Cursed Guns in History

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The irony is that the Mars pistol is a great gun in Battlefield 1. It's pretty much a ww1 era Desert Eagle

One of the other reasons you'd keep your non-firing hand back on a revolving carbine is the sideblast when firing caused by the cylinder gap. On powerful rounds that pressure can be enough to remove fingers.

The more I learn about early semi automatic pistols the more I'm surprised how much John Moses Browning got right with the Colt 1911.

"The Nambu was possibly the worst firearm ever made" The Zip 22: "Hold my beer." Also part 2 please

The designer of the Ruger Mark Series based his design on the Japanese Nambu*. He fixed the flaws and made his pistol arguably the most reliable semiautomatic .22 you can buy.

Interesting side note there is currently a 410 shotgun that uses the revolver type cylinder and apparently it's pretty popular.

During an episode of Lock n Load with R. Lee Ermey, the Gunny showed us the Colt carbine but straight up told the audience that he refused to shoot it.

Concerning the 1855 Colt Side-Hammer revolving carbine: "Cooking off" is when the chamber of a firearm is so hot that a cartridge loaded into it goes off on it's own. This can lead to a belt-fed machine gun "running away" or firing fully automatic against the wishes of the operator. The 2 solutions are to simply allow the weapon to run out the belt or to twist the belt causing the weapon to jam. When 2 or more cylinders of a revolver go off at the same time other is called "chain firing".

After that intro, I just have to leave this here, courtesy of Drachinifel from his I-400 guide: "For millennia, man has faced a quandary: The desire to hit someone, but they're really far away. This has lead progressively to the development of: The thrown rock, the thrown, pointy rock, the far thrown rock, the really far thrown rock, the flying pointy rock on a stick, the refined pointy rock on a stick, the spicy refined rock powered by fire, and, by the end of WWII, the happy fun times refined spicy rock transported by the big metal bird."

Vanguard in a nutshell

the funny thing is about the Mars pistol, if i remember correctly, the inventor was really convinced it was a good pistol. so much so that when the army asked him to make changes to improve it, he outright refused and little change was made to the gun other than tiny things being done by the other members of the workforce.

9:10 "it had almost no recoil" > animates it with very strong recoil wtf are you guys even doing? you had one job

Gyro-Jet Pistol •uses rocket-propelled ammunitions Now we know what inspired Warhammer 40k Bolter guns.

Fun fact, as an owner of one the revolver carbine would "chain fire" until they started using fat around the wad.

The Gyrojet pistol featured in the Bond film You Only Live Twice. The film makers thought it would be cool to have as a gadget for Bond and his allies to use. They even made a mini rocket projectile to place into the tip of a cigarette, and when lit would fire and stun the enemy. That featured in the film as well, and did actually work.

4:08 I see that simple history has improved itself on animating the M1911. Probably the best thing to see in this video.

“A weapon can usually be turned against you, if you don’t know how to use it.” -Kerstin Gier

One rule if you want to make a good weapon : make sure the gun is reliable , easy to use and more importanly always reasonable in designing .

Adjacent percussion chambers firing is NOT called "cooking off", the term is a "chain fire" and it's easily avoided by pushing some heavy grease, fat, or suet (now popular is vaseline) into the chambers ahead of the loaded bullet to prevent flashover.