@@jjarechiga 7 Ian said to the servants, “Fill the ammo cans with Hirtenberger”; so they filled them to the brim. 8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the K31.” They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet chambered the 308 that had been turned into GP11. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the milsurp knew.
Imagine a bar where you walk down into what is essentially a World War I bunker. On the walls is oak paneling and sandbags. The room is illuminated by oil lamps on the tables and low watt bulbs in the ceiling. All across the area is military surplus, battle flags, and recruitment posters. The bar is reclaimed teak from a dreadnought, and Ian is slinging sazeracs and talking shop in full French military kit. Now that's a bar.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU IAN. Many years ago I was at the gun registry office in Toronto and a Chinese gentleman came into register a Bren gun. I was very surprised to see it was in 30.O6 with Chinese markings and a B.A.R magazine. His English was very poor and he was somewhat suspicious of me and my questions and was not too forthcoming. When I told my friends what I saw they thought I was full of BS and wanted to know what I was smoking. To this day I still get teased about this "fantasy firearm'. But no more: Now I have the word of Gun Jesus to back me up. I am redeemed. .HALLELUJAH!!!! All praise Gun Jesus!!
@@kendalllladnek9779 i meant the comment you replied to, your's was nonsensical bollocks. Im not religious but even cunts dont dis Jesus. You should pray for yourself😟
@@Gakulon Oh sorry to hear that. he is the worst when it comes to being addicted. He is the bedst in my opinion. He puts the bar up high. making it hard for others to follow. and he is making good stuff to. Not to talk about his good videos especialy his latest armor longbow test series of videos.
For alternate history or sci-fi, I really like the concept of a society stuck with black powder longer than we were. For instance, ending up with a huge semi-automatic weapon that has a gas-operated foulage-clearing brush.
WHAT THE WTF IS GOING ON??????? I just wrote a reply to thank Ian for his incredible knowledge that confirmed to what I saw nearly thirty years ago in the gun registry office in Toronto. All of a sudden, a religious war breaks out in the replies. I know we all refer to Ian as "Gun Jesus" in a joking but respectful manner but come on guys, Forgotten Weapons is no place for this kind of nonsense. Knock it off!!
there's a relatively large section of the Musee d'Armee in les Invalides on the resistance and Free French forces. I would highly recommend spending a whole day as the Musee is absolutely huge
Is it the same for Korean or Thailand as well? Though I guess with China and Japan being the two major sources for Asian firearms in the US it's probably just as likely to be the default.
Scholagladiatoria.... it’s like forgotten weapons but a uk version and about swords and bayonets very cool channel . I commented to him that he is the uk version of Ian
Musee de la Luberation de Paris Opened this august Above Rol Tanguy HQ In place Denfert Rochereau paris 14ème The museum is new There is also a museum in the Marne and the musée de la libération at the Invalides
If you're in Paris for a good length of time, consider a trip to Brussels as well. There's several train options to get you there and back in a day with several hours to look around. Thalys is 90 mins each way and an economy Izy service is about 2 hours for a bargain price. The Military museum in central Brussels is amazing, tho a bit lacking on the resistence stuff, but the change of pace/food culture/beer etc will add a lot to your visit.
A third point about the Glock is that it resurrected striker firing as a viable option for police and military use. Prior to the Glock it was seen as much less desirable.
It's a common catholic symbol. As a high school student (catholic school) I noticed one of the statues was holding one. I asked my religion teacher about it, he was rather upset to explain it wasn't the holy hand grenade of Antioch
I think Robban Dahlgren Jonsson is referring to a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 'First you pull out the holy pin. Then you count to three. No more, no less.'
The QBZ-95 may be thoroughly unimpressive, but given the frankly ludicrous number of soldiers and support personnel the PLA has to arm that is completely understandable. Instead of putting their engineering time into making a good gun, they focused on making one cheap enough that they could reequip their entire force with weapons chambered for the 5.8mm cartridge in a reasonable amount of time and without cutting too deeply into the budget for other projects, which it can be argued is an engineering accomplishment in and of itself. The resulting weapon is, as expected, generally crap, but it is crap that fulfilled its design requirements.
The PLA isn't much larger than the US Army and is still smaller than the current Russian Army. Also the PLA is nowhere even near the size of what the Soviet Army was, yet the Soviets were equipped with high quality small arms. It's not that it's a cheap design, it's a matter of China being bad at domestic arms production.
@Yankee Gohome Both those rifles originate from Soviet designs and are not domestic Chinese designs like the QBZ-95. China still copies/steals the majority of their military designs, the QBZ-95 is an exception to that and unsurprisingly it's the worst made rifle the PLA has ever adopted.
About resistance places in france there are the Arras Undergrounds that are very insterestibg to visit as they were used during both World Wars as shelter/ hidding / regroupement / ambush places and all. (Arras is around two hours north of paris by car and less with trains)
My Grandfather was a Medic in WWII serving in the Italian campaign. He was given an M1 Carbine as a service weapon. I don't know if it was official issue, or just a unit assignment done in the heat of battle? If anyone knows if medics were officially issued M1 carbines, please respond to this post. He fought with it for 7 months before being injured by a grenade and spent the rest of his tour on a hospital ship, and lived the remainder of his life with limited use of one arm. He reported that he liked the M1 carbine and purchased one shortly after the war. It sat in his farmhouse bedroom for the remainder of his life. As his confidence in the little carbine was earned during the war. I was lucky enough to have him teach me to shoot with that gun in the early 80's and I will always have love for the little M1 carbine.
Not to dismiss your grandfather's story and opinion and I do love to hear the old vet's war stories, but just to point out that not every GI loved the M1 carbine. My father being a company level radio operator in WW2, was initially issued a 1911 that was later replaced with an M1 carbine. He never talked about why but after the war he picked up a GI surplus 1911 and, to my knowledge, never touched an M1 carbine again. I think that says it all for him. He always was a better than average pistol shot in addition to being on his companies rifle team in the 50s and 60s shooting a borrowed Garand. I still own and regularly shoot that 1911, its fun and it keeps my connection to him fresh. If you really want to attract attention at the range try some black powder 45acp in a 1911!
The only testing parameter I think we can safely not concern ourselves with is pouring wet concrete on the rifle while it is being fired (looking at you, Japanese semi-auto rifle committee).
I hate to be that guy but wasn't the m24 for the Army and the M40 for USMC the primary sniper rifle for a long time? If you are speaking of semi auto, then yes until the SASS and the MK12.
An interesting point I’ve seen on .30 carbine out of a handgun is that given its optimization for a carbine length barrel, muzzle energy is significantly hampered by the 4”-7.5” barrels typical of those handguns offered in the cartridge. If I’m not mistaken, you only tend to get 9mm +P levels of performance but with exponentially more blast and flash.
Sam T, If you want to see what that muzzle blast and flash look like Demolition Ranch has a video of him shooting an AutoMag in .30 Carbine (along with 2 or 3 other AutoMags) and it is impressive.
@Danny Clay You dare blaspheme against his holy word? His holiness clearly outlined his distaste for the johnson lmg at the beginning of the sermon. Repent heretic!
Book of Armaments, Chapter 7, Verses 4-8: "And He said unto his followers, 'Do not be tempted by the Johnson, for it brings ruin to your frame, and discomfort to your crown. Your ears shall ring like bells and your breath will be shaken from you.' His disciples said unto Him, 'Is it not of divine origin? Have we not all heard tales of its majesty and utility?' But He rebuked them, saying, 'Who among you has used these weapons? Who has cataloged their countenance? Who has known the depth and breadth of their history? Was it not I?' Realizing their foolishness, they did take Gun Jesus' words to heart and asked for their forgiveness."
If you have to confine yourself to Paris, the best resistance/liberation museum is Le Musée de la Liberation de Paris - Musée du Général Leclerc - Musée Jean Moulin. There are several others that I think there are better, and devoted only to the history of the resistance, but none are near Paris.
I would recommend Matt Easton's Schola Gladiatoria channel for bladed weapons. Easton covers swords, axes, etc from the dark ages through the Victorian period. He also teaches longsword and military saber.
im a car mechanic in the LITERAL middle of nowhere..... glasgow montana.... look it up the joke is..... some mechanic slept with an engineers wife.... and he has been making my job harder ever sense....as pay back just a half inch more space..... all we ask for im 6 foot 5...... large hands...... its like we need to hire a 14 year old female Olympic gymnast.... i almost refuse to work on dodge journey's......... they fall apart, and are a pain in the ass please DONT by one...... for your, and my, sanity
(On the subject of blade youtubers with extensive knowledge.) For me, it's a three way tie between Skallagrim, Shadversity, and Mettatron. Blades historical or modern are Skall's bread and butter. Shadversity is the go to channel for swords used by european mercenaries/foot soldiers from all kinds of historical time periods, and Mettatron knows his onions when it comes to Asian bladed weapons and bushido doctrine.
Matt does nice stuff about fighting, the Wallace Collection channel's curator has some great armor vids (both are HEMA guys), but for accurate info about swords, bows, and xbows I'd say ruclips.net/user/todsstuff1 Tod's Workshop is a fantastic source of no-BS info. All three of those guys have done teamup vids. There's a vid now that uses a 160lbs Mary Rose Long bow with the correct correct arrow/arrowhead vs an accurate breastplate. and shots over a chronograph with that bow and 1000lbs crossbows and newer weapons to get a real idea of facts vs wishful thinking. great stuff.
Savit Bharadwaj legitamitely, if he could upload these to a podcast channel after the fact that could be downloaded for later use well... That’d be simply amazing!
29:41 The Beretta 92 (as Ian mentioned earlier) uses the P38's falling locking block. The Cougar and PX4 both use rotating barrels. Several Grand Power models also use rotating barrels. As far as I can tell, they are slightly more expensive to manufacturer. It's simpler to just reuse the "most efficient" design of a simplified Browning tilting barrel / ejection port lock to take a tiny amount of market from all the other clones rather than do anything original or interesting. Interchangeable grip frames are not new or interesting - they've been possible since very early on.
The new 6.8 x 54 army round and squad automatic weapons have just been released for testing... Have you look at any of it and what are you thoughts on bi-metal or polymer round concepts that are being shown?
I have to argue with Ian about the "high capacity revolver" by bringing up one he overlooked: The Dardick. The comparison is fair, since the BioShock revolver gets an upgrade that feeds the cylinder from a snail drum magazine. The problem is the Dardick didn't go far enough. It *should* have fed from interchangeable box magazines, with optional higher capacities just like a semi-auto, but it didn't.
Wash consistently but not every day (washing too often robs your hair of healthy natural oils), use conditioner, comb often. Also, it helps to have naturally straight hair. I for instance can't grow out my hair to look nice no matter how well I maintain it.
Heresy. You must quote 6 Our Walthers and 4 Hail Benneli's. Repeat after me. "Our Walthers who art in trenches, hallowed be thy brand. Your factory come, your will be gun, in my safe as it is in factory. Give us this day our daily ammunition, and forgive us our negligent discharges, as we also have forgiven our surplus russian ammo. And lead us not into temptation to buy a glock, but deliver us from gun control."
The Taiwanese T91 gas piston has a spring between the piston and bolt carrier. I wonder if this works like the Farquhar-Hill system. Maybe it delays bolt open so chamber pressure is dropped further
Skallagrim has some good stuff. He does HEMA so has some interesting info regarding old manuals and applications of bladed weapons. Also reviews blades and theory crafts about fantasy weapons.
Our Walthers who art in trenches, hallowed be thy brand. Your factory come, your will be gun, in my safe as it is in factory. Give us this day our daily ammunition, and forgive us our negligent discharges, as we also have forgiven our surplus russian ammo. And lead us not into temptation to buy a glock, but deliver us from gun control.
On the Finnish M39 someone may have already covered this but the trigger was heavily modified as a 2 stg and is as nice as my Garand but with more 1st stg travel.
Scholagladatoria/ Mat Easton Is a good source for blades and hand weapons. A lot of his stuff is more focused on Victorian-ish era, but he does do a lot with more modern and older stuff. Plus he's big into hema, so you're actually getting real stuff, not just opinion. Another one is Lindy beige. While he's not as much to look at individual items, he does do quite a bit of historical stuff. Like what guys in wwI said/wrote about regarding their weapons.
Ian, for Kyle's question, though it's more niche content there, ScholaGladiatoria Matt Easton's channel does the occasional bit on daggers, knives and bayonets. It's a bit of lean topic there, he's done some good dives on the kukri and the bowie knife, has discussed in some depth and even to a degree, has some sparring videos relating to. The rest of the stuff I can think of is very medieval, not so much modern stuff. I appreciate it's not the technical side of it, this is very much in the use of, what do the sword fighting manuals say about these situations, I think it might be a start for the guy. Channel link included below. ruclips.net/channel/UCt14YOvYhd5FCGCwcjhrOdA
I watched a WW2 training film made circa 1942 (?) for the tank destroyer training command, and the film depicted the crews in training using the 1917 in rifle marksmanship training.
If you're interested in swords and stuff, one channel worth checking out is Skallagrim. As for submachine guns, I'd say the number one design element to add to even cheap and simple designs is double stack double feed magazines. That can increase the reliability quite a bit over double stack single feed magazines.
Question: Why are we so blessed by Gun-Dad to have Gun Jesus? He provides us so much awesome interesting content, we don’t deserve this, it’s simply too good.
Someone that can afford things more than me please ask Ian why he didn't seem too excited by the G11? And what're the chances he would ever get the chance to fire one? Even with all of its logistical failures, I am painfully desperate to see what the accuracy of that 2100rpm burst is on a modern camera!
At this point usable ammo for the G11 would be extremely hard to come by ( and might be dangerous ). "Caseless" ammunition of that type isn't really suitable for mass manufacture, at this time.
About answer to "Book on French handguns or bayonets" question - there is no link to book or books about French hanguns in the description (at the time of writing this comment).
Ian; I can see your point about heavy machineguns not needing constant recoil due to tripods, but wouldn't a constant recoil allow for the gun and tripod to be lighter? I've also heard that putting a heavy machinegun on some vehicles can be problematic since the recoil still is enough to rock the vehicle. Constant recoil doesn't seem to add a lot of complexity, so wouldn't there be very little reason not to add it?
The reason would still be what he listed: this cost of completely replacing the current firearms, their ancillary equipment, and the entire logistics tree that goes with them. That is a lot of cost for a small payoff in the grand scheme of things. If all LMGs were to disappear tomorrow and new designs had to be adopted from scratch, it is likely the clear choice. However it doesn't offer enough of an advantage to justify replacing the current standard.
If you're a western military then you have thousands and thousands of old perfectly functional .50 Browning machineguns lying around. They pretty much never wear out and more than a million were made. What is cheaper and more reliable, a shock absorbing mount for good old Ma Deuce, or some newfangled weird thing that doesn't have nearly a century of battle-proven history behind it? Yes, the recoil from a heavy machinegun in an AA mount has been known to crack windshields on Scania trucks etc but the cost effective solution to that is a better mount. Lots of people have tried to make a lighter and better alternative to the M2HB over the years, but Brownings will be the mainstay heavy machineguns of the western world until long after we're fighting wars on Mars. You simply cannot convince an army to replace something that reliable and effective that's been paid off decades ago with something that promises to cost money but won't kill the enemy any more dead.
@@Kaboomf Well, there are still NATO members that have Russian HMGs, I'm sure someone would be interested in developing the idea just in case. The firearms industry is usually quite good at making products with a very limited market. At the very least I think it is odd that noone is trying.
@@SWEmanque those Russian HMGs are also pretty damned reliable and most importantly they've already been paid for. Also, I think most of them are installed in various vehicle turrets etc. Your new gun has to fit the old turret with the ammo feed in the same place and the same trigger arrangement etc. Not gonna get replaced for the lifetime of the vehicle, at least. Note that several attempts have been made at marketing new, lightweight and lighter-recoiling .50 HMGs for decades now but very few sales have been made.
@@Lv-sl3rm she was a (cute) female bartender in NY, unless her drinks were worse than her ideas, I'm sure she made better money bartending than Ian & she got a less useful + generally cheaper degree. I see no excuse, really.
The best channel about bladed weapons I know of is Scholagladiatoria Mainly about british saber but he talks a fair bit about bayonets and other subjects
I'm confused why Constant Recoil is not applicable to semi auto rifles. Its not API where it has to be open bolt to function - any rifle that allows its bolt to fully decelerate under spring pressure rather than hitting the rear of the receiver is constant recoil and that means it can reduce felt recoil of basically any self loader. Even if you argue its a slip up and he meant its less important not no benefit at all, reducing felt recoil is still important for follow up shots. He even talks about the semi-auto Drors being unpleasant in part because of the bolt hitting the end of the receiver, which makes it a perfect example of where a constant recoil system could be useful. But maybe I missed something?
Constant recoil system allows series of slams be felt like one constant push. But it does very little to one slam. Russians tried it and found accuracy improvement less than 10% at the cost of significant weight and complexity increase of gun
@@alexandermarinin7036 It is still lengthens the recoil impulse of hard recoiling though? Just like bolt actions have more felt recoil than semi-autos. Again the Dror is an example of this, but also fullsized rifles in general. The difference between a battlerifle with the right tuning (bolt/BCG weight, spring, gas) and with poor tuning is significant and constant recoil should mean you have the space to have maximally soft recoil like a perfectly tuned rifle but without the risk of short stroking and the ammunition sensitivity that doing that in a regular rifle can bring. And weight yes definitely, but I dont think I agree with complexity. Essentially you're adding more spring and depending on the weapon in question, lengthening the receiver.
"Constant Recoil", like most useful (not "change for change's sake") ideas, is not so much a new or novel concept as the recognition and correction of a bad idea - in this case, letting the recoiling mass impact the rear of the receiver. The idea that avoiding this (lengthening a rifle receiver at the expense of the buttstock, or extending it via a tube in the buttstock, to dissipate the recoil energy in springs) would come "at the cost of significant weight and complexity" is absurd. Ian is on record in many videos recognizing undamped slide or bolt impact with subject guns' receivers as the direct cause of their excessive recoil. He also clearly recognized the benefit, in Kel-Tec's RDB, of eliminating that impact. I'm not sure why he's allowing the term "Constant Recoil" to obscure this simple fact of physics.
Apparently Che Guevara had much the same opinion of the Johnson LMG. He said it seemed more intent on injuring whoever was using it than whoever it was being shot at.
Could the Pedersen Device be considered an adopted semi-auto conversion? It's sub-par in every way and was a cartridge change but it did make a bolt action semi-auto?
@@nichevo1 I just went back and re-watched the "Secret Briefing: Pederson Device" and Full 30 Shooting video, he specifically mentions semi not full. I could still be wrong but those are my sources.
interesting comments about the Johnson LMG. My Dad was a Marine in WW2 and carried a BAR. He was able to get a Johnson LMG on Guam. He LOVED it. He said it was lighter and easier to get through the jungle plus it had as much fire power as his BAR. He said it made him cry when they made him get rid of it. He called it a "Buck Rogers" gun.
I'd say the P38 was hugely influential in the post-war period. The mechanism (either the lockwork or the locking system or both) was widely copied by Smith, Sig, Beretta and others. The magazine was essentially the pattern for almost all post-war single-stack 9mm mags, much like the BHP mag was for post-war double-stack 9mm mags. It's just that, 80+ years later, the market has moved on beyond either of those features and the influence is no longer felt as strongly. The Glock certainly has more current influence on pistol design, but Walther's influence was substantial for half a century.
What is the most practical ''bubba'd'' antique rifle you've seen? Many Mosins, Mausers and SKSs have been chopped and scrapped by home amateur gunsmiths (maybe gunsmith is a strong word). Have you seen any that you were actually impressed by their modifications or found the, tasteful in their execution? Have you ever "bubba'd" one yourself?
Find someone who looks at you the way the French Military Adoption System looks at a rifle grenade......in a proprietary diameter/caliber/weight/how the fuck do you differential grenades?.
I have a .30 carbine Ruger revolver. Looks like the cowboy guns. You do have to thumb cock it. Not a problem to shoot. Recoil is not a problem. (I also have a contender barrel.) I mean it .30 caliber and the bullet is 110 grains. The .30 carbine when fired in a carbine has muzzle energy similar to a .357 fired from a handgun so I'm not at all clear on why Ian thinks shooting one is a problem.
A full size bottle of Chartreuse V.E.P.? Few people are that dedicated to French liqueurs. I'm impressed. How do you drink yours Ian? Regular Chartreuse is popular in America is cocktails, but few call for the original recipe, much less your barrel aged version, and that stuff is pretty intense to just sip on.
I can't help with modern blade advice (bayonets, modern knives, etc.) but if you're looking for traditional sword advice Shadiversity, Metatron, and Skalligrim are all well versed but usually approach with a middle ages angle. Skalligrim is the most likely to demonstrate actual moves on video.
When Ian was at a bar.
Customer: I asked for a wine not a glass of water
Ian: look again
Customer: wow, when did that happen?
You win
Wrong mesías, gun Jesus converts surplus ammo to the caliber that you need
@@jjarechiga or reloads fired casings
@Joe Ç loaves and fishes
@@jjarechiga
7 Ian said to the servants, “Fill the ammo cans with Hirtenberger”; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the K31.”
They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet chambered the 308 that had been turned into GP11. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the milsurp knew.
Imagine a bar where you walk down into what is essentially a World War I bunker. On the walls is oak paneling and sandbags. The room is illuminated by oil lamps on the tables and low watt bulbs in the ceiling. All across the area is military surplus, battle flags, and recruitment posters. The bar is reclaimed teak from a dreadnought, and Ian is slinging sazeracs and talking shop in full French military kit. Now that's a bar.
I'm in. Where? Tucson? Is this Ian's next Kickstarter? Sounds like an amazing place to debrief after a range day.
Sounds like Indy Neidell's home office
Sam G yeah but how would you get people to leave?
Matthew Sonn open the GarageDoor?
Put it in Verdun
P38 v Glock is a red herring. The correct answer is Browning High Power
True
@Anton Zuykov 100 dollah problem solver.
And the BHP fits ya in the hand better than both those damn things, too!
Damn right! (At least of you want some real elegance.)
My Browning High Power is a delight to shoot. Makes me smile every damn time!
THANK YOU. THANK YOU IAN.
Many years ago I was at the gun registry office in Toronto and a Chinese gentleman came into register a Bren gun. I was very surprised to see it was in 30.O6 with Chinese markings and a B.A.R magazine. His English was very poor and he was somewhat suspicious of me and my questions and was not too forthcoming. When I told my friends what I saw they thought I was full of BS and wanted to know what I was smoking. To this day I still get teased about this "fantasy firearm'.
But no more: Now I have the word of Gun Jesus to back me up.
I am redeemed.
.HALLELUJAH!!!!
All praise Gun Jesus!!
The Gun Jew Zeus has indeed nailed you with HIS hands like lightning.
Good comment until the slandering of jesus, poor you🙄
@@johnnytrigger5512 have a pity upvote while you pray for me.
@@kendalllladnek9779 i meant the comment you replied to, your's was nonsensical bollocks. Im not religious but even cunts dont dis Jesus. You should pray for yourself😟
Mate hope you really enjoy the “Told you so” moment they are really few and far between, but oh so good 😊
Question: do people ever ask you to bless their guns?
I've got a box of 50 rounds of 9mm Geco with Ian and Karl's autographs, it's blessed ammo right?
*Thats a solid +10 Holy Damage!*
Oh yes, oh gun jesus bless this ammo we are about shoot
or turn their hoppe's into whiskey.
He sanctifies it with WD40 to remove the sin of cosmoline.
Scholagladatoria produces interesting content on bladed weapons, covering most things from ancient to the mid 1800's
Warning, the world of historical arms and armor youtubers can be a bit addictive. Be aware of what you're getting in to
@@Gakulon than dont watch tod from tods stuff.
@@torbenjohansen6955 Too late man, I'm already in too deep
I second Schola
@@Gakulon Oh sorry to hear that. he is the worst when it comes to being addicted.
He is the bedst in my opinion. He puts the bar up high. making it hard for others to follow. and he is making good stuff to. Not to talk about his good videos especialy his latest armor longbow test series of videos.
"In the right place, _for a long time_ " might be the best descriptor of the M14's survival in service I've yet heard
"The French Collection" sounds like the title of Ians first feature length film. Lol
I just see a goatee wearing, long haired Gene Hackman in it...
I think this calls for some movie poster Photoshopping. FW fans, get to it!
Why is it called "feature" length?
For alternate history or sci-fi, I really like the concept of a society stuck with black powder longer than we were. For instance, ending up with a huge semi-automatic weapon that has a gas-operated foulage-clearing brush.
nah, we would just be stuck with long recoil for everything.
Othais can finally go for a walk without you asking him for weird ammo!
WHAT THE WTF IS GOING ON???????
I just wrote a reply to thank Ian for his incredible knowledge that confirmed to what I saw nearly thirty years ago in the gun registry office in Toronto. All of a sudden, a religious war breaks out in the replies. I know we all refer to Ian as "Gun Jesus" in a joking but respectful manner but come on guys, Forgotten Weapons is no place for this kind of nonsense. Knock it off!!
there's a relatively large section of the Musee d'Armee in les Invalides on the resistance and Free French forces. I would highly recommend spending a whole day as the Musee is absolutely huge
Thank you for the recommendation.
I have also been there. Agree with the recommendation.
I would've thought your favorite Chinese smallarm would be the BROWNINGSBROWNINGSBROWNINGS
Not Browsers? (Browning and Mauser markings on the same weapon.
moosemaimer, Only the ones that are marked BrevetteBrevetteBrevette
The G36 replacement tests should be Desert Brutality & Finnish Brutality.
those are 2 polar opposite tests...and the same thing companies already do.
Chinese guns use the same word for "type" as japanese (式) which can be translated as type, model or pattern in this context.
Is it the same for Korean or Thailand as well? Though I guess with China and Japan being the two major sources for Asian firearms in the US it's probably just as likely to be the default.
@@SpaceCowboyfromNJ Probably true for NK, SK uses a different designation system.
Thailand uses a different script. The designation maybe similar, the printed character won't be.
@@yuyuyu25 Actually NK completely eradicated the chinese from their writing system.
Scholagladiatoria.... it’s like forgotten weapons but a uk version and about swords and bayonets very cool channel . I commented to him that he is the uk version of Ian
Now I want them to collaborate on a video about CONTEXT! and bayonets.
More a medieval weapons and armour channel though.
@@AnimeSunglasses I'm sure Matt would enjoy a good talk about bayonets and..... good penetration.
Bump
Bump and Tod's Workshop
Musee de la Luberation de Paris
Opened this august
Above Rol Tanguy HQ
In place Denfert Rochereau paris 14ème
The museum is new
There is also a museum in the Marne and the musée de la libération at the Invalides
Thanks!
If you're in Paris for a good length of time, consider a trip to Brussels as well. There's several train options to get you there and back in a day with several hours to look around. Thalys is 90 mins each way and an economy Izy service is about 2 hours for a bargain price. The Military museum in central Brussels is amazing, tho a bit lacking on the resistence stuff, but the change of pace/food culture/beer etc will add a lot to your visit.
Libération !
Lube Museum
Channel recommendations:
ScholaGladiatoria
Skallagrim
Metatron
Those are the ones I watch most / trust most!
So you have learned the secret of ending your enemy rightly?
Pommels!
A third point about the Glock is that it resurrected striker firing as a viable option for police and military use. Prior to the Glock it was seen as much less desirable.
H&K says hello.
Is that a picture of the "holy hand grenade" on your left?
It's a common catholic symbol. As a high school student (catholic school) I noticed one of the statues was holding one. I asked my religion teacher about it, he was rather upset to explain it wasn't the holy hand grenade of Antioch
@@philllax1719 So you're saying the Catholic Church stole it?!! How dare they!!
Chartreuse is known for removing varnish if u spill it, not for it's explosive properties!
I think Robban Dahlgren Jonsson is referring to a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 'First you pull out the holy pin. Then you count to three. No more, no less.'
@@Nooziterp1 so...you're saying that wasn't a documentary?
The QBZ-95 may be thoroughly unimpressive, but given the frankly ludicrous number of soldiers and support personnel the PLA has to arm that is completely understandable. Instead of putting their engineering time into making a good gun, they focused on making one cheap enough that they could reequip their entire force with weapons chambered for the 5.8mm cartridge in a reasonable amount of time and without cutting too deeply into the budget for other projects, which it can be argued is an engineering accomplishment in and of itself. The resulting weapon is, as expected, generally crap, but it is crap that fulfilled its design requirements.
all very true, but slightly off point
The PLA isn't much larger than the US Army and is still smaller than the current Russian Army.
Also the PLA is nowhere even near the size of what the Soviet Army was, yet the Soviets were equipped with high quality small arms.
It's not that it's a cheap design, it's a matter of China being bad at domestic arms production.
@Yankee Gohome Both those rifles originate from Soviet designs and are not domestic Chinese designs like the QBZ-95.
China still copies/steals the majority of their military designs, the QBZ-95 is an exception to that and unsurprisingly it's the worst made rifle the PLA has ever adopted.
@Yankee Gohome Also I should mention the Soviets directly taught the Chinese how to make those rifles, which is mainly why they are so well made.
About resistance places in france there are the Arras Undergrounds that are very insterestibg to visit as they were used during both World Wars as shelter/ hidding / regroupement / ambush places and all. (Arras is around two hours north of paris by car and less with trains)
between the ferns with gun Jesus
My Grandfather was a Medic in WWII serving in the Italian campaign. He was given an M1 Carbine as a service weapon. I don't know if it was official issue, or just a unit assignment done in the heat of battle? If anyone knows if medics were officially issued M1 carbines, please respond to this post. He fought with it for 7 months before being injured by a grenade and spent the rest of his tour on a hospital ship, and lived the remainder of his life with limited use of one arm. He reported that he liked the M1 carbine and purchased one shortly after the war. It sat in his farmhouse bedroom for the remainder of his life. As his confidence in the little carbine was earned during the war. I was lucky enough to have him teach me to shoot with that gun in the early 80's and I will always have love for the little M1 carbine.
Not to dismiss your grandfather's story and opinion and I do love to hear the old vet's war stories, but just to point out that not every GI loved the M1 carbine. My father being a company level radio operator in WW2, was initially issued a 1911 that was later replaced with an M1 carbine. He never talked about why but after the war he picked up a GI surplus 1911 and, to my knowledge, never touched an M1 carbine again. I think that says it all for him. He always was a better than average pistol shot in addition to being on his companies rifle team in the 50s and 60s shooting a borrowed Garand. I still own and regularly shoot that 1911, its fun and it keeps my connection to him fresh. If you really want to attract attention at the range try some black powder 45acp in a 1911!
The only testing parameter I think we can safely not concern ourselves with is pouring wet concrete on the rifle while it is being fired (looking at you, Japanese semi-auto rifle committee).
I hate to be that guy but wasn't the m24 for the Army and the M40 for USMC the primary sniper rifle for a long time? If you are speaking of semi auto, then yes until the SASS and the MK12.
An interesting point I’ve seen on .30 carbine out of a handgun is that given its optimization for a carbine length barrel, muzzle energy is significantly hampered by the 4”-7.5” barrels typical of those handguns offered in the cartridge. If I’m not mistaken, you only tend to get 9mm +P levels of performance but with exponentially more blast and flash.
Sam T, If you want to see what that muzzle blast and flash look like Demolition Ranch has a video of him shooting an AutoMag in .30 Carbine (along with 2 or 3 other AutoMags) and it is impressive.
Gun Jesus disaproves of the Johnson lmg. Let it be known, no true follower will praise this underwhelming excuse for a forgotten weapon. Amen.
@Danny Clay You dare blaspheme against his holy word? His holiness clearly outlined his distaste for the johnson lmg at the beginning of the sermon. Repent heretic!
Book of Armaments, Chapter 7, Verses 4-8:
"And He said unto his followers, 'Do not be tempted by the Johnson, for it brings ruin to your frame, and discomfort to your crown. Your ears shall ring like bells and your breath will be shaken from you.' His disciples said unto Him, 'Is it not of divine origin? Have we not all heard tales of its majesty and utility?' But He rebuked them, saying, 'Who among you has used these weapons? Who has cataloged their countenance? Who has known the depth and breadth of their history? Was it not I?' Realizing their foolishness, they did take Gun Jesus' words to heart and asked for their forgiveness."
@@Breakfast_and_Bullets I can see you're a true disciple.
I could never write like that :(
Raised Christian, creative writing classes in school, and a general interest in history. Combine them and you get Scripture Forger Extraordinaire
@@Breakfast_and_Bullets That was pretty damn good, now hurry up and build the rest of the Book... ^.^
If you have to confine yourself to Paris, the best resistance/liberation museum is Le Musée de la Liberation de Paris - Musée du Général Leclerc - Musée Jean Moulin. There are several others that I think there are better, and devoted only to the history of the resistance, but none are near Paris.
Imagine being served drinks by Ian, a.k.a Gun Jesus, a.k.a the Holy Bartender! [Dogma reference]
I would recommend Matt Easton's Schola Gladiatoria channel for bladed weapons. Easton covers swords, axes, etc from the dark ages through the Victorian period. He also teaches longsword and military saber.
And todds stuff.
Can you do a shooting test with Russian AN-94 "Abakan" ?
Unless he goes to Russia, that's not gonna happen.
There is only 1 video of anyone other than a russian shooting that. No way he can do it really
im a car mechanic in the LITERAL middle of nowhere..... glasgow montana.... look it up
the joke is..... some mechanic slept with an engineers wife.... and he has been making my job harder ever sense....as pay back
just a half inch more space..... all we ask for
im 6 foot 5...... large hands......
its like we need to hire a 14 year old female Olympic gymnast....
i almost refuse to work on dodge journey's......... they fall apart, and are a pain in the ass
please DONT by one...... for your, and my, sanity
A half inch more is what the wife was looking for ;)
(On the subject of blade youtubers with extensive knowledge.) For me, it's a three way tie between Skallagrim, Shadversity, and Mettatron. Blades historical or modern are Skall's bread and butter. Shadversity is the go to channel for swords used by european mercenaries/foot soldiers from all kinds of historical time periods, and Mettatron knows his onions when it comes to Asian bladed weapons and bushido doctrine.
I can hear distant cries of "context".
I've got one of the Chatellerault Finn Mosins, 1894 production, refitted into m39 configuration. It's had an interesting life.
schola gladiatoria has to be the answer to the bladed weapons question, right?
Yeah. He tends to ramble though. Ian and othias have the discipline to keep on topic and not repeat themselves much.
Matt does nice stuff about fighting, the Wallace Collection channel's curator has some great armor vids (both are HEMA guys), but for accurate info about swords, bows, and xbows I'd say ruclips.net/user/todsstuff1 Tod's Workshop is a fantastic source of no-BS info. All three of those guys have done teamup vids. There's a vid now that uses a 160lbs Mary Rose Long bow with the correct correct arrow/arrowhead vs an accurate breastplate. and shots over a chronograph with that bow and 1000lbs crossbows and newer weapons to get a real idea of facts vs wishful thinking. great stuff.
Civil war ian I think would have a a refined southern accent. Lol
"Why ah do de-clare..." I ca hear it now.
Q&As sessions in a podcast format would be amazing imo!
Savit Bharadwaj legitamitely, if he could upload these to a podcast channel after the fact that could be downloaded for later use well... That’d be simply amazing!
The French Collection, starring Ian McCollum
15:20 Thank you, I was looking for the term for "eye box" and couldn't think of it. Very much appreciated!
Electricity , booze and bright light, explains a lot!
As late as 1990, unmodified M-14s were issued as Designated Marksman rifles to troops patrolling the Korean Demilitarized Zone, one per squad.
29:41 The Beretta 92 (as Ian mentioned earlier) uses the P38's falling locking block. The Cougar and PX4 both use rotating barrels. Several Grand Power models also use rotating barrels. As far as I can tell, they are slightly more expensive to manufacturer. It's simpler to just reuse the "most efficient" design of a simplified Browning tilting barrel / ejection port lock to take a tiny amount of market from all the other clones rather than do anything original or interesting. Interchangeable grip frames are not new or interesting - they've been possible since very early on.
Scholagladiatoria is a good bladed weapons channel
The new 6.8 x 54 army round and squad automatic weapons have just been released for testing... Have you look at any of it and what are you thoughts on bi-metal or polymer round concepts that are being shown?
I have to argue with Ian about the "high capacity revolver" by bringing up one he overlooked: The Dardick.
The comparison is fair, since the BioShock revolver gets an upgrade that feeds the cylinder from a snail drum magazine.
The problem is the Dardick didn't go far enough. It *should* have fed from interchangeable box magazines, with optional higher capacities just like a semi-auto, but it didn't.
"G36" and "inexpensive" don't belong in the same sentence, at least for the final consumer.
what brand of garage doors did you install? I worked in a factory for 37 years called Raynor Garage doors.
Right next door to the Raynor beer factory.
Jeffrey Donaldson Ian doesn’t remember bc he blocked out the traumatic garage door installing memories.
Don’t forget the dardick, the magazine fed, revolver thingy...
IHNJ, IJLS "Trounds".
My Question is Everytime i Try to grow my Jesus hair out, I end up looking Homeless..any tips?
Wash consistently but not every day (washing too often robs your hair of healthy natural oils), use conditioner, comb often. Also, it helps to have naturally straight hair. I for instance can't grow out my hair to look nice no matter how well I maintain it.
Buy French guns.
Use French gun oil as conditioner
be Ian
Heresy. You must quote 6 Our Walthers and 4 Hail Benneli's.
Repeat after me.
"Our Walthers who art in trenches, hallowed be thy brand. Your factory come, your will be gun, in my safe as it is in factory. Give us this day our daily ammunition, and forgive us our negligent discharges, as we also have forgiven our surplus russian ammo. And lead us not into temptation to buy a glock, but deliver us from gun control."
The Taiwanese T91 gas piston has a spring between the piston and bolt carrier. I wonder if this works like the Farquhar-Hill system. Maybe it delays bolt open so chamber pressure is dropped further
"This is definitely my favorite job of the bunch". The rest of us: You don't say!?
Didn't know you graduated from Purdue too. Boiler up!
p. s. Ian was on the shooting team at Purdue.
Tod's stuff and scholagladiatoria for blades with real scholarship. Various experimental archeology guys out there...
Skallagrim has some good stuff. He does HEMA so has some interesting info regarding old manuals and applications of bladed weapons. Also reviews blades and theory crafts about fantasy weapons.
Our Walthers who art in trenches, hallowed be thy brand. Your factory come, your will be gun, in my safe as it is in factory. Give us this day our daily ammunition, and forgive us our negligent discharges, as we also have forgiven our surplus russian ammo. And lead us not into temptation to buy a glock, but deliver us from gun control.
On the Finnish M39 someone may have already covered this but the trigger was heavily modified as a 2 stg and is as nice as my Garand but with more 1st stg travel.
Scholagladatoria/ Mat Easton Is a good source for blades and hand weapons. A lot of his stuff is more focused on Victorian-ish era, but he does do a lot with more modern and older stuff. Plus he's big into hema, so you're actually getting real stuff, not just opinion. Another one is Lindy beige. While he's not as much to look at individual items, he does do quite a bit of historical stuff. Like what guys in wwI said/wrote about regarding their weapons.
Boiler up Ian! (from a fellow Boilermaker- DX '91 here).
Ian, for Kyle's question, though it's more niche content there, ScholaGladiatoria Matt Easton's channel does the occasional bit on daggers, knives and bayonets.
It's a bit of lean topic there, he's done some good dives on the kukri and the bowie knife, has discussed in some depth and even to a degree, has some sparring videos relating to. The rest of the stuff I can think of is very medieval, not so much modern stuff.
I appreciate it's not the technical side of it, this is very much in the use of, what do the sword fighting manuals say about these situations, I think it might be a start for the guy.
Channel link included below.
ruclips.net/channel/UCt14YOvYhd5FCGCwcjhrOdA
Seeing that you can now buy French 7.65mm Longue, when do we get a video of you firing your MAS-38?
I watched a WW2 training film made circa 1942 (?) for the tank destroyer training command, and the film depicted the crews in training using the 1917 in rifle marksmanship training.
Fun Fact: Chinese Leader Mao Zedong composed a few love poems about the Mauser rifle.
Are you sure? I am very familiar with his poems, but can't recall anything specifically related to Mauser.
@@georgechiu7675 Any dirty poems??
at 58:40 he explains why he is actually an expert... Those who know get it. Thank you Ian.
In 1979 in the 3rd Armored Division, we didn't have access to M-21, so our snipers were issued M-1D, and .30-06 sniper rounds were made availavle.
If you're interested in swords and stuff, one channel worth checking out is Skallagrim. As for submachine guns, I'd say the number one design element to add to even cheap and simple designs is double stack double feed magazines. That can increase the reliability quite a bit over double stack single feed magazines.
Thanks for the good callout on Taiwan's Bren. It'd be great to have a mini series on the firearms of the R.O.C. Taiwan.
"So hey, how well do you like your johnson?"
Question: Why are we so blessed by Gun-Dad to have Gun Jesus? He provides us so much awesome interesting content, we don’t deserve this, it’s simply too good.
To Alex the Bioshock player: look up "frankenruger" here on RUclips. It's on Jim March Simpson's channel. That's the best you're going to get.
Someone that can afford things more than me please ask Ian why he didn't seem too excited by the G11? And what're the chances he would ever get the chance to fire one? Even with all of its logistical failures, I am painfully desperate to see what the accuracy of that 2100rpm burst is on a modern camera!
At this point usable ammo for the G11 would be extremely hard to come by ( and might be dangerous ). "Caseless" ammunition of that type isn't really suitable for mass manufacture, at this time.
I totally see you as a bartender. Cheers.
.......introducing the Wild West to the French 75 one glass at a time...
Ian strikes me as the kind of bartender that you know is quietly judging you based on what you order 😄
@@OrangeAmped More like quietly judging you based on your carry piece.
Can we get a Marvel movie for Gun Jesus's origin story please? Who's going to play him?
I wish you tube would make it so I could give your videos 2 thumbs up. They are so informative. 👍👍
You should upload the q&a videos as audio podcasts (same with InRangeTV on a shared podcast channel)
That would be cool
About answer to "Book on French handguns or bayonets" question - there is no link to book or books about French hanguns in the description (at the time of writing this comment).
For swords and stuff I really like Skallagrim.
Ian; I can see your point about heavy machineguns not needing constant recoil due to tripods, but wouldn't a constant recoil allow for the gun and tripod to be lighter? I've also heard that putting a heavy machinegun on some vehicles can be problematic since the recoil still is enough to rock the vehicle. Constant recoil doesn't seem to add a lot of complexity, so wouldn't there be very little reason not to add it?
The reason would still be what he listed: this cost of completely replacing the current firearms, their ancillary equipment, and the entire logistics tree that goes with them. That is a lot of cost for a small payoff in the grand scheme of things.
If all LMGs were to disappear tomorrow and new designs had to be adopted from scratch, it is likely the clear choice. However it doesn't offer enough of an advantage to justify replacing the current standard.
If you're a western military then you have thousands and thousands of old perfectly functional .50 Browning machineguns lying around. They pretty much never wear out and more than a million were made. What is cheaper and more reliable, a shock absorbing mount for good old Ma Deuce, or some newfangled weird thing that doesn't have nearly a century of battle-proven history behind it?
Yes, the recoil from a heavy machinegun in an AA mount has been known to crack windshields on Scania trucks etc but the cost effective solution to that is a better mount. Lots of people have tried to make a lighter and better alternative to the M2HB over the years, but Brownings will be the mainstay heavy machineguns of the western world until long after we're fighting wars on Mars. You simply cannot convince an army to replace something that reliable and effective that's been paid off decades ago with something that promises to cost money but won't kill the enemy any more dead.
@@Kaboomf Well, there are still NATO members that have Russian HMGs, I'm sure someone would be interested in developing the idea just in case. The firearms industry is usually quite good at making products with a very limited market. At the very least I think it is odd that noone is trying.
@@SWEmanque those Russian HMGs are also pretty damned reliable and most importantly they've already been paid for. Also, I think most of them are installed in various vehicle turrets etc. Your new gun has to fit the old turret with the ammo feed in the same place and the same trigger arrangement etc. Not gonna get replaced for the lifetime of the vehicle, at least.
Note that several attempts have been made at marketing new, lightweight and lighter-recoiling .50 HMGs for decades now but very few sales have been made.
Wow, Ian paid off a mechanical engineering technology degree bartending, what's AOC's excuse?
To be fair to her she's an absolute dit....
@@Lv-sl3rm she was a (cute) female bartender in NY, unless her drinks were worse than her ideas, I'm sure she made better money bartending than Ian & she got a less useful + generally cheaper degree. I see no excuse, really.
The best channel about bladed weapons I know of is Scholagladiatoria
Mainly about british saber but he talks a fair bit about bayonets and other subjects
I'm confused why Constant Recoil is not applicable to semi auto rifles. Its not API where it has to be open bolt to function - any rifle that allows its bolt to fully decelerate under spring pressure rather than hitting the rear of the receiver is constant recoil and that means it can reduce felt recoil of basically any self loader.
Even if you argue its a slip up and he meant its less important not no benefit at all, reducing felt recoil is still important for follow up shots.
He even talks about the semi-auto Drors being unpleasant in part because of the bolt hitting the end of the receiver, which makes it a perfect example of where a constant recoil system could be useful.
But maybe I missed something?
Constant recoil system allows series of slams be felt like one constant push. But it does very little to one slam. Russians tried it and found accuracy improvement less than 10% at the cost of significant weight and complexity increase of gun
@@alexandermarinin7036 It is still lengthens the recoil impulse of hard recoiling though? Just like bolt actions have more felt recoil than semi-autos. Again the Dror is an example of this, but also fullsized rifles in general. The difference between a battlerifle with the right tuning (bolt/BCG weight, spring, gas) and with poor tuning is significant and constant recoil should mean you have the space to have maximally soft recoil like a perfectly tuned rifle but without the risk of short stroking and the ammunition sensitivity that doing that in a regular rifle can bring.
And weight yes definitely, but I dont think I agree with complexity. Essentially you're adding more spring and depending on the weapon in question, lengthening the receiver.
In theory it should still work, although would a counterbalance system not be better than a constant recoil one?
"Constant Recoil", like most useful (not "change for change's sake") ideas, is not so much a new or novel concept as the recognition and correction of a bad idea - in this case, letting the recoiling mass impact the rear of the receiver. The idea that avoiding this (lengthening a rifle receiver at the expense of the buttstock, or extending it via a tube in the buttstock, to dissipate the recoil energy in springs) would come "at the cost of significant weight and complexity" is absurd.
Ian is on record in many videos recognizing undamped slide or bolt impact with subject guns' receivers as the direct cause of their excessive recoil. He also clearly recognized the benefit, in Kel-Tec's RDB, of eliminating that impact. I'm not sure why he's allowing the term "Constant Recoil" to obscure this simple fact of physics.
Ian starring in next years hollywood blockbuster: The French Collection
hmm not the Lewisgun ???????
Apparently Che Guevara had much the same opinion of the Johnson LMG. He said it seemed more intent on injuring whoever was using it than whoever it was being shot at.
Could the Pedersen Device be considered an adopted semi-auto conversion? It's sub-par in every way and was a cartridge change but it did make a bolt action semi-auto?
If memory serves it made it full-auto.
@@nichevo1 I just went back and re-watched the "Secret Briefing: Pederson Device" and Full 30 Shooting video, he specifically mentions semi not full. I could still be wrong but those are my sources.
For bladed weapons check out scholagladiatoria. Mat Easton is a very knowledgeable man.
interesting comments about the Johnson LMG. My Dad was a Marine in WW2 and carried a BAR. He was able to get a Johnson LMG on Guam. He LOVED it. He said it was lighter and easier to get through the jungle plus it had as much fire power as his BAR. He said it made him cry when they made him get rid of it. He called it a "Buck Rogers" gun.
As for bladed weapons. Scholar Gladatoria would be a good place to start as well as Todd's Workshop.
For bladed weapons see Skallagrim and Scholagladiatoria.
A constant recoil AK-74 would be within Russian/Soviet Doctrine and be useful to them
look at kalashnikov concerns site, it seems they are thinking along those lines too
Aren't they already making a counter balance recoil AK?
@@williestyle35 for civilian market only
Ivan Monahhov , thank you for clarifying. (:
also perhaps, Nikonov AN94
I would suggest ruclips.net/user/scholagladiatoriavideos for information about historical swords, particularly the 19th century ones.
I'd say the P38 was hugely influential in the post-war period. The mechanism (either the lockwork or the locking system or both) was widely copied by Smith, Sig, Beretta and others. The magazine was essentially the pattern for almost all post-war single-stack 9mm mags, much like the BHP mag was for post-war double-stack 9mm mags. It's just that, 80+ years later, the market has moved on beyond either of those features and the influence is no longer felt as strongly. The Glock certainly has more current influence on pistol design, but Walther's influence was substantial for half a century.
What is the most practical ''bubba'd'' antique rifle you've seen? Many Mosins, Mausers and SKSs have been chopped and scrapped by home amateur gunsmiths (maybe gunsmith is a strong word). Have you seen any that you were actually impressed by their modifications or found the, tasteful in their execution? Have you ever "bubba'd" one yourself?
What about the Gatling gun
Find someone who looks at you the way the French Military Adoption System looks at a rifle grenade......in a proprietary diameter/caliber/weight/how the fuck do you differential grenades?.
The new SIG 365 SAS has sights kind of like the ASP's Guttersnipe sight.
I have a .30 carbine Ruger revolver. Looks like the cowboy guns. You do have to thumb cock it. Not a problem to shoot. Recoil is not a problem. (I also have a contender barrel.) I mean it .30 caliber and the bullet is 110 grains. The .30 carbine when fired in a carbine has muzzle energy similar to a .357 fired from a handgun so I'm not at all clear on why Ian thinks shooting one is a problem.
A full size bottle of Chartreuse V.E.P.? Few people are that dedicated to French liqueurs. I'm impressed. How do you drink yours Ian? Regular Chartreuse is popular in America is cocktails, but few call for the original recipe, much less your barrel aged version, and that stuff is pretty intense to just sip on.
I can't help with modern blade advice (bayonets, modern knives, etc.) but if you're looking for traditional sword advice Shadiversity, Metatron, and Skalligrim are all well versed but usually approach with a middle ages angle. Skalligrim is the most likely to demonstrate actual moves on video.
Oh my god, I can totally imagine Ian being a bartender