What you can do

I don't mind upping. You shouldn't have to sell your collection. :-( Just do the French, British, and American fur trade guns for me someday. ;-)

Franz Anton Mesmer

Sadly, no I don't have a preferred source. I've only managed a light education on him.

C&Rsenal

I've put this out to my Brother (A Librarian and Historian in Toronto, Canada) and he is working with a few groups to raise some awareness, but also see what can be found buried in some of the archives.

Brendan Hood

There are several books on General Letow-Vorbeck. Do you have any recommendations? Btw I read your suggested reading on Leopold II, I’m going to be in therapy for some time.

Ronald Hoogenboom

In the long run we will balance simple a complicated shows

C&Rsenal

Somewhat. The presentation is not the problem as much as research and prep. Regardless of what we echo, I will have to read the same to be correct.

C&Rsenal

We have the manticore offer in hand and are just busy people trading emails when we can. Should settle soon.

C&Rsenal

Shotgun developmental history feels sorely neglected.

C&Rsenal

Othias, I think most of us would be okay with a little longer between episodes, than with you burning yourselves out and the whole thing coming down. Put 'em out, as you can, when they are as good as you think they should be. I don't have a deadline, and I won't not check it out if it takes a few days longer. Breathe... Don't kill yourself for a deadline.

I enjoy the encyclopedic content, but if producing it is too much of a burden, I think there are ways the material could be summarized without losing relevant info.

Any movement on the wishlist, I’ve asked a collector or two to check out your work. It can be tough to say “hey can you let this dude from the Internet borryour machine gun?” but I don’t know anyone that has seen this series and not been impressed. Btw did anything come of the Manticore offer?

Christopher Dooley

Thank you

C&Rsenal

I'm going to get in the habit of sharing videos, and am going to up my pledge a smidge (please try not to feel guilty about that; you guys are doing a kind and quality of work that nobody else is doing or has ever done before, and that work is simply worth the money to me). But also, while you know more about your viewer demographics than I do, it seems to me that it might be worth interleaving the remaining WWI videos with other content. I respect your commitment to the "every gun of the Great War" project, but the goal of doing them all *before any other content* seems to be stretching your resources pretty critically, and relaxing that timeline might be worth considering. Supplemental projects on more popular and attainable guns could take some pressure off you guys, boost viewership, and recharge your batteries a bit while you gather resources for the really tough remaining WWI guns. I imagine something as relatively pedestrian as an M1 carbine Primer, for example, would bring a ton of new eyeballs, use guns that you can much more easily borrow, buy, or already have in the family collection, and have a ton of sources available in English. If you include its post-WWII history its a big enough subject to get a 2- or 3-parter out of that might be much less resource-intensive per episode than a deep dive on a rare European machine gun that you have to travel across the country and handload hundreds of rounds for. And selfishly, I'd love to see you and Mae get to do that repeating sport shotgun series you've talked about. It warms my fuddly heart.

Michael Stueber

I'll promote your channel as much as I can. You're doing good work here. This series will be a heck of a resource for years to come. Thank you very much.

This. I'm happy to wait for quality.

John S Wren

I love the channel but I don't want you to sacrifice everything to it. Slow down your pace so you produce only as fast as the Patreon money comes in to cover the expenses. You certainly deserve a breather now and then.

There is one at the site: <a href="http://candrsenal.com/wishlist/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://candrsenal.com/wishlist/</a>

C&Rsenal

I appreciate it but there is no need! Treat it like a pyramid scheme and find another sucker! ;)

C&Rsenal

families actually get a LOT harder sadly.

C&Rsenal

That does exist but... it's a challenge either way. <a href="http://candrsenal.com/wishlist/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://candrsenal.com/wishlist/</a>

C&Rsenal

Upped my pledge, its more than worth it.

Othais, let me know if you need help with anything, I have a couple weapons I might be able to loan you. Make a list of weapons you might need and the community and I will try to help. I have upped my pledge because I love and believe in what you guys are doing over there at C&amp;R!

Othais, I haven't been a member here for long, but I have to help out more so I upped my pledge. Thank you for your great videos!

Yeah, Bruce Canfield and the GCA have already done the heavy lifting in the research dept. for you... ;-)

Bruce Brodnax

If you go with Mr White's idea I have a (potentially unsafe) Turkish forestry carbine I could lend you.

Another idea would to do episodes on weapon families. Development of the 1911, evolution of smith and Wesson revolvers. Remember Tales of The Gun?

Tim The Enchanter

My best recommendation is to go to every other episode WWI firearms and sprinkle in guns you want and (ideally get bug viewer numbers). I say this as someone who never would have put the time into watching yor show if not for the WWI focus, bu i recognize the difficulties and that you have a lot of more niche items left. Lastly, there are plenty of WWI-adjacent firearms that can keep it close for a while, such as a No 4 or other derivitives of WWI weapons if you want to keep the scope relatively narrow for a while.

Shaun Young

I like Nicholas Whites idea. Do an episode on several very popular weapons to raise viewership. The down side is Post WWII you tend to run into a lot of select fires that would be more expensive and harder to find. M16/AR-15, AK, M1 family etc.

Tim The Enchanter

I agree with Nicholas White entirely. Doing the occasional popular iconic firearm such as the M1 Garand would be sure to boost viewership and would probably be much easier to gather research on.

Agreed, put a list of guns you need to photo or shoot at the beginning or end of the episode. It may just do the trick.

Eric Elcock

How about a post WW1 wishlist? What does Othais want or need? Sadly, a priority episode post WW1 should probably be the M1 Garand. Boost viewership with a popular gun... but the weird ones are more interesting. If you do the Franco-Prussian war, I'm happy to lend my (functioning!) Chassepot.

Nicholas White

A rare lugers special with Simpson would be quite cool

Phil Block