2:58 Its cute how Ian accidentally said "Beryl" like a Pole would say it and then corrected himself

That giggle every time Ian says "Beryl barrel" is so adorable

You've been going thru Polish firearms recently and I like it

I've been waiting years for this one...

Victory does not lie in selling stuff to Nigeria: victory lies in getting paid for it....

In case anybody wondered, Z is "zabezpieczony" (safe) and o is "odbezpieczony" (fire)

Polish weapons seem really cool though I’ve never even seen one first hand. The Maroszek wz.38M is my favourite rifle of all time.

Can't wait for MSBS on Forgotten Weapons or 9-hole reviews

@2:59 the first pronunciation was actually closer to how we pronounce it in Poland :).

I’ve been in Poland for a vacation this whole month, it’s a nice coincidence to suddenly see content about it haha

bardzo fajne, dziękuje panie Ian McColumowski

Hey, you guys over there should make a video of a highly forgotten weapon: the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl

After the Tantal episode, I dreamed that Ian would also present Beryl in the far future, but I didn't think it would happen so fast :)

As a representative of Polish Armed Forces: Yes. Good.

Finally Ian got his hands on a Beryl! I was soo eager to see that! Now I'm waiting for an MSBS episode.

The rifling in the barryl? Absolutely top notch

There is no "ium" in chemical elements in polish. So beryl, tantal uran, tytan(titanium) etc.

After serving for almost two years in Poland, now Ian does the Tantal and Beryl. But, I love it! While there I got to handle the Beryl and MSBS Grot. So, now, like everyone else, I’m waiting for the Grot video! There are a few units in the Polish Land Forces using AKMs, but those are rear echelon units. I’ve got some good pictures from local military museums in their armories with Polish firearms from WW2 to present. I can’t wait to get a chance to go back to Poland.

1. Many of them keep the Tantal-style selector lever, 2. The rifle Ian is showing us is already adapted for the optics rail. The little vertical peg on the stock mount and two cuts in the rear sight block are there to allow attachment of this rail. Early we had a weaver that was lower, but didn't allow for use of irons from below the mounted optic. New rail is a picatinny, and it gives an ever larger HOB. It's overall an adequate rifle for an evolution of an AK, if only THE FUCKING HANDGUARD RETAINING LEVER STAYS SHUT UNDER RECOIL

Love the polish ak content. Has given me some ideas for a personal build. Especially that beryl folding stock. Keep up the good work Ian!

I've shot it a few times at the range and it was quite nice

5:35 saw a video a while back where some soldiers had the dust covers off already, before firing the rifle grenades, it all makes sense now!

Weird I go to Poland for 2 weeks and gun Jesus starts cranking out the polish weapon videos...🤔😂

So cool to see a video on this! When I was in Poland in 06-07 this is the rifle they were issued. I saw them in both full size and carbine lengths, as well as with an under-barrel 40mm launcher.

Haha, I love like in 3:00 he properly pronounced the name of it, and than immediately corrected to polish-american pronunciation

When I saw the Tantal video last week, I got really excited about the possibility that there might be a Beryl video following... And now you uploaded one on my Birthday!! What coincidence, after following this channel for 4 years! Thank You! That's the most thrilling video for me since you got your hands on a full auto FAMAS! Keep up the good work, I look forward to see some day every gun covered I can only dream of

Tantal: done Beryl: done MSBS: when?

The unstressed pronunciation like "berrill" is much closer to the Polish pronunciation than "beREEL"

Thank you for this. When I was building Tantals 10 years ago, the Beryl items were fun to use, hand guards and rails. Pricey but fun to use on builds.

I find Ian trying to pronounce Polish names (for both people and firearms) greatly entertaining

The FB Beryl had a capable of Attaching a GPBO-40 Grenade Launcher that uses a Grip and Side Opening version like M320.

So, next up is MSBS Grot?

The mental gymnastics behind having a quick detach front grip in order to accept an underbarrel grenade launcher on a rifle that is capable of firing rifle grenades, then telling the designer to put an uncomfortably short stock on it, because they want to have a long barrel while at the same time have a short overall length because of small gun racks. Which they don't want to change lol Ah, Eastern Europe, I love that I was born here

I love the automatic subtitles on these videos. They change the spelling of "tantal" and "beryl" every single time.

Thank you very much Ian! I can't wait for you to grill the MSBS and all its modularity, as well as the tendency to fire when dropped!

I’m glad I have one! Very nice AK. Thanks for doing a video on these.

Thank you very much! I really appreciate the story of Polish weapons.

I have waited a long time for this episode. Thank you.

interesting that they kept functionality for both rifle Grenades and an underslung grenade launcher.

Polish firearms are very interesting, liking this series a lot, thanks for enlightening me, as always. Blessed are the followers of GJ indeed, for they shall learn something new every day...

Poland 🇵🇱 does not receive enough credit for their small arms.

beautiful AK! Job well done Poland.

Thank you for reviewing Polish arms! It means a lot

I love your videos. I watch almost all of them ;) cheers from Poland!

Was waiting for this one, sure enough saw it only 5 min after release, nice.

TFW Ian keeps complaining about how short the stock is but my short ass is over here like "that sounds perfect"

If this is the current service rifle for Poland than I can attest they're actually pretty nice to shoot. Was on rotation in Ppland and we did a foreign weapons familiarization where they shot our M4 and M9 and we shot their rifle and pistol.

Pity that poles haven't used Beryll helmets. Or that soviets haven't used this rifle. I really want to see if it would have caused some people in logistics to have grey hair:D

He finally got one boys!

Maybe do a vid on MSBS GROT if you could put your hands on a civilian model

another great video!! keep 'em coming!

Cant wait to see the range video for this baby!! Hope there will be one!!

it's such a nice looking ak

Very nice quality rifle. Those sights are dope

Very interesting story. Would be cool one day to see fully kitted, newest pattern Beryl with some sweet optics and barrel attachments. And ofc configurable stock.

Thank you , Ian .

In 90 in Polish Army we use AKS and Beryl all together

Father of my buddy from the uni was serving in Afganistan (he is now a retired captain), so I ended up with bunch of stories told from there. As far as he (the captain) was concerned, his and his troops biggest and major complain with the rifle was how ungodly hot it was getting in the local climate, to the point it was hard to just hold it properly without unpleasant feeling in your hands and cheek. Not from firing, but just from the ambient heat of the air and sun exposure. The Army never managed to address it properly until the full withdraw of Polish contingent. Which is funny, because he had a lot of harsh words to say about just about any part of the equipment and various vehicles, but his only complain about Beryl was just being too hot to handle comfortably. Also, some tid-bits of trivia I've managed to find while searching through mid-to-late 00s Polish articles dedicated to Beryl performance in "foreign missions" - They ALL list as serious issues in combat deployment the variety of things that were later addressed by production changes to the gun (different safety, extended mag release, transparent mags etc). Which is funny in the Polish style of humour, since "normally", the top brass would just ignore the complains and keep issuing the gun without any modifications. - Troopers in Iraq (but not Afganistan) apparently complained a lot about the stock being TOO LONG, rather than too short, because due to the nature of the deployment, the rifle as a whole was too long for urban combat they were often engaged in. - The introduction of Picatinny rail took extra three years, not because the military didn't want to nor there wasn't demand for better optics, but because handful of bureaucratic commissions were pushing papers between each other and there was also an issue of rivality among few politicians pushing said papers... and another conflict between potential manufacturers that would be tasked with needed modifications, slowing the adoption into a crawl and re-starting the paperwork from a scratch at certain point.

Oh my gosh, I was thinking about this today!

Mini Beryl video soon?? I know it would basically be the same but would still be a good video for the future with an SBR with all original military setup!

thank you for this one!

How does he learn so many nuances about every gun he covers?

It is a pity that you did not present the last version of the Beryl rifle, because this one is from the first years of production and looks like the zastava m21. Now the Polish army is starting to use the new Grot modular rifle.

i can't imagine doing this 6:55 at night in the dark, with probably thick gloves on, or/and its raining AND under fire, without breaking the spring

Hell, Ian. How am I supposed to start telecommuting on time, if you upload a video every day at exactly 08:00 (GMT-4)?

0:14 'Beryl' is stressed on the first syllable. 2:34 Are we going to completely ignore Galil, Zastava M21 as well as AK-101 & -102? These are all military designs, after all. 6:53 This is in fact a standard AKM (or more precisely, AKMP) design, it's called _6Ch3_ (6Ч3) and is still produced in a slightly modified form for AK-74M variants. 9:17 I bet it's fine with a winter coat and armour vest on.

Aesthetic of the rifle is very very nice!

Good Stuff 😃 History is one of my favorites subjects

Been using Beryl C during my military service. Good, reliable and resistant. And easy to maintain. Still has some ex soviet drawbacks (like aiming way below the target to shoot in the target)

neat video on an interesting 5.56 varient...with an AK background

I like videos like this. I always find it interesting when you look at non-US/non-ruskie arms. Here you got an AK meeting 5.56 nato cartridge which I find to be a bit of quite the crossover.

any day Ian posts an AK video is a good day

There you have "A" version of Beryl Ian. Now polish troops uses version "C".

I tried to trade my issue M-16A2 for a Beryl, got no takers. The example here doesn't look as good as those I saw Polish soldiers carrying in Iraq. Seriously high quality! Also, Polish 5.56 mags are straighter than 7.62/5.45 mags, similar to East German AK-74 mags and Yugo M84 mags--easier to pull out of pouches.

Whoho ! Second Polish firearm in recent videos ... and it's one that I have been issued. Nice

Thought it was odd the later Beryls came with the adjustable stock that could not be folded 🤔 Couldn't they design stock to do both?

Tantal, Beryl... Should we expect MSBS Grot soon?

I hope Fabryka Broni invites you to Poland to try out the Grot!

If you pronounce it as Beryl for those of us in the UK of a certain age it reminds us of Beryl the Peril a comic book character 😊

Thanks to the video game PUBG, millions of people think that the standard caliber for the Beryl is 762

Thanks

It would be awesome to see a APS underwater rifle.

The optics rail is not a part of any modernisation, it can (and always could) be attached to any pattern of the rifle including the one presented in the video. Over the years there has been a couple of optics rails patterns, the most modern ones are slightly taller standard M1913 rails that allow co witness with the iron sights, the previous ones were Weaver, both of them are in use but, regardless of that the rail has always been a part that is shipped with the rifle to the military. The muzzle device has never been changed.

I really like the look of this.

I want one of the modern polish AK’s in 556 so f’n bad

There was a detachment from the Polish Army at a southern FOB in Iraq. And being a gun guy, I asked one of them about his rifle. Through basic english and a lot of sign langauge he explained that Beryl was better than AK. AK *spits, mimes shooting, holds up hands like holding basketball* AK. Beryl *grins, mines shooting, holds of single tightly closed fist* BERYL!!

I never knew about the elemental names. That's pretty dope

There was part of Beryl chambered in 7,62 M43 called M762 and produced in Poland as well. I think that they are still produced in small amounts, but i'm not sure.

Ian probably won't read this, as there's 816 comments so far, but Nigeria doesn't have to adopt Beryl to 7.62x39mm, as Radom/Fabryka Broni makes Beryl chambered in this calibre for years - it's called Beryl M762. So it is more likely that Nigeria has just purchased this design.

Great video, though the 2004 pattern is called Beryl B, along with modernizations from 2009 and 2014 being Beryl C and D respectively, though notably the D pattern (foldable collapsing stock and AR-15 magazines) was never adopted be the military because the AR magazines have proven to be less reliable than desired. What is also notable is that the Polish Military declared the Beryl unupgradeable after the 2009 modification.

Thank you gun Jesus for making my lunch more interesting today!

Nice video

The scenario that I feel would be plausible with the grenade launcher. Swapping launcher between squad members in transit where you don’t have the room to field strip it.

6:55 has got to be the least militarily acceptable front sight I have ever seen.

Looking at some of the equipement of the Polish military, its rather interesting seeing all the polish designed firearms they use (or used). Its like poland to soviet russia was like "Ok if we're going to be part of the party we're going to do our own thing" (either that or Russia was like "Yeah poland, your in our house now but you get nothing! You lose!")

Love ur vids Ian :)

There was also a trial folding/adjustable stock. Had an opportunity to buy one some years back but the price was too steep.

Can you please do more on muskets or early firearms? I have been waiting for a new video like that forever.

2:58 you said Beryl correctly right there

Maybe GROT now. Newest polish gun.