#  @ForgottenWeapons Forgotten Weapons
Forgotten Weapons posts on YouTube about history, gun, war, in the the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCrfKGpvbEQXcbe68dzXgJuA/interactions)
- [--] Week [---------] +47%
- [--] Month [----------] -40%
- [--] Months [-----------] +11%
- [--] Year [-----------] +129%
### Mentions: [---] [#](/creator/youtube::UCrfKGpvbEQXcbe68dzXgJuA/posts_active)
- [--] Week [---] -1.70%
- [--] Month [---] +4.60%
- [--] Months [-----] +28%
- [--] Year [-----] +172%
### Followers: [---------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCrfKGpvbEQXcbe68dzXgJuA/followers)
- [--] Week [---------] no change
- [--] Month [---------] +0.64%
- [--] Months [---------] +4.30%
- [--] Year [---------] +8.60%
### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCrfKGpvbEQXcbe68dzXgJuA/influencer_rank)
### Social Influence
**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [gaming](/list/gaming) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [currencies](/list/currencies) [stocks](/list/stocks) [mlb](/list/mlb) #1495
**Social topic influence**
[history](/topic/history) #97, [gun](/topic/gun) #431, [war](/topic/war) #2347, [in the](/topic/in-the), [patreon](/topic/patreon), [germany](/topic/germany) #274, [the first](/topic/the-first) #3548, [sniper](/topic/sniper) #468, [military](/topic/military) #1373, [france](/topic/france) #2696
**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@staygoldgun](/creator/undefined) [@polenartactical](/creator/undefined) [@forgottenweaponscom](/creator/undefined) [@blokeontherange](/creator/undefined) [@9holereviews](/creator/undefined) [@adelinamae](/creator/undefined) [@hiddenblazefilms](/creator/undefined) [@milgearexplainer](/creator/undefined) [@deepdivewithian](/creator/undefined) [@type56ordnancedept](/creator/undefined) [@trabapistolasvideos](/creator/undefined) [@printshootrepeat](/creator/undefined) [@persdefcon](/creator/undefined) [@gunbros](/creator/undefined) [@legacycollectiblescom](/creator/undefined) [@canadiangunlover](/creator/undefined) [@ww2](/creator/undefined) [@factualrj](/creator/undefined) [@weapons](/creator/undefined) [@firepowerunited](/creator/undefined)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"OTs-14 Groza: Russia's Over-Hyped 9x39mm Spetznaz Bullpup The 9x39mm cartridge was introduced in the final days of the Soviet Union as a subsonic round intended specifically for suppressed weapons. The first weapons developed for it were the AS Val and VSS Vintorez. These were followed in the early 1990s by the OTs-14 "Groza" developed by Valery Tells and Yuri Lebedev at Tula. The concept was for a modular multi-purpose rifle which could be assembled on a mission-by-mission basis by special forces or police troops as required. The complete load out included a short barrel with vertical front"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BWw7posYab8) 2024-07-22T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 713.3K engagements
"How to Identify a Real M1A1 Carbine vs a Fake Looking for a light and compact weapon to equip its new Airborne units the US military adopted the M1A1 Carbine in May of [----]. This was mechanically identical to the existing M1 Carbine but with a wire-frame side folding stock in place of the standard wooden stock. This allowed the M1A1 to fit into a very handy leg bag for paratroops. Deliveries began in October [----] with all of the guns being manufactured by the Inland company. A total of [------] were made in two batches (71000 between October [----] and October [----] and another [-----] between April"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dx-8QgkbIiU) 2018-02-10T13:40Z 3.2M followers, 723K engagements
"Why this AK suppressor has a rubber baffle at the back The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nGfBsHcA-NE) 2026-02-13T12:29Z 3.2M followers, 296.7K engagements
"The Jager Pistol and its Complex Reassembly The German military used a lot of different small-caliber pistols during World War One and the Jager is one of the most interesting of them. Its unique design was the result of needing to build pistols for the war effort on machines and tooling that were not suited for pistol production. The answer Replace the single milled frame with a combination of simpler parts that would be pinned and screwed together into a frame equivalent. Quite ingenious. Now I have don a previous video on the Jager and Othais & Mae at C&Rsenal recently published an"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lcr-KEQT0iM) 2016-06-15T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.1M engagements
"RP-46: The Rarely Seen Belt-Fed Degtyarev After World War Two the Red Army moved from a full power infantry rifle cartridge to an intermediate one and the 7.62x39mm RPD became the new squad machine gun. At the same time the heavy Maxims were replaced by the new SG-43 Goryunov. This left a gap in capability with nothing available with full-power punch and reasonable mobility. To solve the problem a team of three engineers (A.I. Shilin P.P. Polyakov and A.A. Dubinin) developed a clever adaptation to allow the DP/DPM machine gun to use belted ammunition (using standard Maxim/Goryunov/PK belts)."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S8u48kE5KCM) 2024-10-16T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 204.4K engagements
"PTR Vent Suppressor: 3D Printed Titanium Foam PTR's new "Vent" line of suppressors are a really cool use of new technology to better execute an old design concept. The idea is that forcing muzzle gasses through a porous material will work well to slow and cool them providing good sound suppression. Back in the 1940s (through the 60s or 70s) this was done with wire mesh rolled into a tube. Today PTR is following the same principle to a much finer degree by using additive manufacturing to produce titanium with "purposely induced porosity". Essentially titanium foam. Their design is furthermore"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UD_qBFWF2sw) 2024-06-02T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 342.4K engagements
"The Short-Lived No1 Mk6 SMLE Lee Enfield The SMLE No1 Mk3 was the iconic British infantry rifle of World War [--] but not the final evolution of the Lee Enfield design. By World War [--] it had been replaced by the new No4 Mk1 Lee Enfield and this is the story of the interim models. At the end of WW1 the British recognized several areas where the SMLE could be improved: a heavier barrel a lighter bayonet and aperture sights. This led to the development of the No1 Mk5 rifle (the Mk4 being a designation for a .22 rimfire training variation) with [-----] examples made for troop trials in the mid 1920s."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VL2u-QbE5gY) 2017-03-30T11:30Z 3.2M followers, 276.6K engagements
"G150: Swiss Silenced Guerrilla Anti-Materiel Rifle The G150 is a rifle specifically assembled by and for the Swiss P-26 organization: a very secretive stay-behind group intended to fight foreign occupiers of Switzerland. It was one of a series of such organizations that began with a concern during World War Two the Germany might invade and continued during the Cold War with the threat of Soviet occupation in the aftermath of nuclear war. The P-26 group specifically was formed in [----] and disbanded in [----] under a cloud of controversy over its political leanings. P-26 was armed with an"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VceFkxGqDWw) 2025-07-21T12:54Z 3.2M followers, 782.9K engagements
"SIG PE-57: Swiss Roller-Delay (the Civilian Stgw [--] aka SIG 510) The SIG PE-57 is the civilian semiauto version of the Stgw57 Switzerland's first self-loading service rifle. Developed from the German MG-42 but incorporating a substantial influence form the FG-42 as well the PE-57 is a roller-delayed blowback action chambered for the 7.5x55mm Swiss cartridge. It was also made for US commercial expoert as the SIG AMT (American Match Target) and sold to the militaries of Bolivia and Chile. The PE-57 uses an in-line stock layout much like the FG-42 which minimizes muzzle climb as well as a"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y73Zcg9icJc) 2017-02-22T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 812.2K engagements
"Only [--] Made [--] Known SurvivorsHunting the Rarest Mauser C96 Variant The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oqx5irCtDpo) 2026-02-03T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 626.1K engagements
"The Jonathan Ferguson Special Penguin Brutality shirt: https://varusteleka.com/en-us/products/forgotten-weapons-penguin-brutality-t-shirt Hopefully Jonathan doesn't tell His Majesty to bar me from entering the UK now. history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pnjN3RC22D8) 2025-11-27T12:31Z 3.2M followers, 786.7K engagements
"PGM Precision Hecate II at the Range http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we are taking the PGM Precision Hecate II out to the range. It is a rifle designed for use out to 1800m but I have neither the skills myself nor the range facility to do something like that - instead I have a target set up at 200m. I was quite surprising by just how soft-shooting the Hecate II is for a rifle chambered for .50 BMG. I can very honestly say that many .308 precision rifles have"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v_vfXcvWkps) 2020-05-09T12:43Z 3.2M followers, 676.2K engagements
"Why Yugoslavia waited until the 1990s to build a Krink style AK M70 M80 M90 M92 timeline The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-eqY1ugybaQ) 2026-01-14T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 171.9K engagements
"Suppressed OSS M3 Grease Gun and Bushmaster Booby Trap Trigger Today we have a chance to take a look at a suppressed M3 "Grease Gun" as purchased and issued by the Office of Strategic Services (the OSS; predecessor to the CIA). Thanks to its readily removable barrel the M3 (and M3A1) submachine gun was an easy gun to adapt to use with a suppressor (or as it was called at the time a silencer). During World War [--] such a unit was developed for clandestine use by OSS and British SOE agents in occupied Europe and they would see use for many decades in all manner of conflicts. The suppressor itself"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-hNLrDbw8nc) 2017-05-09T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 750.4K engagements
"SIG AK-53: A Truly Weird Forward-Operating Rifle http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com One of the most mechanically unusual rifles I have had the chance to examine is the SIG AK-53. One of a long line of interested experimental self-loading designs made by SIG between the 1920s and 1950s the AK53 is a gas operated rifle with a fixed breechblock and a barrel that cycles forward when fired. The gas system compresses a spring rearward first which then releases and pushes the barrel forward in a system with a few elements in common"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ykmqUFJWAw) 2019-02-22T12:36Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Red Dots: How Cheap is too Cheap (featuring Mike Branson) I met up with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics at SHOT Show [----]. Today we are talking about red dot price and quality. It's easy to get a good red dot if you are willing to spend enough but how cheap can you go and still have a reliable product http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0JKs85FG160) 2025-02-07T12:29Z 3.2M followers, 266.6K engagements
"Pietta's PPS/50 - A Popular PPSh Plinker Introduced by the Italian Pietta company in the 1970s (yes the same Pietta that makes all those reproduction Old West revolvers and lever action rifles) the PPS/50 has been a continuously popular firearm for more than [--] years now. Designed to roughly resemble a Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun the PPS/50 is a semiautomatic .22 rimfire for the recreational market and nothing more. It is a simple blowback action and perhaps the most interesting mechanical feature is its 50-round drum magazine (which is really what differentiates it from the plethora of"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0VLv_fRXOtk) 2018-01-29T14:01Z 3.2M followers, 231.6K engagements
"SSG-69: Steyr's Cold War Sniper Rifle Make sure to also check out [--] Hole Reviews' field trial of the SSG-69 in military configuration out to [---] yards: https://youtu.be/v93_gge1ESI https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In the 1960s Steyr Daimler Pusch developed a modern sniper rifle for the Austrian military (and also for commercial civilian sale). It was adopted as the SSG-69 (Scharfschtzen-Gewehr; sharpshooter's rifle) replacing the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cBTuKzrVX4) 2023-03-02T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 202.2K engagements
"M1918 BAR: America's Walking Fire Assault Rifle John Browning developed the Browning Automatic Rifle for use by American troops in World War One taking inspiration from the other light automatic weapons in service including the Chauchat Lewis and MG08/15. Rather than being used as a light machine gun as we would understand it today the BAR was an automatic rifle intended to be used in much the same way as the Germans would use the Sturmgewehr in WWII. It would be fired in semiautomatic mode from the shoulder or hip while advancing on the enemy using steady fire to keep them pinned down. Once"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1T2lWPhYyD0) 2017-10-14T12:13Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements
"Slow Motion Malfunctions of Exotic Firearms http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Over many years of filming with my high speed camera I have a decent little library of malfunctions in a wide variety of guns. These don't normally make it into videos and I figured it would be neat to present a bunch of them together. Enjoy history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly kasarda inrange inrangetv malf malfunction high speed slow motion luger p08 [--] luger [--] luger baby luger breda pg type [---] smg zk420 zh29 zip 22"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1e-i0wD0JbU) 2019-06-25T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 4.8M engagements
"The Worst AK I have Ever Seen http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly kasarda inrange inrangetv history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly kasarda inrange inrangetv"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1nQzFGe1yMk) 2020-06-18T12:03Z 3.2M followers, 5.4M engagements
"Domestic Burmese G3s: BA64 Rifle and BA-72 Carbine After achieving independence from the British Burma (now Myanmar) looked to develop a domestic small arms industry to supply its armed forces. The first weapon produced there was the BA-52 a copy of (how they chose this I don't know) the Italian TZ-45 submachine gun. By the late 1950s talks were underway with Rheinmetall and H&K to license production of the G3 at a factory being built with German technical assistance. Ultimately Burma adopted and produced several versions of the G3: BA-63: A direct copy of the G3 BA-64: A light machine gun or"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ry_hUOdm7c) 2025-04-12T12:45Z 3.2M followers, 166.7K engagements
"Shooting the H&K MP5K Operational Briefcase http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Heckler & Koch's "Operational Briefcase" is a clever system for covert carry of a submachine gun without the need to conceal such a large type of weapon under bulky clothing. By putting the gun into a briefcase they gave security personnel a way to blend right into the business and executive type of environment. Of course the idea has become rather well known at least in some circles. It may not have quite the same element of surprise it once did"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2CH-5kY5w2Q) 2018-12-22T12:37Z 3.2M followers, 3.1M engagements
"Zip 22: Shooting the Worst Gun Ever #forgottenweapons #zip22 #worstgun #pistol #terrible #fail history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2vaFeKx1xwQ) 2025-01-28T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 588.9K engagements
"Luftwaffe-Issue Walther PP & PPK Pistols http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Courtesy of Legacy Collectibles we have a pair of Luftwaffe-issue Walther pistols to look at today one PP and one PPK. The Luftwaffe bought more than [------] pistols during World War Two including not only Walthers but also the Luger P38 HSc CZ38 Femaru [--] and FN [----]. Identifying Luftwaffe-issue Walthers is tricky as they were not specifically marked - but we do know a few specific serial number"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2wVDGlJEoiw) 2020-05-25T11:55Z 3.2M followers, 195.4K engagements
"A Thoughtful & Nuanced Take on SIG's P320 Nightmare Here's the video I did [--] years ago on this topic. I stand by my conclusions in that video but with the caveat that it assumes the parts are all made to designed spec (I didn't think I would have to specify that.): https://youtu.be/QusWrho19zE So which camp am I in "I found a way to stick it to a big company and now that's my entire personality" or "Look at these morons SIG makes a flawless pistol". Neither so I'm sure I will take flak from both of them (hence the flak jacket). It sure does seem like there is *something* going on with P320s"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3iWVs2uD1XY) 2025-05-13T16:33Z 3.2M followers, 478.5K engagements
"HK4: Heckler & Koch's Multi-Caliber Pocket Pistol The H&K Model [--] was named for the fact that it was offered in four different calibers - .22LR .25 ACP .32 ACP and .380 ACP. The gun came with a complete set of spare barrels and magazines to allow conversion between all of them and interesting feature not offered by any other pistols like it at the time. The design was by Alex Seidel one of the founding engineers of H&K. He had familiarity with the Mauser HSc from his time working at Mauser and it was the rough basis fo the HK4. The changes between centerfire calibers required nothing more"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4A40fJXfgo8) 2019-08-28T11:02Z 3.2M followers, 248K engagements
"S&W Pinto: The Wide World of Collecting https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Pinto is a name given to a specific sort of Smith & Wesson revolver by collectors. It refers to guns - typically J- K- and N-frame revolvers but all some semiauto pistols - produced with a mix of blued and nickeled parts. The name derives from the Pinto horse which has patches of white and color. The guns were generally old as a way to use up excess parts from"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5HqOjUCriOQ) 2022-11-15T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 147.2K engagements
"Germany Adopts the PPSh in 9mm: the MP-41(r) https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com During World War Two both German and Russian soldiers often thought that the other side's weapons were better than their own. In particular both sides often preferred their opponents' SMGs. In late [----] a group of German officers formally requested that Germany simply copy and produce the PPSh-41. This led to the HWA formally studying the question of PPSh-41"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Jdd-yUNfHg) 2023-02-20T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 357.7K engagements
"BXP: Blowback eXperimental Parabellum http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Andries Piek was a farmer in South Africa in the late 1970s when he mail ordered an LDP 9mm carbine from Rhodesia. The gun was impounded by South African customs and Piek wound up designing modifications to the gun to meet South African laws. He was contracted to do this to all the LDPs sent to South Africa and after thus becoming interested in firearms design he went on to create his own light compact and inexpensive 9mm carbine. In its first iteration"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5fxE97lDkT4) 2019-02-18T13:07Z 3.2M followers, 456K engagements
"The M9A1 Bazooka: Now With Optics and Quick Takedown http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Bazooka - or rather the Launcher Rocket [----] M1 - was introduced by the United States in [----] the result of a fast development by two Army officers Captain Leslie Skinner and Lt. Edward Uhl. The US has no infantry antitank weapon at that point and it had become quite clear that such a thing was needed. The Bazooka offered a theoretical effective range of [---] yards throwing a [--] pound hollow-charge projectile capable of penetrating [--] inches of armor plate. The [----] inch bore measurement incidentally"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6FP5UAfnohU) 2018-08-18T12:55Z 3.2M followers, 487K engagements
"Military-Issue Colt Model [----] Paterson Revolving Rifle The first rifle made in Sam Colts Paterson NJ factory was the [----] ring lever rifle. These were rather fragile and underpowered and while they were used successfully in the First Seminole War they needed improvement. Colt set about doing this with his [----] pattern which was more robust and more powerful. It had six chambers of .525 with much greater powder capacity than the first Colt revolving rifles. A total of about [---] were made before the Paterson company failed in [----] and nearly [---] of those were military sales. The US War"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6zJQ2QIBn40) 2025-04-23T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 142.6K engagements
"Schmeisser's MP-18I - The First True Submachine Gun When Germany began looking in late [----] for a new weapon ideally suited for the last [---] meters of a combat advance Hugo Schmeissers blowback submachine gun would prove to be the weapon that would set the standard for virtually all submachine guns to come. It was a fully automatic only weapon with a simple blowback action and a rather slow [---] rpm rate of fire. Although relatively heavy the only real shortcoming of the MP18I was its use of [--] round Luger snail drum magazines which was dictated by the German military. These magazines were"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Z7O8SZhdgw) 2017-08-14T11:17Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Swedish Antiaircraft Artillery: Bofors 40mm Automatic Gun M1 Note: In the video I mistakenly describe this as a two-stamp NFA gun. It is actually deactivated and thus does not require a tax stamp. Sorry for the mistake http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Swedish Bofors company developed their 40mm antiaircraft gun in the 1930s and it would go on to be one of the most successful weapon designs in modern history. Used by both sides in WWII and in all theaters improved versions of the 40mm Bofors gun continue to serve in military front lines to this very day. In the US they comprise part"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7dJDn5F1GQk) 2018-08-24T12:39Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"wz.88 Tantal: Poland's Alternative to the AK-74 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com As part of the Warsaw Pact Poland anticipated adopting the AK-74 after it was developed by the Soviet Union. However the eventual Soviet terms for license fees and export restrictions were too severe for Polish taste. Instead Poland opted to develop its own new rifle to use the 5.45x39mm cartridge. This would essentially be a 5.45mm version of the AKM. That sounds like an AK-74 but the 74"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7rNCFhKXbvY) 2021-07-16T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 371.6K engagements
"Romania Doesn't Make the Dragunov: The PSL http://www.forgottenweapons.com/romania-doesnt-make-the-dragunov-the-psl http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons When Romania vocally objected to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in [----] it lost some of its opportunities for technology transfer form the Soviet Union. The USSR had adopted the SVD Dragunov in [----] and it was looking like Romania would be putting that weapon into domestic production alongside the AK but after [----] not so much. If Romania wanted a designated marksmans rifle it would be on its own to develop one. So thats exactly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7sXulRVMX8c) 2018-05-28T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"M20A1B1 Super Bazooka - It's a Super Bazooka. Need I Say More The US was one of the few major military powers that went into World War II without a substantial infantry antitank weapon. Most countries had an antitank rifle of some sort but the US just had some marginal antitank rifle grenades. That was rectified in late [----] when the M1 Rocket Launcher - aka the Bazooka - was introduced. Using a [----] shaped charge warhead it was able to penetrate about [---] inches of armor which was effective through most of the war. A larger version went into development in [----] though because it was clear"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8DEGci1uAUc) 2017-10-28T11:16Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"US WW2 Springfield Sniping Rifles Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons The primary sniper rifle used by the United States in World War II was the M1903A4 Springfield a version of the exisiting 1903A3 with the iron sights removed and replaced with a Weaver 330C scope (adopted by the military as the M73B1). This was a low-power optic but was centrally mounted on the rifle to avoid and of the windage issues caused by prismatic scopes. The 1903A4 was the US' first truly mass-produced sniper rifle with more than [-----] being manufactured during just two"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8kO867TRAwQ) 2016-09-16T11:56Z 3.2M followers, 636.6K engagements
"Beretta 93R: The Best Machine Pistol The Beretta 93R ("Raffica") was developed in the 1970s by Beretta engineer Paolo Parola at the request of Italian military special forces. It took the basic Beretta [--] pistol design and added a well-thought-out burst mechanism under the right-side grip panel. It does not have a plain full-auto setting but only semiauto and 3-round burst. To help keep the gun controllable it has a heavier slide to reduce cyclic rate a detachable shoulder stock and a folding front grip to help control the muzzle. It uses extended 20-round magazines and is actually remarkably"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BPf5quy8_nM) 2024-12-13T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 346.9K engagements
"Beretta Tries a Machine Pistol: the Model 951A Beretta's first machine pistol was actually a full-auto variant of the Model [----] complete with shoulder stock - but that did not sell well. They tried again in the 1950s with an automatic model of the new Beretta Model [--] (aka M951). This was a 9x19mm pistol using a P38 style locking wedge and it was a fairly successful design for the company. The automatic model was the 951A and it included a folding wooden front grip for stability a much heavier slide a selector switch and auto trip. It weighed 46oz (1.3kg) about 12oz (340g) more than the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BqXvLTG-pAY) 2025-03-10T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 170.6K engagements
"Navy 7.62mm NATO Conversion M1 Garand - Mk2 Mod1 When the M14 rifle was developed to replace the M1 Garand is was met with some uncertainty by the US Navy. The Navy had a lot of things to spend money on and not a lot of need for a replacement for the M1 Garand (note that the Marine Corps did adopt the M14 despite being a component of the Navy). So instead of buying new rifles the Navy opted to see if it could just convert its existing M1 rifles to the new 7.62x51mm cartridge. Because of the similarity between the two cartridges this seemed to be a fairly simple conversion. A chamber insert"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C5Ax8abE-Co) 2017-11-22T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 258.9K engagements
"SS-Contract Walther PP and PPK Pistols http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today courtesy of Tom from Legacy Collectibles we are taking a look at Walther PP and PPK pistols made specifically for the SS. These guns comprised several special contracts distinct from general military and commercial production. They were not the only such special contracts as such arrangements were also made for organizations like railway security and bank guards. Tracing back these specific guns has been done by a group of researchers using the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C5BXVHdfLVw) 2020-01-06T12:25Z 3.2M followers, 287.6K engagements
"Winchester's Liberator Shotguns #forgottenweapons #winchester #liberator #12ga #weird #shotgun #guerilla history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ChX6EWIwroM) 2025-05-04T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"The New CZ Bren 3: What Did They Change From the Mauser bolt action to the AK and AR all new military rifles take time to perfect. With the Bren [--] CZ is now on the third iteration of the Bren platform having gone from the original [---] to the much-improved Bren [--] and now a collection of less obvious changes to create the Bren [--]. These changes have been directed by combat use of the rifle in Ukraine as well as the lessons of mass production. The main changes are around durability taking a good system and making it better - along with a few changes to improve the modularity of the rifle."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJRbe-2EgT4) 2024-09-09T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 354.9K engagements
"Indonesian Air Force Collapsing-Stock G3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merchandise http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In [----] the German military first adopted the Spanish CETME as its standard infantry rifle because it was able to acquire a license to manufacture the guns domestically (something FN had been unwilling to grant for the FAL). The European rights to the CETME were at that time owned by NWM in the Netherlands and Germany negotiated a trade to allow its own production. That production was undertaken by two different firms - Rheinmetall and Heckler &"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E86RSmhBFMg) 2017-08-12T11:27Z 3.2M followers, 303.9K engagements
"Maxim Pom-Pom 37mm Machine Gun http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons "Pom-Pom" was the name given to the 37mm Maxim gun by the Boers of South Africa based on the gun's sound. It was a Maxim machine gun scaled up to the quite impressive 37mm caliber intended primarily for naval use defending large vessels against small torpedo boats. This particular example is serial number [----] made in [----] and then sold three times before being ultimately purchased by the United States Coast Guard and installed on the USS Manning (along with a second gun number 2026). The Manning was promptly put into"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EG1DoHPAaRA) 2016-09-13T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Ultima Ratio: RAID and the Founding of PGM Precision Thanks to Creedmoor Sports for sponsoring this video and providing a couple of fine shooting mats to experiment with. Check them out for all your long range competition needs The Ultima Ratio was the rifle that created PGM Precision as a company. It originated with a tender for a new sniper rifle by RAID (Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion) a French Police intervention unit formed in [----]. They initially used Steyr SSG-69 rifles but wanted something better. Six companies entered rifles for consideration in 1989/1990 and the two"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EGnLpt81ce8) 2023-06-17T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 157.6K engagements
"Aimpoint's New COA: Clever Optics Advancement Let me first mention something that I didn't cover in the video: what does "COA" stand for Well nothing. They just wanted a name that they could trademark that wasn't already in use. So go ahead and make up your own acronym. It may be hard to see how a pistol red dot sight could be exciting but if you're into this sort of the the new Aimpoint COA has some really neat features. Specifically: * Really excellent mounting system that fixed the problems of recoil lugs and screw holes into the delicate bits of pistol slides * Improved software with"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EkFQNELaQp0) 2025-01-14T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 395.1K engagements
"Weirdly Late "Buck-N-Ball" - Standard Arms [--] Caliber "Camp" Gun http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Standard Arms was an early (circa 1909) manufacturer of self-loading hunting rifles in the US. The made the Model G a rifle which could function either as a self-loader or a pump action manual repeater. Unfortunately is was tremendously unreliable and prone to breakage. In an effort to salvage something of use the company introduced the Model M - a pump-only version. It"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F_KxN49a8EE) 2021-10-25T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 329.2K engagements
"Almost Adopted: The H&K XM-8 Family #forgottenweapons #xm8 #hk #heckler #koch #army #rifle #future history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fq32crQ-QmA) 2025-09-09T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 817.1K engagements
"Really Not an M16 at All: Colt's M231 Port Firing Weapon The M231 Port Firing Weapons was developed in the 1970s as a part of the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Project. A modern relative of the WW2 Krummlauf the weapon was intended to provide close-in firepower against infantry that might attempt to overrun the M2. It has no sights or buttstock and fires from an open bolt only as 1100-1200 rounds/minute. It is intended to be used with M196 tracer ammunition to aim. Early versions were issued with rudimentary sights and a wire collapsing stock (akin to that of an M3A1 Grease Gun) but the weapon"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FuZmAtrRsN0) 2017-10-06T11:36Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Taurus Curve: My Worst Backup Gun Match Yet http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com A little while back during the summer I went to our monthly Backup Gun Match with of all things a Taurus Curve. Why do I even own one of those Well I found one new in the box at a local gun show for less than $200. Because it is such an unusual gun in a bunch of ways I figured it really deserved a place in the Forgotten Weapons Collection. So I bought it and just left it in the box. Several"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G2jPCtwFv2Q) 2020-09-26T11:52Z 3.2M followers, 433.9K engagements
"CZ-531: A Czech Browning in 7.62mm Tokarev The CZ-531 was developed as a replacement for the vz.52 pistol in [----]. Even as the vz.52 was being adopted the Czech military knew that it wasnt a great gun and they wanted a long-term replacement based on the TT33 Tokarev design. There were two pistols put into development for this; the CZ [---] here and the ZKP-524. This was chambered for 7.62x25mm and like the Tokarev it has no manual safety. Testing took place in February [----] and the gun had some issues. After about [----] rounds the recoil spring wore out and at [----] rounds the frame cracked. At"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G64SHKQTUZE) 2025-10-24T12:32Z 3.2M followers, 110.5K engagements
"The Real T26 "Tanker" M1 Garand Check out Headstamp Publishing's extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten The name "tanker" has been applied to shortened M1 Garand rifles for a long time and today we are looking at one of the rifle that was the genesis of that concept. It actually has nothing to do with tanks; the idea for a shortened M1 came from the Pacific Warfare Board of the US Army looking for a handier weapon for jungle fighting. During [----] when this idea was proposed Springfield Arsenal was already independently working on the M1E5 a"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G9cwZ6Dw39Q) 2026-01-05T12:19Z 3.2M followers, 184.3K engagements
"Japanese ZH-29 Copy by Tokyo Gas & Electric The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HQX58p2tC0c) 2026-01-13T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 83.9K engagements
"How Does it Work: Short Recoil Operation http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Correction: Browning invented the pistol slide but not the overall short recoil system. Maxim was the first to successfully create a short recoil firearm. Short recoil is the most common system used today in self-loading handguns and it also used to be fairly popular in machine gun designs. The basic principle is that the bolt and barrel (in a handgun slide and barrel) are locked together for an"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HZcgZ4aq8Ew) 2021-01-19T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 225.9K engagements
"ZB26: The Best of the Light Machine Guns The ZB-26 stands as one of the best magazine-fed light machine guns developed during the 1920s and 30s - it was a very popular gun for small military forces and many countries which did not directly buy it were strongly influenced by it. The Japanese Nambu Type [--] and [--] were heavily based on the ZB the the British Bren was a direct evolution licensed from Brno. The design dates back to [----] when the Czech government began searching for a modern light machine gun. They tested pretty much all the guns available on the market at the time and also"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HcbFEIomzm4) 2017-10-26T12:54Z 3.2M followers, 696.3K engagements
"Japanese ZH-29 Copy by Tokyo Gas & Electric http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Japanese military experimented with self-loading rifle designs through the 1930s and had [--] major rifles in testing during that period. One was a new design by Kijiro Nambu one was a Pedersen copy made by the Tokyo Army Arsenal one was a gas operated toggle locking rifle by the Nippon Special Steel company and the fourth was this a ZH-29 copy made by Tokyo Gas & Electric. TG&E was a major industrial concern that made all manner of products and they chose to copy the ZH-29 for Army rifle trials. However it"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HgnYzsyJCoM) 2016-08-15T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 389.3K engagements
"Sturmgewehr MP-44 Part I: Mechanics The MP-43 (which is mechanically identical to the MP-44 and StG-44; the differences are the subject for another video later) is a tilting bolt rifle with a long stroke gas piston. It was manufactured primarily from complex sheet steel stampings as a way to minimize the amount of high-quality and thus difficult to acquire steels needed for its construction. The rifle is heavy by today's standards but remarkably ergonomic (except for the metal handguard when heats up quickly). Its sights come right up to the eye when shouldering the rifle and it disassembles"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HnXBshjGFo8) 2016-09-27T12:09Z 3.2M followers, 636.5K engagements
"HS2000: The Perfected Croatian Pistol that Became the Springfield XD https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com With the HS95 Croatian manufacturer IM Metal (later to become HS Produkt) had learned how to effectively manufacture a good pistol. However the design had some shortcomings and had not been accepted by Croatian police forces nor had any commercial export contracts materialized. The company recognized that the way of the future was"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JylVcssjAns) 2023-02-01T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 206.1K engagements
"PTRS 41: The Soviet Semiauto Antitank Rifle (aka an SKS on Steroids) https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Prior to World War Two the Soviet Union had a rather lackluster interest in antitank rifles - a series of guns were developed but slowly and without all that much success. The Barbarossa invasion gave a very immediate need for just this sort of weapon however to give Soviet infantry units an organic anti-armor capability. Two star"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MQrGqiyTttY) 2022-12-14T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Pauly/Roux Pistols: The First Self-Contained Cartridges EDIT: Please note that apparently the Priestel book I used as a major source for this video is partially incorrect in that Pauly did create a traditional percussion system in France. The fire piston / diesel system was done slightly later after he moved to England perhaps to avoid the Forsyth patent there. --------- Samuel Pauly is the largely unrecognized father of the modern self-contained cartridge. In [----] he patented a cartridge with a metal base that held a priming compound and attached to a paper or metal cartridge body holding"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N-h1aPjYl-w) 2025-08-22T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 97.9K engagements
"Walthers Forgotten SMG: The MPK (and MPL) The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com Walther began developing a modern stamped sheet metal SMG in the late 1950s and it entered production in [----]. It was an open-bolt simple blowback gun available in a short (MPK; [----] barrel) and long (MPL; [-----] barrel) version. It was cheap and simple but well thought out with a number of quite good features. The standard design was just safe/full but a semiautomatic selector position was available if desired by the client. An excellent safety sear prevented the bolt from bouncing"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N0PGOrGEWtA) 2025-12-03T12:58Z 3.2M followers, 163.6K engagements
""Double Deuce" 2-Bore Rifle: A Gunsmithing Spectacle The largest sporting rifles ever actually used in the field as more than an exhibition were 4-bore stopping rifles firing roughly 1" in diameter (25mm) projectiles. These were intended to not simply kill a dangerous animal but to stop it immediately in a charge which might require shooting through thick bone or horn protection. For that purpose the 4-bore could have some value - assuming you had an assistant to carry it when danger was not imminent However there have been a number of gunsmiths who have built 2-bore rifles like this example"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OYlDgwo52tI) 2017-11-11T12:51Z 3.2M followers, 2.1M engagements
"MAGAL: A Galil in .30 Carbine for the Israeli Police In the early 1990s Israeli Military Industries (IMI) developed the Galil MAR (Micro Assault Rifle) and the MAGAL at the same time. Both were intended to be very compact rifles with the MAR in 5.56mm and the MAGAL specifically for police in .30 Carbine. The MAGAL offered the same handling and ergonomics as the regular Galil family but with a reduced-power cartridge and only semiautomatic operation for better police suitability. Mechanically the MAGAL uses a totally standard Galil receiver and bolt carrier with a bolt face made slightly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P5CgI1kPfdw) 2024-07-24T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 195.6K engagements
"Firing an RPG (American-Made Airtronics) #forgottenweapons #rpg #firing #airtronics #history #rocket #psrl history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PSCGL5mktYg) 2024-12-17T12:59Z 3.2M followers, 493.4K engagements
"M79: The Iconic "Bloop Tube" 40mm Grenade Launcher http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Combat experience with the bazooka rocket launcher in World War Two and its larger versions in the Korean War convinced the US military that a better weapon was needed to give front-line troops a direct-fire way to attack enemy strong points. The bazooka was bulky not particularly accurate and created a lot of backlist signature when fired. This led to a multi-part development effort"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qk1R2oY4_VA) 2020-12-04T12:39Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"What's the Deal with the SIG P320 Exploding and Firing "Un-Commanded" (April 2023) https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Social media is very excited these days about "exploding" SIG 320s.so let's consider what might actually be happening. Of course this discussion is invariably clouded by the fact that the P320 did have a legitimate drop-safety problem a few years ago. It was fixed but many people don't bother to distinguish between that"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QusWrho19zE) 2023-04-20T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 870.4K engagements
"MSBS Grot: The Complete History of Poland's New Army Rifle https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The MSBS Grot is Poland's current military service rifle and has gone through several iterations in the many years of its development that led to its current 2nd generation form. It is best known in the US as a rifle designed to be interchangeable between standard and bullpup layout although that capability was dropped when the Polish Army opted"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=R9A54ODrzq0) 2022-12-07T14:28Z 3.2M followers, 842.1K engagements
"H&K VP-70M on the Range: How Useful is the Burst Fire http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons After looking at the history and mechanics of the VP-70 yesterday we are heading out to the range to try it out (and thanks to Trijicon for generously offering use of their range). I am curious to see just what that [----] rpm rate of fire is like to shoot and whether the awful trigger is as much of a hindrance to effective burst shooting as it is to simple semiauto. So in addition to some shooting of the VP-70M I will also be comparing it to an MP5. Thanks to H&K for providing access to bring you this"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RZ6yy1g1jyk) 2018-12-01T11:46Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Engineer's Delight: Stemple 76/45 Becomes the Stemple Takedown Gun http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The saga of how the original Stemple 76/45 became the Stemple Takedown Gun is a fantastic story of engineering design choices. Essentially John Stemple began by building a rather crude copy of the Swedish K in .45 ACP in the mid 1980s called the Stemple 76/45. He produced and registered [----] transferrable receivers for the gun (pre-1986) but only built them slowly a few"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RlHzy2LtS4k) 2021-09-17T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 754.9K engagements
"Nock's Volley Gun: Clearing the Decks in the 1700s The Nock Volley Gun was actually invented by an Englishman named James Wilson in [----] and presented to the British military as a potential infantry weapons. This was declined as impractical but the Royal Navy found the concept interesting for shipboard use. In [----] the Navy ordered two prototypes made by the British gunsmith Henry Nock and finding them suitable proceeded to oder a total of [---] of the guns (thus forever associating Nocks name with the gun instead of Wilsons). A further [---] or so were ordered in [----] and the guns were in fact"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SbDhwdjL0jo) 2018-03-03T13:13Z 3.2M followers, 682K engagements
"Almost Adopted: The H&K XM-8 Family http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we are in H&K's Grey Room in Virginia taking a look at the XM-8 program. The rifle evolved form the kinetic energy carbine portion of the doomed XM29/OICW program and eventually became the G36 rifle. In between those two however it was the XM-8 and it came close to adoption by the US military.The XM-8 was designed to be a very modular system with a variety of interchangeable stocks handguards optics and accessories. We will take a look at all of these"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Te2IqFbRR7A) 2018-12-14T12:17Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements
"The Guns of John Pedersen John Pedersen was one of the more prolific and successful gun designers in American history having even been described by John Moses Browning as "the greatest gun designer in the world". And yet many people only know about Pedersen from his unsuccessful toggle-locked rifle or his WWI Pedersen Device that never saw action. In truth Pedersen's work included a number of very successful sporting rifles and shotguns that many shooters would still recognize today. While looking through the guns at Rock Island on my most recent trip there I realized that they had examples"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=U998IeAAWYY) 2015-04-10T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 698.8K engagements
"The French FR-F2: Best of the Cold War Sniper Rifles http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In [----] the French Army adopted the FR-F2 (Fusil Rptition F2) as its standard sniper rifle. The F2 was never manufactured new; it was an improvement made on existing FR-F1 rifle by giving them new 7.62mm NATO barrels new flexible bipods and thermal sleeves over the barrels. Of [----] FR-F1 rifles original made approximately [----] were rebuilt as FR-F2s. They served from [----] until being"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ULFinpTx_Xw) 2021-11-26T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 494.7K engagements
"CZ's New P09 Nocturne: DA/SA Polymer Frame Now With Optics CZ has just released their new P09 Nocturne pistols an update to the previous P07/P09 pairing. These guns fundamentally go back to the classic CZ-75. While that was (and still is) a very popular design military and police tenders more recently have required more modern elements. So in [----] the P07 Duty was released; essentially CZ75 mechanics with a modern look and a polymer frame. This was only offered as a compact model until in [----] the design was overhauled. At that point the compact remained the P07 and a full size companion"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UPGZ8PUMrNw) 2024-08-16T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 195.3K engagements
"The Rare Chinese Stamped Receiver SKS https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In [----] and [----] China experimented with a stamped-receiver version of the SKS. About [----] of these rifles were made each of the two years and a number of them have come into the US as commercial exports. We don't have any official records from China about this program but it seems clear that this was an experiment to reduce the production cost of what was originally"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=V273FlErNls) 2023-05-01T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 329.1K engagements
"Arctic Warfare Magnum: Accuracy International L115A3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In [----] the British Army placed an order for [---] AI Arctic Warfare Super Magnum rifles chambered for the .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge formally adopting the model as the L115A3 sniper rifle. This followed special forces use of the .338 Accuracy International rifles in Afghanistan where the A1 (fixed stock) and A2 (folding stock) models had both been given designations.With the adoption of the L115 the British retired all of their remaining"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3IylFIyZss) 2019-03-29T11:56Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Shooting the M14: Full Auto Really Uncontrollable https://www.forgottenweapons.com/shooting-the-m14-full-auto-really-uncontrollable/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Today we are out shooting the H&R M14 "Guerrilla Gun" prototype but fitted with a standard M14 stock and barrel. With these parts it handles and fires exactly like a standard M14 - so I can answer the most pertinent question: Is the M14 really so uncontrollable in full auto m14 h&r filthy [--] shooting shoot fire firing full auto automatic machine gun battle rifle [---] [----] NATO g3 fal ar10 high speed slow motion mccollum"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VAABMvmaGWQ) 2018-10-13T12:19Z 3.2M followers, 2.8M engagements
"September [----] Q&A: All About Battle Rifles NATO Battle Rifles book: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/cold-war-battle 00:30 - What is a "battle rifle" 03:02 - What is the specific definition of "full power cartridge" 07:59 - Will the US 6.8x51 lead to more widespread battle rifle adoption 10:54 - Full auto practicality in battle rifles (w/ FRTs and such) 12:40 - Favorite hypothetical boutique AR-10 chambering 14:14 - Why no bullpup battle rifles 16:04 - BM59 vs M14 18:46 - Do any militaries still issue battle rifles 19:57 - SBR'd battle rifles and diminishing returns 22:48 - What is the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W2nVO4PhhMQ) 2025-09-20T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 303.8K engagements
"Beretta Model 1934: Italy's Unassuming Workhorse Service Pistol The Beretta Model [--] was basically the final iteration of a design by Tullio Marengoni that began all the way back in [----]. That pistol was updated in the early 1920s and that one was updated in [----]. The Model [----] was converted to .380 ACP (aka 9mm Short) as the Model [----] which became the Model [----] with the addition of a hammer half-cock notch and steel grip panel backing. Police and military contract began in [----] with the Italian Army formally adopting it in [----] and purchasing nearly [------] of them by [----]. It would"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WvqKVL7cLX8) 2025-05-16T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 158.7K engagements
"Steyr ACR: A Polymer Flechette-Firing Bullpup From the 90s http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merchandise http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The US Army ACR (Advanced Combat Rifle) program was an effort to find a new type of infantry rifle which could increase the practical accuracy of the M16 by a whopping 100% in the early 1990s. Building on a legacy of similar programs like SALVO and SPIW the basic idea being tried were extremely high rates of burst fire flechette rounds and duplex cartridges as a way to increase hit probability mechanically. There were four final"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=X1W8iz8DyRw) 2018-05-09T11:10Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"GIGN's Unique Bren [--] in 7.62x39: Counterterrorism and Hostage Rescue GIGN - the "Group d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale" (Intervention Group of the National Gendarmerie) is the tip of the spear for French counterterrorism and major crime response. They are a relatively small (a few hundred operators) unit that deploys anywhere in France any often around the world. They curate a wide range of individual specialties from parachuting to diving and everything in between backed up by a strong supporting contingent of technical specialists supplying them with robotics drones surveillance"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XW9psVnYJAY) 2025-10-13T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 423.9K engagements
"Zip 22: Shooting the Worst Gun Ever http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Today may the good lord help me I am taking the Zip [--] out to the range for some shooting. Note that while it actually worked remarkably well right up until it jammed solid on the second range trip when we went back to get the high-speed footage we literally could not get two rounds in a row. We did get a couple neat high-speed malfunctions though. A big thanks to viewer Matt for generously loaning me the gun to film zip zip [--] zip22 worst gun worst pistol shooting shoot fire firing high speed slow motion forgotten"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y3fd4goVs-4) 2018-09-15T12:16Z 3.2M followers, 3.9M engagements
"Biggest Revolver Yet A 10-Gauge Colt [----]. http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com This ludicrously huge handgun is actually a 10-gauge Colt [----] Revolving Shotgun with a cut-down barrel and a newly made grip frame. The backstop and trigger guard of the shotgun were handily reshaped into a grip frame and the finished product actually looks nicely proportional - until you try to actually pick it up of course. .The grip is filled with brass inlay about a third of which are missing (possibly from the recoil of actually firing)."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YziAAEG5sf8) 2019-10-17T11:42Z 3.2M followers, 338.4K engagements
"Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com I had a chance to visit Hire Arms in Johannesburg - a movie arms supply company. Among many other things in their collection they had an assortment of extremely crude handmade firearms confiscated from poachers in Zimbabwe. As something we don't see much of here in the US I thought they were pretty interesting even if just in a train wreck sort of way. So I pulled out a couple of the most unusual to put on camera. poacher poaching gun homemade"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQG1bHugZRA) 2018-12-17T12:47Z 3.2M followers, 4M engagements
"Canadian 8mm Sterile Bren Gun The John Inglis company in Toronto first opened in [----] as a metalworking shop and grew steadily over the decades under first John Inglis and then later his sons. Inglis did substantial amounts of military work during World War One but the Great Depression hit it hard and both William and Alexander Inglis died in [----] and [----] respectively. The company went into receivership but was purchased by one Major James Hahn (DSO) and a group of business partners in November of [----]. Hahn and his associates saw an opportunity to use this large manufacturing facility to"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_CfjbWpozTg) 2019-04-12T12:35Z 3.2M followers, 305.8K engagements
"Ask Ian: Single Feed vs Double Feed Pistols https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Asked by Tyler on Patreon: "Why are there so few double stack/double feed handguns I can only think of a couple off the top of my head. It makes the worst part of handgun shooting (loading the magazines) a complete non-issue." There are a series of interacting considerations when choosing between single feed and double feed. Single Feed: - Magazines are less"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=brVYI4-NILA) 2022-07-05T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 508.1K engagements
"Karabiner-S: The East German Unicorn SKS This rifle will be sold at Rock Island in their Spring [----] Premiere auction - it was moved after this video was filmed. Sorry http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons One of the rarest patterns of the SKS is the East German type - the Karabiner-S. Total production quantity is not known but their survival rate is quite low and most of the examples in the US are Vietnam War bring backs. At any rate the Karabiner-S is not quite an exact copy of the standard SKS. While it does share all the same mechanical features the East Germans opted to leave out the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cPyvg5-drLM) 2018-11-08T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 648.9K engagements
"PTRD 41: The Simple Soviet Antitank Rifle of WWII http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Soviet Union had originally eschewed the use of large numbers of antitank rifles anticipating that any potential combat use of them would be largely against tanks impervious to AT rifle cartridges. However when German forces came flooding across the border in [----] the Soviet Union found themselves being attacked by quite large numbers of tanks which were in fact vulnerable to an antitank rifle cartridge. Stalin ordered an immediate development and production of such a weapon and the designers"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cUO3Bmt5XTQ) 2018-05-25T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 2.3M engagements
"Russian Type [--] AK: Introducing the Milled Receiver http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Updated to fix errors in nomenclature and production dates. With recognition of the production problems of the original Type [--] AK an alternative was needed. Russian engineer Valeriy Kharkov led a team of engineers who designed a replacement drop-forged and machined receiver for the AK. This new receiver was not a technical challenge for Izhevsk to produce and it added durability and potentially accuracy to the weapon at the cost of an additional pound (half kilo) of weight and more manufacturing"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dL-1dauhH6M) 2018-07-08T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 417K engagements
"Wartime Changes: The Bren MkI Modified and Bren MkII http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The British lost some 90% of their stock of Bren light machine guns in the disastrous Dunkirk evacuation and in the following months rushed to rearm. Part of this program was a two-tiered simplification of the Bren design. First was a MkI Modified Bren (which was not marked any differently than the original MkI) and this was followed by a MkII design. These patterns simplified many of"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQNvKq5iUjg) 2021-03-03T12:17Z 3.2M followers, 334.4K engagements
"Sheet Metal and Wood: The Polish Sudayev PPS 43/52 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Poland was one of the states which manufactured the Soviet PPS-43 submachine gun under license but they decided to make a change to is in [----]. Where the original PPS-43 used a top-folding metal stock the Poles decided to instead add a fixed wooden buttstock. This made the gun substantially more comfortable to shoot and also less compact to transport. Was the tradeoff worthwhile Let's see how it shoots. Thanks to Marstar for letting me"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e-CmEbAeXt8) 2018-02-17T13:19Z 3.2M followers, 429.7K engagements
"Polytech AKS - The First Wave of Semiauto Chinese AK Rifles http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The first semiauto commercial AK rifles to enter the US were Finnish Valmets. These established a US collector interested but while excellent in quality they did not quite fit the visual pattern of the classic Sino-Soviet military Kalashnikov. The first of those to find its way into the US was the Egyptian Maadi a Russian rifle made under license in Egypt and imported by Steyr."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ePQYkW6_8ds) 2020-10-14T12:13Z 3.2M followers, 233.2K engagements
"HK P11: NATO's Secret Underwater Pistol 0:00 Introduction and History of Underwater Firearms 0:55 Engineering Challenges and Russian Underwater Firearms 2:07 Development Adoption and Global Usage of the H&K P11 3:36 Examination of H&K P11: Fired Barrel Cluster and Firing Mechanics 5:24 Unique Features of the H&K P 11: Silence and Sealed Sabot System 7:45 The Electrical System and Battery Compartment of the HK P [--] 8:42 Web Gear and Standard Load Out for the H&K P11 9:24 The Secrecy Surrounding the H&K P11 10:16 Conclusion and Acknowledgements Developed by Heckler & Kock and adopted by the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eZ_yAn2vQHw) 2023-11-01T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 334.2K engagements
"FG-42: Perhaps the Most Impressive WW2 Shoulder Rifle https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The first production version of the FG42 used a fantastically complex milled receiver and a distinctive sharply swept-back pistol grip. A contract to make [----] of them was awarded to Krieghoff in late spring of [----] but by the fall its replacement was already well into development. The milled receiver used a lot of high-nickel steel which was becoming"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=f01N2QuXFHA) 2023-03-08T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"British EM-2: The Best Cold War Battle Rifle that Never Was Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in this video don't miss the ARES companion blog post: http://armamentresearch.com/british-janson-e-m-2-automatic-rifle The EM-2 was the rifle that the British pushed for NATO trials in [----]. It was a rifle well ahead of its time in several areas - as a select-fire bullpup rifle it was intended to"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fcYj2SpUHvE) 2017-07-12T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Romanian ZB-30 LMG: Improving the Already-Excellent ZB-26 https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Brno's ZB-26 was one of the best light machine guns of the 1920s and it was widely adopted by countries that did not have domestic arms design and production capacity (and it would eventually become the British Bren gun as well). It was designed for the 8mm Mauser cartridge and had a simple fixed gas system that ran very well - until countries"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fjjFCoiQWoM) 2023-08-30T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 170.4K engagements
"Who is Colt A History of the Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company Today we will take a look at the history of the Colt company from Sam Colt's first efforts in Paterson (and before) to the West Hartford remnants that survive today. If you enjoy this type of history please let me know in the comments http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com colt samuel colt sam colt col colt hartford paterson patersen revolver patent manufacturing company history corporate colt defense zilkha colt industries colt manufacturing patent firearms"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fk_TxE1d9HY) 2017-02-23T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 476K engagements
"Colt's Unicorn MG: The CMG-3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons In the mid/late 1960s Colt was manufacturing AR-15 rifles and wanted to supply light machine guns to go with them - so they developed the CMG-2 ("Colt's Machine Gun"). The CMG-2 competed against the Stoner [--] in trials for the Navy SEALs (among others) and narrowly lost out. It was a very well designed and thought-out weapon but not *quite* as good as the Stoner. A few years later in the early/mid 70s Colt brought the design back in response to a request for a belt-fed 7.62mm machine gun for special operations units."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g3aayF-S2ps) 2015-09-21T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Rhodesian FAL - with Larry Vickers http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The iconic weapon of the Rhodesian Bush War is the FN-FAL painted in a distinctive "baby poop" yellow and green pattern. Because Rhodesia was under international embargo its options for obtaining weapons were limited. Some domestic production was undertaken but one large source was neighboring South Africa. Both South African production FALs and also Belgian-made South African contract FALs were provided. This rifle is one of the latter with the South African crest and proof marks defaced for some theoretical"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i7sQL9Rx4io) 2018-07-01T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 839K engagements
"Light Fifty: the Barrett M82A1 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The story of the development of the Barrett M82 .50 BMG semiauto rifle is really a neat story - much more interesting than most people probably expect and reminiscent of many firearms development stories of the 1800s. Ronnie Barrett was working as a photographer in the late 70s and became interested (perhaps obsessed) with the idea of a semiauto .50 caliber rifle after a photo session with a Vietnam War jungle patrol boat (which was armed with a pair of M2 .50 caliber machine guns). At the time the only civilian options"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iEDFn3UtVIc) 2016-08-10T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements
"A Modern Integrally Suppressed Pistol for Everyone: The SilencerCo Maxim [--] Check out Headstamp Publishing's extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten SilencerCo announced the Maxim-9 pistol in late [----]. Having gone through some huge growth of the past few years the company wanted to expand its capabilities and thought that the time was right for a modern integrally suppressed pistol. It was a unique new design of modern semiautomatic pistol build from the ground up to be integrally suppressed. The action is a proprietary delayed blowback system"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=j47UzC7qQ3M) 2025-08-20T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 235.2K engagements
"G24(t): Germanys Take on the Czechoslovakian vz24 When Germany took over Czechoslovakia one of the things they did was buy out a controlling interest in what became known as Waffenwerke Brunn. Headquartered in Prague the company had two factories; one in Brno (Czechia) and one in Bystrica (Slovakia). The Bystrica factory was already making vz24 Mauser rifles and under new German control they made a few slight adaptations to create the G24(t). These basically involved adding German sling fittings as other vz24 elements like the full-length upper handguard and straight bolt handle remained."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jS_7lxKzdaU) 2024-11-25T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 106.9K engagements
"The American FAL: Harrington & Richardson T48 (w/ Larry Vickers) http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Today I am joined by Larry Vickers to take a look at his original H&R T48 FAL. The Harrington & Richardson company was awarded a contract to produce a pre-production series of [---] of these rifles in the mid 1950s when the United States was conduction trials to choose a new combat rifle. The Belgian-designed FAL (built by H&R with technical assistance from Canada who was the first to formally adopt the FAL) was designated the Rifle T48. By this time it's only competition was the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ja_9VIyjnYI) 2018-09-24T11:42Z 3.2M followers, 392.8K engagements
"Samuel Pauly Invents the Cartridge in [----] Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Samuel Johannes Pauli was born outside Bern Switzerland in [----] and became an engineer of wide interests. Among them were bridge design passenger-carrying balloons (he would work seriously on a 15-20 passenger balloon service between London and Paris later in life) and firearms. Only a few years after Forsyths invention of fulminate priming Pauly would become the first to use it in a fully self-contained cartridge. He patented this invention in Paris in [----] having moved there in [----] in"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lHuNo2XU57g) 2019-05-04T07:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"How Does it Work: Blowback Action http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com How Does it Work: Blowback Action The simplest for of firearms action is blowback also called simple blowback. It is basically just an application of Newton's 3rd Law; that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As the bullet moves forward down the barrel the slide or bolt of the gun moves backwards. The two move with the same energy meaning that the light and very fast bullet is balanced out by the heavy and slow bolt or slide. history"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lXVPUxqbgII) 2019-01-10T11:41Z 3.2M followers, 314.9K engagements
"Why Are Short Barreled Rifles Actually Regulated in the US https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The simple truth is that short rifles and short shotguns were never a problem and continue to not be a problem today. The [----] National Firearms Act originally wanted to restrict handgun ownership and the clauses relating to SBRs and SBSs were simply to close the loophole of a person cutting down a rifle or shotgun to get around a handgun"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lsE0naVApPU) 2023-01-15T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements
"Modernizing the G3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Of all the classic 7.62mm battle rifles of the Cold War only the G3 remains in modern military service updated to serve alongside the more recent 5.56mm rifles (no the M14 DMR rifles don't count). Why the G3 and how Today we will take a look at a clone of a Norwegian AG3F2 and a sort-of clone of a Swedish AK4D with its Spuhr stock and handguard. history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly g3 hk91"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lvx2RFkst4U) 2021-02-02T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"The Army's Labor Union: Winchester 94s for the Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumbermen http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we have a rifle from a really neat forgotten corner of American military history. During World War One the Pacific Northwest was the source of prime lumber in particular Sitka Spruce that was ideal for aircraft production. The US military wanted that spruce for its own aircraft and there was also massive demand form France and the UK for their"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mjmfLICIYlk) 2021-08-30T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 258.7K engagements
"The Official American Boy Scout Rifle: Remington 4-S #forgottenweapons #boyscouts #scouting #rollingblock #rifle #history #Remington history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=n7eLHW6ne98) 2025-08-15T09:59Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"AK4: Sweden's Beefed-Up Take on the G3 Order your copy of Small Arms of the Cold War: Battle Rifles of NATO today: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/cold-war-battle Or if you are in Europe please order through our European site: https://www.headstampbook.com/cold-war-battle When Sweden decided to replace its bolt action Mausers and Ljungman semiautomatic in the 1960s it had four main choices to pick from. One was the domestic GRAM-63 a modernized version of the Ljungman the FAL and the G3. They ended up choosing the G3 but not without a number of changes. Mechanically the Swedes insisted on"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=n8C5CzYQgqQ) 2025-05-19T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 376.2K engagements
"Bommarito: Americas First Toggle-Locked Battle Rifle Check out Headstamp Publishing's extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten Designed by Giuseppe Bommarito this was one of the many independent rifle designs submitted to the US War Department in the 1910s hoping for military adoption. It is a short recoil operated toggle-locked system chambered for .30-06 and using detachable 20-round magazines. It was tested (without much success) at Springfield and remained in development until [----]. See a more complete article including original disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nuXpxa-dv8c) 2025-10-01T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 178.1K engagements
"ArcFlash Labs' GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle #forgottenweapons #arcflash #anvil #gr1 #gaussrifle #coilgun #railgun history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oY0sdzuIm-M) 2024-10-29T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 69.5K engagements
"Winchester Lever Action Development: [----] Henry The Henry Repeating Rifle was a truly revolutionary development in firearms technology. It was not the first repeating rifle but it was the best of a emerging class of new arms reliable in function and very fast to shoot (much faster than the contemporary Spencers). The Henry used a simple toggle lock locking system with a single throw of its lever performing all the elements necessary to reload and recock the action. The Henry's quick action was coupled with a 15-round magazine more than double what the Spencer offered. It fired the .44 Henry"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ofGnRSE7lpI) 2017-06-05T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 720.6K engagements
"Goryunov SG43: Russia Replaces the Maxim https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly russia goryunov sg43 ww2 maxim degtyarev ds39 history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly russia goryunov sg43 ww2 maxim degtyarev ds39"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ontwdOSiaCY) 2022-06-20T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 322.3K engagements
"Spoils of War: French Occupation-Production Mauser K98k svwMB #forgottenweapons #svw #k98k #mauser #france #french #occupation #ww2 #wwii #rifle history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pdw5I6dztpE) 2024-11-11T12:59Z 3.2M followers, 30.8K engagements
"The Real T26 "Tanker" M1 Garand The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=r74GTo43ItM) 2026-01-05T12:19Z 3.2M followers, 192.3K engagements
"Steyr Hahn Variants The Steyr-Hahn is one of the less glamorized pistols used in WWI despite being made in quite large numbers (250000-313000 depending on who you read). The gun is an interesting mix of features including bits from the Roth-Steyr M1907 and the early Colt/Browning 1900/1902/1903 pistols. The gun was the standard pistol for the Austro-Hungarian Empire (albeit supplemented with M1907s M1898 Rast-Gassers and more) during the Great War. It was also purchased in quantity by Romania Chile and Bavaria. We will look at a couple of these variants today and also an example of the guns"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rE54WtVrJ9A) 2016-06-02T14:09Z 3.2M followers, 183.4K engagements
"The Bosnian Full-Auto SKS with AK Mags During the Balkan Wars a great many oddball guns were built and used. One of them was a Bosnian conversion of the Yugoslav M59/66 SKS to have a select-fire trigger and to use modified detachable AK magazines. These are extremely rare today as only a few of them (probably a dozen at most) came into the US with the bulk of Yugoslav SKS imports. The ones that did arrive came with regular trigger assemblies and regular 10-round fixed magazines (and are not legally considered machine guns by ATF). Today we will take a look at two examples and go over the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rU9vl7pZeWA) 2024-03-06T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 276.8K engagements
"Leningrad's Emergency-Production PPS-42 at the Range https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Yesterday we looked at the history of the PPS-42 and how it was developed into the much more common PPS-43. Today we are taking it out to the range - the only time one of these very scarce gun has been filmed in recent history. history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=reUASo1KnTA) 2022-11-12T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 261.9K engagements
"Colt Monitor: The First Official FBI Fighting Rifle #forgottenweapons #colt #bar #monitor #fbi #rifle #history history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=recO94D2ZMA) 2025-08-21T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"The M1 Garand's Mysterious 7th Round Stoppage http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The M1 Garand ran great in testing but as soon as Springfield began to crank out production-line guns a mysterious problem appeared. If the top round in the clip was on the right-hand side the 7th round in the clip would often run askew and malfunction. Where did this very odd problem come from and why the connection to how the clip was loaded In a classic example of "guns are hard" going"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=s5V_qIZEOUg) 2021-06-10T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 872.9K engagements
"What Are All These 9mm Cartridges And Why http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Limitations of this video 01:22 - 9mm Luger 05:22 - 9mm Largo 07:01 - 9mm Browning Long 10:11 - .380 Auto/9x17mm 12:08 - 9mm Mauser Export 13:38 - 9mm Steyr 15:50 - 9x18mm Ultra/Police 18:08 - 9x18mm Makarov Why do we have so many different 9mm cartridges and what are they all Why are 9mm Steyr and 9mm Largo virtually identical and yet different while 9x18 Ultra and"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=szCW_52zPIk) 2021-12-07T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Evolution of the Military Mauser HSc Pistol http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Mauser had been at the forefront of military self-loading pistol design with its C96 pistol but by the 1930s it had lost major market share to Sauer and Walther in police and commercial guns. The Mauser 1910/1914/1934 line of compact pistols was getting a bit old and the Sauer 38H and Walther PP/PPK were very popular. Mauser want to produce a new offering and they tasked a very young (25 at"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tVtkeYwN6L0) 2020-02-03T11:48Z 3.2M followers, 342.5K engagements
"Fox .32: Police Prototype of CZ's First Pistol Alois Tomika best know for the Little Tom pistol was one of the original founders of the South Bohemia Armory which became CZ of Strakonice. The first pistol produced by the company was his "Fox" design a .25 ACP pocket gun. As originally designed it used a folding trigger without a trigger guard and had a unique sheet metal frame. The frame was made from a single piece of steel bend in a U-shape completely wrapping around the otherwise traditional style of slide. This allowed the pistol to be made without the difficult machining process of"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u4YURbqwrvg) 2025-07-18T12:16Z 3.2M followers, 115.7K engagements
"Semiauto SAR-80 "Sterling Assault Rifle" at the Range The SAR-80 was a design by Frank Waters at Sterling in the UK but was not actually put into production by Sterling. Instead it was licensed to Chartered Industries of Singapore in [----] who eventually made about [-----] of them for Singapore Slovenia Thailand Papua New Guinea and the Central African Republic. This is a thoroughly simplified and stripped-down version of the AR-180 with no frills at all. A small batch of SAR-80 kits came into the US a number of years ago but not much actually happened with them. Today however TTE Precision"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uhw6sVnxqB0) 2025-11-29T13:02Z 3.2M followers, 125.4K engagements
"What's Wrong with Private Jackson's Sniper Rifle (Saving Private Ryan) https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we are going to take a look at how Private Jackson's sniper rifle is portrayed in Saving Private Ryan. It's a great movie and I enjoyed it a lot - but this sniper rifle is incorrect in every scene. At the beginning of the film the rifle is shown as an M1903A4 (which is appropriate) but with a Lyman Alaskan scope (which is"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v2Eagq3fI0E) 2023-06-30T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Czech CZ-52 Pistol The CZ-52 really isn't a forgotten weapons yet but it is a pretty interesting gun mechanically and well worth taking a look at. About [------] of them were made in Czechoslovakia from [----] to [----] and they served as that country's standard military sidearm for several decades (which the rest of the Warsaw Pact bloc used the TT33 Tokarev pistol). Czechoslovakia has a long and outstanding tradition of arms design and manufacture and they kept it going through the Cold War developing and issuing the vz52 and vz58 rifles and the vz59 light machine gun as well as the [--] pistol."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vEEasYDZKEE) 2013-04-29T00:00Z 3.2M followers, 144.4K engagements
"CETME Modelo A: First Step Towards the G3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Modelo A was the first series production version of the CETME rifle following a series of successful trials in Spain. It was developed by a team of ex-Mauser engineers led by Ludwig Vorgrimmler and is part of the link between the late-WW2 StG45(M) and the H&K G3 rifles. The CETME A was chambered for the reduced-power 7.62mm CETME cartridge and had a fire control system which fired from an open bolt in full auto and a closed bolt in semiautomatic."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vP4KZdLCl9g) 2019-02-08T11:12Z 3.2M followers, 216.3K engagements
"Peak American: the Winchester [----] Trench Gun in WW1 The United States was the only country to use shotguns in World War One in a substantial way. It was not the first time the US had used such guns either; shotguns were used in the Philippines against the Moros and on the Mexican Punitive Expedition. For use in the Great War however it was deemed necessary to fit bayonets to them. At the request of the War Department the Winchester company designed a bayonet mounting adapter for their Model [----] pump-action shotgun to use the M1917 bayonet that Winchester was also making at the time for the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=viWAUjkz9UY) 2023-09-13T12:53Z 3.2M followers, 699.7K engagements
"SIG [---] / Stgw 90: The Swiss Kalashnikov Make sure to check out the new video on [--] Hole Reviews with the SIG [---] on their 500yd course of fire plus discussion with a Swiss infantry officer: https://youtu.be/FL_zcqOFrbI https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vz8YiMPZSZA) 2022-07-04T13:08Z 3.2M followers, 559K engagements
"Algimech AGM-1: A Short-Lived Italian 9mm Bullpup http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In the mid 1980s an Italian designer named Alphonso Giambelli developed a bullpup pistol-caliber carbine with hopes of selling it to Italian law enforcement. That never happened but the gun was offered on the commercial civil market as the semiauto AGM-1 by a company named Algimech (after ALphonso GIambelli). At least a handful of these carbines came into the US before the [----] assault"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wATHifh_4j4) 2021-09-29T12:06Z 3.2M followers, 192.8K engagements
"H&K G41: The HK33 Meets the M16 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The H&K G41 was developed for the NATO trials of the early 1980s which were set up to look at both rifles and cartridges for NATO standardization (although they did not end up choosing a rifle). The gun is a basically an HK33 roller-delayed system set up to use standard M16 magazines and with a selection of other M16 features like a dust cover forward assist carry handle and bolt holdopen/release. Two versions were made a standard length rifle and a shorter"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wnuwN5mlXfM) 2019-01-25T13:33Z 3.2M followers, 487.4K engagements
"M1 Enforcer Carbine Pistols There are rarely any truly original ideas in the gun world and today's "pistol" ARs and AKs are not among them. Back in the 60s and 70s companies were marketing the "Enforcer" M1 a pistol version of the WWII M1 Carbine. Of these two one is made of military surplus parts by Iver Johnson and one made of new-production commercial parts by Universal. Carbine Pistol (Product Category) M1 Williams Iver Johnson Universal Enforcer M1 Carbine Carbine Pistol (Product Category) M1 Williams Iver Johnson Universal Enforcer M1 Carbine"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-3ZmbI-F9us) 2015-06-04T15:30Z 3.2M followers, 957.4K engagements
"The CIA's New Liberator: the 9mm Deer Gun http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Deer Gun is a covert CIA pistol inspired by the Liberator. In fact the initial desire was to pull Liberators out of storage to use in the 1950s but out was found that they had all been scrapped in 1947/8. So instead a new gun was designed with the same criteria of simplicity and low cost. Instead of being stamped like the Liberator this would be made primarily form a single aluminum casting and chambered for 9x19mm. It was loaded by unscrewing the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-89falWO-NU) 2019-10-06T12:22Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements
"America's First Assault Rifle: Burton [----] LMR http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://centerofthewest.org/explore/firearms/ America's first assault rifle Well it does meet all the requirements - select-fire intermediate cartridge and shoulder-fired. It was never actually fielded though. The Burton Light Machine Rifle was developed during World War One with the firing model completed in [----]. It was intended as an aircraft observer's weapon for attacking balloons - a role which required incendiary ammunition.With this in mind Winchester's Frank Burton adapted the .351 WSL cartridge"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-OGyJPFzNfU) 2016-07-04T10:17Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements
"America's Forgotten SMG: The Hyde/Marlin M2 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The United States went into World War Two with the Thompsons submachine gun - a weapon far too heavy and too expensive for its role. The British went to the other extreme with the Sten and while the US did not want a gun quite that crude the Sten did spur a desire for something cheaper than the Thompson. George Hyde (the working for the Inland Division of GM) had worked on submachine gun designs in the 1930s and he put together a weapon that would"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=08_mAlLrbTI) 2019-10-04T11:47Z 3.2M followers, 656.4K engagements
"Improvised & Craft-Built Firearms w/ Jonathan Ferguson & Nic Jenzen-Jones http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Today I am joined for a round table discussion (well octagon table technically) by Jonathan Ferguson (Curator of the National Firearms Centre collection at the Royal Armouries) and Nic Jenzen-Jones (Director of Armament Research Services) to discuss a variety of improvised and craft-produced firearms. All three of us are contributors to a research paper being published by the Small Arms Survey on this subject and we thought we would take a few minutes to discuss it on video. Cool"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0TMrunbZLJw) 2017-12-27T13:49Z 3.2M followers, 2M engagements
"German Sten Copy: MP [----] aka Gert Neumnster The MP [----] aka Gert Neumnster was one of two German efforts to copy the British Sten gun. The first was the Gert Potsdam ("gert" meaning device or project; basically project code name) which was a direct copy of the Sten distinguishable only by a marking details and a few differences in manufacturing processes. While [-----] of those were being manufactured by Mauser R&D engineer Ludwig Vorgrimmler was simplifying the Sten design even farther resulting in the MP-3008. This simplified design did away with the Sten's barrel shroud and used a vertical"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0eDkGAAPA2E) 2016-02-04T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 506K engagements
"Welrod .32 at the Range: British SOE's Silent Assassin's Pistol #forgottenweapons #welrod #oss #soe #assassin #pistol #silencer #silenced #suppressoir #ww2 #worldwar2"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0j6L_R-K-ZM) 2024-10-24T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 3.1M engagements
"Costa Rican Breda PG: The First Burst-Fire Rifle The Breda PG ("Presa Gas" - Gas Operated) was developed by Sestilio Fiorini in [----] and put into production at Breda's factory in Rome. It was offered as a weapon for commercial sale and export as well as being one of the several entrants in Italy's semiautomatic rifle trials in the late 1930s. Unlike most of the other competitors in that trial the Breda PG did actually find a commercial buyer (albeit a small one). The government of Costa Rica purchased [---] PG rifles. These were designated Moschetto Automatico as they were equipped with a"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0utf9Wu--W8) 2017-08-11T11:27Z 3.2M followers, 433.8K engagements
"Combloc SAW: Chinese RPD at the Range http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com I am excited to take an RPD out to the range today - I've wanted to try one for quite a while. The RPD is a very light and compact weapon for a squad automatic and I'm curious how it will actually handle. This particular example is a Chinese Type [--] with many of the improvements that were made over the course of Soviet adoption and field use of the gun. history development mccollum forgotten weapons"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0x6ntFONOXQ) 2021-07-31T10:00Z 3.2M followers, 380.4K engagements
"FP-45 Liberator Pistol http://www.Patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Liberator is one of those interesting artifacts of WWII; an extremely simple single-shot .45 caliber pistol made by the boxcar-load (a million specifically) with the intention of being dropped en masse across Europe to promote civilian sabotage against German occupation forces. They were manufactured by the Guide Lamp division of GM in record time - just 10-11 weeks for a literal million-gun production run. However as they were being manufactured shipped and put into storage the motivation behind the project largely"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1CjndIiZyJo) 2015-11-10T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Enjoying Black Powder Episode 12: The Model [----] Remington-Lee Full video with reloading segment available here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-12-rem-lee-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced and they are actually pretty easy to reload for. The unavailability of factory ammunition (for most although not so much for the Trapdoor) makes them seem like a daunting prospect but for a pretty simple investment in tools and time one can make up ammunition and have a lot of fun with rifles"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1JVAUlLIFFo) 2025-06-28T12:44Z 3.2M followers, 92.7K engagements
"Ask Ian: "Last Ditch" Rifles for World War III http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com From Thunderchild on Patreon: "How would you see a modern major nation (US USSR/Russia China etc) simplify their small arms in a large scale war WW3 or Cold War gone hot You've mentioned in the past how most nations end up having to simplify to meet demands so why not start simplified" The reason for simplified small arms is to increase production speed. During peacetime deployment of new arms it"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1SDL4n8yUe8) 2023-02-08T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 934K engagements
"PSA "Spiker": A Clone of the Chinese Type [--] AK Palmetto State Armory (PSA) makes a really wide variety of different guns but one that they came out with a little while back that appealed to me in particular is their "Spiker". This is a reproduction of the Chinese Type [--] stamped AK with a permanently attached underfolding bayonet. These rifles were available as semiautos directly form China until the late 1980s when import laws (and Presidential Executive Orders) changed to prohibit their importation. The prices on those original has risen dramatically since and there has not been any"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1U4X3dxif38) 2024-02-18T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 199.8K engagements
"Reunited after decades: veteran proves the engraved rifle is his Full video: https://youtu.be/tCSzq52ekLE The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2HpX6yT6WN8) 2026-02-08T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"From Bespoke Showpieces to Surplus Collecting The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2VrFV-AYCbY) 2026-02-11T12:59Z 3.2M followers, 39.6K engagements
"Yugoslav M72: The Early Balkan RPK https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com When the Yugoslav Peoples' Army began AK development they produced the M64 infantry rifle and the M65 support weapon. The M65 had a longer and heavier profile barrel and a bipod - and in its very early experimental iterations a quick-change barrel mechanism and a folding carry handle. By the time it entered regular service it was the M72 the carry handle was gone and"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2qg3F7lKXSw) 2023-02-03T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 210.4K engagements
"Steyr ACR: A Polymer Flechette-Firing Bullpup From the 90s #forgottenweapons #acr #bullpup #caseless #steyr #prototype #g11 #rifle #history history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2w7NTaeg7Aw) 2025-08-07T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Big Iron: Development of the Colt [----] Dragoon Revolver Sam Colts first foray into firearms manufacturing did not end well - after [--] years he went broke and shut down production of Paterson revolvers and revolving long guns. His guns were too expensive too fragile and too underpowered to become a commercial success. They did make an impression on some people however and a few years later Colt would work with Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers to develop a much larger and more robust revolver. The US military purchased [----] of these Model [----] Walker revolvers and this set Colt back on"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=325p_CkUVZQ) 2019-08-23T12:36Z 3.2M followers, 956.3K engagements
"Rifles of Simo Hyh: The World's Greatest Sniper (w/ [--] Hole Reviews) http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Thanks to Henry from [--] Hole Reviews for the guest segment Check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsrKsXEAqCbZyVrCibkgpwQ In light of the approaching Finnish Brutality: The Winter War match I though we could take a look at the two rifles associated with the world's most successful sniper: Simo Hyh. Hyh was born in [----] joined the Civil Guard at the age"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3XzmCQUPyTM) 2021-01-14T10:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"PGM Hecate II: A Battle-Hardened .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Courtesy of PGM Precision USA we have a chance to take a look at a Hecate II sniper rifle today. This rifle's story begins with the Ultima Ratio a classic-based 7.62mm precision rifle designed by Gilles Payen in France circa [----] for the French RAID police unit. The rifle was very well-received and Payen partner with colleagues Alain Gonnet and Franois Morier to form PGM"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3dGCSutRXFM) 2020-05-08T12:11Z 3.2M followers, 747.2K engagements
"A Selection of Chinese Mystery Pistols During the 1920s and 1930s a combination of civil wars and international arms embargoes led to a lot of domestic firearms production in China. The size and quality of manufacturing facilities varied widely - everything from massive factories established with European technical assistance to one-man shops only a step or two above being blacksmiths. The weapons produced varied in quality to match. Among other weapons made during this period were handguns mechanically based on several European designs (the Browning [----] Mauser C96 and Mauser 1910/14"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4HNaB7l2GQk) 2015-04-11T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Astra 600/43: A Straight Blowback 9mm for the Wehrmacht http://www.forgottenweapons.com/astra-600-43-a-straight-blowback-9mm-for-the-wehrmacht http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com When Germany acquired a land border with Spain after the French capitulation in [----] they took advantage of the opportunity to purchase Spanish firearms and have them delivered across the French border to the town of Hendaye. A German inspection office was set up there for use with both Spanish arms and Unique pistols. The first purchases from Spain"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4N9OZZ510a8) 2018-06-14T13:30Z 3.2M followers, 207.9K engagements
"How Does It Work: Direct Gas Impingement Interested in small arms history Make sure to pre-order a copy of my bookChassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles [----] - 2016: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/chassepot-to-famas-french-military-rifles-1866-201ref=9kqy9c Direct gas impingement is an operating system that has been used only in a few production guns (all of them rifles). It is extremely simple although perhaps not well suited to adjustability. It is also not the operating system of the AR series of rifles - we will cover those in a separate video next month."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4_JbH38dXjg) 2019-05-21T11:55Z 3.2M followers, 134.5K engagements
"The ASP: An Early Subcompact 9mm for Sneaky People http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The ASP was a custom take of the S&W Model [--] autoloading pistol developed by a man named Paris Theodore in the 1970s. Theodore made a wide variety of sneaky James-Bond-like guns for various clients but is best know for the ASP. At the time it was one of the best options for a subcompact pistol in a full-power pistol cartridge (9x19). In addition to cutting down the slide and grip and dehorning the whole gun the sights were replaced with Theodore's proprietary "guttersnipe" sights to provide a very fast"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4trmOFxuJw0) 2015-08-22T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"How Does it Work: Stoner's AR System My first book is available for pre-order; check it out https://www.headstamppublishing.com/french-rifle-book http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Eugene Stoner's AR-10 and AR-15 use an operating mechanism that is often called "gas impingement" but which is actually a cleverly structured gas piston located within the bolt carrier. Gas is tapped form the barrel and moved all the way back to just behind the chamber where it enters the bolt carrier. There the carrier and bolt act as the two parts"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4xlKgkwt6Ro) 2019-06-18T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 174K engagements
"Evolution of the Submachine Gun: Three Distinct Generations http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Followup: Addressing the P90 and MP-7: https://youtu.be/4RulAbiRc_Q Submachine guns have gone through a distinct evolution over the past one hundred years. Today we will look at these changes specifically identifying: - 1st Generation guns from World War One and through the 1930s - 2nd Generation guns of World War Two - 2nd Generation guns after World War Two - 2nd Generation"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Hrfxu_K9HY) 2020-10-20T11:49Z 3.2M followers, 937.8K engagements
"A Tour of PGM Precision http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today I have the opportunity to take a look inside PGM Precision in Annecy France. Ever been curious about where the Ultima Ratio and Hecate II come from Let's have a look history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5s93GLtM8B8) 2021-10-12T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 147K engagements
"Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol #forgottenweapons #beltbuckle #pistol #ww2 #germany #22 #rimfire #gun history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5uixORDaAVE) 2025-07-31T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 8.8M engagements
"Disassembling the Bizarre Terni Model [----] The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=65zHTkUVx9Y) 2026-02-16T12:42Z 3.2M followers, 21.8K engagements
"FK Brno 7.5mm at the BackUp Gun Match The FK Brno is a take on the classic CZ75 pistol made in the Czech Republic. It was originally released as a boutique steel-framed gun and then later as a much more affordable polymer-framed model. I have one of those polymer framed ones with barrels for both 10mm Auto and the unique 7.5mm FK cartridge designed for this pistol. I decided to use the 7.5mm barrel for the BUG Match today which is a 95gr bullet moving at [----] fps. It should definitely knock down steel.if it can run long enough to get there. Note that I am in "Big 5" division for pistols too"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6OoacuIVEbI) 2025-07-05T12:37Z 3.2M followers, 89.8K engagements
"PSS: Russia's Silent Captive-Piston Handgun The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com The PSS is a semiautomatic pistol using captive piston ammunition to achieve a comparable level of sound suppression to a .22 pistol with a good normal suppressor. It was developed to replace a couple multi-barrel derringer style captive piston pistols in Soviet use with the semiautomatic action and (6-round) detachable magazines making it suitable for a wider variety of missions than the previous guns. It was given the GRU catalog designation 6P28 and entered service in [----]. It"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6RDS92zBv6k) 2025-12-13T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 221.7K engagements
"Weapons as Political Protest: P.A. Luty's Submachine Gun #forgottenweapons #homemade #uk #luty #royalarmouries #smg #civildisobedience history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6avSq0rPbvQ) 2025-06-08T12:50Z 3.2M followers, 3.5M engagements
"M3 and M3A1 Grease Gun SMGs The US began looking for a cost-effective replacement for the Thompson submachine gun in [----] and the Grease Gun was the result. Designed by George Hyde (a noted firearms designer at the time) and Frederick Sampson (GM/Inland chief engineer) it was a very simple and almost entirely stamped firearm. Chambered for the .45ACP cartridge it is notable for its very low rate of fire - 350-400 rpm which made it quite controllable and easy to shoot for relatively inexperienced troops. The M3 was a quite reliable gun (and what problems it did have were mostly due to its"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ivr4QdhVtU) 2017-04-14T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.4M engagements
"Hi-Point YC-9 Yeet Cannon at the BUG Match Hi-Point finally released their double-stack YC-9 Yeet Cannon a few months ago and they sent me one to try out so I figured I'd take it to the monthly BackUp Gun Match. The new YC-9 is exactly what you would expect from Hi-Point because they really only make one basic gun. It's a simple blowback 9mm with a massive slide. It's kinda clunky and awkward and the magazine release is large enough to occasionally be hit accidentally if you are left handed. The new magazine design holds all of [--] rounds (up from the [--] of the regular single-stack version)."
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7AsVEvjEZ14) 2024-01-13T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 272.6K engagements
"The Fitz Special: Art of the Gunfighter Circa [----] http://www.forgottenweapons.com/the-fitz-special-art-of-the-gunfighter-circa-1926 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons John Henry Fitzgerald was not the first person to cut down a revolver barrel nor the first person to bob the trigger guard or hammer. But he was the person who put all these modifications together as a package and popularized it as a self-defense piece. Fitz was a former NYPD police officer very successful competitive and exhibition shooter and a gunsmith and representative of the Colt company from [----] until [----]. He made"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7M91tTJkyMM) 2018-06-02T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 582.8K engagements
"Colt LE-901 Modular Multi-Caliber AR: A Well-Designed Failure Check out Headstamp Publishing's extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten Best Korea Propaganda short available here: https://varusteleka.com/en-us/products/forgotten-weapons-best-korea-propaganda-t-shirt Colt originally developed the [---] as part of the US Army SCAR program with the intention being to create a 7.62x51mm rifle that could also use unmodified 5.56x45mm upper assemblies. This would allow special operations units to customize a single weapon to a variety of different"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7QnK6FMxdxY) 2025-10-29T12:31Z 3.2M followers, 156.8K engagements
"Enjoying Black Powder Episode 9: [----] Swiss Vetterli For the full episode with the hand loading instructional section click here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-9-swiss-vetterli-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced and they are actually pretty easy to reload for. The unavailability of factory ammunition (for most although not so much for the Trapdoor) makes them seem like a daunting prospect but for a pretty simple investment in tools and time one can make up ammunition and have a"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7WfqFHy98C0) 2025-03-15T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 89K engagements
"Soviet PPD-40: Degtyarev's Submachine Gun Degtyarevs PPD-40 was the first submachine gun adopted in a large scale by the Soviet Union. Its development began in [----] with a locked breech gun modeled after Degtyarevs DP light machine gun but evolved into a much simpler blowback system. It was accepted as the best performing gun of [--] different submissions in Soviet trials of 1931/2 and first entered production in [----]. In this form it used a [--] round curved stick magazine and was chambered for the 7.62x25mm cartridge. In [----] Degtyarev made a number of changes most importantly developing a drum"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8A6bYa3HgCs) 2017-08-28T11:56Z 3.2M followers, 574.7K engagements
"Makarov PB: Silenced KGB "Wet Work" Pistol In [----] the Tula arsenal introduced a specialized silenced version of the Makarov for covert use. This was a very effective pistol and its design was also very heavily changed from that of the regular pistol. With a two-part silencer surrounding the barrel the recoil spring had to be moved to a location inside the grip panels. It was still chambered for 9x18mm Makarov though and used standard Makarov magazines. Not much official information has been published on the PB - it may actually still be in production today - and so I don't have any good"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8J8rUpR0oXY) 2024-06-19T12:41Z 3.2M followers, 428.9K engagements
"PMM: Russia's Modernized Makarov (Now With 50% More Mag Capacity) EDIT TO ADD: I didn't realize the heavy-slide model was actually put into production - my mistake I will film one of those when I am able to find one - until then the civilian model in this video does correctly show the changes to the frame and magazine of the PMM. --------- Having served as the standard Soviet military sidearm for several decades the PM Makarov was getting a bit obsolescent by the late 1980s. More of the world was using locked breech 9x19mm service pistols but the Soviet Union still had essentially a domestic"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8a8fKH3rQdY) 2023-12-16T12:48Z 3.2M followers, 227.2K engagements
"Dragunov Variations: Military SVD Izhmash Tiger Chinese NDM-86 The SVD Dragunov was the Soviet marksman's rifle that finally replaced the failed attempt to issue the SVT-40 as a precision rifle. It was introduced in [----] after about [--] years of development and its scarcity in the United States has led to the development of a loyal and dedicated group of admirers. This of course has led to much spirited debate about the relative merits of the different variations of the SVD which have been imported into the US. Today we will look at three in detail: a genuine Soviet military-issue SVD a"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8gcE45knbNA) 2017-04-20T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.9M engagements
"Chinese Type [--] AK-47 (Shooting and History) One of the most common types of AK rifle in existence today is the Chinese Type [--] in its several variations although very few of those rifles are in the United States in authentic full-auto form. This particular one was captured by a US soldier in the Vietnam War who brought it back and registered it making it a fully transferrable gun. The Chinese received the technical package for the AK (and also the SKS among other weapons) from the Soviet Union in the 1950s as part of the USSR's policy of providing military and technical aid to other nations"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=A6cqYLdIqmI) 2016-09-23T11:56Z 3.2M followers, 933.8K engagements
"Smith & Wesson 76: American's Vietnam 9mm SMG https://www.forgottenweapons.com/smith-wesson-76-americans-vietnam-9mm-smg/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Early in the Vietnam War the US Navy acquired a quantity of Swedish M/45B submachine guns (Swedish K) for special forces use. By [----] however the Swedish government would no longer authorize sales of arms to the United States because of involvement in the Vietnam War. So instead the US turned to Smith & Wesson to design and produce a copy of the gun. In January of [----] the first prototypes were presented of the S&W Model [--] which"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ABsq8Orsjb0) 2018-10-19T10:19Z 3.2M followers, 615.1K engagements
"Bren MkI: The Best Light Machine Gun of World War Two http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In the years after World War One the British military wanted a new machine gun and they wanted it to replace both the Lewis and the Vickers. Through the 1920s the British would tinker with most of the light machine guns that became available but it was not until the early 1930s that a serious formal trial was conducted. The initial trials found three particularly encouraging guns;"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ArsBC8HWiOs) 2021-02-24T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 2M engagements
"Afghan Traditional Jezail The Jezail is the traditional rifle of the Afghan tribal fighter although it originated in Persia (Iran). Distinctive primarily for its uniquely curved style of buttstock these rifles still maintain a symbolic importance although they are utterly obsolete. Every jezail is a unique handmade weapon but they all share some basic traits. They are typically built around complete lock assemblies from captured guns or bought/traded parts. The barrel is typically quite long and rifled and the caliber is generally .50 to .75 inch. Unlike the domestic American flintlock long"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B-aEWZrTibE) 2017-02-01T13:41Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Soviet SVT-38 Self-Loading Rifle A lot of people think that the US was the only country in World War II to mass-issue a semiautomatic infantry rifle but that isn't true. While the US was the only country to issue *everyone* a semi auto both the Soviet Union and Germany produced large numbers of them. The Soviet rifle in particular was developed over pretty much the same timeline as the M1 Garand and literally millions of them were made and used in the war. Today we are taking a look at the second Soviet self-loader adopted as an infantry standard the SVT-38. The SVT was actually the runner-up"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BGLZ7Mt8kpA) 2016-02-12T11:00Z 3.2M followers, 622.2K engagements
"RSC 1917: France's WW1 Semiauto Rifle http://www.Patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Did you know that the French Army issued more than [-----] semiautomatic rifles during WWI They had been experimenting with a great many semiauto designs before the war and in [----] finalized a design for a rotating bolt long stroke gas piston rifle (with more than few similarities to the M1 Garand actually) which would see field service beginning in [----]. An improved version was put into production in [----] but too late to see any significant combat use. The RSC [----] was not a perfect design but it was good enough and"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BQan6gn37A4) 2015-11-17T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Schmeisser's MP-18I - The First True Submachine Gun #forgottenweapons #submachinegun #mp18 #ww1 #wwi #germany #smg history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BwEFm11O4wg) 2025-08-14T12:45Z 3.2M followers, 548.7K engagements
"Calico Light Weapons System: Roller Delay and Helical Drums http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Calico family of firearms was developed in the late 1980s and put on the market just in time to be squashed by the [----] Omnibus Crime Act. The heart of the Calico system was a design for a double-stack helical magazine which was made in 50- and 100-round versions in both [--] rimfire and 9mm Parabellum. Both pistols and rifles were made in both calibers and I am looking at"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CbKj2t7MnBg) 2020-07-10T12:07Z 3.2M followers, 918.8K engagements
"The Blanchard lathe and the secret behind massproducing millions of identical wooden gun stocks The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CdWZC9ehSSo) 2026-01-31T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 242.3K engagements
"SVT-40: The Soviet Standard Semiauto from WW2 The Red Army was interested in developing a semiautomatic rifle clear back to the mid 1920s and they spent about [--] years running trials and development programs to find one. First in [----] a Degtyarev design was adopted followed by the Simonov AVS-36 and then Tokarev won out in [----] with the SVT-38. Combat experience in the Winter War led to an upgrade program to reduce the weight of the rifle and that created the SVT-40. Between April [----] and mid [----] about [---] million SVT-40s were produced in three different factories. They were supposed to be"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D5gXify4scA) 2024-01-10T12:46Z 3.2M followers, 335.4K engagements
"Rogers & Spencer .44 Army: Possibly the Best Civil War Revolver https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Amos Rogers and Julius Spencer ran a company making mostly farm equipment in the 1840s and 1850s. In [----] they took on a firearms manufacturing contract (as mechanical fabrication companies often do) to make Pettengill revolvers. The Pettengill was not a fantastic design but it was good enough that after the Civil War broke out the Union"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DgyTK3rXX1g) 2022-10-26T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 315.2K engagements
"MG-34: The Universal Machine Gun Concept The MG34 was the first German implementation of the universal machine gun concept - and really the first such fielded by any army. The idea was to have a single weapon which could be used as a light machine gun heavy machine gun vehicle gun fortification gun and antiaircraft gun. The MG34 was designed to be light enough for use as an LMG to have a high enough rate of fire to serve as an antiaircraft gun to be compact and flexible enough for use in vehicles and fortifications and to be mounted on a complex and advanced tripod for use as a heavy machine"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E-KgQ-OZJZ8) 2017-10-07T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Mateba MTR-8 #forgottenweapons #revolver #automaticrevolver #mateba #mtr8 history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eos17VerxPA) 2025-08-10T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 325.8K engagements
"ArcFlash Labs EMG-02 CoilGun: Making SciFi Weapons Into Reality https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com ArcFlash Labs has come out with a new coil gun design that takes the best elements of their underpowered EMG-01 and their overly bulky GR-1 Anvil and melded them into a much handier EMG-02. This new design maintains the same muzzle velocity as the Anvil (200-250 fps / 60-75 m/s) but uses smaller projectiles (5/16" armatures). It is far"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EwHRjgVWFno) 2022-08-06T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 5.1M engagements
"Ken Hackathorn on the M1 Carbine: Reputation vs Reality http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The M1 Carbine has long been a bit of an enigma to me because I have never had really good luck with the design and yet they were extremely popular with American soldiers German soldiers Korean soldiers Vietnamese soldiers and a great many other countries. So what's the deal Is it as simple as just that the Carbine was light and thus popular mostly with people who never had to actually fire them Or is there something more going on Today we are speaking to Ken Hackathorn about this question. He has"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FF0qH_zvfdU) 2018-05-15T10:09Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Rideout Arsenal Dragon: A New Low-Bore-Axis Lever-Delayed Pistol Wauser t-shirt available from Varusteleka: https://varusteleka.com/en/products/forgotten-weapons-wauser-cotton-t-shirt The Rideout Arsenal Dragon is a very interesting new pistol from an independent entrepreneurial designer Travis Rideout. It is a lever-delayed action with a very low bore axis and a stationary optic when firing. It has a completely tool-less disassembly and a lot of clever design elements. This example is a pre-production prototype with production currently beginning on the first batch of [---] initial pistols. I"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FQ7RdSgGeMA) 2025-11-12T12:23Z 3.2M followers, 549K engagements
"Pick One: G1 (FAL) vs G3 (H&K) w/ John Keene If you had to pick one would you take a G1 (FAL) or a G3 (H&K) Both are 7.62mm NATO rifles adopted by Germany. The G1 has more features and capabilities like the carry handle bipod multiple muzzle devices and adjustable gas system. The G3 on the other hand is simpler without things to change for better or worse. So which would you take The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FTXCwYjhlW8) 2025-08-02T12:55Z 3.2M followers, 110K engagements
"History of the PK PKM and Pecheneg w/ Max Popenker My first book is available for pre-order; check it out https://www.headstamppublishing.com/french-rifle-book http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com I'm happy to be joined once again by Russian small arms historian Max Popenker for a discussion of the development of the Kalashnikov PK machine gun. This is universally regarded as one of the best general-purpose machine guns ever designed. We will look at the Soviet machine gun systems at the end of World War Two the development of"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FT_NrljbCt8) 2019-07-09T12:42Z 3.2M followers, 207.8K engagements
"HK51: The SAS' Full Auto Flashbang Dispenser http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The HK51 is not a gun that was ever actually produced by Heckler & Koch. It is instead a variation on the G3/HK91 originally developed by American H&K specialist Bill Fleming. He was contracted by a UK-based company called FR Ordnance to produce a submachine gun sized version of the G3 for British SAS and SBS use. Both agencies did actually buy a few examples and used them a few times"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FTi_KvzNEPs) 2021-10-22T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 653.6K engagements
"Rare & Unique Sightings From [---] French FR-F2 Sniper Rifles The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com Today I had a chance to dig through no less than one hundred FR-F2 snipers brought in by Navy Arms. I found a number of interesting and unusual things in the process including a number of three-digit serial numbered very early production examples and some renumbered guns. We'll also be looking at the Scrome J8 the modern picatinny scope mounts for the FR-F2 and things like depot refurbishment markings. http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GEOR7hclVFE) 2026-01-12T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 85.6K engagements
"WF-51: A Swiss Intermediate-Cartridge Copy of the FG-42 After World War Two the Swiss needed a new self-loading military rifle to replace their K-31 bolt actions. Two major design tracks followed; one being a roller-delayed system based on the G3 at SIG and the other being a derivative of the German FG-42 at Waffenfabrik Bern. Bern under the direction of Adolph Furrer had been experimenting with intermediate cartridges since the 1920s and they used this as a basis to develop an improved FG-42 using an intermediate cartridge (7.5x38mm). The program began in [----] and went through about a half"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HCXtUQkXlxY) 2024-08-05T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 221.1K engagements
"Confederate Whitworth Sniper: Hexagonal Bullets in [----] NOTE: Please see this video for a correction regarding Whitworth accuracy: https://youtu.be/cUd2RQGfL7E Sir Joseph Whitworth is quite the famous name in engineering circles credited with the development of such things as Whitworth threading (the first standardized thread pattern) and engineers blue. When he decided to make a rifle he decided that he could make flat surfaces more precisely than round ones and chose to design a rifle with a hexagonal bore and mechanically fitted bullets. The Whitworth rifles proved to be magnificently"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hi-S_horZGk) 2017-10-12T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements
"Blow-Forward Schwarzlose [----] at the Backup Gun Match http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Schwarzlose [----] is the only blow-forward firearm ever to see real commercial sale. It is a compact pocket pistol chambered for .32 ACP with a 7-round magazine. They were sold by Schwarzlose in Germany and also assembled and sold in the United States in a slightly altered form by the Warner Arms Company. I've long wanted to try one out in a semi-practical environment and the"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HyvkQBSDmH0) 2020-03-21T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 182.5K engagements
"Springfields SAR-4800 FALin 5.56mm http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In the early 1990s the Brazilian Imbel factory made a small run of FAL rifles converted to 5.56mm using AR magazines. They used standard FAL receivers and bolt carriers with a boltface cut for 5.56x45mm and a magazine well insert with a new magazine release compatible with the AR magazines. About [---] were imported by Springfield under the designation SAR4800 5.56mm Sporter. These were all post-ban configuration rifles with fake solid flash hiders and"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IM136ze48_Y) 2019-11-20T12:32Z 3.2M followers, 202.6K engagements
"Techno Arms MAG-7: Shooting History & Disassembly http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons The MAG-7 is an unusual shotgun made in South Africa in the 1990s and imported to the US in small numbers. The idea of the gun was to offer maximum firepower in the smallest package possible and to this end the gun had no buttstock and a [----] inch (320mm) barrel. It was chambered for 60mm [--] gauge shells feeding from a 5-round detachable box magazine in the grip of the gun. Unfortunately importation into the US required"
[YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IW7k8WHS2Go) 2016-03-16T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@ForgottenWeapons Forgotten Weapons
Forgotten Weapons posts on YouTube about history, gun, war, in the the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Engagements: [---------] #
- [--] Week [---------] +47%
- [--] Month [----------] -40%
- [--] Months [-----------] +11%
- [--] Year [-----------] +129%
Mentions: [---] #
- [--] Week [---] -1.70%
- [--] Month [---] +4.60%
- [--] Months [-----] +28%
- [--] Year [-----] +172%
Followers: [---------] #
- [--] Week [---------] no change
- [--] Month [---------] +0.64%
- [--] Months [---------] +4.30%
- [--] Year [---------] +8.60%
CreatorRank: [------] #
Social Influence
Social category influence countries finance travel destinations technology brands social networks gaming automotive brands currencies stocks mlb #1495
Social topic influence history #97, gun #431, war #2347, in the, patreon, germany #274, the first #3548, sniper #468, military #1373, france #2696
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @staygoldgun @polenartactical @forgottenweaponscom @blokeontherange @9holereviews @adelinamae @hiddenblazefilms @milgearexplainer @deepdivewithian @type56ordnancedept @trabapistolasvideos @printshootrepeat @persdefcon @gunbros @legacycollectiblescom @canadiangunlover @ww2 @factualrj @weapons @firepowerunited
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"OTs-14 Groza: Russia's Over-Hyped 9x39mm Spetznaz Bullpup The 9x39mm cartridge was introduced in the final days of the Soviet Union as a subsonic round intended specifically for suppressed weapons. The first weapons developed for it were the AS Val and VSS Vintorez. These were followed in the early 1990s by the OTs-14 "Groza" developed by Valery Tells and Yuri Lebedev at Tula. The concept was for a modular multi-purpose rifle which could be assembled on a mission-by-mission basis by special forces or police troops as required. The complete load out included a short barrel with vertical front"
YouTube Link 2024-07-22T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 713.3K engagements
"How to Identify a Real M1A1 Carbine vs a Fake Looking for a light and compact weapon to equip its new Airborne units the US military adopted the M1A1 Carbine in May of [----]. This was mechanically identical to the existing M1 Carbine but with a wire-frame side folding stock in place of the standard wooden stock. This allowed the M1A1 to fit into a very handy leg bag for paratroops. Deliveries began in October [----] with all of the guns being manufactured by the Inland company. A total of [------] were made in two batches (71000 between October [----] and October [----] and another [-----] between April"
YouTube Link 2018-02-10T13:40Z 3.2M followers, 723K engagements
"Why this AK suppressor has a rubber baffle at the back The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T12:29Z 3.2M followers, 296.7K engagements
"The Jager Pistol and its Complex Reassembly The German military used a lot of different small-caliber pistols during World War One and the Jager is one of the most interesting of them. Its unique design was the result of needing to build pistols for the war effort on machines and tooling that were not suited for pistol production. The answer Replace the single milled frame with a combination of simpler parts that would be pinned and screwed together into a frame equivalent. Quite ingenious. Now I have don a previous video on the Jager and Othais & Mae at C&Rsenal recently published an"
YouTube Link 2016-06-15T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.1M engagements
"RP-46: The Rarely Seen Belt-Fed Degtyarev After World War Two the Red Army moved from a full power infantry rifle cartridge to an intermediate one and the 7.62x39mm RPD became the new squad machine gun. At the same time the heavy Maxims were replaced by the new SG-43 Goryunov. This left a gap in capability with nothing available with full-power punch and reasonable mobility. To solve the problem a team of three engineers (A.I. Shilin P.P. Polyakov and A.A. Dubinin) developed a clever adaptation to allow the DP/DPM machine gun to use belted ammunition (using standard Maxim/Goryunov/PK belts)."
YouTube Link 2024-10-16T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 204.4K engagements
"PTR Vent Suppressor: 3D Printed Titanium Foam PTR's new "Vent" line of suppressors are a really cool use of new technology to better execute an old design concept. The idea is that forcing muzzle gasses through a porous material will work well to slow and cool them providing good sound suppression. Back in the 1940s (through the 60s or 70s) this was done with wire mesh rolled into a tube. Today PTR is following the same principle to a much finer degree by using additive manufacturing to produce titanium with "purposely induced porosity". Essentially titanium foam. Their design is furthermore"
YouTube Link 2024-06-02T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 342.4K engagements
"The Short-Lived No1 Mk6 SMLE Lee Enfield The SMLE No1 Mk3 was the iconic British infantry rifle of World War [--] but not the final evolution of the Lee Enfield design. By World War [--] it had been replaced by the new No4 Mk1 Lee Enfield and this is the story of the interim models. At the end of WW1 the British recognized several areas where the SMLE could be improved: a heavier barrel a lighter bayonet and aperture sights. This led to the development of the No1 Mk5 rifle (the Mk4 being a designation for a .22 rimfire training variation) with [-----] examples made for troop trials in the mid 1920s."
YouTube Link 2017-03-30T11:30Z 3.2M followers, 276.6K engagements
"G150: Swiss Silenced Guerrilla Anti-Materiel Rifle The G150 is a rifle specifically assembled by and for the Swiss P-26 organization: a very secretive stay-behind group intended to fight foreign occupiers of Switzerland. It was one of a series of such organizations that began with a concern during World War Two the Germany might invade and continued during the Cold War with the threat of Soviet occupation in the aftermath of nuclear war. The P-26 group specifically was formed in [----] and disbanded in [----] under a cloud of controversy over its political leanings. P-26 was armed with an"
YouTube Link 2025-07-21T12:54Z 3.2M followers, 782.9K engagements
"SIG PE-57: Swiss Roller-Delay (the Civilian Stgw [--] aka SIG 510) The SIG PE-57 is the civilian semiauto version of the Stgw57 Switzerland's first self-loading service rifle. Developed from the German MG-42 but incorporating a substantial influence form the FG-42 as well the PE-57 is a roller-delayed blowback action chambered for the 7.5x55mm Swiss cartridge. It was also made for US commercial expoert as the SIG AMT (American Match Target) and sold to the militaries of Bolivia and Chile. The PE-57 uses an in-line stock layout much like the FG-42 which minimizes muzzle climb as well as a"
YouTube Link 2017-02-22T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 812.2K engagements
"Only [--] Made [--] Known SurvivorsHunting the Rarest Mauser C96 Variant The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 626.1K engagements
"The Jonathan Ferguson Special Penguin Brutality shirt: https://varusteleka.com/en-us/products/forgotten-weapons-penguin-brutality-t-shirt Hopefully Jonathan doesn't tell His Majesty to bar me from entering the UK now. history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-11-27T12:31Z 3.2M followers, 786.7K engagements
"PGM Precision Hecate II at the Range http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we are taking the PGM Precision Hecate II out to the range. It is a rifle designed for use out to 1800m but I have neither the skills myself nor the range facility to do something like that - instead I have a target set up at 200m. I was quite surprising by just how soft-shooting the Hecate II is for a rifle chambered for .50 BMG. I can very honestly say that many .308 precision rifles have"
YouTube Link 2020-05-09T12:43Z 3.2M followers, 676.2K engagements
"Why Yugoslavia waited until the 1990s to build a Krink style AK M70 M80 M90 M92 timeline The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 171.9K engagements
"Suppressed OSS M3 Grease Gun and Bushmaster Booby Trap Trigger Today we have a chance to take a look at a suppressed M3 "Grease Gun" as purchased and issued by the Office of Strategic Services (the OSS; predecessor to the CIA). Thanks to its readily removable barrel the M3 (and M3A1) submachine gun was an easy gun to adapt to use with a suppressor (or as it was called at the time a silencer). During World War [--] such a unit was developed for clandestine use by OSS and British SOE agents in occupied Europe and they would see use for many decades in all manner of conflicts. The suppressor itself"
YouTube Link 2017-05-09T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 750.4K engagements
"SIG AK-53: A Truly Weird Forward-Operating Rifle http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com One of the most mechanically unusual rifles I have had the chance to examine is the SIG AK-53. One of a long line of interested experimental self-loading designs made by SIG between the 1920s and 1950s the AK53 is a gas operated rifle with a fixed breechblock and a barrel that cycles forward when fired. The gas system compresses a spring rearward first which then releases and pushes the barrel forward in a system with a few elements in common"
YouTube Link 2019-02-22T12:36Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Red Dots: How Cheap is too Cheap (featuring Mike Branson) I met up with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics at SHOT Show [----]. Today we are talking about red dot price and quality. It's easy to get a good red dot if you are willing to spend enough but how cheap can you go and still have a reliable product http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-02-07T12:29Z 3.2M followers, 266.6K engagements
"Pietta's PPS/50 - A Popular PPSh Plinker Introduced by the Italian Pietta company in the 1970s (yes the same Pietta that makes all those reproduction Old West revolvers and lever action rifles) the PPS/50 has been a continuously popular firearm for more than [--] years now. Designed to roughly resemble a Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun the PPS/50 is a semiautomatic .22 rimfire for the recreational market and nothing more. It is a simple blowback action and perhaps the most interesting mechanical feature is its 50-round drum magazine (which is really what differentiates it from the plethora of"
YouTube Link 2018-01-29T14:01Z 3.2M followers, 231.6K engagements
"SSG-69: Steyr's Cold War Sniper Rifle Make sure to also check out [--] Hole Reviews' field trial of the SSG-69 in military configuration out to [---] yards: https://youtu.be/v93_gge1ESI https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In the 1960s Steyr Daimler Pusch developed a modern sniper rifle for the Austrian military (and also for commercial civilian sale). It was adopted as the SSG-69 (Scharfschtzen-Gewehr; sharpshooter's rifle) replacing the"
YouTube Link 2023-03-02T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 202.2K engagements
"M1918 BAR: America's Walking Fire Assault Rifle John Browning developed the Browning Automatic Rifle for use by American troops in World War One taking inspiration from the other light automatic weapons in service including the Chauchat Lewis and MG08/15. Rather than being used as a light machine gun as we would understand it today the BAR was an automatic rifle intended to be used in much the same way as the Germans would use the Sturmgewehr in WWII. It would be fired in semiautomatic mode from the shoulder or hip while advancing on the enemy using steady fire to keep them pinned down. Once"
YouTube Link 2017-10-14T12:13Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements
"Slow Motion Malfunctions of Exotic Firearms http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Over many years of filming with my high speed camera I have a decent little library of malfunctions in a wide variety of guns. These don't normally make it into videos and I figured it would be neat to present a bunch of them together. Enjoy history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly kasarda inrange inrangetv malf malfunction high speed slow motion luger p08 [--] luger [--] luger baby luger breda pg type [---] smg zk420 zh29 zip 22"
YouTube Link 2019-06-25T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 4.8M engagements
"The Worst AK I have Ever Seen http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly kasarda inrange inrangetv history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly kasarda inrange inrangetv"
YouTube Link 2020-06-18T12:03Z 3.2M followers, 5.4M engagements
"Domestic Burmese G3s: BA64 Rifle and BA-72 Carbine After achieving independence from the British Burma (now Myanmar) looked to develop a domestic small arms industry to supply its armed forces. The first weapon produced there was the BA-52 a copy of (how they chose this I don't know) the Italian TZ-45 submachine gun. By the late 1950s talks were underway with Rheinmetall and H&K to license production of the G3 at a factory being built with German technical assistance. Ultimately Burma adopted and produced several versions of the G3: BA-63: A direct copy of the G3 BA-64: A light machine gun or"
YouTube Link 2025-04-12T12:45Z 3.2M followers, 166.7K engagements
"Shooting the H&K MP5K Operational Briefcase http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Heckler & Koch's "Operational Briefcase" is a clever system for covert carry of a submachine gun without the need to conceal such a large type of weapon under bulky clothing. By putting the gun into a briefcase they gave security personnel a way to blend right into the business and executive type of environment. Of course the idea has become rather well known at least in some circles. It may not have quite the same element of surprise it once did"
YouTube Link 2018-12-22T12:37Z 3.2M followers, 3.1M engagements
"Zip 22: Shooting the Worst Gun Ever #forgottenweapons #zip22 #worstgun #pistol #terrible #fail history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-01-28T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 588.9K engagements
"Luftwaffe-Issue Walther PP & PPK Pistols http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Courtesy of Legacy Collectibles we have a pair of Luftwaffe-issue Walther pistols to look at today one PP and one PPK. The Luftwaffe bought more than [------] pistols during World War Two including not only Walthers but also the Luger P38 HSc CZ38 Femaru [--] and FN [----]. Identifying Luftwaffe-issue Walthers is tricky as they were not specifically marked - but we do know a few specific serial number"
YouTube Link 2020-05-25T11:55Z 3.2M followers, 195.4K engagements
"A Thoughtful & Nuanced Take on SIG's P320 Nightmare Here's the video I did [--] years ago on this topic. I stand by my conclusions in that video but with the caveat that it assumes the parts are all made to designed spec (I didn't think I would have to specify that.): https://youtu.be/QusWrho19zE So which camp am I in "I found a way to stick it to a big company and now that's my entire personality" or "Look at these morons SIG makes a flawless pistol". Neither so I'm sure I will take flak from both of them (hence the flak jacket). It sure does seem like there is something going on with P320s"
YouTube Link 2025-05-13T16:33Z 3.2M followers, 478.5K engagements
"HK4: Heckler & Koch's Multi-Caliber Pocket Pistol The H&K Model [--] was named for the fact that it was offered in four different calibers - .22LR .25 ACP .32 ACP and .380 ACP. The gun came with a complete set of spare barrels and magazines to allow conversion between all of them and interesting feature not offered by any other pistols like it at the time. The design was by Alex Seidel one of the founding engineers of H&K. He had familiarity with the Mauser HSc from his time working at Mauser and it was the rough basis fo the HK4. The changes between centerfire calibers required nothing more"
YouTube Link 2019-08-28T11:02Z 3.2M followers, 248K engagements
"S&W Pinto: The Wide World of Collecting https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Pinto is a name given to a specific sort of Smith & Wesson revolver by collectors. It refers to guns - typically J- K- and N-frame revolvers but all some semiauto pistols - produced with a mix of blued and nickeled parts. The name derives from the Pinto horse which has patches of white and color. The guns were generally old as a way to use up excess parts from"
YouTube Link 2022-11-15T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 147.2K engagements
"Germany Adopts the PPSh in 9mm: the MP-41(r) https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com During World War Two both German and Russian soldiers often thought that the other side's weapons were better than their own. In particular both sides often preferred their opponents' SMGs. In late [----] a group of German officers formally requested that Germany simply copy and produce the PPSh-41. This led to the HWA formally studying the question of PPSh-41"
YouTube Link 2023-02-20T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 357.7K engagements
"BXP: Blowback eXperimental Parabellum http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Andries Piek was a farmer in South Africa in the late 1970s when he mail ordered an LDP 9mm carbine from Rhodesia. The gun was impounded by South African customs and Piek wound up designing modifications to the gun to meet South African laws. He was contracted to do this to all the LDPs sent to South Africa and after thus becoming interested in firearms design he went on to create his own light compact and inexpensive 9mm carbine. In its first iteration"
YouTube Link 2019-02-18T13:07Z 3.2M followers, 456K engagements
"The M9A1 Bazooka: Now With Optics and Quick Takedown http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Bazooka - or rather the Launcher Rocket [----] M1 - was introduced by the United States in [----] the result of a fast development by two Army officers Captain Leslie Skinner and Lt. Edward Uhl. The US has no infantry antitank weapon at that point and it had become quite clear that such a thing was needed. The Bazooka offered a theoretical effective range of [---] yards throwing a [--] pound hollow-charge projectile capable of penetrating [--] inches of armor plate. The [----] inch bore measurement incidentally"
YouTube Link 2018-08-18T12:55Z 3.2M followers, 487K engagements
"Military-Issue Colt Model [----] Paterson Revolving Rifle The first rifle made in Sam Colts Paterson NJ factory was the [----] ring lever rifle. These were rather fragile and underpowered and while they were used successfully in the First Seminole War they needed improvement. Colt set about doing this with his [----] pattern which was more robust and more powerful. It had six chambers of .525 with much greater powder capacity than the first Colt revolving rifles. A total of about [---] were made before the Paterson company failed in [----] and nearly [---] of those were military sales. The US War"
YouTube Link 2025-04-23T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 142.6K engagements
"Schmeisser's MP-18I - The First True Submachine Gun When Germany began looking in late [----] for a new weapon ideally suited for the last [---] meters of a combat advance Hugo Schmeissers blowback submachine gun would prove to be the weapon that would set the standard for virtually all submachine guns to come. It was a fully automatic only weapon with a simple blowback action and a rather slow [---] rpm rate of fire. Although relatively heavy the only real shortcoming of the MP18I was its use of [--] round Luger snail drum magazines which was dictated by the German military. These magazines were"
YouTube Link 2017-08-14T11:17Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Swedish Antiaircraft Artillery: Bofors 40mm Automatic Gun M1 Note: In the video I mistakenly describe this as a two-stamp NFA gun. It is actually deactivated and thus does not require a tax stamp. Sorry for the mistake http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Swedish Bofors company developed their 40mm antiaircraft gun in the 1930s and it would go on to be one of the most successful weapon designs in modern history. Used by both sides in WWII and in all theaters improved versions of the 40mm Bofors gun continue to serve in military front lines to this very day. In the US they comprise part"
YouTube Link 2018-08-24T12:39Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"wz.88 Tantal: Poland's Alternative to the AK-74 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com As part of the Warsaw Pact Poland anticipated adopting the AK-74 after it was developed by the Soviet Union. However the eventual Soviet terms for license fees and export restrictions were too severe for Polish taste. Instead Poland opted to develop its own new rifle to use the 5.45x39mm cartridge. This would essentially be a 5.45mm version of the AKM. That sounds like an AK-74 but the 74"
YouTube Link 2021-07-16T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 371.6K engagements
"Romania Doesn't Make the Dragunov: The PSL http://www.forgottenweapons.com/romania-doesnt-make-the-dragunov-the-psl http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons When Romania vocally objected to the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in [----] it lost some of its opportunities for technology transfer form the Soviet Union. The USSR had adopted the SVD Dragunov in [----] and it was looking like Romania would be putting that weapon into domestic production alongside the AK but after [----] not so much. If Romania wanted a designated marksmans rifle it would be on its own to develop one. So thats exactly"
YouTube Link 2018-05-28T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"M20A1B1 Super Bazooka - It's a Super Bazooka. Need I Say More The US was one of the few major military powers that went into World War II without a substantial infantry antitank weapon. Most countries had an antitank rifle of some sort but the US just had some marginal antitank rifle grenades. That was rectified in late [----] when the M1 Rocket Launcher - aka the Bazooka - was introduced. Using a [----] shaped charge warhead it was able to penetrate about [---] inches of armor which was effective through most of the war. A larger version went into development in [----] though because it was clear"
YouTube Link 2017-10-28T11:16Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"US WW2 Springfield Sniping Rifles Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons The primary sniper rifle used by the United States in World War II was the M1903A4 Springfield a version of the exisiting 1903A3 with the iron sights removed and replaced with a Weaver 330C scope (adopted by the military as the M73B1). This was a low-power optic but was centrally mounted on the rifle to avoid and of the windage issues caused by prismatic scopes. The 1903A4 was the US' first truly mass-produced sniper rifle with more than [-----] being manufactured during just two"
YouTube Link 2016-09-16T11:56Z 3.2M followers, 636.6K engagements
"Beretta 93R: The Best Machine Pistol The Beretta 93R ("Raffica") was developed in the 1970s by Beretta engineer Paolo Parola at the request of Italian military special forces. It took the basic Beretta [--] pistol design and added a well-thought-out burst mechanism under the right-side grip panel. It does not have a plain full-auto setting but only semiauto and 3-round burst. To help keep the gun controllable it has a heavier slide to reduce cyclic rate a detachable shoulder stock and a folding front grip to help control the muzzle. It uses extended 20-round magazines and is actually remarkably"
YouTube Link 2024-12-13T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 346.9K engagements
"Beretta Tries a Machine Pistol: the Model 951A Beretta's first machine pistol was actually a full-auto variant of the Model [----] complete with shoulder stock - but that did not sell well. They tried again in the 1950s with an automatic model of the new Beretta Model [--] (aka M951). This was a 9x19mm pistol using a P38 style locking wedge and it was a fairly successful design for the company. The automatic model was the 951A and it included a folding wooden front grip for stability a much heavier slide a selector switch and auto trip. It weighed 46oz (1.3kg) about 12oz (340g) more than the"
YouTube Link 2025-03-10T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 170.6K engagements
"Navy 7.62mm NATO Conversion M1 Garand - Mk2 Mod1 When the M14 rifle was developed to replace the M1 Garand is was met with some uncertainty by the US Navy. The Navy had a lot of things to spend money on and not a lot of need for a replacement for the M1 Garand (note that the Marine Corps did adopt the M14 despite being a component of the Navy). So instead of buying new rifles the Navy opted to see if it could just convert its existing M1 rifles to the new 7.62x51mm cartridge. Because of the similarity between the two cartridges this seemed to be a fairly simple conversion. A chamber insert"
YouTube Link 2017-11-22T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 258.9K engagements
"SS-Contract Walther PP and PPK Pistols http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today courtesy of Tom from Legacy Collectibles we are taking a look at Walther PP and PPK pistols made specifically for the SS. These guns comprised several special contracts distinct from general military and commercial production. They were not the only such special contracts as such arrangements were also made for organizations like railway security and bank guards. Tracing back these specific guns has been done by a group of researchers using the"
YouTube Link 2020-01-06T12:25Z 3.2M followers, 287.6K engagements
"Winchester's Liberator Shotguns #forgottenweapons #winchester #liberator #12ga #weird #shotgun #guerilla history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-05-04T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"The New CZ Bren 3: What Did They Change From the Mauser bolt action to the AK and AR all new military rifles take time to perfect. With the Bren [--] CZ is now on the third iteration of the Bren platform having gone from the original [---] to the much-improved Bren [--] and now a collection of less obvious changes to create the Bren [--]. These changes have been directed by combat use of the rifle in Ukraine as well as the lessons of mass production. The main changes are around durability taking a good system and making it better - along with a few changes to improve the modularity of the rifle."
YouTube Link 2024-09-09T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 354.9K engagements
"Indonesian Air Force Collapsing-Stock G3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merchandise http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In [----] the German military first adopted the Spanish CETME as its standard infantry rifle because it was able to acquire a license to manufacture the guns domestically (something FN had been unwilling to grant for the FAL). The European rights to the CETME were at that time owned by NWM in the Netherlands and Germany negotiated a trade to allow its own production. That production was undertaken by two different firms - Rheinmetall and Heckler &"
YouTube Link 2017-08-12T11:27Z 3.2M followers, 303.9K engagements
"Maxim Pom-Pom 37mm Machine Gun http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons "Pom-Pom" was the name given to the 37mm Maxim gun by the Boers of South Africa based on the gun's sound. It was a Maxim machine gun scaled up to the quite impressive 37mm caliber intended primarily for naval use defending large vessels against small torpedo boats. This particular example is serial number [----] made in [----] and then sold three times before being ultimately purchased by the United States Coast Guard and installed on the USS Manning (along with a second gun number 2026). The Manning was promptly put into"
YouTube Link 2016-09-13T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Ultima Ratio: RAID and the Founding of PGM Precision Thanks to Creedmoor Sports for sponsoring this video and providing a couple of fine shooting mats to experiment with. Check them out for all your long range competition needs The Ultima Ratio was the rifle that created PGM Precision as a company. It originated with a tender for a new sniper rifle by RAID (Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion) a French Police intervention unit formed in [----]. They initially used Steyr SSG-69 rifles but wanted something better. Six companies entered rifles for consideration in 1989/1990 and the two"
YouTube Link 2023-06-17T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 157.6K engagements
"Aimpoint's New COA: Clever Optics Advancement Let me first mention something that I didn't cover in the video: what does "COA" stand for Well nothing. They just wanted a name that they could trademark that wasn't already in use. So go ahead and make up your own acronym. It may be hard to see how a pistol red dot sight could be exciting but if you're into this sort of the the new Aimpoint COA has some really neat features. Specifically: * Really excellent mounting system that fixed the problems of recoil lugs and screw holes into the delicate bits of pistol slides * Improved software with"
YouTube Link 2025-01-14T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 395.1K engagements
"Weirdly Late "Buck-N-Ball" - Standard Arms [--] Caliber "Camp" Gun http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Standard Arms was an early (circa 1909) manufacturer of self-loading hunting rifles in the US. The made the Model G a rifle which could function either as a self-loader or a pump action manual repeater. Unfortunately is was tremendously unreliable and prone to breakage. In an effort to salvage something of use the company introduced the Model M - a pump-only version. It"
YouTube Link 2021-10-25T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 329.2K engagements
"Almost Adopted: The H&K XM-8 Family #forgottenweapons #xm8 #hk #heckler #koch #army #rifle #future history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-09-09T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 817.1K engagements
"Really Not an M16 at All: Colt's M231 Port Firing Weapon The M231 Port Firing Weapons was developed in the 1970s as a part of the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Project. A modern relative of the WW2 Krummlauf the weapon was intended to provide close-in firepower against infantry that might attempt to overrun the M2. It has no sights or buttstock and fires from an open bolt only as 1100-1200 rounds/minute. It is intended to be used with M196 tracer ammunition to aim. Early versions were issued with rudimentary sights and a wire collapsing stock (akin to that of an M3A1 Grease Gun) but the weapon"
YouTube Link 2017-10-06T11:36Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Taurus Curve: My Worst Backup Gun Match Yet http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com A little while back during the summer I went to our monthly Backup Gun Match with of all things a Taurus Curve. Why do I even own one of those Well I found one new in the box at a local gun show for less than $200. Because it is such an unusual gun in a bunch of ways I figured it really deserved a place in the Forgotten Weapons Collection. So I bought it and just left it in the box. Several"
YouTube Link 2020-09-26T11:52Z 3.2M followers, 433.9K engagements
"CZ-531: A Czech Browning in 7.62mm Tokarev The CZ-531 was developed as a replacement for the vz.52 pistol in [----]. Even as the vz.52 was being adopted the Czech military knew that it wasnt a great gun and they wanted a long-term replacement based on the TT33 Tokarev design. There were two pistols put into development for this; the CZ [---] here and the ZKP-524. This was chambered for 7.62x25mm and like the Tokarev it has no manual safety. Testing took place in February [----] and the gun had some issues. After about [----] rounds the recoil spring wore out and at [----] rounds the frame cracked. At"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T12:32Z 3.2M followers, 110.5K engagements
"The Real T26 "Tanker" M1 Garand Check out Headstamp Publishing's extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten The name "tanker" has been applied to shortened M1 Garand rifles for a long time and today we are looking at one of the rifle that was the genesis of that concept. It actually has nothing to do with tanks; the idea for a shortened M1 came from the Pacific Warfare Board of the US Army looking for a handier weapon for jungle fighting. During [----] when this idea was proposed Springfield Arsenal was already independently working on the M1E5 a"
YouTube Link 2026-01-05T12:19Z 3.2M followers, 184.3K engagements
"Japanese ZH-29 Copy by Tokyo Gas & Electric The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 83.9K engagements
"How Does it Work: Short Recoil Operation http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Correction: Browning invented the pistol slide but not the overall short recoil system. Maxim was the first to successfully create a short recoil firearm. Short recoil is the most common system used today in self-loading handguns and it also used to be fairly popular in machine gun designs. The basic principle is that the bolt and barrel (in a handgun slide and barrel) are locked together for an"
YouTube Link 2021-01-19T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 225.9K engagements
"ZB26: The Best of the Light Machine Guns The ZB-26 stands as one of the best magazine-fed light machine guns developed during the 1920s and 30s - it was a very popular gun for small military forces and many countries which did not directly buy it were strongly influenced by it. The Japanese Nambu Type [--] and [--] were heavily based on the ZB the the British Bren was a direct evolution licensed from Brno. The design dates back to [----] when the Czech government began searching for a modern light machine gun. They tested pretty much all the guns available on the market at the time and also"
YouTube Link 2017-10-26T12:54Z 3.2M followers, 696.3K engagements
"Japanese ZH-29 Copy by Tokyo Gas & Electric http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Japanese military experimented with self-loading rifle designs through the 1930s and had [--] major rifles in testing during that period. One was a new design by Kijiro Nambu one was a Pedersen copy made by the Tokyo Army Arsenal one was a gas operated toggle locking rifle by the Nippon Special Steel company and the fourth was this a ZH-29 copy made by Tokyo Gas & Electric. TG&E was a major industrial concern that made all manner of products and they chose to copy the ZH-29 for Army rifle trials. However it"
YouTube Link 2016-08-15T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 389.3K engagements
"Sturmgewehr MP-44 Part I: Mechanics The MP-43 (which is mechanically identical to the MP-44 and StG-44; the differences are the subject for another video later) is a tilting bolt rifle with a long stroke gas piston. It was manufactured primarily from complex sheet steel stampings as a way to minimize the amount of high-quality and thus difficult to acquire steels needed for its construction. The rifle is heavy by today's standards but remarkably ergonomic (except for the metal handguard when heats up quickly). Its sights come right up to the eye when shouldering the rifle and it disassembles"
YouTube Link 2016-09-27T12:09Z 3.2M followers, 636.5K engagements
"HS2000: The Perfected Croatian Pistol that Became the Springfield XD https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com With the HS95 Croatian manufacturer IM Metal (later to become HS Produkt) had learned how to effectively manufacture a good pistol. However the design had some shortcomings and had not been accepted by Croatian police forces nor had any commercial export contracts materialized. The company recognized that the way of the future was"
YouTube Link 2023-02-01T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 206.1K engagements
"PTRS 41: The Soviet Semiauto Antitank Rifle (aka an SKS on Steroids) https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Prior to World War Two the Soviet Union had a rather lackluster interest in antitank rifles - a series of guns were developed but slowly and without all that much success. The Barbarossa invasion gave a very immediate need for just this sort of weapon however to give Soviet infantry units an organic anti-armor capability. Two star"
YouTube Link 2022-12-14T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Pauly/Roux Pistols: The First Self-Contained Cartridges EDIT: Please note that apparently the Priestel book I used as a major source for this video is partially incorrect in that Pauly did create a traditional percussion system in France. The fire piston / diesel system was done slightly later after he moved to England perhaps to avoid the Forsyth patent there. --------- Samuel Pauly is the largely unrecognized father of the modern self-contained cartridge. In [----] he patented a cartridge with a metal base that held a priming compound and attached to a paper or metal cartridge body holding"
YouTube Link 2025-08-22T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 97.9K engagements
"Walthers Forgotten SMG: The MPK (and MPL) The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com Walther began developing a modern stamped sheet metal SMG in the late 1950s and it entered production in [----]. It was an open-bolt simple blowback gun available in a short (MPK; [----] barrel) and long (MPL; [-----] barrel) version. It was cheap and simple but well thought out with a number of quite good features. The standard design was just safe/full but a semiautomatic selector position was available if desired by the client. An excellent safety sear prevented the bolt from bouncing"
YouTube Link 2025-12-03T12:58Z 3.2M followers, 163.6K engagements
""Double Deuce" 2-Bore Rifle: A Gunsmithing Spectacle The largest sporting rifles ever actually used in the field as more than an exhibition were 4-bore stopping rifles firing roughly 1" in diameter (25mm) projectiles. These were intended to not simply kill a dangerous animal but to stop it immediately in a charge which might require shooting through thick bone or horn protection. For that purpose the 4-bore could have some value - assuming you had an assistant to carry it when danger was not imminent However there have been a number of gunsmiths who have built 2-bore rifles like this example"
YouTube Link 2017-11-11T12:51Z 3.2M followers, 2.1M engagements
"MAGAL: A Galil in .30 Carbine for the Israeli Police In the early 1990s Israeli Military Industries (IMI) developed the Galil MAR (Micro Assault Rifle) and the MAGAL at the same time. Both were intended to be very compact rifles with the MAR in 5.56mm and the MAGAL specifically for police in .30 Carbine. The MAGAL offered the same handling and ergonomics as the regular Galil family but with a reduced-power cartridge and only semiautomatic operation for better police suitability. Mechanically the MAGAL uses a totally standard Galil receiver and bolt carrier with a bolt face made slightly"
YouTube Link 2024-07-24T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 195.6K engagements
"Firing an RPG (American-Made Airtronics) #forgottenweapons #rpg #firing #airtronics #history #rocket #psrl history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2024-12-17T12:59Z 3.2M followers, 493.4K engagements
"M79: The Iconic "Bloop Tube" 40mm Grenade Launcher http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Combat experience with the bazooka rocket launcher in World War Two and its larger versions in the Korean War convinced the US military that a better weapon was needed to give front-line troops a direct-fire way to attack enemy strong points. The bazooka was bulky not particularly accurate and created a lot of backlist signature when fired. This led to a multi-part development effort"
YouTube Link 2020-12-04T12:39Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"What's the Deal with the SIG P320 Exploding and Firing "Un-Commanded" (April 2023) https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Social media is very excited these days about "exploding" SIG 320s.so let's consider what might actually be happening. Of course this discussion is invariably clouded by the fact that the P320 did have a legitimate drop-safety problem a few years ago. It was fixed but many people don't bother to distinguish between that"
YouTube Link 2023-04-20T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 870.4K engagements
"MSBS Grot: The Complete History of Poland's New Army Rifle https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The MSBS Grot is Poland's current military service rifle and has gone through several iterations in the many years of its development that led to its current 2nd generation form. It is best known in the US as a rifle designed to be interchangeable between standard and bullpup layout although that capability was dropped when the Polish Army opted"
YouTube Link 2022-12-07T14:28Z 3.2M followers, 842.1K engagements
"H&K VP-70M on the Range: How Useful is the Burst Fire http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons After looking at the history and mechanics of the VP-70 yesterday we are heading out to the range to try it out (and thanks to Trijicon for generously offering use of their range). I am curious to see just what that [----] rpm rate of fire is like to shoot and whether the awful trigger is as much of a hindrance to effective burst shooting as it is to simple semiauto. So in addition to some shooting of the VP-70M I will also be comparing it to an MP5. Thanks to H&K for providing access to bring you this"
YouTube Link 2018-12-01T11:46Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"Engineer's Delight: Stemple 76/45 Becomes the Stemple Takedown Gun http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The saga of how the original Stemple 76/45 became the Stemple Takedown Gun is a fantastic story of engineering design choices. Essentially John Stemple began by building a rather crude copy of the Swedish K in .45 ACP in the mid 1980s called the Stemple 76/45. He produced and registered [----] transferrable receivers for the gun (pre-1986) but only built them slowly a few"
YouTube Link 2021-09-17T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 754.9K engagements
"Nock's Volley Gun: Clearing the Decks in the 1700s The Nock Volley Gun was actually invented by an Englishman named James Wilson in [----] and presented to the British military as a potential infantry weapons. This was declined as impractical but the Royal Navy found the concept interesting for shipboard use. In [----] the Navy ordered two prototypes made by the British gunsmith Henry Nock and finding them suitable proceeded to oder a total of [---] of the guns (thus forever associating Nocks name with the gun instead of Wilsons). A further [---] or so were ordered in [----] and the guns were in fact"
YouTube Link 2018-03-03T13:13Z 3.2M followers, 682K engagements
"Almost Adopted: The H&K XM-8 Family http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we are in H&K's Grey Room in Virginia taking a look at the XM-8 program. The rifle evolved form the kinetic energy carbine portion of the doomed XM29/OICW program and eventually became the G36 rifle. In between those two however it was the XM-8 and it came close to adoption by the US military.The XM-8 was designed to be a very modular system with a variety of interchangeable stocks handguards optics and accessories. We will take a look at all of these"
YouTube Link 2018-12-14T12:17Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements
"The Guns of John Pedersen John Pedersen was one of the more prolific and successful gun designers in American history having even been described by John Moses Browning as "the greatest gun designer in the world". And yet many people only know about Pedersen from his unsuccessful toggle-locked rifle or his WWI Pedersen Device that never saw action. In truth Pedersen's work included a number of very successful sporting rifles and shotguns that many shooters would still recognize today. While looking through the guns at Rock Island on my most recent trip there I realized that they had examples"
YouTube Link 2015-04-10T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 698.8K engagements
"The French FR-F2: Best of the Cold War Sniper Rifles http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In [----] the French Army adopted the FR-F2 (Fusil Rptition F2) as its standard sniper rifle. The F2 was never manufactured new; it was an improvement made on existing FR-F1 rifle by giving them new 7.62mm NATO barrels new flexible bipods and thermal sleeves over the barrels. Of [----] FR-F1 rifles original made approximately [----] were rebuilt as FR-F2s. They served from [----] until being"
YouTube Link 2021-11-26T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 494.7K engagements
"CZ's New P09 Nocturne: DA/SA Polymer Frame Now With Optics CZ has just released their new P09 Nocturne pistols an update to the previous P07/P09 pairing. These guns fundamentally go back to the classic CZ-75. While that was (and still is) a very popular design military and police tenders more recently have required more modern elements. So in [----] the P07 Duty was released; essentially CZ75 mechanics with a modern look and a polymer frame. This was only offered as a compact model until in [----] the design was overhauled. At that point the compact remained the P07 and a full size companion"
YouTube Link 2024-08-16T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 195.3K engagements
"The Rare Chinese Stamped Receiver SKS https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In [----] and [----] China experimented with a stamped-receiver version of the SKS. About [----] of these rifles were made each of the two years and a number of them have come into the US as commercial exports. We don't have any official records from China about this program but it seems clear that this was an experiment to reduce the production cost of what was originally"
YouTube Link 2023-05-01T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 329.1K engagements
"Arctic Warfare Magnum: Accuracy International L115A3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In [----] the British Army placed an order for [---] AI Arctic Warfare Super Magnum rifles chambered for the .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge formally adopting the model as the L115A3 sniper rifle. This followed special forces use of the .338 Accuracy International rifles in Afghanistan where the A1 (fixed stock) and A2 (folding stock) models had both been given designations.With the adoption of the L115 the British retired all of their remaining"
YouTube Link 2019-03-29T11:56Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Shooting the M14: Full Auto Really Uncontrollable https://www.forgottenweapons.com/shooting-the-m14-full-auto-really-uncontrollable/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Today we are out shooting the H&R M14 "Guerrilla Gun" prototype but fitted with a standard M14 stock and barrel. With these parts it handles and fires exactly like a standard M14 - so I can answer the most pertinent question: Is the M14 really so uncontrollable in full auto m14 h&r filthy [--] shooting shoot fire firing full auto automatic machine gun battle rifle [---] [----] NATO g3 fal ar10 high speed slow motion mccollum"
YouTube Link 2018-10-13T12:19Z 3.2M followers, 2.8M engagements
"September [----] Q&A: All About Battle Rifles NATO Battle Rifles book: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/cold-war-battle 00:30 - What is a "battle rifle" 03:02 - What is the specific definition of "full power cartridge" 07:59 - Will the US 6.8x51 lead to more widespread battle rifle adoption 10:54 - Full auto practicality in battle rifles (w/ FRTs and such) 12:40 - Favorite hypothetical boutique AR-10 chambering 14:14 - Why no bullpup battle rifles 16:04 - BM59 vs M14 18:46 - Do any militaries still issue battle rifles 19:57 - SBR'd battle rifles and diminishing returns 22:48 - What is the"
YouTube Link 2025-09-20T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 303.8K engagements
"Beretta Model 1934: Italy's Unassuming Workhorse Service Pistol The Beretta Model [--] was basically the final iteration of a design by Tullio Marengoni that began all the way back in [----]. That pistol was updated in the early 1920s and that one was updated in [----]. The Model [----] was converted to .380 ACP (aka 9mm Short) as the Model [----] which became the Model [----] with the addition of a hammer half-cock notch and steel grip panel backing. Police and military contract began in [----] with the Italian Army formally adopting it in [----] and purchasing nearly [------] of them by [----]. It would"
YouTube Link 2025-05-16T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 158.7K engagements
"Steyr ACR: A Polymer Flechette-Firing Bullpup From the 90s http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merchandise http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The US Army ACR (Advanced Combat Rifle) program was an effort to find a new type of infantry rifle which could increase the practical accuracy of the M16 by a whopping 100% in the early 1990s. Building on a legacy of similar programs like SALVO and SPIW the basic idea being tried were extremely high rates of burst fire flechette rounds and duplex cartridges as a way to increase hit probability mechanically. There were four final"
YouTube Link 2018-05-09T11:10Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"GIGN's Unique Bren [--] in 7.62x39: Counterterrorism and Hostage Rescue GIGN - the "Group d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale" (Intervention Group of the National Gendarmerie) is the tip of the spear for French counterterrorism and major crime response. They are a relatively small (a few hundred operators) unit that deploys anywhere in France any often around the world. They curate a wide range of individual specialties from parachuting to diving and everything in between backed up by a strong supporting contingent of technical specialists supplying them with robotics drones surveillance"
YouTube Link 2025-10-13T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 423.9K engagements
"Zip 22: Shooting the Worst Gun Ever http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Today may the good lord help me I am taking the Zip [--] out to the range for some shooting. Note that while it actually worked remarkably well right up until it jammed solid on the second range trip when we went back to get the high-speed footage we literally could not get two rounds in a row. We did get a couple neat high-speed malfunctions though. A big thanks to viewer Matt for generously loaning me the gun to film zip zip [--] zip22 worst gun worst pistol shooting shoot fire firing high speed slow motion forgotten"
YouTube Link 2018-09-15T12:16Z 3.2M followers, 3.9M engagements
"Biggest Revolver Yet A 10-Gauge Colt [----]. http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com This ludicrously huge handgun is actually a 10-gauge Colt [----] Revolving Shotgun with a cut-down barrel and a newly made grip frame. The backstop and trigger guard of the shotgun were handily reshaped into a grip frame and the finished product actually looks nicely proportional - until you try to actually pick it up of course. .The grip is filled with brass inlay about a third of which are missing (possibly from the recoil of actually firing)."
YouTube Link 2019-10-17T11:42Z 3.2M followers, 338.4K engagements
"Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com I had a chance to visit Hire Arms in Johannesburg - a movie arms supply company. Among many other things in their collection they had an assortment of extremely crude handmade firearms confiscated from poachers in Zimbabwe. As something we don't see much of here in the US I thought they were pretty interesting even if just in a train wreck sort of way. So I pulled out a couple of the most unusual to put on camera. poacher poaching gun homemade"
YouTube Link 2018-12-17T12:47Z 3.2M followers, 4M engagements
"Canadian 8mm Sterile Bren Gun The John Inglis company in Toronto first opened in [----] as a metalworking shop and grew steadily over the decades under first John Inglis and then later his sons. Inglis did substantial amounts of military work during World War One but the Great Depression hit it hard and both William and Alexander Inglis died in [----] and [----] respectively. The company went into receivership but was purchased by one Major James Hahn (DSO) and a group of business partners in November of [----]. Hahn and his associates saw an opportunity to use this large manufacturing facility to"
YouTube Link 2019-04-12T12:35Z 3.2M followers, 305.8K engagements
"Ask Ian: Single Feed vs Double Feed Pistols https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Asked by Tyler on Patreon: "Why are there so few double stack/double feed handguns I can only think of a couple off the top of my head. It makes the worst part of handgun shooting (loading the magazines) a complete non-issue." There are a series of interacting considerations when choosing between single feed and double feed. Single Feed: - Magazines are less"
YouTube Link 2022-07-05T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 508.1K engagements
"Karabiner-S: The East German Unicorn SKS This rifle will be sold at Rock Island in their Spring [----] Premiere auction - it was moved after this video was filmed. Sorry http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons One of the rarest patterns of the SKS is the East German type - the Karabiner-S. Total production quantity is not known but their survival rate is quite low and most of the examples in the US are Vietnam War bring backs. At any rate the Karabiner-S is not quite an exact copy of the standard SKS. While it does share all the same mechanical features the East Germans opted to leave out the"
YouTube Link 2018-11-08T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 648.9K engagements
"PTRD 41: The Simple Soviet Antitank Rifle of WWII http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Soviet Union had originally eschewed the use of large numbers of antitank rifles anticipating that any potential combat use of them would be largely against tanks impervious to AT rifle cartridges. However when German forces came flooding across the border in [----] the Soviet Union found themselves being attacked by quite large numbers of tanks which were in fact vulnerable to an antitank rifle cartridge. Stalin ordered an immediate development and production of such a weapon and the designers"
YouTube Link 2018-05-25T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 2.3M engagements
"Russian Type [--] AK: Introducing the Milled Receiver http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Updated to fix errors in nomenclature and production dates. With recognition of the production problems of the original Type [--] AK an alternative was needed. Russian engineer Valeriy Kharkov led a team of engineers who designed a replacement drop-forged and machined receiver for the AK. This new receiver was not a technical challenge for Izhevsk to produce and it added durability and potentially accuracy to the weapon at the cost of an additional pound (half kilo) of weight and more manufacturing"
YouTube Link 2018-07-08T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 417K engagements
"Wartime Changes: The Bren MkI Modified and Bren MkII http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The British lost some 90% of their stock of Bren light machine guns in the disastrous Dunkirk evacuation and in the following months rushed to rearm. Part of this program was a two-tiered simplification of the Bren design. First was a MkI Modified Bren (which was not marked any differently than the original MkI) and this was followed by a MkII design. These patterns simplified many of"
YouTube Link 2021-03-03T12:17Z 3.2M followers, 334.4K engagements
"Sheet Metal and Wood: The Polish Sudayev PPS 43/52 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Poland was one of the states which manufactured the Soviet PPS-43 submachine gun under license but they decided to make a change to is in [----]. Where the original PPS-43 used a top-folding metal stock the Poles decided to instead add a fixed wooden buttstock. This made the gun substantially more comfortable to shoot and also less compact to transport. Was the tradeoff worthwhile Let's see how it shoots. Thanks to Marstar for letting me"
YouTube Link 2018-02-17T13:19Z 3.2M followers, 429.7K engagements
"Polytech AKS - The First Wave of Semiauto Chinese AK Rifles http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The first semiauto commercial AK rifles to enter the US were Finnish Valmets. These established a US collector interested but while excellent in quality they did not quite fit the visual pattern of the classic Sino-Soviet military Kalashnikov. The first of those to find its way into the US was the Egyptian Maadi a Russian rifle made under license in Egypt and imported by Steyr."
YouTube Link 2020-10-14T12:13Z 3.2M followers, 233.2K engagements
"HK P11: NATO's Secret Underwater Pistol 0:00 Introduction and History of Underwater Firearms 0:55 Engineering Challenges and Russian Underwater Firearms 2:07 Development Adoption and Global Usage of the H&K P11 3:36 Examination of H&K P11: Fired Barrel Cluster and Firing Mechanics 5:24 Unique Features of the H&K P 11: Silence and Sealed Sabot System 7:45 The Electrical System and Battery Compartment of the HK P [--] 8:42 Web Gear and Standard Load Out for the H&K P11 9:24 The Secrecy Surrounding the H&K P11 10:16 Conclusion and Acknowledgements Developed by Heckler & Kock and adopted by the"
YouTube Link 2023-11-01T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 334.2K engagements
"FG-42: Perhaps the Most Impressive WW2 Shoulder Rifle https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The first production version of the FG42 used a fantastically complex milled receiver and a distinctive sharply swept-back pistol grip. A contract to make [----] of them was awarded to Krieghoff in late spring of [----] but by the fall its replacement was already well into development. The milled receiver used a lot of high-nickel steel which was becoming"
YouTube Link 2023-03-08T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"British EM-2: The Best Cold War Battle Rifle that Never Was Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in this video don't miss the ARES companion blog post: http://armamentresearch.com/british-janson-e-m-2-automatic-rifle The EM-2 was the rifle that the British pushed for NATO trials in [----]. It was a rifle well ahead of its time in several areas - as a select-fire bullpup rifle it was intended to"
YouTube Link 2017-07-12T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Romanian ZB-30 LMG: Improving the Already-Excellent ZB-26 https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Brno's ZB-26 was one of the best light machine guns of the 1920s and it was widely adopted by countries that did not have domestic arms design and production capacity (and it would eventually become the British Bren gun as well). It was designed for the 8mm Mauser cartridge and had a simple fixed gas system that ran very well - until countries"
YouTube Link 2023-08-30T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 170.4K engagements
"Who is Colt A History of the Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company Today we will take a look at the history of the Colt company from Sam Colt's first efforts in Paterson (and before) to the West Hartford remnants that survive today. If you enjoy this type of history please let me know in the comments http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com colt samuel colt sam colt col colt hartford paterson patersen revolver patent manufacturing company history corporate colt defense zilkha colt industries colt manufacturing patent firearms"
YouTube Link 2017-02-23T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 476K engagements
"Colt's Unicorn MG: The CMG-3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons In the mid/late 1960s Colt was manufacturing AR-15 rifles and wanted to supply light machine guns to go with them - so they developed the CMG-2 ("Colt's Machine Gun"). The CMG-2 competed against the Stoner [--] in trials for the Navy SEALs (among others) and narrowly lost out. It was a very well designed and thought-out weapon but not quite as good as the Stoner. A few years later in the early/mid 70s Colt brought the design back in response to a request for a belt-fed 7.62mm machine gun for special operations units."
YouTube Link 2015-09-21T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Rhodesian FAL - with Larry Vickers http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The iconic weapon of the Rhodesian Bush War is the FN-FAL painted in a distinctive "baby poop" yellow and green pattern. Because Rhodesia was under international embargo its options for obtaining weapons were limited. Some domestic production was undertaken but one large source was neighboring South Africa. Both South African production FALs and also Belgian-made South African contract FALs were provided. This rifle is one of the latter with the South African crest and proof marks defaced for some theoretical"
YouTube Link 2018-07-01T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 839K engagements
"Light Fifty: the Barrett M82A1 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The story of the development of the Barrett M82 .50 BMG semiauto rifle is really a neat story - much more interesting than most people probably expect and reminiscent of many firearms development stories of the 1800s. Ronnie Barrett was working as a photographer in the late 70s and became interested (perhaps obsessed) with the idea of a semiauto .50 caliber rifle after a photo session with a Vietnam War jungle patrol boat (which was armed with a pair of M2 .50 caliber machine guns). At the time the only civilian options"
YouTube Link 2016-08-10T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements
"A Modern Integrally Suppressed Pistol for Everyone: The SilencerCo Maxim [--] Check out Headstamp Publishing's extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten SilencerCo announced the Maxim-9 pistol in late [----]. Having gone through some huge growth of the past few years the company wanted to expand its capabilities and thought that the time was right for a modern integrally suppressed pistol. It was a unique new design of modern semiautomatic pistol build from the ground up to be integrally suppressed. The action is a proprietary delayed blowback system"
YouTube Link 2025-08-20T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 235.2K engagements
"G24(t): Germanys Take on the Czechoslovakian vz24 When Germany took over Czechoslovakia one of the things they did was buy out a controlling interest in what became known as Waffenwerke Brunn. Headquartered in Prague the company had two factories; one in Brno (Czechia) and one in Bystrica (Slovakia). The Bystrica factory was already making vz24 Mauser rifles and under new German control they made a few slight adaptations to create the G24(t). These basically involved adding German sling fittings as other vz24 elements like the full-length upper handguard and straight bolt handle remained."
YouTube Link 2024-11-25T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 106.9K engagements
"The American FAL: Harrington & Richardson T48 (w/ Larry Vickers) http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Today I am joined by Larry Vickers to take a look at his original H&R T48 FAL. The Harrington & Richardson company was awarded a contract to produce a pre-production series of [---] of these rifles in the mid 1950s when the United States was conduction trials to choose a new combat rifle. The Belgian-designed FAL (built by H&R with technical assistance from Canada who was the first to formally adopt the FAL) was designated the Rifle T48. By this time it's only competition was the"
YouTube Link 2018-09-24T11:42Z 3.2M followers, 392.8K engagements
"Samuel Pauly Invents the Cartridge in [----] Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Samuel Johannes Pauli was born outside Bern Switzerland in [----] and became an engineer of wide interests. Among them were bridge design passenger-carrying balloons (he would work seriously on a 15-20 passenger balloon service between London and Paris later in life) and firearms. Only a few years after Forsyths invention of fulminate priming Pauly would become the first to use it in a fully self-contained cartridge. He patented this invention in Paris in [----] having moved there in [----] in"
YouTube Link 2019-05-04T07:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"How Does it Work: Blowback Action http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com How Does it Work: Blowback Action The simplest for of firearms action is blowback also called simple blowback. It is basically just an application of Newton's 3rd Law; that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As the bullet moves forward down the barrel the slide or bolt of the gun moves backwards. The two move with the same energy meaning that the light and very fast bullet is balanced out by the heavy and slow bolt or slide. history"
YouTube Link 2019-01-10T11:41Z 3.2M followers, 314.9K engagements
"Why Are Short Barreled Rifles Actually Regulated in the US https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The simple truth is that short rifles and short shotguns were never a problem and continue to not be a problem today. The [----] National Firearms Act originally wanted to restrict handgun ownership and the clauses relating to SBRs and SBSs were simply to close the loophole of a person cutting down a rifle or shotgun to get around a handgun"
YouTube Link 2023-01-15T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements
"Modernizing the G3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Of all the classic 7.62mm battle rifles of the Cold War only the G3 remains in modern military service updated to serve alongside the more recent 5.56mm rifles (no the M14 DMR rifles don't count). Why the G3 and how Today we will take a look at a clone of a Norwegian AG3F2 and a sort-of clone of a Swedish AK4D with its Spuhr stock and handguard. history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly g3 hk91"
YouTube Link 2021-02-02T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"The Army's Labor Union: Winchester 94s for the Loyal Legion of Loggers & Lumbermen http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we have a rifle from a really neat forgotten corner of American military history. During World War One the Pacific Northwest was the source of prime lumber in particular Sitka Spruce that was ideal for aircraft production. The US military wanted that spruce for its own aircraft and there was also massive demand form France and the UK for their"
YouTube Link 2021-08-30T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 258.7K engagements
"The Official American Boy Scout Rifle: Remington 4-S #forgottenweapons #boyscouts #scouting #rollingblock #rifle #history #Remington history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-08-15T09:59Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"AK4: Sweden's Beefed-Up Take on the G3 Order your copy of Small Arms of the Cold War: Battle Rifles of NATO today: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/cold-war-battle Or if you are in Europe please order through our European site: https://www.headstampbook.com/cold-war-battle When Sweden decided to replace its bolt action Mausers and Ljungman semiautomatic in the 1960s it had four main choices to pick from. One was the domestic GRAM-63 a modernized version of the Ljungman the FAL and the G3. They ended up choosing the G3 but not without a number of changes. Mechanically the Swedes insisted on"
YouTube Link 2025-05-19T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 376.2K engagements
"Bommarito: Americas First Toggle-Locked Battle Rifle Check out Headstamp Publishing's extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten Designed by Giuseppe Bommarito this was one of the many independent rifle designs submitted to the US War Department in the 1910s hoping for military adoption. It is a short recoil operated toggle-locked system chambered for .30-06 and using detachable 20-round magazines. It was tested (without much success) at Springfield and remained in development until [----]. See a more complete article including original disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-10-01T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 178.1K engagements
"ArcFlash Labs' GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle #forgottenweapons #arcflash #anvil #gr1 #gaussrifle #coilgun #railgun history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2024-10-29T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 69.5K engagements
"Winchester Lever Action Development: [----] Henry The Henry Repeating Rifle was a truly revolutionary development in firearms technology. It was not the first repeating rifle but it was the best of a emerging class of new arms reliable in function and very fast to shoot (much faster than the contemporary Spencers). The Henry used a simple toggle lock locking system with a single throw of its lever performing all the elements necessary to reload and recock the action. The Henry's quick action was coupled with a 15-round magazine more than double what the Spencer offered. It fired the .44 Henry"
YouTube Link 2017-06-05T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 720.6K engagements
"Goryunov SG43: Russia Replaces the Maxim https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly russia goryunov sg43 ww2 maxim degtyarev ds39 history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly russia goryunov sg43 ww2 maxim degtyarev ds39"
YouTube Link 2022-06-20T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 322.3K engagements
"Spoils of War: French Occupation-Production Mauser K98k svwMB #forgottenweapons #svw #k98k #mauser #france #french #occupation #ww2 #wwii #rifle history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2024-11-11T12:59Z 3.2M followers, 30.8K engagements
"The Real T26 "Tanker" M1 Garand The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-01-05T12:19Z 3.2M followers, 192.3K engagements
"Steyr Hahn Variants The Steyr-Hahn is one of the less glamorized pistols used in WWI despite being made in quite large numbers (250000-313000 depending on who you read). The gun is an interesting mix of features including bits from the Roth-Steyr M1907 and the early Colt/Browning 1900/1902/1903 pistols. The gun was the standard pistol for the Austro-Hungarian Empire (albeit supplemented with M1907s M1898 Rast-Gassers and more) during the Great War. It was also purchased in quantity by Romania Chile and Bavaria. We will look at a couple of these variants today and also an example of the guns"
YouTube Link 2016-06-02T14:09Z 3.2M followers, 183.4K engagements
"The Bosnian Full-Auto SKS with AK Mags During the Balkan Wars a great many oddball guns were built and used. One of them was a Bosnian conversion of the Yugoslav M59/66 SKS to have a select-fire trigger and to use modified detachable AK magazines. These are extremely rare today as only a few of them (probably a dozen at most) came into the US with the bulk of Yugoslav SKS imports. The ones that did arrive came with regular trigger assemblies and regular 10-round fixed magazines (and are not legally considered machine guns by ATF). Today we will take a look at two examples and go over the"
YouTube Link 2024-03-06T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 276.8K engagements
"Leningrad's Emergency-Production PPS-42 at the Range https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Yesterday we looked at the history of the PPS-42 and how it was developed into the much more common PPS-43. Today we are taking it out to the range - the only time one of these very scarce gun has been filmed in recent history. history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design"
YouTube Link 2022-11-12T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 261.9K engagements
"Colt Monitor: The First Official FBI Fighting Rifle #forgottenweapons #colt #bar #monitor #fbi #rifle #history history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-08-21T13:01Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"The M1 Garand's Mysterious 7th Round Stoppage http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The M1 Garand ran great in testing but as soon as Springfield began to crank out production-line guns a mysterious problem appeared. If the top round in the clip was on the right-hand side the 7th round in the clip would often run askew and malfunction. Where did this very odd problem come from and why the connection to how the clip was loaded In a classic example of "guns are hard" going"
YouTube Link 2021-06-10T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 872.9K engagements
"What Are All These 9mm Cartridges And Why http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Limitations of this video 01:22 - 9mm Luger 05:22 - 9mm Largo 07:01 - 9mm Browning Long 10:11 - .380 Auto/9x17mm 12:08 - 9mm Mauser Export 13:38 - 9mm Steyr 15:50 - 9x18mm Ultra/Police 18:08 - 9x18mm Makarov Why do we have so many different 9mm cartridges and what are they all Why are 9mm Steyr and 9mm Largo virtually identical and yet different while 9x18 Ultra and"
YouTube Link 2021-12-07T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Evolution of the Military Mauser HSc Pistol http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Mauser had been at the forefront of military self-loading pistol design with its C96 pistol but by the 1930s it had lost major market share to Sauer and Walther in police and commercial guns. The Mauser 1910/1914/1934 line of compact pistols was getting a bit old and the Sauer 38H and Walther PP/PPK were very popular. Mauser want to produce a new offering and they tasked a very young (25 at"
YouTube Link 2020-02-03T11:48Z 3.2M followers, 342.5K engagements
"Fox .32: Police Prototype of CZ's First Pistol Alois Tomika best know for the Little Tom pistol was one of the original founders of the South Bohemia Armory which became CZ of Strakonice. The first pistol produced by the company was his "Fox" design a .25 ACP pocket gun. As originally designed it used a folding trigger without a trigger guard and had a unique sheet metal frame. The frame was made from a single piece of steel bend in a U-shape completely wrapping around the otherwise traditional style of slide. This allowed the pistol to be made without the difficult machining process of"
YouTube Link 2025-07-18T12:16Z 3.2M followers, 115.7K engagements
"Semiauto SAR-80 "Sterling Assault Rifle" at the Range The SAR-80 was a design by Frank Waters at Sterling in the UK but was not actually put into production by Sterling. Instead it was licensed to Chartered Industries of Singapore in [----] who eventually made about [-----] of them for Singapore Slovenia Thailand Papua New Guinea and the Central African Republic. This is a thoroughly simplified and stripped-down version of the AR-180 with no frills at all. A small batch of SAR-80 kits came into the US a number of years ago but not much actually happened with them. Today however TTE Precision"
YouTube Link 2025-11-29T13:02Z 3.2M followers, 125.4K engagements
"What's Wrong with Private Jackson's Sniper Rifle (Saving Private Ryan) https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we are going to take a look at how Private Jackson's sniper rifle is portrayed in Saving Private Ryan. It's a great movie and I enjoyed it a lot - but this sniper rifle is incorrect in every scene. At the beginning of the film the rifle is shown as an M1903A4 (which is appropriate) but with a Lyman Alaskan scope (which is"
YouTube Link 2023-06-30T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Czech CZ-52 Pistol The CZ-52 really isn't a forgotten weapons yet but it is a pretty interesting gun mechanically and well worth taking a look at. About [------] of them were made in Czechoslovakia from [----] to [----] and they served as that country's standard military sidearm for several decades (which the rest of the Warsaw Pact bloc used the TT33 Tokarev pistol). Czechoslovakia has a long and outstanding tradition of arms design and manufacture and they kept it going through the Cold War developing and issuing the vz52 and vz58 rifles and the vz59 light machine gun as well as the [--] pistol."
YouTube Link 2013-04-29T00:00Z 3.2M followers, 144.4K engagements
"CETME Modelo A: First Step Towards the G3 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Modelo A was the first series production version of the CETME rifle following a series of successful trials in Spain. It was developed by a team of ex-Mauser engineers led by Ludwig Vorgrimmler and is part of the link between the late-WW2 StG45(M) and the H&K G3 rifles. The CETME A was chambered for the reduced-power 7.62mm CETME cartridge and had a fire control system which fired from an open bolt in full auto and a closed bolt in semiautomatic."
YouTube Link 2019-02-08T11:12Z 3.2M followers, 216.3K engagements
"Peak American: the Winchester [----] Trench Gun in WW1 The United States was the only country to use shotguns in World War One in a substantial way. It was not the first time the US had used such guns either; shotguns were used in the Philippines against the Moros and on the Mexican Punitive Expedition. For use in the Great War however it was deemed necessary to fit bayonets to them. At the request of the War Department the Winchester company designed a bayonet mounting adapter for their Model [----] pump-action shotgun to use the M1917 bayonet that Winchester was also making at the time for the"
YouTube Link 2023-09-13T12:53Z 3.2M followers, 699.7K engagements
"SIG [---] / Stgw 90: The Swiss Kalashnikov Make sure to check out the new video on [--] Hole Reviews with the SIG [---] on their 500yd course of fire plus discussion with a Swiss infantry officer: https://youtu.be/FL_zcqOFrbI https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2022-07-04T13:08Z 3.2M followers, 559K engagements
"Algimech AGM-1: A Short-Lived Italian 9mm Bullpup http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In the mid 1980s an Italian designer named Alphonso Giambelli developed a bullpup pistol-caliber carbine with hopes of selling it to Italian law enforcement. That never happened but the gun was offered on the commercial civil market as the semiauto AGM-1 by a company named Algimech (after ALphonso GIambelli). At least a handful of these carbines came into the US before the [----] assault"
YouTube Link 2021-09-29T12:06Z 3.2M followers, 192.8K engagements
"H&K G41: The HK33 Meets the M16 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The H&K G41 was developed for the NATO trials of the early 1980s which were set up to look at both rifles and cartridges for NATO standardization (although they did not end up choosing a rifle). The gun is a basically an HK33 roller-delayed system set up to use standard M16 magazines and with a selection of other M16 features like a dust cover forward assist carry handle and bolt holdopen/release. Two versions were made a standard length rifle and a shorter"
YouTube Link 2019-01-25T13:33Z 3.2M followers, 487.4K engagements
"M1 Enforcer Carbine Pistols There are rarely any truly original ideas in the gun world and today's "pistol" ARs and AKs are not among them. Back in the 60s and 70s companies were marketing the "Enforcer" M1 a pistol version of the WWII M1 Carbine. Of these two one is made of military surplus parts by Iver Johnson and one made of new-production commercial parts by Universal. Carbine Pistol (Product Category) M1 Williams Iver Johnson Universal Enforcer M1 Carbine Carbine Pistol (Product Category) M1 Williams Iver Johnson Universal Enforcer M1 Carbine"
YouTube Link 2015-06-04T15:30Z 3.2M followers, 957.4K engagements
"The CIA's New Liberator: the 9mm Deer Gun http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Deer Gun is a covert CIA pistol inspired by the Liberator. In fact the initial desire was to pull Liberators out of storage to use in the 1950s but out was found that they had all been scrapped in 1947/8. So instead a new gun was designed with the same criteria of simplicity and low cost. Instead of being stamped like the Liberator this would be made primarily form a single aluminum casting and chambered for 9x19mm. It was loaded by unscrewing the"
YouTube Link 2019-10-06T12:22Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements
"America's First Assault Rifle: Burton [----] LMR http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://centerofthewest.org/explore/firearms/ America's first assault rifle Well it does meet all the requirements - select-fire intermediate cartridge and shoulder-fired. It was never actually fielded though. The Burton Light Machine Rifle was developed during World War One with the firing model completed in [----]. It was intended as an aircraft observer's weapon for attacking balloons - a role which required incendiary ammunition.With this in mind Winchester's Frank Burton adapted the .351 WSL cartridge"
YouTube Link 2016-07-04T10:17Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements
"America's Forgotten SMG: The Hyde/Marlin M2 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The United States went into World War Two with the Thompsons submachine gun - a weapon far too heavy and too expensive for its role. The British went to the other extreme with the Sten and while the US did not want a gun quite that crude the Sten did spur a desire for something cheaper than the Thompson. George Hyde (the working for the Inland Division of GM) had worked on submachine gun designs in the 1930s and he put together a weapon that would"
YouTube Link 2019-10-04T11:47Z 3.2M followers, 656.4K engagements
"Improvised & Craft-Built Firearms w/ Jonathan Ferguson & Nic Jenzen-Jones http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Today I am joined for a round table discussion (well octagon table technically) by Jonathan Ferguson (Curator of the National Firearms Centre collection at the Royal Armouries) and Nic Jenzen-Jones (Director of Armament Research Services) to discuss a variety of improvised and craft-produced firearms. All three of us are contributors to a research paper being published by the Small Arms Survey on this subject and we thought we would take a few minutes to discuss it on video. Cool"
YouTube Link 2017-12-27T13:49Z 3.2M followers, 2M engagements
"German Sten Copy: MP [----] aka Gert Neumnster The MP [----] aka Gert Neumnster was one of two German efforts to copy the British Sten gun. The first was the Gert Potsdam ("gert" meaning device or project; basically project code name) which was a direct copy of the Sten distinguishable only by a marking details and a few differences in manufacturing processes. While [-----] of those were being manufactured by Mauser R&D engineer Ludwig Vorgrimmler was simplifying the Sten design even farther resulting in the MP-3008. This simplified design did away with the Sten's barrel shroud and used a vertical"
YouTube Link 2016-02-04T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 506K engagements
"Welrod .32 at the Range: British SOE's Silent Assassin's Pistol #forgottenweapons #welrod #oss #soe #assassin #pistol #silencer #silenced #suppressoir #ww2 #worldwar2"
YouTube Link 2024-10-24T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 3.1M engagements
"Costa Rican Breda PG: The First Burst-Fire Rifle The Breda PG ("Presa Gas" - Gas Operated) was developed by Sestilio Fiorini in [----] and put into production at Breda's factory in Rome. It was offered as a weapon for commercial sale and export as well as being one of the several entrants in Italy's semiautomatic rifle trials in the late 1930s. Unlike most of the other competitors in that trial the Breda PG did actually find a commercial buyer (albeit a small one). The government of Costa Rica purchased [---] PG rifles. These were designated Moschetto Automatico as they were equipped with a"
YouTube Link 2017-08-11T11:27Z 3.2M followers, 433.8K engagements
"Combloc SAW: Chinese RPD at the Range http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com I am excited to take an RPD out to the range today - I've wanted to try one for quite a while. The RPD is a very light and compact weapon for a squad automatic and I'm curious how it will actually handle. This particular example is a Chinese Type [--] with many of the improvements that were made over the course of Soviet adoption and field use of the gun. history development mccollum forgotten weapons"
YouTube Link 2021-07-31T10:00Z 3.2M followers, 380.4K engagements
"FP-45 Liberator Pistol http://www.Patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The Liberator is one of those interesting artifacts of WWII; an extremely simple single-shot .45 caliber pistol made by the boxcar-load (a million specifically) with the intention of being dropped en masse across Europe to promote civilian sabotage against German occupation forces. They were manufactured by the Guide Lamp division of GM in record time - just 10-11 weeks for a literal million-gun production run. However as they were being manufactured shipped and put into storage the motivation behind the project largely"
YouTube Link 2015-11-10T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Enjoying Black Powder Episode 12: The Model [----] Remington-Lee Full video with reloading segment available here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-12-rem-lee-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced and they are actually pretty easy to reload for. The unavailability of factory ammunition (for most although not so much for the Trapdoor) makes them seem like a daunting prospect but for a pretty simple investment in tools and time one can make up ammunition and have a lot of fun with rifles"
YouTube Link 2025-06-28T12:44Z 3.2M followers, 92.7K engagements
"Ask Ian: "Last Ditch" Rifles for World War III http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com From Thunderchild on Patreon: "How would you see a modern major nation (US USSR/Russia China etc) simplify their small arms in a large scale war WW3 or Cold War gone hot You've mentioned in the past how most nations end up having to simplify to meet demands so why not start simplified" The reason for simplified small arms is to increase production speed. During peacetime deployment of new arms it"
YouTube Link 2023-02-08T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 934K engagements
"PSA "Spiker": A Clone of the Chinese Type [--] AK Palmetto State Armory (PSA) makes a really wide variety of different guns but one that they came out with a little while back that appealed to me in particular is their "Spiker". This is a reproduction of the Chinese Type [--] stamped AK with a permanently attached underfolding bayonet. These rifles were available as semiautos directly form China until the late 1980s when import laws (and Presidential Executive Orders) changed to prohibit their importation. The prices on those original has risen dramatically since and there has not been any"
YouTube Link 2024-02-18T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 199.8K engagements
"Reunited after decades: veteran proves the engraved rifle is his Full video: https://youtu.be/tCSzq52ekLE The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-02-08T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"From Bespoke Showpieces to Surplus Collecting The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T12:59Z 3.2M followers, 39.6K engagements
"Yugoslav M72: The Early Balkan RPK https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com When the Yugoslav Peoples' Army began AK development they produced the M64 infantry rifle and the M65 support weapon. The M65 had a longer and heavier profile barrel and a bipod - and in its very early experimental iterations a quick-change barrel mechanism and a folding carry handle. By the time it entered regular service it was the M72 the carry handle was gone and"
YouTube Link 2023-02-03T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 210.4K engagements
"Steyr ACR: A Polymer Flechette-Firing Bullpup From the 90s #forgottenweapons #acr #bullpup #caseless #steyr #prototype #g11 #rifle #history history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-08-07T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Big Iron: Development of the Colt [----] Dragoon Revolver Sam Colts first foray into firearms manufacturing did not end well - after [--] years he went broke and shut down production of Paterson revolvers and revolving long guns. His guns were too expensive too fragile and too underpowered to become a commercial success. They did make an impression on some people however and a few years later Colt would work with Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers to develop a much larger and more robust revolver. The US military purchased [----] of these Model [----] Walker revolvers and this set Colt back on"
YouTube Link 2019-08-23T12:36Z 3.2M followers, 956.3K engagements
"Rifles of Simo Hyh: The World's Greatest Sniper (w/ [--] Hole Reviews) http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Thanks to Henry from [--] Hole Reviews for the guest segment Check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsrKsXEAqCbZyVrCibkgpwQ In light of the approaching Finnish Brutality: The Winter War match I though we could take a look at the two rifles associated with the world's most successful sniper: Simo Hyh. Hyh was born in [----] joined the Civil Guard at the age"
YouTube Link 2021-01-14T10:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"PGM Hecate II: A Battle-Hardened .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Courtesy of PGM Precision USA we have a chance to take a look at a Hecate II sniper rifle today. This rifle's story begins with the Ultima Ratio a classic-based 7.62mm precision rifle designed by Gilles Payen in France circa [----] for the French RAID police unit. The rifle was very well-received and Payen partner with colleagues Alain Gonnet and Franois Morier to form PGM"
YouTube Link 2020-05-08T12:11Z 3.2M followers, 747.2K engagements
"A Selection of Chinese Mystery Pistols During the 1920s and 1930s a combination of civil wars and international arms embargoes led to a lot of domestic firearms production in China. The size and quality of manufacturing facilities varied widely - everything from massive factories established with European technical assistance to one-man shops only a step or two above being blacksmiths. The weapons produced varied in quality to match. Among other weapons made during this period were handguns mechanically based on several European designs (the Browning [----] Mauser C96 and Mauser 1910/14"
YouTube Link 2015-04-11T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Astra 600/43: A Straight Blowback 9mm for the Wehrmacht http://www.forgottenweapons.com/astra-600-43-a-straight-blowback-9mm-for-the-wehrmacht http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com When Germany acquired a land border with Spain after the French capitulation in [----] they took advantage of the opportunity to purchase Spanish firearms and have them delivered across the French border to the town of Hendaye. A German inspection office was set up there for use with both Spanish arms and Unique pistols. The first purchases from Spain"
YouTube Link 2018-06-14T13:30Z 3.2M followers, 207.9K engagements
"How Does It Work: Direct Gas Impingement Interested in small arms history Make sure to pre-order a copy of my bookChassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles [----] - 2016: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/chassepot-to-famas-french-military-rifles-1866-201ref=9kqy9c Direct gas impingement is an operating system that has been used only in a few production guns (all of them rifles). It is extremely simple although perhaps not well suited to adjustability. It is also not the operating system of the AR series of rifles - we will cover those in a separate video next month."
YouTube Link 2019-05-21T11:55Z 3.2M followers, 134.5K engagements
"The ASP: An Early Subcompact 9mm for Sneaky People http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The ASP was a custom take of the S&W Model [--] autoloading pistol developed by a man named Paris Theodore in the 1970s. Theodore made a wide variety of sneaky James-Bond-like guns for various clients but is best know for the ASP. At the time it was one of the best options for a subcompact pistol in a full-power pistol cartridge (9x19). In addition to cutting down the slide and grip and dehorning the whole gun the sights were replaced with Theodore's proprietary "guttersnipe" sights to provide a very fast"
YouTube Link 2015-08-22T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"How Does it Work: Stoner's AR System My first book is available for pre-order; check it out https://www.headstamppublishing.com/french-rifle-book http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Eugene Stoner's AR-10 and AR-15 use an operating mechanism that is often called "gas impingement" but which is actually a cleverly structured gas piston located within the bolt carrier. Gas is tapped form the barrel and moved all the way back to just behind the chamber where it enters the bolt carrier. There the carrier and bolt act as the two parts"
YouTube Link 2019-06-18T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 174K engagements
"Evolution of the Submachine Gun: Three Distinct Generations http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Followup: Addressing the P90 and MP-7: https://youtu.be/4RulAbiRc_Q Submachine guns have gone through a distinct evolution over the past one hundred years. Today we will look at these changes specifically identifying: - 1st Generation guns from World War One and through the 1930s - 2nd Generation guns of World War Two - 2nd Generation guns after World War Two - 2nd Generation"
YouTube Link 2020-10-20T11:49Z 3.2M followers, 937.8K engagements
"A Tour of PGM Precision http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Today I have the opportunity to take a look inside PGM Precision in Annecy France. Ever been curious about where the Ultima Ratio and Hecate II come from Let's have a look history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2021-10-12T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 147K engagements
"Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol #forgottenweapons #beltbuckle #pistol #ww2 #germany #22 #rimfire #gun history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-07-31T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 8.8M engagements
"Disassembling the Bizarre Terni Model [----] The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-02-16T12:42Z 3.2M followers, 21.8K engagements
"FK Brno 7.5mm at the BackUp Gun Match The FK Brno is a take on the classic CZ75 pistol made in the Czech Republic. It was originally released as a boutique steel-framed gun and then later as a much more affordable polymer-framed model. I have one of those polymer framed ones with barrels for both 10mm Auto and the unique 7.5mm FK cartridge designed for this pistol. I decided to use the 7.5mm barrel for the BUG Match today which is a 95gr bullet moving at [----] fps. It should definitely knock down steel.if it can run long enough to get there. Note that I am in "Big 5" division for pistols too"
YouTube Link 2025-07-05T12:37Z 3.2M followers, 89.8K engagements
"PSS: Russia's Silent Captive-Piston Handgun The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com The PSS is a semiautomatic pistol using captive piston ammunition to achieve a comparable level of sound suppression to a .22 pistol with a good normal suppressor. It was developed to replace a couple multi-barrel derringer style captive piston pistols in Soviet use with the semiautomatic action and (6-round) detachable magazines making it suitable for a wider variety of missions than the previous guns. It was given the GRU catalog designation 6P28 and entered service in [----]. It"
YouTube Link 2025-12-13T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 221.7K engagements
"Weapons as Political Protest: P.A. Luty's Submachine Gun #forgottenweapons #homemade #uk #luty #royalarmouries #smg #civildisobedience history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-06-08T12:50Z 3.2M followers, 3.5M engagements
"M3 and M3A1 Grease Gun SMGs The US began looking for a cost-effective replacement for the Thompson submachine gun in [----] and the Grease Gun was the result. Designed by George Hyde (a noted firearms designer at the time) and Frederick Sampson (GM/Inland chief engineer) it was a very simple and almost entirely stamped firearm. Chambered for the .45ACP cartridge it is notable for its very low rate of fire - 350-400 rpm which made it quite controllable and easy to shoot for relatively inexperienced troops. The M3 was a quite reliable gun (and what problems it did have were mostly due to its"
YouTube Link 2017-04-14T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.4M engagements
"Hi-Point YC-9 Yeet Cannon at the BUG Match Hi-Point finally released their double-stack YC-9 Yeet Cannon a few months ago and they sent me one to try out so I figured I'd take it to the monthly BackUp Gun Match. The new YC-9 is exactly what you would expect from Hi-Point because they really only make one basic gun. It's a simple blowback 9mm with a massive slide. It's kinda clunky and awkward and the magazine release is large enough to occasionally be hit accidentally if you are left handed. The new magazine design holds all of [--] rounds (up from the [--] of the regular single-stack version)."
YouTube Link 2024-01-13T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 272.6K engagements
"The Fitz Special: Art of the Gunfighter Circa [----] http://www.forgottenweapons.com/the-fitz-special-art-of-the-gunfighter-circa-1926 http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons John Henry Fitzgerald was not the first person to cut down a revolver barrel nor the first person to bob the trigger guard or hammer. But he was the person who put all these modifications together as a package and popularized it as a self-defense piece. Fitz was a former NYPD police officer very successful competitive and exhibition shooter and a gunsmith and representative of the Colt company from [----] until [----]. He made"
YouTube Link 2018-06-02T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 582.8K engagements
"Colt LE-901 Modular Multi-Caliber AR: A Well-Designed Failure Check out Headstamp Publishing's extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten Best Korea Propaganda short available here: https://varusteleka.com/en-us/products/forgotten-weapons-best-korea-propaganda-t-shirt Colt originally developed the [---] as part of the US Army SCAR program with the intention being to create a 7.62x51mm rifle that could also use unmodified 5.56x45mm upper assemblies. This would allow special operations units to customize a single weapon to a variety of different"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T12:31Z 3.2M followers, 156.8K engagements
"Enjoying Black Powder Episode 9: [----] Swiss Vetterli For the full episode with the hand loading instructional section click here: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/ep-9-swiss-vetterli-app Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced and they are actually pretty easy to reload for. The unavailability of factory ammunition (for most although not so much for the Trapdoor) makes them seem like a daunting prospect but for a pretty simple investment in tools and time one can make up ammunition and have a"
YouTube Link 2025-03-15T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 89K engagements
"Soviet PPD-40: Degtyarev's Submachine Gun Degtyarevs PPD-40 was the first submachine gun adopted in a large scale by the Soviet Union. Its development began in [----] with a locked breech gun modeled after Degtyarevs DP light machine gun but evolved into a much simpler blowback system. It was accepted as the best performing gun of [--] different submissions in Soviet trials of 1931/2 and first entered production in [----]. In this form it used a [--] round curved stick magazine and was chambered for the 7.62x25mm cartridge. In [----] Degtyarev made a number of changes most importantly developing a drum"
YouTube Link 2017-08-28T11:56Z 3.2M followers, 574.7K engagements
"Makarov PB: Silenced KGB "Wet Work" Pistol In [----] the Tula arsenal introduced a specialized silenced version of the Makarov for covert use. This was a very effective pistol and its design was also very heavily changed from that of the regular pistol. With a two-part silencer surrounding the barrel the recoil spring had to be moved to a location inside the grip panels. It was still chambered for 9x18mm Makarov though and used standard Makarov magazines. Not much official information has been published on the PB - it may actually still be in production today - and so I don't have any good"
YouTube Link 2024-06-19T12:41Z 3.2M followers, 428.9K engagements
"PMM: Russia's Modernized Makarov (Now With 50% More Mag Capacity) EDIT TO ADD: I didn't realize the heavy-slide model was actually put into production - my mistake I will film one of those when I am able to find one - until then the civilian model in this video does correctly show the changes to the frame and magazine of the PMM. --------- Having served as the standard Soviet military sidearm for several decades the PM Makarov was getting a bit obsolescent by the late 1980s. More of the world was using locked breech 9x19mm service pistols but the Soviet Union still had essentially a domestic"
YouTube Link 2023-12-16T12:48Z 3.2M followers, 227.2K engagements
"Dragunov Variations: Military SVD Izhmash Tiger Chinese NDM-86 The SVD Dragunov was the Soviet marksman's rifle that finally replaced the failed attempt to issue the SVT-40 as a precision rifle. It was introduced in [----] after about [--] years of development and its scarcity in the United States has led to the development of a loyal and dedicated group of admirers. This of course has led to much spirited debate about the relative merits of the different variations of the SVD which have been imported into the US. Today we will look at three in detail: a genuine Soviet military-issue SVD a"
YouTube Link 2017-04-20T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.9M engagements
"Chinese Type [--] AK-47 (Shooting and History) One of the most common types of AK rifle in existence today is the Chinese Type [--] in its several variations although very few of those rifles are in the United States in authentic full-auto form. This particular one was captured by a US soldier in the Vietnam War who brought it back and registered it making it a fully transferrable gun. The Chinese received the technical package for the AK (and also the SKS among other weapons) from the Soviet Union in the 1950s as part of the USSR's policy of providing military and technical aid to other nations"
YouTube Link 2016-09-23T11:56Z 3.2M followers, 933.8K engagements
"Smith & Wesson 76: American's Vietnam 9mm SMG https://www.forgottenweapons.com/smith-wesson-76-americans-vietnam-9mm-smg/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Early in the Vietnam War the US Navy acquired a quantity of Swedish M/45B submachine guns (Swedish K) for special forces use. By [----] however the Swedish government would no longer authorize sales of arms to the United States because of involvement in the Vietnam War. So instead the US turned to Smith & Wesson to design and produce a copy of the gun. In January of [----] the first prototypes were presented of the S&W Model [--] which"
YouTube Link 2018-10-19T10:19Z 3.2M followers, 615.1K engagements
"Bren MkI: The Best Light Machine Gun of World War Two http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In the years after World War One the British military wanted a new machine gun and they wanted it to replace both the Lewis and the Vickers. Through the 1920s the British would tinker with most of the light machine guns that became available but it was not until the early 1930s that a serious formal trial was conducted. The initial trials found three particularly encouraging guns;"
YouTube Link 2021-02-24T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 2M engagements
"Afghan Traditional Jezail The Jezail is the traditional rifle of the Afghan tribal fighter although it originated in Persia (Iran). Distinctive primarily for its uniquely curved style of buttstock these rifles still maintain a symbolic importance although they are utterly obsolete. Every jezail is a unique handmade weapon but they all share some basic traits. They are typically built around complete lock assemblies from captured guns or bought/traded parts. The barrel is typically quite long and rifled and the caliber is generally .50 to .75 inch. Unlike the domestic American flintlock long"
YouTube Link 2017-02-01T13:41Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Soviet SVT-38 Self-Loading Rifle A lot of people think that the US was the only country in World War II to mass-issue a semiautomatic infantry rifle but that isn't true. While the US was the only country to issue everyone a semi auto both the Soviet Union and Germany produced large numbers of them. The Soviet rifle in particular was developed over pretty much the same timeline as the M1 Garand and literally millions of them were made and used in the war. Today we are taking a look at the second Soviet self-loader adopted as an infantry standard the SVT-38. The SVT was actually the runner-up"
YouTube Link 2016-02-12T11:00Z 3.2M followers, 622.2K engagements
"RSC 1917: France's WW1 Semiauto Rifle http://www.Patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Did you know that the French Army issued more than [-----] semiautomatic rifles during WWI They had been experimenting with a great many semiauto designs before the war and in [----] finalized a design for a rotating bolt long stroke gas piston rifle (with more than few similarities to the M1 Garand actually) which would see field service beginning in [----]. An improved version was put into production in [----] but too late to see any significant combat use. The RSC [----] was not a perfect design but it was good enough and"
YouTube Link 2015-11-17T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Schmeisser's MP-18I - The First True Submachine Gun #forgottenweapons #submachinegun #mp18 #ww1 #wwi #germany #smg history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-08-14T12:45Z 3.2M followers, 548.7K engagements
"Calico Light Weapons System: Roller Delay and Helical Drums http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Calico family of firearms was developed in the late 1980s and put on the market just in time to be squashed by the [----] Omnibus Crime Act. The heart of the Calico system was a design for a double-stack helical magazine which was made in 50- and 100-round versions in both [--] rimfire and 9mm Parabellum. Both pistols and rifles were made in both calibers and I am looking at"
YouTube Link 2020-07-10T12:07Z 3.2M followers, 918.8K engagements
"The Blanchard lathe and the secret behind massproducing millions of identical wooden gun stocks The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2026-01-31T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 242.3K engagements
"SVT-40: The Soviet Standard Semiauto from WW2 The Red Army was interested in developing a semiautomatic rifle clear back to the mid 1920s and they spent about [--] years running trials and development programs to find one. First in [----] a Degtyarev design was adopted followed by the Simonov AVS-36 and then Tokarev won out in [----] with the SVT-38. Combat experience in the Winter War led to an upgrade program to reduce the weight of the rifle and that created the SVT-40. Between April [----] and mid [----] about [---] million SVT-40s were produced in three different factories. They were supposed to be"
YouTube Link 2024-01-10T12:46Z 3.2M followers, 335.4K engagements
"Rogers & Spencer .44 Army: Possibly the Best Civil War Revolver https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com Amos Rogers and Julius Spencer ran a company making mostly farm equipment in the 1840s and 1850s. In [----] they took on a firearms manufacturing contract (as mechanical fabrication companies often do) to make Pettengill revolvers. The Pettengill was not a fantastic design but it was good enough that after the Civil War broke out the Union"
YouTube Link 2022-10-26T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 315.2K engagements
"MG-34: The Universal Machine Gun Concept The MG34 was the first German implementation of the universal machine gun concept - and really the first such fielded by any army. The idea was to have a single weapon which could be used as a light machine gun heavy machine gun vehicle gun fortification gun and antiaircraft gun. The MG34 was designed to be light enough for use as an LMG to have a high enough rate of fire to serve as an antiaircraft gun to be compact and flexible enough for use in vehicles and fortifications and to be mounted on a complex and advanced tripod for use as a heavy machine"
YouTube Link 2017-10-07T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Mateba MTR-8 #forgottenweapons #revolver #automaticrevolver #mateba #mtr8 history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly history development mccollum forgotten weapons design disassembly"
YouTube Link 2025-08-10T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 325.8K engagements
"ArcFlash Labs EMG-02 CoilGun: Making SciFi Weapons Into Reality https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com ArcFlash Labs has come out with a new coil gun design that takes the best elements of their underpowered EMG-01 and their overly bulky GR-1 Anvil and melded them into a much handier EMG-02. This new design maintains the same muzzle velocity as the Anvil (200-250 fps / 60-75 m/s) but uses smaller projectiles (5/16" armatures). It is far"
YouTube Link 2022-08-06T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 5.1M engagements
"Ken Hackathorn on the M1 Carbine: Reputation vs Reality http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons The M1 Carbine has long been a bit of an enigma to me because I have never had really good luck with the design and yet they were extremely popular with American soldiers German soldiers Korean soldiers Vietnamese soldiers and a great many other countries. So what's the deal Is it as simple as just that the Carbine was light and thus popular mostly with people who never had to actually fire them Or is there something more going on Today we are speaking to Ken Hackathorn about this question. He has"
YouTube Link 2018-05-15T10:09Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Rideout Arsenal Dragon: A New Low-Bore-Axis Lever-Delayed Pistol Wauser t-shirt available from Varusteleka: https://varusteleka.com/en/products/forgotten-weapons-wauser-cotton-t-shirt The Rideout Arsenal Dragon is a very interesting new pistol from an independent entrepreneurial designer Travis Rideout. It is a lever-delayed action with a very low bore axis and a stationary optic when firing. It has a completely tool-less disassembly and a lot of clever design elements. This example is a pre-production prototype with production currently beginning on the first batch of [---] initial pistols. I"
YouTube Link 2025-11-12T12:23Z 3.2M followers, 549K engagements
"Pick One: G1 (FAL) vs G3 (H&K) w/ John Keene If you had to pick one would you take a G1 (FAL) or a G3 (H&K) Both are 7.62mm NATO rifles adopted by Germany. The G1 has more features and capabilities like the carry handle bipod multiple muzzle devices and adjustable gas system. The G3 on the other hand is simpler without things to change for better or worse. So which would you take The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch"
YouTube Link 2025-08-02T12:55Z 3.2M followers, 110K engagements
"History of the PK PKM and Pecheneg w/ Max Popenker My first book is available for pre-order; check it out https://www.headstamppublishing.com/french-rifle-book http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com I'm happy to be joined once again by Russian small arms historian Max Popenker for a discussion of the development of the Kalashnikov PK machine gun. This is universally regarded as one of the best general-purpose machine guns ever designed. We will look at the Soviet machine gun systems at the end of World War Two the development of"
YouTube Link 2019-07-09T12:42Z 3.2M followers, 207.8K engagements
"HK51: The SAS' Full Auto Flashbang Dispenser http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The HK51 is not a gun that was ever actually produced by Heckler & Koch. It is instead a variation on the G3/HK91 originally developed by American H&K specialist Bill Fleming. He was contracted by a UK-based company called FR Ordnance to produce a submachine gun sized version of the G3 for British SAS and SBS use. Both agencies did actually buy a few examples and used them a few times"
YouTube Link 2021-10-22T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 653.6K engagements
"Rare & Unique Sightings From [---] French FR-F2 Sniper Rifles The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com Today I had a chance to dig through no less than one hundred FR-F2 snipers brought in by Navy Arms. I found a number of interesting and unusual things in the process including a number of three-digit serial numbered very early production examples and some renumbered guns. We'll also be looking at the Scrome J8 the modern picatinny scope mounts for the FR-F2 and things like depot refurbishment markings. http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons"
YouTube Link 2026-01-12T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 85.6K engagements
"WF-51: A Swiss Intermediate-Cartridge Copy of the FG-42 After World War Two the Swiss needed a new self-loading military rifle to replace their K-31 bolt actions. Two major design tracks followed; one being a roller-delayed system based on the G3 at SIG and the other being a derivative of the German FG-42 at Waffenfabrik Bern. Bern under the direction of Adolph Furrer had been experimenting with intermediate cartridges since the 1920s and they used this as a basis to develop an improved FG-42 using an intermediate cartridge (7.5x38mm). The program began in [----] and went through about a half"
YouTube Link 2024-08-05T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 221.1K engagements
"Confederate Whitworth Sniper: Hexagonal Bullets in [----] NOTE: Please see this video for a correction regarding Whitworth accuracy: https://youtu.be/cUd2RQGfL7E Sir Joseph Whitworth is quite the famous name in engineering circles credited with the development of such things as Whitworth threading (the first standardized thread pattern) and engineers blue. When he decided to make a rifle he decided that he could make flat surfaces more precisely than round ones and chose to design a rifle with a hexagonal bore and mechanically fitted bullets. The Whitworth rifles proved to be magnificently"
YouTube Link 2017-10-12T12:30Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements
"Blow-Forward Schwarzlose [----] at the Backup Gun Match http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons https://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com The Schwarzlose [----] is the only blow-forward firearm ever to see real commercial sale. It is a compact pocket pistol chambered for .32 ACP with a 7-round magazine. They were sold by Schwarzlose in Germany and also assembled and sold in the United States in a slightly altered form by the Warner Arms Company. I've long wanted to try one out in a semi-practical environment and the"
YouTube Link 2020-03-21T12:00Z 3.2M followers, 182.5K engagements
"Springfields SAR-4800 FALin 5.56mm http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch http://shop.forgottenweapons.com In the early 1990s the Brazilian Imbel factory made a small run of FAL rifles converted to 5.56mm using AR magazines. They used standard FAL receivers and bolt carriers with a boltface cut for 5.56x45mm and a magazine well insert with a new magazine release compatible with the AR magazines. About [---] were imported by Springfield under the designation SAR4800 5.56mm Sporter. These were all post-ban configuration rifles with fake solid flash hiders and"
YouTube Link 2019-11-20T12:32Z 3.2M followers, 202.6K engagements
"Techno Arms MAG-7: Shooting History & Disassembly http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons The MAG-7 is an unusual shotgun made in South Africa in the 1990s and imported to the US in small numbers. The idea of the gun was to offer maximum firepower in the smallest package possible and to this end the gun had no buttstock and a [----] inch (320mm) barrel. It was chambered for 60mm [--] gauge shells feeding from a 5-round detachable box magazine in the grip of the gun. Unfortunately importation into the US required"
YouTube Link 2016-03-16T13:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing