equipment and vehicles due to shortage of materials and skilled workers. But that is irrelevant to a) Ian is wrong about the radar and b) to the original question in the video.
Karl, to your question about if radar is a weapon: When I was at The Citadel, our Naval Weapons course consisted of one day of small arms, and the rest of the semester on electronic warfare, including radar.
With integrated power, you can do more stuff than before. Weight saved on batteries could go to servo on the power ring on the scope. Image Up/Down button under your finger on the rifle. Being able to quickly change from 1x to 8x and back with a push of a button that is at your fingertip would be huge. 30 years ago I thought of a precision rifle: ballistic computer in the stock (hell, add a Kestral while you are at it for 2-3 ounces) combined with a laser ranger finder and a scope that has servos on the elevation and windage turrets. Put cross hairs on what you want to shoot. Take up slack on the two stage trigger. Red light comes on in scope as laser range finder and Kestrel send their data to the computer. A solution is arrived at and the servos adjust the cross hairs accordingly. Light turns green and you finish pulling the trigger. That would have pushed tech limits back in the 80's when I thought of it. It would be pretty simple to do today.
23:00 if you google the AC 1 Sentinel , you will see a water cooled Vickers gun mounted properly in a bow mount, and why it was less desirable than an air cooled gun
As for the steel case ammo I read once an article in an Italian firearm magazine that steel case production evolved from having a simple copper surface, to lacquering to laquering as well as waxing. The latter could be handled by the MG42s but not the earlier version. Hence till the waxed versions were available, steel cases were reserved to bolt actions and semi-autos and brass was reserved to gpmgs. The waxed one came quite late in - late 1944 - and so it is quite understandable that they had a bad reputation amongst machine gunners.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Nope. According to the article, post war they adopted the laquering but not the waxing. The soviet war production used copper for corrosion protection. The quoted problem with the MG34/MG42 and steel cases was the high rate of fire, 900/1200 rpm. Russian mgs old and modern were never that fast.
I like carrying a small kit on me with the things I am capable of using, similar to the four items you mentioned Karl. I then like to have a bigger kit, including all that weird stuff I have no idea how to use, in my car. It gives me a good balance between having stuff on me all the time and being able to reasonably know I can retrieve it from my car in a real bad situation. I'm European though, so I'm really not concerned with being in a shootout, but I've been a bystander in vehicular accidents when I was a teenager and I want to give myself the best chance I have of not being helpless if I get into such situations again in the future.
the best answer for the Canadian gun question would be a M14/M305 ( non-restricted) in .308 with the 10 round mags, in Canada there is a loophole where the 10 round mags are legal because they are meant for a bolt action rifle (5 round limit only for semi -auto) and happen to fit both the Norinco and american m14, if you are ok with restricted you can get an AR15 with LAR15 pistol mags that have 10 capacity (10 round limit for handguns) that is in .223/5.56
Integrated power could more easily start with cross-compatibility; Devices that have their own battery as well as an interface for the integrated ones, and attachment points that are just Picatinny rails with electrical contacts, so you can attach normal accessories to them. And then the covers for unused contacts could be use the same secure attachment method as gun accessories. Regenerative power might also be done by basically turning the parts of the gun that already move in relation to one another into a generator. There are linear generators working with reciprocating rather than rotary motion, apparently.
Spencer M if you see this comment i dont think water cooled mgs were completely abandoned instead i think it moved up to cannons. Suchs as the 23mms on the shilka being water cooled and some naval high rate of fire weapons are watercooled
To add to the question at 1:15:05 about dual column feed pistol mags; I think one issue that you guys didn't touch on is that most modern pistols use a modified browning tilting barrel mechanism. Most of the pistols that have dual column feed have either a fixed barrel or one that doesn't tilt. With the tilting barrel mechanism of the browning style actions, you essentially have the feed angle changing during the cycling of the weapon. I'd imagine it'd be very difficult to design a reliable dual column feed magazine that works in the browning type action.
PristineTX but even there design reasons vary based on conditions, for instance, I was reading about one British ship which was designed for the Atlantic/Baltic conditions, and fair incredibly poorly in the Pacific due to the range at which combat tended to take. It was considered that too much effort was put into short range firepower and sea worthiness for storms unlikely to be seen, except in the Baltic or Atlantic that is Tuesday.
It mainly boils down to logistics over the kit carried by your average grunt. Germany was rationing gasoline and diesel long before the Normandy Landings while the US was the largest oil producer in the world.
aye you have it Ian when Germany went to cottage ammo manufacture things went to shite the old brass ammo was consistent the steel case that was being shipped to hundreds of small ammo makers led to lots of problems
For the centralized battery system, you have one battery providing one voltage. Your accessories will still need to step up/down the voltage to meet their specific needs and that is bulk and weight. However, as Ian pointed out, the biggest thing is dirt. Electronic ports like you're suggesting would have to have secured covers over them when not it use or you will destroy them.
Only gun I knew of with an integrated power cell is the Parker-Hale/Bushman IDW sub-gun. Used an electro-hydraulic system to control its fire rate, from a comfortable 450rpm to a screaming 1400. Too bad it never went anywhere. Seems like a cool gun. DA NYA!
@1:12:08 As a Canadian, I'd still lean toward a 5.56 option if that situation arose. You can purchase "LAR 15" magazines which are intended for an AR pistol and hold 10 rounds. Because this magazine was intended for a pistol but happens to conveniently fit in AR-15 rifles, you aren't in contravention of the law because the magazine has not been modified. This is, of course, gaming the system in the question asked but still perfectly legal up here. Some people have suggested before buying .50 Beowulf magazines and cramming them full of 5.56 but THAT has become legally grey depending on who you ask.
with regard to the single battery source idea, the contacts could easily have covers (sliding perhaps) that protected the contacts until the actual unit was fitted to the weapon. the attachments pushing the covers out of the way as part of the fitting process.
0:14:20 OMG! Fermented shark! I never thought I would here Icelandic delicacies mentioned on this channel! :D Icelander here btw, and Norwegian brunost (brown cheese) is sooooo gooood! Very similar to a thing we have in Iceland called "mysingur", which I loved as a kid!
There are handheld laser cutters that can cut through quarter inch steel. Optimize the laser pulse to burn through flesh and throw a capacitor bank in a backpack, you might get a few shots... or you could do the same damage with a powder burning slug thrower that's much smaller and lighter.
NSV is used extensively and successfully specifically as a dismounted infantry HMG. While it's not exactly light it can be moved around relatively fast. Optics made it the fire emplacement's eyes and it's highly rugged and reliable (nbs).
Re: SKS /AK style cloth chest rigs... I had access to one while working in Afghanistan that I used as a grab and go extra mag carrier. Cheap and handy, but the corners on the bottom front of AR mags had a tendency to quickly abrade the cloth, sort of how kids used to wear out the knees of blue jeans before you could buy them pre-raggedy from the store. I solved the problem with the chest rig by lining the inside of the pouch covers with 100mph tape.
The problem is the nature of black powder. It burns the way it burns, because it is a mangle of a fuel an oxygen-source. It's the oxygen-source that produces most of the residue. The problem is that oxygen-sources, which burn completely, usually don't only act as such but are explosives on their own. Having a single component explosive in the mix however, would get you to the pressure levels of a smokeless powder.
They have. In the 90s there was a product called Clean Shot. When they went belly up, American Pioneer Powder bought the patent. Jim Shockey Gold is a premium quality version of APP. I think APP also makes Alliant Black MZ. And yes APP is very clean, non corrosive, and easy to clean up. (Yes I use APP)
1:10:19 The only WWII steel cased US ammo I've ever seen was .45 Auto with an ECC headstamp, can't remember the year. Was there other calibers as well?
33:37 Corrosion will be your biggest problem. Contact points to pass power between the battery and the device will be subject to being insulated by dirt etc. Drop you rifle in the dirt / mud, and then have to attach your device will be a nightmare. Recoil induced vibration will also be a nightmare.
Fun Fact: Roni, Hera etc are completely legal in Finland. Not regulated. Since attaching/detaching the chassis does not require tools, it does not count as modifying the pistol to be a rifle/carbine :) Same with Mauser C96 stocks etc. No tools -> use as you wish. Not regulated. Also, the law changed this week so that the minimum length for a rifle is now 30cm/60cm barrel/overall, as opposed to USA's NFA SBR length of 42cm/66cm.
I feel like, despite some qc issues lately, Sig would be probably the best bet for that integrated power and accessories system that you'd be interested in. They are trying to make themselves a "one stop shop" these days, so they might have the ambition for it.
TLDR; 34:10 Repairing and replacing batteries makes this impractical. Possible overall however, not to mention capacity of batteries is an issue too. Bigger battery does not mean more charge. When we get graphine batteries, sure, build it into the rifle body as part of the inside of the stock, with thicker traces since graphine is lighter then a Lithium ion, or a acid based battery. The real reason I think you don't have power built into the rifle is militarily, its easier to just give a guy a few batteries rather then making their guns more expensive. The other is most batteries, if not all have a funny tendency to leak, and don't do well in heat. Not to mention every battery has a limited life, normally only 3-5 years, if unused. The other problem with this idea is that the battery has to absorb the shock, every single time. Its possible, and I love the idea, but practically I dont think you can secure the battery in a way, considering it would need to be somewhat large comparative to AA or smaller, and bulky. Recoil would be an issue for sure. It could be done, but not in a practical way, you could I suppose buffer the battery in the stock and have contact points running from it, but even if you have wires integral and running along as contact points(barring metal plates running as contact points it would work, but it falls under the same issue) that even a small fracture on these and you lose capability, and you are not repairing that easily, let alone finding it in the field. Edit:Little thought or research was put into my thought on this matter. Practically speaking if you ment for civilian use only, hell yes. All of the issues that I described above was thought with military use in mind. On the civilian market, most of these become an issue of just treating your gun as well you can. 58:54 Yes and no. Just use sound as the weapon. As for powered beams for lasers, no. Its not possible or practical to do so, not just because of power density issues but because lasers are pretty much impossible to focus at that scale and lasers, while powerful take time to work. You can't burst someone and just blow them up, it takes very high focus and precision, and the power output needed is so stupidly high you would laugh when you saw the numbers.
Speaking of that theoretical war between Neo-Finland and Hyper-Korea cheapest war-time production method (depending on materials used of course) is casting or pulling. Both have rather high initial cost but more you make the thing, less one individual piece will cost. 3D-printing is not that suitable for large scale production because how long one thing can take to print. It's faster and there fore probably cheaper just print casting mold and then start casting guns. If you can do that of course. At resistance level question is not that much of how many guns you can make but what kind of tools you have access to. If you have 3D-printer (and materiel stock) it will probably be your main production method.
Just an FYI for Marcus in Canada, Pistols and pistol mags are limited to 10 round mags in canada, so you can use 10 round AR pistol or XCR-L pistol mags legally and non restricted in Canada in any other gun. it's a weird loophole in canadian law but basically if the gun the magazine was originally made for is legal (an AR or XCR pistol), there is no restriction for any other gun which that magazine can happen to fit into. similar to how pistol caliber carbines can use 10 round glock or beretta mags and are legal and non restricted.
My 9mm carbine takes Glock mags, and the 33 rounders work just fine, although I did have to take them apart and clean out the plastic burs on the insides before they were reliable, since they're the cheaper Korean Glock-clone mags and not legit ones. They do require a loading tool. It would probably be impossible to get all 33 in there without it.
I'm sure they do, that's not the point. The point is that if you made two guns, one double stack, one double stack single feed, made a thousand of each all identical except for the mag and feeding system and sent both out into the field for trials, the double stack single feed guns would have slightly more problems. It might only be a difference of 3 jams total vs. 5 jams total out of all those guns firing all those thousands of rounds but the difference is there. It's just not a difference a single user with a single gun is likely to ever see.
In response to the M14 comment.
Everyone has different experiences, but my unit used the M14 EBRs we had in Afghanistan extensively. It definitely provided an ability that the M4/M16 platform couldn't. We didn't take it out on every mission, and it by no means was a perfect solution, but it was a good asset to have.
Several times in a fight, only myself and the 240s had a capability to engage the enemy effectively and only myself had the ability to actually ID enemy fighters.
Having the optic alone was great and despite the weight, having the magnification coupled with an an/pvs 22 night sight gave us an even larger advantage in the dark.
Reliability wise, once I got a hold of some good magazines I really didn't have any notable issues.
Overall, I would have rather had an M110 and it didn't need to be brought out every day, but having the ability to engage at 600 meters and actually see what was out there was a great asset.
Training was a large issue though. We got them once when we got in country and the other two times about 2 weeks before deployment. There was no real training provided and I ended up with it twice by default simply because I knew how to use an M14 and I was familiar and somewhat experienced in long range shooting. A lot of units didn't have people that already had the base skill set to use it or the doctrinal understanding of how to employ it and so it never got utilized.
Sorry for the large comment, love the content Karl and Ian.
Thank you for your service man
That's some really great feedback, but it seems to boil down to "it was suboptimal, but better than nothing".
Ian: He was alcoholic, depressed, died overweight...
Karl: I don't know how much that's related to firearm design or how much that's just related to the normal human condition.
or him being finnish
"died relatively early," not "died overweight"
Hey, that sounds like me!
Ex-infantry, current cop here. I agree having a bunch of incompatible batteries are a pain, but with a battery in each device it's easy to waterproof all the electronics. O-ring on the battery cover, done. With an exposed rail of some sort you have to somehow make a waterproof plug system, or corrosion will mess up the connection in a hurry. Waterproof, removable connectors typically fail to be either waterproof or easily removeable.
aircraft have mil-spec water proof plugs, steal some from aviation. they aren't easily removable, their usually safety wired on, but do they really need to be quickly removable? how often are you taking off your peq-15?
Good point!
EpiicPenguin cannon plugs are pretty bulky and the wire is prone to breakage and chaffing. I don’t think it would suit the application.
Make a bunch of wireless accessories and an induction rail or something... gotta be some smart guys out there that can figure that out eventually
Since the 1980s forward import restrictions, the assault weapons ban, and ATF sporting purpose interpretations discouraged manufacturers from investing in box fed shotguns.
More recently (2011) the ATF finally ruled that detach mags are not inherently unsporting; and that’s why there’s finally interest from manufacturers to invest in it.
Thank you Russell, your insight and logical analysis of things really makes a great additive contrast to Ian and Karl. Would love to see you on one of these QAs.
can they really trust that it won't just be reversed again, like with pistol braces?
googleplus ain'tthatgreat the more guns in circulation the harder that is to do. Declaring them nonsporting would make them all destructive devices With a tax free registration period.
I always wondered why in the entire life of the 12 gauge/shotgun shell there doesn’t seem to be much interest in developing a rimless shotgun shell. I can’t imagine it’d be that technologically challenging. The market may not buy in to it, but shotguns have been around for a *long* time. And rimless cartridges have been around for a really long time. Did nobody put those two together at a point in time when the normal shotgun rounds didn’t have the market inertia they do today?
Let's also not forget that most basic thing--the legal limitation of fowling pieces to a two-shot magazine was created to protect wildlife so a viable population would remain. True history and a proven logical law. That's why your tube-feed pump or auto has a two-round block, why the Marlin bolt-action shotguns had two-round detachable magazines, etc.
For multiple centuries, shotguns purposed for hunting vastly outnumbered shotguns purposed exclusively for defense. Now we have more urbanized population, and in the United States much more restricted availability of hunting areas than ever before, such that even if your average working-Joe wanted to take his kid hunting like Grandpa took him, he can't--Grandpa's farm or hunting cabin got sold off twenty years ago when property taxes got too high or developer offers got too compelling.
Now, for him, the shotgun is for home defense, dissuading looting rioters, or zombies.
Beretta made the integrated battery on the rifle with contact points on the rail. They showed it at shot show years ago on their ARX100.
Ed walmsley hmm. That might be a good place to start for finding what works.
Steiner and Burris are owned by Beretta too, so I could see an optic and WML being made just for such a type of rifle.
Problem is, you need a bunch of very different companies to sign on to it. You need the firearm manufacturers (and not just one rifle), the optics manufacturers, laser manufacturers, light manufacturers. You need a big force to get these industries in line. Most likely it would take a large military asking for it to get the ball rolling.
As soon as Karl started talking about this I remembered the Military Arms Channel video of his Beretta Factory tour. Starting at 10:00
From an engineering standpoint, adding a power line mod to a Pic (1913) rail would be simple. It would literally be as easy as having an embedded +5Vdc line that's insulated from the rail with a bare metal section of the rail for ground, with two spring loaded contact pins on the accessory. Alternatively, you could have micro USB ports in the rail valleys. Standardizing on something like USB makes it a cakewalk and you could even have data sharing between cameras and whatever else you mount. Throw the battery in the handgrip with a micro USB charging port and then use your car charger to boost it at any opportunity. LiPo battery swaps would take 5 seconds with the right latch and contact arrangement. Hell, you could mount a tiny solar panel on the top rail. Making it grunt proof would be the real challenge - dirt and water ingress mediation would be tough.
Been to Svalbard a pair of times where due to Polar Bears you're required by law to carry a gun anytime you leave the settlement.
The governor there gives guidelines regarding firearms which more or less go like: if you carry a rifle it has to be at least 308, although 30-06 is the most popular caliber out there.
When it comes to shotguns slugs are mandatory but rifles are preferred to shotguns due to malfunctions.
And regarding handguns if not mistaken 44 magnum is the smalles. I personally haven't seen anybody carrying one overe there.
And last but not least, people are encounraged to carry a flare gun to scare bears off when the situation allows you to do so as this seem to be very effective.
That being said if you're camping in bear country you should also know some safety basics regarding the does and donts of setting a camp which many people have very little to no idea about.
I think 460 Rowland/Roland (idr the spelling. Sorry) might be worth looking into. Supposedly it is in the same ballpark as 44 mag, but it's rimless and there's a kit that allows you to drop it into a Glock. A G21 iirc.
Im thinking rifles in 45-70 would be popular there.
The new Australian service rifle was designed with room for a future upgrade that incorporates a powered rail.
So Karl, you did a lot of cowboy shooting, just how many cowboys did you shoot?
Shooting a cowboy would be pretty difficult. How do you load and aim him? On second thought, don't answer that.
At least 6 id imagine
One and 19 more
Karl shot 18 naked cowboys in the showers at ram ranch
Wrap buffer tube in copper wire, put magnet at the end of the bolt carrier (or the weight thingamajigger). Then firing the gun can help charge the battery
Daily throw a CBEC system in the barrel to use thermal heat to charge the battery as well.
Duct tape a car battery on the rifle, probablem solved
Drop in wireless charging for weapon storage and weapon. No dead batteries at the start of the apocalypse?
But then you have to fire the gun to charge, and the majority of your time with a rifle you are not firing it. Also that direction of motion isn’t great for generating a current (read efficient Joules/Watts), that’s why you see most use applications use a way of converting whatever motion into rotational force and spinning a shaft of the generator with a counter weight. The scifi (but still possible) solution is a piezo device that converts all the vibrations from you carrying and shaking the rifle into a current (then becomes calories/watts and the efficiency starts as >100%), you do a lot more carrying than shooting (if you didn’t know the bulk of electric lighter and grille igniters are piezo generators and they’ve proven to be extremely robust and reliable).
The issue with the ‘hot shoe’ (literally the same way flash modules connected to cameras) idea Karl suggested is first and foremost needing to protect the unused contacts, it would be very expensive and in reality most would only ever use a few of the contacts anyway. The biggest point I see is that the AR has essentially stayed the same for decades but it’s peripherals have greatly advanced, imo that is why the AR to seems perfectly modern where many see the AK as out dated. If that trend continues there is a good chance what ever power supply you integrate into your AR in 2019 may not be adequate to power whatever future gadget we are lusting after in 2040, even with today’s tech using a stand-alone battery based supply to power both thermal sight/NODS along with an ir/white light is asking too much. Another point is my belief that the trend moving into the future will be to eliminate removable batteries all together and focus on being rechargeable, if the aimpoint of the mid 21st century is powered by an internal rechargeable unit your gun based charging unit would be retrograde and entirely useless.
@@samuelmac1054 for increased operating time, duct tape a solar panel too
Just for the record the 5 round capacity in Canada applies for semi auto rifles, manual actions do not have a capacity limit.
....take it from a Canadian....bolt actions are also 5 round max. That is why the old Lee Enfields are pinned to only hold five rounds. Lever actions and pumps can hold more.
@@TheWolfsnack You are wrong, I also live in Canada. I'm also a firearms owner, there is no capacity limit for manual actions. I've never seen a pinned lee magazine, I've owned two No4 mk1's.
That is untrue. I own a no4 mk1* that is not pinned, in fact I have never seen one pinned. Manual firearms have no magazine restrictions.
As a machinist that does r&d for high production runs .
The ak is a simpler/easier weapon to make on a wide scale . Most of the parts are easier to make and also the specs on the individual parts are wider .
The trigger did the ak fit example can be made from basic forgings with no machine work on most of the parts , vs ar/m16 with ground parts .
Good points. And the AR is probably easier for small shops to make, hence why the AR market has such a massive amount of companies making receivers and components. Anyone with CAD and a CNC machine can make a low production run of AR receivers. On the other hand, stamped metal requires a lot more specific tooling.
Ian, I understand your sentiments on camping completely. Ever since getting out of the Marines, I haven't really cared to go hang out in the woods. I mean, maybe if I had beer, and people who are actually friends, instead of people I'm forced to be around, and not have to do random stupid shit, but I really just don't care to. I appreciate real walls and a real roof, too.
I've always reckoned that my ancestors didn't spend the last 200,000+ years perfecting the building so I could go be outdoors.
How about the best of both worlds: a cabin in the woods. ;)
31:40 the last time I went to a gun show I wanted to buy 1 of those $5 Chinese sks chest rigs. The gunshow boomers were selling them for like $30- $50. Asked them all if they were insane, they're like $5-$10. "I know what I got! This is a good deal, you cant yet these anymore, this is a collector's item, they're very rare now!" Then why do so many tables have them pops?
On Aliexpress you can find them brand new from 15$. It's similar to the WW2 helmet market...
It's like that for so many items at gun shows
Hell, you can buy those Chinese SKS rigs on Amazon.
callhoonrepublican I am sorry to tell you that surplus shit does that. If you’re the casual surplus buyer you come off as just wait until a few years down the road when you see flecktarn prices, you’ll think ‘damn that stuff used to cost nothing’ and there’s a good reason for that if you care to research. From here into the future if you have a random thought that you would like to have a certain surplus item BUY IT RIGHT THEN AND THERE! The surplus market is kind of crazy in that way right now, if you don’t buy it asap chances are you’ll regret it.
Funny enough it’s not just boomers doing this, recall the SADF rigs what is an SADF battle vest going for these days lol?
@@daa3417 that was on ☝️
Speaking of polar bears - they're the reason that the danish Sirius Patrol in north east Greenland use Glock 20s as sidearms, 9mm parabellum wasn't cutting it - they also use M1917s as their long arms with M2 rounds for bear and civilian hollow point for enraged musk ox.
Thought on the action shooting with a flintlock: closer to run & gun than to 2GACM, but try to duplicate the circle of fire at the Battle of Lexington. 6 man teams, run, fire a volley, run, reload, run to next target array, repeat for 12 miles.
That would honestly be a cool GoRuck type of one time event. Ian, wouldn't you go in for such a physical challenge?
So a really serious historical battle re-enactment where you get a score, sounds interesting. Bet you could get a decent clutch of re-enactors interested on top of firearms enthusiasts.
@@yomaze2009 There are various run and gun/ dry land biathlon events where you run a distance- shoot - run another distance. In theory it wouldn't be hard to add a teams-with-crap-guns division to this. As far as would people show up, it would likely be a small group.
Phew! Been waiting all morning (since the Full30 email) for this to be released on RUclips. ;-)
P.S. - I would *definitely* go to Barrow, AK. Anywhere the opposite of hot is a place I'll visit
Omg yes. Southeast Louisiana is horrible right now. I hate this time of year.
Yep. There's not really an upper limit on how many layers you can put on, but there's only so many layers you can take off before people start screaming and the police arrive...
Anything above 50 degrees is unfit for man or beast.
Barrow is no more. Now named Utqiagvik.
If you come over to Finland, hit me up for accommodation!
Yous guys are the best.
From Kalashnikov's obituary in the NYT:
The general often claimed that he never
realized any profit from his work. But in his last years he urged
interviewers not to portray him as poor, noting that he had a sizable
apartment, a good car and a comfortable dacha on a lake near the factory
where he had worked for decades.
Work and loyalty to country, he often suggested, were their own rewards. “I
am told sometimes, ‘If you had lived in the West you would have been a
multimillionaire long ago,’ ” he said. “There are other values.”
Man worth admiring.
why did ol Kalash have an obituary in the NYT of all places?
@@mattbd9484 Important people get write ups.
@Charles Sun Are you comporting Kalashnikov's compensation to Garand's?
@Charles Sun He still has a good point. Jonas Salk didn't live in the USSR.
Maybe I don't watch you guys religiously enough (YET) but the good-natured snark and banter in the first five minutes really made me smile
Reference the medic equipment. The basics go a long way. There is no need to get hyper advanced in the selection of equipment. Bandage, tourniquet, gauze, tape and scissors. If needs be you can make a chest seal to manage a sucking chest wound from plastic and tape. Take training, stop the bleed is an excellent first class. But much like shooting, medicine is all about the basics.....
Nutnfancy devoted like 6 hours to cover first aid kits. LOL
I am mostly in agreement with you that training and typical IFAC kit stuff is most important.
With regard to comms encryption, I second Karl's recommendation of Signal. I would avoid WhatsApp, since it's owned by Facebook, which is obviously not a privacy-oriented company. As far as radio comms, as a licensed amateur radio operator myself, it is in violation of FCC regulations to use encryption as an amateur radio operator. However, there are a lot of legally accepted modes that would be very difficult for a 3rd party to find and listen in to if they don't know what modulation you are using. Most common is analog FM, but there are also a variety of digital modes now (DMR, D-Star, C4FM/System Fusion) that are less commonly used and would sound like unintelligible noise to a 3rd party just listening in on the frequency if they are not tuned to the exact modulation type that you are running.
I'd say for someone not involved in the amateur radio community (like me) even the abbeviations used sound like an ecryption. ;-)
"it is in violation of FCC regulations to use encryption as an amateur radio operator"
what, really?
well anyhow, then just code your transmission. just read off a bunch of numbers or nato alphabet. like "cb lingo".
what they gonna do, triangulate your ass and fine you?
Thank you for this! I wish Karl had time to do a channel dedicated to this subject as well!
@@pdittrich This is what I was thinking. Technically a so called numbers station is encrypted. The radio signal is in the clear but the message itself is an encryption.
Gaston Glock is another gun designer who is wildly successful and well-off.
Beretta was working on a one battery to run all accesories on the ARX platform.
"but what the japanese didn't consider was that then the guys will come back, cause they do, and theh did."
Thank you ian, very cool.
The FN Fiveseven is a pistol with a double feed magazine. But it uses a bottleneck cartridge with a bullet geometry more like a rifle than common handgun calibers which maybe why they were able to do a double feed mag.
Many of the best submachine gun magazines are double feed and use pistol ammunition. That's not a particular challenge. The Russians make a double feed 9mm pistol. It does make the slide a bit more difficult to engineer.
The shotgun/pistol 2GACM is one of my favorite series of videos from InRange. The option to ditch the shotgun at any point in the stage made it really interesting to watch and seems like a valuable training emphasis. Any extra decision making on the clock is educational in my view.
I feel like with the proliferation of cheap AR's is making proper use of the shotgun a lost art.
14:15 Brunost/Gjetost: if you haven't tried it, the taste is like salty toffee (or rather creme caramel), with a smooth, cold butter-like texture.
It's evaporated milk whey mixed with cream and sugar (exact ingredients and proportions vary, but the whey is always there). I used to make it, and it's absolutely wonderful. Buy it if you get the chance.
Germany actually used Hi-Powers without the magazine safety... So that's a win too. Also WW2 German Navy had Anti-Ship missiles too, the HS 239. Also, last but not the least, the Panzerfaust was awesome.
Lets not forget the Fritz X which sank the battleship Roma. But with US you have the clear advantage of having the first nuke ever soooo there is that.
On the other hand the Hs 293 had a low hit probability right from the start, and in 1944, with effecitve allied jammers even less. Furthermore, the missile was risky to use for the launch aircraft, as the launch aircraft had to fly strait and level, from release to missile miss (or far more rarely missile hit). The US ASM-N-2 Bat (anti-ship radar-guided, "fire and forget" glide-bomb kit for a 2000lb GP bomb) was a better option in that case, being fire and forget, and having a range of up to 20nmi. As for jets, the allies had the P-80 and Gloster Meteor in service at wars end (both faster, than the Me 262) and the DeHavilland Vampire (as fast as the Me 262). Most importantly though, the allies did not only have far superior bombers and better field artillery, they also had nuclear bombs and proximity fuzes for artillery at wars end.
HS239 is less of an anti ship missile if you compare it to the american BAT active radar, self guided glide bomb. HS239 is more akin to guided bombs than they are missiles. It would require just putting a rocket motor on the BAT to literally make it into the world's first air launched anti ship missile.
@@oloflarsson407 P-80 did not reach squadron service in WW2. Vampire did not even reach RAF service until 1946. Agree with all else... biggest Allied advantage possibly was logistical.
A really good prebuilt and sealed trauma kit is North American Rescue INDIVIDUAL PATROL OFFICER KIT (IPOK), get it with combat Gauze. Its small and vacuumed sealed, fits in a cargo pocket, has everything you need. I carry one every day.
Twist fiocchi's arm for rimfire ammo, they did a run of 9mm rimfire after the original stock was long gone. They would probably want a large order and deposit.
_a'la'ih, do'neh'lini, a'la'ih, do'neh'lini, do'neh'lini..._
"Is he just using Navajo for zero and one?"
"Woah, keep your voice down!"
moosemaimer code name Jill chee
You see what you gotta do is use that but make a bunch of words mean 1 and a bunch of others mean 0 and what you do is you get a message turn it into 1’s and 0’s encrypt that and then use the modified navaho to send those 1’s and 0’s now you got a nearly unbeatable way to pass on message... although I think the translation/encryption untranslation/unencryption process might take as long at cracking it so it might not be the best choice
Use hex for even more fun.
Find it funny you bring up the ME-262 yet the allies had the Gloster Meteor and the P-80 Shooting Star
Both of which were already behind the times when they were introduced into service due to their structural weaknesses and downsides. Straight wings were phased out pretty swiftly because of that.
@@DerLoladin Perhaps, but people tend to overlook the Me 262's own shortcomings, of which there were several. Reliability of the Jumo 004 engine was bad at best, and the maintenance requirements were staggering, even for an early jet engine. Reports from the period indicate that the average service time for the 004 engines, assuming nothing had gone wrong (so standard maintenance) was in the region of 22 hours. That was just to keep them flying. Every 20 hours flight time the combustion chambers needed to be maintained (on top of the standard day to day maintenance), every 30 - 50 hours the engine had to be removed and sent back to factory for a full overhaul. Logistically the 262 was far, far inferior to either the Meteor or P-80, which considering that logistics was a major weakness of the German military machine was a serious problem with the aircraft.
262's also had structural issues, more than one came apart in flight, usually killing the pilot, pretty much all the early jets had similar issues, most likely because the technology was still new and no one really understood the way various stresses would build up in very high flight speeds, especially compressability problems as aircraft came close to the sound barrier.
@@DerLoladin The me262 contrary to popular belief from crap '90s "documentaries" does not have swept wings that have an aerodynamical impact. It was designed with a completely straight wing, but as the original engines it was supposed to have ran into trouble and got changed, the center of gravity shifted so that they had to compensate by cranking the wing back 15 degrees. This is again too little to have an impact, and wasn't meant to have an impact.
Now, the Germans *had* actually swept wing designs of the me262, like the H.G. III variant. They weren't even built to prototype status, they had at the most windtunnel models. But the original did not have an aerodynamical swept wing.
Both the Meteor and P-80 were capable of full aerobatic maneuvers, the 262 was not. Its only advantages were having guns that could destroy a fighter in a single hit (if they could hit in the first place) and slightly higher speed compared to a painted P-80 at 20,000 feet.
P-80 did not see squadron service in WW2....
When my folks did trail maintenance for the USPS, certain areas required a Park Ranger with a .458 Win.
Lathi - alcoholic, depressed.
Nothing unusual about that, he was Finnish after all.
so "Finnish-ed"
@@noth606 Yep, that and using Sauna to cure everything from colds to coronary thrombosis. When I was 8, I got the flu at my great uncles' farm. His answer: shot of vodka, and sauna.
I appreciate these guys because they´re so articulate. It´s refreshing.
Berreta actually made the powered rail thing for the AR160
Non restricted rifles, in Canada are only limited to 5 round magazines if they are separate [ ie box] from the rifle. You can legally own a lever action with a tube magazine with whatever # of rounds they hold. I choose a .45 Colt [ 10 rounds ] and a 45-70 [ 9 rounds ]
I found a flaw in Ian's plan for a parts kit build from Lego. Toys 'R' Us is gone now.
Also, 1:00:45 Karl was referring to the Browning BLR and I very much like mine. Very smooth action. Only 5 rounds in the magazine though.
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My younger brother knew someone who was hit 3 times by late war German 9mm from an MP-40 and then shot the German who had shot him. They both went to the aid station on the same jeep. That must have been an awkward drive.
On an AR, it would probably be easier to get a power supply in the handguard. Gettign the power around the buffer tube--and the threaded end of the upper receiver would be a kludgefest.
So what I'm hearing is water cooled machine guns would be great for stopping the area 51 raid.
the area 51 raid cannot be stopped
Honestly, after about 10-20% casualties they'll rout
Mini gun gives a higher rate of fire and keeps the barrel cool by swapping the barrel after every shot.....
Area 51 is so remote that there's no way to assemble the raid less than 20 miles away - in a town with less than 100 residents. Whoever _does_ show up will get picked up by state police as they trickle in.
@@cptreech 3,000 RPM / 6 barrels = 500 RPM per barrel, which will still get very hot very fast, especially if you're just hosing bullets continuously...
If combat situation is a thing in Canada I would remember the 5rds mag are just pinned 30 rounders and a dremmel is pretty damn good remedy for that.
50:25 There is a replacement that exists. It's receiving limited use, but it's there. The GAU-19, a rotary .50BMG gatling cannon.
A company DID come up with a powered rail system a few years ago. Saw it at shot the year it came out. One is the Tworx and another is the RIPR. THere was also a conplete rifle that came out with the system. It was the Beretta intelligent rifle.
If you want to recharge the batteries, might be a way to put some coils in the buffer tube so the bolt carrier flies through it. Would need an alternating magnetic field on the BCG which exacerbates the whole need for standardisation, but in terms of packaging and recovering energy from use it would work
or as someone else already suggested, permanent magnets and coils, like one of those "shake to charge" rechargeable torches could work well. Just think of it as an inverse coilgun ;-)
Great as always. Just an idea: Could we have all the Q&A in a playlist?
In addition to the 262 there were a lot of German prototype jet fighter designs that were still being worked on like the Ta 183, which has a lot of the design characteristics of planes like the MiG-15 and the F-86 Sabre
For ease of manufacture, I'd say the simplest THING to make is round-receivered SMG's like the Sten that are open bolt. With a bit of extra tooling and a lathe you can make one in a bicycle shop as long as you can get barrel blanks, and utilize the lathe to pull a broach or button rifling tool through, it wouldn't be the best without a sine bar, but at least it won't be keyholing.
0:14:23 I don't see the OAL or magazine length as being the most relevant point of comparison. Some of the loadings had projectile weights approaching the low end of 7.62 nato, and the bullets were of course comparatively longer. Look at the case lengths (~20% increase) and the muzzle energies. Also it is extremely important to note how they "optimized" or powered up the cartridge repeatedly until it was nearly as overpowered as the later NATO standard. Even the spec that was nominally adopted was arguably not exactly what they set out to design originally. If I'm not misremembering, the earlier versions didn't even share the 12 mm base diameter, but were smaller.
The whole discussion is pretty hard to do in a vacuum because of the various influences and compromises that were made late in the development. Probably conceptually the 6.5 grendel is most similar of any extant cartridges in the same niche. I wouldn't really wan't anything stouter in a conventional assault rifle - the final .280/30 is kinda pushing it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again...
Yins go together like peanut and jelly I can tell you're really good friends who love guns and that's awesome.
It took me 3 days to finish this Q&A lol with work and family stuff and it was amazing. Thanks for taking the time to make this. Awesome video as always.
Thermal Defense Solutions silencers. As well as the barrels they are making that cool extremely quick.
Related to a standard battery system for all rifle components, in audio and video you have a similar idea in 48v phantom power? Across almost all companies that make audio equipment you can power microphones with voltage provided by the camera or mixer via phantom power through the ubiquitous XLR connector. So XLR + Phantom Power = Pic Rail + Karl's magic gun power?
Bebopwing however audio gear is usually in a cleaner environment than military firearms. Most rugged mics are not powered (SM58)
To answer the question at 0:42:27
, the US had the only real super weapon of WW2, nukes.
The Nukes of WW2 had to be transported by a propeller driven bomber. Which can be shot down by a Fighter Plane.
They just worked out because of the immense numbers of Aircraft and money the US had to manage to get air superiority. Without that they aren't any help. If you arm a country with quality built ME262 this air superiority is hard to achieve against them. (The ME262 had radar for night fighting and an ejection seat)
-Additionally: considering all the WW2 bombs still found in and around the area that was under german hand in WW2 (in th nearest city to me they find on average 2-5 a year still that have to be defused) I''d say the quality and technology of allied bombs was quite bad. (heard once that the allies had to invent different fuses for bombs because of the fear of patent infringement of the german ones, the US had to pay the Mauser factory money after WW1 for something similar)
@@13thbee16 The first British Jet, the Gloster Meteor commenced operations in July 1994. All sides in WW2 developed their own radar systems. That said, as a system for air battle command and control, the US's Microwave Early Warning (MEW) radar was reckoned to be the best according to my late father, who was a British ground radar boffin then. From his archives I have video of how a MEW was used on D-day, to direct air operations over the Normandy battle space. In particular, they were able to direct outgoing strike aircraft away from patrolling German fighters, so the latter could never find any aerial targets to engage.
DerekP 1994?
Radar also should be considered imo
Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't bring that up. MAD has ensured nobody has used nukes in anger since 1945, but being the only country with them would change that dynamic.
"Words are hard." You guys have no idea how many times, as an English teacher, I say this to my students.
Personally I would go for a 10mm handgun for bear country. In my opinion the vast majority of people will be able to inflict far more damage with a semi automatic 10mm such as a glock or any other than a 500 s&w and with the proper projectile it would be plenty effective in that role.
I wouldn't fuck around in places with bears or moose, for instance. Large revolvers are pretty much the way to go.
50:00 guys, words can not discribe how much i love you two for your awesome synergy!
I have to say, I focus mostly on scatterguns as a discipline, and y'alls' shotgun content is top notch.
"The more cynical and jaded you become the less you care what happens." Ian Mccollum 2019
Karl's French sign language when he says "Browning has this rack-and-pinion lever gun box-fed thing" is a thing of beauty.
Beretta Defense Technologies is working on a system that does the universal power on a rifle. If i recall, MAC discussed it with one of thier exec's in his "Beretta Factory Tour" video. The system uses picatinny rails that are energized by a battery pack that is on the left sode of the buttstock.
Yes, just looked again. Military Arms Channel, "Beretta USA Factory Tour". Segment on this technology starts at 10:12
The system is designed for thier ARX rifle
I always thought another reason against box magazines in shotguns was the cartridge crushes under spring pressure over a short duration of time.
The American 180 would be interesting to consider in the best rifle for a Canadian question although being full auto probably not allowed it could be an interesting discussion.
a bit late to the part here, but for power-on-the-gun, all you really need is to get DoD to draft an update to MIL-STD-1913 adding a positive contact to the center of each "land" on the rail, and grounding through the rail. Plastic rail covers are easy enough to make to protect unused positions, then you can have a rail system that makes power available for attachments. Once DoD has added it to MIL-STD-1913, people will start making accessories to use it.
At the end of the war germans had ground based, airborne and naval radars. I would also add that they had anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles...
They did indeed.
...and still relied on horses, gas was so scarce it was rationed in bottles....
And very poor quality weapons, equipment and vehicles due to shortage of materials and skilled workers. But that is irrelevant to a) Ian is wrong about the radar and b) to the original question in the video.
And British had jets...
End of WW2 America also had a primitive tv guided bomb and a anti ship missile 'Bat'
I love Ian's analog solution for encrypting communication- just speak Navajo 😂
Karl, to your question about if radar is a weapon: When I was at The Citadel, our Naval Weapons course consisted of one day of small arms, and the rest of the semester on electronic warfare, including radar.
With integrated power, you can do more stuff than before. Weight saved on batteries could go to servo on the power ring on the scope. Image Up/Down button under your finger on the rifle. Being able to quickly change from 1x to 8x and back with a push of a button that is at your fingertip would be huge.
30 years ago I thought of a precision rifle: ballistic computer in the stock (hell, add a Kestral while you are at it for 2-3 ounces) combined with a laser ranger finder and a scope that has servos on the elevation and windage turrets.
Put cross hairs on what you want to shoot. Take up slack on the two stage trigger. Red light comes on in scope as laser range finder and Kestrel send their data to the computer. A solution is arrived at and the servos adjust the cross hairs accordingly. Light turns green and you finish pulling the trigger.
That would have pushed tech limits back in the 80's when I thought of it. It would be pretty simple to do today.
23:00 if you google the AC 1 Sentinel , you will see a water cooled Vickers gun mounted properly in a bow mount, and why it was less desirable than an air cooled gun
Is that a Vickers gun or is the tank happy to see you?
As for the steel case ammo I read once an article in an Italian firearm magazine that steel case production evolved from having a simple copper surface, to lacquering to laquering as well as waxing. The latter could be handled by the MG42s but not the earlier version. Hence till the waxed versions were available, steel cases were reserved to bolt actions and semi-autos and brass was reserved to gpmgs. The waxed one came quite late in - late 1944 - and so it is quite understandable that they had a bad reputation amongst machine gunners.
Geez, there's more to steel cases than I though. Do the Russians wax theirs too?
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Nope. According to the article, post war they adopted the laquering but not the waxing. The soviet war production used copper for corrosion protection. The quoted problem with the MG34/MG42 and steel cases was the high rate of fire, 900/1200 rpm. Russian mgs old and modern were never that fast.
I like carrying a small kit on me with the things I am capable of using, similar to the four items you mentioned Karl. I then like to have a bigger kit, including all that weird stuff I have no idea how to use, in my car. It gives me a good balance between having stuff on me all the time and being able to reasonably know I can retrieve it from my car in a real bad situation. I'm European though, so I'm really not concerned with being in a shootout, but I've been a bystander in vehicular accidents when I was a teenager and I want to give myself the best chance I have of not being helpless if I get into such situations again in the future.
the best answer for the Canadian gun question would be a M14/M305 ( non-restricted) in .308 with the 10 round mags, in Canada there is a loophole where the 10 round mags are legal because they are meant for a bolt action rifle (5 round limit only for semi -auto) and happen to fit both the Norinco and american m14, if you are ok with restricted you can get an AR15 with LAR15 pistol mags that have 10 capacity (10 round limit for handguns) that is in .223/5.56
Integrated power could more easily start with cross-compatibility; Devices that have their own battery as well as an interface for the integrated ones, and attachment points that are just Picatinny rails with electrical contacts, so you can attach normal accessories to them. And then the covers for unused contacts could be use the same secure attachment method as gun accessories.
Regenerative power might also be done by basically turning the parts of the gun that already move in relation to one another into a generator. There are linear generators working with reciprocating rather than rotary motion, apparently.
Spencer M if you see this comment i dont think water cooled mgs were completely abandoned instead i think it moved up to cannons. Suchs as the 23mms on the shilka being water cooled and some naval high rate of fire weapons are watercooled
To add to the question at 1:15:05 about dual column feed pistol mags; I think one issue that you guys didn't touch on is that most modern pistols use a modified browning tilting barrel mechanism. Most of the pistols that have dual column feed have either a fixed barrel or one that doesn't tilt. With the tilting barrel mechanism of the browning style actions, you essentially have the feed angle changing during the cycling of the weapon. I'd imagine it'd be very difficult to design a reliable dual column feed magazine that works in the browning type action.
The USA pretty easily dominates Germany in the "end of WWII weaponry" debate if you include naval assets.
PristineTX but even there design reasons vary based on conditions, for instance, I was reading about one British ship which was designed for the Atlantic/Baltic conditions, and fair incredibly poorly in the Pacific due to the range at which combat tended to take. It was considered that too much effort was put into short range firepower and sea worthiness for storms unlikely to be seen, except in the Baltic or Atlantic that is Tuesday.
Nukes.
Not submarines. German late war subs were as incredible as the late war planes.
I am sorry, Gloster Meteor, Centurion? Late war we, the british are still in contention
It mainly boils down to logistics over the kit carried by your average grunt. Germany was rationing gasoline and diesel long before the Normandy Landings while the US was the largest oil producer in the world.
aye you have it Ian when Germany went to cottage ammo manufacture things went to shite the old brass ammo was consistent the steel case that was being shipped to hundreds of small ammo makers led to lots of problems
For the centralized battery system, you have one battery providing one voltage. Your accessories will still need to step up/down the voltage to meet their specific needs and that is bulk and weight. However, as Ian pointed out, the biggest thing is dirt. Electronic ports like you're suggesting would have to have secured covers over them when not it use or you will destroy them.
Only gun I knew of with an integrated power cell is the Parker-Hale/Bushman IDW sub-gun. Used an electro-hydraulic system to control its fire rate, from a comfortable 450rpm to a screaming 1400. Too bad it never went anywhere. Seems like a cool gun.
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Imagine the markup on the Apple iRifle. Proprietary ammo and having to take it to an apple store to do basic maintenance also come to mind.
@1:12:08 As a Canadian, I'd still lean toward a 5.56 option if that situation arose. You can purchase "LAR 15" magazines which are intended for an AR pistol and hold 10 rounds. Because this magazine was intended for a pistol but happens to conveniently fit in AR-15 rifles, you aren't in contravention of the law because the magazine has not been modified. This is, of course, gaming the system in the question asked but still perfectly legal up here. Some people have suggested before buying .50 Beowulf magazines and cramming them full of 5.56 but THAT has become legally grey depending on who you ask.
with regard to the single battery source idea, the contacts could easily have covers (sliding perhaps) that protected the contacts until the actual unit was fitted to the weapon. the attachments pushing the covers out of the way as part of the fitting process.
Box mag fed shotguns also suffer from deformed shell hulls, from short to long term storage in magazines.
0:14:20 OMG! Fermented shark! I never thought I would here Icelandic delicacies mentioned on this channel! :D
Icelander here btw, and Norwegian brunost (brown cheese) is sooooo gooood! Very similar to a thing we have in Iceland called "mysingur", which I loved as a kid!
FYI Inrange. They make a Roni system with a pistol brace. So you dont have to SBR...
but you can't shoulder braces any more, new 2019 ruling from the ATF on it
@@486kyle no rule change to that has been made.
@@AbstruseDesign
www.atf.gov/file/11816/download
new for 2019
@@486kyle Your letter is from January 2015. www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/open-letter/all-ffls-jan2015-open-letter-redesign-stabilizing-braces/download .
There are handheld laser cutters that can cut through quarter inch steel. Optimize the laser pulse to burn through flesh and throw a capacitor bank in a backpack, you might get a few shots... or you could do the same damage with a powder burning slug thrower that's much smaller and lighter.
Heinlein, Tunnel in the sky or Between Planets.
NSV is used extensively and successfully specifically as a dismounted infantry HMG. While it's not exactly light it can be moved around relatively fast. Optics made it the fire emplacement's eyes and it's highly rugged and reliable (nbs).
If I’m in a combat situation, why am I not removing the pins from my infringed mags?
Re: SKS /AK style cloth chest rigs... I had access to one while working in Afghanistan that I used as a grab and go extra mag carrier. Cheap and handy, but the corners on the bottom front of AR mags had a tendency to quickly abrade the cloth, sort of how kids used to wear out the knees of blue jeans before you could buy them pre-raggedy from the store. I solved the problem with the chest rig by lining the inside of the pouch covers with 100mph tape.
"I still want a Bren 10." Me too, Ian. Me too.
This was the writer of the question saying ;)
It's the most tactical pistol.
Why has no one developed a black powder alternative that is safe for black powder weapons, but is residue free and non corrosive?
The problem is the nature of black powder. It burns the way it burns, because it is a mangle of a fuel an oxygen-source. It's the oxygen-source that produces most of the residue.
The problem is that oxygen-sources, which burn completely, usually don't only act as such but are explosives on their own.
Having a single component explosive in the mix however, would get you to the pressure levels of a smokeless powder.
@@HughesEnterprises Point taken, I did not consider that someone might try stuffing that powder in a muzzleloader. Edited my comment to reflect that
@@TheBiggestIron I forgot that muzzleloaders exist. I've removed my comment so no one blows themself up
Triple Seven is better but will still foul
They have. In the 90s there was a product called Clean Shot. When they went belly up, American Pioneer Powder bought the patent. Jim Shockey Gold is a premium quality version of APP. I think APP also makes Alliant Black MZ. And yes APP is very clean, non corrosive, and easy to clean up. (Yes I use APP)
1:10:19 The only WWII steel cased US ammo I've ever seen was .45 Auto with an ECC headstamp, can't remember the year. Was there other calibers as well?
33:37 Corrosion will be your biggest problem. Contact points to pass power between the battery and the device will be subject to being insulated by dirt etc. Drop you rifle in the dirt / mud, and then have to attach your device will be a nightmare. Recoil induced vibration will also be a nightmare.
Fun Fact: Roni, Hera etc are completely legal in Finland. Not regulated. Since attaching/detaching the chassis does not require tools, it does not count as modifying the pistol to be a rifle/carbine :)
Same with Mauser C96 stocks etc. No tools -> use as you wish. Not regulated.
Also, the law changed this week so that the minimum length for a rifle is now 30cm/60cm barrel/overall, as opposed to USA's NFA SBR length of 42cm/66cm.
That is awesome but makes way to much sense for America! If you don't have to solve a Sphinx's riddle to pass it isn't an American gun law.
I feel like, despite some qc issues lately, Sig would be probably the best bet for that integrated power and accessories system that you'd be interested in. They are trying to make themselves a "one stop shop" these days, so they might have the ambition for it.
TLDR; 34:10 Repairing and replacing batteries makes this impractical. Possible overall however, not to mention capacity of batteries is an issue too. Bigger battery does not mean more charge. When we get graphine batteries, sure, build it into the rifle body as part of the inside of the stock, with thicker traces since graphine is lighter then a Lithium ion, or a acid based battery.
The real reason I think you don't have power built into the rifle is militarily, its easier to just give a guy a few batteries rather then making their guns more expensive. The other is most batteries, if not all have a funny tendency to leak, and don't do well in heat. Not to mention every battery has a limited life, normally only 3-5 years, if unused. The other problem with this idea is that the battery has to absorb the shock, every single time. Its possible, and I love the idea, but practically I dont think you can secure the battery in a way, considering it would need to be somewhat large comparative to AA or smaller, and bulky. Recoil would be an issue for sure. It could be done, but not in a practical way, you could I suppose buffer the battery in the stock and have contact points running from it, but even if you have wires integral and running along as contact points(barring metal plates running as contact points it would work, but it falls under the same issue) that even a small fracture on these and you lose capability, and you are not repairing that easily, let alone finding it in the field.
Edit:Little thought or research was put into my thought on this matter. Practically speaking if you ment for civilian use only, hell yes. All of the issues that I described above was thought with military use in mind. On the civilian market, most of these become an issue of just treating your gun as well you can.
58:54 Yes and no. Just use sound as the weapon. As for powered beams for lasers, no. Its not possible or practical to do so, not just because of power density issues but because lasers are pretty much impossible to focus at that scale and lasers, while powerful take time to work. You can't burst someone and just blow them up, it takes very high focus and precision, and the power output needed is so stupidly high you would laugh when you saw the numbers.
Speaking of that theoretical war between Neo-Finland and Hyper-Korea cheapest war-time production method (depending on materials used of course) is casting or pulling. Both have rather high initial cost but more you make the thing, less one individual piece will cost. 3D-printing is not that suitable for large scale production because how long one thing can take to print. It's faster and there fore probably cheaper just print casting mold and then start casting guns. If you can do that of course. At resistance level question is not that much of how many guns you can make but what kind of tools you have access to. If you have 3D-printer (and materiel stock) it will probably be your main production method.
Just an FYI for Marcus in Canada, Pistols and pistol mags are limited to 10 round mags in canada, so you can use 10 round AR pistol or XCR-L pistol mags legally and non restricted in Canada in any other gun. it's a weird loophole in canadian law but basically if the gun the magazine was originally made for is legal (an AR or XCR pistol), there is no restriction for any other gun which that magazine can happen to fit into. similar to how pistol caliber carbines can use 10 round glock or beretta mags and are legal and non restricted.
My 9mm carbine takes Glock mags, and the 33 rounders work just fine, although I did have to take them apart and clean out the plastic burs on the insides before they were reliable, since they're the cheaper Korean Glock-clone mags and not legit ones. They do require a loading tool. It would probably be impossible to get all 33 in there without it.
I'm sure they do, that's not the point. The point is that if you made two guns, one double stack, one double stack single feed, made a thousand of each all identical except for the mag and feeding system and sent both out into the field for trials, the double stack single feed guns would have slightly more problems. It might only be a difference of 3 jams total vs. 5 jams total out of all those guns firing all those thousands of rounds but the difference is there. It's just not a difference a single user with a single gun is likely to ever see.
115% agree on more obsolete ammo. As a small bore enthusiast in would live to see 25 and 32 rim fire being made again
Because the M2 works great. If you know what you are doing it serves like a champ. The HB is wonderful