History Primer 180: British .303 Martinis Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2023
- C&Rsenal presents its Primer series where we delve into the story of this classic firearm. Complete with history, function, and live fire demonstration.
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Additional reading:
A Treatise on the British Military Martini : The Martini-Henry 1869 - C1900
B.A. Temple & I.D. Skennerton
International Arms & Militaria Collector
No.3 - Son of a Gun, The Turkish 7.65mm Peabody-Martini , Ray McMahon
The Turkish Connection: The Saga of the Peabody-Martini Rifle
Man at Arms Magazine Volume 1 #2 1879
William O. Achtermeier
The Martini-Henry for Queen and Empire
Neil Aspinshaw
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I take a shot of Balistol every morning and it cured my baldness, arthritis and lowered my blood / chamber pressure, it dewormed the cat and started a 1995 Ford Explorer recovered from a lake.
The martini henry went out like it came, confused and shedding patterns across the globe
When I clicked on this video, it said it had 10 likes and no views. Being early is weird
Your little snippet at the end about archives and digitization is a sore subject for me. When my brother and our uncle went to NARA in College Park, MD, the stories they brought back were mind boggling. They were researching my grandfathers' units and were apparently the first people to look at some of the stuff... ever. WHOLE BOXES of unit reports, memos, pictures, etc. from world war two, just crammed in, some of the boxes having only vague discriptors. The archivists seemed more concerned about nobody taking the disposable gloves home, than they were about the condition of some of the box contents (some photos and papers were starting to deteriorate). Thankfully, they were at least allowed to use a portable document scanner. I understand that amateurs can cause damage, and funding might not be there for professional digitization. However, how hard would it be to offer college credit to Masters level History and related majors to do the work with a supervisor? The kids get credit and experience, the records get catalogued and preserved, and researchers get to keep from getting ulcers.
The British War office being more schizophrenic about whole rifle patterns than the US Board of Ordnance was about iron sights in this period.
Without going into detail, because I often do, I fear, I am recovering from a stroke,(yes, still.) the arrival or today’s program, or project, was an absolute godsend. Brilliantly told, and amuck with information. Thanks.
Gives a bit of context of Churchill’s cancellation of the EM1. He’s old enough to know about this entire ridiculous endless conversion process. He served in the Boer War. When the US got stroppy about cartridge sizes he could perhaps see the British design process spiralling out of control again with endless patches and fixes to make the rife work with something it wasn’t designed for. The Empire couldn’t afford it then.
The is a missing British pattern here. The VTC pattern. These rifles were made by commercial gunsmiths for the 300000 men of the Volunteer Training Corps, a WW1 Home Guard.
"God to be a taxpayer" 😂
Some were used in Zulu (1964) to supplant the lack of .577/450 Martini-Henry rifles.
These were used by the Home Guard in WW2 as well.
I used to be a member of the school small bore target shooting club in the early/mid 1970s. We used Martini-Henry rifles in .22 LR.
What many people may or may not know is that Australia prior to 1901, that it was five self-governing British colonies hence the reason why there were different versions of the Martini rifles. The colonies had part-time reserve units, known as militia or "volunteer" defence units. During the 2nd Boer War, the 5 self-governing British colonies became the Commonwealth of Australia on January 1st 1901.
I will say after the partnership with Ballistol I did actually bite the bullet and purchase some. I actually do love the smell it reminds me of black licorice. (Anise oil I believe is in it.)
Well, after watching this, I must say the progression of Marks and stars of the Lee-Enfield is positively logical and straightforward....haha
Easily my most favorite content in all of RUclips.
Just love your Martini series. One of my most favorite rifle. Setting in my lounge and can look over at the wall in my study: starting from the top: Martini-Henry .577/450; Martini-Enfield in .303 British, just above my BSA Martini in .310 Cadet, and just above my BSA .22 Target. Reminds my to have a 4 martini lunch this afternoon.
For some reason I never knew they converted Martini Henry's into .303 caliber rifles. I learn something new every video.
When are we going to see the Francotte patent Martinis used by ZAR, the Romanian Witten Martini and the .310 and 297/230 Morris Cadet rifles? Just pulling your chain, but there still is so much more to the Martini story.
I need to watch this multiple times to get the model changes straight.