Q&A for January 2023

There have been a handful of recent(ish) indigenous service rifles (Mexico, India, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey) that have never made any kind of appearence on the US civilian market. Which one would you be most interested to take apart and shoot?

Jaswimmly

Why do we differentiate between "Long" and "Short" systems (recoil, gas piston)? Is it just engineers preference for specificity, or are there significant differences in the manufacturing and utility between the designs?

Jaswimmly

I'm probably getting boring by repeating the question, but I'd love some answer 😀 so In the past there was certain diversity in locking mechanisms of automatic firearms. However nearly all the locking mechanisms of the past have vanished in favor of rotating bolt. What is it that made/ is making rotating bolt the ultimate winner in this field ? Is it just a matter of cost and efficiency within the manufacturing process? And speaking of the machanisms that vanished from mainstream firearms manufacturing (for instance tilting bolt, flapper lock, and even delayed blowback [inspite of not being technically a locking mechanisms]) what were the unique advantages and disadvantages of specific locking mechanisms?

In an older video you had mentioned that if you had a time machine and *had* to fight in WW1 that you would take an AR15. To spin this question on its head. If you had to take a rifle from the Second World War and bring it to a modern battlefield. Which would it be?

If somehow you travelled back in time to 1870, what would your perfect revolver look like, ie, what features does it have? What is your favorite revolver from before 1900?

Uncle John Bulleit

SEAL Team Six uses a Time Machine to travel back to WWII and take Der Führer alive. The team can choose any weapons available at the time. How do you equip them for their mission? Sidearm, SMG, Assault Rifle, Battle Rifle, Sniper Rifle. (Prototypes are allowed)

DelBocaVista

Do you ever get tired of the "Do you think X gun in X caliber would of changed the outcome of X war?" questions? They all seem frivolous since the effect of an individual rifle rarely has meaningful impact on a large scale war

Cody Vega

My local gun store has a used Webley Mk IV chambered in .38 s&w priced at $400 that I’ve had my eye on for a couple weeks now and am strongly considering buying it. If I do purchase it (being that it would be my first Webley), is there a particular quirk, feature or function I should be mindful of? Anything to be on the lookout for as a potential weak point? Thanks for all the great content thus far and yet to come

Repeat Q: You are a loyal procurement officer for a small European country on the eve of WWI, but your Elbonian-born Prime Minister is insistent that smokeless is just a fad and that Black Powder will prove dominant in the end. What is the best all black powder loadout you can come up with for your military heading towards 1914?

AC C

Q&A Are there mechanisms in guns/weapons that failed at first or were just mediocre but saw a successful comeback with better materials and engineering (techniques) available? And could you give examples, if possible. please?

Reichsbierminister

Hi Ian. Do you think rail gun technology will ever enter the light weapons realm, and if so how far off would such a technology be?

Jordan B

I'm a brit who's never held a real gun. In videos where you've shown us guns' sight pictures, often when the front sight is in focus the rear sight is a blur, and the target is even more of a blur. It looks very difficult to use. Is that representative of what gun sights look like to the human eye, or is it an artefact of using a camera?

Michael T