Q&A 34: Brought to you by Scotch
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1h 24m
Today's Q&A is brought to you by the Patrons who make Forgotten Weapons possible! Not actually by Glenlivet Nadurra (pelted cask) - although maybe that's why it went longer than normal. Our questions this month are:
0:00:50 - Why not post a series of videos all back-to-back?
0:02:58 - Most I have filmed in one day or trip?
0:05:21 - Self-cocking revolvers
0:06:32 - How much money to save for surplus rifles?
0:07:00 - Magazine safeties
0:09:24 - Example of the right gun at the right time
0:12:13 - Why not more revolver carbines?
0:14:30 - The one that got away?
0:15:40 - Simultaneous development of tilting bolt semi autos?
0:17:33 - My favorite Lee Enfield
0:18:37 - Would the USSR have benefitted from more SVT-40 rifles?
0:20:03 - My favorite modern pistol
0:20:34 - Would the vz.58 have benefitted from using AK magazines?
0:23:04 - What if Germany was first to invent smokeless powder?
0:25:15 - Will Headstamp publish a new version of my father's book?
0:26:25 - Disconnecting mainspring from bolt a la G41(M)?
0:28:46 - Why did Britain keep using military revolvers so long?
0:31:09 - M1E5 folding-stock Garand
0:33:42 - Book on British top-break revolvers
0:35:31 - Thoughts on the Gewehr 88
0:37:36 - Will the machine gun registry be reopened?
0:39:00 - Straight pull vs turnbolt
0:40:30 - My choice for hearing protection
0:41:59 - Best book for collecting Japanese rifles?
0:43:08 - Modern red dot on a WWII rifle
0:44:26 - Can the public view the NFA registry?
0:44:48 - Ejection ports angled 45 degrees downward
0:45:30 - Rifle AA sights
0:46:48 - What gun made the 9x19 cartridge so popular?
0:47:27 - HK VP70 vs Mauser M712
0:48:43 - Modern toggle-lock pistol?
0:49:08 - Favorite .22 plinker
0:49:46 - Post-WWII nations abandoning national arms manufacturing
0:52:25 - Books about WWII firearms (all of them)
0:54:29 - Guns that were good but failed to catch on
0:57:26 - Franklin Armory straight rifling
0:58:40 - If WWII went into 1946/7, could the G30/WAR have been adopted?
0:59:52 - Japanese Type 64 reduced-power 7.62x51
1:01:56 - PSG-1 and WA-2000 both the Ultimate German Sniper Rifle?
1:02:38 - Using the M1 left handed
1:04:25 - Guns I have examined but really want to shoot
1:06:14 - Who approached who for Project Lightning?
1:06:52 - Plan to visit Russia?
1:08:40 - Have I ever been scared or overwhelming by the amount of support?
1:12:50 - Future of bullpups, given Chinese adoption of a conventional rifle?
1:13:40 - Single-shot military rifles without handloading
1:15:35 - What odd 9x19mm pistol would I live to have?
1:16:20 - How to write a book without time or resources
1:18:04 - Reloading for .32 French Long
1:19:48 - Modern stocked pistols like the B&T USW and P320 Flux?
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