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Small Arms of WWI Primer 142: Early Release

This is an early release to all patrons/supporters, please let us know if you spot any errors and we'll get them fixed for the public release.  Once we release the public version in a week, we'll pull this video down.  Thank you for your support and we hope ya'll enjoy!

Small Arms of WWI Primer 142: Early Release

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I wouldn't call the Type 30 or Type 35 a great rifle. While they were good rifles they had some issues which is why they were relatively quickly replaced by the Type 38 which was a significant improvement over the Type 30's and 35's. Of course the Type 38 wouldn't exist for another 3 years. So between the Mauser and the Type 30's and 35's, the Mauser is simply the better rifle. Now that said the Type 30's and 35's aren't bad rifles, and Siam probably could have gotten them much cheaper then the Mauser since the Tokyo Arsenal wouldn't have had to tool up to make them, so why didn't they just buy the Arisaka and possibly savings else where? Well it's my personal opinion that it goes back to the self colonization theory that Othais mentioned. In order to maintain their independence Siam was attempting to modernize for the purpose of being recognized a legitimate country in equal standing to European counties. Having western model firearms would help support that image they were trying to convey, and since at that point Japan still wasn't seen a real power by the west, having Japanese model firearms wouldn't.

SpaceCowboyfromNJ

excellent, thank you!

C&Rsenal

Thank you

C&Rsenal

rofl, I didn't even hear myself say it!

C&Rsenal

We'll get there. For now, however, we have to make sure people know what we're doing.

C&Rsenal

I think in the episode they mentioned that it predated the Arisaka.

Nicholas Resar

Oh-boy! A new primer! Bonus, I've never heard of it. (Why didn't they just buy an Arisaka, it's a great rifle. Just one of life's unsolved mysteries.)

Brian Johnson

I thought that was the great war they were refering to? July 1917 Othias said.

Gavin Rea-Davies

I thought it was known that war were declared mainly meant the Great War.

Nicholas Otten

that dust cover in se asian monsoon mud... good idea! the caliber Iḿ not so sure about. guess it went bang, huh. odd magazin or not.

Guido Schriewer

Type 47 carbine graphic shows trigger guard floor plate release, not one forward of floor plate as noted at 34:15. Later 47/66 carbine graphic appears to include noted release. Also, thinking Mae might have meant “sling” instead of “strap” at 1:01:13. Overall, a GREAT episode!

Blake Kilpatrick

I can say I learned about a rifle I only heard bad things about. Now that I have some facts about it I can say it seems like a cool rifle. Thank you for my education, I feel better when I learn something.

Adam Junemann

1:06:09 Mae, you say "...Allan Francis..." but his name in text seems to be Francis C Allan. Am more confused than usual.

Minion

Just an observation, I checked three times and can’t see/here where Mae provides a rating on the rifles. I hear where Othais and May discuss the issue with not being able to find the ‘short rifle’/carbine, but no penultimate rating.

Charles Adams

Well that episode was a complete surprise. Great job.

Mark Clement

Only issue I've found is that I know nothing of this gun so I'm about to fix that. Good work as usual.

Andrew Smelser

I think they have it up front because some people don't stay until the very end. It's better to get it out of the way ahead of time for those folks who are just going to scrub for shooting footage anyways. I like it where it is tbh. It doesn't bother me.

Andrew Smelser

Only mistake I’ve noticed so far, and it’s a bit of a quibble, is that at 47:52, Othais mentions Thai soldiers were sent into “Burma, Myanmar, and Malaya” Burma and Myanmar are the same country, Burma the colonial name, Myanmar the current, post colonial one. Like French Indochina becoming Vietnam. Pick whichever one you feel more comfortable with. Otherwise haven’t noticed a thing!

Anders Patrick Bradley

Have you considered not having the disclaimer in the beginning and basically uploading it as a final version. Any time where there are no big issues, you can just make the vid public without the need to re-upload. If you do need to fix it, you can still do it.

Robert

38:15 a declaration of war, but no WAR WERE DECLARED?!

Gavin Rea-Davies

They do not. She just likes that hat.

C&Rsenal

Yup, I need to start checking those hand-offs.

C&Rsenal

Took a few goes to work out how to get it to show up on my youtube so I can enjoy in on my TV instead of a tiny phone, but finally managed.

Gavin Rea-Davies

Question: does Brownell's pay y'all to get Mae to wear that hat when shooting? If not, be cooler if they were

David Herman

Just one criticism: Mae repeats almost exactly what Othias said about the gun just seconds before in the animation portion.

Jun Kumazawa

Thanks

Lucas Holwerda

Mine doesn't have the muzzle cap, unfortunately. But it does have a rolled piece of cloth stored in the stock.

JARED

If you found an error, report it. That's the point of THIS release.

Tiger in man's clothing

There should be an option to "share". Press that and then pick "copy link". Then copy and paste it into a browser

Cosmic Atrophy

Does anyone know how i can adjust video quality in the patreon player?

Lucas Holwerda

I get to enjoy them twice now!

Will Sanders

Mae Responding: We'll still have to scrap them as the beginning has that floating trial image.

C&Rsenal

yay!! who needs sleep!! lol

George Hilty

I'm sure its great

Dan Schneider

and if this is error free? (it’s not). do you scrap this pre-release idea and tempt fate again? (you won’t)

Mark Clement


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