Sweet historical shades lol

Just when I get done watching The Great War, saddened that it will be their last episode - suddenly Ian with a Chauchat!

As a Canadian of British parents. Grand parents. Great grand parents. and a few generations further.......i proudly wear my poppy every year. I never did show my grandfather my Enfield. Which he would have had.....i was never certain his reaction. But yes. Shall we never forget the devastation and horrific war that was fought.

“ Safety 3rd”. I’ve been using that line for years.

" yeah that's what I thought,' FRITZ.'"

“You seem to have found an extra turnip somewhere” 😂😂

"i have a machine gun" why do i think ian is going to win this one

I really appreciate the straightforward but respectful ways these guys discuss pretty much everything. Its refreshing not to be constantly worrying i'm having someones personal agenda to sift through to see some cool stuff and learn something

Ah, Ian had mentioned in one of his Chauchat videos that he would eventually shoot a match with it. Glad to finally get to see the result. I'm also curious about the Gewehr 98, because that's one of the rare models you shot with I actually saw live once. Thank you, that's a nice way to celebrate the centennial.

BOLT ACTIONS RETURN!!!!! We are blessed by InRange.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

The poppies are great touch. Good job guys!

8:35 in France, we don't have a poppy but a blue flower instead ("bleuet") , and we actually invented it first, as a memorial symbol, as far as I'm aware

Poppies in Canada to.As a Canadian of German decent it has double the meaning to me.Had relatives on both sides in WW1, My father grew up in the Nazi period and had older brothers in the Wehrmacht.November 11 means I remember ALL the dead of 2 World Wars as all should IMHO.

The American Legion uses the poppy, mostly for fallen members. When my grandfather passed a couple legionnaires performed a ceremony at his wake which involved placing a paper poppy on his lapel.

nice WW1 sunglasses ian

Karl needs to rock those pants all year 'round

Fantastic work gentlemen. Lest we forget.

Just love the banter going on between you two.You make great content,thanks!

Karl actually mentioning the middle east getting messed up from world war 1 made me laugh my ass off because I actually chose to write on that subject for my freshman year history final in college.

YES! These are the types of videos that brought me to inrange! I love it!

Nice background update to the war. I appreciate you guys!

It's good to see you guys wearing poppies. Lest we forget.

Excellent as always!

Thanks for doing this match, guys

You guys were late to the war. Glad you came. Would have been lost without you guys....

Looking forward to this one👍

Thanks guys

I've been listening to Dan Carlins podcast "Hardcore History, Blueprint for Armageddon" that covers World War 1 and it is very interesting. I learned more in part 1 concerning the war than I ever knew and it still has 4 more episodes. I highly recommend it.

In November 11 1918 WWI ends and with it most of the worlds Monarchs and Empires that had existed for hundreds of years reaching back nearly as far as a millennium ends. Decolonization begins around the world as many of these former superpowers will descend into Civil War and break apart. What had been a way of life since the fall of Rome, through the dark ages, and Renaissance into the industrial revolution has ended and the old world crumbled and the Modern World had begun.

That introduction is so excellent, on all the fronts. My personal favorite is _"ooooh, you cain't have barbed wire, you'll hurt youself"_

This would be hilarious if Karl had to use an MG08/15 to counter Ian's Chauchat.

my man this is what im here for

@InRangeTV i must correct you for one little detail : it is true that Britain and Commonwealth uses popies for remembrance of the fallen of the Great War but it is not the case for everyone. Here in France we wear a blue flower called "Bleuet" (cornflower if i'm correct). Some others wear a red eyelet like the Russians. Anyway, thanks for your videos and a good armistice celebration day to all

Looking forward to it.

Poppy's everywhere today in Australia

This is gonna be fun!

Great day to start posting this match on. Happy Remembrance Day guys.

Fantastic

I'm moving to AZ next year. So excited!

Poland is celebrating 100years of Independence

I spent the day in Kansas City at the US WWI Museum. It was a great experience, and I wish all of you could have been there.

Love that you are wearing poppies, bravo!

Those uniforms are great! German helm with early camo.

Looking forward to the stage videos.

Thanks guys. Lest we forget.

Poppies for remembrance day aren't as common in the US but they're still around. I work at a supermarket and someone was selling poppies outside the door yesterday. Would have bought one myself but he left before I could get the chance.

This is going to be interesting match.

Suddenly the album cover for B-Movie’s Remembrance Day makes so much more sense now.

Big on our poppies in Australia too. Australia had a population of 5 million at the time of ww1. Over 400 thousand men went to the war. A lot of the towns in my area sacrificed fathers and sons to that war very far away. Most of my family were still in England back then, my great great grandmother was a nurse in the war, although we know very few details.

My father is from Canada. He brought the poppy tradition down to Texas with him, and I've been wearing a poppy every year for as long as I can remember

"Direct line!" zoom shift for effect!

I love these intros ❤️

Ian calling someone a “tweedy intellectual”. That’s rich! 😅

This looks exciting, I am anxious to see the trench stages.

I know I've missed the centennial by a few months, but at least where I'm from in the US (New England), the poppies are actually very common. You can find people handing out poppies at grocery stores and other local places a solid week or two before the armistice anniversary, as well as nearly everywhere on Veteran's Day itself. I've never been to Western Europe in November, I'm sure the poppy tradition is much bigger over there, but it's still not small by any means here where I'm from. I'd say the poppy is really the only symbol of any american national holiday which holds a lot of memorial weight, and no other holiday comes close to possessing a symbol such as the poppy. Here in my town there's a plaque to lost souls who died overseas. There's a few from the Civil War, a few from the Spanish-American War, and maybe about 20 from WW1 (that number going up to 30-40 for WW2). Two men on the WW1 plaque share the same last name, and both died on November 5th, 1918, a week before the Armistice. Extremely sad, always brings an itch to my eye when I pass by on my way to the train station.

The poppy in the US, at least in the area around Washington DC and much if the Southern US. Growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s, it was quite common to have poppies given to people on the street all the way to the early 1970’s, by Am Vets and member of the American Legion, very often by elderly veterans sometimes wearing uniforms. Usually the veterans were friendly, but sometimes somber.

American living in France: at the cemetery in Port-Louis, France in addition to honoring the local soldiers, French kids laid flowers on the graves of a German soldier and a Greek soldier buried here. Representatives from Germany and Greece spoke. Here the scars are deep and fresh flowers adorn the graves of soldiers from World War One and WWII.

As a history buff/nerd in high school I read endlessly about WW2. By the time I was a Senior I had transitioned into the Great War as it was obviously the same conflict, just 20 years on hold. The Great War was THE defining human event in my opinion.

This was a fun af match

YEEEEESSSS! Mauser and Chauchat! That's gonna be fun to watch. 🤘🏽

The 100th centennial? Wow, has it been 10,000 years already?

The Chauchat is finally here. I’m very excited

In Canada everyone wears poppies from early November until the 11th. The are sure to be many .303s firing today. We didn't play as large a role as some other countries, but we did what we could. Cool match, look forward to watching it.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

"Because we're God damn Americans!"

YES! YES! YES!

I can safely say I'm really looking forward to some sweet MG action

Cant wait to see how the course is set up. I have always dreamt of a watch with trenches.

I once again participated in a Remembrance Day ceremony up here in Canada and it’s always an honour to be there to re,ember the fallen. We wear the poppy for at least two weeks prior to November 11th. WWI looms large in the Canadian identity but for us the poppy represents all veterans, not just the Great War.

It's a shame that your collaboration with Indy Neidell about WW2 didn't worked out. I'm still learning about WW1 from his videos.

"Range rules are all like "ew, you can't have barbed wire."" ...Ian is fuckin' hardcore man

Man, I really wish I had been able to attend.

The adoption of the red poppy as the symbol of remembrance in the past century is in part due to Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae's poem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields . Quoting a couple of sentences from the wiki: "The red poppies that McCrae referred to had been associated with conflict since the Napoleonic Wars when a writer of that time first noted how the poppies grew over the graves of soldiers". "Inspired by "In Flanders Fields", American professor Moina Michael resolved at the war's conclusion in 1918 to wear a red poppy year-round to honour the soldiers who had died in the war". Wearing the poppy leading up to "Remembrance Day" (November 11) is very common in Commonwealth nations. Here in Canada, the poppy is available widely in stores near the cashier's area and from veterans/volunteers standing in front of stores/public venues for a small donation to the legion. In recent times, it has become common practice to leave your poppy at the war cenotaph / war memorial after the Remembrance Day ceremony. Photo National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario - Canada: goo.gl/QPa2Ue Photo of a Canadian $2 coin featuring a poppy that was released to general circulation (as in pocket change) to honnour the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice of 1918: goo.gl/qXpaxb

*far from their land as they made their stand they stood strong and the legend still lives on*

My dear old grandfather got taken from his carpenters workshop in NZ and given a vickers gun in France, how grim.

The poppy is very popular in Canada. I actually was watching this video just after participating in a Remembrance Day ceremony.

Now THAT is some teaser. I know we already had some of that, but i think it could have been awesome for Karl to run again his Kar98A with 20 round mag. However, having read Rommel's and Ernst Jünger's books it think in most of their raids, Germans would have had to make do with G98s and their...unoptimal sights when it comes to rifles, so it will be an interesting test. I can't even talk about the Chauchat being used because it brings a hype only topped by a G11 mud test

I think that Carl trousers are NVA (east-grman army) breech trousers, you can find them in surplus in europe.

the butcher-blade works better without saw-teeth because the teeth can cause the blade to stuck in the body on bones

One thing that Karl brought up about the Great war resulting in the loss of some of the greatest minds. Henry Moseley (1887-1915) comes to mind as he had laid the groundwork for the structure of the atom and would have likely been awarded a Nobel Prize if he lived through the war.

"Yeah, I've got a machine gun" Favorite comment there, Ian.

Almost everyone wears a poppy in Canada during early November. We also call it remembrance day instead of veterans day.

Fun fact! The February revolution in March LOL. the Russian calendar at the time was different than the one that the rest of the world used, as a result the February revolution is today celebrated in March

Personal opinion, and I think I speak for a lot of the fans, you should publish this whole match today. It would make sense and I need more inrange I spent most of yesterday and a decent portion of Friday listening to your old Q&A's. ALL HAIL GUN LUCIFER.

I learned more about ww1 on this and forgotten weapons then public school

The Poppy as a symbol of Remeberance owes more to Canada and US than Europe. McCrae was Canadian, Monia Michael who actually started the Poppy as Remeberance was American. It only came to the Brtish Legion in 1921. In Europe, espcially France the Cornflower is the symbol. Often on the Western Front you will find poppy and cornflower planted together.

Odd that during a war which saw the first use of tanks, flamethrowers, aerial bombing of cities, and poison gas, and the widespread use of automatic weapons, people would get so upset about sawtooth bayonets and shotguns. Were any soldiers actually executed for possession of a sawtooth bayonet or trench shotgun?

It's nice to finally see that illusive match that you kept saying you were going to bring your Chauchat to, Ian. Were there any other guys with automatic rifles there? Autos that are *period correct*, mind you.

Red nine ♥

Guys we're can I find one of those little red pins?

I'd argue WW2 is a bit more important than you're giving it credit for. It cemented America as a global power, and kneecapped two of the historically most warlike nations (Germany and Japan), then led to the defining conflict of the latter half of the 20th century, the Cold War, which was pretty much tbe only reason space exploration, especially manned space exploration, was ever a thing,

We got grenades, we got trenches... we got mustard gas!

As one historian put in the 1990's what started with shots in Sarajevo in June, 1914 did not end until the last Russian soldier left re-united Germany in 1990 or 1991.

I now hunt deer with a G98 my great granddad brought back from the war. Been converted to 30.06 with new stock, but all the guts are all 1910 Mauser

We never hear about the aftermath of ww1/ww2, how it went through from devestation to recovery, would like to see a documentery on that. How much it changed the countries from before the war to after it.

I just found out that the green sprig should be placed at 11 o'clock for the date and time of the end of the war.

Those glasses must have been standard issue in ww1. Lol

Where can I get one of those pins?

we all knew what was coming from Ian