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@DE-ke2rf 2 күн бұрын
Um, definitely a Plummer’s special. But it worked….
@simonerosa9534 12 күн бұрын
This is fascinating, yes, can't imagine a tin hut in the Hunter during a hot summer, must have been tough
@StephenMorris-q5f 12 күн бұрын
Outstanding coverage...first class.
@conormacdonald-e1l 13 күн бұрын
13:26 New Years Eve 1991 In Newcastle
@conormacdonald-e1l 13 күн бұрын
19:24 New Years Eve In Newcastle
@conormacdonald-e1l 13 күн бұрын
13:42 Newcastle RL Grand Final
@conormacdonald-e1l 13 күн бұрын
3:16 Newcastle New Year's Eve
@J.Walker88 16 күн бұрын
😂 12:04 what a Puss! You know that dude was embarrassed and humiliated after that, he’s there amongst a bunch of men testing/sampling SMG’s, pick one up and all that ends up on his butt after the first couple rounds. It’s obvious this dude is not someone you want making decisions on weapons. I guarantee his money has got him where he is instead of merrier.
@GrumpyGenXGramps 18 күн бұрын
Damn! All that sand getting in your shorts would take all the fun outta full auto range day!!😂😂
@MichaelLonsdale-h9m 23 күн бұрын
Fascinating and horrific at the same time. Thank you. This is a valuable Community resource!
@MichaelLonsdale-h9m 23 күн бұрын
Fascinating and horrific at the same time. Thank you. This is a valuable Community resource!
@krismurphy7711 26 күн бұрын
THAT is VERY HARSE CONDITIONS
@foxsquirrel3038 28 күн бұрын
Not the had held over the magazine well on the owen during testing. Note sat not blown tward reciprocating bolt at the rear. Its a good gun but bot better. Test is skewed a bit here folks.
@trevorweston3676 29 күн бұрын
Ok lets break it down.........this was bias as all bias can be.......the owen mag well was covered each time by his hand, yet not down with the sten....and there is no way the sten would not fire if the bolt is back!!! I am not knocking the owen....but come on!!!
@BrenMurphy1 Ай бұрын
my nan won the free spins on the pokies just as the quake hit. never got the $3.16 she won paid to her to this very day.
@Aussie3225 Ай бұрын
I’ve actually used one, they are a terrific, reliable and simple weapon. You had to check the upswing to the right, but this was an advantage for our soldiers in the jungles of New Guinea in WW2.
@adrianparker-e9f 26 күн бұрын
Are the sights put on the right hand side so that the shooter can 'scan' for targets with the right eye aiming to the right of the magazine, and the left eye can view to the left of the magazine ? ( if the sights had been put on the left side, the magazine would block the view to the right, whereas here there is an 'eye' on each side of the mag !)
@bladerunner5810 Ай бұрын
Wasn't the Owen invented by a 16 year old?
@uralbob1 Ай бұрын
Well Dave, at least you didn’t have to put up with this crap! !
@davidcouch6514 Ай бұрын
Owen a Miracle Gun
@MrSoljak Ай бұрын
Decent of them to let Hitler (at 11.48) get involved in the testing.
@Jerry10939 Ай бұрын
This surprised me.
@MartyInLa Ай бұрын
Too bad they didn't have the Uzi and MP5 back then.
@firebrand07 Ай бұрын
Modern!!🤣
@The10mmcure Ай бұрын
That Owen has to be one of the ugliest firearms I've ever seen in my life but damned if it didn't work!
@billrossignon8621 Ай бұрын
The MP 40 could not have been that bad as it was used till the end in Russia's mud, filth, and snow.
@piatpotatopeon8305 Ай бұрын
Wow! The Owens really held up. That was cool to watch.
@donza588 Ай бұрын
Nz army got to use stens for practice in the 60s junk
@P2501-y6u Ай бұрын
InRangeTV, 1940
@peaceraybob Ай бұрын
What we are seeing are untrained operators and a wind-blown sand test that is far from consistent. Furthermore, I would suggest that should a sandstorm be that bad, no one would be able to see each other, let alone fight.
@robertspickler1385 Ай бұрын
Interesting how when changing a magazines he kept his hand over the magazine well thus preventing debris from entering the area
@tomcolvin8199 Ай бұрын
Owen gun put through its paces, wonder how the Russian ppsh Tommy gun would have gone in tests.
@apointyrodent Ай бұрын
He’s covering the mag well with his hands between reloads on the Owens during the sand test. This was not repeated with the other guns. Not dogging the Owens, but not really a fair test. Sand eats up most guns, if not all. I have seen so many ak failures in Ukraine at this point it really seems to come down to mostly how well you can keep the action clear, or how easily and quickly you can “clean” it.
@bradleykoperski7198 28 күн бұрын
Probably took extra precaution because it fed from the top thus more likely for sand to fall into the gun
@danjohnston3422 Ай бұрын
The poor bugger doing the test firing would ahve gone home with nine pounds of sand in his gonch.
@briansparks8528 Ай бұрын
What a great piece of engineering the Owen . The inventor hopefully got a medal
@patwaters3486 Ай бұрын
He was only about 15 years old.
@dr_cynix Ай бұрын
Sadly not
@dr_cynix Ай бұрын
But it was a brilliant gun
@patwaters3486 Ай бұрын
@@dr_cynix Ok. Maybe he was a bit older.
@mikemac7133 Ай бұрын
He got a £10,000 (Australian) payout for royalties and Patent buyout. He used the money to buy a sawmill and drank himself to death at the age of 33 in 1949. That payout was very roughly worth about £440,000 ($880,000 Australian) in 2024 money. Average weekly wage in 1946 was £6.5 per week or £340 per year.
@enscroggs Ай бұрын
The test is performed on what is plainly an MP 38, misidentified as a "Bergman". Evidently, there was some confusion in the Canadian Army that connected the MP 18 of WWI (designed by Hugo Schmeisser and manufactured by Bergmann Waffenfabrik) to the SMGs designed by Heinrich Vollmer for the Erfurter Maschinenfabrik. After they realized "Bergman" was a mistaken identity, they switched to calling the gun a "Schmeisser", another mistake. The Americans also called it a Schmeisser until late in the war.
@coreydarr8464 Ай бұрын
Looks like the aussie have/had a good submachine gun!
@mikesuch9021 Ай бұрын
After the fourth magazine. It was just showing off.
@harleymay0 Ай бұрын
I notice the soldier is covering the magazine weld with his hand in between mag swaps on the owen. He did not do that with the Sten.
@N17C1 24 күн бұрын
Because that's how you are meant to change mags and how Australian soldiers were trained. It stops crap from going in and allows you to find the mag well without looking.
@JoeSmith-zi2br Ай бұрын
My wife's 3rd cousins uncle used a Owen fighting the Germans at Pearl Harbor.
@davefellhoelter1343 Ай бұрын
"I Pray!" this information was filmed and ment for a fare demonstration of these "very modern" and Very "Advanced" small arms of these days? History! and Hind Sight! show 100% Great or at Minimum? Satisfactory? Small arms of these days! some in servece today? Just pee on it! It'll be fine.
@Paladin1873 Ай бұрын
Wait a minute, lads; we're going into a muddy swamp, so plug your muzzles.
@DepakoteMeister Ай бұрын
I don't think they all had the same mud treatment, which then leads me to question how they were all lubricated for the sand test, maybe the Owen was running dry (or dry lubed) with the others oiled?
@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565 Ай бұрын
No cabe duda que este subfusil australiano fue muy bueno en todas las condiciones de combate en que fue usado. Estoy sorprendido de los resultados de los otros modelos y no me imagino los percances de los efectivos que sufrieron en el fragor de la batalla durante la segunda guerra mundial.
@helixator3975 Ай бұрын
The advantages of the Owen’s top mounted mag are readily apparent. Gravity assists with feeding ammunition, making it harder for debris to enter. And if it does, then it will likely drop straight out. But the real advantage was housing the bolt in its own seperate chamber which really helps cut down blockages and then machining that chamber with a little extra space been the end of the bolt and the back of the chamber, so that if something does get in it won’t foul and jam. The 600 rounds per minutes rate of fire and double handgrips make it easier to control than many sub machines guns, the magazine carries 33 rounds of easily obtainable 9mm ammunition, and it came with select fire in a lightweight durable package. As the tests here demonstrate, for jungle and desert combat, it was the best LMG of the war.
@terrybarrett2368 Ай бұрын
Sub machine gun LMG was the Bren
@cheesenoodles8316 Ай бұрын
The Owen SM served well and in the terrible terrain of New Guinea proved its worth.
@seaofcronos675 Ай бұрын
Some piece of kit the Owen 👍
@jonathanpersson1205 Ай бұрын
Thats pretty impressive
@oteliogarcia1562 Ай бұрын
The Sten was set to "5-round bursts"
@between666 Ай бұрын
Depends who got to shoot..I worked with a 9th division Sargent Major gold coast city council. Owen and Bren and 25 pounder. Blokes with shattered limbs went in to fight. I reckon a canvas cover might of solved the sand problem
@Evervigilant88 Ай бұрын
Why was it replaced with the F1 ?
@fredflintstome6532 Ай бұрын
they were worn out
@johnsteele2986 Ай бұрын
Like all great designs, some jerk thought he could improve it I guess! Also the advent of the AR15 made SMGs largely obsolete.