Colt Browning M1895 - "The Potato Digger"

[@georgegeller1902]

It was mounted on at least one motorcycle, known as the "cycle of violence."

[@chioccolat1957]

And also to an elephant xD

[@partyshoes2917]

​@@chioccolat1957Elephant of violence

[@americansubgunner6053]

Nice video but it’s not an 1895 Colt that is shown…but the later Marlin-Rockwell. Colt 1895’s had a smooth barrel and no access port into the feed wheel. The 1914 Colt had an access slot only, the Marling guns had the little sliding door…how do I know this-I used to have a 1914 Colt and 1917 Marlin Diggers…

[@educatedfool5121]

1:20 Sir, I believe "the Devil's Paintbrush" and the "H man's buzzsaw" would disagree with you on that claim...

[@YMS09D]

I remember watching this guy in Baby's day out, This dude was my childhood idea of Cool Guy energy, So freaking rad he is still around, and with firearms even!

[@pirobot668beta]

I've seen a sketch of a lever-action rifle with a 'fly-swatter' device mounted near the muzzle. Muzzle-blast pushes the fly-swatter forward, a linkage operates the rifle. A spring insured the action to battery after each shot is fired. Not sure if it was a Browning sketch. In overall operation, it was not that different from the 'digger'.

[@Andre_Thomasson]

there is also a real version of that made to prove to the patent office that brownings design here wasnt infringing on a maxim patent. Its on ForgottenWeapons

[@farpointgamingdirect]

I just saw one of these today at the National Museum of the Marine Corps

[@toldyouso5588]

I would have nick named it "the Grave Digger" or "Grim Reaper " see that little scythe swing and cut them down.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

There was a car named "Death Special" that was armed with this thing and its infamous legacy includes gunning down wives and mothers of miners and their children in the Ludlow Massacre...

[@olliegoria]

More... polite times. They had a gun come out twenty years later called the Annihilator, but the name was too obscene, so they just called it the Thompson.

[@dkoz8321]

What if my upright woodpecker is in the way of that reciprocating bar?

[@bassraja1978]

It'll peck no more

[@jasonz7788]

Cool thanks 👍

[@ZacharySkan]

is that the guy from criminal minds

[@Predator42ID]

Why yes it is to my absolute amazement.

[@nirvanic3610]

Beautiful

[@woodsmanjay5833]

It definitely put some potatoes in the ground

[@rockridgewoodshop]

Some still used during WW2.

[@michaelmoran4891]

I don't doubt you are correct, but not sure where. Some were sent to British Home Guard, but don't know were used in combat in WW2.

[@rockridgewoodshop]

​​@michaelmoran4891 I have my father in laws photo album. He was a Marine 4 years from 36-40 then enlisted a few months after Pear Harbor in the Navy as a SeaBee. Right there in the album amongst all his pictures is a very similar one of these. He labeled it " This relic was a Colt machine gun from WW1 that was a Navy regular" The one in his pic has a smooth barrell and 1 rectangular port on the right side. That's why I posted the comment.

[@rockridgewoodshop]

@michaelmoran4891 He was in a few of the South Pacific islands during the war. Okinawa, Esprito Santo, Iwo Jima, Guam. Could have been any one of those. He also commented on not getting Garands until the end of the war.

[@rockridgewoodshop]

So more research on my part identifies the one in my Father in Laws photo as a M1895 Colt. It matches the one on Wikipedia. Also, it must be a picture from basic training because the uniforms are too clean and not drenched in sweat.

[@michaelmoran4891]

@@rockridgewoodshop I don't know of any time where M1895 was used in combat in WW2. Canadians, Russians and Czech Legion used them in combat in WW1. But US in general used Hotchkiss Machine Gun in WW1. Virtues of M1895 were it was lighter than heavy water cooled guns but because it was air cooled with light barrel it could not do sustained fire which was what was in demand in WW1. WW2 it might have worked because troops were no longer charging machine guns in mass, hence less of need for sustained fire. But US came out with M1919 machine gun which was a light air cooled gun that was better than M1895 (both designed by Browning), so that was gun used in combat by US in WW2 (along with Browning water cooled model).

[@Z4KJ0N3S]

0:36 : "I've never explored any other fandom ever at all whatsoever, and so I think firearms have the most "affectionate" fans and that naming products is a unique trait to firearms enthusiasts." 🤡🤡🤡

[@michaelmontano4280]

I would love to have one of those.

[@lucastegers]

0:30 how about musical instruments?

[@dkoz8321]

WELLL. EEEEXXXXXQUUUZZZZZEEE MEE! But the affection that individuals may feel for a firearm depend on whether the individual is behind the weapon or downrange of it.

[@jurgschupbach3059]

French Fries

[@SuperODST1]

It feels like someone brute-forcing a machine gun, with the front panel. Like someone who knows the theory but doesn't know how to make it small enough, so they do the best they can.