Huh, I've never heard of this one, despite being a Finn. Thank you, Gun Jesus, for introducing this interesting piece of our firearms history to me.

I hope one day we get to see a picture of the collection this mysterious person has, because they seem to have every obscure weird pistol known to man

Yay! The “Fireplace Collection” continues!

3:29 Finnish military nomenclature regarding small arms has three parts in it. First the caliber, then the weapon type and finaly the year of adaption OR model name. With Finnish manufactured guns it's always the year of adoption, with foreign produced guns it's either the year of adoption or the model name. Some examples: 7.62 RK 62 (RK=Rynnäkkökivääri=Assault Rifle) 7.62 KK PKM (KK=Konekivääri=Machine Gun) 7.62 TKIV Dragunov (TKIV=Tarkkuuskivääri=Precission Rifle) 9.00 PIST 2008 (duh, pistol and this one is actually Glock 17) No idea why some foreign weapons have model designation and some have the year of adoption.

C'moon Ian, as finnish person i enjoy greatly when foreign people try not to butcher our words but still do :D I was dissappointed when you skipped VKT (Valtion kivääritehdas). :(

That moment when a makarov and a TT tokarev make babies.

Ian: The trigger assembly is a yoke. Trigger assembly: Am I a yoke to you.

You actually pronounced that name quite well. I totally understood that. Thank you for great work!

A very sexy pistol in my book.

‘Scuse me while I whip this out... *pulls a Lahti out of nowhere*

Birger Linkomies had a Swedish first name and a Finnish surname, so not the easiest to pronounce. By the way, the surname translates to "sling man".

This is an aesthetically pleasing pistol IMO.

The Finns have fantastic design style . That's a gorgeous pistol.

I read a test in a technical magazine in the 70's. I remember it stating the same problems you mention here. The empty cartridges were bulged and thrown out really hard suggesting too early opening for the bolt.

I can't wait for future reference material to quote the comments section: "most of the information gathered about this particular firearm comes from the 'fireplace' collection".

Thank you for expanding my knowledge on older firearms I've never seen before.

Always great to see guns from my own country. Hadn't heard about this one before, thanks for the video Ian!

Every time I see you in front of that brick fireplace I know it's a going to be a good episode. I'm so jealous of whoever the collector is that owns all these awesome semi auto pistols.

Learned something new today. I thought i had pretty good knowledge of Finnish firearms (being a Finn myself), but for some reason i had never heard of this one. Thanks, Gun Jesus! =D

Hi Ian , Thank you for uploading ,

Incredible they managed to design this gun basically from scratch in such a short time.

The cam lock holding the wood grip panels on is very clever much cheaper than drilling and tapping 4 holes and add 4 more parts like in a 1911A1

When a 1903 Colt and a Tokarev love each other very much.

That's a handsome pistol right there.

Hi Point would like to disagree with you about upper pressure limit for blow back pistols. They believe 9mm is where pressure starts getting interesting. .45, .40 and 10mm seem to work just fine. 😊

Cool, thanks Ian

Jaaah zooooh Tokerev style grip locks and fire control group!

Damn, I’m here early. Time to learn a thing about something I’ve never seen before. Nice.

I found myself thinking of the FEG M37 when you disassembled the Fin /44. Where I know they are not the same there was something in the kinda like this feeling. Weird, just really brought that to mind.

I didn't dare to hope for this. Too cool! What's the story of this example, how did you get your hands on it? Linkomies pronunciation wasn't bad. He changed his name from Flinck, and wrote on firearms at least as far back as in the 20s and after the war for the Military Museum's (f. Sotamuseo) publications.

Is That ‘that’ fire place again. If so This guys collection must be huge.

Love learning about Finnish gun history, not a very common habit here. The owner has to be a serious gun collector, I hope to see more of these featured.

Very interesting story. The gun shares the looks and some features with some other great pistols from around that era. The slide looks elaborate, but the frame cheap. The externals look finished while the inside of the frame is crude. The grip panels are rather costly. The gun looks like a mix of Makarov/Stechkin and Sig P210. The removable trigger unit and yoke lever is quite similar to the Sig P210

Very interesting 9mm Sir

I see an Astra 600/43 with a T33 fire controll group. Aside from freakishly rare Fin WII pistol. The recoil buffer is cool.

cool looking gun

THX Mr. gun jesus

That is one big fireplace

Just when i think we have seen the last of the mysterious fireplace gun collection, BAM, another one, lol.

PERKELE!

Thanks

So, basically this is a blowback TT-33

Never heard of this one. But it looks cool, in the "we need a pistol right now and we don't have time to make anything fancy" kind of way, Too bad they ran out of time to get it into service. Well, I'm not complaining about the war ending too soon. But still, a nice looking stop gap gun. Very nice looking.

On the subject of rare Finnish firearms, I found a Lahti designed Anti-Air machine gun just casually sitting in a local museum here in Finland. i.imgur.com/bShFSyn.jpg Gun had no description what it was, and I was clueless as well, until some in depth internet sherlocking around, found some info on it. Next time I visit the museum, I might ask the staff if they are aware of the guns rarity, as some sources claim fewer than 300 of them were produced. Also, that exact M/44 was totally on auction at James D Julia back in 2014.

I thought Ian was *finnished* covering Finland's guns ;)

Armistice agreement was like "Sorry for beating your asses so bad" :

I just finished watching on Full 30! Time for viewing #2!

You are the irl gun jesus. Greetings from finland

Interesting how new designs like the sig 320 are basically re engineered from very old design combination. Like the trigger group here and browning blowback design

It's a TT-33, only blowback instead of Browning swinging link! Down to the grip attachments!

So if you have one that you want to shoot get light loads or add a little silver solder where it won't conflict with other parts.

thx

Hyvä Suomi!

I could never afford it, but, it'd be a neat one to own.

I really like the way it looks. Too bad they didn't have enough mass to delay opening.

All small arms and even 12,7 NSV in Finnish military service are named with their caliber in millimiters.

Wow! That is a rare pistol, one of 25. I wonder hot it got into US?

I've seen that trigger bar disconnect before...

The design is apt to incorporate a gas delay system built into the slide.

I'd really love to see some of the brass out of this with full powered 9mm. Not a lot of confidence.

It seems like the story of Glisenti 1910 and Beretta 1915.

You're cycling the slide with ease, I'm surprised the recoil spring isn't stiffer. Is it safe to use?

Nice

Widen the slide, and this could still have been just fine.

For some reason the look of that gun reminds me of the Stechkin pistol...

dose anyone know a video on the challenges of machine any slide all the steps in grooves how did they do they tool for that wracking my brain on some parts dont see how they can

Groves in frame n barrel remind me of Astra 600

Looks better than the Soviet Makarov, which clearly took a few ideas from this pistol. Those grips look like what the Makarov would later use.

I certainly enjoyed this, what a rare piece from my "neighbour".

There was no WWII treaty that would have forbidden arms development. I wonder where on earth that came from?

Old school hi point

Aaand another very cool and interresting vid! I know its not a forgatten weapon at all but can ya do a vid on a real swiss military issue sig 550 (stg 90) ( full auto shooting included :D)? im very courious bout your opinion bout my servicerifle^^ thx a lot for your good work and keep it up it will be appreciated widely! best regards form switzerland

I'm not sure what the name was but it sounded like Burger... Linkomies? I assume the first name isn't what you said because it sounds funny. The surname was close enough, although I thought you said Linkomings, but I'm bad at listening anyway :) Actually it turned out I had hard time finding finnish literature on this pistol online (actually only one short article), but managed to confirm the designer's name as Birger Linkomies, so you were very close, the name was recognizable! Birger is very rare name so no wonder I couldn't figure it out. Thanks for the video, it turns out to be important since there's not too much info on this one. Some trivia from the finnish article was that apparently the designer used to be named Birger Flick and that VKT required a number of changes before accepting to manufacture even a test batch. The biggest being the shape of the slide and its manufacturing process, but they at least took some opinions from Linkomies about the changes being made. The artillery inspector decided to originally make an order of 5000 pistols so I suppose that explains the serial number format. VKT planned a price per item to be approximately 900 finnish marks for 5000 pistols, but if they managed to continue the serie until 10 000, the price per pistol would only be 675 marks per item. They had to add replacement parts to the manufacturing costs, but they somehow ended up to 770 marks per pistol when manufacturing 5000 pistols (these numbers were slightly different in other source though). In the end, when all the manufacturing units were busy, VKT ended up making 10 to 20 test batch (you found out there were a couple more). It was also originally called M743. I also found it to be interesting that this was one of the first guns made in Finland that weren't made mostly by turning and only a few parts were turned anymore. The test shootings implied the recoil was way too high to bear and the material strength was also a concern, if the body would break. There were also some problems with loading a bullet and removing the case. I think judging by your video, you found out at least most of these things if not all of them. Here's the source I quoted anyway, by Andy K pyssyjahti.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/pistooli-m44-ei-paassyt-koskaan-sarjatuotantoon/ . Note that the article doesn't have any source references, but it does match to your story.

Another Browning inspired pistol. Looks like a larger version of a COLT pocket hammerless.

It does make one think just how much it influenced the Tokarev?

The three dislikes are from Soviets

Thanks for showing me sexy guns, I really appreciate it

Looks like you've been holding onto this video from the same day last year

Boom

Wondering why they added a number to the serial number after 009 and didn't just continue with one zero in the beginning

This is an interesting pistol I'd not seen or heard of before. I can see this as a parallel to the Finns development or borrowing of the Soviet PPSh-43 design to create their own KP-44 submachine gun, in order to build more weapons faster and cheaper to meet the desperate wartime need. I'm wondering why they put so much effort and time into trying to design a new pistol, instead of just copying a pre existing model(maybe the German P-38?). Given the already mixed lot of handguns Finnish troops were carrying, from Lahti pistols, captured Soviet pistols and revolvers, and various German guns, wouldn't the addition of yet another gun have complicated things even more? Did these pistols at least share the same magazines as Lahti pistols, providing some interchangeability?

This is all very much like my tokarev

The Finnish on that gun is excellent...

9x18 is the upper limit for blow back design.

They're fit to the Finnish 'cause they eats their spinnach!

I'm not sure I could see that weld. Can you zoom in a bit?

Hi Ian

The Finns should have made the hi point C9!

Looks like the Burkov from MGS:V

So nothing will make a Soviet shit quicker than seeing a well made pistol?

the suggested videos at the end of this one were about bears

Finished in Finland at the finish of the Finnish/Soviet Union continuation war. They were to Russian to Finnish. Suomen Sisu

On a quick google search i can't find much info on this Birger guy... Apparently Birger is his first name and his surname was Linkomies, but even then i can't find much info on the guy. Seeing as he changed his name to Linkomies from Flick, it seems that he may have been an immigrant of some kind... Dunno, hard to find any info on him.

it's fun to watch when ur drunk lol

It looks ever so slightly like a PM to me.

Unless it is a brick like Hi Point, a 9x19 direct blowback feels kinda sketchy. Especially a WW2 Era pistol

On a similar subject ,have you ever seen a 1941 Australian Owen gun ?

I see so much... Hi-Point. I wonder if they pilfered off this design some...

Why didn't militaries make revolvers? Surely the whole frame of the pistol can be cast with low tolerances, and the cylinder, really the only machined surfaces need to be the inside of the cylinder and the inside of the barrel?

Would a modern gunsmith be able to modify or replace parts to eliminate the cartridge bulging problem?