The sound it makes when it cycles is one of those noises that either makes you terrified or incredibly happy depending on which side of the battle you’re on.
Hey Ian! Current EOD technician here, and huge fan of your videos. I'm really glad you've shed some light on how the Barret is used for EOD purposes and isn't a "sniper rifle" in the conventional sense. As far as EOD application goes you're partially right. For the most part we don't really use it on 155s in the way you're talking about as it doesn't relaibly detonate the munition. It's main purpose is for "standoff munition disruption" or SMUDing as we call it. The main application for this process is actually to rapidly clear airfield of large number of smaller cluster munitions. I'm not trying to discredit anyone, I'm just hopefully adding a little bit more contextual insite from an EOD perspective. Keep pumping out the great content!
@@p0331546 Better to fill holes in the runway that lose an aircraft on landing to an explosive. Less mess and (more importantly to the bean counters) less paperwork. Do you REALLY want to be the guy that has to answer the question, "why wasn't the runway cleared?".
AkBiker70 As another EOD technician I'm very sceptical about this concept. Given the amount of range time the average EOD tech gets, you're lucky if you can hit a full size figure 11 target at 300m, let alone something as big as a soda can. Especially if you're not on a totally flat and grass-free runway. Also there's the problem of the down range hazard if you miss. As you probably will if you're as good a shot as most EOD techs! So although there was a lot of excitement when our teams were issued them for Gulf War 1, I've never personally seen them used since.
California: Who are you? M82A3: I’m a hunting rifle. California: Oh yeah? What do you hunt? M82A3: Ummm... Insurgents, landmines... tanks... pretty much anything that moves really.
Insurgents: Who are you? American Marine: I am an American soldier. Insurgents: Oh! And what the f*ck are doing in our country? American Marine: We are here to help you,that's why I'm carrying this. 50 caliber rifle.
Glad you touched on Ronnie Barrett's story (though you really can't avoid it when talking about this rifle) He was the last of the true gun inventors. When you hit that technological plateau you alluded to in previous videos, you start seeing more things designed by groups of people, committees, scientists, engineers and advanced individuals trying everything they can to squeeze out the last extra % out of a gun design. I don't wanna sound like I'm saying "They don't make em like they used to!" or some crap like that, because we still have great designs today, but I miss it when 1 or 2 dudes could sketch up an idea, build it themselves, and actually carve out a pretty substantial part of an industry just by being clever and having an idea that's maybe a little out there.
I think a lot of it is that gun manufacture has a lot more bureaucratic hoops than it used to, so it takes a lot more capital to go out and create guns.
Jack Mcslay Yeah. The system is a vicious circle. You have to meet so many regulations and requirements, so you HAVE to hire professionals, experts, a focus group (not actually, but maybe), and lawyers.
***** I think the two are connected. When so few are making guns you don't get many artisans making visually pleasing guns because low volume manufacture is hard to do.
Browning actually made his gas system watching a bush moving when he shoot in a hunt, regular people see practicality, simple ways to solve their demands, Barrett wanted to shot a .50 rifle instead of a HMG, so he made a simple one, maybe one day one of you guys make the same thing, maybe even I'll... hahaha
"There are probably some people out there who are emotionally dependent on the idea of the Barrett being an extremely high precision gun" 18:00 probably the best thing you have ever said. The truth hurts but I suppose a fifty cal hurts more. You gained a new Patron. If you're willing to speak the truth about something so excessively glorified you are worthy of everyone's support. You are documenting history in an unbiased and accurate way.
The second longest confirmed kill shot confirmed was with a Barrett though, the first place was a TAC-50 (which is also .50BMG). On paper it's technically not better than a .338 sniper rifles but a good marksman can make it do it's job just fine.
Thank you for making the distinction between anti-materiel and sniper application systems. I've seen so many people and even movies/games lump the two together.
Hi Ian! Just a quick correction on your video. I was a Platoon Leader for an ammo section of a Cav Squadron, which includes a sniper section armed partially with M107 rifles. The Army does indeed issue special match grade .50 BMG ammo for these weapons, which is different than the standard rounds. This distinction was hammered home to me at Fort Drum, when we went to turn in our dunnage, and the kind folks informed us that the match grade 50 brass had to be separated from the standard stuff! This led to a very fun day of picking through thousands of empty brass casings, looking for a telltale dimple on the underside. Quite a fun day!
When I was deployed to Afghanistan the Barrett was helpful to use in combat because manny of the houses out there had walls made of rock and mud a foot or more thick. So the only thing that could really punch through the walls effectively especially at longer ranges was a .50 cal. And the Barrett was something we could carry with us. As apposed to the m2 browning which had to stay mounted to a vehicle.
I had opportunity to shoot an Armalite AR50 bolt action. It was on a ski footed bi-pod (as opposed to spikes or rubber feet). When I fired it, car alarms went off 20 yards behind me. The recoil didn't feel as bad as I was expecting, but I did learn the reason for the ski feet on the bi-pod. After firing from the prone position, both the rifle and I were several inches back from where we started.
Years ago, my buddy and I were working on his new design for a muzzle break. Since we both had full time jobs and worked on guns after hours, and neither of us had machine tools at the time, we had to "borrow" the tools from a local farmer who had a large lathe in his outbuilding on his farm. Well we worked well into the next morning, but before daylight, while my buddy was building his break on the mill, I was chambering and tapering my .444 Marlin barrel for my Styer Straight Pull rifle conversion. When my buddy got done with his break he started giggling and said he just had to try out. Well this was around 2:00 AM so to keep the noise down just a bit we walked out between two steel buildings, my buddy aimed his rifle up and about a .45 degree, and touched off one full power .50 BMG round. MAN that concussion was enough that I could feel the cuffs of my blue jeans press back against my legs. In that pitch black of the North Dakota night, the ball of fire blinded me for a bit, and when we got back into the machine shop the phone was ringing. First call: Farmer (WHAT THE HELL DID YOU BLOW UP!) Second call Fire Department (HOW MANY ENGINES SHOULD WE SEND!) well when the apologies were done, everyone congratulated my buddy on his build, and we were politely asked to, perhaps find another machine shop to "borrow!"
"A Sniper is someone that shoots a high value target at a long distance. A Sniper doesn't need 50 cal to do that." -Gun Jesus Captain McMillan: I'll ignore that
I got a lot of memories dedicated to this gun. When I was at my advanced training in the army as an infantry sapper, we had guys who were Barrett operators, in order to blow up mines and explosives (that's the main use of Barrett in IDF, by the way, as demolishing explosive materials this way is pretty simple and much cheaper than blowing it up with hand grenade or underbarrel shots). My beast friend Sanya, a russian bull, was a Negev machine gunner and Barrett operator at the same time. Usually the operators were working in couples of 2, carrying a disassembled Barrett plus all their personal ammunition and other stuff with them, which made their equipment one of the heaviest. But that day the guy who was Sanya's Barrett-mate was missing - he desertiered a week before. Our officer told Sanya that there is nothing to do and he has to take ALL the Barrett with him, and that he has to take the Negev and all the ammunition too. Sanya cursed in the worst Russian cursements that I've ever heard and took all those things. I think that there is no need to explain how heavy all the equipment that he carried was. I took some parts of the Barrett from him to help, but still he was broken because of all the weight he had. From that day when we meet and sit together, it is forbidden to say something about this gun - Sanya's trauma doesn't leave him untill today. I really don't know how he did it. That's the strongest person I have ever seen, completing that training with a Barrett and LMG all alone, running kilometers in the desert for days.
@@dethronekingmma1246 have you ever held or even touched one of these Barretts? And have you ever served in the military? I was not a Barrett operator myself, but even carrying 240B with its ammunition wasn't fun when you have your full battle rattle and some. Now, one can only imagine how difficult both physically and mentally is carrying battle equiped Barrett 82A1 along with your other own equipment. I no longer in service myself however, I do have my personal 82A1 at home and that thang is not light by any means. 30 odd pounds may not sound much, but that's only when it's butt naked with nothing on. After you put a long range scope on with a mount, then adding 10 rounds of 50 BMG, weight is going to add up easily just like with SCARs. When I hold my SCAR 17S empty it feels like a toy and is probably lighter than my AK. But wait till you add some accessories to it and some ammunition that can quickly become a back killer. To sum up don't EVER judge based on just numbers on paper. These aren't as easy to handle for average people as some videos may make them look like.
@@Govrin. The same question is asked for you. That’s 160 pounds, on the human body, for many and I mean many miles in a dry dry desert with little protection besides your clothes and gear as cover from the sun
I once saw an anime where a little girl dual wielded two of these to fight an intra galactic demon. When she shot the guns the barrels didn't recoil back to cycle the action! How utterly unrealistic, it's like they don't understand how guns function. They need to watch more Forgotten Weapons.
I can't impress my love for garage inventor stories like this. It's just plainly inspiring, especially to a fool like myself who has no engineering background, nor even real military background, and just a childish love for firearms and the occasionally unlikely people who design them.
Why would any citizen need a gun like that? To blow unbelievably large holes in targets and junk cars, and bottles and old electronics, and propane tanks, to send sparks and shards and splinters and shrapnell flying, while enjoying the sound, muzzle blast and recoil????....................Now I need one, too.......
To make the possibility of holding a population against its will long-term impractical , and taking it in the first place more costly than it would otherwise be .
Blake Ubersox the only part that’s scripted is that his arm comes off, regardless of the location hit. You could hit him in the head or the leg, but his arm will still come off
It amazes me how such a complicated and beautiful piece of engineering can be made by a photographer. All it needed was sufficient desire and dedication.
I was born and raised in Tennessee in a small town called Bell Buckle not even 15 minutes away from Christiana Tennessee. My father was law enforcement and went to the Barretts official gunstore known as Outpost Armory for all of his work gear. On a once in a life time opportunity i got to go with my father to the Barretts home and Ronnie was one of the nicest guys ive ever met and his wife was also a delight (also a former congress woman!) im a forever fan of everything barrett and own many models of their weapons currently today
The full phrase is Womble: "Hearts and minds, were not bombing the civilians" Cyanide: "yeah, hearts and minds, it's just that they'll be splattered all over the ground"
@MadOne Styll how's that shotgun working for ya soviet? *some streaming later* What the fuck kind of gun is that? Soviet: how're those rifles working out for ya? Cyanide: we could see concisely where you've been soviet by tracking the fucking buildings
You know how in Battleship the destroyers had those two M82A1s in the armoury that they shot the windshields with? Those are actually very common to see on high-value military ships because sometimes the CIWS can't make accurate enough shots on an aircraft or boat. Or maybe the gunners wanted some action themselves, lol.
The goverment bring in over 98% of the drugs in most countries...the only reason they use the coast guard etc to confiscate drugs from importers is because they dont like citizens getting in on their business...and they keep the drugs illegal because that ensures higher profit for them....for example....if cocaine was entirely legal...they could sell it, per ounce or pound, at roughly the same price as sugar.....think about that
Well it is technically an anti-vehicle weapon and a speed boat is a vehicle. What I am curious about is if they shoot the hulls to sink the boats or the engines to disable the boats for boarding.
Ian might want to update his .50 information considering it now holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill with a Hornady match grade .50 BMG round fired from a MacMillin Tac-50 by a Canadian Special Operations sniper.
Well it is bolt action and a precision bullet, he said that the US Army has no precision .50 not that no army has them. Germany uses a AW.50 for example for this kind of stuff and the G82 /M82 for anti material
@@graysun9108 Ian said the .50 BMG wasn't good for that purpose. And the second longest publicly confirmed sniper kill was by an Aussie Commando with an M82A1. And the longest known US military kill was with an M82A1. Ian is absolutely right to say that this rifle isn't intended to be a sniper rifle and generally isn't ideal for it. However, it can and is used for that purpose to great effect in the right circumstances.
After the movie; 'Navy Seal' came out, we had a few lads bring their newly mortgaged M82 rifles to FCSA 'Fifty Caliber Shooters Association' outings...even using our hand load match ammo...they couldn't compete for small groups at 1000 yds, lot's of butthurt for the owners..but really cool rifles for their intended purpose!
We were told in the army they were 5 moa guns. In my sniper section every time the Barret came out people started complaining. You knew you'd have a head ache from firing, backache from carrying it, and would have to stay late cleaning it because of the corrosive ammo. Literally more work then what it's worth.
I think his meaning was that the non-match-grade ammunition available alone limited to 3MOA. A short recoil mechanism only reduced accuracy even further.
I was not arguing what he said. I was stating the moa we were told in the Army. It's alright for what it is, it just wasn't held to as high a prestige as our m24s. We would let the line guys screw around with the m107s but wouldn't let armorers touch our m24s.
Daniel Frakes 10-04, I love Ian covering this. He's such a respected source and he closes the book on this and he does it in such a concise and professional way Snipers are .308 or .338 or something like that, .50BMG sniper is just... overkill.
Treblaine .50 bmg would be a good long range round. The issue is just as he described though. The current available ammunition isn't capable of sub moa accuracy. Guys are shooting ball and api both meant for machine guns. If there was a more accurate round than the weapon would be better for sniper/ counter-sniper operations. And even then it is limited buy the accuracy of the weapon system. But the way it sits right now the weapon system would be better off if it was used in an AT section in line companies as opposed to sniper sections. Especially in asymmetric warfare when the enemy lacks armor. This would free up snipers to perform anti-personnel and give a job to guys who are just used as another line squad due to lack of usefulness in their specialty.
This is indeed a "light 50" (or "tolv-sju"/twelve-seven as we called them): During my officer training in the Norwegian army, we once were acting as the opfor for a Home Guard/National Guard unit, and we were supposed to have a unit 7.62 MG3, but the only thing available was a classic .50 BMG. Together with a few hundred rounds of the red training ammo, this stretched the "man-portable" MG definition almost to our breaking points. :-) PS. I was training at the time to become the commander of a 20mm AA gun, during which time we were taught that 12.7 is the largest caliber allowed by the Geneva convention to be used for direct anti-personnel use, so we should never aim directly at opposing soldiers with our AA gun, but against helicopters and lightly armoured vehicles it was really very effective. We only used a single standard round, the big brother of the Raufoss 12.7 armour piercing/explosive where every round was also a tracer round. This was partly a safety feature: After a flight of about 4.2km, the tracer fire would reach the payload and detonate it in the air if it had not hit anything by that time. Back in 1977 we were told that 2.5-3.5 km (afair!) was the maximum effective range.
Actually a myth. That originated with recoilless rifles with .50 BMG sighting guns, and it was considered bad practice to give away your position by bonking an armored target with a bullet that in no way was going to get hurt by that bullet. Of course, now I wonder if there were yahoos who thought the sighting gun on an M40 was a free antipersonnel bullet or something.
@@DrRussian That works if you have good reference points on the terrain. Less so if it's open planes with little in the way of objects that you can sight.
To be fair, a G18 would be much more dangerous in the lawn dart sense. Hundreds of idiots a year would shoot themselves trying to empty a magazine tilted, "gangster" style.
It's not just rich white guys having fun with these. I have a Coastie friend that was involved in drug interdiction while working with the Colombian Coast Guard. There were sections of the coast they made sure they stayed at least 3,000 yards offshore because some of the drug cartel soldiers were using Barrett rifles to discourage naval vessels from investigating too closely. That was when there were actual drug running subs in use. He was on an 87 foot patrol boat armed with two M2 50's and engaged in a two hour running gun battle with a position onshore armed with at least one and possibly two Barrett rifles. The problem was solved when a Colombian Navy frigate arrived and ended any opposition with its 76 mm gun.
The most memorable picture I've seen of the barret .50 cal is one where it's being pointed out of a helicopter, down at a boat with a holo sight on the gun. Goes to show you, you don't always need a big scope on a big rifle.
I also used to think these were made for sniping a long time ago until I realized that it'd probably be insanely heavy for a rifle used to shoot at people. Didn't occur to me before that it wasn't the most precise gun or ammo either.
Barrett M82A1: Perfect for engaging a home invader...in your neighbor's house...two blocks down...behind 16 walls, 3 refrigerators, and a Ford pickup. 🤷♂️
Thoroughly enjoy your Channel! As an amateur RUclipsr I feel like I’m learning a lot from the way you present & of course the engineering marvel of the firearms you show. Thank you.
I love the fact that it was the Swedish military who took a look at a US rifle and adopted it Before the US military did. .50 BMG is for when you realy want somthing destroyed with a rifle shot.
As a smaller country it's less of a risk of introducing new equipment to our military. Also the place of origin is kinda irrelevant unless you specifically want to mass produce it and bring down the cost.
It's often the smaller armies who adopt new stuff first, because they don't have so much capital tied up in stocks of existing ammo and weapons and the plant to make them.
Harold Weaver Smith The Swedish army at that time, was a large conscript army. a bit larger then we could aford to train and equipt with out keeping the stuff or decades after it should have been replaced. The oldest rifle i have ever shot that was in military armory was older then my Grandfather, by about twenty years.
***** the order the questions should be asked is what do we want to do, what do we need, then we can how mutch Money do we have. 2% spent on the right things would be nice, 2% on a giving lifesuport to somthing that don´t work is a wast.
So just to correct a few things in the introduction - whilst it isn't a sniper rifle, or at least doesn't have much accuracy for the reasons stated, it is used incredibly commonly in the modern battlefield by the sniper of a 2 man team. Whilst the traditional mission of a sniper is observation with a secondary role of eliminating high value targets, the modern low intensity conflict simply doesn't have a need for that most of the time and so snipers are most often used as overwatch for a regular infantry unit. The aim is to use distance as protection from the poor accuracy of insurgents and so extreme accuracy really isn't needed. However insurgents will often take cover behind a wall, as you would expect, so the penetrating capability of a .50 BMG counters a very common tactic. The US will usually use a Raufoss round which is incredibly effective, exploding in the wall leaving both the AP core and a shotgun-like shrapnel in a 30 degree cone from the wall to kill the insurgent. Other countries have banned its use on personnel due to the rules of war prohibiting an explosive or incendiary round of its size, the Raufoss is both. As for its early use against aircraft, WW1, interwar, WW2, you're correct in that an explosive round was used. However this was stopped during the interwar period as a .50 cal explosive round has very poor efficiency. The Germans also tried a 15mm round (.59 cal to convert it) and found 15mm and calibers below 20mm to be ineffective with an explosive payload, and the British had poor effect with their .303 explosive round as one might expect. During WW2 it was more common to use armour piercing or incendiary ammo in .50 BMG, explosive rounds were simply not useful in calibers below 20mm. By the mid to late war the US had found API to be an effective combination. Armour piercing is particularly useful as the engines are usually armoured yet a single round penetrating the radiator can lead to overheating and a useless engine, multiple penetrations speed this up. In the Asian theatre Japanese aircraft also lacked flame retardants and sealing tanks so incendiary was devastating though European aircraft all had them. And finally a little extra on the Raufoss round, the Americans argue that the round will penetrate all the way through an enemy combatant before the explosive or incendiary effects activate. However of the many, may tests done we find a 50% chance of an unarmoured combatant to be penetrated through the chest if facing the shooter. Facing any other direction, taking any other stance (prone for example), or wearing armour or gear will significantly increase the percentage of rounds exploding inside the combatant. Additionally firing through cover like the walls so often shot through will almost guarantee the round has incendiary and/or explosive effect on the combatant. The Raufoss round absolutely breaks the rules of war when used on personnel, but its an incredibly effective round. The makers of the Raufoss round did a study to see if it breaks the rules of war themselves, after receiving the results they refused to share any information. When asked by the Red Cross, Raufoss said "these projectiles are considered safe for the purposes they were designed for" which doesn't directly state they are not legal for anti-personnel but considering they were designed for non-personnel targets I find it hard to believe Raufoss would have used that phrasing if they were legal for anti-personnel use. On the upside it is such a large round that very few impacts will leave survivors to suffer the consequences of HEI rounds. Anyway just a few corrections and a little extra info from someone who is clearly bored enough to write a near-essay. Namely the M82 is in incredibly common use by snipers and the .50 explosive round is very poor against aircraft, at least in WW2 era (the Raufoss round is likely very effective against WW2 aircraft).
Da Ca While she may be incorrect about laws of war violations, she's much more informed than you are. All you can do is insult while the adults actually use their minds, sad really.
Olivia Lambert you got everything correct except for the "rules of war" part. Firstly, the US did not agree to or sign the conventions that are relevant to this weapon system, and secondly even if they did, it only applies if you have no other weapon capable of taking out the threat on you. A pistol won't at that range, so that leaves just the rifle.
I really appreciate the no-nonsense, non hyperbolic, educated manner in which you speak in these videos. They are very interesting and informative! Thanks for taking the time.
I love how so many people think it's illegal to shoot enemy combatants with the .50. (I realize that this rifle is mainly an anti-material rifle, but that's besides the point) How in the world would that be illegal, or even frowned upon, but dropping 2000lb JDAMs and spraying them with 20mm from apaches, and 30mm from an a10 be okay? The US does all of the above to enemies. And no, they don't have to be in a vehicle or building. There are plenty videos of apaches engaging dudes out in the open.
Yes I witnessed an Apache use the nose cannon on a work van,fair to say the van started hopping across a street and of course ripping it to shreds the destruction was unreal
I had an old co-worker, who was a Major MP in Iraq, he's old and discharged now. He explained to me this. "Is he wearing a T-shirt? That's Armor, which means we can legally shoot him with the .50. Not like we cared anyways."
+lfteri it belongs to the Same Model of rifles, the AWM being the Arctic Warfare Military and the AWM being the Arctic Warfare Police, both belonging to the L115(if I am not wrong) family which is a British Sniper Rifle.
+Abraham tbh I just know that AWP is for Arctic warfare Police so i figured that the M must be for military I could be wrong, but let's wait what Ian says.
+Michael Best yeah the M is for Magnum my Bad, but Wikipedia says that the P is for Police as it equipped with a shorter barrel. Although I could not find the Original source in that.
eh, texas is looking like it could go blue this election. Theres more liberals than there used to be there, that's for sure. Wouldn't be surprised if in 30 years, places like cali are the norm in all states when it comes to gun laws.
Still better than what I have here. Owning a handgun is a luxury, let alone a semi-auto rifle, and it's impossible for a civilian to own full-auto weapon whatsoever. To own even a simple pistol you gotta pay a lot of money, go through background check, medical examination, and stuff like that, nothing unusual. But in the very end, the cop issuing the gun license might just say "NO!" to you - now you can kiss your money, time and sorry ass goodbye. Unless you have connections of some kind... or a very good reason for self-defense. Or you aim at sporting license, but then again you got to participate in shooting competitions to that end, and not everyone is particularly interested in that kind of activity. That's how matters look like in Poland, and no mainstream political party is intrested in relaxing aformentioned restrictions a little bit. The most notorious are, of course, various lefty activists who shout "OH MAI GOD, THEY GUNNA KILL EACH OTHER WITH GUNZ!!11oneone", which is obvious b-shit, since it would be still hard to obtain a legal gun for a thug or a psycho. Police arbitrariness is what has to be removed - if you have perfect health and no criminal record, you should be free to own that handgun (rifles are better for recreational shooting or hunting anyway). The least restrictive country in the EU on matter of civilian firearms is the Czech Republic. Provided you're born as a Czech citizen, you can easily get a gun license once you turn 18 years old. And by "easily" I mean "just as easy as a driving license". More than that, they allow concealed carry. Gun shops are commonplace in most of their larger cities, but as a nation they are not that armed as some think. And of course, the most popular handgun there is their CZ-75, one of the "wonder nines". But that might go to an swift end because of Mrs. Bieńkowska and her "bright" ideas of restricting civilian gun ownership in all of the EU. The reason? Because of recent terrorist attacks in France, which were carried out with illegal surplus military Zastava rifles from former Yugoslavia. Good idea - let's ban LEGAL guns because some thugs used an ILLEGAL rifle. Heck, that ol' hag wants to place ridiculous restrictions on ownership of disabled weapons or even airsoft replicas! First they make some ridiculous laws on firearms, then they want to ban it altogether, including things that imitate firearms so people won't even have an idea how a pistol or rifle looks like. It's gonna be Orwell incarnate here. Tl;dr - you Americans are not in as deep shit as we are.
yes, but thre is "collector's licence", where you have to "just" pay 1000PLN for hard-to-pass examine, and you can enjoy any rifle, also plice right now can't just say "no" if you pass everything positively
Arkadiusz Juszczak come to switzerland. You can buy a Barrett just like an AR15, full auto and supressors are easy to get but you need a permit that allows to buy 3 items for example a PKM, a 762 Supressor and maybe a rhodesian FAL concerted to semiauto. For a semiauto rifle or a pistol you just need to have no felonys and get a permit for 3 each, for example a VZ58 Commando, a Glock 19 and your SIG 553 or whatever. Bolt actions and such things need no permit, detachable magazines are no problem. There are no mag restrictions or sbr's just full autos need kinda the same paperwork as americans need to do to buy a suppresors, supressors are also bought with that permit but that's just like... you never get denied you know amd you only have to pay it if you'll get the permit. Only gripe in switzerland is you can't shoot everywhere, only on registered ranges, in some areas you may can if you're a hunter for some sighting in but that's a gray zone. And shooting your full auto must be requested at your local police but this has various understandable reasons because switzerland is quite small and some ranges are in the middle of a town and such. If you ask them they'll allow it unless it's a festival right next to the range or whatever which i understand. Oh and self defense is allowed !! But there is a common sense thing related to it, if a robber runs away from you it's of course not allowed to shoot him in the back, which i think is right, only for real self protection or if you're wife is in danger or whatever. Switzerland is great because it manges to get a compromise for all and you still can enjoy your hobbies, downside is cost and time effort you have to put in but it's fair and you can like 4 times a year use the military ranges for long range shootings with your sniper type rifles, you won't shoot much more anyways because a single 338LM or 50 BMG is about 4-6 franks. You know switzerland is kinda like this, if you get along with people, have respect and put a little bit off effort into things you can do almost anything and also since most men are trained on firearms there is no real difference beetween being a civilian, army or police personnel and all get along and shoot together which makes everything even better.
Thank you for your advocacy for the continuing potential for individual innovators & DIY Engineering. I hope the maker movement levels the playing field for hobbyist engineers to innovate competitively with corporate monopolies.
I heard the US army forged 5000 spandaus together to create each M82A1; unfortunately they are now only good in defence. For an attacking Light Fifty you have to hand forge it from 5000 Bren guns.
When someone is going out of their way to PAY for advertising time to suggest to you that you should get rid of your gun....that is the time to BUY a gun yourself. Trust me
@@edrooney9580 ban all guns, nobody should have the power or ability to kill someone. We just can't trust someone that much to not shoot up a school or public place, so why take the risk?
@@garywilson3042 yeah, "no one should have the power to kill someone".... You know even a rock could also use to kill or a plastic bag or a rope or a bare hand ? Yeah And also just because we can kill each other doesn't mean we will
Stumbled up on your channel some weeks ago and I been fascinated since that day. Really like to hear all your stories and all the history you have around all the historical weapons. So much better then seeing a bunch of trigger happy .... go out and shoot and tell how cool it is. Anyway -Did not know that we bought them first! As facts that my unit was issued some of those M82A1 in Sweden and the second Ranger unit to get them. As you say, they where intended for vehicles and light armored personal carriers for us. Not sniping.
"I really want to shoot a .50 cal rifle..." I said the same thing when I bought a live 35mm buzz gun round. Came up with this crazy elaborate combo pneumatic/magnetic recoil suppression system with a free-floating 2 piece upper receiver to allow for acceptance of different length rounds. Obviously, it's not viable, but I was impressed with the level of detail I went into for it. I am a heavy diesel mechanic, and I should probably stick with that. LOL
I bought my 82A1 in June of 1990 for FCSA 1000 yard competition. It is interesting to see the subtle differences between this 82A1 and mine. At 1000 yards I have been able to put three rounds into a 1 MOA grouping, but not the next two. A lot of the issues at those distances are from being able to read the wind. Overall, with match ammunition I agree that 1.5 MOA for a five-shot group is about the best one could expect - it is more than good enough!
As a young Marine I was lucky enough just to be able to observe a live fire of the M82A1. I had, at several fam fires, operated the MA Duece as did all Marines attached to that station as we had a couple in armored vehicles. The thing is, none of us had to shoulder an M2! The range officer that fired the Barrett even acknowledged "like getting drunk on New Year's, it's fun, but I'm glad I only do it once a year".
I know that rangers here in Sweden us it for behind the lines sabotage, killing tanker trucks etc. from a safe distance with armour piercing incendiary rounds. Here it's designated AG90 (Automatic Rifle 90).
4:54 I have to find a good way to quote this part. So true and yet so anoying to work against people who can't understand the bigger picture behind an idea.
I've fired both the M2 .50 BMG in full auto from a tripod and a bolt action barret .50 rifle. the machine gun is a great gun and a lot of fun to shoot. I've fired 100s of Rds in full auto. the rifle is a whole different animal, even with the muzzle device the recoil and concussion from each shot feels like being punched in the face (not pleasant).
A friend of mine worked for Barrett for about a year after graduating from Gunsmith College at Yavapi Az. He went on to design a cut rifeling barrel plant turning out very high quality 50 cal barrels, as well as other calibers. His first plant was in ND, then he moved to NM and now, as far as I Know he is working in the Rapid City SD area. He used to have some great stories about working there. Another buddy of mine designed a nice .50 BMG Bolt Action Rifle back in the early 90's his first design had a spring in the but stock, but that did little for the hefty recoil even in the very heavy rifle. He went on designing different muzzle breaks till he came up with one almost identical to the one on that Barrett. It was amazing to watch him design and build his parts, while in the background the computerized machines were turning out match grade rifle barrels.
Actually, I was stationed in Iraq in 2005 - 2006, we had three sniper teams that went out during that time and they were equipped with .50cal Barrett bolt action rifles. Of course they did go through extensive training with these rifles before our deployment, we were Army combat engineers known as Sappers. Now I do know that we weren't exclusive by any means, the Marine Corps also had sniper teams thusly equipped during that time. Just thought you'd like to know, since you did say that the military doesn't use this round in a sniper situation.
@@paladinhill well, the main point of that comment was exactly about round. Even precision aka sniper rifle won't show any good result with standart ammo, so those guys who Wayne Myers talking about should be using spesial match-grade ammo, not simple ball/AP from Ma Deuce ammo stockpiles.
@@denisl2760 most military equipment costs a lot, a single .50 BMG is around $1.20 retail. Regicide has global consequences whereas shooting down drones generally doesn't.
Damn, now I want to see Ian do a video on a .CheyTac M200 in .408. Nowhere near a forgotten weapon, but definitely cool and a bit obscure. Everyone knows it by its non alphanumeric name, the Intervention, but not many people actually know that much about the rifle. The thing pretty much embodies the term "precision."
+WARLOCH24 I would as well. As soon as I heard it was up for sale I went to Forgotten Weapons, no dice so far. It's at RIA as well, I've really been hoping Ian is going to get his hands on it.
I love watching these videos I find them educational and professional I'm learning a lot of information about how the classic weapons and ammunition work as well as currently used equipment and looking forward to seeing more
I first saw this rifle as a kid in Robocop(1987). I had never seen anything like it before and always thought it was fake until I got older and I actually saw the real deal.
***** afaik (can't find a source, tried) a cannon is 15mm or greater bore. There were WW2 Machine guns that were 13mm, some 14.5mm, (German and Russian guns) and a 15mm aircraft 'cannon', the MG 151/15. But with that said, there is definitely no solid definition, and there's no advantage to labeling something as a cannon or gun if they do the same thing
Man SAW big gun
Man WANTED big gun
Man MADE big gun
TL:DR story of barrett
Big dick=big dream=big gun
@@ZzzarieL big gun: compensation.
FBI
FBI'S Pedophile Bait that’s Big Dick Energy for ya
Its a beautiful story of a man and his dream. 'Murica.
12:03
''Removing the bolt is not difficult, I simply grab the bolt and remove it.''
-gun Jesus proceeds to grab the bolt and remove it-
James Henderson
Like a boss I might add!
The missile knows where it is by knowing where it isn't.
@@blarghinatelazer9394 that brings back memories...
Instructions unclear; Chambered round backwards
The sound it makes when it cycles is one of those noises that either makes you terrified or incredibly happy depending on which side of the battle you’re on.
I had a typewriter as a kid a "Smith-Corona" one, when you hit return you would jump and the sound like artillery being loaded... sounded like this. 🤣
Not a noise you want to hear, incoming.
It's a hunting rifle, if the game is Peterbilts.
@Chief Handler Yes! In 30 year old motor oil and smoked with 2 dozen cartons of new ports during the football game haha
This needs more up votes
Found the Mac Truck fan.
Or you're on Jurrasic Park......
Lol
Hey Ian! Current EOD technician here, and huge fan of your videos. I'm really glad you've shed some light on how the Barret is used for EOD purposes and isn't a "sniper rifle" in the conventional sense. As far as EOD application goes you're partially right. For the most part we don't really use it on 155s in the way you're talking about as it doesn't relaibly detonate the munition. It's main purpose is for "standoff munition disruption" or SMUDing as we call it. The main application for this process is actually to rapidly clear airfield of large number of smaller cluster munitions. I'm not trying to discredit anyone, I'm just hopefully adding a little bit more contextual insite from an EOD perspective. Keep pumping out the great content!
I remember the training videos of this.
Won't you damage the runway when you make stuff explode on it?
@@p0331546 Better to fill holes in the runway that lose an aircraft on landing to an explosive. Less mess and (more importantly to the bean counters) less paperwork. Do you REALLY want to be the guy that has to answer the question, "why wasn't the runway cleared?".
I literally said this in the video
AkBiker70 As another EOD technician I'm very sceptical about this concept. Given the amount of range time the average EOD tech gets, you're lucky if you can hit a full size figure 11 target at 300m, let alone something as big as a soda can. Especially if you're not on a totally flat and grass-free runway. Also there's the problem of the down range hazard if you miss. As you probably will if you're as good a shot as most EOD techs! So although there was a lot of excitement when our teams were issued them for Gulf War 1, I've never personally seen them used since.
California: Who are you?
M82A3: I’m a hunting rifle.
California: Oh yeah? What do you hunt?
M82A3: Ummm... Insurgents, landmines... tanks... pretty much anything that moves really.
Landmines dont move tho
@@miguelmorbius2250 nobody asked
@@truereaper4572 does it look like i care
@@miguelmorbius2250 They move after you hit it with a round from the barrett
Insurgents: Who are you?
American Marine: I am an American soldier.
Insurgents: Oh! And what the f*ck are doing in our country?
American Marine: We are here to help you,that's why I'm carrying this. 50 caliber rifle.
If you cycle it more than twice you're just playing with it. :)
***** In the bathroom, if you shake it more than once you're playing with it. ;-P
+surfacingcom OK, that's actually bullshit, at least for me.
Duuuude, it's a joke.
+surfacingcom hahahaha
quit playing with it.
Glad you touched on Ronnie Barrett's story (though you really can't avoid it when talking about this rifle)
He was the last of the true gun inventors. When you hit that technological plateau you alluded to in previous videos, you start seeing more things designed by groups of people, committees, scientists, engineers and advanced individuals trying everything they can to squeeze out the last extra % out of a gun design. I don't wanna sound like I'm saying "They don't make em like they used to!" or some crap like that, because we still have great designs today, but I miss it when 1 or 2 dudes could sketch up an idea, build it themselves, and actually carve out a pretty substantial part of an industry just by being clever and having an idea that's maybe a little out there.
I think a lot of it is that gun manufacture has a lot more bureaucratic hoops than it used to, so it takes a lot more capital to go out and create guns.
Jack Mcslay Yeah. The system is a vicious circle. You have to meet so many regulations and requirements, so you HAVE to hire professionals, experts, a focus group (not actually, but maybe), and lawyers.
*****
I think the two are connected. When so few are making guns you don't get many artisans making visually pleasing guns because low volume manufacture is hard to do.
mike stoklasa? is that you?
Browning actually made his gas system watching a bush moving when he shoot in a hunt, regular people see practicality, simple ways to solve their demands, Barrett wanted to shot a .50 rifle instead of a HMG, so he made a simple one, maybe one day one of you guys make the same thing, maybe even I'll... hahaha
Archer: "Chill out, Lana, I am spooning a .50 cal, I could kill, like, a building."
Danger zone!
davidlacoste - you’d best call Kenny Loggins. You know where you are...
Can't even type what I really want to say because I'm too busy laughing from the mental image I'm getting of this.!!!
"Big deal. I have a Barret .50 Cal. I could kill a building."
@@arnoldsherrill6305 it does not have to be just a mental image: ruclips.net/video/OOIsGXSHjbU/видео.html
"You can remove the lead and replace it with something interesting" - Praise Gun Jesus and pass the ammunition.
And we'll all stay free!
@@a.hollins8691 HE/incendiary compounds
SLAP will always be my fave
Hell ya.
@@Kumquat_Lord Aged like milk
"There are probably some people out there who are emotionally dependent on the idea of the Barrett being an extremely high precision gun" 18:00 probably the best thing you have ever said. The truth hurts but I suppose a fifty cal hurts more. You gained a new Patron. If you're willing to speak the truth about something so excessively glorified you are worthy of everyone's support. You are documenting history in an unbiased and accurate way.
A fitty won't hurt because you would pretty much die instantly
The second longest confirmed kill shot confirmed was with a Barrett though, the first place was a TAC-50 (which is also .50BMG).
On paper it's technically not better than a .338 sniper rifles but a good marksman can make it do it's job just fine.
Thank you for making the distinction between anti-materiel and sniper application systems. I've seen so many people and even movies/games lump the two together.
Yep, that's a pet peeve of mine too.
Hi Ian! Just a quick correction on your video. I was a Platoon Leader for an ammo section of a Cav Squadron, which includes a sniper section armed partially with M107 rifles. The Army does indeed issue special match grade .50 BMG ammo for these weapons, which is different than the standard rounds. This distinction was hammered home to me at Fort Drum, when we went to turn in our dunnage, and the kind folks informed us that the match grade 50 brass had to be separated from the standard stuff! This led to a very fun day of picking through thousands of empty brass casings, looking for a telltale dimple on the underside. Quite a fun day!
Nick Smith by any chance are you talking about the fort drum in upstate New York?
Jeremy Clarkson no it’s the one in Tungistan. North of Pamuckle.
I'm impressed with the apparent simplicity of the mechanism. Lots of thinking makes great engineering.
Yes! Too few people understand that a good engineer does not make more complex mechanisms, an good engineer makes better mechanisms.
When I was deployed to Afghanistan the Barrett was helpful to use in combat because manny of the houses out there had walls made of rock and mud a foot or more thick. So the only thing that could really punch through the walls effectively especially at longer ranges was a .50 cal. And the Barrett was something we could carry with us. As apposed to the m2 browning which had to stay mounted to a vehicle.
interesting
Most non-american walls are made of some kind of hard material like rock or brick.
16:54 "They're kind of obnoxious to be next to, but that makes them much more pleasant to shoot." - Forgotten Weapons
I had opportunity to shoot an Armalite AR50 bolt action. It was on a ski footed bi-pod (as opposed to spikes or rubber feet). When I fired it, car alarms went off 20 yards behind me. The recoil didn't feel as bad as I was expecting, but I did learn the reason for the ski feet on the bi-pod. After firing from the prone position, both the rifle and I were several inches back from where we started.
XD well when you want to dodge something or move back without moving your legs just use a AR50 XD
LOL
Years ago, my buddy and I were working on his new design for a muzzle break. Since we both had full time jobs and worked on guns after hours, and neither of us had machine tools at the time, we had to "borrow" the tools from a local farmer who had a large lathe in his outbuilding on his farm. Well we worked well into the next morning, but before daylight, while my buddy was building his break on the mill, I was chambering and tapering my .444 Marlin barrel for my Styer Straight Pull rifle conversion. When my buddy got done with his break he started giggling and said he just had to try out. Well this was around 2:00 AM so to keep the noise down just a bit we walked out between two steel buildings, my buddy aimed his rifle up and about a .45 degree, and touched off one full power .50 BMG round. MAN that concussion was enough that I could feel the cuffs of my blue jeans press back against my legs. In that pitch black of the North Dakota night, the ball of fire blinded me for a bit, and when we got back into the machine shop the phone was ringing. First call: Farmer (WHAT THE HELL DID YOU BLOW UP!) Second call Fire Department (HOW MANY ENGINES SHOULD WE SEND!) well when the apologies were done, everyone congratulated my buddy on his build, and we were politely asked to, perhaps find another machine shop to "borrow!"
@@JerryEricsson why the hell did he fire a 50 bmg into the air. Wildly irresponsible
@@veldin25 For science.
Fun fact: the original .50 cal sniper was made my Carlos Hathcock who literally put a scope on a .50 browning mounted machine gun
Ryan M. i remember reading about that, what a madlad.
*Slaps sniper scope on .50 Browning automatic machine gun*
"This is now a sniper."
Robert J Sikorsky literally. Name something more badass
Splattered a viet cong from 2500 yards away.
You can set it to single shot and when tripod mounted it is a very stable platform. Saw pics of how he used it, impressive thinking.
"Target down. I think you blew off his arm. Shock and blood loss will take care of the rest." - Captain MacMillan, 1996
But alas,it did not
So that was a fucking lie
Good ol CoD4
"A Sniper is someone that shoots a high value target at a long distance. A Sniper doesn't need 50 cal to do that."
-Gun Jesus
Captain McMillan: I'll ignore that
I'm still salty about Jackson
"this is a very cool rifle" biggest understatement ever lol
true that😂
huehuehuehuehuehuehuehue
I got a lot of memories dedicated to this gun.
When I was at my advanced training in the army as an infantry sapper, we had guys who were Barrett operators, in order to blow up mines and explosives (that's the main use of Barrett in IDF, by the way, as demolishing explosive materials this way is pretty simple and much cheaper than blowing it up with hand grenade or underbarrel shots). My beast friend Sanya, a russian bull, was a Negev machine gunner and Barrett operator at the same time. Usually the operators were working in couples of 2, carrying a disassembled Barrett plus all their personal ammunition and other stuff with them, which made their equipment one of the heaviest. But that day the guy who was Sanya's Barrett-mate was missing - he desertiered a week before. Our officer told Sanya that there is nothing to do and he has to take ALL the Barrett with him, and that he has to take the Negev and all the ammunition too. Sanya cursed in the worst Russian cursements that I've ever heard and took all those things. I think that there is no need to explain how heavy all the equipment that he carried was. I took some parts of the Barrett from him to help, but still he was broken because of all the weight he had. From that day when we meet and sit together, it is forbidden to say something about this gun - Sanya's trauma doesn't leave him untill today. I really don't know how he did it. That's the strongest person I have ever seen, completing that training with a Barrett and LMG all alone, running kilometers in the desert for days.
to be fair....this gun isnt THAT Heavy yes its heavy but its 40LB now what he should be cursing is that LMG which is the 50 and a half
@@dethronekingmma1246 you try lugging 90 pounds of gun plus probably 60 pounds of other gear for kilometers of desert, i know i couldnt.
@@dethronekingmma1246 are you dumb
@@dethronekingmma1246 have you ever held or even touched one of these Barretts? And have you ever served in the military? I was not a Barrett operator myself, but even carrying 240B with its ammunition wasn't fun when you have your full battle rattle and some. Now, one can only imagine how difficult both physically and mentally is carrying battle equiped Barrett 82A1 along with your other own equipment. I no longer in service myself however, I do have my personal 82A1 at home and that thang is not light by any means. 30 odd pounds may not sound much, but that's only when it's butt naked with nothing on. After you put a long range scope on with a mount, then adding 10 rounds of 50 BMG, weight is going to add up easily just like with SCARs. When I hold my SCAR 17S empty it feels like a toy and is probably lighter than my AK. But wait till you add some accessories to it and some ammunition that can quickly become a back killer. To sum up don't EVER judge based on just numbers on paper. These aren't as easy to handle for average people as some videos may make them look like.
@@Govrin. The same question is asked for you. That’s 160 pounds, on the human body, for many and I mean many miles in a dry dry desert with little protection besides your clothes and gear as cover from the sun
I once saw an anime where a little girl dual wielded two of these to fight an intra galactic demon. When she shot the guns the barrels didn't recoil back to cycle the action! How utterly unrealistic, it's like they don't understand how guns function. They need to watch more Forgotten Weapons.
On the other side of the spectrum, you have cowboy bebop in which spike spiegel redirected himself in outer space with the recoil of a semiauto pistol
Because it less render and less job for them to do!
You now know anime belongs in the trash.
Limpwristing yo
+gowniarz maly I Agree
I can't impress my love for garage inventor stories like this. It's just plainly inspiring, especially to a fool like myself who has no engineering background, nor even real military background, and just a childish love for firearms and the occasionally unlikely people who design them.
You'll need this for the terminators
Dw my g, gun Jesus here will be popping two of these at once and shredding T-800s left and right if the apocalypse comes 😂
And Robocops.
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Why would any citizen need a gun like that? To blow unbelievably large holes in targets and junk cars, and bottles and old electronics, and propane tanks, to send sparks and shards and splinters and shrapnell flying, while enjoying the sound, muzzle blast and recoil????....................Now I need one, too.......
Hehehehe to snipe a robber from 3 blocks down behind a ice box XD
Fun
To make the possibility of holding a population against its will long-term impractical , and taking it in the first place more costly than it would otherwise be .
Yep that's what we do in Oklahoma
@@jovankaynak2159 I'll take the Chevy tac m200 in .408. You know for plinking at 2500 meters.
That bolt cycle is the sound of democracy chambered in .50
The Other Guy democracy and a shit load of liberty.
But then i realized i live in nyc :(
The Other Guy *chambered in 20 dollar bills*
The fifty calibers of freedom
"It's a republic, not a democracy!"
- The Federalist Papers
0:03
Is this the sound of freedom that you Americans keep talking about?
no, but the sound of a 50 BMG cartridge going downrange is
@@StevenL00 Now now, I'd argue that he'd be right in a sense, the same way that you are right.
OooOoohoho...
Thats good
no, it would be BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Nope, I guess thats eh brrrp you hear from the A-10 Warthog’s Avenger cannon.
"Not intended for accuracy"
Lt. Price: Hold my cigar
Cpt. MacMillan: Just take the shot son
Need I remind you that Zakhaev survived?
@@DezzarTac and it took me 18 tries to blow off his arm.
Lt. Price missed tho...
@@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh he forgot stopping power and got a hit marker
Blake Ubersox the only part that’s scripted is that his arm comes off, regardless of the location hit. You could hit him in the head or the leg, but his arm will still come off
"Build a CIVILIAN semi-automatic rifle for a .50" that's the part i laughed
*Laughs in Anzio 20mm Vulcan*
it really isn't funny. The citizenry should be on par with the military in all aspects
It amazes me how such a complicated and beautiful piece of engineering can be made by a photographer. All it needed was sufficient desire and dedication.
Cameras aren't particularly mechanically simple
@@Lankythepyro He said photographer not a Camera maker
"Available to anyone"
Californian here... :(
Sorry, should have specified anyone in America.
Brutal!
you can get them in california, provided you have enough money.
We can buy most of the rest of America. :P
+LadyAnuB anyone could.
I really enjoy Ian's videos. He is pleasant, matter-of-fact and knowledgeable. No BS. Good job!
I was born and raised in Tennessee in a small town called Bell Buckle not even 15 minutes away from Christiana Tennessee. My father was law enforcement and went to the Barretts official gunstore known as Outpost Armory for all of his work gear. On a once in a life time opportunity i got to go with my father to the Barretts home and Ronnie was one of the nicest guys ive ever met and his wife was also a delight (also a former congress woman!) im a forever fan of everything barrett and own many models of their weapons currently today
"Hearts and minds,Hearts and minds Cyanide"
"Yeah theyll have hearts and minds,theyll just be splattered all over the floor"
lmao
Yep
With a .50 cal they will be splattered on the floors, walls, ceilings...
The full phrase is
Womble: "Hearts and minds, were not bombing the civilians"
Cyanide: "yeah, hearts and minds, it's just that they'll be splattered all over the ground"
@MadOne Styll how's that shotgun working for ya soviet?
*some streaming later*
What the fuck kind of gun is that?
Soviet: how're those rifles working out for ya?
Cyanide: we could see concisely where you've been soviet by tracking the fucking buildings
Basically. And thats only if ZF doesn't use all the ammo on each other first.
The coast guard uses these rifles to stop drug running speed boats
I'd imagine it's quite good at that job
You know how in Battleship the destroyers had those two M82A1s in the armoury that they shot the windshields with? Those are actually very common to see on high-value military ships because sometimes the CIWS can't make accurate enough shots on an aircraft or boat. Or maybe the gunners wanted some action themselves, lol.
The goverment bring in over 98% of the drugs in most countries...the only reason they use the coast guard etc to confiscate drugs from importers is because they dont like citizens getting in on their business...and they keep the drugs illegal because that ensures higher profit for them....for example....if cocaine was entirely legal...they could sell it, per ounce or pound, at roughly the same price as sugar.....think about that
Ben Pitt and blow them straight to high hell!!!!!!!!!!!
Well it is technically an anti-vehicle weapon and a speed boat is a vehicle. What I am curious about is if they shoot the hulls to sink the boats or the engines to disable the boats for boarding.
Ian might want to update his .50 information considering it now holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill with a Hornady match grade .50 BMG round fired from a MacMillin Tac-50 by a Canadian Special Operations sniper.
With a bolt action to be fair, but nonetheless a good reason to keep 50 BMG for those ranges
Well it is bolt action and a precision bullet, he said that the US Army has no precision .50 not that no army has them. Germany uses a AW.50 for example for this kind of stuff and the G82 /M82 for anti material
@@graysun9108 i'm sure we have some. probably in SF units or Rangers. Not standard issue.
@@williamt.sherman9841 yeah but SOF have... What they want
@@graysun9108 Ian said the .50 BMG wasn't good for that purpose.
And the second longest publicly confirmed sniper kill was by an Aussie Commando with an M82A1. And the longest known US military kill was with an M82A1.
Ian is absolutely right to say that this rifle isn't intended to be a sniper rifle and generally isn't ideal for it. However, it can and is used for that purpose to great effect in the right circumstances.
Ronnie Barrett must have really been a big fan of the phrase "Go big or go home".
He must still be, seeing as he's still kickin'!
Your soft spoken mannerisms perfectly match the weapon.
Walk softly but carry the biggest stick
After the movie; 'Navy Seal' came out, we had a few lads bring their newly mortgaged M82 rifles to FCSA 'Fifty Caliber Shooters Association' outings...even using our hand load match ammo...they couldn't compete for small groups at 1000 yds, lot's of butthurt for the owners..but really cool rifles for their intended purpose!
this just blew my mind. grew up my whole life thinking this was the pinnacle of precision sniping.
Tbf, the longest confirmed kill was with a Barrett 50, although maybe that says more about the marksman than the rifle.
We were told in the army they were 5 moa guns. In my sniper section every time the Barret came out people started complaining. You knew you'd have a head ache from firing, backache from carrying it, and would have to stay late cleaning it because of the corrosive ammo. Literally more work then what it's worth.
I think his meaning was that the non-match-grade ammunition available alone limited to 3MOA. A short recoil mechanism only reduced accuracy even further.
I was not arguing what he said. I was stating the moa we were told in the Army. It's alright for what it is, it just wasn't held to as high a prestige as our m24s. We would let the line guys screw around with the m107s but wouldn't let armorers touch our m24s.
Daniel Frakes 10-04, I love Ian covering this. He's such a respected source and he closes the book on this and he does it in such a concise and professional way
Snipers are .308 or .338 or something like that, .50BMG sniper is just... overkill.
Treblaine .50 bmg would be a good long range round. The issue is just as he described though. The current available ammunition isn't capable of sub moa accuracy. Guys are shooting ball and api both meant for machine guns. If there was a more accurate round than the weapon would be better for sniper/ counter-sniper operations. And even then it is limited buy the accuracy of the weapon system.
But the way it sits right now the weapon system would be better off if it was used in an AT section in line companies as opposed to sniper sections. Especially in asymmetric warfare when the enemy lacks armor. This would free up snipers to perform anti-personnel and give a job to guys who are just used as another line squad due to lack of usefulness in their specialty.
Daniel Frakes is it inherently harder to make match-grade .50BMG? Something about the size of the case?
This is indeed a "light 50" (or "tolv-sju"/twelve-seven as we called them):
During my officer training in the Norwegian army, we once were acting as the opfor for a Home Guard/National Guard unit, and we were supposed to have a unit 7.62 MG3, but the only thing available was a classic .50 BMG. Together with a few hundred rounds of the red training ammo, this stretched the "man-portable" MG definition almost to our breaking points. :-)
PS. I was training at the time to become the commander of a 20mm AA gun, during which time we were taught that 12.7 is the largest caliber allowed by the Geneva convention to be used for direct anti-personnel use, so we should never aim directly at opposing soldiers with our AA gun, but against helicopters and lightly armoured vehicles it was really very effective. We only used a single standard round, the big brother of the Raufoss 12.7 armour piercing/explosive where every round was also a tracer round. This was partly a safety feature: After a flight of about 4.2km, the tracer fire would reach the payload and detonate it in the air if it had not hit anything by that time. Back in 1977 we were told that 2.5-3.5 km (afair!) was the maximum effective range.
"Big whoop, I'm spooning a Barret .50 cal! I could kill a building!"
-Archer
"I need to kill a house"
Barrett- "I got you"
American Military Regulations:
"A .50 BMG is only to be used for anti-materiel...NOT anti-personnel"
Me: Aims for bad guy's chin strap
A canteen is equipment
Actually a myth. That originated with recoilless rifles with .50 BMG sighting guns, and it was considered bad practice to give away your position by bonking an armored target with a bullet that in no way was going to get hurt by that bullet.
Of course, now I wonder if there were yahoos who thought the sighting gun on an M40 was a free antipersonnel bullet or something.
@@RRVCrinale Don't you use the sighting guns *BEFORE* the enemy shows up? Like sight the terrain markers while nothings out there?
I mean, they say that, but... *A-10 intensifies
@@DrRussian That works if you have good reference points on the terrain. Less so if it's open planes with little in the way of objects that you can sight.
ATF, "This is less dangerous than a glock 18"
lol
It would be pretty difficult to conceal this though. That's what they are worried about.
To be fair, a G18 would be much more dangerous in the lawn dart sense. Hundreds of idiots a year would shoot themselves trying to empty a magazine tilted, "gangster" style.
It's not just rich white guys having fun with these. I have a Coastie friend that was involved in drug interdiction while working with the Colombian Coast Guard. There were sections of the coast they made sure they stayed at least 3,000 yards offshore because some of the drug cartel soldiers were using Barrett rifles to discourage naval vessels from investigating too closely. That was when there were actual drug running subs in use. He was on an 87 foot patrol boat armed with two M2 50's and engaged in a two hour running gun battle with a position onshore armed with at least one and possibly two Barrett rifles. The problem was solved when a Colombian Navy frigate arrived and ended any opposition with its 76 mm gun.
I fail to see the problem.
The most memorable picture I've seen of the barret .50 cal is one where it's being pointed out of a helicopter, down at a boat with a holo sight on the gun. Goes to show you, you don't always need a big scope on a big rifle.
What you saw was the barrett m82a2 bullpup 50cal
@@BobThomas123 which it's intended use was for taking down helicopters
@@nugsovile4333 yes
I also used to think these were made for sniping a long time ago until I realized that it'd probably be insanely heavy for a rifle used to shoot at people. Didn't occur to me before that it wasn't the most precise gun or ammo either.
On one hand, bad accuracy.
On the other hand, .50cal.
Barrett M82A1:
Perfect for engaging a home invader...in your neighbor's house...two blocks down...behind 16 walls, 3 refrigerators, and a Ford pickup. 🤷♂️
Shoot an intruder and they’ll turn into ravioli sauce.
It would also overpenetrate and kill your neighbour’s cat
@@dportillo1
I dunno, it's a little bit small for home defense
@@davisdf3064 nah I need a Gau-8 for my HDR
Two Ford pickups there being made out of aluminum these days
Idk you'd probably be fine using subsonic .22 short to get through the engine block on a Ford
Thoroughly enjoy your Channel! As an amateur RUclipsr I feel like I’m learning a lot from the way you present & of course the engineering marvel of the firearms you show. Thank you.
I love the fact that it was the Swedish military who took a look at a US rifle and adopted it Before the US military did. .50 BMG is for when you realy want somthing destroyed with a rifle shot.
As a smaller country it's less of a risk of introducing new equipment to our military. Also the place of origin is kinda irrelevant unless you specifically want to mass produce it and bring down the cost.
It's often the smaller armies who adopt new stuff first, because they don't have so much capital tied up in stocks of existing ammo and weapons and the plant to make them.
Harold Weaver Smith
The Swedish army at that time, was a large conscript army. a bit larger then we could aford to train and equipt with out keeping the stuff or decades after it should have been replaced.
The oldest rifle i have ever shot that was in military armory was older then my Grandfather, by about twenty years.
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More Money would have helpt a bit. but Money wasn´t the hole problem. It was some strategic error in the way of thinking.
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the order the questions should be asked is what do we want to do, what do we need, then we can how mutch Money do we have. 2% spent on the right things would be nice, 2% on a giving lifesuport to somthing that don´t work is a wast.
So just to correct a few things in the introduction - whilst it isn't a sniper rifle, or at least doesn't have much accuracy for the reasons stated, it is used incredibly commonly in the modern battlefield by the sniper of a 2 man team. Whilst the traditional mission of a sniper is observation with a secondary role of eliminating high value targets, the modern low intensity conflict simply doesn't have a need for that most of the time and so snipers are most often used as overwatch for a regular infantry unit. The aim is to use distance as protection from the poor accuracy of insurgents and so extreme accuracy really isn't needed. However insurgents will often take cover behind a wall, as you would expect, so the penetrating capability of a .50 BMG counters a very common tactic. The US will usually use a Raufoss round which is incredibly effective, exploding in the wall leaving both the AP core and a shotgun-like shrapnel in a 30 degree cone from the wall to kill the insurgent. Other countries have banned its use on personnel due to the rules of war prohibiting an explosive or incendiary round of its size, the Raufoss is both.
As for its early use against aircraft, WW1, interwar, WW2, you're correct in that an explosive round was used. However this was stopped during the interwar period as a .50 cal explosive round has very poor efficiency. The Germans also tried a 15mm round (.59 cal to convert it) and found 15mm and calibers below 20mm to be ineffective with an explosive payload, and the British had poor effect with their .303 explosive round as one might expect. During WW2 it was more common to use armour piercing or incendiary ammo in .50 BMG, explosive rounds were simply not useful in calibers below 20mm. By the mid to late war the US had found API to be an effective combination. Armour piercing is particularly useful as the engines are usually armoured yet a single round penetrating the radiator can lead to overheating and a useless engine, multiple penetrations speed this up. In the Asian theatre Japanese aircraft also lacked flame retardants and sealing tanks so incendiary was devastating though European aircraft all had them.
And finally a little extra on the Raufoss round, the Americans argue that the round will penetrate all the way through an enemy combatant before the explosive or incendiary effects activate. However of the many, may tests done we find a 50% chance of an unarmoured combatant to be penetrated through the chest if facing the shooter. Facing any other direction, taking any other stance (prone for example), or wearing armour or gear will significantly increase the percentage of rounds exploding inside the combatant. Additionally firing through cover like the walls so often shot through will almost guarantee the round has incendiary and/or explosive effect on the combatant. The Raufoss round absolutely breaks the rules of war when used on personnel, but its an incredibly effective round. The makers of the Raufoss round did a study to see if it breaks the rules of war themselves, after receiving the results they refused to share any information. When asked by the Red Cross, Raufoss said "these projectiles are considered safe for the purposes they were designed for" which doesn't directly state they are not legal for anti-personnel but considering they were designed for non-personnel targets I find it hard to believe Raufoss would have used that phrasing if they were legal for anti-personnel use. On the upside it is such a large round that very few impacts will leave survivors to suffer the consequences of HEI rounds.
Anyway just a few corrections and a little extra info from someone who is clearly bored enough to write a near-essay. Namely the M82 is in incredibly common use by snipers and the .50 explosive round is very poor against aircraft, at least in WW2 era (the Raufoss round is likely very effective against WW2 aircraft).
Da Ca While she may be incorrect about laws of war violations, she's much more informed than you are. All you can do is insult while the adults actually use their minds, sad really.
Olivia Lambert you got everything correct except for the "rules of war" part. Firstly, the US did not agree to or sign the conventions that are relevant to this weapon system, and secondly even if they did, it only applies if you have no other weapon capable of taking out the threat on you. A pistol won't at that range, so that leaves just the rifle.
Holy shit you're wifey material😍
This is a dude with a chick Pic. $5
Stop ruining youtube with informative and interesting comments! This is a place of hate and bigotry! Have some manners!
I really appreciate the no-nonsense, non hyperbolic, educated manner in which you speak in these videos. They are very interesting and informative! Thanks for taking the time.
I love how so many people think it's illegal to shoot enemy combatants with the .50. (I realize that this rifle is mainly an anti-material rifle, but that's besides the point)
How in the world would that be illegal, or even frowned upon, but dropping 2000lb JDAMs and spraying them with 20mm from apaches, and 30mm from an a10 be okay?
The US does all of the above to enemies. And no, they don't have to be in a vehicle or building. There are plenty videos of apaches engaging dudes out in the open.
War is hell and man you jus can’t question things sometimes it is what it is
Geneva Convention? Nah, Geneva Suggestion
Yes I witnessed an Apache use the nose cannon on a work van,fair to say the van started hopping across a street and of course ripping it to shreds the destruction was unreal
I had an old co-worker, who was a Major MP in Iraq, he's old and discharged now. He explained to me this.
"Is he wearing a T-shirt? That's Armor, which means we can legally shoot him with the .50. Not like we cared anyways."
It isn't illegal. And dropping bombs is area saturation weapon. The Geneva Convention doesn't regulate this at all.
I'd love to see a video from you on the Accuracy International AWM in .338 Lapua
+lfteri it belongs to the Same Model of rifles, the AWM being the Arctic Warfare Military and the AWM being the Arctic Warfare Police, both belonging to the L115(if I am not wrong) family which is a British Sniper Rifle.
I'm fine with video on any Accuracy International rifle personaly, as they are all pretty cool.
Anything from Accuracy international is full of win.
+Abraham tbh I just know that AWP is for Arctic warfare Police so i figured that the M must be for military I could be wrong, but let's wait what Ian says.
+Michael Best yeah the M is for Magnum my Bad, but Wikipedia says that the P is for Police as it equipped with a shorter barrel. Although I could not find the Original source in that.
"This is a hunting rifle"
"What are you hunting with it?"
*"Planes"*
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Watching this from Europe makes me sad.
'Murica.
Don't know why, just had to. :p
eh, texas is looking like it could go blue this election. Theres more liberals than there used to be there, that's for sure. Wouldn't be surprised if in 30 years, places like cali are the norm in all states when it comes to gun laws.
Still better than what I have here. Owning a handgun is a luxury, let alone a semi-auto rifle, and it's impossible for a civilian to own full-auto weapon whatsoever. To own even a simple pistol you gotta pay a lot of money, go through background check, medical examination, and stuff like that, nothing unusual. But in the very end, the cop issuing the gun license might just say "NO!" to you - now you can kiss your money, time and sorry ass goodbye. Unless you have connections of some kind... or a very good reason for self-defense. Or you aim at sporting license, but then again you got to participate in shooting competitions to that end, and not everyone is particularly interested in that kind of activity.
That's how matters look like in Poland, and no mainstream political party is intrested in relaxing aformentioned restrictions a little bit. The most notorious are, of course, various lefty activists who shout "OH MAI GOD, THEY GUNNA KILL EACH OTHER WITH GUNZ!!11oneone", which is obvious b-shit, since it would be still hard to obtain a legal gun for a thug or a psycho. Police arbitrariness is what has to be removed - if you have perfect health and no criminal record, you should be free to own that handgun (rifles are better for recreational shooting or hunting anyway).
The least restrictive country in the EU on matter of civilian firearms is the Czech Republic. Provided you're born as a Czech citizen, you can easily get a gun license once you turn 18 years old. And by "easily" I mean "just as easy as a driving license". More than that, they allow concealed carry. Gun shops are commonplace in most of their larger cities, but as a nation they are not that armed as some think. And of course, the most popular handgun there is their CZ-75, one of the "wonder nines". But that might go to an swift end because of Mrs. Bieńkowska and her "bright" ideas of restricting civilian gun ownership in all of the EU. The reason? Because of recent terrorist attacks in France, which were carried out with illegal surplus military Zastava rifles from former Yugoslavia. Good idea - let's ban LEGAL guns because some thugs used an ILLEGAL rifle. Heck, that ol' hag wants to place ridiculous restrictions on ownership of disabled weapons or even airsoft replicas!
First they make some ridiculous laws on firearms, then they want to ban it altogether, including things that imitate firearms so people won't even have an idea how a pistol or rifle looks like. It's gonna be Orwell incarnate here. Tl;dr - you Americans are not in as deep shit as we are.
yes, but thre is "collector's licence", where you have to "just" pay 1000PLN for hard-to-pass examine, and you can enjoy any rifle, also plice right now can't just say "no" if you pass everything positively
Arkadiusz Juszczak come to switzerland.
You can buy a Barrett just like an AR15, full auto and supressors are easy to get but you need a permit that allows to buy 3 items for example a PKM, a 762 Supressor and maybe a rhodesian FAL concerted to semiauto.
For a semiauto rifle or a pistol you just need to have no felonys and get a permit for 3 each, for example a VZ58 Commando, a Glock 19 and your SIG 553 or whatever.
Bolt actions and such things need no permit, detachable magazines are no problem.
There are no mag restrictions or sbr's just full autos need kinda the same paperwork as americans need to do to buy a suppresors, supressors are also bought with that permit but that's just like... you never get denied you know amd you only have to pay it if you'll get the permit.
Only gripe in switzerland is you can't shoot everywhere, only on registered ranges, in some areas you may can if you're a hunter for some sighting in but that's a gray zone.
And shooting your full auto must be requested at your local police but this has various understandable reasons because switzerland is quite small and some ranges are in the middle of a town and such.
If you ask them they'll allow it unless it's a festival right next to the range or whatever which i understand.
Oh and self defense is allowed !! But there is a common sense thing related to it, if a robber runs away from you it's of course not allowed to shoot him in the back, which i think is right, only for real self protection or if you're wife is in danger or whatever.
Switzerland is great because it manges to get a compromise for all and you still can enjoy your hobbies, downside is cost and time effort you have to put in but it's fair and you can like 4 times a year use the military ranges for long range shootings with your sniper type rifles, you won't shoot much more anyways because a single 338LM or 50 BMG is about 4-6 franks.
You know switzerland is kinda like this, if you get along with people, have respect and put a little bit off effort into things you can do almost anything and also since most men are trained on firearms there is no real difference beetween being a civilian, army or police personnel and all get along and shoot together which makes everything even better.
"You ain't from around here, are ya boy?"
SCHLACK - SCHLACK (authoritively)
" but you're gonna be ALL around here after Ah shoot yer with this...."
Nice
But sounds sexual
Thank you for your advocacy for the continuing potential for individual innovators & DIY Engineering. I hope the maker movement levels the playing field for hobbyist engineers to innovate competitively with corporate monopolies.
Ian lies! M82A1 folded 10,000 times, cut through battleship at 20 miles!
Of course it can do that. It's made from katanas that USA captured form Japan.
I heard the US army forged 5000 spandaus together to create each M82A1; unfortunately they are now only good in defence. For an attacking Light Fifty you have to hand forge it from 5000 Bren guns.
+Dylan Greene Do i sense a Lindybeige fan?
Sam Billin ;-p
Lindybeige :)
I got an anti gun ad, how ironic
When someone is going out of their way to PAY for advertising time to suggest to you that you should get rid of your gun....that is the time to BUY a gun yourself. Trust me
@@edrooney9580 ban all guns, nobody should have the power or ability to kill someone. We just can't trust someone that much to not shoot up a school or public place, so why take the risk?
Gary Wilson you’re batshit mate
@@garywilson3042 home.made.bombs.
@@garywilson3042 yeah, "no one should have the power to kill someone".... You know even a rock could also use to kill or a plastic bag or a rope or a bare hand ? Yeah
And also just because we can kill each other doesn't mean we will
The sound of the bolt on a Barrett is one of the most satisfying sounds ever.
Stumbled up on your channel some weeks ago and I been fascinated since that day. Really like to hear all your stories and all the history you have around all the historical weapons. So much better then seeing a bunch of trigger happy .... go out and shoot and tell how cool it is.
Anyway -Did not know that we bought them first! As facts that my unit was issued some of those M82A1 in Sweden and the second Ranger unit to get them. As you say, they where intended for vehicles and light armored personal carriers for us. Not sniping.
"I really want to shoot a .50 cal rifle..." I said the same thing when I bought a live 35mm buzz gun round. Came up with this crazy elaborate combo pneumatic/magnetic recoil suppression system with a free-floating 2 piece upper receiver to allow for acceptance of different length rounds. Obviously, it's not viable, but I was impressed with the level of detail I went into for it. I am a heavy diesel mechanic, and I should probably stick with that. LOL
I bought my 82A1 in June of 1990 for FCSA 1000 yard competition. It is interesting to see the subtle differences between this 82A1 and mine. At 1000 yards I have been able to put three rounds into a 1 MOA grouping, but not the next two. A lot of the issues at those distances are from being able to read the wind. Overall, with match ammunition I agree that 1.5 MOA for a five-shot group is about the best one could expect - it is more than good enough!
"Removing the bolt is quite simple, you just take the bolt... and remove it."
Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
@@michaelburke9137 please shut up
As a young Marine I was lucky enough just to be able to observe a live fire of the M82A1. I had, at several fam fires, operated the MA Duece as did all Marines attached to that station as we had a couple in armored vehicles. The thing is, none of us had to shoulder an M2! The range officer that fired the Barrett even acknowledged "like getting drunk on New Year's, it's fun, but I'm glad I only do it once a year".
Always thought that this was a little overkill as a sniper rifle, cool to know some of the real world applications.
I know that rangers here in Sweden us it for behind the lines sabotage, killing tanker trucks etc. from a safe distance with armour piercing incendiary rounds. Here it's designated AG90 (Automatic Rifle 90).
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pansarbrand och brandspräng
Jepp
4:54 I have to find a good way to quote this part. So true and yet so anoying to work against people who can't understand the bigger picture behind an idea.
“The Cobra Assault Cannon, state of the art, Bang! Bang!”
I've fired both the M2 .50 BMG in full auto from a tripod and a bolt action barret .50 rifle. the machine gun is a great gun and a lot of fun to shoot. I've fired 100s of Rds in full auto. the rifle is a whole different animal, even with the muzzle device the recoil and concussion from each shot feels like being punched in the face (not pleasant).
gungho1345 I'm glad I always fired the ones mounted on tanks for that specific reason
That gun is so huge. It's as long as the damn table. Having to carry that thing loaded is a scary thought
A friend of mine worked for Barrett for about a year after graduating from Gunsmith College at Yavapi Az. He went on to design a cut rifeling barrel plant turning out very high quality 50 cal barrels, as well as other calibers. His first plant was in ND, then he moved to NM and now, as far as I Know he is working in the Rapid City SD area. He used to have some great stories about working there. Another buddy of mine designed a nice .50 BMG Bolt Action Rifle back in the early 90's his first design had a spring in the but stock, but that did little for the hefty recoil even in the very heavy rifle. He went on designing different muzzle breaks till he came up with one almost identical to the one on that Barrett. It was amazing to watch him design and build his parts, while in the background the computerized machines were turning out match grade rifle barrels.
What kind of rifle are you?
Barrett: I don’t know.
An AMR. 50 BMG is very good at damaging equipment
Barrett: Heavy
Barret: maybe i am a sniper, shooting targets miles away, maybe an anti tank to penetrate a heavy object, or just something thats heavily feared
Hand cannon
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It's not used against tanks. They stopped using these guns at the end of ww2 because it couldn't kill the russian T34
This was a great video. Thanks for the detailed explanation of how the action works!
6:12 so it was made to destroy my self esteem apparently
8:57 reminds me of a very large m1911.😃 i thought this was gas operated. Thanks for the demo of the action for clearing my misconception.👍
"To my mind, knowing the actual truth about something really lets you appreciate it in reality, instead of believing in myth".
I’m pretty sure this thing will never be forgotten
Actually, I was stationed in Iraq in 2005 - 2006, we had three sniper teams that went out during that time and they were equipped with .50cal Barrett bolt action rifles. Of course they did go through extensive training with these rifles before our deployment, we were Army combat engineers known as Sappers. Now I do know that we weren't exclusive by any means, the Marine Corps also had sniper teams thusly equipped during that time. Just thought you'd like to know, since you did say that the military doesn't use this round in a sniper situation.
The operative phrase in your paragraph is "bolt action", The bolt action model is more accurate than the semi-auto model.
@@paladinhill well, the main point of that comment was exactly about round. Even precision aka sniper rifle won't show any good result with standart ammo, so those guys who Wayne Myers talking about should be using spesial match-grade ammo, not simple ball/AP from Ma Deuce ammo stockpiles.
"How do you get rid of it? Well, you could shoot it." - Gun Jesus, 2017
THANK YOU Ian, for probably the greatest RUclips intro to ever exist.
Beautiful gun! It looks pristine too
A video on the McMillan tac-50 would be very interesting
I'm always amazed at the historical context in your vids
"high value enemy target at distance" I'd say equipment is high value
Unless it's some top secret prototype, I highly doubt any piece of equipment will be valued as much as an enemy general or terrorist leader.
@@denisl2760 most military equipment costs a lot, a single .50 BMG is around $1.20 retail. Regicide has global consequences whereas shooting down drones generally doesn't.
Damn, now I want to see Ian do a video on a .CheyTac M200 in .408. Nowhere near a forgotten weapon, but definitely cool and a bit obscure. Everyone knows it by its non alphanumeric name, the Intervention, but not many people actually know that much about the rifle. The thing pretty much embodies the term "precision."
Ok, but you'll have to wait until next week. ;)
+Forgotten Weapons oh man. You know just how to tease us.
It would be amazing you do a video on Goering's PPK they have for the next auction. I would watch the hell out of it Ian.
+WARLOCH24 I would as well. As soon as I heard it was up for sale I went to Forgotten Weapons, no dice so far. It's at RIA as well, I've really been hoping Ian is going to get his hands on it.
A Forgotten Weapon on one of my favorite rifles? Next week can't get here quick enough!
I love watching these videos I find them educational and professional I'm learning a lot of information about how the classic weapons and ammunition work as well as currently used equipment and looking forward to seeing more
Need one for those spiders on my backyard.
Are you Australian by any chance?
@@tannerskatrud7504 no. Brazillian.
The Golias Tarantula sometimes appear here...
@@abnegazher A Barret for a tarantula? I saw a documentary where little South American kids beat them with a stick and eat them.
@@jeramyw i'm talking about th3 amazonian ones.
brazil spiders are worse
"I'm spooning a Barret 50. Cal, I could kill a building!"
Nice, I'm watching Archer now
Thanks for this. Love the noise that it makes.
In the norwegian military we called it "MØR: Materiellødeleggelsesrifle" which basicly means rifle for destroying material.
"Available to anyone who can own a regular firearm"
As someone in CA, this makes me sad.
I first saw this rifle as a kid in Robocop(1987). I had never seen anything like it before and always thought it was fake until I got older and I actually saw the real deal.
I can't imagine how many quickscopes you had to do to get this...
Well by gun... I am sure you mean cannon :P
+LEX Maximaguy87 actually do believe its 14.5mm
Jesus... Can't you guys take a joke?
Bitches love cannons
anything more than 15mm is
***** afaik (can't find a source, tried) a cannon is 15mm or greater bore. There were WW2 Machine guns that were 13mm, some 14.5mm, (German and Russian guns) and a 15mm aircraft 'cannon', the MG 151/15.
But with that said, there is definitely no solid definition, and there's no advantage to labeling something as a cannon or gun if they do the same thing
When you put HE round inside the armored car with your target, you don't have to shoot 0.25 MOA
I never figured it out why Staff Sergeant James's team had that .50 with them in the Hurt Locker until now.