@Little Victory Fab Co The problem there is the "forgotten doggos" would be breeds that are now extinct, which is surprisingly common, the Cane Corso was close to the same 40 years ago, and it's only been in the last 10 the breed was registered by the AKC. We're not even completely certain what some looked like as the descriptions are either vague or contradictory.
That is something special and truly truly a forgotten weapon. Imagine if a country had picked this up and ironed all the bugs out over the next ten years, it could have been the Garand of WW1, probably too many innovations though.
This comment is gold for a "what if" guy like myself. It would have to be a wealthy state, and one willing to innovate. But if we just skip the finer details. WHAT IF Germany, Britain, USA or possibly the Japanese had adopted this? What if Germany had taken the semi auto concept to heart? That would just immediately eliminate WW2 which was the far more devastating war. 3 times the casualties. Just think about that. That would make WW1 so much in their favor. Most likely not give them a W, but they would completely negate the trench warfare. The sheer firepower of a company well stocked, would negate the strategies surrounding machine gun fire and trenches. Ten men with semi automatics can put down comparably the same suppressing fire and are far more maneuverable and flexible than machine guns were in WW1. They would most likely win out in mainland Europe. There are still questions like the naval war against the british and how they would handle Japanese encroachment on their colonies. But Europe, would be completely changed. Another proper challenger to the industrial power of the US and the colonial dominion of Britain. No Hitler. No fascism (possibly in Italy). And when France is properly beaten and their sovereignty is secured, Britain can`t refuse them to build a navy. There would be rivalries over ships, colonies. Perhaps a 1930`s -40`s cold war between Germany and Britain? Not over nuclear power and moon landings, but in regards to naval power. And considering the US would be too late to stop them securing their position in europe until the war is over, there is no practical reason why the US would involve itself. Kinda interesting how such a small technical detail of weaponry could make such a big difference. Juxtaposed, an adoption of a rifle at the level of what gun jesus experienced in the video, would shorten the war incredibly too. An army that can`t use their weapons is pretty useless. They would not win WW1. but they would secure so much more, since their campaign strategy was focused on great timing and swift action. 10 million germans who could fire 5 rounds and reload in 10 seconds? Even if the rifle had a low number of bullets it could fire before it would need cleaning. Im not German or anything. I just like the what if concept.
@@olesamsSame thing with InRange’s Lever Gun project. What if the US took the heart and soul of the Henry rifle and ran with it? What if we gave our soldiers 1876 Winchesters in .45-60? What if we gave our soldiers the extra training to fire while their buddies reloaded like we did with the M1 Garand? How might that have affected the battlefields of the old West or even World War 1? This is the kind of material that video games should explore, but instead we get stuff like Call of Duty Vanguard with M1 Garands chambered in .50 BMG.
@@Brawler_1337 A quicker US victory would not change that much i think.. considering the Americans were so hesitant to enter the wars in Europe in the first place. I mean, a huge leap in rifle tech would not change the mindset of the American people at the time. However, if the civil war had been won by a side with semi automatic weapons, that would lower casualties (shorter war= less dead) and with Roosevelts active conquest of Cuba and the mentality of the "white America to help the simple natives" could have built one hell of an empire.. A game about a quasi-nazi American empire? I would play that. I would recommend "man in the high tower". Book/series about if the nazis won ww2..
Another *fascinating* prototype semi-auto rifle. I love the majority of your content, Ian, but I have to admit that I am by far the most pleased whenever you get your hands on prototypes. Keep on doing what you do, because it's amazing!
Ian: This is a really fascinating rifle of historical significance... Comment section: PUPPY!!! Which, by the way, is the proper gentlemanly reaction to unexpected puppies.
Cool to see something Swedish, would love to see more of that! On a separate note; Kjellman is actually pronounced shell (as in the gas station) and man, so saying shellman would get you closer to the Swedish pronounciation :). Keep the awesome videos comming!
I know that this particular video is 4yrs old, but I just wanted to say that I find it hilarious yet complimentary that several other RUclipsrs have mentioned you in their videos as "The gun Jesus"! And FYI, you are mentioned, actually, quite frequently. I know that I have spent probably too much time watching the plethora of information that you tend to provide. Keep it coming.!
I love that Ian is trying to run it like a normal bolt action gun. Every time he runs it forward, he looks at it like there's a problem. Good on ya, Ian! And God bless Sweden!
Always interesting to see some of my country's history like this, thanks Ian! As always, I feel compelled to nit-pick on your pronounciation: The "Fri-" part of Friberg is pronounced like "free", because it is the same word. The "-berg" part... the closest example I can think of is ""barge", which isn't exactly right but probably the closest an english speaker can normally get. The "Kjell-" part of Kjellman is pronounced like "shell". I think it's related to a word for "wellspring", but I wouldn't put money on it.
Primitive versions of any system always interest me because of their complexity. I love comparing them to newer versions of the system in order to study the simplified solutions used to solve the same problems. This thing is neat.
GreatgoatonFire Germans, alongside americans. Have contributed an overwhelming amount of designs/ideas to firearms. So knowing some German is a must when it comes to guns.
Well yeah mantis I don't *expect* Ian to know any swedish but I found it a bit entertaining that he pronounced the names like someone speaking german instead of they way english speakers then to.
Cool mechanism in that rifle. I got some chills when the manufacturer had installed a face guard, it must mean that at some point the bolt had done a Kentucky Ballistic!
Safty and face guard all in one....you go first. A very cool & complicated forgotten weapon.
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There is still a company called "Stockholms vapenfabrik (Stockholm weaponfactory)". Not sure if there is any relation but they sell spare parts for m45/b and other Swedish firearms. Great company.
It is interesting that the bolt is kicked open and kicked closed. You are right. We do not really have any firearms that I can think of that use that system these days. I wounder if there are any hidden advantages and/or disadvantages to such a system over spring systems we use today.
This is a type of gun that I really wish there were replicas of. Quirky, weird, full of history -- and still working, a century and a bit after manufacture.
Hi Ian! I would just like to point out that the first part of Kjellman is actually pronounced like shell as in shell casing. Thank you for the awesome content you are providing
yo i was just watching your shooting comp you just put out, i saw this gun and i was like wtf is that action? i had to come here to learn and im not disappointed. i want it.
Thank you, Ian, a great video! And many thanks to the owner of the gun. Not many owners of antique and rare firearms would want to fire them or have them fired, even for educational purposes. By the way, Ian, could this system be considered a precursor of the inertial system?
As of Dec 22,2017. 602830 subscribers. 2000 plus likes. And still, I repeat still 11 dislikes. Whoever dislikes this of all his videos is simply accessing bad drugs. A stress engineer and a watchmaker conspired to create this concept. And Ian gets to shoot this transitional product with roughly period ammunition. Wow just wow. Excellent slo-mo. A big thank you to the owner and all who brought this to the general public. Cheers people.
That's one of the few things that don't make sense in Swedish pronunciation. Sh or Ch (depending on dialect) sounds can be made by all of these letters: t, tj, k, sh, sch, sk, g, skj, and so on.
The recoil in the slow motion video looks harsh except I bet the lever arm catching and returning the bolt smooths out felt recoil. It seems that the lever pivoting and reversing the bolts direction might slow the bolt and smooth out the direction change / recoil impact. Interesting idea but seems unreliable and in need of a lot of refinement to change that. Great video as usual. Love seeing these type weapons.
Pretty cool that you actually visited sweden, many people seem to think we cant own shit when we actually can own semi auto rifles and stuff, not particulary hard to get a license, only downside its an very expensive hobby..
It may be odd today to have a bolt on a semiauto which is not controlled directly by a spring but a great benefit to it is that there is no danger of pinching one’s fingers in the bolt while loading the magazine. There is no spring constantly putting foreward pressure on the bolt and thus no “Garand thumb” or should I say “Ljungman thumb” since Ian is in Sweden?
when i saw that bolt floating freely... i thought, wow ian... that's pretty brave of you to be shooting this.. i mean of course it works, they probably wouldn't design a gun that will maim or kill you when you shoot it given they were pretty good with their guns... but watching it still makes me flinch every time i see it being fired... just imagining the terrible things when watching a bolt fly towards your face at high speed.
If you want to see a firearm that's even spookier in operation than this I recommend you take a look at the Sjorgren shotgun from around the same era, I can't honestly remember if Ian has ever covered that particular oddity but it's the first inertia shotgun and has an open action. When it fires the entire rear half of the action comes whizzing merrily along at your face and stops maybe an inch or two away before it hurries forward again. LifeSizePotato has a video of one in action if you want to wince while watching a video.
It certainly looks like a dust-cover over the action would make it more pleasant to shoot, even if it's only a cosmetic cover over the rear of the bolt track in the receiver. Although, it's pretty clear how later designs essentially replaced that cam-arm and recoiling action with a gas-piston and bolt return-spring.
I've noticed this in several videos and as a native swedish speaker I can't help but become a SVENSK LANGUAGE POLIS when I hear "kj" pronounced as just "J" . Ian think of it more as the german "Sch", so Schellman is more correct than Jellman. Thanks, lovely video as always.
you can see, like many other military type rifles from the late1800's early 1900's, the length of the barrel is a hold over from the black powder musket era
Ah Sweden, the only nation in Europe that I would love to travel to. My Great Grandfather came to America from Sweden in the 1870's and settled in Dakota. They say he had a farm yet in "the old country" that one of his son's maintained for him, as well as one here. He used to travel to see his family in Sweden (wife and son) then return here to Dakota to live with his Wife and several son's and keep the Dakota farm a going. Ah for the good old days.
If only... could be said for many great ideas that could not get the kinks worked out. This *could have been* the first self loading, semi-automatic rifle, but didn't work well enough with black powder ( the only available to its designer, Mr. Friberg ). This rifle was not ready to be switched to the then new smokeless powder, when it arrived. So the first semi-automatic military rifle produced for field use would end up being the Madsen Rasmussen M 1888.
Seems like maybe enlarging the ejection port -- which you talk about during the early examination -- would have totally fixed those ejection problems? Really interesting gun, though! Makes you wonder about an alternate reality where this was the dominant operating mechanism for all of our self-loading rifles!
The first thing I notice about the gun is that it is extremely finely made for a one-off prototype. Machined and polished. Every piece looks as if it is ready for mass production. Impressive!
You never told us Gun Puppy is guesting today's video, Ian. 😁
Forgotten doggos
I hope that pupper isn't Forgotten.
I got your forgotten doggo right here!en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog
@Little Victory Fab Co The problem there is the "forgotten doggos" would be breeds that are now extinct, which is surprisingly common, the Cane Corso was close to the same 40 years ago, and it's only been in the last 10 the breed was registered by the AKC. We're not even completely certain what some looked like as the descriptions are either vague or contradictory.
That is something special and truly truly a forgotten weapon. Imagine if a country had picked this up and ironed all the bugs out over the next ten years, it could have been the Garand of WW1, probably too many innovations though.
This comment is gold for a "what if" guy like myself. It would have to be a wealthy state, and one willing to innovate. But if we just skip the finer details. WHAT IF Germany, Britain, USA or possibly the Japanese had adopted this? What if Germany had taken the semi auto concept to heart? That would just immediately eliminate WW2 which was the far more devastating war. 3 times the casualties. Just think about that. That would make WW1 so much in their favor. Most likely not give them a W, but they would completely negate the trench warfare. The sheer firepower of a company well stocked, would negate the strategies surrounding machine gun fire and trenches. Ten men with semi automatics can put down comparably the same suppressing fire and are far more maneuverable and flexible than machine guns were in WW1. They would most likely win out in mainland Europe. There are still questions like the naval war against the british and how they would handle Japanese encroachment on their colonies. But Europe, would be completely changed. Another proper challenger to the industrial power of the US and the colonial dominion of Britain. No Hitler. No fascism (possibly in Italy).
And when France is properly beaten and their sovereignty is secured, Britain can`t refuse them to build a navy. There would be rivalries over ships, colonies. Perhaps a 1930`s -40`s cold war between Germany and Britain? Not over nuclear power and moon landings, but in regards to naval power.
And considering the US would be too late to stop them securing their position in europe until the war is over, there is no practical reason why the US would involve itself. Kinda interesting how such a small technical detail of weaponry could make such a big difference.
Juxtaposed, an adoption of a rifle at the level of what gun jesus experienced in the video, would shorten the war incredibly too. An army that can`t use their weapons is pretty useless.
They would not win WW1. but they would secure so much more, since their campaign strategy was focused on great timing and swift action. 10 million germans who could fire 5 rounds and reload in 10 seconds? Even if the rifle had a low number of bullets it could fire before it would need cleaning.
Im not German or anything. I just like the what if concept.
@@olesamsSame thing with InRange’s Lever Gun project. What if the US took the heart and soul of the Henry rifle and ran with it? What if we gave our soldiers 1876 Winchesters in .45-60? What if we gave our soldiers the extra training to fire while their buddies reloaded like we did with the M1 Garand? How might that have affected the battlefields of the old West or even World War 1? This is the kind of material that video games should explore, but instead we get stuff like Call of Duty Vanguard with M1 Garands chambered in .50 BMG.
@@Brawler_1337
A quicker US victory would not change that much i think.. considering the Americans were so hesitant to enter the wars in Europe in the first place.
I mean, a huge leap in rifle tech would not change the mindset of the American people at the time.
However, if the civil war had been won by a side with semi automatic weapons, that would lower casualties (shorter war= less dead) and with Roosevelts active conquest of Cuba and the mentality of the "white America to help the simple natives" could have built one hell of an empire..
A game about a quasi-nazi American empire? I would play that.
I would recommend "man in the high tower". Book/series about if the nazis won ww2..
Is the dog coming up for sale at Rock island?
Is the dog fully automatic or semi-auto only?
logan kincade no, fires in quick bursts.... of energy when you say the word "walkies"
@@logankincade661 I personally prefer full semi automatic.
@@partyrobbins4690 excuse me *what*
@@adee3235 I didn't say it. An Army General that doesn't know his own rifle did.
For those who laugh at the feed malfunctions: Let's see how well YOUR body ejects things when you're 118 years old.
If this is in 8mm S patrone it is not old ammo your average K98 shoots the same stuff
Well, it's a prototype. This may be as good as it ever worked.
Haha, YES! PERFECT.
@@zacht9447 It fires black powder cartridges, says in description. The ammo ran too dirty to be used in a self loading rifle long term
@@handsomelarsandhisfabulousjars no it doesn't read it again
This was an improvement over the Finnegan/Freiburger patent which was held together with zip ties and powered by an old Chevy small block.
Peter Anderson yeah, but the later work is superior due to added Hemi. Much more tactical in a straight line.
Hahaha! I just watched an episode of Finnegan's Garage right before this...
An unexpected but welcome reference
Sadly original examples have been molested by impudent youngsters ditching the small block and shoehorning in a crate LS.
cute pupper
constantly puzzles me people use this babyspeak talking about dogs on the internet.
....Why?™
Because its the internet...
@@TheDarwiniser Because they're cute, like babies.
Don’t translate pupper in Norwegian
Gun pupper and an interesting rifle, 100% quality video!
Another *fascinating* prototype semi-auto rifle. I love the majority of your content, Ian, but I have to admit that I am by far the most pleased whenever you get your hands on prototypes. Keep on doing what you do, because it's amazing!
You won me over. I've finally started supporting you on Patreon based on the dog cameo. 🐶
Thanks! :)
Obscure prototype gun, cute puppy. My day is made.
Merry Christmas!
THIS isn't even a "forgotten weapon".
It's so obscure yet so relevant. Absolutely brilliant.
I am simple gun enthusiast. I see prototype semi-auto, I click like
TheGoldenCaulk I like the cut of your gib
Isn't it "jib"
Also, thanks
Let's not get too hasty, before you know it we'll be discussing the pronunciation of gif!
(Yes, it's jib, from jib sails on ye olde ships)
Choosy mothers choose gif.
I like things with flaps
Ian: This is a really fascinating rifle of historical significance...
Comment section: PUPPY!!!
Which, by the way, is the proper gentlemanly reaction to unexpected puppies.
It's like they cut an outline around the round for the ejection/loading port
Thats why it had so many failures to eject. Still way ahead of it's time though.
It reminds me of the Schmidt-Rubin rifles and their small ejection ports.
I live 20 min from where Stockholms vapenfabrik used to be. Cool vid Ian, thanks, always nice to see Swedish gun history on this channel :)
Guns like this is why I view this channel. Extremely old, yet firing, but works in a way that is uncommon nowadays.
Animals can sense good men. This dog sensed the holiness of Gun Jesus and thus came to see the lord.
Amen
Amen.
/anoints self with cosmoline
Amen ☺
Amen
This was an awesome video! I love when you get a chance to shoot these old ridles!
Cool to see something Swedish, would love to see more of that!
On a separate note; Kjellman is actually pronounced shell (as in the gas station) and man, so saying shellman would get you closer to the Swedish pronounciation :).
Keep the awesome videos comming!
Where do you get a sh-sound in Kjellman?
@@c99kfm you just do ... I'm no linguistics expert but I am Swedish 🤷🏼♂️
@@magnusjakobsson7925 Scanian?
@@c99kfm: KJ combined forms that sound in swedish. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_fricative
@@johndanielroos Nay, compare "sjok" and "kjol": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology?useskin=vector#Fricatives
Never work with a dog, they'll upstage you every time :)
"go away kid, ya bother me." W.C. Fields.
The puppy is the real mvp.
That is too cool! Seriously one of the coolest guns yet, talk about ahead of its time!
Would be cool if you got your hands on a Kjellman LMG. Bet you already have a video of it waiting to be released
Puppy Certified!
I know that this particular video is 4yrs old, but I just wanted to say that I find it hilarious yet complimentary that several other RUclipsrs have mentioned you in their videos as "The gun Jesus"! And FYI, you are mentioned, actually, quite frequently. I know that I have spent probably too much time watching the plethora of information that you tend to provide. Keep it coming.!
Thanks Ian!
Nice to see a Swedish gun on the show.
This may be the early beginnings to the AG m/42.
That was not a bad rifle.
Thanks!
Props to the owner for letting us all enjoy that gun back in glorious action - after 118 years!
This is one of the coolest rifles you have shown on your channel imo. It is freaking amazing
Had no idea it existed even though i am a Swede.
Very nice! Those barrel action guns are cool, really soaking up and using some of that recoil :) THanks for sharing it with us! :)
I love that Ian is trying to run it like a normal bolt action gun. Every time he runs it forward, he looks at it like there's a problem. Good on ya, Ian!
And God bless Sweden!
I just love to see our Swedish guns featured on this superb channel !
Great vid and keep up the work. Love the serie and fun that you test so much Swedish guns.
Love this action and the cam backward/spring pull forward design
Interesting prototype, thanks to Ian and the owner to let us see it in action.
Always interesting to see some of my country's history like this, thanks Ian!
As always, I feel compelled to nit-pick on your pronounciation:
The "Fri-" part of Friberg is pronounced like "free", because it is the same word. The "-berg" part... the closest example I can think of is ""barge", which isn't exactly right but probably the closest an english speaker can normally get. The "Kjell-" part of Kjellman is pronounced like "shell". I think it's related to a word for "wellspring", but I wouldn't put money on it.
Primitive versions of any system always interest me because of their complexity. I love comparing them to newer versions of the system in order to study the simplified solutions used to solve the same problems. This thing is neat.
You can really tell that Gun Jesus know more german than swedish in this video.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Vapenfabrik = Vaapenfabreek
Vapenfabrik = Vaepenfabrick (or vapenfabrik in simple nomenclature.) essentially spells out like that.
GreatgoatonFire Germans, alongside americans. Have contributed an overwhelming amount of designs/ideas to firearms. So knowing some German is a must when it comes to guns.
Only a Norwegian would pronounce fabrik with a quick i.
In Swedish it is pronounced fab-reek. With a short rolling R.
Well yeah mantis I don't *expect* Ian to know any swedish but I found it a bit entertaining that
he pronounced the names like someone speaking german instead of they way english speakers then to.
really looks like quality machining and finish for a prototype
Cool mechanism in that rifle. I got some chills when the manufacturer had installed a face guard, it must mean that at some point the bolt had done a Kentucky Ballistic!
Absolutely wicked cool. Huge thanks to the owner.
Fascinating design, seems kinda complex to manufacture and not very easy to maintain but still is very interesting
Wow, to think of self-loading rifles in the 1870s. Limited by black powder only, not by ingenuity.
Such an awesome rifle. This video was a really neat Christmas present all its own; thanks for the upload, and happy holidays Ian!
This... i think just became my new favorite rifle ;-; sooo unorthodox
I want one. Like how I want a Norwegian Krag rifle in 6.5 Swede.
Friberg is not pronounced "Friberg". It is pronounced "Friberg".
Well, that's all much clearer now! :)
@@ForgottenWeapons Haha.... It's not easy to satisfy everyone, Ian.
Safty and face guard all in one....you go first. A very cool & complicated forgotten weapon.
There is still a company called "Stockholms vapenfabrik (Stockholm weaponfactory)". Not sure if there is any relation but they sell spare parts for m45/b and other Swedish firearms. Great company.
It is interesting that the bolt is kicked open and kicked closed. You are right. We do not really have any firearms that I can think of that use that system these days. I wounder if there are any hidden advantages and/or disadvantages to such a system over spring systems we use today.
This is a type of gun that I really wish there were replicas of. Quirky, weird, full of history -- and still working, a century and a bit after manufacture.
Hi Ian! I would just like to point out that the first part of Kjellman is actually pronounced like shell as in shell casing. Thank you for the awesome content you are providing
Added to "FW videos with doggos" playlist.
yo i was just watching your shooting comp you just put out, i saw this gun and i was like wtf is that action? i had to come here to learn and im not disappointed. i want it.
You dont mess upp the Swedish top much. God job!
Thank you, Ian, a great video! And many thanks to the owner of the gun. Not many owners of antique and rare firearms would want to fire them or have them fired, even for educational purposes. By the way, Ian, could this system be considered a precursor of the inertial system?
As of Dec 22,2017. 602830 subscribers. 2000 plus likes. And still, I repeat still 11 dislikes. Whoever dislikes this of all his videos is simply accessing bad drugs.
A stress engineer and a watchmaker conspired to create this concept. And Ian gets to shoot this transitional product with roughly period ammunition. Wow just wow. Excellent slo-mo. A big thank you to the owner and all who brought this to the general public. Cheers people.
Kjellman is prononced chelman
where the ch is pronounced like in the German "Reich".
or shell
Then you pronounce it like it was written skj- or sj-.
That's one of the few things that don't make sense in Swedish pronunciation. Sh or Ch (depending on dialect) sounds can be made by all of these letters: t, tj, k, sh, sch, sk, g, skj, and so on.
Why wouldn't it?
i'd really love to see a video about the kjellman LMG :D
Ian on location in Sweden?!, oh my! that might even mean a future with CBJ-MS video and other possible moments of joy.
Love the historical weapons you shoot. Do you have a video on the 577-450 martini rifle?
Why do i love weapons?
When you can make a magazine spring look like a work of art!
The recoil in the slow motion video looks harsh except I bet the lever arm catching and returning the bolt smooths out felt recoil. It seems that the lever pivoting and reversing the bolts direction might slow the bolt and smooth out the direction change / recoil impact. Interesting idea but seems unreliable and in need of a lot of refinement to change that. Great video as usual. Love seeing these type weapons.
Pretty cool that you actually visited sweden, many people seem to think we cant own shit when we actually can own semi auto rifles and stuff, not particulary hard to get a license, only downside its an very expensive hobby..
It may be odd today to have a bolt on a semiauto which is not controlled directly by a spring but a great benefit to it is that there is no danger of pinching one’s fingers in the bolt while loading the magazine. There is no spring constantly putting foreward pressure on the bolt and thus no “Garand thumb” or should I say “Ljungman thumb” since Ian is in Sweden?
MOAR GUN PUPPER!
when i saw that bolt floating freely... i thought, wow ian... that's pretty brave of you to be shooting this..
i mean of course it works, they probably wouldn't design a gun that will maim or kill you when you shoot it given they were pretty good with their guns...
but watching it still makes me flinch every time i see it being fired... just imagining the terrible things when watching a bolt fly towards your face at high speed.
they even included a faceguard just to prevent people from freaking out
If you want to see a firearm that's even spookier in operation than this I recommend you take a look at the Sjorgren shotgun from around the same era, I can't honestly remember if Ian has ever covered that particular oddity but it's the first inertia shotgun and has an open action. When it fires the entire rear half of the action comes whizzing merrily along at your face and stops maybe an inch or two away before it hurries forward again. LifeSizePotato has a video of one in action if you want to wince while watching a video.
It certainly looks like a dust-cover over the action would make it more pleasant to shoot, even if it's only a cosmetic cover over the rear of the bolt track in the receiver.
Although, it's pretty clear how later designs essentially replaced that cam-arm and recoiling action with a gas-piston and bolt return-spring.
Amazing episode!!! And what a rifle too :)
That is really cool, finally something cool from Sweden.
I've noticed this in several videos and as a native swedish speaker I can't help but become a SVENSK LANGUAGE POLIS when I hear "kj" pronounced as just "J" . Ian think of it more as the german "Sch", so Schellman is more correct than Jellman. Thanks, lovely video as always.
Watching the bolt on this rifle makes me grateful for modern equipment!
Greetings from Germany! Love your channel!
thewolfpack ian ist der beste 😂
Pablo Gappa bestewaggen*
A german with a valknot icon. What are the odds?
Ja, seine Videos sind einfach gut gemacht. Ian ist ein *echter* Experte, ein Fachmann der diesem Titel noch wirklich würdig ist!
It must be Christmas, a puppy show up! Merry Christmas from France Joyeux Noel Mais Ami
you can see, like many other military type rifles from the late1800's early 1900's, the length of the barrel is a hold over from the black powder musket era
It’s not often a gun takes second place in a FW video, but in this case I think puppy totally steals it
Gotta love how many moving parts WWI Era guns have
I dont think any video has ever terrified me more in the first 15 seconds than this video has...
aww, your puppy is adorable.
Quality Swedish engineering right there.
A man beyond his era.
Very interesting gun, i love those early semi auto. I wonder when the Meunier A6 video will come up and if you managed to actually shoot one.
Is that a goddamn Doberman?! I just found another reason to love this Channel!
Ah Sweden, the only nation in Europe that I would love to travel to. My Great Grandfather came to America from Sweden in the 1870's and settled in Dakota. They say he had a farm yet in "the old country" that one of his son's maintained for him, as well as one here. He used to travel to see his family in Sweden (wife and son) then return here to Dakota to live with his Wife and several son's and keep the Dakota farm a going. Ah for the good old days.
You are welcome to visit
If only... could be said for many great ideas that could not get the kinks worked out.
This *could have been* the first self loading, semi-automatic rifle, but didn't work well enough with black powder ( the only available to its designer, Mr. Friberg ). This rifle was not ready to be switched to the then new smokeless powder, when it arrived. So the first semi-automatic military rifle produced for field use would end up being the Madsen Rasmussen M 1888.
Beautiful weapon.
That dog has excellent comedic timing lmao
Friberg is pronounced like "Free+berg" not Frei-berg". Very interesting stuff. Btw, "Vapenfabrik" was almost spot on. Almost.
Ian,love your lil guest host🐶😊
Guess you were right about that tiny little loading/ejection opening causing problems
The name your looking for is accelerator . This was also used in the M-40 Lathi pistol to ensure function in adverse conditions .
for 1900, rather excellent machine work here.
PUPPY!!! A cameo of an upcoming video? YES!!
Flapper locks are wicked cool, and I loved the rifle, but that DOG!
19:09 - that moment when Ian becomes Hickok45, and it becomes a shootin' channel!
That bolt cam thing reminds me of the "accelerator" cam on the FAMAS, except this one works both ways (back and forth).
Passionating rifle!
I like this rifle very much.
I can't take my eyes off of that cable mess beside the CD rack.
Seems like maybe enlarging the ejection port -- which you talk about during the early examination -- would have totally fixed those ejection problems?
Really interesting gun, though! Makes you wonder about an alternate reality where this was the dominant operating mechanism for all of our self-loading rifles!
The first thing I notice about the gun is that it is extremely finely made for a one-off prototype. Machined and polished. Every piece looks as if it is ready for mass production. Impressive!
this thing is intriguing