The "Good Idea Fairy" strikes again!

slide mounted safeties

Forward assist

The 7,62x51mm instead of an intermediate round.

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine although Stoner opinion on that also valid tho

The army DID adopt the Sig p320, so there's apparently an acceptable level of "goes bang when dropped" still to this day.

anti-dropping incentive?

the issue only would ever happen when someone would drop or slam the gun on its butt stock

@@TheWolfsnack "you see Ivan," etc.

@@cgunugc they adopted a pistol made out of playdoh that hit you in the face with pieces of slide. Whats your point?

Ian kinda feels like the Bob Ross of firearms history education.

@@MrEvan312 magazine detonations are just happy mistakes

Mr Roger's talks guns

I think my favorite thing ever related to Bob ross was how people often comment on him being the first person to introduce them to the phenomena of ASMR, someone jokingly said BDSM on one of the videos on the official Bob Ross channel to which the channel's staff sent a link to the episode "Shades of Grey".

Quite a plot twist, isn't it? I was sure that spacers were expendables.

That's a remarkably petty piece of engineering...

I was expecting a mechanism to tilt the cartridges in a tube moving the bullet tips off the primers.

So, basically a Tediore gun from Borderlands

@@Ozuhananas I clicked View Reply hoping to see exactly this. :)

I enjoy the engineering tidbits, too. Interesting little widget. 😏

The history and engineering is why I subscribe as well. I had the exact same expectation and reaction-this is a very cool device.

Imagine what those spacers would look like after a thousand black powered rounds through it . No less all the dirt getting into the spacer magazine. Guarantee that thing would of jammed up solid needing an armorer to repair it.

You don't have to own guns to be a "gun guy" interest in the subject is enough of a qualifier in my opinion. I dont own any airplanes but I'm a plane guy, and went on to learn to be an airframe and powerplant mechanic.

Transitional and experimental designs are the best for easy listening punctuated by the odd "Wait, they did what? Why?". At least IMHO.

lmao, you can just get a cool robot arm to replace your old one :crylaugh:

Given the amount of dumb stuff soldiers do that doesn't significantly impact the chances of them blowing off their hands. There's a story of a soldier who took a 50BMG catridge, grasped it firmly by the part that contains all the powder and used the rear part of the cartdidge as a hammer. I think you can guess what happened.

Maybe left handed people

@@Wow22109 including Ian

@@CiastoToKlamstwo Then he'd lose his right hand, since... yeah

It would be like that if it were made for the military today...

Same

The Cynic the South Africans made some really damn cool firearms for sure, I always look forward to some of the wild designs they conjure up.

Two wrongs don't make a right, _but three do._ - Firesign Theater

Bro, we heard you like tube magazines, so we put a tube magazine on your tube magazine.!

@Danny AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You can let yourself out now.

Alright, partys over. Come on, out with you

I’d love one of these. A bolt action .45-70 is a very nice thing

I remember shooting a .22lr for a BSA marksmanship competition that had a manual cocking hammer device, and that thing was a total pain to pull back because it was a non knurled circular straight pull hammer lowered into a half moon recess in the stock. It had pretty strong spring tension on it too which made it even harder cock with the minimal amount of actual area to grip.

Midsouth shooters seems to have the right dies.

That spiral magazine was also some 40 years later...

@@ScottKenny1978 The Model 14 was released in 1908, therefore developed in the years preceding that. The Remington-Keen he's talking about here was developed for the 1878 military trials, so was developed in the years preceding _that._ So about _30_ years. However, the point was that Remington never stopped looking for a solution to the problem, and eventually developed one. It works quite well even with spitzer bullets, although by the time it was developed the whole idea of a tube magazine was obsolete. In fact, even by the 1878 trials all tubular magazines were obsolete, the various militaries just didn't know it yet. The en-block clip and internal box magazine had already been patented. The next year in 1879 the Austrian military was the first to adopt a modern vertical magazine rifle: The Mannlicher M1886 using early Mannlicher clips. Mauser soon followed suit and the rest is history. But as I said, the point was that Remington kept working on the problem and eventually solved it, even though by then tubular magazines were all but obsolete except for shotguns and .22 rimfires. The model 14 and 141 were produced up until 1950 as an alternative to the Winchester model 1894 lever action, which basically ignored the problem, which as Ian said was fairly rare to begin with. Remington still makes a pump action rifle, the model 7600, but it is now fed by more modern box magazines. They aren't particularly popular.

@@oaktreered So does www.ch4d.com/sales and they have neck-sizer dies which would increase the longevity of what little brass I have. On the other hand, I really don't plan on shooting it much. (It belonged to a high-school classmate and friend of my Dad, and it's 100 years old.)

Like for the G11?

Most .22 tube magazines I have messed with are only retained by a little bit of solder and a band. With a bit of machining and a longer stock for support, you could probably do this.

Speed tubes for any tube-fed shotgun, should work "just fine". Enjoy your Hawkeye/Deadeye/Robin Hood LARP!

But they dont.....

Someone did a video on the Giradoni air rifle on this channel I believe

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LordDonutz most likely it came from Varusteleka.

He commented on another video about it. I came from a shop on the Isle of Jersey.

Chemistry was not at the point it could make rubber bullet tips until the very end of the 20th.

No

Funnily enough even with spitzer ammo it was not a major issue for the lebel with very few reported for the entirety of ww1.

@@Josh-gg6ct 8mm lebel was specifically designed so that the nose of the bullet would rest in a recess around the primer

Yes and then we would be talking about Kraut "Spacer" Magic instead of the later Kraut "Space" Magic.

@@jaymassengill3340 Groan. Well done.

Plus they would automatically clean themselves, stone out any dents and dings and in general be "schpick und schpan"

I bet they do after a couple of shots with all the gunk acumulating there

It looks like it is a simple flat disc.

Because human nature. Stick to what you know. And the worse it gets the older the deciting guys are. You know, old grumpy men "we used to do it this way so we will do it so in future!"

The French copied the Kropatschek rifle for the Lebel. The tube magazine for just the ball had been around since the 1700s. The tube magazine for a cartridge was first seen on the American Volcanic in the mid-1800s. It was in common use from the mid-1800s in Winchester lever-action rifles and the Spencer rifles which were well known worldwide. The first incorporation of the tubular magazine with a bolt-action rifle was with the Mauser model 1871, which equipped the 1871 with a tubular magazine in the 1880s (the Mauser equipped the Germans, the principal enemy of the French, BTW). The Lebel was a terrible amalgamation of whatever semi-proven ideas and components of a rifle that could be thrown together in a hurry to be the first repeating smokeless powder cartridge firing rifle. The French believed this extremely rapid development was necessary to develop the rifle as the smokeless powder was considered to be a state secret and for the most part, the French had been in some form of continual war for nearly 100 years, with brief outbreaks of peace. In reality, considering the need to develop a rifle as fast as possible, the Lebel was as good as could have been done but was out-of-date at the time of its adoption. And then while recognizing it was but a stop-gap rifle, they almost immediately started developing a replacement, but the Lebel remained in service in some purposes for the next 70 years. Also, the rushed nature of the Lebel rifle hindered the development of a suitable modern replacement for the equally out-of-date 8mm Lebel cartridge.

@@charlesadams1721 Thanks for the info appreciate it.

Christopher safer yes, failsafe-no. Remington was also probably expecting the military to adopt a spitzer bullet and planning ahead. But who knows

@@beardoggin8963 Spitzer bullets were 25 years on the future. So no

This would be a hillarious sight!

@Dragon Butt don't give California legislators any more deranged ideas about "featureless" rifles

Lmao, its the tacticool incarnation of Truck Nuts... a mental image I *never* needed. Also, nm, forgot there are already Rifle Nuts. Fml.

@@bmstylee And also the groove where the headstamp normally is

4570

Flat nosed bullets were fine. They suck for the purposes of being a true rifle bullet, though.