What is next

Oh shoulder stocked pistols sounds neat.

C&Rsenal

A few ideas for a future collaboration between C&Rsenal and Forgotten Weapons...an evaluation of Shoulder stocked pistols or straight pull rifles.

Mausermaniac792

Oh nice, email me a link etc? Candrsenal@gmail.com

C&Rsenal

More comparo. Single Shootout. Gras vs RRB vs Peabody-Martini vs M1871 vs errrr….

Simon Tan

Fur trade guns please, starting with the French variants. Also, how the jaeger rifle barrel was lengthened and fitted to a New England fowler stock to make the American long rifle. The Pauly/Westley Richards monkey tails through to the Allin conversion. And the Lefaucheux/Jones break action evolutions. You could even cover the second Lefaucheux's pin fire revolver which served on both sides of the American Civil War.

Franz Anton Mesmer

Othais, this is off-topic but I thought you'd want to know about a reference book you might want. Alexander Yuschenko just published his out-of-print book "M91/30 rifles and M38/M44 carbines in 1941-1945, accessories and devices (Model 1891/1930 rifle)" on March 2nd as a Kindle edition at Amazon for $8.99. I thought you might want to help put out the word on it.

Primer already has that covered.

C&Rsenal

I was digging for information on the Noble shotguns of the 1950s and found they were a case study of sorts in plastic manufacture!

C&Rsenal

That will all go with Primer, which after WWI is going to random-walk. Primer will stay with military arms.

C&Rsenal

There is a lot of history there and it's weirdly hard to research.

C&Rsenal

We have a 1900 handy but are working on others. I'm trying to break up just why each model in the Bannerman line was made. I suspect they were not so much whole models but represented feature sets.

C&Rsenal

I'm sorry to say that Full30's treatment of us had not endeared us to using the platform. YouTube has been more responsive.

C&Rsenal

I agree with the general consensus - whatever you guys produce is pretty much gold. You have a great format, do impeccable research, and enjoyable delivery. C&Rsenal, IMHO, is the most objective and "documentary" like of the firearms channels on You Tube. Loved your collaboration with Ian from FF, please consider more crossover efforts with him - they 3 of you have great on screen chemistry and each contributes his or her own spin to a given conversation/topic making it very enjoyable to watch. Thank you for the great content. Of course, a natural progression for Primer is WWII, so much material there, and there are a lot of surplus guns out there at a great price. Another neat Primer would be Guns of the Cold War - it's pretty broad but there are a lot of interesting weapons (Galil, AR18, etc) that don't fit neatly into a war but were pivotal in some way during the Cold War period.

Older sporting arms in general would be interesting. I'd happily donate my Remington 14 or Commercial Lee Navy Sporter

full mauser history.

Andrew MacDougall

I'm dis-proportionally excited for a spencer bannerman episode, elements of the gun provide a fascinating study into the changing manufacturing technologies of the time period. for example, pay close attention to the magazine tube and the pump tube, which are made from stamped and rolled sheet with little dovetail tabs to hold the ends together. this seems like a crazy way to make a thin walled tube until you realize that ERW tube manufacture was still in it's infancy, and the alternative as seen on the earlier Spencer models was a labor intensive twist-steel tube.

Stephen Bukowsky - Blind Squirrel Enterprises

“Designed Here” might be a good criteria. But JMB’s best design WAS produced here, as the Remington Model 11.

KP Schroer

How about the interwar years of firearm development and manufacturing? Thought it would be a natural. The rise of the SMG, development of the semi-auto rifle. Sould keep you busy for a while.

John R. Dorn

An interesting avenue of departure. The question is how one defines an American shotgun? The American J.M. Browning's best shotgun design was not produced here (thanks to Winchester greed), but the US was its largest market. If the definition is "used here", the list is extensive and covers most of such shotguns made anywhere. If the definition is "made here", then the list is much shorter, but will of necessity bypass some of the great leaps forward. Personally I'd vote for "used here", but that is almost the same as saying "all made regardless of where."

Richard Anderson

Scatterguns would be neat. I don't think ANYBODY'S ever applied the "this development lead to that development" approach of Primer to the historical development of shotguns. Hunting RIFLES are largely military inspired, so much overlap. Shotguns OTOH are much more sporting, first and last, and it must have been a really competitive field back in the market hunting days.

Erik

Boomsticks

Matt

If you did a series on cap guns, I'd watch it. Shotguns should be pretty fertile ground! (I miss cap guns)

Alden Skinner

Shotguns sound interesting. For as common as they are, I don't ever see much on them. If you need a Spencer-Roper, I'm working through refurbishing one now.

Matt Lohafer

Shotguns are less covered (hence them being "not-military" and not 2A protected) and hearing the Germans get salty about things is great. History of personal-portable armor would be neat, even if short

The WWI Primer Series has been so consistently excellent that I will happily watch whatever follows. The shotgun series would be very interesting, and, also, I will take this opportunity to repeat an earlier suggestion: the development of the revolver. Than, of course, weapons of the Civil War, WWII, Old West, etc. The possibilities are endless. Whatever you choose to focus on, I'm sure it will be well worth watching.

Kent W.Fevurly

I think a shotgun series would be pretty awesome. Just like pistols and long arms; there are dozens of unusual and interesting bits of machinery and machining to see.

Tiger in man's clothing

I like the idea of the shotgun series, and the fact that it will likely be in a shorter format might work to your advantage if it means you can finally avail yourself of the Full30 channel that has been incapable of handling your present work because of the length. Don't know if you remember a show called Dark Angel from the early 00's, but as a character in it called Herbal liked to say, "It's all good, all the time." I trust in your vision...

Bruce Brodnax

I'm excited about the after action report.

Jeff Carpenter II

Good idea.

RJ Ruble

We will do our best

C&Rsenal

Your vision has consistently lead to greater and greater content. While it may not be mainstream, it is greatly appreciated. I trust your vision.

David Burnham

Great idea, try to get a Burgess folding shotgun.

A shotgun series is a great idea. I hope you do it.

Red Marley

We will eagerly await whatever project you can bring to us.

Bryan Sportel

I love the idea of a shotgun series. It's personally something I enjoy. Like you said, examples are cheap as is ammunition.

If the future is anything like the past, you'll have no problems with your content being enjoyed. Quality programming has become your trademark. The world is your oyster.

Louis W. Reuter II

You do you man...you do you, you'll always have my support