Q&A 49, with Mike and Fabien of Bloke on the Range

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @fien111
    @fien111 3 года назад +129

    "Finnish national tradition is to get a bit hammered while naked in a sauna in the winter, which is most of the time."
    Meanwhile the summer tradition is usually to get a bit hammered while tinkering with old cars

    • @deltavee2
      @deltavee2 3 года назад

      Where do I sign up?

    • @MW-bi1pi
      @MW-bi1pi 3 года назад

      I think I discovered the common denominator there.

    • @Tunkkis
      @Tunkkis 2 года назад

      And also going to sauna naked.

  • @Mr.Praetor
    @Mr.Praetor 3 года назад +249

    This episode brought to you by the sound of Tinnitus

    • @milamber319
      @milamber319 3 года назад +39

      around 9845hz. constant. Has Ian lost the ability to hear that high lol

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 3 года назад +27

      Joke's on you, I have tinnitus myself! But it's about an octave higher. So I get both.

    • @danschneider9921
      @danschneider9921 3 года назад +11

      8 years in the Army, as an Artilleryman, and 20 years in bands...yep I'm with you my squealing eared brother

    • @anttimohkoi7437
      @anttimohkoi7437 3 года назад +12

      WHAT!?

    • @Sman7290
      @Sman7290 3 года назад +10

      There was a squeal?
      That's not good.

  • @another3945
    @another3945 3 года назад +239

    The "spherical platoons" I belive is a physics joke. As often in exercises related to objects it opens with "Assume an object is a sphere and in a vaccum" as then real world niuances don't make the equations harder

    • @irondwarf66
      @irondwarf66 3 года назад +9

      That's what I assumed as well

    • @milamber319
      @milamber319 3 года назад +59

      Yeah its a reference to a physics joke. (example comes from wiki)
      Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum".

    • @IndianaJoe3
      @IndianaJoe3 3 года назад +16

      "Imagine a spherical cow, in simple harmonic motion..."

    • @Nix2081
      @Nix2081 3 года назад +22

      I heard this joke about one horse power metric definition: "One horse power is a power produced by a spherical horse 1 meter in diameter in vacuum".

    • @BjornTheDim
      @BjornTheDim 3 года назад +10

      That's almost certainly it. When I was in undergrad and completing my physics classes, mathematical questions often began with assumptions that are completely ridiculous for real-world applications, like assuming that all objects are spherical and frictionless, exist in system that is a perfect vacuum without exchange of mass or energy with the outside, and that all collisions are perfectly elastic.

  • @kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860
    @kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860 3 года назад +289

    A Brit, a Frenchman and an American walk into a Finnish bar.

    • @jubuttib
      @jubuttib 3 года назад +49

      Bartender says: "Get out. It's 2021 and we're not open."

    • @tsufordman
      @tsufordman 3 года назад +6

      (each present multiple negative test results)

    • @jubuttib
      @jubuttib 3 года назад +3

      @@tsufordman doesn't really help when they're not allowed to be open, but still. =)

    • @Theoriginalsparkythemagicpiano
      @Theoriginalsparkythemagicpiano 3 года назад +1

      2 Brits and an American. None of those dudes are French. The ‘Blokes’ have Brit accents at least, and ‘Bloke’ is a Brit term.

    • @kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860
      @kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860 3 года назад +7

      @@Theoriginalsparkythemagicpiano fabien (aka le chap) is French. He hosts many of his RUclips videos in French. Ian even makes reference to the fact that he is French. He has lived in the Uk, thus his British accent.

  • @zigzog7
    @zigzog7 3 года назад +306

    Anyone else’s first time learning Chap’s name?

    • @rizaradri316
      @rizaradri316 3 года назад +5

      Well you're not alone

    • @kudui21
      @kudui21 3 года назад +19

      does learning it's not just fab but fabian count?

    • @JenniferinIllinois
      @JenniferinIllinois 3 года назад +17

      I had no idea what his name was. I just figured it was Chap or Chappie. ;)

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 3 года назад +12

      @@JenniferinIllinois El Chapo. :D

    • @DavidCowie2022
      @DavidCowie2022 3 года назад +2

      I thought Chap's name was Joel.

  • @nindger4270
    @nindger4270 3 года назад +54

    Come on, you have the president of the International Lee-Enfield Admiration Society on for a Q&A and there's hardly any Lee-Enfield questions in there.
    Love all of y'all's content, cheers from Germany!

  • @Chilly_Billy
    @Chilly_Billy 3 года назад +9

    Three of my four favorite YT gun guys together, shooting the breeze over drinks. Great stuff.

    • @jacobfarley2332
      @jacobfarley2332 3 года назад +1

      Who is number 4,?

    • @JimYeats
      @JimYeats 3 года назад

      @@jacobfarley2332 Gotta be Karl.

    • @michaelrogers4157
      @michaelrogers4157 3 года назад

      Same here, and my favorite non-gun tuber was even mentioned, Lindybeige!

  • @rttakezo2000
    @rttakezo2000 3 года назад +26

    Lads, never forget; casual shooters with pristine weapons get different impressions compared to soldiers who have a weapon that has been in the inventory for a decade and hands of 10 previous soldiers, had thousands of rounds already fired through it, carrying it through some crappy environment day in day out for weeks on end with only field cleaning and having to fire literally hundreds of rounds through during very short periods. Both lend themselves to significantly different opinions.

    • @polychromia
      @polychromia 6 месяцев назад

      The Reising comes to mind specifically there.

  • @russwoodward8251
    @russwoodward8251 Год назад

    Hey, wow, this is great. I appreciate the flying and swabbing and all it took to make this. Thank you.

  • @ukromarine426
    @ukromarine426 3 года назад +281

    Ian should make an onlyfans with just pics of his gun collection

    • @gp556by45
      @gp556by45 3 года назад +54

      Draw me like one of your french rifles.

    • @randomnobodovsky3692
      @randomnobodovsky3692 3 года назад +21

      (Field) strip one those Great War LMGs.

    • @MosoKaiser
      @MosoKaiser 3 года назад +17

      And higher tiers would get disassembly, reload and cycling videos.

    • @georgelstuart
      @georgelstuart 3 года назад +17

      The soundtrack should be Bloke repeatedly saying "I middle fingered it" and "Knuckle deep"

    • @michelguevara151
      @michelguevara151 3 года назад +11

      @@georgelstuart what the fleck did i just stumble into?!
      I'm too young for this sauciness, i'm only fifty!

  • @keithallardice6139
    @keithallardice6139 3 года назад +1

    That was a great way to spend an hour ... thx for sharing your knowledge, expertise, opinions and views guys, much appreciated!! :-)

  • @high633
    @high633 3 года назад

    One thing i love about not just your q&a's but my job. Is i can just play the video now and listen. If its clear your showing something i can just pop my phone out and look real quick. Then go back to work. Thats one of the reasons i started watching these recently is before i had to sit down and watch the video in my down time when honestly i have other things i can spend an hour-ish doing. Which i could just play it and listen how i am now but before my enviroment was to loud for it. Either way love the video/videos keep up the great work.

  • @DeusGladiorum
    @DeusGladiorum 3 года назад +129

    something something *Ian’s Only Fan’s* something something

    • @letsburn00
      @letsburn00 3 года назад +12

      Oh god...The bloke is a bear....
      I CAN'T UNSEE IT!

    • @AToastyEngineer
      @AToastyEngineer 3 года назад +9

      Aww yeah, give me that HK slap baby

    • @aaronclair4489
      @aaronclair4489 3 года назад +21

      Ian would joke about it, but probably wouldn't do it. Karl, though...

  • @davenport2000
    @davenport2000 3 года назад +2

    The Imperial War Museum London deserves a shout-out as a destination in the UK. Customers who bought FORGOTTEN WEAPONS also bought IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM LONDON.

  • @DeadAntGaming
    @DeadAntGaming 3 года назад +32

    In regards to EU gun law changes, Czech Republic is another country that does the bare minimum when the EU tries to force BS laws. They have actually just legalised Suppressors and are putting in place more laws to protect civilian firearm ownership

    • @mikehoare6093
      @mikehoare6093 3 года назад

      How do I apply for citizenship ?

    • @DeadAntGaming
      @DeadAntGaming 3 года назад +2

      @@mikehoare6093 marrying a Czech is an easy way, with the added bonus of marrying a Czech

    • @mikehoare6093
      @mikehoare6093 3 года назад

      @@DeadAntGaming hmmm, as a serbian speaking person, that should not be too much of a problem , I guess !?

    • @DeadAntGaming
      @DeadAntGaming 3 года назад

      @@mikehoare6093 the Language would be easy to pick up if you already know another Slavic language

    • @mikehoare6093
      @mikehoare6093 3 года назад

      @@DeadAntGaming can I transfer all my arms from germany to the CZR ?

  • @WasteOPaint
    @WasteOPaint 3 года назад +13

    A chicken farmer has a problem - his chickens stopped laying eggs. He hires a theoretical physicist to help. In a week the physicist comes back and says: “I have a solution! But it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum”

  • @Arkeo36
    @Arkeo36 3 года назад +29

    The "on the Range" gang could easily be expanded to include Lad on the Range, Chav on the Range, Codger on the Range, etc.

    • @letsburn00
      @letsburn00 3 года назад +15

      They clearly need a Greek guy called Homer. Then it can be Homer on the range.
      I'll see myself out.

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 3 года назад +1

      Dude on the Range

    • @itsconnorstime
      @itsconnorstime 3 года назад +2

      Coomer on the range

    • @GunFunZS
      @GunFunZS 3 года назад +2

      Yobbo?

    • @SlavicCelery
      @SlavicCelery 3 года назад +3

      Bruh on the Range.

  • @michaelguerin56
    @michaelguerin56 3 года назад

    Thanks guys for another great video. The Mauser straight-pull rifle design was sold to Roessler who still produces it. Merkel makes the Helix straight-pull rifle, Steel Action makes an all-steel straight-pull rifle and as someone else has said, ‘what about Lynx?’.

  • @slashes22
    @slashes22 3 года назад +16

    36:04 Never thought I'd see Iain as an Orc player in 40K. MORE DAKKA, BOYZ!

    • @josephmontanaro2350
      @josephmontanaro2350 3 года назад +1

      need to see the custom gun jesus war boss mini, anyone want to take my challenge? :D

    • @TheTransgenderAgenda
      @TheTransgenderAgenda 3 года назад +1

      Orc Ian today we're taking a look at a humeze laz gun let's look at da markens

  • @haldorasgirson9463
    @haldorasgirson9463 3 года назад

    You are having way too much fun Ian. Glad to see the crossover. Thank God for the crazy Finns.

  • @pkuula
    @pkuula 3 года назад +2

    Hi. Nice to see you in Finland!

  • @willy480able
    @willy480able 3 года назад

    My favorite three gun RUclips guys!

  • @Kikker861
    @Kikker861 3 года назад +7

    The audio has a high pitched whine, but I'm bearing with it because the content is so good.

  • @dave_h_8742
    @dave_h_8742 3 года назад

    Excellent as usual would listen to you all waffling on any day.

  • @craigevans6156
    @craigevans6156 3 года назад +27

    There should be a “Best Beard” competition

    • @caturix4541
      @caturix4541 3 года назад +1

      Ian, by miles.

    • @ulysses2921
      @ulysses2921 3 года назад

      Definitely Ian, because he looks like Napoleon III

  • @Cakeyflour
    @Cakeyflour 3 года назад +54

    I've been watching Bloke on the Range for years and never knew Chap's name was Fabian. 0.0

  • @M.M.83-U
    @M.M.83-U 3 года назад +1

    Wonderfull collab, so fun to see you all on screen.
    58:46 Sorry, Black Mamba are not hollow point ammo, they are made exactly to avoid hollow point restriction.

  • @felixthecat265
    @felixthecat265 3 года назад +1

    My go-to beginner rifle is a .310 Cadet.. lovely little gun with a light recoil and good accuracy!

  • @siremilcrane
    @siremilcrane 3 года назад +5

    36:12 first gun I shot after a .22 was a Brown Bess musket, highly recommend it

    • @Bloke-98
      @Bloke-98 3 года назад +2

      I have very limited firearms experience being from the UK. Shot my old man's shotguns a few times but thats it. Saw a brown bess at a country fair I somehow found myself at once, definitely a shock to the system but it was unbelievably fun

  • @themigmadmarine
    @themigmadmarine 3 года назад +1

    The "spherical squads in a vacuum" bit comes from engineering hypothetical questions that often start with "Imagine X object simulated as an idealized sphere of uniform density in a vacuum" as this removes a lot of complexity that isn't important to the hypothetical, things like air pressure, center of mass, etc.

  • @NPS69
    @NPS69 3 года назад +11

    For anyone wondering, a Swiss Franc is equivalent to 1.07 USD

  • @spiritofthetime
    @spiritofthetime 3 года назад

    Love these guys around a table together, it's like the 3 musketeers.

  • @johnphillips222
    @johnphillips222 3 года назад

    DS Arms (DSA) did purchase the StG 58 parts, tooling, manufacturing equipment, prints, and intellectual property from Steyr in the mid-90's. I purchased many of these in the 90's.
    Some of the tooling and processes have been updated as CNC technology made more sense. DS Arms has also designed their unique versions of the FAL.

  • @tangero3462
    @tangero3462 3 года назад +1

    I discovered the cartridge OAL sensitivity with working on an irreparable sporter I'm converting to 308 as well as an absolute dog of an M1934 that was rebuilt with mostly 1917 parts. I had issues with cartridges jumping the feed lips, but when appropriate caliber magazines are used (7mm for the M1934 and 257 Roberts for the 308) feeding is a breeze. With that 308 I'm just going to need a spacer for the bottom of the magazine since the 257 box is off a Model 30, which is lacks the 1917's belly

  • @AlexHalt100
    @AlexHalt100 3 года назад +1

    "unholy, actually rimless, caliber. yes" and that smirk it came with. lovely :D

  • @brasstard7.627
    @brasstard7.627 3 года назад +13

    One of the 1917s in 7mm Mauser is the best Bolt Action, they were made for Spain and Honduras

  • @kriegguardsman9117
    @kriegguardsman9117 3 года назад +5

    The strange connection between a Forgotten weapons video and lindybeige through bloke on the range.

  • @davidbrennan660
    @davidbrennan660 3 года назад

    Quality video for Thursday lunch time.

  • @thegoldencaulk2742
    @thegoldencaulk2742 3 года назад

    33:32 I knew it would be the M1, because that's the one I like to intro new shooters to. They get intimidated by the reload, so I do it for them, but they always love it when it comes down to shooting it.

  • @ketchman8299
    @ketchman8299 3 года назад

    Great video, chat.

  • @jubylives
    @jubylives 3 года назад +34

    Wow that high pitch squeal is terrible. Freaked my dog out

    • @jubylives
      @jubylives 3 года назад +2

      Mic must have picked it up.

    • @GunFunZS
      @GunFunZS 3 года назад +1

      Were you that excited about the video?

    • @dave_h_8742
      @dave_h_8742 3 года назад +1

      I must be deaf as didn't hear any high pitched noise

    • @mattsgrungy
      @mattsgrungy 3 года назад

      Yeah, it's something that's easy to remove too but I suspect Ian wasn't able to hear it and you can't remove what you can't hear.

    • @jubylives
      @jubylives 3 года назад

      @@GunFunZS wtf you talking about?

  • @CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts
    @CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts 3 года назад

    41:17 the german Hyme hunting rifle and the Savage Impulse (both essentially the same design uses retracting ball bearings for lockup)

    • @aqui1ifer
      @aqui1ifer 3 года назад

      Sounds like roller locking with extra steps 😆

  • @Loweko1170
    @Loweko1170 3 года назад +10

    I wish to express my support for the Drunken Sauna Episode. Perhaps with strategically placed hats?

  • @warel5730
    @warel5730 3 года назад +5

    Its lovely to see guys repeating "yeah, thats your US crazy stuff" :D
    Btw: following the EU "bans" on magazines, Czech gov. took the chance and gun owners here now can get "hollow point" permit :D (carry here is just a type of license, that takes little to no extra effort)

  • @dermotrooney9584
    @dermotrooney9584 3 года назад +3

    Whoo-hoo! My 3 fave TV gunguys.

  • @NO_LOVE_LOST
    @NO_LOVE_LOST 3 года назад

    Ian: "getting slightly hammered"
    Me: instant like

  • @jimcappa6815
    @jimcappa6815 3 года назад

    The first firearm I ever shot was a Hawken .50 black powder rifle. It was awesome. Then I got to shoot a Ruger 10/22. I was about 14 at the time, and I was hooked! So, I would agree that those would be ideal for the first time shooter. The Hawken was loaded with a half load, so it was very mild to shoot.

  • @LordBillington42
    @LordBillington42 3 года назад +7

    Nice to see some high quality booze being consumed. Sold a lot of Thornbridge during my time as a bar manager in the UK.

  • @stevailo
    @stevailo 3 года назад +2

    I don’t know exactly how it works in Switzerland, but in Italy, despite the ton of paperwork we have to go through even to own guns, when it’s done it’s sort of easy to get other ones after the first one. And even more important, basically if you can own one you can import one. There’s not such a dramatic difference as there is in the US.

    • @spoeny
      @spoeny 3 года назад +1

      For me, for the first gun there was a small 5min Interview, but it varies from canton to canton. But the rest is always the same, get your criminal record, send it to them and get the acquisition permit for up to 3 guns within a week or so. Really not hard here.
      It's the same for importation, you need to know the serial number and get one form, that's it. You can also buy directly from other persons and don't have to go through an FFL like in the US. Last gun I bought (Colt Gov't Carbine, with that special permit Bloke mentioned) was from a person I never met, I sent him the money and he sent the gun per mail, no problem.

    • @stevailo
      @stevailo 3 года назад

      @@spoeny that’s so cool. In Italy the pile of paperwork for the first gun is needed as you need a license, so medical evaluation, training to operate most common guns safely, a ton of taxes and than you can buy guns, but always through an FFL. You can buy from other people but you either have to go get them yourself or have them shipped from their FFL to yours. And every gun you have needs to be registered by your local police office, along with ammo every time you buy it new, than you can replenish it whenever you want. I know, it’s frustrating, you need to be a lawyer just to remember what you need to do not to become a criminal...

    • @spoeny
      @spoeny 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, that's quite a bit easier here. You basically get 3 copies of the acquisition permit, both parties sign them, 1x for the seller, 1x for the buyer and one goes to the firearms office. So everything is registered. For ammo, you either show your criminal registry or a recent acquisiton permit, but only the first time you buy ammo from a store.
      But I mean the important thing is that we get to enjoy firearms! At least once the ranges are open again...

    • @stevailo
      @stevailo 3 года назад

      @@spoeny I couldn’t agree more, I’m more than happy to go through anything as long as I can get almost any gun that I want, and at least until now I can, let’s hope for the best for the future, both for laws and ranges...

  • @IceWolfLoki
    @IceWolfLoki 3 года назад +12

    Arguably firing on the escapees might be classed as fired in annoyance rather than anger ;)

  • @LiquidState317
    @LiquidState317 3 года назад +2

    lindeybeige shoutout love it!

  • @slywolf1972
    @slywolf1972 3 года назад

    I can definitely agree with Ian on the G3 after getting a Sphur and heavy buffer that drastically lower the felt recoil and comfort

  • @shura0107
    @shura0107 3 года назад +1

    I'm super jealous that you're in Finland. Also, you said sauna properly.

  • @konstantin.v
    @konstantin.v 3 года назад

    The intro is just perfect already 😂

  • @simonjones6128
    @simonjones6128 3 года назад

    Loved Finnish brutality guys

  • @vcostello712
    @vcostello712 3 года назад

    the "spherical squads fighting in a vaccuum" thing is a reference to problems/questions in physics textbooks i think -- often you assume an object of interest is a sphere, in a vaccuum, to simplify the math.

  • @romainlapie6362
    @romainlapie6362 3 года назад +2

    About the K31 fired in anger it might be interesting to look to the French resistance movement close to swiss border, it might be possible that they sneak out few rifle out of the country and used them against German soldier.

  • @anthonyhayes1267
    @anthonyhayes1267 3 года назад +1

    The one thing that the P14 does that no Lee-Enfield does is eat any ammo you give it no matter how bad the brass or how high the pressure

  • @betaich
    @betaich 3 года назад +2

    For hunting rifles here straight pull has made a comback already.

  • @brianbetts3444
    @brianbetts3444 3 года назад

    303 vs 7.5x55 I could hear in my head all the Q&A times Ian has explained the pros of rimmless cartridges in rifles vs rimmed cartridges.

  • @vl672
    @vl672 3 года назад +16

    man... it`s only me, who struggles with their low volume?

    • @vl672
      @vl672 3 года назад +1

      ​@@joeykickassery If you bump the volume up it turns up Ian will crush your ears))

    • @Stevarooni
      @Stevarooni 3 года назад +3

      No. No, it's not only you.

    • @MrGrimsmith
      @MrGrimsmith 3 года назад +2

      Audio enhancements in Windows, Loudness Equalization is your friend. I only turn it off for music. It's essentially compression to even out the levels and makes RUclips tolerable.

    • @derekp2674
      @derekp2674 3 года назад +2

      I had no bother with the audio, but I was listening via Google Chrome on Linux Mint on a cheap HP Stream laptop and using inexpensive headphones.

  • @MrUsingb
    @MrUsingb 3 года назад

    Blazer R8 is now a very famed straith pull sporting rifle in Hungary and around middle Europe.

  • @michelguevara151
    @michelguevara151 3 года назад +7

    nomme de pipe! une deuxieme!?!
    merci Ian, j'ai bien aimee l'autre la, sur la chaine BOTR.
    toujours bon d'ecouter des vraies connaiseurs discuter leur sujet.
    .

  • @b79holmes
    @b79holmes 3 года назад +2

    >>>>Anyone else’s first time learning Chap’s name?
    Yes. A while back I was stunned hearing him speak what seemed to me to be fluent French (!!) as I hear no French accent with his English but maybe because his English isn't American??

  • @7hart2
    @7hart2 3 года назад

    Full props for Porters - room temperature, I hope! - and the aged Gin. 🥴👍

  • @tobiasactually
    @tobiasactually 3 года назад

    The shirt Fabian is wearing is a "Tricothemd 75" better known as "Gnägi" because they were introduced under Federal Councillor Rudolf Gnägi. A piece of clothing worn by the Swiss army for colder weather.Since it is part of the personal equipment and is also available elsewhere, it is also often worn for activities outdoors in a civilian context.

  • @Peterowsky
    @Peterowsky 3 года назад

    8:34 He means to reference the Old joke that physicians can perfectly calculate how likely a chicken is to lay an egg and how efficient it is at laying eggs, so long as it's spherical chickens in a vacuum. Because it QUICKLY gets A LOT harder to calculate things either outside of a vacuum or that have... shapes other than spheres. And of course the difficulty increases with the number of chickens/variables involved (shape, distance between surfaces, air resistance, air conductivity, etc. a sphere only has ONE point closest to anything not intersecting it and it's at radius distance from the the center).
    It's a common joke for physicians, mathematicians, and engineers.

  • @509Gman
    @509Gman 3 года назад

    I just paid $0.65 per for Winchester M193, and $0.95 per for Federal M80 here in Alaska (no online purchases due to hazmat). The federal was much closer to what I remember “normal price” being.

  • @bruceinoz8002
    @bruceinoz8002 6 месяцев назад

    Regarding the No1 Mk V:
    Most of the production seems to have been banished to the Indian Army.
    Post WW2, Indian troops armed with No1 Mk V rifles were sent to oversee the repatriation of Japanese troops from Indochina.
    There must have been some "spillage", as there are a couple of photographs circulating, featuring Viet 'local' militia types, post Dien Bien Phu, with No1 Mk V.rifles.
    And, on top of that, there is an Australian connection.
    The No 1 MkV "package" was sent to Lithgow when it looked like it would be the next service rifle across the "Empire". Part of the key to production was a completely new body forging, that included the "lumps" at the rear of the body, which would be machined into the bases for the aperture sight. All of this went nowhere, between the "peace dividend and subsequent "winding down of the Lithgow plant "'new" production. Lots refurbishment and "un-starring"' No 1Mk 111* rifles back to "proper" Mk 111 configuration.
    WW2 and lots of jungle fighting and the raising of actual parachute regiments prompted the search for "appropriate" tools for the "meat-bombs" to carry. Hence the truncated SMLE, actually designated, "Rifle Parachutist" on the drawings and a couple of bayonets for it.
    Also during the war,the idea of something like the Brit No5 came into view. So, The R&D types came up with the "No. 6' carbine series. In four different patterns. Half of the meager trials run had an aperture sight, exactly like the No1 Mk V.
    So, either s bunch of Oz No Mk V rifles were "re-engineered", or, more likely, the Lithgow drop forge bashed out a hundred or so, brand new "blank" bodies ready to be bolted to the old fixtures and turned into No6 carbines.

  • @Zajuts149
    @Zajuts149 3 года назад +1

    One mention of Furrer, and I'm reminded of the MP41/44. That toggle-lock still make me irrationally angry.

  • @G_Flash84625
    @G_Flash84625 3 года назад +2

    Now we need to see Ian and BritishMuzzleLoaders together

    • @PapaSchultz74
      @PapaSchultz74 3 года назад +1

      I would more like to see Karl and BML

  • @SomaticApparition
    @SomaticApparition 3 года назад +2

    TRUST Ian to be the only one in the room drinking esoteric liquor, AND bringing up the weirdest French example of a mounted machine gun 😂

  • @TomSedgman
    @TomSedgman 3 года назад +7

    Instead of WWSD, WWFD: Can you make a toggle locked AR15.

  • @lhmmhl1
    @lhmmhl1 3 года назад

    What guns does mike mention at 22:38? Cant hear too well

  • @brian5832
    @brian5832 3 года назад +1

    It's amusing how habitually Ian retorts his passive "...okay..." when respectfully disagreeing or not actively engaged in a diatribe.

  • @philips.5563
    @philips.5563 3 года назад

    This has OSS vibes and I love it.

  • @TatoDwisusanto
    @TatoDwisusanto 3 года назад +4

    Like no. 30 from Jakarta Indonesia 🇮🇩. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

    • @rizaradri316
      @rizaradri316 3 года назад +1

      Weis ada orang Indonesia juga disini

  • @pignebula123
    @pignebula123 3 года назад +1

    Hey Ian, I love the Q&A videos and would love to see more of them or maybe something more casual. I think that it could work great in a podcast form maybe something like every other week you bring on a guest voted on by Patreon supporters or something similar. I am aware of how much time and effort that would take though and you are very busy as you have stated in the past. Just wanted to let you know that I think there may be a market for that if you've got the time and energy and that I would be enthused to see something like that popup in my notifications.

  • @RalphReagan
    @RalphReagan 3 года назад +2

    You tell him Ian! Once you get used to turning the bolt it's just as fast! Don't be knocking us south paws!

    • @Stevarooni
      @Stevarooni 3 года назад

      Saw a southpaw operating a Lee-Enfield like a champ. Magazine swaps and all.

  • @FLVCTVAT_NEC_MERGITVR
    @FLVCTVAT_NEC_MERGITVR 3 года назад

    Freudian slip at 56:16. Does Ian use Signal?

  • @alexandervatter1436
    @alexandervatter1436 3 года назад +18

    Would love to see that your three more regularly maybe plus Karl and maybe online!!!

    • @urkince26
      @urkince26 3 года назад +9

      Nah. I'm fine without karl

    • @niclbicl
      @niclbicl 3 года назад +3

      How is this comment a week old

    • @alexandervatter1436
      @alexandervatter1436 3 года назад +2

      @@niclbicl Simple I am a Patreon supporter and got early access!

    • @chrisspencer6502
      @chrisspencer6502 3 года назад +3

      Ultimate Q&A 9 hole review, Bloke, Ian and Karl.

    • @niclbicl
      @niclbicl 3 года назад +1

      @@alexandervatter1436 ahhh okay

  • @Hansengineering
    @Hansengineering 3 года назад +3

    The "spherical infantry unit" is a reference to the spherical cow. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

  • @theduchyofmilanball3157
    @theduchyofmilanball3157 3 года назад

    I recall a major feature of the Broomhandle being the included holster that could double as a stock, and which supposedly made the gun into a carbine of sorts.
    Im curious if there are any other cases of pistols with carbine conversions. Preferably commercially.

  • @xsickpeoplex
    @xsickpeoplex 3 года назад

    YES!! ALL THE LADS!!

  • @kalicom2937
    @kalicom2937 3 года назад

    Does an AR-15 count as a straight pull...? I am being a little factious but the point stands - the bolt carrier moves in a straight line and the bolt rotates with a cam. You can lock / unlock using the charging handle - which is a straight pull. I can think of other locking mechanisms that could work just fine is a straight pull configuration. Seems odd that people would worry that the concept is inherently unsafe.

  • @dapa4
    @dapa4 3 года назад

    Props to Ian on proper pronunciation of sauna

  • @LadyAnuB
    @LadyAnuB 3 года назад +4

    Forgotten Weapons: Beard Off edition

  • @kenibnanak5554
    @kenibnanak5554 3 года назад

    I am amazed you guys cinsidered the Alin Trapdoor conversions, but did not consider the Sharps conversion carbines, from percussion to .50-70. They work well too. :)

    • @thebotrchap
      @thebotrchap 3 года назад

      Anything still employing a non-self cocking side lock sucks. Something no like the Reilly Comblain for example, but that was never an military adopted rifle.

  • @stanfordwillis4841
    @stanfordwillis4841 3 года назад +1

    Yeah have huge stockpiles of american, british and german weapons here in France, huge black market for us collectors, I've seen ww1 bars and the likes, a lot of them, but I've never seen any bring back

  • @marksaxby607
    @marksaxby607 3 года назад +9

    Interesting chat, but drinking Porter out of a bottle?!?!?! :D

    • @derekp2674
      @derekp2674 3 года назад +1

      I'm glad it's not just me on that one. Any beer that has, or claims to have, a decent flavour should be savoured from an appropriate glass.
      i think the fashion for drinking beers from the bottle comes from young people in nightclubs, for whom the most important aspect is to show off their chosen cool brand of drink.

    • @LeutnantJoker
      @LeutnantJoker 3 года назад +2

      @@derekp2674 or maybe they just wanted to drink a beer in a hotel room that didn't have glasses that size so they did what any normal guy would do... But hey...

    • @derekp2674
      @derekp2674 3 года назад +1

      @@LeutnantJoker But Ian had a glass of about the right size for his drink. Perhaps this Q&A was the forgotten beer glasses edition :)

    • @derekp2674
      @derekp2674 3 года назад +1

      @@chickenfishhybrid44 Convenience can play its part too, but I find that (and I guess the OP does too) you need a glass to really appreciate the full flavour.

    • @marksaxby607
      @marksaxby607 3 года назад

      @@chickenfishhybrid44 if you don't care, you don't drink Porter

  • @ismailyavuzer5596
    @ismailyavuzer5596 3 года назад +1

    You are posting an vid everyday! Do you take some days off making videos? Your the best and underrated.

  • @jubuttib
    @jubuttib 3 года назад +1

    54:50 This sounds like the starting point of a future "What Would Furrer Do 2030" LMG... =)
    Just imagine what that magnificent bastard could have designed if he had access to 3D printing for prototyping etc. :D

  • @salloroc20
    @salloroc20 3 года назад +1

    Plz more info on the Gin!

  • @LadyAnuB
    @LadyAnuB 3 года назад +7

    Wait, where's The Chap's pear? Can't bring that into Finland as a family heirloom?

    • @thebotrchap
      @thebotrchap 3 года назад +5

      Far too fragile to risk transporting. Ian will just have to make it over here to try it 😊

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB 3 года назад

      @@thebotrchap He'll have to pack his smoking jacket. The drinks globe will be missing though.

  • @brianj.841
    @brianj.841 3 года назад

    Thoroughly enjoying binge watching! Question: Feelings about the calico pistol/smg-carbine helical feed?

  • @hendriktonisson2915
    @hendriktonisson2915 3 года назад +2

    Were any Hotchkiss M1914s ever converted to 7.5 French?

    • @hendriktonisson2915
      @hendriktonisson2915 3 года назад

      @@lostalone9320 Well I guess converting M1914s to 7.5 French would have made more sense if the French had adopted a 7.5 rifle for the military earlier. In about 1924 they adopted the first 7.5x58 cartridge which had issues with being mixed up with 7.92 Mauser cartridges. By 1929 they had new improved 7.5 cartridge but the earlier issues with 7.5 cartridge had cost the French valuable time.

  • @niclbicl
    @niclbicl 3 года назад

    Nice video

  • @katana1430
    @katana1430 3 года назад

    As far as introducing a history buff to "fun" guns, the M1 Carbine is excellent.

    • @anthonyhayes1267
      @anthonyhayes1267 3 года назад

      There's a reason such a common gun is expensive

  • @JohnCBobcat
    @JohnCBobcat 3 года назад

    I'm late to this by far, but I definitely agree with Mike about the SMLE Mk.V; I will have one in shootable condition someday. I will.
    In the meantime, I also need to find a P14 to keep my 1917 and No.4 Mk.1* company.

  • @aussiviking604
    @aussiviking604 3 года назад +2

    How did get there? Well my Australian Granddaddy and his mates , liked no5 smle, aperture sights. Appropriated a stack of them from some Egyptians.
    On the way to Ethiopia. Then took them home ,because the Japanese started causing trouble. Then they wanted some sbrs ,because they are much more handy in the jungle. Then in 1945 they had to help out in Indochina. Left them behind because the game was over. That being said there are few of the non shortened no5 smle's from that stack still floating around in the land of Oz. I Hope that helps. Also before the 1997 gun back ,there were quite a few original mk5c " tanker" Garands . We really like shorty scrub guns in Oz.