Fountain mode

That might be a good name for the war that were declared.

@@johnd2058 more petrol punk, away from steam, not much diesel either.

@@austinm.9832 ... which would make the Weeabo-version of The Great War titled, "Borchardt: More Petrol Punk, Away from Steam, (Not Much Diesel Either) Nightmare." Good like getting it past marketing. A title that length only has a chance in the JAV market: ボーチャードピストル：蒸気から離れた、より多くのガソリンパンク（ディーゼルもそれほど多くない）悪夢

@@johnd2058 if that was ever be made, i'd seriously want to watch it. I suspect its ending would be when Borchardt got NTR'd by Georg Luger.

@@arya31ful I'm going to plug my ears and scream now.

nice

Indestructible huh? Enough to survive +P ammunition or a 357 SIG conversion? Seriously though, that idea seems sick! (PS: Were these the inspiration for the Obregon?)

@@VerdeMorte I hate you for suggesting the idea of molesting a historical weapon by converting it to such an oddball modern caliber. That being said I am now quite intrigued about how that would actually look and work. It’s complicated

@@BoozMcGroove Sorry for that, I'm still limited by my vernacular vocabulary. I would be interested in a converted *reproduction* though at that point there wouldn't be much difference. There is also the idea of including features from other weaponry like the side grip loading Radium pistol or other odd variations...

AfrikaKorp42 thank you

Talk about cocking around!

The Roth chicken or roth cock. Nice.

The older term cock for the hammer on a flintlock or to cock a hammer comes from the same similie

Man, imagine if the Steyr 1912 had detachable box mags.

Certainly would have been interesting in California...

@@VerdeMorte you do know we have standard guns out here, right? the grip fin is the ONLY modification needed to make a gun compliant, and TONS of handguns are totally fine in cali with no modifications at all.

@@marcusborderlands6177 Copium

How about a WW2 Parabellum conversion? *How about a Modern 357 SIG conversion?*

@@VerdeMorte please someone make this happen

Taofledermaus, Ya gotta love 'Get Smart", that show could never get made today, It would offend too many precious snowflakes. It was made when people were allowed to have a sense of humor, and not be offended at everything they saw or heard.

They just HAD to insert the Mel Brooks reference...

I just got a Steyr-Hahn haven't shoot it yet will update when I do. For reference it's a 1915 serial block 8800J

@Frank McGovern I know they did. They forgot one critical thing. the original show was funny, the remake was just pathetic. One more thing, when you feel the need to resort to calling people names like "moron" and "douchebag" all you're doing is calling attention to how childish you are. Have a nice day.

@@jimvandemoter6961 People (Frank) resort to name calling when they have run out of viable arguments.

i second this! death to the hat!!! also, behind the scenes, some tongue and cheek humour fits you guys so well!

But the hat means I don't have to maintain my haor cut on top of everything else...

Someone get this guy a Kickstarter for his haircut! if Erik can do it...

I thought that the hat was to hide a bald patch, and was surprised to find out that Othais has a full head of hair.

@@DavidCowie2022 I just assumed he lacked the top half of his skull

4 real

The Norwegian replaced there Nagants revolvers M1893 with the M1911 in 1914. In 1915 they came to an agreement with FN to produce the Colt(!) M1911 at Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk with some minor adjustments that was later carried over to the M1911A1. Totaly 32.854 pistols were made until 1947!

@@gunnarkvinlaug7226 A friend of mine owns an original Kongsberg 1914 manufactured in 1924. It was the first pistol I ever shot, and I didn't find .45 ACP to be too bad to shoot even as a novice. It was fairly controllable. One thing that did hurt was the little loop at the bottom of the magazines, intended to be attached to a string or something to retain that mags. I tried loading a full mag into the gun with the slide closed and a round chambered, for a total of 8 rounds. Which meant I had to hit the bottom of the magazine to make it insert all the way. That hurt because of.that little loop thing.

now with extra added teutonic over engineering!

milcoll73 Dual ignition spark plugs

Glad we could help!

I blame Taofledermaus

In credit to Othias, he admits he is principally engaged in synthesis of secondary sources, so he is foremost a presenter of other peoples' original research. However, you would definitely be correct that he can be a bit too humble and not acknowledge how many original conclusions or discoveries he and Mae have.

SacoreyRugger why do you say that? it seems like a fairly normal stripper clip loading earlyish autoloader

Compare and contrast with the hedging that Othais and Mae have had with most other automatics of the era; typical points being: - Reliability (e.g. Mannlicher, Steyr-Pieper, Glisenti) - Odd(er) ergonomics (e.g. Mannlicher, Roth-Krnka, 1896 Mauser) - Cartridge (all the .32s and the various other low pressure cartridges, e.g. Glisenti, possibly the Nambu), at times combined with over engineering (Frommer). Also, note all of the odd guns that had competed against the Roth-Krnka just a few years earlier and the Steyr Hahn begins to stand out much more clearly. The only autos that have gotten as good reviews (or previews) by C&Rsenal as the Steyr Hahn are the Luger P08, the M1911, and the Webley Automatic, and the latter was hedged by a reputation at the time for getting into problems if fine grained mud got into its tight fitting action. Also, you might add the Nambu to the lot, depending how you interpret their review. Another pistol of the era that will probably not feature in C&Rsenal’s series, but might be said to sit in between the 1896 Mauser and the Steyr Hahn would be the updated Bergmann-Bayard/M1910. It had the advantage over the Steyr of being magazine fed, but with the magazine being placed in front of the trigger (as in the Mauser), it probably wasn’t as well balanced as the Steyr. As for reliability, I can’t say how the Bergmann would fare (though earlier one’s had lost out in most trials, the 1910 would do well enough to be adopted in Denmark).

thank you

lol thanks

Thank you

Suzie hates being on camera

please tell me it is YOUR baby, or at least a baby you are supposed to have

If its awake, it's mine. If it's asleep, its the wife's.

Thanks!

Plus winchester 115 white box is an almost dead ringer for 9x23 steyr in terms of velocity and weight lol

Some guns are easier than others.

Glad to meet you too!

I wait patiently.

@@thegoldencaulk2742 Praise be!

Thanks!

As Othais pointed out in a more recent episode, most of the detachable magazine competition were issued with 1 or 2 magazines, once you had expended mag 2 you were empty. Stripper clip or enbloc clip ammo was packaged, from the factory, on/in clips so you could have pouches full ready to reload or even just a box of ammo in your pocket which would go straight into the gun without messing about loading a detachable mag.

In a recent Q&A when asked what historical firearm would be good for everyday carry Ian mentioned the Steyr Hahn and IV8888 rated it highly as a shooter. With hindsight, something of a dead end but, at the time, this was something most soldiers were very happy to be issued.

Quick Othais run! They're onto us!

A: how much powder and what type is loaded. B: expansion in the case is on a curve. Sometimes the right length for max effect is longer or shorter

What does that do? Presumably not vomit all the cartridges out of the top of the gun...

@@ZGryphon just confirmed it myself, it does nothing at all except pivot and make you do a double take. I imagine anyone else watching would have a laugh though