Q&A #16: Lightning Round!

Ian's (immediately corrected) misspeak about SWAT team members practicing "ballistic entries" gave me the image of a SWAT officer serving a search warrant on a home by being flung bodily through the living-room window by one of those giant circus cannons, and for that, I will always be grateful.

Title made me think the video would be about some cool cartridge called the lightning round

Summary: First older firearms you’ve purchased for yourself?– 0:49 Why are you interested in French rifles? – 0:52 Coming to New York City? – 1:36 Recommendations for museums in Paris? – 1:50 Why the 10 mm not explored further? - 2:50 Your most shot gun and least shot gun? – 4:15 .45 Auto obsolete ammunition? – 5:08 Best firearm manufacture? - 6:15 Pistol calibre carbines useful or range toys? – 6:49 What era of time produced the most forgotten weapons? – 7:21 Earliest semi-auto centrefire rifle? – 8:35 Most unicorn firearms you’d like to get your hands on? – 8:57 Does shotguns have a place in modern military? – 9:22 Which piece of field artillery from Great War do you prefer? -10:00 Where to find black powder .22 rimfire ammunition? – 10.25 Relevancy of the many new calibers, will they become forgotten? - 11:23 Your favourite reference material for British small arms? - 12:34 Favourite and least favourite airline? – 13:34 How much time do you spend at home? – 14:18 When will you shoot your Chassepot? – 15:00 What’s the best kind of whiskey? – 15:27 Military application for subsonic ammunition? – 15:33 Cheapest/best source for collector grade books? – 16:05 Calico guns? – 16:48 Do you have any French heritage? – 17:50 First full-auto firearms you’ve shot? – 18:05 Time gap between military and police adopted a semi-auto pistol? – 18:42 Military rifle with straight-pull bolt? – 19:19 Which WWI weapon would you choose (Shotgun, MP-18/Luger, m1917 and revolver)? - 19:45 Which of the firearms you own would you save if you house burns (chose 3)? – 20:03 Best Bullpup overall? – 20:29 What Russian experimental weapon of the cold war would you like to examine? – 21:45 Gun laws videos on other countries? - 22:23 Why no attempts of mass-producing suppressed rifles during 20th century? – 23:50 Favourite AK-74 Magazine? - 25:06 Beretta 92 or CZ-75? – 25:30 Signature cocktail? – 25:39 Browning Hi-Power or 1911? – 26:06 Best semi-auto during WWII? – 26:10 One handgun to shoot for the rest of your life? - 26:22 Would you be a reenactor? – 26:33 Coffee or tee? – 27:19 How does the new P-210 stands up to the original version? - 27:30 Were you able to convert the Henry from IMA into something shootable? – 27:49 Which European country for the armistice centenary? – 28:39 Which pre 1930 weapon would you bring back? – 29:18 Most influential yet underrated firearms of the 20th century? – 30:32 Rifle ammunition clip design falling/ejecting? – 31:11 Japanese ammunition underpowered myth? – 31:54 Do you hunt? – 32:58 Your opinions about forgotten weapons online memes? – 33:12 Firearms scary to shoot? - 33:36 Favourite handgun type: revolver or semi-auto? - 35:00 Why did Savage get out of the pistol market? – 35:13 Worst military small arm fielded in the last hundred ish years? – 35:46 Favourite movie-prop weapon design? – 36:20 Have you damaged any weapon you’ve been reviewing? - 36:54 Planning on future collaborations with Larry Vickers? – 40:23 Have you ever fired the Ruger PC9 / PC9s? – 40:43 Does the Hudson 9 worth the money? – 40:53 H&K G11 financially viable? – 41:32 How Canadian Diemaco C7 compare to US M16/M4? – 42:08 Are the guns on the 21th century the best that ever existed? – 43:05 Relevancy of the 7.62x51 NATO and consequences over other cartridge? – 43:30 Tulle and Tula manufactures entanglements? – 44:40 What software do you use to edit your videos? – 45:21 Modern Japanese rifles? – 45:30 Average time between a video being filmed and uploaded? – 46:14 How big is your box of moldy web gear? – 47:44 Use of big game civilian rifles during WWI? – 48:21 Which of the FN SCAR, the Bushmaster ACR or the CZ BREN would become a forgotten weapon in 20 years? – 49:47 What obsolete cartridge would you like to come back? – 50:06 Why the Colt Monitor the best variant of the BAR according to you? – 50:36 How is Ian father doing, why we don’t see him more on Japanese firearm videos? – 52:41 Ian’s dog? - 54:21 Most useful firearm tool? – 55:05 Individual Rail-gun? – 55:56 Any plans to come to Norway? – 57:03 Rank Schmidt-Rubin K11, k31 and Steyr M95? – 57:09 What are the Wondernines? – 57:37 Any plans to visit Czech Repupblic? – 57:50 Would you shoot a low number 1903? – 58:17 BM-59 build yay or nay? – 58:43 Which rifle of the 1980 advanced combat rifle program you’d like to get your hand on? - 59:30 Any strikes from Youtube? – 59:45 Was the adoption of the 7.62 NATO over the .280 a mistake? - 1:00:26 Favourite .32 ACP pistol to shoot? – 1:00:51 Your opinion on the Polish vis.35 new production? – 1:01:30 Your recommendation on ear protection? – 1:02:42 Is accuracy on pistols any relevant for police and law enforcement purposes? – 1:03:37 P14 oy Type 99 Arisaka? – 1:04:17 Could magazine forward on pistols (like on the C-96, Bergmann Bayard) make a comeback? – 1:04:49 What forgotten weapon under 500-600 $ everyone should add to their collection? – 1:05:09 Do you still have time to shoot your own gun to at the range? – 1:05:55

As a professional English-Russian translator and interpreter, tell me if you need a letter to any Russian museums translated. Would gladly help out pro bono.

2018: "At this point, a Hudson H9" 2020: "Thanks for tuning into Forgotten Weapons. I'm Ian, and today we have..."

Best cocktail is a shot of whiskey mixed with the rest of the bottle.

> Lightning round > still over an hour long

Everyone shits on the Nagant revolver and it's ammo, but it's really not that bad. The cartridge is hardly whimpy as people suggest. It's basically a .380 which was a fairly common military pistol caliber at the time. Most people are just used to the crappy commercial ammo that is 500fps. Original ammo is 1,300fps.

Talk about a nice video to find on a coffee break. Feedback: I like both styles of Q&A, honestly it might be nice to sort of "clear the cache" of questions with a session like this every so often, but mainly retain the other style where you go deeper into some of the answers.

And here I thought this was a 1-hour Q&A with someone in the industry developing actual lightning rounds for handguns.

I thought it was going to be about some form of obscure proprietary cartridge from the 1860s...

"It's hard to go wrong with 6 rounds of .357. It really just... worked." Great answer.

I prefer the longer form answers that go a bit deeper; but I would like to see this style come back maybe on a quarterly basis. It’s a nice broad spectrum of questions and answers but I definitely would miss the longer form if it went away.

The Paris Army museum will take you a day. Another museum to see is the Naval museum Musée national de la Marine (National Navy Museum) located in the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro directly across the river from the Eifel Tower

I counted at least two distinct bashing of the L85. Well done!

Having been a veteran and gun enthusiast during the era I always considered the term "wonder nine" to be more relevant to the pre Glock steel framed hi cap 9's that died out with the successful introduction of polymer frame guns. High Power, S&W59/69, Beretta, Cz 75 etc.

“Working is the main problem with the G11” well said

47:00 "i don't want to publish them all in a row because often they have some themes to them" so what your saying is your trying to avoid another bergman plague

I dig the format for sure. Good way to mix things up a little. Maybe once a quarter, or just whenever the pile of simple questions gets to be a few pages long.

Forgotten Weapons Precision Disassembly tool is best tool, confirmed.