The Jager Pistol and its Complex Reassembly

[@WilliamTomFrank]

Quite possibly one of my favorite things about this channel is the fact Ian has no qualms about complementing other channels ability to do what he is doing. There are not a lot of fields where people do that. Props on the assembly as well.

[@FullTekAuto]

I love the way the Japanese have very specialized art forms dedicated to very specific things. For example Bonsai trees, miniature foods made and cooked with miniature tools, fashion on art subdivided by specific themes with their own rules and methods etc. But I also love German engineering. The genius logic and dedication to perfection to make near perfect tools and mechanical device's. The italians and their natural artistic ability to make some of the most beautiful astheatically pleasing creations I want to apply all of these to incorporate into my firearm company.

[@seanmcardle]

hats off to you ian for being respectful of your contempories at arsenal. you guys are doing wonderful work and you show yourselves to be gentlemen and scholars. bravo.

[@gregburger5186]

Shut the fuck up and nobody did not got bitched off your block , i was running/hiding from the police you lying ass turkey

[@ProudToBeNoob]

This video is a valuable service to whoever was lucky enough to be able to buy this beautiful pistol

[@lajemac]

The next time one of my younger shooting friends complain about how complicated my 1911s are to take apart I will force them to watch this video. Thank you Ian! 👍🏻

[@Candrsenal]

I've updated our notecards to include this video as well. You're a brave, brave man to do one of these on camera without cursing.

[@ForgottenWeapons]

Thanks! :)

[@mr.quarters6047]

Somehow, I figured O-san would come around and show his appreciation for this video.

[@walmorcarvalho2512]

If someone can do this without cursing is Ian. I know Hare Khishnas who aren't as calm and chill as Ian.

[@AshokSingh-rd8ie]

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[@dayaramsiyana7208]

nice

[@brianreddeman951]

Such calm demeanor in assembling this pistol.

[@USMC--me3ig]

Amazing. What a crazy handgun. And to look at modern pistols today and how simplistic they are

[@demonstructie]

I'm not a gun guy. I don't own one, I never shot one, I have never even handled a gun. But somehow this is one of my favorite channels.

[@a.lampman2165]

A little bit of obscure history, a little bit of mechanical engineering... I totally get it. Ian is my husbando.

[@NateNizz]

Perhaps a change is in order for you then. Most people can't afford the guns Ian features in his videos, but there are many common modern firearms that are decently priced.

[@Pprokop87]

i dont own a gun, but i shoot some guns in my life. (needet it for my work and still some shooting). Ians FW is one of my favorite for couple years now.

[@m1garandisthebest]

same

[@stanleydenning]

When I was teen years old, my dad introduced me to guns. This is the first gun I ever fired. ( One like it. Not his one.) I shortley went to .22 rifles. It kicked like a mule. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mH29lKCCdrJ6mbc

[@1anthonybrowning]

That is the most elegant sheet metal pistol I've seen. I wonder if Professor Parabellum drew inspiration for his two sheet metal pistol designs from the Jäger concept.

[@ghettogunsmith711]

The Mk 1 from Professor Parabellum is similar, however the Dis-connector is cammed off the returning slide. mostly due to making the fire control group simple i suspect. See my build here. kzbin.info/door/M3F3boERzPtG1IDwgNRmEg?view_as=subscriber

[@DirtyHairy1]

Majorly unrelated comment, but this is a great example how competition drives someone to get better in doing stuff :)

[@maxwilson5572]

And so we came one step closer to our dream of a Forgotten Weapons/C&Rsenal crossover episode...

[@GunFunZS]

I'd love to see that. Something like this: Mae gets ready to shoot some Allied gun. Karl runs up in German garb and chases her off with a shovel or trench club. Ian picks up her pistol but is unable to fire it due to his crippling handicap.

[@ronaldcolman6211]

I for one would like to see more of this. Thanks for the great work.

[@TheStowAway594]

What a cool gun, it's like a SnapTite model or something. The rather simple pieces look like it would be really cheap to manufacture. Great video!

[@deepakmakwana-kc3hu]

Nice brother

[@skrelentless]

Beautiful piece of engineering. I can Imagine constructing one at home.

[@TUBEMAN192]

I have never handled a firearm of any kind - ever. And yet if find these videos extremely fascinating. Call me crazy but that's just how it is. You rock Ian!

[@mountainmanfab]

maybe a pita to reassemble but very simple and straight forward design for something made to get around a lack of complex machining while at the same time avoiding becoming a "chunk of well pipe" with a tab welded on the side as a grip

[@PajamaPantsStudios]

*Niche video* yet still one of his most popular of all time.

[@binarystein8077]

the German Saturday night special is actually really nicely made

[@nicolasgomez1067]

From Bogota Colombia many congratulations and that weapon is beautiful

[@shaikhumar6054]

The best video I have seen so far

[@nouseformyname3788]

I need this in my life. Wow. Speechless.

[@jonesbush8608]

Shop from MR KALIS if u need a gun I have got 3 successful orders from him they are reliable add him on Snapchat: kaliscanabis21 .

[@iandoodle]

Gosh now i know how to safely take apart that old Jager pistol ive got laying around somewhere in the safe lol I love all of your videos, really helps me understand firearms and there development as a whole.

[@timbashirov]

Благодарю за интересный обзор. Чрезвычайно интересная конструкция.

[@DanielSvensson666]

Great video Ian, very well made and interesting.:D

[@P943044S]

What a neat piece of engineering...

[@SuneelGurjarAnnana]

Very beautiful pistol and good working for men

[@exploatores]

i Think the manual says: do not take it apart if you are not trained as a weapons smith. in german.

[@arshinnasar9375]

Arshin

[@sarbanpaswan3480]

Exploatores non

[@IncredibleMD]

... So, same as every other german firearm?

[@damiangrouse4564]

Always enjoy the disassembly videos. Nice pistol, but am thinking they sold them with an "emergency" shoe box so you can take the pieces to the gunsmith to put back together🍻

[@STB-jh7od]

As a former soldier, this pistol would be a maintenance nightmare. I can't imagine soldiers in the trenches of WWI not losing pieces while trying to clean it.

[@skillstourism7814]

Only officers would have had them in their comfy lodgings.

[@WAQWBrentwood]

OK, I'm gonna say it: If This is an example of German engineering, I'm gonna say John Browning has nothing to worry about!

[@sralneman5929]

still american gunsmiths are a joke to us.

[@d.f.9140]

don't know what you want. its simple, easy to manufacture ( I could build it with scetches in every school or workshop). It looks reliable and easy to reproduce ( look at the screws, in germany there's a shop called toom or obi, I think you can buy 90 percent of the gun). right steel, right ammo, scetches = good to go. Show this video Joerg sprave. ( 2 weeks later: thats my homemade jäger pistol, let me show you the features XDD)

[@JerryEricsson]

I have never been able to lay hands on one of these fine example of German craftsmanship, however it has always been my dream, since my initials are JAGE it just falls in place that I should own one of these, I used to put an R after it as a password, back in the days when you could get by with simple passwords. Now, of course, I use a piece of software on my Linux system to generate "good" Passwords for all my password protected areas.

[@OMGLYKEWOW]

Man, I loved being able to use simple passwords. Always used the same gibberish word for everything. Nobody would ever guess it, but it was fast and easy to type in.

[@giausjulius4]

Cleaning this thing must have been a nightmare. It makes my Mossberg 702 look easy and that thing is notorious for being a pain to assemble and disassemble.

[@HustleMuscleGhias]

This pistol seems like something that would have been produced near the tail end of WWII for use by the Volksturm since it appears to be mostly stampings with very little machine work being required.

[@thetriode]

Interesting gun it seems like he made the most of what he had and this was the byproduct.

[@kylec.6818]

Sweet Jesus that's one of the most complicated pistol reasonablys I've ever seen!

[@NasirUddin-ru1or]

Excellent

[@JenniferinIllinois]

You gotta be quick to get in there before Othias and Mae! :) That thing is like an Erector set version of a pistol.

[@bogurafunychannel3052]

Thank you

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

It's a little complex but it looks like it would have been very easy to manufacture and also cheaper to produce.

[@GunFunZS]

There's still a lot of fine milling, but he got away without needing to forge pieces or mill big pieces.

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

GunFun ZS Exactly.

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

Rufus Chucklebutty Interesting. Did you actually make one?

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

cool

[@mariaeduardabarretopereira9363]

I doubt anyone knows how to do one of these if anyone knows let me know I have plans I'm from Brazil whats 55 51 982359884

[@01ZombieMoses10]

I feel like, at this point Ian RIA should be paying you...something. idk, do they at least feed you? Your horde of subscribers is probably home to more than a few buyers at their auctions and the detailed, high-quality videos you do on these weapons has to be a big factor in the amount of people who are interested in placing a bid.

[@extrastuff9463]

Well I'm guessing the way both RIA and Ian look at this that it's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Ian gets access to firearms he doesn't own to show to the public and they get some extra publicity and videos to link in the catalog site. But they very well may be paying him something, I don't know I'm really just guessing it's probably being done as a mutually beneficial arrangement!

[@ryotaryuu]

interesting design

[@danielburgess7785]

First video of yours where you didn't have at least one finger mashed up in a bruise.

[@ForgottenWeapons]

I'm trying to be more careful.

[@vibeslide]

This is insane.

[@manjeetkarnawalmanjeetsing2010]

Very nice ❤️❤️❤️ well done 👍

[@Jesses001]

That thing sure is easy to manufacture. I am rather sure I can make all of that except the barrel and breach block with nothing more then some hand tools, a drill, and an angle grinder. All that ease of manufacture sure makes it a pain to put together though, ha.

[@GTGTRIK]

But their video is half a hour long! And you make nice quick videos in ten minutes range! D:

[@28cristiano]

Bela arma....ótimo canal...

[@nripenkalita5250]

Destruction is the spirit of creations, the rule of the mighty universe.

[@kolideoskope]

If you want a reassembly nightmare, try a Winchester 77 tube-fed.

[@ZGryphon]

Both in its weird design and in the reluctance of its manufacturer to actually be making it, this gun reminds me of the GM P-75 Eagle fighter from World War II. The Eagle was made by the Fisher Body Division, a company which did not technically know anything about making airplanes, basically because the company had to be making something for the war effort and GM's bosses didn't want to be saddled with a bunch of worthless tooling for B-29s when it was all over. Admittedly, the parallel fails a bit if you subscribe to the belief that Fisher also sandbagged the P-75 project on purpose, so as not to have to actually make too many of them either; I'm inclined to agree with Othais's assessment that he was sincerely trying to come up with something useful using the tooling and expertise his workers already had.

[@BMW_MAN]

It seems that the engineer watched children's drawings =)

[@AgusThea]

Really cool

[@petelyczek5728]

Was this gun inspired by th Eiffel tower design? A bunch of loose steel parts held together by fasteners.

[@pakzone3273]

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[@user-ch2iq1xy7v]

شندك سئال كول

[@WorldEagleKW]

IKEA must have taken inspiration from this pistol...

[@damiangrouse4564]

Please no foul language 🍻

[@salimkumar9748]

Very Thanks

[@bourbonstudios1255]

Ian, i´ve got a question. Would a gun like the Bastard-Gun from the game Metro 2033 be something that actually worked? Are there guns with a similar disign?

[@aserta]

Other than its unconventional firing/reload system it's a regular gun. Animation wise it suggests it would, but, that being said, it's a highly complicated system IF it functions as it's implied. I mean the bolt would have to pass through the magazine and chamber a round. It isn't a perfect gun, so, i'd say it's plausible, however unlikely that in a dystopian future, someone would tinker such a gun, i'd wager they'd make a reload rifle or an AK variant more than the BG.

[@Dedfaction]

There have been weapons that used slightly open magazines like that and there have been others that used metallic strips holding 20 rounds and as the weapon was fired the strip was def through the gun and dropped out when empty. The Hotchkiss M1914 used metallic strips that were fed through he gun (www.replicaplans.com/Hotchkiss%20M1914/Hotchkiss%20M1914%20(4).JPG) I suppose you could make a submachine gun that fed from a metallic strip like the one in the game, but I'm not sure why you would since its liable to damage, dirt etc That's why they stopped usimg metallic strips pretty quickly.

[@IncredibleMD]

I don't think anyone told Herr Jaeger that firearm disassembly isn't supposed to be just the opposite of how the factory assembled the gun.

[@attilarischt2851]

So many pieces. Would any modern day manufacturer even try to make something like this? Ikea gun.

[@userBentayga]

хорошее видео! очень понравилось!

[@Pprokop87]

Ian, did you realy reassembled this one 10times before filming it? it had to be a one hard s....tronlgly tricky thing to do.

[@legonightmare65]

So which part is legally the receiver?

[@damiangrouse4564]

Interesting question!

[@chrismorse3862]

Believe I read a comment a while back saying in England it's any part that 'withstands pressure' so breach block and barrel probably. it's crazy how it's so opposite you could theoretically build a gun from parts perfectly legal in both places. I've never actually looked to see what kind of gun parts sell over there though and of course you can't ship them to where they'd be useful.

[@t.versteeg3723]

Looks like the example for the homemade sheet metal 25cal. gun.

[@FiveTwoSevenTHR]

I've never seen a semi auto that looks more simple than this gun to manufacture in a simple machine shop. what would be legally considered the firearm with this gun?

[@ForgottenWeapons]

I don't know offhand, but probably one of the side plates.

[@gunfuego]

+Forgotten Weapons that makes sense seeing as that's the way it was with the Browning 1919 semiauto build kits....

[@patrickrichardson5934]

Actually there is one guy on KZbin who is working on building one from scrap. It's certainly something I am interested to see finished.

[@HiveQu33n]

I feel bad for those poor guys that had to maintain these things in a muddy trench

[@ericswain70]

Othais from C&rsenal did a whole show on this gun about a month ago.Thanks Ian.

[@rjonzen34]

Still easier than a Phoenix arms HP22 :D

[@sypoth]

Wouldn't it be easier to put the breach block into the slide and then place them back on the gun in one piece rather than fight to push it up into the side once it's on?

[@JoachimElmesioo]

Does the British proof markings reduce the price?

[@AldanFerrox]

I don't think so. That makes the weapon much more unique

[@kainhall]

depends....was it done right after the war.... or done in 2011. its like an m1 garand....all matching brings high dollar...but 90% of them have many different parts. but thats how they were issued...so it doesnt hurt price much at all. like my m1 has a 43 reciever....a 42 bolt...a 52 barrel. and 3 different stock peices. but thats how it fraught in korea....if i actually found matching year parts, that would hurt the value as thats not how it was issued. its a strange "equation"

[@zterrans]

Surprised at this point of pain in the ass reassembly they don't use some sort of special proprietary screw so you need to use a unique driver to get it in.

[@MdYousuf-dj7po]

Nice

[@LadyAnuB]

Interesting reassembly. I would not want to takedown this weapon in a muddy, water-logged trench. "Oh f*ck, there goes a screw!" (Mud scramble to take place at this point.)

[@d33b33]

This pistol illustrates the cultural and industrial difference between US and German arms manufacturing in the interbellum and WWII. This design could've inspired US gunmakers to find a spectacular low cost hybrid between the 1911 and the Liberator. Instead, it was dismissed as an "amateur hour" side note by the stamped steel mass production obsessed Germans.

[@farmerboy916]

It rather highlights the attitude of modern arms manufacturers, that it still hasn't been done and popularized. Especially when it would perfectly fit the popularity of 80% firearms.

[@abergethirty]

For one thing, this was only one arms manufacturer and he was only using this design out of necessity, he lacked the advanced tooling. The time and cost was the same. The machine tooling in America was state of the art for it's time so there was no emphasis to make a budget firearm this way.

[@farmerboy916]

***** Yes that's true for this specific firearm, but then we have numerous experimental handguns using sheet metal components, especially during ww2 (such as the volkspistole), and essentially every other type of firearm made of sheet metal. Actually, I remember seeing an experimental sheet metal 1911 somewhere; it wasn't designed very well imo. www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/01/02/the-mystery-of-the-stamped-steel-1911/ See all of the contouring and excess material? It's begging to be improved and use modern materials. I think the reason no one really went about it was that this sort of thing wasn't popular in the civilian market nor experimented with, and the periods where people were looking into it were wartime (and for some time after large wars there's plenty of quality surplus), and it just isn't traditional.

[@abergethirty]

They Army made an experimental sheet metal 1911. It was actually found to be significantly heavier than a 1911 using machined parts. I'm guessing this is just a number of reasons it's better to just stick to machined frames for handguns.

[@d33b33]

Wow. I stand corrected, apparently there was a stamped metal 1911. That is a quasimodo of a gun right there. I'm glad it didn't catch on. Well done, Sir.

[@amphibianteeth]

i thought you meant the p12 (who knows what i mean?)

[@odweaver]

Someone probably bet Bill Ruger he couldn't make a pistol with a more complex reassembly, and thus the Ruger Standard was born.

[@kbjerke]

Piece of CAKE, Ian, compared to a Ruger MKll. LOL! Great video, thank you!

[@stevenobregon9030]

Exelente explicación me encantaría q fuera subtitulado en español. Gracias

[@the5th2000]

Were the soldiers who used the military versions expected to do this in the field?!?

[@damiangrouse4564]

They probably took the grips of, dunked it in gas/diesel buckets brushed, dunked it again, dried it off and called it good.

[@user-cx9ok4fv2w]

Good

[@andrewrichison813]

I would love to get a blueprint of this firearm!

[@44WarmocK77]

I wondered if the trigger spring was broken when I saw the thumbnail on youtube. ^^

[@naghmaamera5674]

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[@The1Helleri]

Wow lol. That's just...Wow.

[@akkiupadhyay9433]

Tell the pistol that you will cut the iron in how many inch cases?

[@ranjanalawati2905]

I can made like this gun ...I want to know something about the gun how much the price

[@carbidejones5076]

Help me, gun Jesus. I took my c 96 apart an can't get it back together

[@ztb231]

Interesting video, but if I were disassembling that gun i would have sanded all those surfaces clean before reassembling it. Make it shine again.

[@realmenshoot3085]

ztb231 And you'd throw away at least half of the value at auction.

[@abhinavkrishna7394]

Which material is used to make it

[@IncredibleMD]

Ian, you're a gun channel, not an Airfix models channel.

[@zhoumk9146]

Where can you find the construction drawings

[@ForgottenWeapons]

I have no idea. They probably don't exist anymore.

[@zhoumk9146]

I have an idea, you can put them on the scanning copier, according to the ratio of 1: 1 print out, I am very interested in copying this pistol, thank you

[@roupanova7706]

saber o valor dessa arma e se você mandar ela desmontada para o Brasil em duas ou três partes agradeço e me poder responder em português

[@amazingfactsforyou1662]

Sir we have need of foren pistol so how to buy it please help me

[@ashishnit1608]

Video achha he bhai

[@dialmarak6522]

Thank u♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@DiviPhotos]

Cool

[@danielneves4298]

Eu quero vê como fazer as peças pra fazer uma gb cazeira ????

[@saml7843]

How does the Jager eject?

[@Daemascus]

And now I will never complain about pulling my 1911 apart, its a breeze comapred to that

[@monirfardus9950]

nice

[@flyingninja1234]

I'm surprised the German military allowed this for military service. To me it seems overly complex, especially for trench warfare. I suppose later on in the war, any arms would have been pressed into service.