take your point.

Sigh

"Tell my wife, 'hello.'"

Funny.

Each of these epsiode i kind of expect Othias to say that.

nirfz He really should do that. Maybe show an old B&W clip of children in Lederhosen playing games?

Pew Pew!

I've heard they're available in Las Vegas as well.

Yeah. We are very liberal. Not about rifles though. It is infinitely easier to find a man licker than to own a gun legally. The criminals don't have that problem.

You cannot.

licher comes from the german lich or corpse, it is a man corpser kinda

Amsterdam?

They do give you some context for the developement of those rifles, don't they? And I think it is very relevant. A lot of the descisions and compromises you see in those rifles only make sense in the context of the political and economical situation as well as the technological progression. You can learn a lot of a countries overall situation by analysing a government procurement program.

@@Bird_Dog00why would a high school history textbook give any details about weapon procurement ? We’ve got a couple of wonderful army museums where you can get all the details you want. But high schoolers don’t have to know what kind of weapon the the army was using in 1914

You're welcome.

Notice how the Neutral countries, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, all seem to produce the best weapons?

@@51WCDodge I wonder if the fact that they actually were not used in trench warfare skew our opinion on them? More of a question of logistics, environment and general usage.

51WCDodge Not really. Belgium (not neutral, though not intentionally) and Sweden both used Mausers, essentially the an early version of the Gewehr 98 the Germans used. The Spanish used one as well. You can make an argument that 6.5 the was a better cartridge for a rifle, but you also see that in belligerents like Italy and Japan. In addition, you can make the case that the small bore cartridges, while better for riflemen, were worse overall because machineguns benefitted from the more powerful cartridges (and why both Italy and Japan were moving to cartridges of around .3 inch caliber before WWII. The Dutch Manlichers were not the best rifles. They were plenty good enough, but not above the crowd and probably somewhat below the best (there are good reasons that the Gewehr 88 was replaced by the Germans). And the rifle and cartridge were made for the country that manage to go to war against the Central Powers twice. The Swiss rifle, was definitely among the best. Exclusively used by a neutral nation. But the rest don’t really fit. I do wonder if there is a reason smaller nations seem to have moved to the lighter 7 or 6.5mm cartridges versus the 7.5 to 8mm of the larger countries. Or if that isn’t true at all and just happens to be the ones I am familiar with.

@@Cheesytarian How many combat forces use weapons from these scources? FN, Bofors, to name two. One of the things about Neutrality, and the US is a prime example , other peoples wars = Large profits at home.

@@88porpoise I wonder if the South African wars had a major influence on cartridge choice by the bigger nations. You always get the tales of shooting a fly's eye out at a thousand yards, the damm colonials sitting out of range of our rifles and shooting us. So the demand was for is a big long range cartridge.That was the War the decison makers had fought. Same argument that got us 7.62 NATO when the intermediate cartridge was the obvious choice. Thinking more about this: You also have New Toy syndrome. A range of proppellants had suddenly appeared that could be tweacked and fashioned in a way Gunpowder never could, so all of sudden Ballistics becomes a cutting edge technology. What boy dosen't want the biggest , fastist , furthist toy on the block?

My father was in the army in 1940. The army had suffered from the pacifist movement in the 1930's . Geen man en geen cent. No soldiers and no money. People wearing pins depicting a broken rifle. (gebroken geweertje). My dad told me that they were issued with one clip for every rifle / carbine to shoot at German planes. He was a guest of the Germans (POW) afterward.

@@pietvermaat5928 The "Pacifist" movement of the 1930s were the result of communist ideological subversion on the part of the Soviet Union.

Had the Dutch had an air force like the British along with plentiful anti-aircraft guns, they might have been able to hold up against German bombing raids. Rotterdam was also the reason that Denmark surrendered in a single day. The threat of Copenhagen being bombed to rubble along with the Danish PM being an idiot by not allowing Danish forces to deploy to the border when the Germans were gathering on the other side guaranteed their surrender.

@@Procket12 The dutch airforce had 139 Battleready aircraft on the 10th of May 1940. Of those 34 were destroyed on the ground and 43 were shot down. The rest were mostly set on fire by the groundcrew after the netherlands surrendered. But still these few aircraft were able to shoot down 350 german aircraft in a few days where especially the Fokker G1 (an all wood twin engined fighter) was extremely succesfull. not short after the de havilland mosquito was developped in the UK, based on the successes of the all wooden Fokker G-1 and the USA produced the P-38 lightning based on the aurodynamics of the G-1. Only 23 Fokker G-1 Airlpanes entered the Battle and had a K/D ratio of 1:8 what was very impressive. Some say that if the dutch would have had 100 operational the airwar would have had a different outcome.

Austria Hungary wasn't a small country, neither were France and Italy, even Romania and Bulgaria were not considered small i think and one war later even the US used them.

@@nirfz Joke

@@bruni5289 The 1895 Lee Navy is somewhat like this. You load a "stripper clip" (it's really an en-bloc, but looks like a regular stripper) of cartridges into it; upon chambering the first round the clip is released and falls out the bottom. It isn't integral to the feed mechanism like it is in a Mannlicher, and you can load it singly without one.

After he invented the detatchable magazine.

The main drawback, and to battle feild soldiers I'd have thought an obvious one. What happens if you don't have the endblock? Can I shove loose rounds in or bash things about to get the rifle to work?

Its the appearance of grey hair that really indicates how long they have been doing this show.

Ironers How old is May?

You're welcome.

@@Gunsbeerfreedom87 Still cant believe you actually pulled it off /k/apt

Just farts

@@Candrsenal 😂😂😂😂

@@Candrsenal but are those farts gun facts? You could be doing Morse code with your butt.

@@tenofprime Wouldn't be surprised if Othais farted out Kar98AZ production numbers in his sleep.

@@Candrsenal Wow! I thought that would have been Patreon-level information.

Oh, don’t worry about that little guy. Shenanigans.

Yes, I thought it was oddon Wikipedia to say the Dutch were using "obsolete" Mannlicher 1895s yet the Germans were using a rifle design K98s just as old but not obsolete 🤔

he even had one consonant more.... ;-) SchlegelmilCH

Gesundheit.

I really wished at least one nation adopted his 1896 trials rifle. It would have been interesting to see where it could have gone.

That's an important point! Another thing i would think is that it needs fewer fine motor skills to put the whole en-bloc clip in. (And in stressfull situations or when your hands are really cold fine motor skills in the fingers are gone) Back then i think i would have been with the Dutch (, Austrians, Romanians, Italians, French). As long as you get factory ammo with original clips they would be my choice. Now, 100 years later when nobody produces them anymore, stripper clip feeding has the advantage that the rifle works without them too, which isn't that often the case with en-bloc feeding.

@@nirfz not sure about the en bloc being easier. I shoot a m95 and find it fiddlier than strippers. It also plays up on the feed occasionly though as mentioned my clips have been reloaded numerous times. I think if my life depended on it I'd go the stripper. You know that mosin or Mauser is going to feed fine.

Schlegelmauslicharcano. A name just as long as the rifle itself.

Know the feeling, they always seem to drop around 1AM my time.

It can also be a repair. The manual for armorers describes how to make the repair.

Thank you

I don't think they talk about it much. But I believe they have Mae shooting in part because her size is close to the average/typical size of the soldiers in the war.

M1 garand ?

Amen

Ian McCollum isnt an ammo dealer...

Ian doesn't reload, Karl does.

Obsolescent catridges for obsolete rifles