July 2019 Q&A

[@Bleechers]

In response to the M14 comment. Everyone has different experiences, but my unit used the M14 EBRs we had in Afghanistan extensively. It definitely provided an ability that the M4/M16 platform couldn't. We didn't take it out on every mission, and it by no means was a perfect solution, but it was a good asset to have. Several times in a fight, only myself and the 240s had a capability to engage the enemy effectively and only myself had the ability to actually ID enemy fighters. Having the optic alone was great and despite the weight, having the magnification coupled with an an/pvs 22 night sight gave us an even larger advantage in the dark. Reliability wise, once I got a hold of some good magazines I really didn't have any notable issues. Overall, I would have rather had an M110 and it didn't need to be brought out every day, but having the ability to engage at 600 meters and actually see what was out there was a great asset. Training was a large issue though. We got them once when we got in country and the other two times about 2 weeks before deployment. There was no real training provided and I ended up with it twice by default simply because I knew how to use an M14 and I was familiar and somewhat experienced in long range shooting. A lot of units didn't have people that already had the base skill set to use it or the doctrinal understanding of how to employ it and so it never got utilized. Sorry for the large comment, love the content Karl and Ian.

[@bamboozlednoodle6513]

Thank you for your service man

[@cymond]

That's some really great feedback, but it seems to boil down to "it was suboptimal, but better than nothing".

[@1ohtaf1]

Ian: He was alcoholic, depressed, died overweight... Karl: I don't know how much that's related to firearm design or how much that's just related to the normal human condition.

[@werre2]

or him being finnish

[@Zbyhonj]

"died relatively early," not "died overweight"

[@snowgaming9685]

Hey, that sounds like me!

[@Kaboomf]

Ex-infantry, current cop here. I agree having a bunch of incompatible batteries are a pain, but with a battery in each device it's easy to waterproof all the electronics. O-ring on the battery cover, done. With an exposed rail of some sort you have to somehow make a waterproof plug system, or corrosion will mess up the connection in a hurry. Waterproof, removable connectors typically fail to be either waterproof or easily removeable.

[@purplepenguin43]

aircraft have mil-spec water proof plugs, steal some from aviation. they aren't easily removable, their usually safety wired on, but do they really need to be quickly removable? how often are you taking off your peq-15?

[@Kawawaymog]

Good point!

[@MrSnakedHD]

EpiicPenguin cannon plugs are pretty bulky and the wire is prone to breakage and chaffing. I don’t think it would suit the application.

[@luciussulla987]

Make a bunch of wireless accessories and an induction rail or something... gotta be some smart guys out there that can figure that out eventually

[@SinistralRifleman]

Since the 1980s forward import restrictions, the assault weapons ban, and ATF sporting purpose interpretations discouraged manufacturers from investing in box fed shotguns. More recently (2011) the ATF finally ruled that detach mags are not inherently unsporting; and that’s why there’s finally interest from manufacturers to invest in it.

[@gunnerdupree3406]

Thank you Russell, your insight and logical analysis of things really makes a great additive contrast to Ian and Karl. Would love to see you on one of these QAs.

[@486kyle]

can they really trust that it won't just be reversed again, like with pistol braces?

[@SinistralRifleman]

googleplus ain'tthatgreat the more guns in circulation the harder that is to do. Declaring them nonsporting would make them all destructive devices With a tax free registration period.

[@exohead1]

I always wondered why in the entire life of the 12 gauge/shotgun shell there doesn’t seem to be much interest in developing a rimless shotgun shell. I can’t imagine it’d be that technologically challenging. The market may not buy in to it, but shotguns have been around for a *long* time. And rimless cartridges have been around for a really long time. Did nobody put those two together at a point in time when the normal shotgun rounds didn’t have the market inertia they do today?

[@davidgoodnow269]

Let's also not forget that most basic thing--the legal limitation of fowling pieces to a two-shot magazine was created to protect wildlife so a viable population would remain. True history and a proven logical law. That's why your tube-feed pump or auto has a two-round block, why the Marlin bolt-action shotguns had two-round detachable magazines, etc. For multiple centuries, shotguns purposed for hunting vastly outnumbered shotguns purposed exclusively for defense. Now we have more urbanized population, and in the United States much more restricted availability of hunting areas than ever before, such that even if your average working-Joe wanted to take his kid hunting like Grandpa took him, he can't--Grandpa's farm or hunting cabin got sold off twenty years ago when property taxes got too high or developer offers got too compelling. Now, for him, the shotgun is for home defense, dissuading looting rioters, or zombies.

[@DeviantOllam]

Phew! Been waiting all morning (since the Full30 email) for this to be released on KZbin. ;-) P.S. - I would *definitely* go to Barrow, AK. Anywhere the opposite of hot is a place I'll visit

[@NG-VQ37VHR]

Omg yes. Southeast Louisiana is horrible right now. I hate this time of year.

[@Quintus_Fontane]

Yep. There's not really an upper limit on how many layers you can put on, but there's only so many layers you can take off before people start screaming and the police arrive...

[@Devin_Stromgren]

Anything above 50 degrees is unfit for man or beast.

[@monteengel461]

Barrow is no more. Now named Utqiagvik.

[@chadkhl1690]

If you come over to Finland, hit me up for accommodation!

[@anti_life_eq]

The new Australian service rifle was designed with room for a future upgrade that incorporates a powered rail.

[@KATAKOTO69]

From Kalashnikov's obituary in the NYT: The general often claimed that he never realized any profit from his work. But in his last years he urged interviewers not to portray him as poor, noting that he had a sizable apartment, a good car and a comfortable dacha on a lake near the factory where he had worked for decades. Work and loyalty to country, he often suggested, were their own rewards. “I am told sometimes, ‘If you had lived in the West you would have been a multimillionaire long ago,’ ” he said. “There are other values.”

[@BeKindToBirds]

Man worth admiring.

[@mattbd9484]

why did ol Kalash have an obituary in the NYT of all places?

[@jeffreyroot7346]

@@mattbd9484 Important people get write ups.

[@matisseenzer2383]

@Charles Sun Are you comporting Kalashnikov's compensation to Garand's?

[@neilhillis9858]

@Charles Sun He still has a good point. Jonas Salk didn't live in the USSR.

[@r.artilesuriarte599]

Been to Svalbard a pair of times where due to Polar Bears you're required by law to carry a gun anytime you leave the settlement. The governor there gives guidelines regarding firearms which more or less go like: if you carry a rifle it has to be at least 308, although 30-06 is the most popular caliber out there. When it comes to shotguns slugs are mandatory but rifles are preferred to shotguns due to malfunctions. And regarding handguns if not mistaken 44 magnum is the smalles. I personally haven't seen anybody carrying one overe there. And last but not least, people are encounraged to carry a flare gun to scare bears off when the situation allows you to do so as this seem to be very effective. That being said if you're camping in bear country you should also know some safety basics regarding the does and donts of setting a camp which many people have very little to no idea about.

[@willcaputo1]

I think 460 Rowland/Roland (idr the spelling. Sorry) might be worth looking into. Supposedly it is in the same ballpark as 44 mag, but it's rimless and there's a kit that allows you to drop it into a Glock. A G21 iirc.

[@Stellar001100]

Im thinking rifles in 45-70 would be popular there.

[@martinlarsen7354]

Speaking of polar bears - they're the reason that the danish Sirius Patrol in north east Greenland use Glock 20s as sidearms, 9mm parabellum wasn't cutting it - they also use M1917s as their long arms with M2 rounds for bear and civilian hollow point for enraged musk ox.

[@lappol1]

"but what the japanese didn't consider was that then the guys will come back, cause they do, and theh did." Thank you ian, very cool.

[@callhoonrepublican]

31:40 the last time I went to a gun show I wanted to buy 1 of those $5 Chinese sks chest rigs. The gunshow boomers were selling them for like $30- $50. Asked them all if they were insane, they're like $5-$10. "I know what I got! This is a good deal, you cant yet these anymore, this is a collector's item, they're very rare now!" Then why do so many tables have them pops?

[@biundo1000]

On Aliexpress you can find them brand new from 15$. It's similar to the WW2 helmet market...

[@TheBiggestIron]

It's like that for so many items at gun shows

[@Devin_Stromgren]

Hell, you can buy those Chinese SKS rigs on Amazon.

[@daa3417]

callhoonrepublican I am sorry to tell you that surplus shit does that. If you’re the casual surplus buyer you come off as just wait until a few years down the road when you see flecktarn prices, you’ll think ‘damn that stuff used to cost nothing’ and there’s a good reason for that if you care to research. From here into the future if you have a random thought that you would like to have a certain surplus item BUY IT RIGHT THEN AND THERE! The surplus market is kind of crazy in that way right now, if you don’t buy it asap chances are you’ll regret it. Funny enough it’s not just boomers doing this, recall the SADF rigs what is an SADF battle vest going for these days lol?

[@beargillium2369]

@@daa3417 that was on ☝️

[@Copenharvest]

Lathi - alcoholic, depressed. Nothing unusual about that, he was Finnish after all.

[@prjndigo]

so "Finnish-ed"

[@grumblesa10]

@@noth606 Yep, that and using Sauna to cure everything from colds to coronary thrombosis. When I was 8, I got the flu at my great uncles' farm. His answer: shot of vodka, and sauna.

[@krazyl111]

Beretta made the integrated battery on the rifle with contact points on the rail. They showed it at shot show years ago on their ARX100.

[@cmikles1]

Ed walmsley hmm. That might be a good place to start for finding what works.

[@herknorth8691]

Steiner and Burris are owned by Beretta too, so I could see an optic and WML being made just for such a type of rifle.

[@88porpoise]

Problem is, you need a bunch of very different companies to sign on to it. You need the firearm manufacturers (and not just one rifle), the optics manufacturers, laser manufacturers, light manufacturers. You need a big force to get these industries in line. Most likely it would take a large military asking for it to get the ball rolling.

[@allaboutadventure6639]

As soon as Karl started talking about this I remembered the Military Arms Channel video of his Beretta Factory tour. Starting at 10:00

[@AM-hf9kk]

From an engineering standpoint, adding a power line mod to a Pic (1913) rail would be simple. It would literally be as easy as having an embedded +5Vdc line that's insulated from the rail with a bare metal section of the rail for ground, with two spring loaded contact pins on the accessory. Alternatively, you could have micro USB ports in the rail valleys. Standardizing on something like USB makes it a cakewalk and you could even have data sharing between cameras and whatever else you mount. Throw the battery in the handgrip with a micro USB charging port and then use your car charger to boost it at any opportunity. LiPo battery swaps would take 5 seconds with the right latch and contact arrangement. Hell, you could mount a tiny solar panel on the top rail. Making it grunt proof would be the real challenge - dirt and water ingress mediation would be tough.

[@Jiberwocky]

Maybe I don't watch you guys religiously enough (YET) but the good-natured snark and banter in the first five minutes really made me smile

[@GruntJoe0341]

Ian, I understand your sentiments on camping completely. Ever since getting out of the Marines, I haven't really cared to go hang out in the woods. I mean, maybe if I had beer, and people who are actually friends, instead of people I'm forced to be around, and not have to do random stupid shit, but I really just don't care to. I appreciate real walls and a real roof, too.

[@ZGryphon]

I've always reckoned that my ancestors didn't spend the last 200,000+ years perfecting the building so I could go be outdoors.

[@kleinerprinz99]

How about the best of both worlds: a cabin in the woods. ;)

[@PianoMan347]

Gaston Glock is another gun designer who is wildly successful and well-off.

[@warwickben]

As a machinist that does r&d for high production runs . The ak is a simpler/easier weapon to make on a wide scale . Most of the parts are easier to make and also the specs on the individual parts are wider . The trigger did the ak fit example can be made from basic forgings with no machine work on most of the parts , vs ar/m16 with ground parts .

[@GhostlyTurtle]

Good points. And the AR is probably easier for small shops to make, hence why the AR market has such a massive amount of companies making receivers and components. Anyone with CAD and a CNC machine can make a low production run of AR receivers. On the other hand, stamped metal requires a lot more specific tooling.

[@ActualHumanPerson]

Yous guys are the best.

[@zenmello]

So Karl, you did a lot of cowboy shooting, just how many cowboys did you shoot?

[@juggaknot93]

Shooting a cowboy would be pretty difficult. How do you load and aim him? On second thought, don't answer that.

[@r_r_a_m6916]

At least 6 id imagine

[@ninjadude414gaming4]

One and 19 more

[@rowdyzack5914]

Karl shot 18 naked cowboys in the showers at ram ranch

[@moosemaimer]

_a'la'ih, do'neh'lini, a'la'ih, do'neh'lini, do'neh'lini..._ "Is he just using Navajo for zero and one?" "Woah, keep your voice down!"

[@kangah807]

moosemaimer code name Jill chee

[@RyoLeo]

You see what you gotta do is use that but make a bunch of words mean 1 and a bunch of others mean 0 and what you do is you get a message turn it into 1’s and 0’s encrypt that and then use the modified navaho to send those 1’s and 0’s now you got a nearly unbeatable way to pass on message... although I think the translation/encryption untranslation/unencryption process might take as long at cracking it so it might not be the best choice

[@shadowstorm657]

Use hex for even more fun.

[@spacedmanspiff1543]

Reference the medic equipment. The basics go a long way. There is no need to get hyper advanced in the selection of equipment. Bandage, tourniquet, gauze, tape and scissors. If needs be you can make a chest seal to manage a sucking chest wound from plastic and tape. Take training, stop the bleed is an excellent first class. But much like shooting, medicine is all about the basics.....

[@TheSuburban15]

Nutnfancy devoted like 6 hours to cover first aid kits. LOL I am mostly in agreement with you that training and typical IFAC kit stuff is most important.

[@TheOoooood]

Wrap buffer tube in copper wire, put magnet at the end of the bolt carrier (or the weight thingamajigger). Then firing the gun can help charge the battery

[@cmikles1]

Daily throw a CBEC system in the barrel to use thermal heat to charge the battery as well.

[@samuelmac1054]

Duct tape a car battery on the rifle, probablem solved

[@yomaze2009]

Drop in wireless charging for weapon storage and weapon. No dead batteries at the start of the apocalypse?

[@daa3417]

But then you have to fire the gun to charge, and the majority of your time with a rifle you are not firing it. Also that direction of motion isn’t great for generating a current (read efficient Joules/Watts), that’s why you see most use applications use a way of converting whatever motion into rotational force and spinning a shaft of the generator with a counter weight. The scifi (but still possible) solution is a piezo device that converts all the vibrations from you carrying and shaking the rifle into a current (then becomes calories/watts and the efficiency starts as >100%), you do a lot more carrying than shooting (if you didn’t know the bulk of electric lighter and grille igniters are piezo generators and they’ve proven to be extremely robust and reliable). The issue with the ‘hot shoe’ (literally the same way flash modules connected to cameras) idea Karl suggested is first and foremost needing to protect the unused contacts, it would be very expensive and in reality most would only ever use a few of the contacts anyway. The biggest point I see is that the AR has essentially stayed the same for decades but it’s peripherals have greatly advanced, imo that is why the AR to seems perfectly modern where many see the AK as out dated. If that trend continues there is a good chance what ever power supply you integrate into your AR in 2019 may not be adequate to power whatever future gadget we are lusting after in 2040, even with today’s tech using a stand-alone battery based supply to power both thermal sight/NODS along with an ir/white light is asking too much. Another point is my belief that the trend moving into the future will be to eliminate removable batteries all together and focus on being rechargeable, if the aimpoint of the mid 21st century is powered by an internal rechargeable unit your gun based charging unit would be retrograde and entirely useless.

[@jjtomecek1623]

@@samuelmac1054 for increased operating time, duct tape a solar panel too

[@jonvelde5730]

I appreciate these guys because they´re so articulate. It´s refreshing.

[@Cognosapien]

With regard to comms encryption, I second Karl's recommendation of Signal. I would avoid WhatsApp, since it's owned by Facebook, which is obviously not a privacy-oriented company. As far as radio comms, as a licensed amateur radio operator myself, it is in violation of FCC regulations to use encryption as an amateur radio operator. However, there are a lot of legally accepted modes that would be very difficult for a 3rd party to find and listen in to if they don't know what modulation you are using. Most common is analog FM, but there are also a variety of digital modes now (DMR, D-Star, C4FM/System Fusion) that are less commonly used and would sound like unintelligible noise to a 3rd party just listening in on the frequency if they are not tuned to the exact modulation type that you are running.

[@nirfz]

I'd say for someone not involved in the amateur radio community (like me) even the abbeviations used sound like an ecryption. ;-)

[@pdittrich]

"it is in violation of FCC regulations to use encryption as an amateur radio operator" what, really? well anyhow, then just code your transmission. just read off a bunch of numbers or nato alphabet. like "cb lingo". what they gonna do, triangulate your ass and fine you?

[@anti_life_eq]

Thank you for this! I wish Karl had time to do a channel dedicated to this subject as well!

[@wingracer1614]

@@pdittrich This is what I was thinking. Technically a so called numbers station is encrypted. The radio signal is in the clear but the message itself is an encryption.

[@jakeplissken]

The shotgun/pistol 2GACM is one of my favorite series of videos from InRange. The option to ditch the shotgun at any point in the stage made it really interesting to watch and seems like a valuable training emphasis. Any extra decision making on the clock is educational in my view.

[@anti_life_eq]

I feel like with the proliferation of cheap AR's is making proper use of the shotgun a lost art.

[@KurtAustin2448]

For the questions at the 40 minute mark: I'd argue the US would be better off. On the small arms front, it's about equal with Germany. Sure the machine gun and the rifle leave a little to be desired, but in the grand scheme of things it all worked perfectly fine. What the US had at the end of the war was air power and especially naval air power. You do not argue with the aircraft carrier. We got really good at those. Germany never had them. The Japanese proved the overwhelming superiority of the carrier over the battleship, but the US ended up perfecting it. A carrier battlegroup is still one of the best methods of force projection. As for the V2, it rarely ever hit the intended target, assuming it got anywhere close. And the V1 was routinely dealt with by single engine fighters. The Me-262 was certainly a revolutionary aircraft, but the Britts had the Meteor well into testing by the end of the war.

[@tbobay]

Thought on the action shooting with a flintlock: closer to run & gun than to 2GACM, but try to duplicate the circle of fire at the Battle of Lexington. 6 man teams, run, fire a volley, run, reload, run to next target array, repeat for 12 miles.

[@DeviantOllam]

That would honestly be a cool GoRuck type of one time event. Ian, wouldn't you go in for such a physical challenge?

[@yomaze2009]

So a really serious historical battle re-enactment where you get a score, sounds interesting. Bet you could get a decent clutch of re-enactors interested on top of firearms enthusiasts.

[@tbobay]

@@yomaze2009 There are various run and gun/ dry land biathlon events where you run a distance- shoot - run another distance. In theory it wouldn't be hard to add a teams-with-crap-guns division to this. As far as would people show up, it would likely be a small group.

[@yosh921]

50:00 guys, words can not discribe how much i love you two for your awesome synergy!

[@BudgetGuns]

A really good prebuilt and sealed trauma kit is North American Rescue INDIVIDUAL PATROL OFFICER KIT (IPOK), get it with combat Gauze. Its small and vacuumed sealed, fits in a cargo pocket, has everything you need. I carry one every day.

[@toughspitfire]

Just for the record the 5 round capacity in Canada applies for semi auto rifles, manual actions do not have a capacity limit.

[@TheWolfsnack]

....take it from a Canadian....bolt actions are also 5 round max. That is why the old Lee Enfields are pinned to only hold five rounds. Lever actions and pumps can hold more.

[@lukemachan9143]

@@TheWolfsnack You are wrong, I also live in Canada. I'm also a firearms owner, there is no capacity limit for manual actions. I've never seen a pinned lee magazine, I've owned two No4 mk1's.

[@corey3606]

That is untrue. I own a no4 mk1* that is not pinned, in fact I have never seen one pinned. Manual firearms have no magazine restrictions.

[@tomkavulic7178]

"The more cynical and jaded you become the less you care what happens." Ian Mccollum 2019

[@emperorspock3506]

14:15 Brunost/Gjetost: if you haven't tried it, the taste is like salty toffee (or rather creme caramel), with a smooth, cold butter-like texture. It's evaporated milk whey mixed with cream and sugar (exact ingredients and proportions vary, but the whey is always there). I used to make it, and it's absolutely wonderful. Buy it if you get the chance.

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

Germany actually used Hi-Powers without the magazine safety... So that's a win too. Also WW2 German Navy had Anti-Ship missiles too, the HS 239. Also, last but not the least, the Panzerfaust was awesome.

[@FirstDagger]

Lets not forget the Fritz X which sank the battleship Roma. But with US you have the clear advantage of having the first nuke ever soooo there is that.

[@oloflarsson407]

On the other hand the Hs 293 had a low hit probability right from the start, and in 1944, with effecitve allied jammers even less. Furthermore, the missile was risky to use for the launch aircraft, as the launch aircraft had to fly strait and level, from release to missile miss (or far more rarely missile hit). The US ASM-N-2 Bat (anti-ship radar-guided, "fire and forget" glide-bomb kit for a 2000lb GP bomb) was a better option in that case, being fire and forget, and having a range of up to 20nmi. As for jets, the allies had the P-80 and Gloster Meteor in service at wars end (both faster, than the Me 262) and the DeHavilland Vampire (as fast as the Me 262). Most importantly though, the allies did not only have far superior bombers and better field artillery, they also had nuclear bombs and proximity fuzes for artillery at wars end.

[@Momomaster25]

HS239 is less of an anti ship missile if you compare it to the american BAT active radar, self guided glide bomb. HS239 is more akin to guided bombs than they are missiles. It would require just putting a rocket motor on the BAT to literally make it into the world's first air launched anti ship missile.

[@trooperdgb9722]

@@oloflarsson407 P-80 did not reach squadron service in WW2. Vampire did not even reach RAF service until 1946. Agree with all else... biggest Allied advantage possibly was logistical.

[@09KEVO09]

To answer the question at 0:42:27 , the US had the only real super weapon of WW2, nukes.

[@nirfz]

The Nukes of WW2 had to be transported by a propeller driven bomber. Which can be shot down by a Fighter Plane. They just worked out because of the immense numbers of Aircraft and money the US had to manage to get air superiority. Without that they aren't any help. If you arm a country with quality built ME262 this air superiority is hard to achieve against them. (The ME262 had radar for night fighting and an ejection seat) -Additionally: considering all the WW2 bombs still found in and around the area that was under german hand in WW2 (in th nearest city to me they find on average 2-5 a year still that have to be defused) I''d say the quality and technology of allied bombs was quite bad. (heard once that the allies had to invent different fuses for bombs because of the fear of patent infringement of the german ones, the US had to pay the Mauser factory money after WW1 for something similar)

[@derekp2674]

@@13thbee16 The first British Jet, the Gloster Meteor commenced operations in July 1994. All sides in WW2 developed their own radar systems. That said, as a system for air battle command and control, the US's Microwave Early Warning (MEW) radar was reckoned to be the best according to my late father, who was a British ground radar boffin then. From his archives I have video of how a MEW was used on D-day, to direct air operations over the Normandy battle space. In particular, they were able to direct outgoing strike aircraft away from patrolling German fighters, so the latter could never find any aerial targets to engage.

[@Kalashnabash]

DerekP 1994?

[@BeKindToBirds]

Radar also should be considered imo

[@Md2802]

Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't bring that up. MAD has ensured nobody has used nukes in anger since 1945, but being the only country with them would change that dynamic.

[@mugwump58]

When my folks did trail maintenance for the USPS, certain areas required a Park Ranger with a .458 Win.

[@proteus2103]

I have to say, I focus mostly on scatterguns as a discipline, and y'alls' shotgun content is top notch.

[@PristineTX]

The USA pretty easily dominates Germany in the "end of WWII weaponry" debate if you include naval assets.

[@Picolinni]

PristineTX but even there design reasons vary based on conditions, for instance, I was reading about one British ship which was designed for the Atlantic/Baltic conditions, and fair incredibly poorly in the Pacific due to the range at which combat tended to take. It was considered that too much effort was put into short range firepower and sea worthiness for storms unlikely to be seen, except in the Baltic or Atlantic that is Tuesday.

[@tutzdesYT]

Nukes.

[@adonizi]

Not submarines. German late war subs were as incredible as the late war planes.

[@wierdalien1]

I am sorry, Gloster Meteor, Centurion? Late war we, the british are still in contention

[@cracklingvoice]

It mainly boils down to logistics over the kit carried by your average grunt. Germany was rationing gasoline and diesel long before the Normandy Landings while the US was the largest oil producer in the world.

[@bjarkiorarson3546]

0:14:20 OMG! Fermented shark! I never thought I would here Icelandic delicacies mentioned on this channel! :D Icelander here btw, and Norwegian brunost (brown cheese) is sooooo gooood! Very similar to a thing we have in Iceland called "mysingur", which I loved as a kid!

[@ssreeser95]

I found a flaw in Ian's plan for a parts kit build from Lego. Toys 'R' Us is gone now. Also, 1:00:45 Karl was referring to the Browning BLR and I very much like mine. Very smooth action. Only 5 rounds in the magazine though.

[@alexm566]

it is back again now

[@derekcombs6497]

115% agree on more obsolete ammo. As a small bore enthusiast in would live to see 25 and 32 rim fire being made again

[@maxsmodels]

My younger brother knew someone who was hit 3 times by late war German 9mm from an MP-40 and then shot the German who had shot him. They both went to the aid station on the same jeep. That must have been an awkward drive.

[@Panzervagon]

For ease of manufacture, I'd say the simplest THING to make is round-receivered SMG's like the Sten that are open bolt. With a bit of extra tooling and a lathe you can make one in a bicycle shop as long as you can get barrel blanks, and utilize the lathe to pull a broach or button rifling tool through, it wouldn't be the best without a sine bar, but at least it won't be keyholing.

[@vigunfighter]

With integrated power, you can do more stuff than before. Weight saved on batteries could go to servo on the power ring on the scope. Image Up/Down button under your finger on the rifle. Being able to quickly change from 1x to 8x and back with a push of a button that is at your fingertip would be huge. 30 years ago I thought of a precision rifle: ballistic computer in the stock (hell, add a Kestral while you are at it for 2-3 ounces) combined with a laser ranger finder and a scope that has servos on the elevation and windage turrets. Put cross hairs on what you want to shoot. Take up slack on the two stage trigger. Red light comes on in scope as laser range finder and Kestrel send their data to the computer. A solution is arrived at and the servos adjust the cross hairs accordingly. Light turns green and you finish pulling the trigger. That would have pushed tech limits back in the 80's when I thought of it. It would be pretty simple to do today.

[@suchness18]

"If you are tasked with arming andy country's armed forces in a way that you want but only with weaponry they had access to at the end of world war which would you pick?" USA, because we had access to germany's weapons 99 days before japan surrendered.

[@bakaneko113]

American artillery completely dominated the western front. The small arms are a wash when you have 12 155mm shells are landing simultaneously several times a minute.

[@member5488]

@@bakaneko113 Yeah, the proximity fuse for artillery and AA shells alone was more important that any differences in small arms.

[@caseychapman5726]

and the fucking nuclear bomb

[@nicolascancio1240]

@@caseychapman5726 the comment I was looking for. I don't understand why they didn't mention this in the video

[@mikec8086]

@@caseychapman5726 even without the bomb, the US military was incredibly formidable by 43, a stunning change from how it was in 1939 with it's most numerous tanks being .50 cal armed.

[@asfinland]

Great as always. Just an idea: Could we have all the Q&A in a playlist?

[@bw6618]

Re: SKS /AK style cloth chest rigs... I had access to one while working in Afghanistan that I used as a grab and go extra mag carrier. Cheap and handy, but the corners on the bottom front of AR mags had a tendency to quickly abrade the cloth, sort of how kids used to wear out the knees of blue jeans before you could buy them pre-raggedy from the store. I solved the problem with the chest rig by lining the inside of the pouch covers with 100mph tape.

[@ShuRugal]

a bit late to the part here, but for power-on-the-gun, all you really need is to get DoD to draft an update to MIL-STD-1913 adding a positive contact to the center of each "land" on the rail, and grounding through the rail. Plastic rail covers are easy enough to make to protect unused positions, then you can have a rail system that makes power available for attachments. Once DoD has added it to MIL-STD-1913, people will start making accessories to use it.

[@PeterHinkle]

A company DID come up with a powered rail system a few years ago. Saw it at shot the year it came out. One is the Tworx and another is the RIPR. THere was also a conplete rifle that came out with the system. It was the Beretta intelligent rifle.

[@jan-reiniervoute6701]

Twist fiocchi's arm for rimfire ammo, they did a run of 9mm rimfire after the original stock was long gone. They would probably want a large order and deposit.

[@gradh3123]

I love Ian's analog solution for encrypting communication- just speak Navajo 😂

[@TheHandgunhero]

I would still argue against what you said about end of WW2 - Germany whilst had superior small arms, everything else was collectively inferior to the USA. 1) The USA had nukes. 2) The USA had super heavy long range bombers - B-29. 3) The USA had jet fighters: P80, saw very limited service in Italy by the end of the war and was available (though inferior to the ME262). 4) The USA had much more functional tanks in much larger numbers, that could go toe to toe with German armour for the most part. 5) USA had a far, far superior navy to anybody in the world. 6) The USA had cruise missiles at the end of the war (but didn't use them, but had V1 copies.)

[@connfizzle882]

Thank you! Nuclear Weapons. Period. You can have the greatest small arms, strategic artillery, jets - take your pick. The ability to wipe a city off the face of the Earth is unrivaled in terms of both strategic superiority and demoralization. Now, granted the ability to produce the necessary isotopes in large enough quantities is a point of contention, but for a hypothetical "What design is best?". Nuclear arms, every time.

[@ZGryphon]

Karl's French sign language when he says "Browning has this rack-and-pinion lever gun box-fed thing" is a thing of beauty.

[@xXxNECROMONGERxXx]

Something to consider about the late war Luftwaffe is that their aircraft were nearly exclusively tailored to being bomber hunters. The Mk108's low velocity and high payload made it poor for dogfighting, but easy to hose a B-17 formation with. The 262, 109, 190, and others of the late war abandoned machine guns altogether for the sake of explosive payload mass.

[@Picolinni]

akavich19 my thought experiment is how to arm a Fw 190 or Me 262 if bomber hunting wasn't their entire reason for existing by that point. If the engines that were supposed to be mounted on the 262 had not been held back due to war time material shortages the rest of the design wouldn't have been so constrained. Radar in the nose, two or three 20mm MG151/20's, engines mounted in the hull... I can dream...

[@stephenpalano2188]

Beretta was working on a one battery to run all accesories on the ARX platform.

[@toolthoughts]

0:14:23 I don't see the OAL or magazine length as being the most relevant point of comparison. Some of the loadings had projectile weights approaching the low end of 7.62 nato, and the bullets were of course comparatively longer. Look at the case lengths (~20% increase) and the muzzle energies. Also it is extremely important to note how they "optimized" or powered up the cartridge repeatedly until it was nearly as overpowered as the later NATO standard. Even the spec that was nominally adopted was arguably not exactly what they set out to design originally. If I'm not misremembering, the earlier versions didn't even share the 12 mm base diameter, but were smaller. The whole discussion is pretty hard to do in a vacuum because of the various influences and compromises that were made late in the development. Probably conceptually the 6.5 grendel is most similar of any extant cartridges in the same niche. I wouldn't really wan't anything stouter in a conventional assault rifle - the final .280/30 is kinda pushing it.

[@blackwatch6267]

the best answer for the Canadian gun question would be a M14/M305 ( non-restricted) in .308 with the 10 round mags, in Canada there is a loophole where the 10 round mags are legal because they are meant for a bolt action rifle (5 round limit only for semi -auto) and happen to fit both the Norinco and american m14, if you are ok with restricted you can get an AR15 with LAR15 pistol mags that have 10 capacity (10 round limit for handguns) that is in .223/5.56

[@ymran2187]

"Words are hard." You guys have no idea how many times, as an English teacher, I say this to my students.

[@bobnancymiller4931]

Non restricted rifles, in Canada are only limited to 5 round magazines if they are separate [ ie box] from the rifle. You can legally own a lever action with a tube magazine with whatever # of rounds they hold. I choose a .45 Colt [ 10 rounds ] and a 45-70 [ 9 rounds ]

[@johnriley4858]

For the Empire I submit the Gloster Meteor, and the centurion tank.

[@radical026]

In addition to the 262 there were a lot of German prototype jet fighter designs that were still being worked on like the Ta 183, which has a lot of the design characteristics of planes like the MiG-15 and the F-86 Sabre

[@harvestn9841]

So what I'm hearing is water cooled machine guns would be great for stopping the area 51 raid.

[@spearton-1912]

the area 51 raid cannot be stopped

[@SgtKOnyx]

Honestly, after about 10-20% casualties they'll rout

[@cptreech]

Mini gun gives a higher rate of fire and keeps the barrel cool by swapping the barrel after every shot.....

[@CountArtha]

Area 51 is so remote that there's no way to assemble the raid less than 20 miles away - in a town with less than 100 residents. Whoever _does_ show up will get picked up by state police as they trickle in.

[@mnguy98]

@@cptreech 3,000 RPM / 6 barrels = 500 RPM per barrel, which will still get very hot very fast, especially if you're just hosing bullets continuously...

[@gnarshread]

Battery tech. is getting better and better by the day. A standardized battery for all rifles and thus bolt on bits would be absolutely revolutionary if it could get traction. We just need someone kooky enough to start experimenting.

[@MinimumSpeedOperator]

Because the M2 works great. If you know what you are doing it serves like a champ. The HB is wonderful

[@devinwooley3575]

50:25 There is a replacement that exists. It's receiving limited use, but it's there. The GAU-19, a rotary .50BMG gatling cannon.

[@neruneri]

I like carrying a small kit on me with the things I am capable of using, similar to the four items you mentioned Karl. I then like to have a bigger kit, including all that weird stuff I have no idea how to use, in my car. It gives me a good balance between having stuff on me all the time and being able to reasonably know I can retrieve it from my car in a real bad situation. I'm European though, so I'm really not concerned with being in a shootout, but I've been a bystander in vehicular accidents when I was a teenager and I want to give myself the best chance I have of not being helpless if I get into such situations again in the future.

[@johndrake5014]

As a side note, some of the flechettes were made on nail making machines. SPIW was a great idea, just like marrying your beautiful first cousin and expecting no problems.

[@stormshot119]

"I still want a Bren 10." Me too, Ian. Me too.

[@Seelenschmiede]

This was the writer of the question saying ;)

[@ZGryphon]

It's the most tactical pistol.

[@darthhodges]

The FN Fiveseven is a pistol with a double feed magazine. But it uses a bottleneck cartridge with a bullet geometry more like a rifle than common handgun calibers which maybe why they were able to do a double feed mag.

[@jeffreyroot7346]

Many of the best submachine gun magazines are double feed and use pistol ammunition. That's not a particular challenge. The Russians make a double feed 9mm pistol. It does make the slide a bit more difficult to engineer.

[@henry06x]

Q&A’s are one of my favorite things to listen to at work. On that corporation budget lol. Love the podcast form on Patreon but always end up watching some parts on KZbin, or end up here to comment.

[@wedge259]

I feel like, despite some qc issues lately, Sig would be probably the best bet for that integrated power and accessories system that you'd be interested in. They are trying to make themselves a "one stop shop" these days, so they might have the ambition for it.

[@lesliewilson2122]

"Lets add complexity to a field weapon! Awesome idea!"

[@werre2]

Fun Fact: Roni, Hera etc are completely legal in Finland. Not regulated. Since attaching/detaching the chassis does not require tools, it does not count as modifying the pistol to be a rifle/carbine :) Same with Mauser C96 stocks etc. No tools -> use as you wish. Not regulated. Also, the law changed this week so that the minimum length for a rifle is now 30cm/60cm barrel/overall, as opposed to USA's NFA SBR length of 42cm/66cm.

[@anti_life_eq]

That is awesome but makes way to much sense for America! If you don't have to solve a Sphinx's riddle to pass it isn't an American gun law.

[@michaelfodor6280]

To answer Marcus from Canada's' question just go use a semi-auto that uses standard 5.56 magazines. In Canada, semi-auto rifle magazines must be pinned to 5 rounds, while pistol magazines are pinned to 10. This includes the magazines for AR pistol variants, which means you can get a 10 round magazine for an AR. Also the AR-15 is the only rifle placed in the restricted class. (read: range queen only) all other semi-autos including AR-10's are non-restricted.

[@ChokaSurfin]

Personally I would go for a 10mm handgun for bear country. In my opinion the vast majority of people will be able to inflict far more damage with a semi automatic 10mm such as a glock or any other than a 500 s&w and with the proper projectile it would be plenty effective in that role.

[@proteus2103]

I wouldn't fuck around in places with bears or moose, for instance. Large revolvers are pretty much the way to go.

[@md_vandenberg]

Only gun I knew of with an integrated power cell is the Parker-Hale/Bushman IDW sub-gun. Used an electro-hydraulic system to control its fire rate, from a comfortable 450rpm to a screaming 1400. Too bad it never went anywhere. Seems like a cool gun. DA NYA!

[@dylanwight5764]

Tangentially related to the bear question: I live in a rural area, which as a veterinarian works out well for me, and do weekend work as a park ranger. A lot of my calls involve feral pigs that need to be tracked down and disposed of. So this may come as a bit of a surprise, but of all four of my current rifles (having recently sold off my Indian .308 Enfield; good rifle, just never used it much), an Remington 700, Marlin 336, Universal M1 Carbine, Marlin 39A... it's the Carbine that I take pigging. The .30 Carbine is a surprisingly potent pigging cartridge. That being said, don't use it on a bear!

[@tugboatyan]

Agreed regarding DA/SA, as much as it pains this classic Sig lover. The system has lots of administrative advantages, but it certainly comes with a higher training burden.

[@anti_life_eq]

Primary and Secondary has a great episode about DA/SA that was very enlightening.

[@NinjaEnShort]

If combat situation is a thing in Canada I would remember the 5rds mag are just pinned 30 rounders and a dremmel is pretty damn good remedy for that.

[@MrCsheller]

Alaskan Here: North Slope workers will often have work-issued 30-06 R700's for polar bears. They're considered adequate for that large of animal (500-900lbs). Hiking around south-central AK, most recommend 44magnum or better. Although if you aren't near salmon rivers (grizzly area), a hot 357 / 10mm is fine for Black bear. They're usually the smallest. Google says males get up to 600lbs, I've never seen one over 300.

[@creislaw4821]

Speaking of that theoretical war between Neo-Finland and Hyper-Korea cheapest war-time production method (depending on materials used of course) is casting or pulling. Both have rather high initial cost but more you make the thing, less one individual piece will cost. 3D-printing is not that suitable for large scale production because how long one thing can take to print. It's faster and there fore probably cheaper just print casting mold and then start casting guns. If you can do that of course. At resistance level question is not that much of how many guns you can make but what kind of tools you have access to. If you have 3D-printer (and materiel stock) it will probably be your main production method.

[@raideurng2508]

For the centralized battery system, you have one battery providing one voltage. Your accessories will still need to step up/down the voltage to meet their specific needs and that is bulk and weight. However, as Ian pointed out, the biggest thing is dirt. Electronic ports like you're suggesting would have to have secured covers over them when not it use or you will destroy them.

[@Player_Review]

Loved Karl's Radium Girls/Flechette Boys analogy/joke. Clever guy.

[@Roborob12345]

I put 1000 rounds through a minimi on Friday no problem, with 2 barrel changes. I think the idea of changeable barrels definitely was the nail in the coffin for water cooling.

[@SombreroKing100]

Find it funny you bring up the ME-262 yet the allies had the Gloster Meteor and the P-80 Shooting Star

[@DerLoladin]

Both of which were already behind the times when they were introduced into service due to their structural weaknesses and downsides. Straight wings were phased out pretty swiftly because of that.

[@alganhar1]

@@DerLoladin Perhaps, but people tend to overlook the Me 262's own shortcomings, of which there were several. Reliability of the Jumo 004 engine was bad at best, and the maintenance requirements were staggering, even for an early jet engine. Reports from the period indicate that the average service time for the 004 engines, assuming nothing had gone wrong (so standard maintenance) was in the region of 22 hours. That was just to keep them flying. Every 20 hours flight time the combustion chambers needed to be maintained (on top of the standard day to day maintenance), every 30 - 50 hours the engine had to be removed and sent back to factory for a full overhaul. Logistically the 262 was far, far inferior to either the Meteor or P-80, which considering that logistics was a major weakness of the German military machine was a serious problem with the aircraft. 262's also had structural issues, more than one came apart in flight, usually killing the pilot, pretty much all the early jets had similar issues, most likely because the technology was still new and no one really understood the way various stresses would build up in very high flight speeds, especially compressability problems as aircraft came close to the sound barrier.

[@MPI1000]

@@DerLoladin The me262 contrary to popular belief from crap '90s "documentaries" does not have swept wings that have an aerodynamical impact. It was designed with a completely straight wing, but as the original engines it was supposed to have ran into trouble and got changed, the center of gravity shifted so that they had to compensate by cranking the wing back 15 degrees. This is again too little to have an impact, and wasn't meant to have an impact. Now, the Germans *had* actually swept wing designs of the me262, like the H.G. III variant. They weren't even built to prototype status, they had at the most windtunnel models. But the original did not have an aerodynamical swept wing.

[@HBK-6S]

Both the Meteor and P-80 were capable of full aerobatic maneuvers, the 262 was not. Its only advantages were having guns that could destroy a fighter in a single hit (if they could hit in the first place) and slightly higher speed compared to a painted P-80 at 20,000 feet.

[@trooperdgb9722]

P-80 did not see squadron service in WW2....

[@SolidSioux1987]

For me the debate between striker or DA/SA was answered by the LEM trigger that H&K has. To me it presents the benefits of both systems while minimizing drawbacks. Consistent trigger pull no matter what, second strike capability (if you want it) and a way to safely carry a hammer gun locked and cocked with no safety to disengage after drawing.

[@The_John_Galt]

Thermal Defense Solutions silencers. As well as the barrels they are making that cool extremely quick.

[@tangero3462]

It's also vastly cheaper to piece together a kit. Order everything you need off of NAR's site and order a bag or ankle rig from someone and you're set

[@bwcmakro]

So on the topic of centralised power stuff. I agree with Ian in that RIGHT NOW, it's challenging because of variety of suppliers. But with all the other electronics - we've standardised a while ago for most of it. Think of computers. Almost any peripheral you get will be compatible with USB or something like that. It's a hurdle, but not really an insurmountable challenge, as long as a reasonable and convenient standard can be invented.

[@RaphYkun]

If you want to recharge the batteries, might be a way to put some coils in the buffer tube so the bolt carrier flies through it. Would need an alternating magnetic field on the BCG which exacerbates the whole need for standardisation, but in terms of packaging and recovering energy from use it would work

[@derekp2674]

or as someone else already suggested, permanent magnets and coils, like one of those "shake to charge" rechargeable torches could work well. Just think of it as an inverse coilgun ;-)

[@oso1165]

Just an FYI for Marcus in Canada, Pistols and pistol mags are limited to 10 round mags in canada, so you can use 10 round AR pistol or XCR-L pistol mags legally and non restricted in Canada in any other gun. it's a weird loophole in canadian law but basically if the gun the magazine was originally made for is legal (an AR or XCR pistol), there is no restriction for any other gun which that magazine can happen to fit into. similar to how pistol caliber carbines can use 10 round glock or beretta mags and are legal and non restricted.

[@cryalowicki]

Thanks for the time stamps in the description!

[@Axemantitan]

Karl, to your question about if radar is a weapon: When I was at The Citadel, our Naval Weapons course consisted of one day of small arms, and the rest of the semester on electronic warfare, including radar.

[@thomas_stromberg]

At the end of the war germans had ground based, airborne and naval radars. I would also add that they had anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles...

[@derekp2674]

They did indeed.

[@roninsct7017]

...and still relied on horses, gas was so scarce it was rationed in bottles....

[@thomas_stromberg]

And very poor quality weapons, equipment and vehicles due to shortage of materials and skilled workers. But that is irrelevant to a) Ian is wrong about the radar and b) to the original question in the video.

[@thomas_stromberg]

And British had jets...

[@edwardd9702]

End of WW2 America also had a primitive tv guided bomb and a anti ship missile 'Bat'

[@Klovaneer]

NSV is used extensively and successfully specifically as a dismounted infantry HMG. While it's not exactly light it can be moved around relatively fast. Optics made it the fire emplacement's eyes and it's highly rugged and reliable (nbs).

[@Sandywasp]

Just FYI guys, the natives in Barrow (and around Alaska) largely carry AR15's or Mini 14's for protection. It's weird but they just pepper anything they need to kill with 223 and it's fairly effective. The main thing is since they have to carry a gun pretty much everywhere that it's light and has fast follow up shots because most people are't great shooters.

[@scipio10000]

As for the steel case ammo I read once an article in an Italian firearm magazine that steel case production evolved from having a simple copper surface, to lacquering to laquering as well as waxing. The latter could be handled by the MG42s but not the earlier version. Hence till the waxed versions were available, steel cases were reserved to bolt actions and semi-autos and brass was reserved to gpmgs. The waxed one came quite late in - late 1944 - and so it is quite understandable that they had a bad reputation amongst machine gunners.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Geez, there's more to steel cases than I though. Do the Russians wax theirs too?

[@scipio10000]

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Nope. According to the article, post war they adopted the laquering but not the waxing. The soviet war production used copper for corrosion protection. The quoted problem with the MG34/MG42 and steel cases was the high rate of fire, 900/1200 rpm. Russian mgs old and modern were never that fast.

[@CAPNMAC82]

On an AR, it would probably be easier to get a power supply in the handguard. Gettign the power around the buffer tube--and the threaded end of the upper receiver would be a kludgefest.

[@samue1991]

Really entertaining video, can't believe how fast 80 minutes went

[@wilemelliott]

F/FS2000 had that concept of a power pack to run the optic. That big, empty space under the bolt carrier was there for that and if you open the shell you can see the molded in cable runs for it. You can retrofit a stock on the AR with a space for the battery [Think "what would Stoner do"] I think someone was actually working on the powered rail concept recently... Found one from 2012: T.Worx Powered Picatinny Rail....I-Rail I think is the current iteration From 2010: Reset RIPR (Rifle Integrated Power Rail): Central Power Source for Tactical AR Rifle/Carbine/SBR Accessories

[@kenhelmers2603]

Thanks guys!