Cursed Guns in History

[@Simplehistory]

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legit just a war robots knock off

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[@kfas4410]

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[@johnmatthews4717]

Better than Brandon Herrera..

[@demomanchaos]

One of the other reasons you'd keep your non-firing hand back on a revolving carbine is the sideblast when firing caused by the cylinder gap. On powerful rounds that pressure can be enough to remove fingers.

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

this technique is anachronistic for that era. back then, people put their supporting hand in front of the cylinder, which was period correct.

[@alieighty]

Ouch!

[@knine258]

no it's not even the 500 magnum doesn't remove fingers if you have your hand on the cylinder - it definitely badly burns your hand and maybe even tear the skin but removing fingers completely is about as believable as a 50 BMG creating a shockwave that kills you if it travels past you without actually making contact

[@HuntPcam]

@@knine258 Its been tested on multiple occasions by Mythbusters, hickock, and several other gun youtubers. It can severely damage your hand/fingers if not actually severing fingers. No one was brave enough to use their real hand for some reason.

[@thatoneannoyingclown4996]

@@knine258 look up the side blast of a revolver

[@fortis3686]

The irony is that the Mars pistol is a great gun in Battlefield 1. It's pretty much a ww1 era Desert Eagle

[@yesiexist1771]

Soo true

[@ogweeddeadchannel]

Aaaand the morons at DICE made it an 11 round gay cannon making other pistols useless.

[@ryth-2401]

@@ogweeddeadchannel bodeo 1889 is good for aggressive recon too. It kills in 2rds at close range when the mars takes 3 and it fires faster. The only disadvantage is the slow reload. I used it more than the mars

[@abysswalker2594]

Bf1 had some guns that didn’t really get used in ww1 but at least it ain’t vanguard

[@djordjeprodanovic6292]

@Wow stop

[@918Mitchell]

The designer of the Ruger Mark Series based his design on the Japanese Nambu*. He fixed the flaws and made his pistol arguably the most reliable semiautomatic .22 you can buy.

[@tlshortyshorty5810]

Well the Nambu Type 2 was… fine, albeit underpowered; the Type 14 Suicide Special was the dark comedy it was

[@goose607]

I have a ruger mark 4 and it’s definitely the best 22 pistol I’ve ever shot Edit: typo

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

@@goose607 there's no VI, but IV

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

@@918Mitchell he misread. the newest you could get is Mark IV, not Mark VI

[@AiluridaeAureus]

Nambu, not "Namboo". It's a gun, not a Star Wars planet.

[@garrisonnichols807]

The more I learn about early semi automatic pistols the more I'm surprised how much John Moses Browning got right with the Colt 1911.

[@karls4777]

So right that the US military changed only 3 minor things I believe, and stayed in service for 75 years. The M2 50cal he designed is still used.

[@Rob-lv3fc]

The Colt 1911 is like the AK-47. It's cheap to produce, reliable, adequate and well loved. It doesn't get better in terms of semi-auto pistols.

[@huyganisto5090]

C96 is pretty good too for these years.

[@edwardtan1354]

change the grip angle, change the calibre (from 32 to 45) and add a grip safety the developments from 1902-1911but base everything from the FN1905 design which is a browning design

[@aslamnurfikri7640]

M1911 just didn't appear out of nowhere. It was developed from Browning's earlier pistols

[@cooldude3856]

"The Nambu was possibly the worst firearm ever made" The Zip 22: "Hold my beer." Also part 2 please

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@@u.s.a_sweatzgamez9974 dear god...

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@@jestfullgremblim8002 there's more

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[@fjeezy1305]

Put USFA out of business. Now THAT’s quality.

[@fordtruckdriver1683]

Vanguard in a nutshell

[@davidwu3076]

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[@muhamadirfanisamily7663]

Battlefield 1

[@bl1zzard234]

vanguard sucks

[@rumarksmen22]

Facts

[@zenit52]

all too true

[@robdegraw1568]

Interesting side note there is currently a 410 shotgun that uses the revolver type cylinder and apparently it's pretty popular.

[@rickoshae1687]

a Taurus judge revolver or Rossi circuit judge revolving rifle. They are fairly neat, but not very good firearms.

[@GrosvnerMcaffrey]

How about the S&W governor

[@fattywithafirearm]

The judge and governor revolvers are hot garbage. Only purchased by morons or people who want it as a joke. I use to work as a gun dealer. So I'd sell it to them and take their money.

[@HeavyMettaloid]

@@GrosvnerMcaffrey S&W makes better guns, but the idea of a revolver shotgun is, at best, gimmicky. There's a story out there of someone who shot a cop with a Judge loaded with .410 shotshells and the pellets were defeated by the cop's skull at a moderate handgun range and he was able to return fire.

[@fattywithafirearm]

@@HeavyMettaloid that shooting is on video from the officers dash camera.

[@Simplehistory]

What gun was the worst? Colt Model 1855 Revolving Carbine Mars Pistol Glisenti Model 1910 Gyrojet - rocket-propelled pistol Nambu 94

[@gaminggamingtm]

All

[@epicmoment2.052]

Gyrojet was a cool, but kinda pointless gun

[@Bane2TuffAtBall]

Anything in CoD Vanguard

[@kneegrow1939]

Number 4

[@MR-American944]

Mars Pistol. I Think.

[@wheelman1324]

During an episode of Lock n Load with R. Lee Ermey, the Gunny showed us the Colt carbine but straight up told the audience that he refused to shoot it.

[@boondocker7964]

Ermey, was a "wing wiper", he was never a "field Marine", check out his duty stations.

[@wheelman1324]

@@boondocker7964 Because REMFs always get shrapnel wounds just like the Gunny.

[@natebox4550]

@@boondocker7964 who cares he’s a good actor and pretty fucking cool.

[@anthonymichaeleardley494]

I seen that episode called "Rifles" when KZbin had allowed it.

[@MarkoXPlays]

And I thought he would shoot it

[@txgunguy2766]

Concerning the 1855 Colt Side-Hammer revolving carbine: "Cooking off" is when the chamber of a firearm is so hot that a cartridge loaded into it goes off on it's own. This can lead to a belt-fed machine gun "running away" or firing fully automatic against the wishes of the operator. The 2 solutions are to simply allow the weapon to run out the belt or to twist the belt causing the weapon to jam. When 2 or more cylinders of a revolver go off at the same time other is called "chain firing".

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@@ThatVeganTeacherKZbin I just ate a rack of ribs. Seethe

[@echodelta4250]

@@ThatVeganTeacherKZbin if there was an apocalypse I will practice cannibalism so I can eat grass fed organic vegans.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

You can also save your gun from that fate by smearing crisco or a non animal fat or grease on it to stop it from cooking off the other shots

[@airplanemaster1]

After that intro, I just *have* to leave this here, courtesy of Drachinifel from his I-400 guide: "For millennia, man has faced a quandary: The desire to hit someone, but they're really far away. This has lead progressively to the development of: The thrown rock, the thrown, pointy rock, the far thrown rock, the really far thrown rock, the flying pointy rock on a stick, the refined pointy rock on a stick, the spicy refined rock powered by fire, and, by the end of WWII, the happy fun times refined spicy rock transported by the big metal bird."

[@Deridus]

Drach is awesome.

[@chinchin3274]

Every time I go to the range, when I'm ready to start plinking, I like to say, "We came a long way from throwing rocks, haven't we?"

[@jonathangreenlees4772]

Lol! 😂

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@@ThatVeganTeacherKZbin Um, Ok?🤨

[@edwardbryan9501]

Gyro-Jet Pistol •uses rocket-propelled ammunitions Now we know what inspired Warhammer 40k Bolter guns.

[@maotisjan]

That actually may be true

[@lionelschweetz4844]

@@maotisjan it is.

[@julienceaser4018]

Also the inspiration for torgue weapons in the borderlands series.

[@ismaelsantos5378]

The video mentions they don't have great range due to the projectile losing power and they are expensive. In 40K the only ones using Bolters are Astartes and Sororitas, who are very fond of close quarters combat, and the commissars who use their bolters to punish cowardice rather than general combat, so they are used by a tiny fraction of the imperial forces and only up close. I guess GW did their research about gyrojet guns... or it was just a luck.

[@l0sts0ul89]

@@ismaelsantos5378 both

[@bluedemon6989]

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@@ThatVeganTeacherKZbin lmao

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@@ThatVeganTeacherKZbin F that

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@@ThatVeganTeacherKZbin animals have predators so unless your gonna mass cull predators animals aren't safe. Plants are life too, so harvesting plants is killing life.

[@thepiratedoggo1996]

the funny thing is about the Mars pistol, if i remember correctly, the inventor was really convinced it was a good pistol. so much so that when the army asked him to make changes to improve it, he outright refused and little change was made to the gun other than tiny things being done by the other members of the workforce.

[@blackroberts6290]

i think it was the Borchardt C93, the first auto-loading pistol. iirc, the German Army wanted to have that camel-back looking thing removed from his pistol (it was the spring housing), but he dont wanna. so they held onto their Reichsrevolver until the Mauser C96 came along. then Luger got rid of that thing and made some more improvements wich became the Luger P08

[@paleoph6168]

@@blackroberts6290 *Borchardt C93 and Mauser C96, respectively

[@blackroberts6290]

@@paleoph6168 yeah i have mistaken lmao

[@blueishgreen76]

The main problem was that is was designed around .45 Mars which had around twice the energy of .45 ACP. The general mechanism itself was OK, and had he settled for a sane cartridge and simplified it may have been a successful gun. It was the refusal to adapt to the market rather than push the market that was the downfall.

[@ToBeIsWasWere]

9:10 "it had almost no recoil" > animates it with very strong recoil wtf are you guys even doing? you had one job

[@kevinleung3325]

Let it be

[@riopratamamartin7870]

One rule if you want to make a good weapon : make sure the gun is reliable , easy to use and more importanly always reasonable in designing .

[@hecklerundkochhk416]

And less jammed

[@riopratamamartin7870]

@@hecklerundkochhk416 agreed

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

So basically the Russian philosophy of gun making

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

@@dragonstormdipro1013 nah its applied to all gun designing and planning

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

@@dragonstormdipro1013 remember John Moses Browning has done that before the Russians

[@nicholasfitzsimmons7311]

The type 94 was definitely not the greatest handgun but quite far from the worst, as seen in a video from forgotten weapons.

[@n3rdf0xx04]

Seen it too, early Type 94s can actually be good guns if fed the right ammo

[@rooster6461]

Thank you for being smarter than half this comment section.

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[@n3rdf0xx04]

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[@TheChuckwagonLite]

Fun fact, as an owner of one the revolver carbine would "chain fire" until they started using fat around the wad.

[@GreatNinjaman]

Axle grease was also applied to the chambers to prevent chain fires.

[@TheChuckwagonLite]

Yeah they used what they had at hand. What caliber is yours?

[@-jimmyjames]

Yeap guys. Spot on. And of course goes for any black powder revolver. Keep your powder dry gents

[@TheChuckwagonLite]

@@-jimmyjames ty for the support my friend. I keep silica gel packets in my powder flask.

[@Pibola64]

2:05 realistic eyes look so cursed in Simple History's artstyle

[@NATO32Nations]

This could be a full on series with the amount of “horrible” made throughout history. Chauchat, Breda machine guns, first versions of the M-16 to name a few.

[@LegendStormcrow]

It didn't help that they claimed the M16 was self cleaning. No gun is.

[@rokairu0-216]

Some facts about the Chauchat, American soldiers were given modified versions chambered in .30-06 instead of 8x50mm Rimmed Lebel. And since these two were fairly different calibres (and the French apparently did a terrible job converting them), the American versions jammed alot, giving it the claim of it being unreliable. But the magasine is wonky

[@walterbar3118]

May I ad the UZI. Maybe the most overrated smg ever.

[@LegendStormcrow]

@@walterbar3118 I was just talking about how they are horrible the other day.

[@justincarroll1836]

@@rokairu0-216 like the OG chauchat is like a marathon runner trying to get a gymnastics medal. The 30-.06 version is trying to do that after being shot in the knee.

[@cry0genic784]

I think the PM63 would be a good choice since the slide could break your teeth if you look down the sights and the foldable stock was only longe enough to maybe protect you from it.

[@edwalmsley1401]

Yeah I'm voting for PM63 too, terrifying just watching someone fire one 😧

[@keegenke]

But it's an open bolt (open slide?) design, you would know if you were going to get smacked in the face by the slide reciprocating by your face making contact with it before you fired it. Unless you're implying the recoil would push it backwards where your face would be in danger, to which I would wonder why someone who can't handle the recoil of spicy 380 is using a machine pistol in the first place as opposed to something more suitable.

[@wheelchair1410]

@@keegenke The thing is, the PM63 Rak was used, among may formations, by army recruits who weren't particularly familiar with firearms. The gun itself in Poland is know by it's nickname "Dentysta" (Dentist). Army service was mandatory during communist reign in Poland and you can see where I'm going with it. A huge chunk of metal moving towards your face wasn't really too safe.

[@keegenke]

@@wheelchair1410 that's a fair point, and one I wasn't considering at all.

[@Noooo23523]

thats the romanian ak variant

[@peepguy3524]

7:02 I just like it when after the Italian soldier got stabbed, the Austrian-Hungarian soldier just stood for a few seconds and then ran slowly

[@agooddemoman8603]

Hes like: bruh did that dude really fail to kill me even when he had a pistol in cqc

[@madmarvshighwaywarrior2870]

Reminded me of another video here about Men who cannot be easily killed by shot because they were drugged, and charge with swords

[@TorquilBletchleySmythe]

The Colt revolving carbine could easily have been modified using something similar to the Nagant Revolver's sealed cylinder system and a spark shield ahead of the cylinder.

[@patrick8116]

The Nagant used cased ammunition while the 1855 used loose powder. The Nagant system relies on the front of the case being inside the forcing cone to seal it. The way to prevent chain fires with a black powder revolver is to put lubricant grease on the front of the cylinder.

[@vadenummela9353]

Any competent armorer can install chain-fire shields. Little flaps that protect the percussion caps.

[@TorquilBletchleySmythe]

@@patrick8116 I agree, but I was only referring to the Nagant's forward sealing cylinder action, which would have easily transferred to percussion cap ignition, not any of the other features.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

The Colt was cap and ball, the Nagant was cartridge. Wtf are you talking about?

[@vadenummela9353]

@@wallythewondercorncake8657 the video uploader knows nothing about historic firearms, and neither do his fans.

[@Jknight416]

4:08 I see that simple history has improved itself on animating the M1911. Probably the best thing to see in this video.

[@Rob-lv3fc]

Looks like a Kimber Super Carry instead of a traditional 1911.

[@zanemurcha9742]

The Gyrojet pistol featured in the Bond film You Only Live Twice. The film makers thought it would be cool to have as a gadget for Bond and his allies to use. They even made a mini rocket projectile to place into the tip of a cigarette, and when lit would fire and stun the enemy. That featured in the film as well, and did actually work.

[@LegendaryKazooMann1936]

Dang, seeing those firing animations makes me think just how far Simple History has come in terms of animation Another great video!

[@projectember728]

It’s impressive how this guy always finds the most obscure stuff throughout history in such a short period of time:0

[@muhacnt7988]

weired history channel,check it out

[@smorrow]

For this video he probably just looked at Forgotten Weapons.

[@LKH9Channel]

It's not the work of a single person. This channel is run by some companies just like 5minute Craft. They hire an army of script writers, voice actors, video editors to churn out these. It's a huge business.

[@jamescook9125]

How could you possibly think this is a one-person operation?

[@josefanon8504]

Interestingly the Webley Mark VI revolver, production started in the 1870s was good enough to be used after ww2. The M1911 was just so ahead of its time its still in use a lot.

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@@ThatVeganTeacherKZbin I didn't expect to see you here.

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[@paulpratt]

Adjacent percussion chambers firing is NOT called "cooking off", the term is a "chain fire" and it's easily avoided by pushing some heavy grease, fat, or suet (now popular is vaseline) into the chambers ahead of the loaded bullet to prevent flashover.

[@phadedfantom5790]

0:19 that explosion looks like squidward 🦑

[@francisman60]

It is too funny and so sad at the same time to see that guy using the Glisenit got bayoneted because the damn gun just don't have the stopping power.

[@CaptainLegionary]

I love how at 9:21 the bullets that game out of the Pistol were cash signs lol.

[@bondithphear7788]

yep

[@daviddavidson2357]

Do rifles and lmgs next. I want to see that Italian monstrosity that needed a box of oil attached and still jammed.

[@DreadnoughtHvor]

if the chauchat doesn't make the list i'd literally revolt

[@nandinhocunha440]

I think he did

[@RomanWasHere-]

7:49 they were arming second graders, damn, that war must've been tough if they needed to enlist 2nd graders

[@thefyffes7113]

Lol

[@jakg4]

11:26 that soldier: uhhm well, that happened

[@woobharb]

“No soldier wished to use the Mars Pistol” Except in Battlefield 1

[@youlocalshitposter7232]

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[@Ravathiel]

@@jacobygulsten1103 say you Millenial, but your "J" says . B O O M E R

[@Ravathiel]

@@jacobygulsten1103 whatever you say, Jacob Gulsten

[@jasonconstant429]

@@Ravathiel oof i will be hurt if I were u

[@youlocalshitposter7232]

@@jacobygulsten1103 ow.

[@RIPM201]

Wasn't the gyrojet intended for use in space against cosmonauts? I recall someone saying a normal gun would put you spinning due to the recoil and the lack of gravity, and shooting mini rockets wouldn't. (Maybe it was in Forgotten Weapons)

[@porrod4313]

I dont really think a regular gun has enough recoil to put you spinning (considering the gyrojet was a pistol, só im thinking of a regular pistol for comparison

[@whee38]

@@porrod4313 any amount of force would send you spinning in space. Deflating a party balloon in space would be enough to send you spinning without a counterforce. Ion engines are being developed for long duration unmanned probes due to fuel efficiency and only pushes with the force of a piece of paper resting on your hand

[@porrod4313]

@@whee38 oh i see. I mean, gyrojet guns still have recoil

[@Gravekeeperx]

@@porrod4313 They did also have a carbine gyrojet

[@itsmannertime]

As opposed to the Soviets who knew what the people wanted- LASER PISTOLS. Pretty slick, but no idea how well it worked.

[@bluefletcher363]

The hate for the Type 94 is misleading at best. The quality was fine. Japanese late war arms were known to have sacrificed fit and finish, but the actions were perfectly safe and quality. As you stated, the "surrender pistol" myth is just that, a myth. Finally, the danger of the design is greatly exaggerated. The only time when the sear could potentially pose a threat would be if the pistol is out of a holster with the safety off... aka ready to fire. Not to mention, holstering it does not actuate the sear and the sear requires a noticeable amount of pressure on a small point to be tripped. The Type 94s biggest flaw was, as stated, its unreliability. It wasn't unusable, but it was definitely not the best pistol of the war.

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[@bluefletcher363]

@@ThatVeganTeacherKZbin just ate a cow

[@Rolandbadger]

No. Chain fires in percussion revolvers are actually caused by loose fitting caps that allow powder to trickles into the recoil shield, where the flash from a cap firing can set off the leaked powder. The loose fitting caps on the other chambers allow them to chain fire as well. This is an old misconception of why and how chain fires in percussion revolvers happen, but some very good research and live fire testing has been done in recent years that has proved the real cause.

[@darman12able]

As much as I love it, I’m surprised the Nock gun isn’t on here. It was a 7 barrelled single-shot smoothbore muzzleloader that was intended to be fired from the tops of ships onto the enemy’s top deck. However the gun had far more recoil than it was reckoned to have and would often break the shoulder of all but the strongest men who fired one and was feared by captains as a fire risk to the ships rigging. Only around 600 were made even with a second model that lowered the calibre of ball used (from .50 calibre balls to pistol balls if I recall) to reduce the recoil. These days it’s largely remembered as the gun Sergeant Harper uses in the Sharpe novels and tv show.

[@n3rdf0xx04]

Type 94s can actually be a little more reliable if it's an early model and fed the right bullets

[@reouvenz]

Small tip for next time: include slow motion action of the gun mechanism when fired

[@MrKratos90]

I'm pretty sure the Gyrojet bullets inspired the bolters from Warhammer 40k

[@pocketsand4404]

Check out the "Grendel P-10" .380 pistol made by George Kellgren, the founder of Kel-Tec. It was the strangest pistol I've probably ever owned. It didn't have a detachable magazine as it fed by stripper clips. It was super lightweight and recoiled harshly. The only way you could remove the ammo was by unchambering all ten rounds. Still wish I had it despite its flaws.

[@Xifihas]

Problem: Our guns explode when we fire them. Normal solution: Make less flimsy guns Italian solution: Make bullets too weak to actually kill someone before they kill you.

[@imyourdaddy5822]

9mm Glisenti bullets were basically the same strength as a 380.acp bullet, hardly unusual for it's time

[@nexpro6118]

@@imyourdaddy5822 and you have this view point based on????.....the Size is different. The 9x19 is the same type dimensions in the current 9mm glocks as an example. .380s are smaller ....also to make your claim possible, the 9x19 round would have to almost remove half of the gun powder in it. Lol

[@imyourdaddy5822]

@@nexpro6118 based on data and actually understanding basic ballistics

[@adityapriyahutama8900]

8:35 rocket propelled bullet. Holy Imperial Bolter rounds 😁

[@aaliyahdelrosario4497]

I wouldn’t be surprised if this shows up in r/CursedImages. Edit: idk why but the face at 6:40 cracks me up lol. Your animations are getting better with every video!

[@agooddemoman8603]

More r/cursed gun images

[@vincentcocchio3450]

Every gun or gun related youtube channel is now talking about cursed guns (Garand Thumb, Administrative Results, Simple History, and the king of cursed guns Brandon Herrera)

[@agooddemoman8603]

And we are happy for that

[@fl00fydragon]

The gyrojet was ahead of it's time. If we built it today with miniaturized electronics you could make a gun that could fire semi-homing rounds Also, no recoil. Perfect for space use.

[@R41ph3a7b6]

Awesome. But, did you mean stop say "semi-fire?"

[@falloutfart9917]

@R41ph3a7b6 I think way they meant was more that the rocket could be more corse correcting, like if a sniper was off with the windage for a shot the rocket could adjust to compensate

[@Maximus20778]

5:00 great attention to detail that the soldiers closed their eyes to aim back in ww2 nowadays you won't see it

[@Mr.__Cool]

1:52 if you want to skip Mech Arena sponsorship thing

[@Cherno35]

My man 🤝

[@Mr.__Cool]

@@Cherno35 your welcome

[@chris.3711]

The Nagant 1895 Revolver. The gun was out dated by the time and the means of reloading (lack of spring and the twist required to work the ejector rod)), the 7.62 Nagant (a cursed cartridge), and abhorrent trigger pull, and unique locking cylinder makes it a very unique weapon in history. I have one, it's fun, but also miserable to shoot.

[@AssaultnVinegar]

That's the revolver you can theoretically put a silencer on correct? Might be clunky and outdated but I wouldn't really call it cursed unless it was hilariously unreliable/ posted risk to the weilder.

[@user-rg2hk9uz9u]

@@AssaultnVinegar isnt it notorious for misfiring while holstered or am i thinking of the nambu

[@Wolvenworks]

@@AssaultnVinegar yes you can actually silence the Nagant. it's due to the fact that the chamber moves forward when firing, thus making a gas-tight seal (absolutely essential for silencing). that also make the bullet fly faster since there's less hot gas wasted.

[@Wolvenworks]

@@user-rg2hk9uz9u don't remember if it has reliability issues. the only issues i remember is that it reloads like an old revolver (eject one by one or replace cyinder), and that apparently it has a heavy trigger pull

[@baronobeefdipyes5181]

@@user-rg2hk9uz9u pretty sure you are confusing it with the nambu. For all its flaws the Nagant is a pretty rock solid/safe design and not really any way for it to go off in the holster unless the hammer was cocked back and you managed to snag the trigger on something but I'm fairly certain, and I'd have to test this with mine to be sure but I don't think the flap holster will close with the hammer cocked back.

[@raymondyee2008]

07:58 great only for James Bond movies.

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

7:01 Haha! That solider successfully stabbing that other soldier was funny. I bet in his mind he was like "huh... Neat! Onward!" 😄

[@DTHW115]

More cursed guns: - 6P9 (also known as that weird Makarov pistol from FarCry) - Calico M900 - PM-63 - Wimmersperg SPZ MP

[@underscore5586]

Hey simple history Love your channel!!! Can you please make a video on video on the boxer rebellion? Its a very interesting topic

[@z-man1237]

God I love this channel. Forget history classes, this channel is very entertaining!😎👍

[@AMason-xb8wr]

Mark my words, the Gyrojet Pistol is the precursor to the WH40K Bolter

[@-_-1068]

When I saw the gyrojet pistol, all I could think of was TORGUE from Borderlands lol

[@Prich319]

@@-_-1068 Funny, The Colt carbine made me think of the Jakobs rifles from the same game.

[@KwadDamyj]

Praise the Omnissiah!

[@Postingdog]

i love when the austro Hungarian soldier just stands there for a bit thinking of his life choices

[@Yesunfortunately-r1x]

6:13 ayo we got a beat there

[@SkipTheKip]

I'm surprised there's no mention of the Zip .22 That gun basically took everything about ergonomics and threw it out the window

[@leonardogermannsanna350]

Also the poor safety on the gun, if my memory doesn't trick me, you can never know if it's on safety or not

[@SkipTheKip]

You owned one? That's cool! What's it like?

[@leonardogermannsanna350]

@@SkipTheKip oh no, i mean i saw it on forgotten weapons, sorry for the misunderstanding

[@SkipTheKip]

Ah Yea I saw that vid too funnily enough!

[@maotisjan]

I think the gun had to be USED in combat to get on this list

[@puttputt524]

11:01 I don’t even know why I always play FPS games on the highest difficulty.

[@Purgious]

10:45 ZIP22: Allow me to introduce myself

[@Bruh-ri9sy]

My eighth grade social studies teacher used one of your videos in her presentation, the highest honor I can bestow

[@russell7852]

Wow your animations have gotten so much better since you first started. Keep it up SH

[@TheLoneDragoon]

Question for my fellow commenters. If you had to choose between the type 94 nambu or the type 26 revolver to take into battle, which would you choose?

[@fattywithafirearm]

I own both. I'd take the type 26 over the type 94.

[@Bran_Nuthin]

I'd probably take the revolver. 🤷‍♂️ What about you?

[@wolf_7479]

Type 94, the safety "issue" isn't really a thing since the manual safety blocks the sear bar, 94 is also more compact, semi auto, faster loading and holds one more round if you count the +1 in the chamber.

[@TheLoneDragoon]

@@Bran_Nuthin Type 26. Superior manufacturing, and more reliable.

[@terrybailey9621]

Type 26.... mainly because I know a handgun is a last ditch dump rounds type weapon so I'd want it to dump all of them every time

[@johnnyguitar6639]

7:36 Djeez this guy shoot worse than a storm trooper

[@Tarumarugan]

It kinda sucks to find out revolving rifles sucked, i always thought they looked pretty cool and would make a good fun gun.

[@Deridus]

The problem with revolving rifles was that the tech for them was too advanced in one area and not advanced enough in the other. In a battle where a line infantryman would fire off perhaps 30 rounds total, you wouldn't have to worry about heat because of the reloading procedure was so long. One of the great things about cased ammo is that the brass/steel shell retains the heat and is either ejected like semiautos or just dumped like revolvers. All those benefits are totally lacking with percusion/paper cartridge. While I would not take my modern Judge to war as my first choice, I can see how it would have been a real game changer had brass cartridges been adopted sooner.

[@kievbutcher]

@@Deridus With old revolvers, overheat wasn't really as much of an issue, but any part of your hand or arm that was forward of the cylinder gap would get sprayed with hot gas and smoke, a problem that still exists today, hence why revolver rifles aren't common. Also chainfire was a problem with old revolvers before metallic cartridges were implemented, and you definitely don't want your hand in front of a chain firing cylinder.

[@Deridus]

@@kievbutcher Solid points, all. That said, I always wanted a pepperbox.

[@kievbutcher]

@@Deridus oh totally agree, just saying there's a reason the cylinder gap is forward of the grip.

[@Deridus]

@@kievbutcher Funny thing is, I once designed a firearm based off of the defunct Metal Storm technology that used a revolving internal magazine. I actually used a broken nerfgun as the furniture because I didn't feel like building anything beyond the firing mechanism. Been wanting to go back and revisit the project, but my knoledge involving chemistry/explosives is very limited. Conventional firearms are mostly boring to me unless I'm at a range...

[@NRH111]

While I love colt revolvers they weren't the best available at the time that was the Remington. Remingtons had a solid top strap and it was much easier to change cylinders

[@Victor-056]

9:40 It's sad when you realize that a Fictional Universe gave the Gyrojet a Needed Improvement, while also making it a special ops and Officer's weapon not meant to be used by conventional Troops, which would have reduced it's complaint of Ammunition expenses.

[@vadenummela9353]

3:27 Known as a chainfire, not cooking off.

[@HeroinYoda]

i barely know anything about guns but i think the rocket gun concept could have a lot of potential as a long range rifle for assasinations, if the rocket propellant is delayed until just before the bullet slows down thus increasing long range accuracy.

[@benn454]

The problem with the Gyrojet is that there's just not enough space in the ammo to store enough fuel to keep it going very fast or very far.

[@y0h0p38]

Not really. (like Benn454 said) Bullets are pretty small, and you don't have much space for fuel, without weighing it down, or reducing acuracy. Good rifles now can reach out a couple kms - farther than any rocket that size can go (with a fuel that I know of)

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

9:49 the inventor : Robert Mainhardt.

[@edm240b9]

While the Gyrojet handgun was never adopted by the US military, it did see very limited usage by MACV SOG troops during the Vietnam War. There is at least one picture out there of a guy with one.

[@tankacebo9128]

to correct a misconception here, most armies of the periods in this video, the exception being the US Army with the Gyrojet, would require their officers to purchase their own sidearms. they weren't "issued" per se, but they were recorded as being in said officer's possession by a quartermaster. The Imperial Japanese Army and Navy had a similar system, and it was entirely up to the officer's discretion to which sidearm they were to purchase and wield. most carried swords as a status symbol and as a weapon, but the Nambu type 14 was also widely liked and used, with some sources stating over 400,000 produced by 1945.

[@milesipka]

Very amusing video. I happen to have one of the source books Simple History used (the one with "Exploding Guns to Malfunctioning Missiles") and that book never fails to make me laugh my head off. About the Nambu 94, I suppose all those stories about the "suicide special" must have been based on at least a handful of legit true cases since 1): there were so many stories coming out of the battlefield of these things happening and you just couldn't discount them all. 2): For a Japanese soldier wanting to kill himself and the enemy while pretending to surrender, you can't pull that off with a hand grenade since no American soldier would allow a Japanese soldier with a primed hand grenade near them (plus Japanese hand grenades of WWII were not like Western ones) so the Type 94 allowed them to pull it off convincingly. 3): How else could we have known about the exposed sear on that pistol? I do believe that there is some truth to all those stories, although the Type 94 wasn't entirely unsafe - that safety did its job.

[@ThatVeganTeacherYouTube]

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[@Youhadabadday2021]

...Why do I get the feeling you could've combined the revolving carbine with the gyrojet and you would've gotten an amazing RPG Rifle?

[@mikebell8479]

The nambu 94's lever wasn't a problem if the safety was kept on when carrying and a round wasn't in the chamber

[@jackyichan4759]

I was looking for this comment, thanks!

[@Pogger927]

Kel-Tec,Birmingham Small Arms,Norinco,Nambu,Pancor Corporation:We makes the most accursed and goofiest weapons in the world!!! CoD Vanguard's "Gunsmiths":Hold my beer....

[@Nevernotalone]

My friend’s grandfather was a collector of antique guns and American civil war memorabilia. He owned a namboo pistol as well. Whenever he was able to obtain ammo for it he wouldn’t shoot by hand or allow anyone else to either. He had made custom jig that used a small carpenters clamp attached to a saw horse. There was a wooden toggle he filed to size, attached to a string to pull the trigger. Even when lined up directly at the target that was usually a can, the pistol rarely hit the target. Crazy to think an entire military was issued such a weapon.

[@armoredangel01]

It could be said there was a silver lining to the Colt 1855 (both the rifle and carbine), they did receive cartridge conversions

[@bjornsmith9431]

The M14 rifle in service 1957-64 production level was difficult to meet .

[@hecklerundkochhk416]

At least still reliable than nothing

[@erwinsetyo1061]

Unreliable at full auto, M1A is better

[@hecklerundkochhk416]

@@erwinsetyo1061 M1A is a semi version, the only full auto m14 to this day is MK14

[@hecklerundkochhk416]

Although I agree M14 shouldn't be fired on full auto despite being battle rifle

[@jacobt1027]

@@hecklerundkochhk416 Most full caliber battle rifles aren't great as fully automatic weapons. Soilders carrying FALs,G3s and M14s were basically told to never use the gun in full auto,was just far too hard to control and would just lead to wasted ammunition.

[@totkampf8427]

10:40 you clearly haven't heard of the zip .22

[@Cherno35]

4:46 kid named finger

[@Double_D__]

I remember reading a passage in a book about the Nainbu 94; the passage basically said that when officers were given the pistol with the ceremonial saber that was customary to give to officers, the officers actually preferred the saber over the Nainbu because the Nainbu was considered more deadly to its wielder than the target.

[@aviatorfox4789]

You could've at least done a panning shot here... 2:43

[@kyledunn6853]

I remember the Gyrojet Rocket pistol in Shell Shock: Nam' 67. Boy did that pistol pack a wallop and Charlie stood no chance against it.

[@tiredman99]

I think if they were able to continue development of the Gyrojet gun we'd have much different firearms today

[@mekaerwin7187]

Gyrojet style projectiles have inherent problems themselves. If they aren't done accelerating by the time they are out of the barrel (and gyrojets still accelerate for some time after) they are more susceptible to wind and also have poor performance at close range. If they do all their accelerating in the barrel then they aren't much better than conventional ammo and in some ways, worse. To me, it's one of those ideas that looks great until the nuances of it start getting uglier and uglier. My opinion is that they are a dead end unless you envision them having post launch guidance.

[@finns23653]

A lot of ppl who don't know much about flight and terminal ballistics think that, usually just because the idea SOUNDS futuristic to them

[@nsahandler]

FUN FACT The Gyrojet rounds were designed for use in the vacuum of Space and in low- Gravity fields because that's where everyone theorized a new front of warfare would be, and for those purposes it was brilliant. Almost no recoil (rockets build up speed gradually instead of being thrown violently) makes it the only weapon that can be fired in low-G environment without throwing the marksman into an endless spin.

[@oz_jones]

The madlads literally made the precursor to bolter pistol.

[@mega_132]

The first gun would be hard to hold since you might get your fingers burned

[@imstupid880]

Love the detail and realism put into the action of the guns. Also, does this mean that the gyrojet is the forefather of the bolter?

[@jihadpromax3520]

"Cursed guns in history" *lists every japanese ww2 gun

[@chesvvick]

7:00 that’s one tough SOB. Taking a shot and still managed to stab the guy who shot him.

[@dominickstewart433]

They said significantly reduced stopping power. He probably barely felt it

[@walnzell9328]

I remember the Colt revolving rifle from Civil War: A Nation Divided. The video game made by the History Channel.

[@goldgamercommenting2990]

WW2 soldier: I fear no man… but that… thing **Nambu 94 killing people while surrendering** WW2 soldier: it scares me

[@hippytea6333]

8:53 remind me of those gun apps to shoot guns on your phone

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

I assume the problems with semi-auto pistols are the reasons why the British largely kept their revolvers in service well past the wars…

[@jethroneemo2150]

Yup. A revolver NEVER jams unless the user is a dumbass and keeps it caked in mud. And even then a misfire nearly impossible.

[@shotgunsurgeon3849]

@@jethroneemo2150 That is a myth. Revolvers can and do jam, even in reasonable conditions. When a revolver does "jam" (cylinder locks up) the gun is essentially useless in a combat situation. You need to sit down with tools to clear a revolver cylinder lock up. With a semi-auto you can just rack and slide and continue firing. Revolvers also misfire (FTF, Failure To Fire) just as often as semi-autos because usually a misfire is the fault of the ammo (primer usually), not the gun itself, unless the firing pin is damaged. The benefit of a revolver with a double action that in the clearing of an FTF is just pulling the trigger again, instead of clearing with the slide in a semi. So that advantage is true. Revolvers also cannot FTE (Failure to Eject), which most people call "jamming" during a firing sequence, however casings can rupture or get stuck or hung up in a dirty cylinder, which is a FTE in my books. The myth of semi-autos constantly having FTE malfunctions in semi-autos is purely due to operator error, most frequently "limp wristing". I used to work at a range/gunsmith and I have seen many revolvers jam up that definitely were not caked in mud. Oftentimes it was the fault of the ammo, but it could still happen. I love revolvers, and own several "classic" S&Ws from the "best days of manufacture" and they're some of my favorites to shoot. But I've had a couple malfunctions with them over the years too. To this day, the most reliable handguns in my experience were the Beretta 92FS, and the CZ-75 platform. Both semi-autos. We even had a rental Italian made Beretta 92 Inox that I decided to "torture test" over six months. I never cleaned the thing. By the end of the six month period it had probably fired 15 - 20k rounds in mostly inexperienced hands, and it never malfunctioned. I know people are going to ask "but what about GLOCK?" Glocks are just as reliable, but they're also a common novice gun, so that led to many operator errors and FTEs due purely to inexperience.

[@jethroneemo2150]

@@shotgunsurgeon3849 lol. I have shot THOUSANDS of rounds out of revolvers. And NEVER had a jam. It's NOT a myth. If you have a revolver and it jams, you are an imbecile. Glocks are NOWHERE NEAR as reliable as a revolver. I have shot a hundred or so rounds out of a Glock and have had a jam. Seen them jam at the range several times. Not to mention its worthless safety. Not the thing for a novice to use. As for the Beretta 92FS, I agree, that is a fine gun.

[@Yokyle4356]

8:48 that was the same bonus gun they put in Resident Evil Village God I hate that gun so much Edit: if you beat the game under 3 hours you can get that bonus gun I was hoping for a bazooka but they gave me a peas hooter 😭

[@d3Rm0Nk]

The Chad Caveman: Needs 3 spears to kill a deer but only one arrow for a mammoth.