@LabRat Knatz You can search the gun via imfdb www.imfdb.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Arms_Linda_Pistol#Wikinson_Arms_Linda_Pistol It was also in The Annihilators, Magnum PI, A-Team, and Jeremiah.
“Wilkinson's is famous for naming all of their guns after the founder's daughters or wives…” Wilkinson in the office:"This concept looks good enough for a trial run, but we're out of names. Hum… guess I'll hit the pub tonight."
I've just watched and episode of The A-Team called Deadly Maneuvers Series 2 Episode 21, and Hannibal is using a Linda, with a holster, and it is pretty chunky haha
Good God, I'm 50, I was a child and I remember this was on the cover of Survival magazine at our market "The Linda" in big letters on the cover. Getting into firearms as I got older I always wondered whatever happened to this thing. Thanks Gun Jesus.
@@JuanPablo-pg3vx The craziest thing is this gun is common enough that its still being made and still has a company providing parts etc yet ive never heard of it
I’ve “seen” it in mags and heard of it plenty of times... but never actually ever seen or touched one in the wild... like at a range, LGS, or safe. It’s always, “a friend of a friend’s friend” or something had one of them “Linda subguns.” 🤷🏽♂️ Once I actually spent an evening researching the feasibility of buying one for a 9x19 PCC. Seemed like an interesting thing to do... but I chickened out. 😆
It's been a very long time since I shot mine, very heavy bolt pull/spring, if I remember correctly it needed some pretty hot 9mm to cycle, don't remember the trigger
I remember seeing these and tec-9 clones filling up a entire display case at my fathers favorite gun store when I was a child in the early 90’s. Thank you for-reminding me of these memories Ian.
I looked-up Wilkinson Arms, and found they're still in business (I recently moved to the Boise area, so was interested in their Idaho history), and you can not only still get a Linda "carbine", but you can buy that classic Linda poster for $9!
@UCg6jF3dqArajM3HMy-o6lEQ or a Weaver Qwik Point. That would definitely fit with the look of this thing. Edit: damn I can’t believe I predicted what he would use for the range video
That laser module is big enough you could very likely fit a modern (tiny) laser inside its housing and keep it attached for looks and functionality, if you're into that. Personally I love the massive early lasers, bulky and heavy as they are.
His "Lindas"? Putting a pistol on a pintle, sure ok, but I think even in the 80s sticking your daughter on the other one would get Child Services called o.o
@@kentuckyboy541 Idaho has some beautiful spots for sure but Parma is not really one of them... potato and sugar beet fields..good duck and goose hunting though.
@@williamkeith8944 actually it was Wilkinsons brush with greatness. My dad made and survived all four combat jump made by the 82nd Airborne in WW2. Purple Heart .. plus a bunch of other medals.. got out at the end of the war and joined the Marines. After that he was one of the pioneer smoke jumper for the forest service.. after that he packed into the Sawtooth mts. with horse and mules and dynamite building trails for the forest service... definitely Mr Wilkinsons brush with greatness.
someone in the comments said there's an episode of the A Team where a character named Hannibal has a Linda on him; i thought it was worth mentioning, since you said "A" :P
This is my all time favorite gun. I'm a kid of the 80s, graduated in 86. I don't know how I knew about this gun, maybe it was advertised in SOF magazine, but it stuck with me my whole life. I actually went looking for one a few years ago but I had to give due to medical reasons. The other firearms from the 80s I was infatuated with was the AutoMags (all AutoMags) and Detonics Combat Master, from the books The Survivalist. Other kids had posters of girls, I had posters of firearms...and The Road Warrior.
That old laser sight has so much space in it you could easily retrofit a modern laser inside it and keep the correct looks. It would be really cool to have that functional.
RE the laser: if the He-Ne is all gone and replenishing it is too expensive, you could carefully remove the internals and drop in a cheap modern diode in a printed polymer adapter, should be a quick project but I don't know how that thing disassembles.
Should He-Ne be difficult to acquire, you would normally use a substitute. Unfortunately with the passing of Michael Jackson, there's no more supply of He-he.
A nostalgic trip done memory lane. I really wanted one of these back when, especially after reading the reviews in one or more of the 'Survival' type magazines that were (AHEM) required reading for those living in Alaska in the late '70's to the early '90's.
Today on forgotten weapons, Ian reviews the best PCC that didn't make it into mass production. This is an awesome design. This is perfect for a tanker or airman service gun.
My expectations were low when starting the video, but that recoil spring around the telescoping bolt alone made it all worth it. Just beautifully executed.
That thing's beautiful! I love it so much. I love that early-80's aesthetic, since it's basically the 70's aesthetic still. And it seems rather ingenious on the operation! I'll have to look into getting one of those someday, perhaps.
Ah the 1980s, couldn't have asked for a better era to be a teenager. My friends and I were all into guns, cars, music and the Great American way! We all had either a surplus weapon or tacti-cool gun, an old car and a 22 rifle for cheap shooting. I had an M1 Garand and a Ruger 10-22. My car was a 1970 442 with a W30 455. My friends had 1: M1 carbine 2: SMLE 3: Mini 14 4: 03A3 and 5: Ithaca 12 gauge pump. All the kids had a Ruger 1022 except one guy had a Charter AR7. My buddies had 1960s Hot Rods 1968 Fairlane, 1969 Road Runner, 1970 Chevelle, 1971 El Camino and one kid had a 1964 Falcon (slow poke!) for cars. Mannn those years were great. Those old cars were cheap and plentiful, the Music was a completely new scene and Reagan was president. I remember one of the guys got a 'Linda'. I shot it and it was alright but other than the ads for the gun with the girl with the big.... hair, I didn't 'get it'. The gun was well made but I didn't know what it was 'for'. 80s tacti-cool! I think you should fix that old 80s laser. I got you that it's toast but you should be able to fit a modern tiny laser into that big housing. Use a pressure switch for a current flashlight and wire it into the new laser. Fill the hole with Bondo and spray paint it with gloss black. I have an 80s night vision scope that doesn't work anymore. It's a couple of feet long, 5-7 inches in diameter and heavy...but a cool retro look. Man, the 1980s! There were ashtrays in the grocery stores and they issued kids guns at school. I, on more than one occasion, have been late for a class because I had signed out my rifle/ammo and had to put it in my car. It was for practicing for the rifle-team and we had to leave school immediately after the end of classes to go to the National guard armory. The Rifle team had won as many trophies for my school as the other sports teams together. Take Care buddy and I enjoyed the little trip down memory lane. John
Yes!! This is one of my favorite guns! I bought it on a lark, and it has brought me so much joy over the years! No one at the range knows what it is, it's a real conversation starter. It feeds any 9mm you throw at it, and it does take HiPower magazines. There must be something about this gun and lasers, because mine has had one from the get go, too!
I love Wilkinson Arms because it's the story of a guy who founded his own gun company, only it didn't just fail right away and you can actually find them every now and then.
In the early days of IPSC, I helped my brother, Eric Schottler build one, and while he built a holster, I mounted a brick sized laser, and with the Linda's long barrel it made MAJOR with ANY 9mm load, only 30 rd mags were available so at the KC indoor championship which was mostly in the dark, everyone could see his laser going from target to target and gun-writer Walt Rousch declared : "This is the future of combat shooting" after every run he received a standing ovation and applause and never had to reload... Later a lot of rules were written to make it illegal for competition.
This would be the best plan. A modern LTD is going to be lighter, have better output and use less power in the process. Semiconductor lasers were a relatively new tech back in the '80s: the popularization of CDs, then DVDs & now Blu-Rays has driven development on the hardware side so that modern semiconductor lasers are superior in every way to anything available back when that pistol was new...
This is, along with the Calico, THE most 80's firearm I've ever seen ... and that ad!!!!! A real blast from the past!! Thank you Gun Jesus for blessing your followers once again, amen ;-)
This is one I have been waiting for - a gun I always wanted to see but will probably never get the chance to touch. Side note: as Weaver was never standardized, Weaver rails can be vastly different between manufacturers and even models, so buyer beware when trying to mount optics to Weaver rails :)
Woooo! I'm so glad you did a video on this. I have both the linda pistol and Linda carbine. Never had much info on them, but they're both still in their original boxes and in like-new shape. I just thought they were cool when I found the pair in a local pawn shop. i believe the terry carbine had a straight barrel with no heat shield, with an all wood stock, whereas my Linda carbine has a heat shield and a fixed wire stock with a wood butt.
I love all these old firearms that were made in Southern California near me, another that comes to mind is the AMT automag. I’m stuck in California as long as my wife’s family is alive so what I can collect is pretty limited, but I keep an eye out for stuff mad in California that’s in a private sale or is C&R. I’d love to find one of these some day!
Holy smokes Ian your almost to 2million subscribers. Im proud of you and thankful for the hours upon hours of useful info and well mannered entertainment. I appreciate you and all the hours you have invested in us.
This is so good to see. I have been hoping you'd get around to the Wilkinson guns for ages now. Always liked the design since I was a kid. Can't wait to see you take it out on the range.
I had the carbine version of the "Linda" back in the 80's and it was really a decent little gun! Mine had a a 16" barrel and a T-shape tube stock, but was otherwise the Linda as you wee it.
feels like it would fit better in a 70 starwars knockoff kind of deal and whit knock off I mean both the shoestring ones that could be a porno parody or a legit movie just not to any level of quality.
@@kingkarlito Slight resemblance to the M3, yes the positioning of the bolts are reversed but it reminded me of the M3 for some reason, tbh, I don't think too deeply about these things. But glad to assist in expanding your vocabulary.
It is one of those simple designs with the body made from a tube and minimum of internal parts. As Ian pointed out the real similarity is to the Czech Sa vz.23/vz.48 submachine gun: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa_vz._23
Simplicity and accuracy(watched the shooting video). Linda is designed so that it will be straightforward to dress her up as a sci-fi weapon/blaster without doing anything permanent. The one screw hand-guard can be removed, and a false magazine can be added, or other elements. It looks to be a perfect core unit to make numerous prop weapons or devices then convert them back to stock units.
Star Wars prop departement: write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!
Haha, yes! As soon as he put that RDS on I was like "How is this not a Star Wars blaster type?".
I was about to say smth Like that. IT Just Looks perfekt for a Star wars Blaster
ya we got the bergmann this thing has to get in at some point mate :)
Just thinking that,look out mandalorian
@LabRat Knatz You can search the gun via imfdb www.imfdb.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Arms_Linda_Pistol#Wikinson_Arms_Linda_Pistol
It was also in The Annihilators, Magnum PI, A-Team, and Jeremiah.
"This wooden handguard is a piece of wood"
Don't know why I got a nice laugh out of that one
Gun Jesus: "This wood is made of wood. That's what makes it special"
Identifying wood:
Yep that's wood
Hmmm, yes, the floor is made out of floor.
hyhyhyhy he said 'wood' hyhyhyhyyhhyhyhy
What does a boilermaker do?
“Wilkinson's is famous for naming all of their guns after the founder's daughters or wives…”
Wilkinson in the office:"This concept looks good enough for a trial run, but we're out of names. Hum… guess I'll hit the pub tonight."
But instead of a pub, he went to Tech Noir.
And yet the "Matilda" is from Heckler & Koch...
@@judsongaiden9878 On Pico?
@@Daniel-Weaver A public place. Stay visible.
No, its time to go home to the wife and make more gun names. O.o
Comes with a survival knife and a drum magazine that doubles as a land mine AND a subscription to Soldier of Fortune.
And a massive scope that’s bigger than the gun, a laser sight and a 40mm grenade launcher on the front as well
Don’t forget the pitchfork bayonet!
And some camo Zubaz pants for the full 80's look.
God bless the '80s
@@4skintim962 and all the pitchfork tines are telescopic
Imagine how monstrous a hip holster for this would look like
Ewwee. Lol
Appendix carry.
It got a buttstock sling type.
Very reminiscent of how tank crew enginners held their machine pistols.
I've just watched and episode of The A-Team called Deadly Maneuvers Series 2 Episode 21, and Hannibal is using a Linda, with a holster, and it is pretty chunky haha
@@mrmactknife thank you for posting the episode info. Going to watch that episode tonight.
When you have a laser and you stick a gun on it.
It's the freaking 80's. Slam the TaB Soda, and kick a hippie in the shin
It had a 40 watt range, the pistol was the spotter for it of course......thus saving its power cell and focusing barrel wear.
Well duh, everyone knows lasers are cooler than guns and 100% the future weapon that we'll have before the new Millennium.
Upgrades people! Upgrades!
Good God,
I'm 50,
I was a child and I remember this was on the cover of Survival magazine at our market "The Linda" in big letters on the cover.
Getting into firearms as I got older I always wondered whatever happened to this thing.
Thanks Gun Jesus.
Honestly I'd be surprised if any obscure guns go under his radar its almost impossible for him to not review uncommon guns
@@JuanPablo-pg3vx
The craziest thing is this gun is common enough that its still being made and still has a company providing parts etc yet ive never heard of it
I’ve “seen” it in mags and heard of it plenty of times... but never actually ever seen or touched one in the wild... like at a range, LGS, or safe. It’s always, “a friend of a friend’s friend” or something had one of them “Linda subguns.” 🤷🏽♂️ Once I actually spent an evening researching the feasibility of buying one for a 9x19 PCC. Seemed like an interesting thing to do... but I chickened out. 😆
It's been a very long time since I shot mine, very heavy bolt pull/spring, if I remember correctly it needed some pretty hot 9mm to cycle, don't remember the trigger
"I'm Ray Wilkinson, I trade in go-karts and go-kart accessories."
The gun was used on *The "A" Team* . John "Hannibal" Smith carried it with the extended 31-round magazine (the regular one was 18 rounds).
Thats an eighties blaster if I ever saw one. Somebody likes their Star Wars.
Looks like a great prop gun that I'd go for
It looks like it could be from Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. Which is where Lucas got his ideas
I hope he is in costume
@Robert Sears some firearms are timeless.
"We don't need to get into the history of National Ordinance." Yes we do!
My thought exactly. I want to see that tanker M1
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Great idea
They've probably done a video on it already.
Fun fact, in the UK Linda is the name of every receptionist. They all carry these.
Apart from GP receptionists, they wouldn't allow you the mercy of a clean death.
And we never stop looking for her, either......
The Tommy Gun has been referred to as a Chicago Typewriter before...
@@zhangjao6328 as seen in the game Remnant: From the Ashes ;)
@@zhangjao6328 how is thus relevant
And I'm fairly certain thays common knowledge
Ian's gonna be the coolest guy at the match with his 80's vintage space gun.
I have never wanted a discontinued firearm as much as I do right now. This thing looks awesome!
Great news! This isn't discontinued.
Wilkinson Arms is still in business, and you can still order these on their Website!
I have original m68 if you're interested let me know
This looks like a gun with massive giggle factor.
oh yeah, absolutely
...far better than the previous "Karen" model which upon perceived offence sprayed bullets randomly in every direction..
Heheheheheheh
@@TheWolfsnack I'm half amazed none of the Borderlands games have had a sentient Karen gun.
@@GleichUmDieEcke Because Randy Pitchford is woke af.
It truly has an '80s movie vibe in the best way possible, ngl.
I saw it the first time on the A Team
@@TerrellThomas1971 a show I should rewatch, ngl...
Linda is spanish for "Cute" and boy is she cute.
Linda is portuguese for "beautiful" or "pretty" as well
It means "clean" in italian
Migs came here to see if someone else caught it lol
that looks like compact UZI for me
@@junichiroyamashita C L E A N
"honey, I want to make a new gun but I ran out of our daughters names, we gotta have more kids"
I remember seeing these and tec-9 clones filling up a entire display case at my fathers favorite gun store when I was a child in the early 90’s. Thank you for-reminding me of these memories Ian.
Does anyone else have the feeling that ian would be a great history Teacher
He is
He does have the cool history teacher vibe going on.
Maybe to the masses on RUclips. Would be wasted in just one classroom.
He technically is lol. He's my favorite history teacher on the tubes
I teach World History...and yes!
I looked-up Wilkinson Arms, and found they're still in business (I recently moved to the Boise area, so was interested in their Idaho history), and you can not only still get a Linda "carbine", but you can buy that classic Linda poster for $9!
That is so frikkin sweet
Unbelievable 😃🤟🤟🤟
It's fukin angin lad 🤣
Any relationship to Wilkinson sword?,
The laser is more likely to poke someone's eye out then actually blind them
LOL..true
Shine it in their eyes while you run up to beat them to death with it.
@@Sasquach1312 lol
This looks like something out of Total Recall.
Or Buck Rogers.
I can see it as an SMG laser, especially with the laser or red dot.
Yeah especially considering there were calico carbines in that thing it would totally fit the aesthetics of that movie
looks like a gun a studio would make to avoid getting sued or fined
@UCg6jF3dqArajM3HMy-o6lEQ or a Weaver Qwik Point. That would definitely fit with the look of this thing.
Edit: damn I can’t believe I predicted what he would use for the range video
Or any Sci-Fi show/movie.
That laser module is big enough you could very likely fit a modern (tiny) laser inside its housing and keep it attached for looks and functionality, if you're into that. Personally I love the massive early lasers, bulky and heavy as they are.
You don’t happen to know anything about that model do you??
"There is no way to get this rebuilt" sounds like a challenge
I'm just gonna imagine Ray Wilkinson driving around in a Go-Kart with his "Lindas" attached to a pintle mount
His "Lindas"? Putting a pistol on a pintle, sure ok, but I think even in the 80s sticking your daughter on the other one would get Child Services called o.o
Chuck Norris approves, but only if he also has a pair of Uzi pistols in twin shoulder holsters.
@@grayeaglej the Linda was holding two lindas of her own.
I would think Terries would be more useful like that.
If it was a two seater, he could have three Terries at once.
My dad was born , raised and returned to die in tiny Parma Idaho. He test fired some of the Wilkinsons at the dump with Mr. Wilkinson a few times.
That's neat. I love that part of the country. Absolutely beautiful in Idaho.
@@kentuckyboy541 Idaho has some beautiful spots for sure but Parma is not really one of them... potato and sugar beet fields..good duck and goose hunting though.
@@guaporeturns9472 Meth and heroin problems too.
Where's a quiet place in Idaho that has enough people you don't have to live like uncle Ted but not enough to have HOAs/Junkies?
@@williamkeith8944 actually it was Wilkinsons brush with greatness. My dad made and survived all four combat jump made by the 82nd Airborne in WW2. Purple Heart .. plus a bunch of other medals.. got out at the end of the war and joined the Marines. After that he was one of the pioneer smoke jumper for the forest service.. after that he packed into the Sawtooth mts. with horse and mules and dynamite building trails for the forest service... definitely Mr Wilkinsons brush with greatness.
Holy tap dancing christ, that is the most 80's gun I've ever seen. Like, that almost beats the Uzi for period aesthetic.
You speak like a teenager .
@@strateshooter1402 neat
@@strateshooter1402 you must not talk to many teenagers
@@strateshooter1402 early generation good
later generation bad
go outside
@@Deadbeatcow Wisdom coming from a child with a cartoon for an avatar .
"That's an 80's blaster if there ever was one." Fuckin A brother!!! You said it!!!
someone in the comments said there's an episode of the A Team where a character named Hannibal has a Linda on him; i thought it was worth mentioning, since you said "A" :P
This is my all time favorite gun. I'm a kid of the 80s, graduated in 86. I don't know how I knew about this gun, maybe it was advertised in SOF magazine, but it stuck with me my whole life. I actually went looking for one a few years ago but I had to give due to medical reasons. The other firearms from the 80s I was infatuated with was the AutoMags (all AutoMags) and Detonics Combat Master, from the books The Survivalist. Other kids had posters of girls, I had posters of firearms...and The Road Warrior.
Me: I’m going out with Linda today
My friend: is she your new girlfriend
Me: you could say something like that
So dark...😅
Oh she's a pistol!! 🤣
😐
Yep, my guns name is Vera. Some people get so miffed when I talk about her!
@@VitaminXism wait until he takes Linda to the club.
This is my daughter Linda, she is a pistol.
Or
This is my pistol, Linda
Me: I'm going to bed and nothing is going to stop me.
Ian: hold up, meet Linda
Me: well if you insist.
You on night shift too?
That thing is so damn cool. Something about the 80s design aesthetic made everything look friggin' awesome.
That old laser sight has so much space in it you could easily retrofit a modern laser inside it and keep the correct looks. It would be really cool to have that functional.
A Terminator-esque laser sight? Must be the Linda "Hamilton" edition.
That's good. Real good.
I imagine this gun to be a mandatory sidearm of a Blue Thunder pilot.
Nah, that has "X-wing pilot" written all over it.
@keith moore Just watched that film, he has a snubbie S&W in it. But Roy did use an earlier Wilkinson carbine in some film from 70s.
RE the laser: if the He-Ne is all gone and replenishing it is too expensive, you could carefully remove the internals and drop in a cheap modern diode in a printed polymer adapter, should be a quick project but I don't know how that thing disassembles.
Or he could do a colab with Applied Science, I bet that dude has the setup to vacuum out the tube and refill it with He-Ne.
Or get a replacement tube, I'm pretty sure that was/is a standard size that was used for high school physics experiments etc.
He could also talk to styropyro. He manages to throw together incredibly dangerous handheld lasers.
@@MikeStavola a collab with styropyro would be amaziing
Should He-Ne be difficult to acquire, you would normally use a substitute. Unfortunately with the passing of Michael Jackson, there's no more supply of He-he.
A nostalgic trip done memory lane. I really wanted one of these back when, especially after reading the reviews in one or more of the 'Survival' type magazines that were (AHEM) required reading for those living in Alaska in the late '70's to the early '90's.
Today on forgotten weapons, Ian reviews the best PCC that didn't make it into mass production.
This is an awesome design. This is perfect for a tanker or airman service gun.
"No reason to take off the snap ring today." I wouldn't mess with that massive jeezlus clip either.
A runaway spring that size might be easy to see but if it's as powerfull as it looks the search radius would be much larger. Lol
OH JESUS, Where did that thing go!
My expectations were low when starting the video, but that recoil spring around the telescoping bolt alone made it all worth it. Just beautifully executed.
If you cant rebuild the laser sight, make it a shell for a new laser.
He should partner up with styropyro for that
@@mikajacobsen860 He really should
laser bubba
Could even go with a smaller shell and laser as well with all the advancement in that technology.
A laser diode would fit easily within that case. It might be possible to find a He-Ne laser that is a more direct fit as well.
I’m imagining Armie in T1 saying “Linda 9mm”..... ironic when his co-star was Linda Hamilton!
3:20 for the laser sight: buy a laser diode of your likings and integrate it.
You'll have a lot of space for battery and passive cooling.
It may interest viewers to know that Wilkinson Arms currently produces reproductions of the 80's Linda ad as a poster.
Their website sells a poster of that chick wearing red, holding the Linda pistol - so retro!
I am tempted to buy one
12 x 18" - Only $9 Dollars
That's really notta lotta dollars
unless you need it shipped abroad
or are stony broke
@@EggBastion $24 to Germany. Ordered it.
April Wayne!
I actually LOVE large heavy pistols. They're so comfortable to shoot with recoil and handling.
How? Unless you're holding the foregrip this is immensely front heavy
That thing's beautiful! I love it so much.
I love that early-80's aesthetic, since it's basically the 70's aesthetic still.
And it seems rather ingenious on the operation!
I'll have to look into getting one of those someday, perhaps.
Little-known Fact: Wilkinson's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter will be named VERA.
Someone named Callahan will likely be involved and it'll have an auto lock feature of sorts. Definitely something to go full bore with
Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
Just like Wilkinson's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter, Vera needs oxygen around her.
Shiney!
Ask StyroPyro to fix the laser!! He’ll definitely get it working.
Or he'll improve the energy so much that you now have a secondary firing option.
I second this
@@fricki1997 right, hell just have two weapons in one after he's done 🤣🤣
@Jani Akujärvi Nothing says "infinite power" like spontaneous plasma generation :3
Definitely 80's - Hannibal used one in an episode of the A-Team.
good catch
If I recall correctly he used it to rescue Face, BA and Murdock after they got captured.
"I call her... Linda." ~The Hero of Canton~
well that song is in my head now
Now I'm lying here with Linda on my miiiiiiiiind . Conway Twitty.
The fact they still make this makes me unreasonably happy.
Ah the 1980s, couldn't have asked for a better era to be a teenager.
My friends and I were all into guns, cars, music and the Great American way!
We all had either a surplus weapon or tacti-cool gun, an old car and a 22 rifle for cheap shooting. I had an M1 Garand and a Ruger 10-22. My car was a 1970 442 with a W30 455. My friends had 1: M1 carbine 2: SMLE 3: Mini 14 4: 03A3 and 5: Ithaca 12 gauge pump. All the kids had a Ruger 1022 except one guy had a Charter AR7. My buddies had 1960s Hot Rods 1968 Fairlane, 1969 Road Runner, 1970 Chevelle, 1971 El Camino and one kid had a 1964 Falcon (slow poke!) for cars. Mannn those years were great. Those old cars were cheap and plentiful, the Music was a completely new scene and Reagan was president.
I remember one of the guys got a 'Linda'. I shot it and it was alright but other than the ads for the gun with the girl with the big....
hair, I didn't 'get it'. The gun was well made but I didn't know what it was 'for'. 80s tacti-cool!
I think you should fix that old 80s laser. I got you that it's toast but you should be able to fit a modern tiny laser into that big housing. Use a pressure switch for a current flashlight and wire it into the new laser. Fill the hole with Bondo and spray paint it with gloss black.
I have an 80s night vision scope that doesn't work anymore. It's a couple of feet long, 5-7 inches in diameter and heavy...but a cool retro look.
Man, the 1980s! There were ashtrays in the grocery stores and they issued kids guns at school. I, on more than one occasion, have been late for a class because I had signed out my rifle/ammo and had to put it in my car. It was for practicing for the rifle-team and we had to leave school immediately after the end of classes to go to the National guard armory. The Rifle team had won as many trophies for my school as the other sports teams together.
Take Care buddy and I enjoyed the little trip down memory lane. John
Yes!! This is one of my favorite guns! I bought it on a lark, and it has brought me so much joy over the years! No one at the range knows what it is, it's a real conversation starter. It feeds any 9mm you throw at it, and it does take HiPower magazines. There must be something about this gun and lasers, because mine has had one from the get go, too!
I love Wilkinson Arms because it's the story of a guy who founded his own gun company, only it didn't just fail right away and you can actually find them every now and then.
Company got bought and they are still made today. They are always sold out and you have to get put on a waiting list. Google Wilkinson arms.
Looks like the pistols used in the original Total Recall film... But probably just because of the massive front sight.
Agreed!
In the early days of IPSC, I helped my brother, Eric Schottler build one, and while he built a holster, I mounted a brick sized laser, and with the Linda's long barrel it made MAJOR with ANY 9mm load, only 30 rd mags were available so at the KC indoor championship which was mostly in the dark, everyone could see his laser going from target to target and gun-writer Walt Rousch declared : "This is the future of combat shooting" after every run he received a standing ovation and applause and never had to reload... Later a lot of rules were written to make it illegal for competition.
I feel like Hi-point should really get the rights to this gun...
a hi point AR combo
Way way better than a Hi Point.
More like KelTec
You can still buy an updated Carbine version... www.wilkinsonarms.com/Linda-9mm-Carbine_p_179.html
Unless Ian wants to keep the laser assembly as a non functioning original, he could buy a new modern laser and sleeve it in the original ones housing.
This would be the best plan. A modern LTD is going to be lighter, have better output and use less power in the process. Semiconductor lasers were a relatively new tech back in the '80s: the popularization of CDs, then DVDs & now Blu-Rays has driven development on the hardware side so that modern semiconductor lasers are superior in every way to anything available back when that pistol was new...
The original laser was a Helium-Neon tube; replacing it with a diode would be trivial.
There's gotta be someone with old laser experience who can refurbish that beast for Ian.
Just put a modern laser inside, plus the space for a battery
Im sure styropyro is up to the job.
@@metamorphicorder he'd make the sight deadlier than the actual gun... Not a great idea
@@delayedhoe9714 Well if he was told to maybe include a couple power settings it might work.
after looking up what the "Terry" looks like, I swear ive seen those guns so many times while watching Lupin the 3rd XD
This is, along with the Calico, THE most 80's firearm I've ever seen ... and that ad!!!!! A real blast from the past!! Thank you Gun Jesus for blessing your followers once again, amen ;-)
Hoping someone in the comments is like "I can fix that..." and gets ahold of Ian.
that's gonna be @styropyro
@@moonliteX My 9mm carbine with a 5000mw invisible IR laser sight!
That laser is huge. I bet it cost a kidney back in the day!!!
Very interesting. I always assumed they started out as a subgun design that never got military contracts, the way so many similar guns did.
One could try to fit modern laser diode inside this clunky laser aim. That should make it usable again witch genuine "terminator" look
Thats what I was thinking as well. O.o
And enough 18650's to pull an "aimpoint" and just leave it on for years.
This is one I have been waiting for - a gun I always wanted to see but will probably never get the chance to touch.
Side note: as Weaver was never standardized, Weaver rails can be vastly different between manufacturers and even models, so buyer beware when trying to mount optics to Weaver rails :)
This has to be my favorite video in the four or five years I've been watching. It's the perfect "Forgotten Weapon." The best part? Ian owns the thing.
I wish we still advertised as we did during the 80s
Good morning Ian!
The "Linda" pistol, Han Solo's back up weapon.
lol
The other other side chick.
Woooo! I'm so glad you did a video on this. I have both the linda pistol and Linda carbine. Never had much info on them, but they're both still in their original boxes and in like-new shape. I just thought they were cool when I found the pair in a local pawn shop.
i believe the terry carbine had a straight barrel with no heat shield, with an all wood stock, whereas my Linda carbine has a heat shield and a fixed wire stock with a wood butt.
"this is an 80s blaster if there ever was one"
Sometime in the future, this is the company that would create a rifle for the man they call Jayne.
“Are we gonna explode? I don’t wanna explode!!”
It'll be renamed to Callahan and have an auto lock feature to go with the full bore aspect
@@neilbodwell9172 I'll call her "Vera"
@Phil Ken Sebben incidentally I actually named my motorcycle Vera.
@@neilbodwell9172 Is she your very favorite motorcycle? Would any trade made with her be a steal?
I look forward to seeing this gun in "The Mandalorian."
George Peppard used one on “The A-Team!” ❤️
That did nothing for the accuracy of the era fire arm .
You need an accurate firearm to miss that closely so many times!
I love all these old firearms that were made in Southern California near me, another that comes to mind is the AMT automag. I’m stuck in California as long as my wife’s family is alive so what I can collect is pretty limited, but I keep an eye out for stuff mad in California that’s in a private sale or is C&R. I’d love to find one of these some day!
It looks like someone converted a lego minifig model gun for regular people
Awesome. Looks like he finally found Linda!
The carbine version of this belongs in Star Wars.
Pistol version with those optics too. It looks like proper blaster.
@@Bzhydack yeah. Butt ugly pistol, very cool blaster.
It probably has been o.o In the background somewhere.
Holy smokes Ian your almost to 2million subscribers. Im proud of you and thankful for the hours upon hours of useful info and well mannered entertainment. I appreciate you and all the hours you have invested in us.
This is so good to see. I have been hoping you'd get around to the Wilkinson guns for ages now. Always liked the design since I was a kid. Can't wait to see you take it out on the range.
That front wooden hand guard reminds me of 70's & 80's stereo equipment.
Tell me im not the only one who recognises this from the A-team episode deadly maneuvers!!!
The pistol Countach
If you want the laser fixed send it to a RUclipsr called styropyro.
how awesome could a collab be!!
What an absolutely genius design. I see nothing glaring at all, it all looks simple and functional!
I had the carbine version of the "Linda" back in the 80's and it was really a decent little gun! Mine had a a 16" barrel and a T-shape tube stock, but was otherwise the Linda as you wee it.
Another gun that would not look out of place in Star Wars. :D
feels like it would fit better in a 70 starwars knockoff kind of deal and whit knock off I mean both the shoestring ones that could be a porno parody or a legit movie just not to any level of quality.
Styropyro is awaiting the call to come to service in the name of gun Jesus
and Gun Jesus called upon his Disciple to give life to that which once was.
pls collab
"Linda, Linda, listen, Linda "
Was not expecting it to be as well designed as it is
That barrel retainer and trunnion assembly is a masterclass in cost effective and highly utilitarian design.
Looks like a grease gun, fascinating stuff, love the channel
@@kingkarlito Slight resemblance to the M3, yes the positioning of the bolts are reversed but it reminded me of the M3 for some reason, tbh, I don't think too deeply about these things. But glad to assist in expanding your vocabulary.
It is one of those simple designs with the body made from a tube and minimum of internal parts. As Ian pointed out the real similarity is to the Czech Sa vz.23/vz.48 submachine gun:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa_vz._23
buddy had so many daughters he could literally organize his entire skew list just with their names
Am surprised this didn't actually end up being used in StarWars for props
It wouldn't even need any cosmetic work first.
Simplicity and accuracy(watched the shooting video).
Linda is designed so that it will be straightforward to dress her up as a sci-fi weapon/blaster without doing anything permanent. The one screw hand-guard can be removed, and a false magazine can be added, or other elements. It looks to be a perfect core unit to make numerous prop weapons or devices then convert them back to stock units.
Man thats a weirdly cool gun