"It has been 2 months and 13 days since I bought my last Ruby." All: "Hello, Chap!"

Bloke somehow managed to do every accent except Spanish 😂

If diamonds are a girl's best friend, I can't see why Rubies couldn't be the Chap's one.

Rubys in Finland where called "Vääpelin pistooli" aka Master Sargeants pistol, often given to NCO:s in supply roles. They were a lot more liked than the 5000 Chauchats France donated in 1939... Those wound up in coastal forts pretty quickly as they were the only places with any change of keeping them running.

That clip of the original negotiations is an award winning performance from both Chap and Bloke. As far as the Rubies, thank you for this overview. Ive been tempted by several of the Spanish s&w clones as of late, and if I do acquire one of those for collection purposes, I'll definitely need some Ruby action to go with it.

This was great. The first video I've seen comparing several of the slightly variable versions of the Ruby. I picked one up kind of on a whim at a local gun show a few years ago. Mine is surprisingly nice, considering it seems to have been in French military service for some time after WW1. It still has the slide rivet, which I believe was added sometime around the early 1920s. Supposedly was picked up on the battlefield from a German soldier in WW2 and brought back, but that is simply the story from the previous owner. When I got it, it had one unmarked aftermarket magazine and an original marked AK, this pistol is marked AA. Both mags worked fine, I sold the AK mag to another ruby collector and bought two AA marked mags that also work fine. All in all, a little quirky but an immense pleasure to shoot, and i'd say as accurate as any shown in the video. Thanks

The Chap can speak 4 different languages, but now I know his weakness is Español. Bueno, bueno, bueno.

I'm getting this bizarre image of an old cardboard box filled with pistols just sitting in the bottom of a gun safe... Every few weeks a new one gets tossed in....

Bloke’s accent in the “ vintage “ clip sounds more Vietnamese than Spanish. Maybe he was a volunteer in the Spanish civil war and never went home.

I see an irate Spanish or Mexican Embassy in your future.

Fiel like the French means loyalty, faithfulness, true to the cause..

👍 for the Kaiser Chiefs reference

I have 2... one has the best trigger of any pistol i own. The other has the worst. I have three magazines. One works with both, but the other 2 only work with their gun. Only part that's interchangeable between them is the recoil spring...

Fascinating to note that the identical film, but in French, runs six and a half minutes longer

Just recently put a Ruby video out myself... and my comparison was that France needed something quick and cheap so they went to Spain an purchased a Hi-Point, and a Ruby is what would happen if Hi-Pount tried to make a Colt 1903. Also, I couldn't get the Kenny Rogers song Ruby out of my head the whole time in making it.

I truly love your channel and your videos, and I was excited to see this one. It seems to me that you have a fantastic and enviable collection, a piece of history perhaps misunderstood and mistreated, and about which the socio-economic situation of society and manufacturers of the time has been ignored. The respect I already had for You has multiplied even more. Thank you very much for making your videos as didactical as they are entertaining. Cheers!

I thought about that song as well lmao 🤣🤣 Rubies are amazing

I bought a ruby a few years back from an LGS for 125. It has the rivet in the slide for the holster issue. Shoots just fine. Trigger is a bit dooky but still works.

These are like higher quality versions of the Chinese warlord mystery pistols.

Spain: Europe's Khyber pass

Always wanted a Ruby and now I know why I don't have one, Chap has them all!

you video is the best i have seen on the topic of the ruby pistol. many thanks BF47

WAG: The Ruby addiction is genetic. Back in the not at all Great War 'The French' could not resist Ruby's, you are French, so this explains that.

I don't have a Ruby, but I do have one of those imitation S&Ws in 8mm French Ordnance. The manufacturers (Trocaola Aranzabal) spelled their own name wrong in the barrel stamping, which has the most horrifying kerning I've ever seen on anything that wasn't made in Microsoft Works. The dealer who sold it to me thought it was a Chinese Mystery Revolver and the "TROCAOLAARAMZABALYCIAEIBARESPANA" stamp was just gibberish. (He also thought it was chambered for .32 S&W Long.) I felt like a dang detective when I figured out what the heck it actually was. :)

Astra model 1916 Ruby which just so happens to be nickel-plated great little pistol

Sorry, I was thinking of a different Ruby. But she’s also a weapons enthusiast.

Who needs speed reloads when you can just grab another pistol...

The clip at the end made me laugh out loud in public Chap! I hope you’re happy

I have one my Grandfather brought home from France. Has the acceptance stars and the rivet. That seems to say it was there in the interwar time. Family lore has he took it off a dead German. Doesn’t shoot but I intend to get it running again.

Nicely done chappy

I edited a video in high school with the song you referenced in the title. I love the Kaiser Chiefs but I’ve hated that song since then. Thanks for reminding me 😂

I totally understand the addiction to old, early-20th-century pistols.

Thanks Chap. I saw a Ruby in a Gun Shop a few years ago that was a WWII bring back. It had German Waffenamt on it, a holster and two magazines. It also had the bring back papers with it. Kind of in rough shape. The Gun Shop owner was not sure what it was.

The variety of both aesthetics and build quality is interesting thank you for sharing

My first pistol was a Meilor 32 made between the wars paid $50 still have it and shoots best of my dozer or so 32s.

Now I want a video of Chap's top 5 perversions. You tube might not allow any of the others ;)

Very interesting and informative

Interesting that you’ve never come across one with the post-war rivet. My example is an Esperanza y Unceta from Guernica with the “EU” code stamp and rivet, but no acceptance stars stamped on the butt. Definitely a deep collecting rabbit hole once you get started.

Now you need some Linda pistols and a Beryl rifle!

hey I remember that kaiser chiefs song

Thats a fabulous collection

I am actually now imagining some French military officials going to Barcelona in 1915 to search all the couch cushions any Ruby they could find. Hehehe...

I was given one by my grandfather for Christmas this year, labelled "Paramount"

what if jack ruby shot lee harvey oswald with a ruby

Hey they are fascinating and a rich collecting field...

3:51 Erskine Childers, the brit who was involved with the Irish War for Independence, was executed during the Irish Civil War for having a "Destroyer" .32 that was given to him by Michael Collins.The new Provisional Government made firearms possession without a licence punishable by death during the Civil War.

The 'slip past' disconnector system was also used on the Beretta 1915 pistol. I have not seen them on any other Beretta pistol, nor does the Beretta book mention the style at all. The "Unique" company (for lack of a clearer word) in southern France seems to be the northern most bastion of the Basque gun makers largely found within the boundaries of Spain. As you see, the guns of the period look to be as different - and as similar - as the variations made in Spain. The side positioned, stamping looking, disconnector was still used until the 'modern' Spanish gun makers (Star, Astra and Llama) went under.

Kaiser cheifs reference? I'm in. I would have been any way, but now I'm especially in

9:53 "Watch out, it's about to get nerdy" That's what I'm here for Chap, that's what I'm here for.

A very informative video. I most liked the magazine compatibility test. Great job

Domestos Santos? Were you trying to bleach their name even cleaner? 😂

great informative and entertaining video Chappie

I have one of these. It's marked Astra 1916 Patent.

'Do ya, Do ya, Do ya?'

I can't believe these are over a hundred years old .. I want one so bad

I only have two of these. The first is an M. Zulaica Y Cia ROYAL with the 12 round magazine. The second is a Gabilondo Y Urresti war time production Ruby with the big rivet to hold the holster off the safety.

Mines an early french contract. AZ over stamped. No rivet.

In the book "Poilu: the notebooks of Louis Barthas", he speaks of a Chauchat gunner armed with a Ruby pistol who manages to draw it and shoot himself accidentally due to the safety brushing off on the holster. This was indeed possible to do, and I've seen many examples here in the US with the big stud on the slide above the safety lever.

I love the "poacher" Ruby's big nose barrel. Pretty gun, I see why they call them Rubies.

Very interesting indeed 👍

Gun Jesus would approve of this French Collection I wouldn't mind seeing more of the Star Patent 7.65 shown at 2:35 if Chappie could spare the time

I thought I was bad and I only have two. I also have a Colt 1903 Pocket hammerless. They all shoot well.

The jewels of your collection ? As for your archive video, it's a FAKE ! A frenchman would wear a proper marinière with 14 blue rings on the sleeves, and 20 on the chest. The spaniard with a man-with-no-name poncho looks legit, though.

There are always pistols in my couch cushions..... I love the ones with decreasing radius slide grooves.

And for comparison's sake 💥

Not one malfunction, I don't know how many WWI pistols would be flawless today!

Damn, 37 seconds of staring at that table and I need a new pair of drawers. Go on then. I'm sure it won't happen again.

That possible poaching gun's barrel makes some sense. I guess somebody tried to make it a more effective weapon for hunting, adding a stock and replacing a worn barrel themselves with handtools leaving as much thickness to the barrel for theoretical accuracy. And that would explain why the rifling was in pretty nice condition, they didn't cheap out on the barrel blank but did the rest of the work themselves.

I wonder if your shoulder stocked "bunny stalker" barrel was meant to be threaded at some time in the future.

Ah yes the perpetually entertaining Spanish pistols that can range entirely from Damm that is truly cool all the way down to Oh HELL No I'm not even Remotely thinking about pulling the trigger on that piece of junk! 🤠👍

Every gun needs a pin you can continually hammer on. Make one feel like a gunsmith.

nice to see some french stuff . like the pouches

And puts some perspective to the recent order from Israel for police sidearms (el Ramon)

Multiple language translations needed on this channel 😁

KZfaq strikes again with their algorithm, I never received notification of this video as a sub. 😑 Awesome content, I love my Izarra. The examples with rivets are pretty common here in the US, odd that they seem to be rare there in Europe.

I don't collect pistols... but I do collect ammo. 8mm, 9mm 10mm etc. I collect them, admire them, clean them, and generally take care of them. Then when the time is right, I take them to the forest, the mountains, the plains, or the range... and set them free with great fire, noise and fan fair!

wow what a comparison

Good, the first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem.

What’s a Ruby go for in Switzerland? I’d guess relatively cheap due to how many of them there are and being relatively crude, but I have no real idea.

Este hombre español has a very strange Mexican accent haha, also fiel means faithful in spanish

I'm not sure if the Poncho is really a spanish thing, seems to be more mexican than anything else, a matador outfit would have been more appropriate but I'm aware that is a little bit more involved.

I like the quazi moto one the most

I ain't heard Kaiser chiefs in years

And for comparison's sake...

What I wanna know is... What was the thing you were using to point at the firing pin... Pins...??? Looked kinda like a LONG firing pin. But no way, it was way to thin

maybe the barril was longer to complament the stock and it was cut down when the stock was taken of

I’m very jealous, we don’t get to have any fun here in New Zealand

LoL! I had one 40 years ago! 32 ACP, but can't remember the markings. 😸

A Modelo B Super appealed to me at one time, never bought when prices were reasonable. I'm not buying small manufacturing run guns of uncertain quality control. Good luck with that habit.

I like the Spanish Star pistols.i understand they have an extensive history.if you could elaborate I would appreciate.ty .I love your videos by the way

I have never been able to convince an American friend that the French armys use of .32 acp made it an acceptable self defense round.

Very entertaining. Thanks!

I have a question,someone I know has one with NO names or import markings. It does have a 4 digit serial number. My question is, after firing one round from a full magazine, can you eject unfired rounds to clear the mag. This one seems to fire and eject nicely, but if the magazine is full, you can't work the slide to eject unspent rounds. It's like, shoot them all or keep it in your holster on safety with a round un it. Seems VERY unsafe. It looks (inside) like the very first one you were pointing out the sear set up EXACTLY. It also has the steel nub on the side that keeps it from snagging its safety on the holster.( as you indicated) . I'd be glad to round up a photo to get a look. On the plastic grips ,it says Cal. 7.65 m/m. And has a 9 in a circle on it with a wreath around the circle. The cal/M.M thing seems kind of odd .anyway, I'll dance at your wedding if you can answer my question, or supply ANY info on it. Photo is easily forthcoming. (He lives next door) thank you for your video. It already gave me info to share with him. Or I'll just send him the link.(showing my age) Merci'

i have a ruby i didn't see in the great collection you have collected. I'm having chambering issues and was interested on tips if you have any. i have cleaned and oiled.

That extractor acting as the firing pin stop, isn't it just like on a Beretta?

🎼 Destination unknown Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby Soho

I have a Ruby I need help to Identify when made, it is a " Gabilondo y Urresti EIBAR - Patent 1915 7.65" on the side with a screw holding the fire pin with 34 punched in beside the screw and offset screws in the handle and the barrel has 348 punched into on the under side. 'The is also a C with a circle around it on the front side of the trigger guard. I was wondering if anyone knew the date that this one was made (the serial number is also missing).

There is something deeply disturbing about an Englishman in a French uniform. "Frog legs & chips?" No, no, no, no!

That reenactment; dare I say … Oscar buzz?

Bloke i am going to get my first RUBY here real soon THANKS for the lesson on them i needed that. when you removed the barrel at @12.42 minutes does that piece on the barrel does it UNSCREW ? I have seen treads on ruby barrels for a silencers I subed ya too.