Stoner 63 is the ORIGINAL.SOPMOD 5.56mm weapon system. Marines deployed an entire Rifle Company armed with Stoner 63 in Rifle, Carbine, Auto Rifle (Bren style top mag fed) and LMG Belt Fed. The Marines liked the LMG so much they preferred to use more belt fed LMG than the Rifle or Auto Rifle configurations. Big Army was committed to the M16 by then and the Stoner was considered to be too maintenance intensive, too many small parts to lose when cleaning in the field. A SEAL.was accidentally killed by a loaded LMG, the trigger Mech housing pin walked out of the receiver hole while a patrol boat was underway, runaway gun. A spring decent was used to.imptove that pin from ever walking out again. Stoner did remain in The Team's into the early 80's when grudgingly replaced by Mk46 version of the FN Minimi M249 SAW. Some of the old bullfrogs familiar with the Stiner were consulted over the changes like the fluted heavy barrel, that were needed for the SAW.

I Need The Stoner63 😀😇😎😇😀😎

Brandon Herrera for ATF!!!

This should be placed in a museum instead of being sold to some collector never to be seen again

I really really really need to win the lottery before Dec6.

I can’t believe these weren’t more adopted by special forces during Vietnam

Wrap it up I'll take it.

Can't wait to see it on one of your favourite gun tube channels..

Where did this gun come from?

Nice but the 5.56 round was no good in dense jungle... or Afghanistan! Glad the "war fighters" are going with the new gun and the 6.5 mm.

RAD!

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Great content, as always! Could you help me with something unrelated: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

Awesome & Fascinating

youre teling me that the same people that made my refrigerator made the bazooka !

I would love to get the Savage .45. I handled one at a gun show in the 1970s and found it fit well in the hand. Workmanship was impeccable.

I have a suggestion... next April 1st do a video on a fine collection of Jennings and Hi-Points from the Bubba Beeswax collection. And sound dead serious while doing it.

There is no chance anyone is going to get a good deal

AMAZING WORKS OF ART

Love Joel's presentations. He always seems excited and genuinely honored to present these firearms.

To think of the time, dedication and money that it took to put it together. Wow!

I get goosebumps watching these videos.

I can’t wait for your video on Skeeter Skelton’s BlackHawk

As a gun collector all I can say is AWSOME COLLECTION!!!!!!!!!!

Bullshit gun that never worked

That Boss tho 😮

The best bolt-action rifle that I ever owned was a military surplus, sporterized, 1895 Ludwig Loewe Chilean Mauser chambered for the 7mm Mauser cartridge. It was very simply sporterized by a Salt Lake City Mormon master gunsmith who was the father of a man whom I briefly served in the United States Army with. I purchased it in 1978 for $150, and unfortunately sold it about a year later for financial reasons. The factory stepped barrel was shortened, lightened, and re-crowned, but only one of the steps was removed, with the rear most step left intact. The original military stock was modified, the handguard removed, a lot of wood removed, the barrel channel partially glass bedded, the barrel free floated, a set of Q-D sling swivels and a military-style leather sling installed, and a so-so varnish finish applied. It was topped with an inexpensive Bushnell 4× fixed power scope. It came with a mil-spec .30 caliber ammo can containing 27 different handloads that the master gunsmith had worked up for his son while he had been serving in Vietnam. Along with a set of reloading dies and a small spiral bound notebook detailing all of the handloads and the steps taken to achieve them. It was what most people would call a *FUGGLY GUN!"* It wasn't very pretty, but boy-oh-boy could it shoot. It was capable of sub-M.O.A. accuracy all day long with every single one of those 27 handloads; both off of a bench rest as well as offhand by the gunsmith's son who was a sniper in Vietnam. Some of the handloads were capable of near one-hole 5-shot groups at 100 yards. *That fuggly sporterized 7mm Chilean Mauser was a true rifleman's rifle. It was capable of miraculous accuracy that was seldom obtainable in 1978 from anything but bull-barreled varmint, sniper, and target rifles that were exponentially more expensive than that converted military surplus Chilean Mauser was. Especially, considering that it was chambered in a caliber not normally associated with one-hole 5-shot groups at 100 yards.* *Although, if I recall correctly, Jack O'Connor often mentioned how accurate his wife Eleanor's custom 7mm Mauser rifles were, even though he was a fan of the .270 Winchester cartridge.*

Beautiful collection of shotguns!

I had a .410, 16, and 12 gauge set of shotguns that I used for squirrels and quail throughout my youth, depending on the terrain and tree height. Beautiful guns that I still own, 45 years later.

I would like to see a reproduction of that speed loader. How do you know the amount of powder that went into the cylinder when you use the speed loader?

Happy to live in Europe! FN lost his value when Browning took over. Happely i still have two FN originals ❤

I really like the Savage. I had the pleasure of fixing a neighbor's Savage in . 32 acp, the guy had reassembled it incorrectly. I wonder if the Savage could be made today at a reasonable price.

Savage had a good design. Just needed some tweaks.

I’ve never seen the Savage pistol, pretty cool!

Ok, sold! I’ll be right over to pick them up,,all of them Can you throw in a couple boxes of cartridges for each calibre.

Hi, my name is Ian with Forgotten Weapons and Im here at Rock Island Arsenal today with 3 unique rifles at auction to show you today

Incredible Joel 😀 I Want a 1907 Colt That Is Not So Rare That is a Shooter 😮😀❤️

Mines name is- I can offer you 3 meals a day, if you can shoot. N.cali

The edges look sharp as a knife on that colt, can bet its worth a sharp penny too

Thinking that might be some pommel wear on that forearm

I prefer the colt 1902 sporting. 38 acp semi-auto. My dad used it as his main hand gun as a US Deputy Marshall from 1920-1960.

They are both so sleek! Thanks for the history :)

Good Lord, why do these people speak in abbreviated phrases? It must be to impress people with more money than sense.

The sad fact is that American youth do not give a hoot about these amazing hunting firearms, nor any others of walnut and blued steel. Young people want a generic, ugly stainless steel and plastic topped with the Hubble Telescope with which they can assassinate unsuspecting game from impossible actual hunting ranges. We are ceasing to be a nation of riflemen and hunters, and are becoming a nation of heavily dependant would-be snipers.

Final gavel price: $17,625

Tease

Excess Prices for these will make you cry😢..Buy a Winchester Model 70 or Remington 700 or if you go to Africa..try the Winchester model 70 in 375HH or the CZ 550 or the Zastava..Guns for real use and hunting..These Guns shown are just beautiful showpieces..

As art work and history, they are priceless. As guns 🔫 worthless if you don't hunt with them what good are they. The people who owned them used them.

Nothing a Ruger or Savage cant do for 500$.

These rifles represent one of the greatest achievements of "Humanity as the Toolmaker" : Functional High Art.