Fun fact: In the 60's, the UK was getting rid of its old ammunition to adhere to NATO standards. Someone decided to fire a few *million* rounds of ammunition through a slightly modernized version of the Maxim they had lying around. *It fired for several days in a row*.
Fun fact, during the Russian Civil War in the 1920s, the "Black Army" of Ukranian Anarchists would mount maxims to horse-pulled carts, known as "Tachankas"
"Is that an old fashioned gun?" Well no, it's only a 140 year old design, so it's practically brand new in the scheme of things. Ones with wheels at the front I've seen in pictures were Russian. It allows the gun to be horse drawn, or pulled on a sled. Other armies' Maxim guns had big tripods without wheels, and they had to break the gun down into parts for several guys to carry from place to place.
Not all of them. The MG 08/15 was a Maxim derivative and was light enough the one soldier could pick it up and carry it. I mean, sure, it still weighed 40 pounds, so it wasn't exactly _easy_ for one guy to carry, but one guy could carry it (and in fact, it was _intended_ for one guy to carry it so it could be rapidly moved forward to a captured trench and used to defend it until heavy machine guns could be moved up to defend it). The 08/15 was nevertheless a pretty terrible idea.
Original Maxim belts were 50 rnds and made of cloth, which was causing sagging in wet conditions and the gun would stop firing. To this day Russian belt feds are linkable together, but otherwise one piece and can be reloaded. US belt feds use disintegrating links, which can also be reloaded....but someone needs to put the belt back together.
fun fact the ammunition belts for the Maxim came in lengths of 9 yards broken down in 3 yard batches so during combat if you fired all 3 of your allotted batches of ammunition it was called "giving them the whole 9 yards" hence the phrase 😄
Kira was closer than a few insurgents, when it comes to understanding how the iron sights work. She didn’t think it made the gun shoot harder. Arsenic water was used by the way and it CAN be potable (drinkable) but it doesn’t warp the barrel of a gun like regular would (water, not would) could
if I remember correctly rumors were the British would use the heated water from the cooling jacket to make tea wether or not that's actually true has yet to be confirmed
I mean, the best thing and one thing that Keeps Maxim alive is the fact: that it can fire non-stop for a LONG time. Like hours without a sweat. If you are defending something and want to make sure that no one will cross a certain line or deny some area. Well, they are situational, but if the situation comes, enemies do too but in boxes.
i remember hearing a quote from a German vet of WWI about how the enemies came so thick they didn't even need to aim, back when certain armies hadn't quite adjusted to the idea of how machine guns work
There were many of what were essentially machineguns hundreds of years before even the Maxim called volley guns they just don't fit the modern definition of machinegun. One of my favorites George Washington helped get adopted by the US Navy called the Chambers Flintlock Machinegun. It fired 120 rounds a minute for a total of 224 shots the only catch is once you start firing it you cant stop you must let it run out of ammunition. Forgotten Weapons made a video on it.
I would love to see your guy's reactions to Brandon's "Weird guns being used in Ukraine right now" videos. Especially Kit and Kira, they are my favorites for firearm related videos.
Another aside i picked up from C&Rsenal, a channel dedicated to the design and people behind old firearms. The Italian military put it in the OCEAN (salt water fucks steal) for 3 days, pulled it out and fired it, no cleaning, no maintenance, and it worked flawlessly.
If Kit felt alive playing paintball he should try airsoft, it's just more realistic and hurts less. Mil-Sim is a bit much and feels less like it's a game but just regular airsoft is really fun.
Mosins are a ton of fun and will consistently ding steel at 300+. Still one of the best rifles you can find for less than $200 IMO. Those belts are reusable. Most modern machine guns use metal links that break apart. They are technically reusable but are generally not reused as they are a massive pain to put back together.
Guess You haven't priced them lately. Mebbe 5yrs ago ...mebbe, they were. The amounts are drying up. Also, the ban on Russian made ammo is in effect. Making the price of using them go up. What already has been contracted is still coming in but after the contracts expire other countries hafta will take over.
The water jacket takes any water, but if you are in the cold weather, you can use snow and it takes longer to heat up naturally. The English had documented cases of using a few belts of ammo, they took the boiling hot water and used it to make tea.
She got a point about the green making it look old-fashioned. For the past twenty years or so, we've been used to "desert" being the "default" camouflage in so much of what we see.
Sir Hiram Maxim, an American, designed the first modern machinegun and helped develop smokeless powder which is what guns have fired since 1900. His son, also named Hiram Maxim, watched his dad slowly lose his hearing and invented the first gun silencer. Hiram Maxim's nephew, also named Hiram Maxim, worked with Carl Benz, who invented the modern car and worked with Benz on his engines. He saw his cousin's gun silencer and figured he could mount a silencer on the tail pipe of a car engine to reduce the noise and it made the engine work better. Early silencers, also known as suppressor, because they aren't 100% silent, are also known as mufflers. There were rapid fire guns before the time of the Revolutionary War in the late 1600's. One was the Puckle gun which worked a lot like a Gatling gun (or vice versa). They also had guns called "harmonica" guns that had multiple barrels in a row, looking sort of like a big harmonica. When you pulled the cord, it fired all the barrels at once. The Ukrainians are still using 100+ year old Maxim's mounted to the back of vehicles and actual "modern" military vehicles.
There have been guns that fit the modern definition of fully automatic since the 1700s, some of them like the Volley Gun and Puckle gun (that had the option to shoot Square bullets because) even appear in congressional permits issued to private merchan ships.
someone else might have said it already, but many older machineguns had cloth ammo belts as apposed to the more modern "link" belts. the cloth belts were reusable and reloadable to an extent as long as they didn't get too damaged, were as the modern "link" belts are made of small metal clips wich hook onto the ammo casing and are ejected from the gun as its fired.
They are "disintegrating link" ammo belts, used from WW2 til today , as opposed to the "cloth belt ammo" that was originally used in the Maxim and all it's variations ( Vickers, Tupalov Spandau,...)
It's not a old fashion style bell, well it is, it's a modern Russian style, (so used forever and they haven't had reason to change it.) The US and by extension most of NATO uses disintegrating links. And you can theoretically rejoin a disintegrating link back together it's just a bigger pain than it's worth.
Hiram, made the machine gun, His brother was Hudson, the first American, to import smokeless gun powder to America, Both "game-changers" were from Sangerville, Maine. Right up the way from me!!!
In the military, they have the luxury of throwing things away. Most modern machineguns use disentegrating links that they leave behind. But you mentioned policing brass in another video, I'm sure you swept up the links after practice, too. Those links usually get collected and sent back to the ammo factory that has the contract with the US military. They clean them, just like they clean the brass, refinish them if they need to (to get rid of rust and make them look nice and new) and reload them with ammo and put them in a can and send them out to be used again. Normal people buy links, they're 10 or 20 cents each. So a belt of a hundred rounds worth of links can cost a couple of dollars. There are companies that sell linking machines so people who own machine guns can buy loose surplus ammo, lay them out in their linking machine and pull a lever and it pops the ammo into the links. Some machine gun ammo belts are not disentegrating, usually it's a simpler design. The links are permanently attached to each other with wire. Older machine gun belts were actually made of canvas stitched together and the ammo was stuck into pockets in the belt and there was a leather strip that kept them lined up properly.
Maxim actually designed his early models to use cartridges loaded with blackpowder because he hadn't invented smokeless powder yet. Most designs for machineguns or semi-automatic guns or even some manual guns will fail from the fouling from firing blackpowder. Not many automatic or semi-automatic guns can work with blackpowder at all, it can't generate enough gas pressure. But with recoil operated guns, like the Maxim, and a few others from that time period can shoot blackpowder, for a while, before the fouling jams it and it needs cleaning to work right.
25:36 so not to get in too much detail, yes western machinegun belts disintegrate after firing this is done so that the empty belt (that adds weight to the other side) won't dangle from the machinegun. the imperial russian and then the soviets army when they adopted the maxim had belts made of a sort of white rubber band cloth (you can see them worn on the chest of mostly navy marines in WW2), but in mud and rain they caused problems so the soviets adopted a metal belt that will be the same for all machineguns firing 7.62x54r. and the russians kept the same design to this day, thats why you can take a belt from ww2 put it a modern day pkm and it will work and vice vesa (look up videos of pk/pkms firing and youll see the dangling empty belt)
To be technical the 240, M2, 249 are all reloadable. It's just in the military you don't have to. However as a civilian you do - I can vouch for the torn up fingers after a range day loading belts for a 1919.
All types of machine gun belts are reloadable including the ones you fired they're just called the decentigrading belts because they come apart when you fire, When you reload them you put a link in put around in the grab another link put around in as you put that link in
My Grandpa was on a water-cooled Machine Gun team in the US army in the 50s. He told stories about how they would fire the gun for a few minutes to make hot water for their coffee.
25:44 The original MG belts were stitched cloth, Brandon has a new (really new) polymer non-disintegrating belt. Later MG designs (talking '10s-20s here) started using disintegrating links, where the cartridge is actually holding two metal clips together, one on the previous cartridge and one on the next cartridge, so when the weapon pulls that cartridge free (or pushes it through, same same) the half-free clip on one side is now loose and just gets tossed out of the feeder. Hopefully. Anyways, yeah... on the Maxim non-DI belts you collected them and took them back to wherever you were doing loading and poked fresh cartridges in them, and sent them back out to the front line. And obviously you inspected them for any damage and sent those to the rear for repair or replacements. Big reason it's called a belt.... it was a long cloth belt, literally resembling what held pants up.
Well with the belt that goes in the maxim you reload it, it's one whole belt so there's no disposable links or anything, it just goes through the gun cuz the round gets removed from the belt entirely, chambered and fired, so when the casing gets discarded its not in the belt and there's no need for the process of disconnecting links, removing the casing and moving the belt. It's just slide the belt, line up the next round and do it again
Here' a link to C&Rsenal's video on the original Vintovka Mosina Model of 1891. ruclips.net/video/nqmkRZOIlfY/видео.html The rifle that Brandon was holding was a Model of 1891/1930 (Or, just M91/30 as most people will call it) This was a remodel from 1930 which fixed a lot of issues.
Fun little fact about the Russian design. The cap on the water jacket was intentionally made as large as it was so russian soldiers could load snow into it in place of water
TBH the americans were using musket during the civil war.. in europe, at the same time, countries started to experiment with breechloading bolt action (well since the 1820' at least) but will be widespread in the later half of the century.. In fact some officers in the US had modern bolt or level action rifle, but they were pretty rare..
And but 11 years later, Browning would have the first lightweight gas-operated machine gun, the M1895 "potato digger". They called it such because the gas from firing popped a little lever down at the front of the gun and a long string would blow dirt around, like it was digging for potatoes.
A "technical" is a civilian vehicle outfitted with a military weapon. The term comes from the US and other NATO countries giving Technical Grants to poor countries so they can buy military vehicles. They usually buy a civilian truck and stuck some kind of weapon on their bed, like Toyotas.
24:40 You don't need to be a gun nut 🤣. My mother is a gun nut, while my father is an pretty knowledgeable ornithogist. I love guns too but I would much rather bird watch with my dad than go to a range with my mom. She takes it to an entirely different level. She loves to draw comparisons with and reference aerodynamics and mechanics while shooting but she really just loves things that go boom.
Check out the Berserk Saga by TheAlmightyLoli, it’s definitely one you’ll have to break into parts, it’s almost 22 hours long but god damn it’s a great video
I think it might depend on the type of belt used, Kit might recall but the M240 has a belt that more or less breaks apart after it shoots each round so you have bits and pieces of the belt along with the spent Brass, belts that stay together like the belt shown for the Maxim, those might be reusable as even Italy during WW2 had a MG design that was intended to reuse the trays that fed the bullets into the gun to help with recycling but these trays were likely also reused in battle wither or not it made a difference for Italy given its industry situation during that time is likely debated. ruclips.net/video/Ncx12zlq3cs/видео.html
Comments section, I'm going to have to plead ignorance but speaking of beltfed, someone must have designed a "beltfed howitzer" yes? Define how you wish.
Well, the Maxim 37mm (an upscaled version of the regular maxim) fires 37mm rounds that you could technically use as a "makeshift" howitzer. Is belt fed like the regular maxim as well.
@@devinwhite5064 I have found it helpful to scan the comments for suggestions, tech issues, or to hear more about what people like and don’t like. I’m watching you… ;)
I’m not a fan of homework.
I am a fan however of Texas barbecue, which you guys are still welcome to try 🔥
That’s does sound good right about now
Hey, i sent you a message on Instagram a few weeks ago about Kira and Kit potentially coming to Texas. Let me know.
Hey, you even have the right facial hair to eat it now. Or should I say the lack thereof.
Yo I'd love to see a video of you and these two cool cats firing off some bitchin' firearms! :D
Please do a video with them!!!!!
Fun fact: In the 60's, the UK was getting rid of its old ammunition to adhere to NATO standards. Someone decided to fire a few *million* rounds of ammunition through a slightly modernized version of the Maxim they had lying around.
*It fired for several days in a row*.
And, with only the most basic maintenance, it was still combat worthy afterwards.
and only stopped because they RAN OUT OF AMMO
@@connorirons4542 Man, they really don't build them like they used to, huh?
@@cryw1092 yes
@@cryw1092 ah the miracle of water cooled barrels
Fun fact, during the Russian Civil War in the 1920s, the "Black Army" of Ukranian Anarchists would mount maxims to horse-pulled carts, known as "Tachankas"
LMG MOUNTED AND LOADED!!!
thes should have used a dp28 (ik it hasnt been made back then)
Is it bad that this is giving me an idea?
"Is that an old fashioned gun?" Well no, it's only a 140 year old design, so it's practically brand new in the scheme of things.
Ones with wheels at the front I've seen in pictures were Russian. It allows the gun to be horse drawn, or pulled on a sled. Other armies' Maxim guns had big tripods without wheels, and they had to break the gun down into parts for several guys to carry from place to place.
Not all of them. The MG 08/15 was a Maxim derivative and was light enough the one soldier could pick it up and carry it. I mean, sure, it still weighed 40 pounds, so it wasn't exactly _easy_ for one guy to carry, but one guy could carry it (and in fact, it was _intended_ for one guy to carry it so it could be rapidly moved forward to a captured trench and used to defend it until heavy machine guns could be moved up to defend it).
The 08/15 was nevertheless a pretty terrible idea.
Original Maxim belts were 50 rnds and made of cloth, which was causing sagging in wet conditions and the gun would stop firing. To this day Russian belt feds are linkable together, but otherwise one piece and can be reloaded. US belt feds use disintegrating links, which can also be reloaded....but someone needs to put the belt back together.
fun fact the ammunition belts for the Maxim came in lengths of 9 yards broken down in 3 yard batches so during combat if you fired all 3 of your allotted batches of ammunition it was called "giving them the whole 9 yards" hence the phrase 😄
Ahhh! Nice. I never knew that.
Kira was closer than a few insurgents, when it comes to understanding how the iron sights work. She didn’t think it made the gun shoot harder.
Arsenic water was used by the way and it CAN be potable (drinkable) but it doesn’t warp the barrel of a gun like regular would (water, not would) could
wait isn’t arsenic poisonous to people
@@tlshortyshorty5810 can be but low doses aren’t...so long as it’s not regular exposure
@@tlshortyshorty5810 using arsenic water is better for the the gun but potable water can be used in a pinch
if I remember correctly rumors were the British would use the heated water from the cooling jacket to make tea wether or not that's actually true has yet to be confirmed
@@dylanflynn1895 naturally, but prolonged use WILL cause the barrel to crack
I mean, the best thing and one thing that Keeps Maxim alive is the fact: that it can fire non-stop for a LONG time. Like hours without a sweat. If you are defending something and want to make sure that no one will cross a certain line or deny some area. Well, they are situational, but if the situation comes, enemies do too but in boxes.
i remember hearing a quote from a German vet of WWI about how the enemies came so thick they didn't even need to aim, back when certain armies hadn't quite adjusted to the idea of how machine guns work
There were many of what were essentially machineguns hundreds of years before even the Maxim called volley guns they just don't fit the modern definition of machinegun.
One of my favorites George Washington helped get adopted by the US Navy called the Chambers Flintlock Machinegun. It fired 120 rounds a minute for a total of 224 shots the only catch is once you start firing it you cant stop you must let it run out of ammunition.
Forgotten Weapons made a video on it.
Ah, the Chambers. Full send, ride the lightning.
I would love to see your guy's reactions to Brandon's "Weird guns being used in Ukraine right now" videos. Especially Kit and Kira, they are my favorites for firearm related videos.
Saw that this video was dropped by him fairly recently. Definitely could look into it:)
Another aside i picked up from C&Rsenal, a channel dedicated to the design and people behind old firearms. The Italian military put it in the OCEAN (salt water fucks steal) for 3 days, pulled it out and fired it, no cleaning, no maintenance, and it worked flawlessly.
I own a mosin nagant from 1942 and it is still very reliable
Maxim model shooting maxim machine gun. This will cause a visually appealing jiggling in the model. Who wouldn't be a fan.
95% chance they watched the video, laughed at his joke about “Your tribe has natural resources…..” and they made this video.
Brandon Herrera puts out takes at the end of all his videos, they are at the very end.
Oh! Have we been missing those? Thanks for letting us know in case we have.
Wait till the actual end of the video.
There is a clip after the outro song
If Kit felt alive playing paintball he should try airsoft, it's just more realistic and hurts less. Mil-Sim is a bit much and feels less like it's a game but just regular airsoft is really fun.
ohhh imagine them reacting to milsim west videos
Mosins are a ton of fun and will consistently ding steel at 300+. Still one of the best rifles you can find for less than $200 IMO. Those belts are reusable. Most modern machine guns use metal links that break apart. They are technically reusable but are generally not reused as they are a massive pain to put back together.
I wish they were still that Cheap.
And retrieve, I’m guessing.
Guess You haven't priced them lately. Mebbe 5yrs ago ...mebbe, they were. The amounts are drying up.
Also, the ban on Russian made ammo is in effect. Making the price of using them go up.
What already has been contracted is still coming in but after the contracts expire other countries hafta will take over.
@@paulzaborny6741 Fair enough. They are still floating around our area for 250ish but I do miss them at 180 on sale from local shops.
The water jacket takes any water, but if you are in the cold weather, you can use snow and it takes longer to heat up naturally.
The English had documented cases of using a few belts of ammo, they took the boiling hot water and used it to make tea.
She got a point about the green making it look old-fashioned. For the past twenty years or so, we've been used to "desert" being the "default" camouflage in so much of what we see.
Sir Hiram Maxim, an American, designed the first modern machinegun and helped develop smokeless powder which is what guns have fired since 1900. His son, also named Hiram Maxim, watched his dad slowly lose his hearing and invented the first gun silencer. Hiram Maxim's nephew, also named Hiram Maxim, worked with Carl Benz, who invented the modern car and worked with Benz on his engines. He saw his cousin's gun silencer and figured he could mount a silencer on the tail pipe of a car engine to reduce the noise and it made the engine work better. Early silencers, also known as suppressor, because they aren't 100% silent, are also known as mufflers.
There were rapid fire guns before the time of the Revolutionary War in the late 1600's. One was the Puckle gun which worked a lot like a Gatling gun (or vice versa). They also had guns called "harmonica" guns that had multiple barrels in a row, looking sort of like a big harmonica. When you pulled the cord, it fired all the barrels at once.
The Ukrainians are still using 100+ year old Maxim's mounted to the back of vehicles and actual "modern" military vehicles.
There have been guns that fit the modern definition of fully automatic since the 1700s, some of them like the Volley Gun and Puckle gun (that had the option to shoot Square bullets because) even appear in congressional permits issued to private merchan ships.
someone else might have said it already, but many older machineguns had cloth ammo belts as apposed to the more modern "link" belts.
the cloth belts were reusable and reloadable to an extent as long as they didn't get too damaged, were as the modern "link" belts are made of small metal clips wich hook onto the ammo casing and are ejected from the gun as its fired.
They are "disintegrating link" ammo belts, used from WW2 til today , as opposed to the "cloth belt ammo" that was originally used in the Maxim and all it's variations ( Vickers, Tupalov Spandau,...)
It's not a old fashion style bell, well it is, it's a modern Russian style, (so used forever and they haven't had reason to change it.) The US and by extension most of NATO uses disintegrating links. And you can theoretically rejoin a disintegrating link back together it's just a bigger pain than it's worth.
8:00
Kit should take Kira with him for some competitive paintball and film a vlog.
I wanna hear Kira talk shit to the other teams lmao
My shit talking is among the finest!
@@ComfyFitness1 good, I expect to hear the other team crying after the match when you get done with them.
Hiram, made the machine gun, His brother was Hudson, the first American, to import smokeless gun powder to America, Both "game-changers" were from Sangerville, Maine. Right up the way from me!!!
Kit's obviously ready for the Boogaloo!
Just needs the denim chest rig.
@@cliffsimmons9692 Good point!
Gotta love Brandon doing historically fascinating videos like this one.
He's genuinely born to make content like this one. His love of guns and history is just perfect.
In the military, they have the luxury of throwing things away. Most modern machineguns use disentegrating links that they leave behind. But you mentioned policing brass in another video, I'm sure you swept up the links after practice, too. Those links usually get collected and sent back to the ammo factory that has the contract with the US military. They clean them, just like they clean the brass, refinish them if they need to (to get rid of rust and make them look nice and new) and reload them with ammo and put them in a can and send them out to be used again. Normal people buy links, they're 10 or 20 cents each. So a belt of a hundred rounds worth of links can cost a couple of dollars. There are companies that sell linking machines so people who own machine guns can buy loose surplus ammo, lay them out in their linking machine and pull a lever and it pops the ammo into the links. Some machine gun ammo belts are not disentegrating, usually it's a simpler design. The links are permanently attached to each other with wire. Older machine gun belts were actually made of canvas stitched together and the ammo was stuck into pockets in the belt and there was a leather strip that kept them lined up properly.
Maxim actually designed his early models to use cartridges loaded with blackpowder because he hadn't invented smokeless powder yet. Most designs for machineguns or semi-automatic guns or even some manual guns will fail from the fouling from firing blackpowder. Not many automatic or semi-automatic guns can work with blackpowder at all, it can't generate enough gas pressure. But with recoil operated guns, like the Maxim, and a few others from that time period can shoot blackpowder, for a while, before the fouling jams it and it needs cleaning to work right.
25:36 so not to get in too much detail, yes western machinegun belts disintegrate after firing this is done so that the empty belt (that adds weight to the other side) won't dangle from the machinegun.
the imperial russian and then the soviets army when they adopted the maxim had belts made of a sort of white rubber band cloth (you can see them worn on the chest of mostly navy marines in WW2), but in mud and rain they caused problems so the soviets adopted a metal belt that will be the same for all machineguns firing 7.62x54r. and the russians kept the same design to this day, thats why you can take a belt from ww2 put it a modern day pkm and it will work and vice vesa (look up videos of pk/pkms firing and youll see the dangling empty belt)
To be technical the 240, M2, 249 are all reloadable. It's just in the military you don't have to. However as a civilian you do - I can vouch for the torn up fingers after a range day loading belts for a 1919.
If you want some firearm history fun it might be a good idea to give Forgotten Weapons a shot
You’re the second person to request. I’m putting it on our list.
When the US government supplies your ammo belt, it's disposable. When you have to buy your own ammo belt, you reuse it. 😅
Ha!
All types of machine gun belts are reloadable including the ones you fired they're just called the decentigrading belts because they come apart when you fire, When you reload them you put a link in put around in the grab another link put around in as you put that link in
My Grandpa was on a water-cooled Machine Gun team in the US army in the 50s. He told stories about how they would fire the gun for a few minutes to make hot water for their coffee.
You guys should react to absolute mad lads by count dankula
25:44 The original MG belts were stitched cloth, Brandon has a new (really new) polymer non-disintegrating belt. Later MG designs (talking '10s-20s here) started using disintegrating links, where the cartridge is actually holding two metal clips together, one on the previous cartridge and one on the next cartridge, so when the weapon pulls that cartridge free (or pushes it through, same same) the half-free clip on one side is now loose and just gets tossed out of the feeder. Hopefully.
Anyways, yeah... on the Maxim non-DI belts you collected them and took them back to wherever you were doing loading and poked fresh cartridges in them, and sent them back out to the front line. And obviously you inspected them for any damage and sent those to the rear for repair or replacements. Big reason it's called a belt.... it was a long cloth belt, literally resembling what held pants up.
Incorrect on the new polymer bit, these are original steel Maxim belts
@@BrandonHerrera Sorry, had to squint harder. From a distance looks just like the plastic belts a UA company announced this year.
We should get more Rubix raptor reactions, especially the halo arma3 op ones
11:00 actually, yes. The british used the boiling water from the jacket to make tea.
Well with the belt that goes in the maxim you reload it, it's one whole belt so there's no disposable links or anything, it just goes through the gun cuz the round gets removed from the belt entirely, chambered and fired, so when the casing gets discarded its not in the belt and there's no need for the process of disconnecting links, removing the casing and moving the belt. It's just slide the belt, line up the next round and do it again
I swear this channel and crew are the only good things to come out of Chicago.
Here' a link to C&Rsenal's video on the original Vintovka Mosina Model of 1891.
ruclips.net/video/nqmkRZOIlfY/видео.html
The rifle that Brandon was holding was a Model of 1891/1930 (Or, just M91/30 as most people will call it) This was a remodel from 1930 which fixed a lot of issues.
Fun little fact about the Russian design. The cap on the water jacket was intentionally made as large as it was so russian soldiers could load snow into it in place of water
There are reusable belts and plastic throw-away belts. Sometimes, in the heat of battle,they will throw out the reloadsble belts.
Kit and Kira: *Amazed by the ejection method of the Maxim*
Wait until they see the 40mm Bofors
Or the Oto Melara 76/62
TBH the americans were using musket during the civil war.. in europe,
at the same time, countries started to experiment with breechloading bolt action (well since the 1820' at least) but will be widespread in the later half of the century..
In fact some officers in the US had modern bolt or level action rifle, but they were pretty rare..
And but 11 years later, Browning would have the first lightweight gas-operated machine gun, the M1895 "potato digger". They called it such because the gas from firing popped a little lever down at the front of the gun and a long string would blow dirt around, like it was digging for potatoes.
To put it into perspective, the Maxim gun is old enough that it was first chambered in black powder cartridges.
Brandon does a video about the Mosin
22:28 you can tell that round has been fired because the primer is dented
"Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun and they have not"
A "technical" is a civilian vehicle outfitted with a military weapon. The term comes from the US and other NATO countries giving Technical Grants to poor countries so they can buy military vehicles. They usually buy a civilian truck and stuck some kind of weapon on their bed, like Toyotas.
I have the feeling kit would really like airsoft, basically paintball but with to scale model guns to put it simply
24:40 You don't need to be a gun nut 🤣. My mother is a gun nut, while my father is an pretty knowledgeable ornithogist. I love guns too but I would much rather bird watch with my dad than go to a range with my mom. She takes it to an entirely different level. She loves to draw comparisons with and reference aerodynamics and mechanics while shooting but she really just loves things that go boom.
yeah kit boy has the right idea, that recoil would make the model jiggle in all the right areas :v
Belts are reusable. You can snap them back together and load more ammo into them
I think Hirim Maxim also invented the curling iron
More cursed gun images PLEASE
Fun fact about this gun. It is closer to the American Revolution than the Ukrainian War, and yet it is used in the Ukraine War
Check out the Berserk Saga by TheAlmightyLoli, it’s definitely one you’ll have to break into parts, it’s almost 22 hours long but god damn it’s a great video
It would be cool to see them reaction to oxide he does a lot of body armor and helmet tests
10:55 In 1WW brittish soldiers were using this machinegun to make a tea. NOT A JOKE btw
You can't blame the man for the sandals, it's hot as shit in Texas.
4:17 Did you say Finnish? Perkele!
I own 2 mosins one oberez and one full length with pu-3x scope.
Flip flops are proper range attire
Next you will want a Maxim cover girl in a Ghillie Bikini firing a barret 50.
I think it might depend on the type of belt used, Kit might recall but the M240 has a belt that more or less breaks apart after it shoots each round so you have bits and pieces of the belt along with the spent Brass, belts that stay together like the belt shown for the Maxim, those might be reusable as even Italy during WW2 had a MG design that was intended to reuse the trays that fed the bullets into the gun to help with recycling but these trays were likely also reused in battle wither or not it made a difference for Italy given its industry situation during that time is likely debated.
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Comments section, I'm going to have to plead ignorance but speaking of beltfed, someone must have designed a "beltfed howitzer" yes?
Define how you wish.
Well, the Maxim 37mm (an upscaled version of the regular maxim) fires 37mm rounds that you could technically use as a "makeshift" howitzer. Is belt fed like the regular maxim as well.
Why do I have a feeling that you two are married?
Haha! Nope. Not married. Very close friends.
sometimes you gotta run before you walk
Booooog shirt
Kit has no idea the world of weaponized internet autism he stepped into by wearing a Big Luau shirt and watching Brandon Herrera
I would like to recommend you guys react to Weird Guns in Use in Ukraine series that Brandon has done recently, currently 3 videos.
The Magnum!
Hells yeah
Chicago was wonderful at one point, not here recently
Hello fellow Illinoisans
Actually Kira you arent wrong, they did start calling them STI's now. Sexually Transmitted Infections
It can be hard to keep up. Thanks!
@@ComfyFitness1 holy crap, hi. Didnt expect you to respond to little old me. You are most welcome.
@@devinwhite5064 I have found it helpful to scan the comments for suggestions, tech issues, or to hear more about what people like and don’t like.
I’m watching you… ;)
nice
Hiram was a "Maineak"!!!
But MG42 be like and still best today even though the German army made MG3 the modern version of the mg42
When more If big E had text to speech device
New ones coming soon. We just reacted to three more!
Ukraine use have 50k+ of these Maxims, and the use them.
the mics hate you guys
Homework sucks !!! Shut your Big Chicago mouths, open your ears, and you will learn.
I’m with you.
If you think paintball is fun try airsoft kit