Q&A 28: From PDWs to Constant Recoil
Book Reviews
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1h 20m
For this month's Q&A, we go back to a wide variety of questions, without a single specific theme. They are:
0:00:30 - Rifle, pistol, and machine gun for a modern squad
0:04:35 - Favorite non-firearm historical site
0:08:50 - What is my daily schedule like?
0:10:47 - Advantages of toggle locking systems
0:12:05 - Best PDW
0:13:40 - Can there be a comeback of Gyrojet/rocket ball ammunition?
0:15:50 - Collaboration with Time Ghost?
0:17:15 - Coverage of aerial guns
0:19:05 - Video backlog
0:22:00 - Could 6mm Lee Navy have worked with modern powder and steel?
0:23:10 - Helical magazines
0:24:35 - Restoration of rifle importation?
0:28:50 - Berthier rifles with manual safeties
0:30:01 - Book on Broomhandle Mausers
0:31:00 - Entering the gun industry with a modernized P7
0:33:05 - Single feed mags in pistols
0:34:50 - 8mm Kurz in guns other than the MP44?
0:37:16 - Big-bore pistols
0:38:05 - Why judge service rifles as target rifles?
0:39:52 - Collaboration with The Chieftain
0:40:34 - Book on the FN MAG
0:41:05 - Have I contacted printers before reviewing out-of-print books?
0:42:14 - Why no more top-feed LMGs?
0:44:14 - Possibility of new modular platform in new 6.5/6.8mm cartridge?
0:45:29 - Why was the Walther MPK/MPL unsuccessful?
0:46:23 - Gunsmithing support for rare guns (https://www.patreon.com/anvil)
0:48:33 - Preferred brand of gin
0:51:17 - Wierdest operating system?
0:53:08 - Where will Forgotten Weapons be in 5 years?
0:54:29 - Political pushback when visiting collections?
0:56:18 - Germany WW2 use of captured small arms
0:59:16 - Steyr-Hahn machine pistol
1:00:09 - Variable pitch recoil springs
1:01:34 - Bump stocks - legality and videos
1:04:30 - Custom-molded ear plugs
1:05:30 - Post-FW plans?
1:06:27 - Why aren't there more constant recoil guns?
1:09:28 - Most puzzling military adoption
1:11:19 - Which nation in WW1 had the best overall small arms stable?
1:13:42 - Could the French attack strategy have worked is WW1 began earlier?
1:15:01 - HK irons or AR15 irons?
1:15:34 - Making magazines for rare firearms
1:17:03 - Self-loading rifle development when smokeless powder was invented
1:18:40 - Sauna!
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