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Added 2022-09-13 06:04:20 +0000 UTC
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That's kinda the frustration about all this, arms development is so niche, its not like a car where you have mountains of engineers stabbing each other to get credit for every drop of credit and mountains of lawyers to sue for the slightest hint of infractions, You get nothing. The 1888 Commission Rifle makes the Manhattan Project seem as open as a father son chat, and out of a century old X-file coverup you were able to give some logical answers.
James Kepler
2022-09-26 09:31:11 +0000 UTCan amazing amount of work, thank you. incorrect, only .... well I guess you can always add notes to the front of all the videos. wow
Red Sky
2022-09-20 19:52:45 +0000 UTCI am impressed! (not all that hard to do but rarely stated.) OCD is truly the way of genius. You are delving into the "wild west" of mechanical invention, everybody and their siblings devised some kind of contraption. I have been actively interested in historic firearms for 60 years and have worked at both the USPTO and NARA, I have an inking of what you are up against, thank you and good luck!
Robert Finley
2022-09-19 20:23:54 +0000 UTCThe Belgian war office archive is a classic example of one of the problems facing any firearms researcher. It was stolen from occupied Belgium by the Wehrmacht in WW2 and taken to Berlin. In turn the Russians seized the documents from the ruins of the Reich and took them back to Moscow. The archive remained in Russia until 2002 when it was returned to Belgium, sadly depleted and in such a state of disarray that it took until 2012 for what remained to be properly catalogued by the Belgian archive service.
John S Wren
2022-09-18 21:03:19 +0000 UTCdived so deep in that rabbit hole maybe about time you put it together and write a book on the topic. ian book experience for a starting point?
Guido Schriewer
2022-09-18 10:12:23 +0000 UTCCould The Chap possibly answer the nudge nudge wink wink call to arms?
Edward Sosta
2022-09-16 16:58:29 +0000 UTCThis shows how you're working at this sweet spot of depth vs. breadth on firearms history that lets you find - and hopefully at some point solve - this problem.
Tom Clark
2022-09-15 02:26:01 +0000 UTCThis whole episode just makes me think it's time for you to write a book. So... Congratulations!? Also, well done!
Josh Hamrick
2022-09-14 21:19:02 +0000 UTCOthers, it is most refreshing to find intellectual honesty. BRAVO SIR!!
Tom Briggman
2022-09-14 01:25:27 +0000 UTCOh a modern revolver,. I really really want to know where and how the Rhino works. Anyway, you can't correct the errors until you know what is correct.
James Kepler
2022-09-13 22:32:36 +0000 UTCI was at an estate sale in a rather liberal part of town and as i was walking from room to room a woman stopped to read my shirt before giving me a scowl. Yes, friends, I was wearing my Cycle of Violence t-shirt, and it got just the reaction I was hoping for. I will continue to wear it in the hope of receiving others. Thanks.
Drizzle
2022-09-13 22:31:58 +0000 UTCWhat a rabbit hole you're falling into! I do applaud your intellectual honesty!
Harry Mitts
2022-09-13 21:30:41 +0000 UTCIs that not the french gign one that ian made some videos about? 😉 jk But i find the history behind the development much more interesting than the hypothetical best thing. A ranking of the existing designs would therefor be the way to go imho if you would go down that route.
fi
2022-09-13 15:23:26 +0000 UTCI just wanted to say that I really appreciate your commitment to getting the history of the revolvers as close to reality as possible. I know you do not have time to write in between everything else that you have been doing, but I think it would be great if all of this fantastic research could some day end up in a book-format.
Bendik Nilsen Bergendal
2022-09-13 15:17:21 +0000 UTCAnd to think a year ago (or was it more like two) i thought something like this would come out of the yet to be realised shotgun series. Well this is how you get cought of guard - but not in a bad way.😅
fi
2022-09-13 15:15:26 +0000 UTCConsidering Belgium was invaded twice in the 20th century I could see that a lot of records may have been destroyed. Then there is how well were designs were documented since the Liege gunsmiths were not really brought together into a corporation until FN was established.
David K. Jernigan
2022-09-13 15:02:19 +0000 UTC"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, it is a fire to be lighted."
General Jack Ripper
2022-09-13 12:14:39 +0000 UTCIf even the furthest reaching and most carefully presented reference books ultimately can't make heads or tails of the entire situation, I certainly don't blame you for having trouble with it. The revolving cylinder was such a far reaching mechanism that every tom dick and harry ended up making their own version of it, or derived parts of theirs from someone else, or just plain copied someone else without asking. That's the world of invention and engineering.
General Jack Ripper
2022-09-13 12:04:55 +0000 UTCI would argue that going back to the aforementioned episodes and either adding a note in the description or a pinned comment to the effect of "Additional information on these systems has come to light, episodes will be updated when it is fully compiled, researched, and verified" should meet any stickler's requirements for transperency, but also give you breathing room to finish the research and fully address it when able.
Eric McKenney
2022-09-13 11:42:44 +0000 UTCA comment from a university lecturer comes to mind: "I'm not here to give you answers, I'm here to get you to start asking questions." Love your work, Sasquatch.
Minion
2022-09-13 11:28:35 +0000 UTCOthais, thanks for the update. This is really fascinating stuff. Because of the need to produce animations and because of your work to overhaul and shoot many of these old revolvers, I suspect that you are gaining very detailed knowledge and understanding of all the different lockwork designs. Other recent previous researchers may not have gone so deep there, so please don't beat your self up too much over all the knowledge gaps that you work is finding.
Derek Putley
2022-09-13 10:16:27 +0000 UTCwell done on this.
James Mathieson
2022-09-13 09:25:04 +0000 UTCYeah!
Tommm
2022-09-13 08:53:38 +0000 UTCOthais, since we are on the subjects of revolvers and research, why don't you design the perfect revolver for us. Tell us what features it would have, what kind of an action, caliber, etc etc. That would be a real treat for us.
Uncle John Bulleit
2022-09-13 08:11:19 +0000 UTCI just put my dollerdoo in. I wasn't expecting this at all. I just wanted to finally support you guys!
Sylvie & Pancakes
2022-09-13 07:04:08 +0000 UTC
