Hey crabman.

Totaly agree

A very well deserved bit of lazy too 😉

Полностью поддерживаю!

As far as we are concerned Gun Jesus is allowed resting periods too

Absolutely love the honesty also

"And on the 52nd week, he rested."

Agreed, even Gun Jesus himself deserves a break every now, and then.

A machine would not enjoy the fun of making the channel.

@@CommodoreFan64 Well it is his birthday.

Yeah know the feeling, and the stories and the history as well.

Yeah

Agreed.

Came for the guns, stayed for the engineering but we all know it is all the smal side tracks and pieces of history that is the most fascinating.

I don't even like guns that much, the historical context and mechanical engineering is what keep me here.

Biden will NEVER get my guns I keep them upstairs

cosmi is a cool gun non than less

@@In.Darkness nobody asked

Get up on them nuts

God has only worked 6 days his whole life, the gun jesus never stops

"Ian McCollum is too lazy to create bad content"

Seriously.

If he's lazy, I'm straight-up deceased. Inanimate.

@@qoph1988 Same here! Expired! Stiffs! Passed on! Gone to meet our makers! If he's lazy, then we've run down the curtain and join the choir invisible!

Or when you drop 8 shots out of what looks like a break action. That’s some movie gun magic right there.

[points to headband] "Infinite ammo."

@@Shin5287 now we know where Moe Szyslak pulled that 3rd shot from.

Also, you can then show them your receipt and spin their heads right off their neck. Seriously, who's paying $15k for a shotgun?

@@johngrimes6078 that's cheap for posh shotguns! Some of them are 6 figures. And pheasant shooters are snobs, it can cost several thousand £ for a day's shooting at some places.

i saw a video how they made these, you would expect they are made in laboratories with high tech precision tools. nah, just a bunch of old chaps in a shed with sandpaper and welders.

@@Paronak Precision manufacturing has it's place but always look to the men of the sheds for art. Occasionally it's actually functional too...😛

Go look at Ian's video for the Browning B25 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbKZo7CXmazbYIU.html exquisite is the word... ;-)

"Looks too good to use" (almost)

Blasphemy it is a weapons destiny to be fired until it is unsafe to fire it .

It looked rather fancy and with the number in the 9000 range Ian quoted in the video it might not make that much sense to grow larger than a small family owned business if this can keep them in business. Had a look around on their website, everything looked rather fancy and they don't just do shotguns also some rifle types with a 5+1 magazine capacity specifically compliant with italian hunting regulation according to its description. Since none of the firearms listed prices I would suspect they start maybe at 10k euro at best and I don't even want to think about what they charge for this shotgun version: "Gold Special Edition In the Gold Special Edition, the mechanical parts are layered in 24kt gold. This results in an absolutely beautiful appearance and also provides the unparalleled practical benefits of higher absorption of vibrations and 100% resistance to corrosion'" Their merch shop does list prices though, 45 euro for a cap, 800-900 for jackets, 60 euro for a belt, 760 euro fixed blade knives (with sheath), 430 euro shotgun/rifle sheath, 900 euro overshirt, 80 euro polo shirt, etc.

@@rickden8362 Ah stupid me, forgot an essential part I was thinking about: I kinda figured based on their presentation on the website that they might be happy being a small business making these select few products with highly customised finish. If they'd grow too much and scale up their production they might lose some appeal to customers that want their current product yet still aren't affordable to the general market. Even if there's no legal hurdle it'd still be a significant risk while they now presumably have a stable niche market. But as for the legal situation in general over there and F1 development I can't say I really know much about it. If the transition however is "normal small business" at 20 and less employees and then a sudden bump in labour laws, extra paperwork and fiscal hurdles similar to large companies that'd be a bit much. Over 20 seems like a decent transition point, but it would have to be a manageable intermediate step. In my country (The Netherlands), the employee cutoff points for the various categories are 10, 50 and 250 if I'm not mistaken. And they also have to fall within some financial limits (not exceeding a yearly turnover and/or a total balance sheet value) for their class. I was under the impression this was meant to be more or less universal for EU member states, but it's a strange and complicated system and on the national level I guess they can deviate up to a point (often stricter is doable, but giving excessive benefits/business rate reductions, etc is where it gets sensitive). But my knowledge is very limited when it comes to that, I'm happily working for the government now in the IT sector and maybe elsewhere in the future. Not having to worry about all that stuff fortunately unless I ever want to start something myself. What little I know about it has been picked up from family members over the years.

So, we basically are the inventors of semi auto shotguns and we didn't even know?

@@p_filippouz not really, the earliest two semiauto shotguns I can think of are the Sjogren Inertial and the Browning Auto-5, this is the first Italian-manufactured semiautomatic shotgun, not the first semiauto shotgun in general unfortunately. We didn't have the honor of introducing the concept, Mr Browning did (of course, who else). Even the Sjogren is a very uncommon, albeit very interesting and steamunky shotgun, only 5000 were ever built and they are pretty scarce today, while the Auto5 is probably one of the most famous long-recoil operated shotgun in the world

@@Phage26 well, at least we have the longest lasting gun company ever. The Beretta And we were also able to make the shittiest lmg in ww2 lol

Yeah but Ian said that the best bolt action rifle of world war II was the 38 7.35 carcano.

@@1ntwndrboy198 Ian described the Beretta 38 as a fantastic submachine gun.

Well, if you live in a properly furnished 18th century ducal palace, sure.

@@andrewsuryali8540 rioting peasants on your lawn need to be sorted out regardless of era

@@krissteel4074 “Sire, the peasants are revolting!” “You ain’t kidding, they stink on ice!” 🤣

They are in production, you can buy (order) one brand new tomorrow.

Got a real question tho, do you need to take down half the gun when reloading, or just break it open?

@@styx7027 Break it. Lock the bolt open (so it can close again without squashing the first shell). Cock the hammer (so the feeding elevator goes down). Plop in 8 shells. Close it. Hit the bolt release. You're now in battery and ready to fire (Unless it automatically engages safety upon closing or bolt release. Didn't see a mechanism for either, but there's a *lot* going on, so I could easily have missed it.) I'm assuming there is a mechanism for lifting the elevator when you close it too... But how that disconnects from the hammer is... more steam punk magic.

If it's just one bad guy, one or two shotshells should be sufficient.

You may be able to shoot 8 shells in short succession... But you'll be cleaning that thing for 5 hours. You'll probably also enjoy every minute of those 5 hours! :P

Boy, its kind of a stretch.....beautifully made, maybe? 'Cause this thing is an abortion in every other sense.

@@randymagnum143 The insides look vaguely "steampunk" IMHO, too. But nice and *shiny!*

@@randymagnum143 Just because it's smart? Or cause it's not made in the US?

@@mariosebastiani3214 smart? It make no practical sense, and it doesn't work.

@@randymagnum143 Did you try it to say so?

Yep - and if you found the same info I did, that was from a 2017 article. Probably more than that now. My WAG is the gun Ian looked at was well north of $20K with the decorations. I haven't found a price list, but I'm also guessing the Titanium SLT model is around double that. Granted, that price is honestly a bit less than I expected while watching the video.

@@rottingravensblood9106 Silence, heathen. You're talking to a genuine Holdsworth.

@@djjaysky9071benali has very good waterproofing and offers more than enough variety to scratch the, its a italian itch.

@@samholdsworth420 poor, and blowing $20k on a gun are NOT the same thing, child.

I see used ones for sale at around 6k€ which is about up to par for hunting shotguns around here. I mean if you're paying a couple grand for your club membership and the law puts a cap on the gun's technology you may as well spend a bit on bling.