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This month's Q&A theme is submachine guns:

0:00:41 - Do different nationali...

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This month's Q&A theme is competition shooting...

00:50 - Guns I'd like to shoot in BUG match but ha...

I figured that Finland would be a good subject for this month's Q&A, as I am visiting the country to shoot Finnish Brutality this month. In fact, this video was filmed during the trip (the match took place last weekend, and its video coverage will be coming soon!).

00:39 - Development of the Suo...

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01:11 - Was the Vickers .50 any good, and why did the British use 4 different heavy cartridges instead of consolidating?
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Since I spent a couple weeks hiking across the Falklands and then visiting battlefields (and penguins), it seems reasonable to do a Q&A...

Lots of questions from Patrons!

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In a Q&A video a month or two back, I was asked what modern rifle I thought would be best for a soldier in WWI trench warfare. My answer was an AR-15, and I got a lot of people asking why. Well, because the AR is a more reliable rifle in really bad mud than the AK.

What I couldn't show at the...

In this month's Q&A video, I take on more questions from my wonderful Patreon supporters, including:

* Would we still have Browning pistols if the 1911 had not been adopted?
* Gun designs from non-industrialized places
* British .303 Conversions of the Martini
* Weapons best left forgotten
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Another set of questions from my awesome Patreon contributors!
0:43 - Guns flexing in slow motion
3:41 - Destructives Devices - the guns vs the ammo
9:54 - What makes some stocked pistols exempt from the NFA?
14:41 - Unusual things build into rifle stocks
17:36 - Best rifle/pistol that neve...

Questions in today's Q&A:

1:04 - What was Rollin White's revolver like?
7:09 - Why did pan magazines disappear?
10:14 - Why no pointed pistol bullets?
13:24 - Funky rounds like Trounds or Gyrojet rockets
17:47 - Current US MHS trials
19:55 - Underappreciated designers
24:17 - Import mark...

Time for another monthly Q&A video - thanks to my supporters on Patreon for helping to make this possible! I have a whole bunch of questions this time, and have timestamps for each individual one here:

0:52 - Barrel length in terms of bore diameter
3:18 - Why did the XM8 fail?
http://weapo...

In this month's Q&A video, I take on more questions from my wonderful Patreon supporters, including:

* Would we still have Browning pistols if the 1911 had not been adopted?
* Gun designs from non-industrialized places
* British .303 Conversions of the Martini
* Weapons best left forgotten
* Wha...

Today's question topics:

0:00:36 - Have I considered designing the perfect gun?
0:02:38 - Dealer sample machine gun market
0:07:20 - Stocked pistols and pistol-carbines
0:10:53 - P14 & M1917 nomenclature
0:12:45 - Particularly good and bad manuals of arms
0:16:10 - CMP 1911s
0:18:57 - What could...

0:25 - FAMAS parts kits coming?

1:15 - Why heel magazine releases on European handguns?

3:07 - Are Continsouza Berthiers worth less than MAS and MAC ones?

5:10 - Having stronger FAMAS magazines made.

5:50 - Why were there M2 and M3 Carbines instead of M1A2 and M1A3 Carbines?

7:17 - What was...

Today's Q&A is all about French guns, because I am getting close to being finished writing a book on French military rifles - the first book to cover this subject in English from the Chassepot through the FAMAS!

01:34 - Favorite French pistol, rifle, and machine gun
03:13 - How did I get interes...

Whew - this was a long one! As usual, I had far more questions submitted by you awesome Patrons than I could answer, so if yours didn't get in this time please submit it again next time.

0:00:52 - What have been my favorite or most enlightening trips abroad?
0:02:55 - Systems like Blish that wor...

Is it "GUH-rand" or "GAIR-end"? Well, let's find out by asking John Cantius himself...

There is an old gun shop tale that Argentine Ballester-Molina pistols were made form the salvaged armor plate of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. The Graf Spee was scuttled in the Rio de la Plata estuary in December 1939, only a few miles from the HAFDASA factory in Buenos Aires, and Arge...

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!

I get a lot of questions about the purpose of stacking rods and stacking swivels on rifles - so let's see if we can clear some of them up today.

One will sometimes encounter German WW1 arms - mostly Lugers and Kar98 carbines - that have two date stamps, one of them being 1920. What is the significance of this?

The crux of the matter is that the "1920" stamp is not a date, but rather a property mark. When the Treaty of Versailles was be...

One of the questions I got for this month's Q&A was, "what are your favorite submachine guns?" Well, I figured that would be a good idea for a standalone video instead of just a Q&A answer, so here we are! My top SMGs are:

5: vz61 Skorpion (honorable mention; more PDW than SMG)
4: M/31 Suomi
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When talking about antitank rifles, I often hear people ask why such things were not fitted with telescopic sights and used as snipers' rifles. So today, I figured I'd take a few minutes to explain the various reasons why...starting with why Carlos Hathcock's scoped M2 Browning was not the same t...