Snabb Semiauto Conversion of a Dutch Mannlicher

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Snabb was a Swedish company created to market a system for converting bolt action rifles into semiautomatic rifles. The system was patented in the US in 1938, making this one of the very last attempts at such a conversion. It appears that the company made a substantial number of overtures to many different nations in search of a customer, as Snabb conversions can be found built on a wide variety of rifles - several patterns of Mauser, the US M1917 Enfield, 1903 Springfield, and in this particular case a Dutch Mannlicher. Not surprisingly, no country was shortsighted enough to actually convert its rifles into Snabb semiautos - you will understand why when you see how the rifle works!
The basic system is a gas trap one, but complicated by the use of a two-part system of interlocking ratchet teeth so that the forward blast of gas from firing pulls the muzzle cap forward, but it is the rearward return of the muzzle cap which actually propels the bolt rearward. The bolt remains a two-lug rotating type, with the manual handle removed and a screw cam added to the rear to convert the rearward movement of the operating rod into a rotary movement to unlock the bolt.
The strange stock is necessitated by the extension of the receiver to fully enclose the bolt's travel (not necessary with a manually operated bolt action rifle). With that extension, the trigger remains too far forward for a conventional grip, and a pistol grip is required. Snabb probably used the thumbhole style because it is stronger than a standalone grip. On this particular rifle, the original follower in the magazine is missing, but the rifle appears to have remained fed by 5-round Mannlicher clips. In addition, the rifle has been rebarreled in .303 British as part of the conversion, for unknown reasons.
Finally, it is worth pointing out that there is no "Snabb" marking anywhere on conversions like this one. They are quite distinctive and easy to recognize, but very difficult to research without knowning the name in the first place.
Thanks to the Dutch National Military Museum for allowing me access to film this rifle! Check them out at: www.nmm.nl
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@linksbro1 6 жыл бұрын

♫The gas is connected to the... gas trap!♫ ♫The gas trap's connected to the.... ratchet teeth!♫ ♫The ratchet teeth are connected to the... other ratchet teeth!♫ ♫The other ratchet teeth are connected to the... guide rod!♫ ♫The guide rod's connected to the... bolt carrier!♫ ♫The bolt carrier's connected to the... bolt by these ears!♫ ♫These Snabbs ♫ These Snabbs ♫ These Snabbs♫

@bchin4005 6 жыл бұрын

Linksbro Thank you, that's precisely what was going through my head while watching this

@machintelligence 6 жыл бұрын

Product of Goldburg engineering and Acme mfg.

@P0LYPRO 6 жыл бұрын

Exactly what i was thinking

@vaclav_fejt 6 жыл бұрын

Which melody does it belong to?

@3dog100 6 жыл бұрын

Václav Fejt American Country song from 2003, it's titled "Drinkin Bone"

@jameshealy4594 6 жыл бұрын

Next from the Snabb corporation, boats converted into helicopters with the minor addition of 18,416 parts. Please note heliboat will not actually float in converted form.

@toggtlas7099 6 жыл бұрын

😂

@twirlipofthemists3201 6 жыл бұрын

nor fly.

@scwhk1 6 жыл бұрын

There were actually quite a few of those so call flying car design in the 70's which were exactly like that. You need a lot of extra parts and quite a lot of work to change between a car and a plane.

@XShifty0311X 6 жыл бұрын

Sad Doggo working as intended.

@ethanspaziani5269 4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@anchorbait6662 6 жыл бұрын

Q: What's behind the secret trap door? A: Solid wood and disappointment :(

@kevinsullivan3448 6 жыл бұрын

I'm definitely going to start using secret doors with blank walls behind them...

@indramatic 6 жыл бұрын

the story of my life

@konobuzoggu239 6 жыл бұрын

indramatic gods damn it, you stole my joke

@randywatson8347 6 жыл бұрын

Firearms quote of the year!

@soulismadclearinmind8396 6 жыл бұрын

I spat my coffee half way across the room, laughing. Great delivery, Ian.

@falloutlover5443 6 жыл бұрын

Ian: "And nobody fell for it." Me: "Well that's a bit harsh, they were just trying to market their idea." *sees how the thing works* Me: "Okay that was predatory."

@IonoTheFanatics 6 жыл бұрын

yeah, at first i thought... looks cool, and hey who wouldn't want semi auto rifle at a fraction of the price of new ones.. then ian start showing the disassembled parts and i thought, ok... that might be a problem... and by the end of it, just.. NOPE... sorry, they were right, there's no way in hell anyone would take it for the military.

@WineScrounger 6 жыл бұрын

Iono Sama or anything else 😂

@ineednochannelyoutube5384 6 жыл бұрын

+Iono Sama (IonoTheFanatic) Whats sad is that the straight pull actuon of the 1895 gives itself naturally for an easy conversion. Just drill a hole and mount a piaton that holds the bolt in a vice. barley any new metal parts and ptobably even some of the furniture can be kept.

@polygondwanaland8390 6 жыл бұрын

I need no channel youtube! Funny enough, this would actually be a decent system, if you threw the entire front end into the garbage and just made it short stroke gas piston!

@michalsoukup1021 4 жыл бұрын

@@WineScrounger We know that Ian would gladly buy one if he found it at an acceptable price at some pawnshop that does not know what they are selling... Now, would he bring it to two gun match?

@chitoryu12 5 жыл бұрын

Ian never insults a gun, so you know he means it when he calls a gun "military sabotage to adopt it".

@anzaca1 Жыл бұрын

Your haven't watched him talk about the Cobray Terminator.

@mrmors1344 Жыл бұрын

@@anzaca1 that isn't a gun. that is a pair of pipes, a spring, and some plastic.

@Maddin1313 6 жыл бұрын

Take out the screw that holds in the gastrap to launch the gastrap at the enemy, and end them rightly!

@thejohn6912 5 жыл бұрын

Maddin1313 then use the gun more effectively as a bolt action

@buildingblocks51 5 жыл бұрын

Good "end them rightly" reference

@absoluteinfinity1197 6 жыл бұрын

Ian at 9:54 "We now see that exactly why this was never adopted by anybody". This is the only understandable sentence in the disassembly.

@Pcm979 6 жыл бұрын

15:49 - I dub it 'Snabbotage'.

@cacheman 6 жыл бұрын

This is top-shelf.

@franciscoschwarz6451 4 жыл бұрын

😂

@CyborgPilord 4 жыл бұрын

*cue Beastie Boys

@ZGryphon 3 жыл бұрын

I can't stand it. I know you planned it.

@MrDoctorCrow 6 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, Snabb were also hired as the architects for the Drowned City of R'lyeh.

@Seelenschmiede 6 жыл бұрын

MrDoctorCrow 😂😂😂 🖒🖒🐙

@Sheerwater909 6 жыл бұрын

I don't see a problem with it. Assign every soldier two rifles and a personal armourer. Shoot one while the other is being serviced. Problem solved! :)

@ArtyTheta 6 жыл бұрын

John Brooks Squire, hand me my weapon!

@ineednochannelyoutube5384 6 жыл бұрын

You might as well have them in full plate at that point.

@alpollick4599 6 жыл бұрын

John Brooks - Not 2, 4 should do it.

@TheRogueWolf 6 жыл бұрын

Personal armorer? Heck, I think you'd need a NASCAR pit crew!

@ayebraine 5 жыл бұрын

I stared in disbelief. One thing to have a weirdo design, mind works in mysterious ways. But another is to make op rod and bolt carrier that are connected by _two nuts and a washer_. So how do I disassemble this? First, you need 2 different gauge wrenches...

@wendigo1619 4 жыл бұрын

The way this gun goes together makes me think it was meant for a nobleman with a group of private armorers to service his weapon

@pasty734 6 жыл бұрын

How can it be cheaper than buying a new rifle? In the end you change: the stock, the trigger mechanism, you heavily modify the bolt and the receiver and then you add the gas system which in this case is as complex as hell ad finally you might want to change the barrell as well...all of this to keep what? The rear sight?

@peterfranzen3538 6 жыл бұрын

pasty734 I was thinking that my self so much complex machining of new parts I don't think you'll save much time or money with this monster.

@kevinsullivan3448 6 жыл бұрын

Well, for this particular rifle they replaced the barrel, but for a normal conversion the barrel, upper receiver, magazine, and trigger group would be intact and the bolt would only be modified.

@ineednochannelyoutube5384 6 жыл бұрын

This is a straight pull. You could get away with just a new gas system and half a wooden furniture.

@MarvinCZ 6 жыл бұрын

I need no channel youtube! This is a turn-bolt rifle, not straight-pull. The "Dutch Mannlicher" or Geweer M.95 is not the same rifle as the Austro-Hungarian M1985 rifle.

@hanserfratz 4 жыл бұрын

It would "save" money on r&d development and testing and army trials and you wouldn't have to make them all from scratch. Still not worth it at all

@Mrgunsngear 6 жыл бұрын

crazy design

@matthayward7889 6 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous looking stock! “Just solid wood and disappointment” made me proper belly laugh 😂

@WineScrounger 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Hayward ikr. Why didn’t they just drill a hole?

@louisbeerreviews8964 6 жыл бұрын

I don’t know

@politickz6591 4 жыл бұрын

WineScrounger considering how complicated this thing is I wouldn’t be surprised if that would completely compromise the entire system

@skogen5357 2 жыл бұрын

The Incredible Irony of this weapon being called the fast conversion (fast in swedish = snabb) while in reality its more complicated than nuclear power plant is just hilarious

@afberglund2764 Жыл бұрын

First the title of the video is confusing and then the swedish companys namn was snabb 😂

@crushedcranium 6 жыл бұрын

"Solid wood and disappointment" hahaha 😂

@jamesfieweger8648 6 жыл бұрын

Glorywhole, exactly what I was thinking

@StrongZeroPowerHour 6 жыл бұрын

I scrolled down knowing this comment would be here

@adamleazer4266 5 жыл бұрын

My porn name...

@LawkzBro 6 жыл бұрын

*Just solid wood and disappointment* 4:55

@LawkzBro 6 жыл бұрын

the longer you explain the inner workings of this gun the less i understand, can someone confirm if this is normal?

@rockchalk4815 6 жыл бұрын

Pedro Vanderlei Can't wait for the t-shirt of this quote.

@jameshealy4594 6 жыл бұрын

I was totally lost at several points, but I stuck it out and got there in the end. The simple version is - everything about this is terrible and that's why nobody bought any. Plus something about pistons and springs. ;)

@joelmuller358 6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like my morning routine.

@kalashloy4179 6 жыл бұрын

oh SNABB!

@VegasCyclingFreak 6 жыл бұрын

Granted, it's not real practical for military use but the engineering behind this design is pretty clever stuff

@budzas 6 жыл бұрын

Yo dawg I heard you like rods with springs so i put a rod to push a rod under spring with a spring to push a rod.

@VegasCyclingFreak 6 жыл бұрын

lol

@clod2692 6 жыл бұрын

to me this designs seems all but clever. Not an engineer, but man... complicated things aren't always better

@VegasCyclingFreak 6 жыл бұрын

It's not a design from the ground up, it's a conversion. If it was designed from scratch, I'd agree that it's not a great design. But it IS a conversion.

@vguyver2 6 жыл бұрын

Vegas Cycling Freak its functional and an impressive feat for the designer to make so many conversion kits for various guns. Unfortunately, not practical for anyone. Still, an impressive attempt.

@criffermaclennan 6 жыл бұрын

The word convoluted springs to mind

@Metalkillerification 6 жыл бұрын

Springs haha

@ashtray4757 6 жыл бұрын

Snabb = fast in Swedish

@Maydupnem777 6 жыл бұрын

quick*

@Gustaf359 6 жыл бұрын

it is the same

@TheSwedeMcCoy 6 жыл бұрын

As well as "rapid" and possibly some other synonyms as the English language have more words than Swedish.

@erikenqvist9081 6 жыл бұрын

Quick would be kvick in Swedish.

@HunnenDoog 6 жыл бұрын

rapid in swedish

@BigSwede7403 6 жыл бұрын

Oh so that is what "Mechanicly interesting but hell no!" looks like.

@millwaterpublishing1387 6 жыл бұрын

Another one from the Rube Goldberg School of Firearms Design.

@carlkolthoff5402 6 жыл бұрын

It's stunning to me to know this is a swedish invention, considering we had mandatory conscript military service for almost the entire 1900s. This means more or less every grown man in the country would've had field service experience of rifles. None of us with fond memories of blindfolded disassembly in the snow would want that complicated solution!

@kennyvancleave2422 6 жыл бұрын

So basically once your rifle gets dirty the soldier would than throw his rifle away. Because damn, what a mess of a weapon.

@jameshealy4594 6 жыл бұрын

"Sarge, I'm just going to put this here rifle in the lake over there to uh..... clean it."

@victorwaddell6530 6 жыл бұрын

Kenny VanCleave And it fires corrosive primed ammunition . No way to avoid cleaning it once it's fired .

@blackirish781 6 жыл бұрын

This would be a terrible weapon to be issued. It would probably be responsible for a lot of desertions.

@Kepe 3 жыл бұрын

Well to be honest, cleaning doesn't seem that difficult actually. You need to remove the screw holding the gas trap in its place (no tools required), pull off the gas trap and then you can clean everything you need to clean. And you can lock the bolt open to clean the chamber and bolt face.

@Ganuesthai 6 жыл бұрын

Open the butt trap door Hal. I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. What's the problem? If I did so, we would be very disappointed.

@aquadragon1 6 жыл бұрын

When i was a kid this museum, or rather the army part of it, was right across the street (and a narrow canal) from my childhood home. I spend many a rainy afternoon there. And my so far life long history interest was born.... I distinctly remember this one. thanks for bringing up fond childhood memories Ian.

@thelegendaryklobb2879 6 жыл бұрын

The Howell conversion for the SMLE suddenly seems more appealing to me...

@wingracer1614 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah this thing makes the Howell look like an AK

@CThyran 6 жыл бұрын

The bare basics of the Howel could be a good conversion, it's rather simple just crude and needs to be sleeker like just moving the bolt forward so it doesn't hit you in the face when it cycles.

@matusfekete6503 6 жыл бұрын

I immediately liked the M1915 Howell conversion. This one... not so much.

@krpajda 6 жыл бұрын

It's so impractical, I want four of them.

@wingracer1614 6 жыл бұрын

You would need four of them to have any chance of firing four rounds in field conditions.

@thejay8963 Жыл бұрын

Good, you're gonna need to cannibalize three for parts.

@Jimtheneals 2 жыл бұрын

A perfect example of just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Out of all Ian's videos I've seen I think this is the most complicated gun.

@donweatherwax9318 Жыл бұрын

Check out his video on the SIG AK-53.

@johncashwell1024 4 жыл бұрын

It's not just complicated it appears to have been designed by that overly complicated mousetrap designer Rube Goldberg. That gas operated pinball plunger system has got to be rather unique in that it adds, at least, 1 more (useless) step in semi-auto reloading process than other systems. The gas trap piston loads the spring which is then released (just like pulling a pinball plunger to shoot the ball), which then hits another piston which hits the bolt carrier, which continues backward (thus loading the return spring and ejecting the spent cartridge) until it stops, the return spring takes over and pulls the bolt carrier forward back into battery and picks up and loads a fresh cartridge along the way. It is obvious that no country was willing to "sabotage", as Ian said, their own army by saddling them with this 'thing'. I imagine that under battlefield conditions dirt would quickly find it's way into the working parts and take it of action. Once that happens, all those small bits are going to be impossible to keep up with and not lose. This weapon was nowhere near ready to be shown to prospective buyers. It needed a lot more development time. Sure, hindsight is 20/20, as it is said, but come on, it's pretty obvious that this rifle was not ready for prime time!

@lucianene7741 5 жыл бұрын

It may be complicated and impractical but it's pretty ingenious from the mechanical point of view. What it does is replacing the kinetic energy of a heavy bolt carrier with the potential energy of a stiff spring to cycle the action. It may not make a lot of sense to trade a little weight for a lot of complexity but let's remember that armies have stringent weight requirements for service rifles and this is probably why this conversion kit was conceived like that in the first place.

@MrLukealbanese 6 жыл бұрын

Probably Phosphor Bronze for the bolt extension. Great video, insanely complicated gun.

@nstauf 5 жыл бұрын

The action is, to me, quite clever and straight forward. The various interactions could definitely use some improvement. The same type of improvement that was done to many of the other military concepts presented on this program. Imagine, for example, they had adapted gas port and a long stroke gas piston in place of the forward pulling ratchet mechanism. Suddenly you've got a bolt action semi-auto. This is one of the more thought provoking designs I've seen in a while.

@coreyg7575 6 жыл бұрын

Solid wood and disappointment

@Mrboombastic266 6 жыл бұрын

Spit Flush Every one of us after a first date that ends up with a kiss on the cheek lol

@BrutusTheOwl 6 жыл бұрын

A Book coming soon on forgotten and failed weapons.

@samh1022 6 жыл бұрын

Spit Flush my Friday night 😂😋

@WolfPawArmoury 6 жыл бұрын

Giggity

@kylosalvesen 6 жыл бұрын

"Just solid wood and disappointment" the title of my autobiography

@johngibson2884 6 жыл бұрын

It looks like one of those Frankenstein converted set guns off the Star Wars 1976 set like Solo's Mauser C-96 ....very far out look

@Za7a7aZ 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the netherlands Ian...happy to see you again.

@raoulmoes6278 6 жыл бұрын

i was there last week. it's a great museum and an incredible collection.

@WhattAreYouSaying 4 жыл бұрын

The Snabb semi-auto conversions are so awesome. And very interesting. There is a lot off different bolt action rifles converted to semi-auto by Snabb. Really fascinating.

@clancywoodard310 6 жыл бұрын

your videos are pretty awesome you show rifles and other firearms I've never heard of

@DaveSmiffy 6 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of Hellraiser. When the puzzle of the crazy Swedish rifle's assembly /disassembly is finally solved Ian will be pulled down into Hell (or IKEA same difference)

@kenhelmers2603 6 жыл бұрын

What a mess! Actually an ingenious method of conversion. Hard to believe it was cheaper than whole new rifles! Thanks for sharing it with us :)

@FREQ1989 4 жыл бұрын

I watched this 2 and a half years after this was posted, and i bet given that much time, this headache of a firearm still couldnt be fully taken apart lol.

@The_Assassin_of_The_Gray 6 жыл бұрын

If insanity was a rifle . . .

@ag111ga 6 жыл бұрын

This, actually, isn't as bad as it looks. The system could easily be simplified by getting rid of the gastrap contraption and replacing it with regular gas block and piston, the rest is very interesting and it would probably work just fine.

@Pcm979 6 жыл бұрын

To be fair to Snabb, when he was making this a lot of militaries were dead-set against drilling holes in barrels for gas ports. They thought it'd wreck the gun's service life. But you're still right; even if he was constrained by that to a gas trap system, it could've been a heck of a lot simpler.

@vrisbrianm4720 6 жыл бұрын

Even the Garand had a gas trap system at first, but it was at least using a much simpler long stroke system to operate the bolt

@dj1NM3 6 жыл бұрын

Where in the Garand M1 gas was trapped and routed off to drive a piston backwards, rather than push the whole muzzle cap forwards and require some Rubegolbergium to push the bolt back with.

@JonJonGTA 6 жыл бұрын

I am actually interested to see that 1 hour of disassembly if you recorded it Ian. Maybe in another video?

@bongobrandy6297 6 жыл бұрын

Gun Jesus meets Rube Goldbergenberger!

@stevelewis7263 6 жыл бұрын

You have to love this conversion for it's sheer insanity and perversity.

@DanielESmith-iz7lx 6 жыл бұрын

What a night mare! Thanks for your vids!

@elitearbor 6 жыл бұрын

Well... I now know what I've got planned for that beat up, sporterized rifle I haven't used in years. Rebarrel, and convert. Could be a fun project!

@FaithforMoney 6 жыл бұрын

Nightmare was an understatement. Taking Ian hours to strip this thing is probably the world record for fastest time. Still it is fascinating to see how such an odd and impractical design works.

@vchalmel 6 жыл бұрын

This is one of the finest lego technic sets :D

@tomalexander4327 6 жыл бұрын

A video to be proud of, for sure.

@Tobascodagama 6 жыл бұрын

This is like the apotheosis of all failed self-loading conversion projects. Sold as being cheaper than new SLRs but isn't actually that much cheaper? Check! Conversion basically involves replacing all the parts to the point that it might as well be a new SLR? Check! An order of magnitude more complicated than either the original rifle or a new SLR built from the ground up? Check!

@44WarmocK77 6 жыл бұрын

Impossible to field-strip by an ordinary Grunt in the field and under certain circumstances (heat of battle or imminent attack) even by an approved army gunsmith? Check!

@aritakalo8011 6 жыл бұрын

44WarmocK77 if I understood correct first part of field strip would be to remove the handguard band held in place by two "you use these to assemble a Swiss clock" level small screws. And that is the first part. Because to bolt carrier doesn't detach without detaching the stock, which doesn't detach without removing the top handguard. That is before getting to disassembly of the double spring gas trap rube Goldberg machine with no alignment rail to make sure the racket teeth don't just randomly disalign, say if the opp roads small holding screw loosens just a little. Yeah. Solid design.

@ayebraine 5 жыл бұрын

@@aritakalo8011 And you need two wrenches to remove the bolt carrier! One for the two nuts with a washer (!), another for the cap. Or swear profusely and strip the things with pliers I guess.

@Kepe 3 жыл бұрын

@@aritakalo8011 Why would you need to disassemble the entire rifle, though? The "gas system" consists of one tool-less screw and the gas trap itself. The spring and ratchet system doesn't touch any gasses from firing the gun, so there's really no need to get to those parts for regular maintenance. Field stripping doesn't mean disassembling the entire gun into the smallest possible components. Field stripping is disassembling the gun as far as is needed to be able to clean and maintain the stuff that needs to be cleaned and maintained regularly. The H&K G11 is a great example of this. It has an incredibly elaborate firing and loading mechanism that really looks like a Swiss clock. Field stripping the G11 is basically just removing the barrel and action from its plastic shell. The action itself was only to be touched by people at the armory.

@nagelfar8715 6 жыл бұрын

Fantasitc video ian :) i remember i e-mailed you about this a few years ago!

@gfhjkfghj4208 6 жыл бұрын

Oh, Snabb! That's one overcomplicated Lego kit.

@thewaraboo2824 6 жыл бұрын

...Wow... This might be in contention with the AN-94 for the most complex gun you've featured thus far. Now you need to feature an M85 machine gun and show how the US does complexity.

@5647mhjgt 6 жыл бұрын

AN-94 is far more insane IMO. This thing at least lacks a cuckoo-clock behind the dust-cover, or whatever that thing was - i kind of blacked out from shock while watching AN-94 disassembly.

@Hubert_Cumberdale_ 5 жыл бұрын

@@5647mhjgt cuckoo clock lmoa

@ScottKenny1978 4 жыл бұрын

I guess this video came out before Ian did the G11. The G11 beats the an94 in complexity.

@theacme3 4 жыл бұрын

@@ScottKenny1978 if you take away the "3 shots fired before recoil is felt" from the g11 it is a relatively simple system for caseless ammo. It just does a lot of stuff at the same time.

@davidresetarits5616 4 жыл бұрын

@@theacme3 The G11 may be easier to disassemble than an AN-94, but the "bolt" is an engineers nightmare.

@thegoldencaulk2742 6 жыл бұрын

The Snabb is one of those pinterest darlings that comes up but barely gets talked about. That changes today.

@thegoldencaulk2742 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I can see why nobody talks about it.

@mgkleym 6 жыл бұрын

Because nobody understands how the damn thing works?

@Calvin_Coolage 6 жыл бұрын

That certainly is a stock.

@Luke-sw5gz 3 жыл бұрын

Man if only you had another original Manlicher rifle beside this one! Seeing the comparison side by side would've been awesome! But great video non the less! I know this is a two year old.video too but I've been non stop binge watching your channels for days now! So if you happen to see this comment (doubtful of that) but love the content and keep it coming! I'm sure it's only a matter of time before KZfaq comes after sadly ☹️ but fingers crossed that never happens! But I'm sure they already keep all the money you make from these videos (ad revenue I'd guess) bunch of dang crooks! I'll be supporting you on patron from now on!

@ArnoSchmidt70 6 жыл бұрын

Whow. The museum is just 100 miles away from there I live and I never heard of it. I will visit it in spring.

@Yorihime 6 жыл бұрын

I saw one of these things in a French gunshop along with a fully functional MARS pistol. Gonna try to ask if I can get a closer look on it. However it's a Gewehr 98 conversion which is slightly different I guess.

@pietrotacconelli8311 6 жыл бұрын

Such engineer. Many parts. Much fire power.

@tutes0133 6 жыл бұрын

Why is anyone ignoring the fact of what a gorgeous gun it actually is and that's not even talking about the engineering involved. Impressive and so absurdly overcomplicated I can't help but see myself in it.

@JB-mw5rg 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed that the museum is epic!

@bagniacz3264 2 жыл бұрын

What a neat little conversion they got there! All they changed was: - stock - recevier - bolt assembly - trigger mechanism - added gas trap, few more springs and a operating rod - swap barrel for a barrel taken out from another gun That's actually smart, why bother converting a gun, if you can make almost completly new one, just worse?

@toomanyhobbies2011 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that really has a LOT of bolt and receiver modifications. Might as well just build a new semi auto. Can't imagine field stripping it. What did Snabb do after this failed?

@MultiRandom12 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty impressive machining

@alfredvonschlieffen6813 6 жыл бұрын

Such a cool gun!

@spacemanmoe5622 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dutch national museum! Thanks Ian!

@MrCarGuy 6 жыл бұрын

It's a very creative solution.

@teddyrex1963 6 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool futuristic look

@mr.boombalatty5724 4 жыл бұрын

Its amazing that they thought of this

@TheTkf012 6 жыл бұрын

This is about the most interesting conversion I’ve ever seen, even if it is wildly impractical.

@kamata93 6 жыл бұрын

If you are in the Netherlands still, come over to the Hague. I would love to meet you and any crew that you might have for a beer or something. *big fan intensifies*

@JohnSmith-dt1tw 6 жыл бұрын

That thing makes the Howell look like a sensible and elegant semi-auto conversion of a bolt action rifle

@jarink1 6 жыл бұрын

"We now see why this was adopted by nobody". Truer words were never spoken!!

@davidnicholas7516 Жыл бұрын

"What would a gun look like if it was designed by a Swedish gun designer who admired Rube Goldberg?" --asked no one ever, but this guy decided to answer the question anyway. As for why it wasn't adopted by any military, I'm sure I heard Elbonia bought some in the late '40s, long after they were obsolete.

@emilychb6621 4 жыл бұрын

That whole conversion is more complicated than simply building a completely new semiauto rifle... Why did they ever think this was something you could sell to penny pinching militaries?

@anzaca1 Жыл бұрын

Because many militaries were actively looking for cheap semi-auto conversions.

@xexecuterxx Жыл бұрын

@@anzaca1 and it aint cheap

@TheMalevolentSpoon 6 жыл бұрын

The gas trap's connected to the... spring teeth~ The spring teeth are connected to the... op-rod~ The op-rod's connected to the... bolt group~ Then that's how the gun goes boom~ I was thinking that as you traveled down the action of this over-engineered piece of history here.

@Pulsatyr 4 жыл бұрын

The design requires the use of one armorer to every rifleman, thus offsetting the savings of the conversion. It's almost as complex as a French machine gun.

@satchel5909 6 жыл бұрын

1:54 - 2:04 great camerawork for the sights.

@boris2457 4 жыл бұрын

Conversions like this are the perfect example why it´s sometime better to build a complete new system instead of upgrading old ones to the utmost.

@Zookeeper1963 6 жыл бұрын

Good lord, it’s like Dr. Seuss designed this rifle. A mark-1, model -0 push me, pull you rifle from the “Horton Hears a Who” conflict.

@davew472 6 жыл бұрын

Field stripping this under combat conditions would have been a nightmare

@stremmify 6 жыл бұрын

this looks exactly like Armand-Frédéric Faucon "Fusil Équilibré" and, Ian, as a francophile you must now a thing a two about that marvelous project ;-)

@SuperAWaC 6 жыл бұрын

snibbity snabb

@gworfish 4 жыл бұрын

"Solid wood and disappointment" Sounds like how most of my mornings start.

@groundmasterc 6 жыл бұрын

That furniture is super pretty.

@nickferries2777 5 жыл бұрын

This gun is a manifestation of making shit more difficult than it needs to be

@PsychoDad89 6 жыл бұрын

This makes the Mauser Selbstlader M1916 look like a simple gun

@Internetguy_L337_90D 2 жыл бұрын

cant blame the guy for trying, he had an interesting idea and got it in motion problem was no one wanted it.

@rationalmartian 6 жыл бұрын

It looks like it would have been an absolute delight in a muddy, moist jungle environment. Or even better in sandy desert environment, like Egypt, with all that fine dusty sand.

@fonkyman 6 жыл бұрын

looks awesome i want one

@albertobonnet1773 5 жыл бұрын

Impresive, as always (y)

@operatorspongebob4150 6 жыл бұрын

Ian like good job and stuff. (Prepare for fanboyism) love you vids keep up the work my man

@DoRC 6 жыл бұрын

It's hard to imagine that train wreck being much cheaper to produce than a new rifle.

@user-hz4zy2df8z 5 жыл бұрын

Ian is doing the work normal americans are not willing to do. buy a hat, support the channel.

@newdefsys 6 жыл бұрын

It certainly seems to be well made

@calvingreene90 2 жыл бұрын

Something needed to be done about the tools needed, and parts fitting in wrong but the design had some good points. It can't open the bolt when there is dangerous pressure in the chamber.