History of WWI Primer 133: Danish Krag Carbines Documentary

[@mucho831]

My Grandfather was in the Danish army in 1949 and he told me, the entiry platoon was still using Krag-Jørgensen Carbines (no long rifles). He told me that the only time he saw somone with a diffrint rifle was the police that used captured k98 While they trained toghether.

[@Paraphen]

@@zarb88 I use them to fall asleep because it never gets too exciting but it's never boring so my mind doesn't wander

[@zarb88]

@@Paraphen I hope Mae doesn’t read that you’re falling asleep when she’s on. Hell hath no fury etc.

[@Paraphen]

@@zarb88 well if it makes it any better I have to fall asleep while Othais is on like five or six nights in a row before I even get that far into the episode

[@thinktwicespeakonce482]

This is my favorite piece of KZbin. Ian is great, but this long form content is what I love!

[@tenofprime]

The way I described it to a coworker is "you remember the history channel before it got obsessed with aliens?"

[@jeffreyroot6300]

I love them both!

[@tenofprime]

@@jeffreyroot6300 they make a good pairing, Ian is good for when you want cool gun history in smaller bits.

[@andythem320guy9]

Gun Jesús (ian) gun plato (othias) GOD (MAE)

[@mattdickson2]

i love both but yeah long form rocks

[@Sparkfly88]

If anyone is curious about the movie of When Denmark was attacked by Germany watch the Danish made movie April 9th. It is amazing

[@metalmadsen]

A great film. There is also the serie 1864.

[@jyttesteenbruhn3211]

The April 9 movie is very accurate, including the rifles used etc. Unfortunately the 1964 is more of a political statement and full of historical incorrectness, directed by the idiot Ole Bornedal.

[@pizzagerbil6732]

Ever since I first noticed that semi-pistol gripped Krag on the wall I have been waiting ever so patiently for a full-length video on the favorite rifle of my collection. It doesn't feel like a weapon of war, but rather a piece of antique machine art.

[@andythem320guy9]

"The Danish cant be cute." *Sees Krag carbine* "I changed my mind"

[@AvaniDK]

Thanks for saying that we can be cute :)

[@kimmoj2570]

@@AvaniDK I have done my rounds. Danes are most balanced people in world. They are very polite, rational people. Kinda like north Germans after one pint of beer, but 24/7.

[@andersbendsen5931]

Not just feeding the algorithm, also liking the show.

[@john88benson]

I don't suppose the Norwegian M1912 carbine maybe in the future? That particular iteration of the Krag ticks all of the aesthetic boxes for me, emphasis on ALL THE BOXES. If I ever encountered one for sale I would be hard pressed to leave it.

[@blairbuskirk5460]

Finally done baking the day's bread, time to settle in for some wholesome historical content.

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[@zachrolph814]

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[@richardgood7039]

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[@smackarel7]

This series is making me fall in love with Krag's. I love it.

[@seanwarnock9757]

Repair headphones or watch favorite youtube channel. Headphones will wait another hour to learn about Krag carbines.

[@cameronking5231]

I had to triple check to be sure this was a new video it came so early in the day! Also this is me interacting with this video KZbin

[@chrisbrown4002]

Thanks for the great videos on the Danish Krag's , history and shooting :)

[@natureman494]

this is by far the best looking carbine I've seen on the show so far. its like a mauser-krag hybrid.

[@bofoenss8393]

My Grandfather served in the Danish Army in Southern Jutland on 9 April 1940 during the German invasion. "Luckily" for him and his company, they had been forbidden to prepare defensive positions or even hold maneuvers near the border, so they were completely blind. They were a motorized company and apparently they got lost, so the commanding officer halted the column, ordered a five minute break to smoke, while he went across the road to ask a farmer for directions. It would just so happen that the farmer's pretty daughter was out, too, so 150 soldiers left the trucks and crossed the road to admire the female specimen, leaving all their weapons in the trucks. Of course, when they were smoking away, the vanguard of the German advance column showed up, a pair of motorcycles with Mg34 sidecars. They just halted, charged their guns and smiled. Not one moved and an entire company was captured without a single shot fired. Which was wise. Had one been stupid and done the Hollywood thing and made a dash for the weapons, the casualty list for that day would have been many times bigger. So, "luckily" for my grandfather, the neutrality policy meant he never got to fight that day, he would do that later in the resistance. But he carried a Krag Jørgensen carbine during his service. Like this one. Thank you for showing it.

[@joet.s.6283]

C&Rsenal coming in with a video to watch while I try to get my daughter back to sleep. Its 3 am... we want to sleep soooooo bad

[@georgecaldwell2916]

Every night ! Big O’s soothing voice is what I need for nite nite , oh yea the info is great too!!

[@jameskazd9951]

this show is so consistently good. i always look forward to the next video

[@scottcbutton]

love this series it is pure historical gold

[@nadams01_65]

The krag rifles are just so aesthetically pleasing

[@earlledoux9824]

Beautiful as ever........the gun is not bad either. Thanks Mae❤

[@Darkerloaf]

OK, Othais, I get that you wouldn't defile an old Krag, but what about a sporterized Krag?? Get one and build the Krag of your dreams! Eh? EH?? Love the show. You and Mae rawk. Cheers! Keep up the good work!

[@jeffreyroot6300]

Sweet rifles! I have a weakness for the US Krag carbines ( nothing competes with my appreciation of Winchester 1895 carbines, though!). I can’t help but speculate that the Krag magazine would have been a valuable feature for scoped military rifles, particularly if used with chargers. No more concerns with obstructing the charger or clip guides by center line of the scope, and easy topping off the magazine with individual loose rounds as the sharpshooter or sniper plies his trade.

[@LOUDcarBOMB]

8:17 Damn, those Danes are giving the Japanese a run for their money on bayonets.

[@michaelrobbins6694]

F! I just spit coffee on myself! Backpacks On Backwards! Your best ever Othias!

[@fien111]

"This little carbine is going to require a bit of explanation, everything in this show does..." >Looks at this positively *brief* 35 minute runtime That's one way to put it, yes.

[@LmgWarThunder]

History content like this is seriously underrrated

[@jamesfisher9594]

Another awesome episode.

[@left-handedtexan2658]

You guys do a great job as always. Thank you for your hard work and clean presentations.

[@LtCmdrGordon]

Thank you as always, I’m always watching these when I come home from work. I was watching the Lewis one earlier.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

It feels like I fell off Rifle Mountain and hit every Krag on the way down.

[@ironked]

Oh, my. I thought it was comical that the guards in Hogan's Heros carried Krags. And now Othias says the Germans confiscated them for second line duty - like a POW camp?

[@sidekickbob7227]

Yes. Second line duty forces often used non German weapons. There's even pictures of German SS guard troops using Mosin-Nagants rifle in theire slavecamps in Poland. In Norway they often equipped the guards with the M94 Krag Jørgensen. It all makes sense, since you could arm a lot of more soldiers, and still avoid the logistic problem of having different sort of ammunition at the front. All they had to do, was to give some rounds with each rifle, and the guard could fullfill his duty for years...

[@sidekickbob7227]

@another pleb Yes, that's correct. Nice wall hangers....Stomperud is a Norwegian comic figure, not too unlike "Beetle Bailey". (But you probably knew that already)

[@impliedtomato8760]

I really love these episodes, I work nights so it helps me pass the time and I learn so much

[@StacheMan26]

Man, I love Krags. All those weird solutions and little features that arise in the gap between when people discover they can do something and when they figure out the optimal way of doing it always combine together into the neatest things.

[@Major_Bomber187]

I'm not going to lie, the muzzle looks like a M1 Grand in a weird way

[@josephahner3031]

The US Army used Krags once so that may not be a coincidence.

[@Major_Bomber187]

@@josephahner3031 very true

[@louiemaguire9395]

Informative, relaxing and fun to watch. Great episode as always

[@FireflyActual]

So Mae gave the long rifle the softest of yeses, while Othais fell in love with the carbine. I wonder what kind of review the Norwegian 1912 is going to get - it's shorter and handier than the long rifle, has a thicker barrel than the 1894, nice tangent sights, a turned-down bolt handle, a full-length stock with finger grooves and a semi-pistol grip, its loading gate opens to the side and it's chambered for the lovely 6.5x55 rimless... Plus it has the signature buttery smoothness of a Krag action. Really looking forward to that episode.

[@jeffbangle4710]

Darn, I was just about to log off and go to sleep, and then this popped up in my feed. Oh well, sleep is for the weak.

[@AggroRadius]

That's what coffee is for!

[@perezmig577]

The betrayals! The drama! Othais and his love for the Krag Carbine finally revealed! Mae sorta shocked but not too surprised! Film at 11!

[@Rinasoir]

Krag's have always been on my top ten list to want, got to admit, this is now the one that I would want. It looks perfect.

[@fg42t2]

Just wait the 1912 carbine= the best is coming

[@pookieanderson9474]

Catching up on all these videos and I just love the conversations you guys have on these videos about the guns. It is really enjoyable.

[@TheRealColBosch]

What a neat little rifle. I've added it to the "some day" list.

[@RubberduckWVU]

Definitely ky favorite firearms channel

[@cannonfodder4376]

Oh boy another episode on Krag's on the way.

[@terrysmith7751]

The short Krags without the barrel jacket look great. That magazine though...

[@YerluvinunclePete]

Thanks Jeff!

[@Cheesytarian]

Thanks different jeff

[@jeffreyroot6300]

Thanks to the Jeff’s!

[@caseymuzio7609]

Wooooo new episode you guys are spoiling me

[@theallamericanmarine]

It's amazing how much I can learn from you guys I love it, it helps out a lot when I'm writing a book that does have ww1 in it and this show helps out a lot. thank you

[@jyttesteenbruhn3211]

After WW2 the Krag-Jørgensen M/1889/10 was more or less only used by the Kongelige Livgarde (Royal Household Lifeguard). Most Krag-Jørgensen pattern rifles & carbines had been stolen by the Germans for second line duties of all sorts. To get going again Danmark used Gevær M/45/96S (Swedish Mauser 6.5x55mm) brought home by the Danish Brigade in Sweden and Gevær M/45E (Lee Enfield No4 .303 British) either dropped by parachute during the war or bought from Britsh surplus. All was replaced by Gevær M/50 (M1 Garand) when we joined NATO as one of the original members. Danmark did not adobt another carbine before we got the Karabin M/96 (Diemarco (Colt Canada) C7) - basically an M4.

[@brianfoster4434]

I had no idea that there where so many versions of this rifle. Fascinating!

[@chefemilj]

I enjoy the history. Thanks

[@KPen3750]

7:00 Soldiers and Sailors will be Soldiers and Sailors

[@btklar]

That extractor tho! The casings jump out like a K1911

[@Payne427]

There was a 1895 30-40 Krag Carbine at the local gun shop for $300. And the day I had the money to buy it, the gentleman on the phone said "I'm terribly sorry but, we sold it two hours ago." That hurt the soul.

[@jeremyrintoul8686]

Let's up those engagement numbers!

[@PoindexterG]

I spy with my little eye something starting with K. Krags? Yes, I spy with my little eye something starting with M. More Krags? Yes, I spy with my little eye something starting with E. Even more Krags? Yes!

[@omenran]

I spy with my little eye something that starts with Y. Yet More Krags.

[@CCGR-2024]

I really enjoyed this episode and just might have to add that carbine to my list.

[@DiggingForFacts]

Another 10 bucks per month well spent. Also, the start of that Maeversation was hilarious

[@ROB0049]

I can't wait for Mae's top ten carbines.

[@cg_coyote]

Dang it, another carbine I need to add to my list

[@ronaldcarrier6620]

An episode of Mae’s top carbines? Yes, please.

[@necrontyr5258]

MORE! MORE! I just wish the episode didn't come out at midnight gosh darn it! RIP my sleep!

[@unknowntraveller8633]

Sleep is so over rated

[@tenofprime]

@@unknowntraveller8633 It is just a poor substitute for caffeine.

[@Jason-fm4my]

This is the perfect video series to watch at work on veterans day, when no one comes in.

[@scotthancock9592]

So there’s a really obscure pistol designed by some dude named Browning, it was only used for 75 years or so, but will y’all get around to that sometime?

[@jeffreyroot6300]

Something that obscure? Really pushing it!

[@PuppetgoD]

i love the in depth knowledge and research on the videos and of course the humor

[@bofoenss8393]

Nice - the song is a Danish children's song - Først Den Ene Vej. In English, I think it's called First One Way, or The Shoemaker's Dance. The lyrics in translated to English is: First one way And then the other way And clack and clack and the shoemaker's boy The shoemaker's boy is a pig For he's drinking brandy Nice little innocent children's song, eh?

[@Mongo63a]

It pays to be a Patreaon supporter.

[@blairbuskirk5460]

True but it also has it's cost

[@vaclav_fejt]

literally.

[@Mongo63a]

@@blairbuskirk5460 worth the buck a month I contribute for the quality videos.

[@iamnolegend483]

Thank you Othias.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

The Danes were financially strapped due to losing a large part of their territory to Prussia in 1864. There is only do much bacon they could sell to the British.

[@stalker1983]

I mean we reeeeaaaallllly tried with the bacon

[@torbenjohansen6955]

dont forget we already where poor when we lost Slesvig-Holstein/ Slesvig-Holsten. We had lost Norway in 1814 50 years earlyer. and our entire navy a few years before that.

[@kimmoj2570]

@@stalker1983 Being poor is relative thing indeed. Danes history is little like Dutch. Merchantile minded regional superpowers in times past. Rise of nationalism in bigger countries overcame eventually. Among Fennoscandian countries Danes were/are exceedingly wealthy. All the butter and bacon imaginable, compared to rocky soil only good for rye here in north. And one cow which was dry 9 months of year.

[@crankygunreviews]

I really like the Krags. Believe it or not, my local Cabelas had one in the gun library last year. I got to handle it and I thought the loading gate was sweet- it had the more traditional fold down gate rather than the forward folding wacky one like the Danes.

[@dakotagummo1847]

I love how you talked about modifying it back in the day to make it better. I bud of my have been working on an Alternate History project, and one of the harder things is combining the weapon tech from different countries to make them better. It is fun to imagine stupid things like, what if this had chargers, what if this was a little short, will a Mannlicher system make it load faster.

[@ashleymesser6792]

Awesome video. Thanks a lot.

[@Hybris51129]

Hey not sure how best to contact you guys about this but I noticed that the Primer playlist got reversed and is now starting with the newest rifles first instead of the Lebel.

[@maewinchester2030]

Weird, you're right, it was. I switched it back, the Minute of Maes were like that too for some reason. Thanks!

[@Hybris51129]

@@maewinchester2030 Happy to help.

[@stalker1983]

Thats some large brass. Poor Mae, also insanely envious of Mae

[@sitnam9054]

It does seem, whilst the Krags are mostly individual loading, the Krag magazine does seem like the fastest way to load individual rounds compared to, say, a stripper-less Lee Enfield or a Lebel

[@jeffreyroot6300]

Agreed! I

[@DebatingWombat]

Yeah, but I do think that Othais and May made a good case for the US Krag being more easy to “dump load” with loose cartridges than the Danish “flip forward” system. Weirdly, the Danish system would probably have been easier to integrate with some form of clip/cartridge holder, yet none was ever apparently used.

[@alessandroroberto1298]

I'm luky to live in Europe and the 1924 carbines models ( infantry and Artillery) are easy to find here 😊

[@TheRaptor06]

I have nothing interesting to say, just commenting to boost KZbin algorithm for an excellent channel

[@larsr.hansen6589]

Very interesting.

[@ZigZagMarquis]

11:46 Ahhh, there is a mag cut-off. Had to watch it a couple of times. Thanks Mae.

[@jims9249]

So will the one hanging on the wall be featured soon?

[@Zorglub1966]

Let's had a little boost to your visibility.

[@markbecht1420]

Ever ytime you say "charger loader" I have an Expanse flashback

[@thetruerift]

"Chagah lowdah!"

[@torehermansen]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWbclHpubK1kmJo - fast load...

[@DrBreezeAir]

Cmon people, let’s boost these two to the top where they belong!

[@treyc9053]

Great content as always

[@JohnFairhurst]

Great as always!

[@Zap_R0sdower]

Had no idea there was so much to know about these

[@garypaulstratton]

Very interesting as always.

[@jonasjeaggi4575]

Doeth mine eyes decieve me or is that a 1912/16 short rifle on the wall?

[@tomislavkefecek4443]

awesome work

[@cheeseburgerwalrus5538]

Is it strange to be watching this at 2:00am and smoking a cigar and having a glass of brandy?

[@alexjacobs8399]

What a wonderful companion to breakfast! Always informative and interesting, too!

[@wlewisiii]

Still waiting on the Norse Krag. :D Not that it matters to me, I have my US 1898 Krag that was chopped into a carbine that I love.

[@Horizontalvertigo]

Regarding over chamber handguards, didn't you kinda answer your own question when you wished there was a sight channel carved into it? Considering how much work would go into turning the wood and then how thin/delicate it would become, if you're trying to save pennies on tens of thousands of rifles (potentially) doesn't it make a lot of sense to just tell your soldiers not to burn their hands like dumb dumbs?

[@davidhansen5067]

Glad to see us wrap up this Krag series. Norwegian Krags coming soon?

[@maewinchester2030]

FORESHADOWING

[@HM-zk6rb]

Great stuff!

[@PaulMooneyOutdoors]

Thanks for the great content

[@6038am]

I don't find pronauncing any of the names of the Krags difficult, but i am danish so that might help.

[@daazs9248]

even if they were not as effective, krags have a certain charm to them

[@MrPh30]

Have alook for the Norwegian Hurtiglader, the spring loaded box for the Norwegian Krag seeing Mae shoot Stang Skyting would be excellent ,and learning for many others also.

[@davidpotter8722]

The Danske Krag is obviously the best version of all the Krags. Thanks for the truth!