Austro-Hungarian Rifles of WW1 I THE GREAT WAR - Special feat. C&Rsenal

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Indy and Flo sat down for one of our live streams about historical firearms again. Othais from C&Rsenal explained the various Austro-Hungarian rifles and pistols of the First World War. Among them of course the famous Mannlicher rifles. In our next episode we will also have a look at the iconic Austro-Hungarian pistols.
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Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013.
Stone, Norman. World War One. A Short History, Penguin, 2008.
Keegan, John. The First World War, Vintage, 2000.
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@LifeofCharles 8 лет назад

A-H rifles are the black sheep of WWI rifles. I would say alongside the Italian Carcano rifles, the A-H Mannlichers are some of the most understudied and under appreciated firearms of WWI.

@connormac4401 6 лет назад

The entire A-H empire is understudied aside from their Archduke got shot. Not even Serbia's great victories over them are mentioned in mainstream medias

@matheusmelo6022 6 лет назад

Yeah, thats because both Austria-Hungary and Italy are understudied in World War 1. That's why we don't hear much about their rifles. Actually, we don't hear much about any rifles used in World War 1, people just assume everyone used the same kind of bolt action rifle or musket in fighting. German Gewehr and Enfields are probably more known.

@treerat7631 6 лет назад

Charles' Milsurp Firearms carcano is based on a styer

@attilarischt2851 8 лет назад

The 1895 is still used as a ceremonial rifle in Hungary (along with the soviet SKS) to my knowledge.

@mikemike6908 8 лет назад

You are correct

@totnorbi 7 лет назад

magyarok! :D

@luke_0458 4 года назад

In Austria too I like that

@tombogan03884 2 года назад

Shiny wood and steel look better in parades. LOL

@user-kf6nc5jv3l 7 лет назад

I'm quite lucky, because I live in Vienna and it only takes me a half-hour to get to the Austrian army museum that is also the arsenal where tons of every weapon the Austrian army has used in the last 2 centuries (and even older stuff like armor and swords) are stored. Every rifle shown here and even all the variants (sling swivels on the side or below, cut down, ...), all the types of ammo and the bayonets are on display. There even is one that got converted into a machine-gun back in WW1. It kind of looks like a pile of scrap welded together but at least it did what it was supposed to do. If you're in Vienna one day visit this museum, it's worth it.

@kreol1q1q 7 лет назад

I can agree, the Vienna Heeresgeschichtliches Museum is a brilliant, albeit huge museum. I've visited it last year and was very impressed. The only shame is that it's actually too big. One visit won't be enough to appreciate it fully. Well, I guess that's just something more to look forward to when I visit Vienna again :).

@user-kf6nc5jv3l 7 лет назад

This museum, is like a meeting point for Russian and (I know Russia is in Asia) Asian tourists. I really like it, it has the FN 1910/12 our archduke was shot with and even the car he got shot in. I don't have the problem of not having enough time since I live in vienna. Greetings from Vienna!

@user-kf6nc5jv3l 7 лет назад

Do you mean in WW1? If you do then look at the casualties. There were always more Italians killed. My great-greatgrandfather was at the Isonzo and probably killed some Italians and when he got back he only had Malaria. The point is that you shouldn't write something this offensive since many people died back then and it is just rude to disrespect the brave men who gave their lives for their nation, it doesn't matter if they were Italian or Austro-Hungarian soldiers.

@user-kf6nc5jv3l 7 лет назад

I appreciate it. Greetings from Vienna!

@user-kf6nc5jv3l 7 лет назад

I have only been to Triest for one day when I was coming back from my vacation in Dalmatia. I would love to see more parts of Italy someday.

@Patrick_3751 8 лет назад

If there's one thing the Austrians did right militarily, it was weapons manufacturing!

@BHuang92 8 лет назад

One of the weapons manufacturing legacy the Austro-Hungarian Empire was laying the foundation for Czech arms industry.

@Shore1985 8 лет назад

+BHuang92 This still remains today... Even though Austria is a pretty small country with only a few big companies, austrian arms industry founded 2 very iconic weapons: The AUG and the Glock-Series

@kreol1q1q 8 лет назад

+Patrick3751 Not just that, but all over the lands of the former empire we now have very good arms and military manufacturers. In Croatia we also have a very successful and highly export based small arms industry, and it produces highly successful lines of pistols, assault rifles, helmets, body armor and military clothing.

@BHuang92 8 лет назад

asger734 Alot of Czech firearms were exported almost all over the world and many firearms were based from the Czechs.

@ronaldritchie7261 6 лет назад

I read about the Austro-Hungarian Empire and it wasn't just arms manufacturing they did well. They did most manufacturing well. Too bad their heads of state were too proud to realistically accomodate the various nationalities within their realm.

@spiritualanarchist8162 7 лет назад

My grandfather actually fought with the Austrian army. He told stories how both the Italians and the Austrians (and Russians, Hungarians,etc,etc) picked up each others guns. After a few years of intense close combat fighting, There was hardly a 'national weapon' left .At the end of the war soldiers carried a mix and match of different guns. ,hand-granates, etc,etc. picked up from enemy corpses along the way. Russian, Italian,German. whatever worked.

@AgentCamtho1 8 лет назад

If only the guns made up for the commanders *cough* Hotzendorf *cough*

@Duke_of_Lorraine 8 лет назад

+Agent Camtho then France would have been f***ed

@GamesLegitament 8 лет назад

+scarfacemperor I can picture Joffre siting there, "Well, it's a good thing they're morons because our rifles suck."

@usslibertyincident 8 лет назад

+GamesLegitament lol

@gamemaster4356 8 лет назад

+Agent Camtho Don´t forget Potiorek. I´d say he´s worse.

@Zamolxes77 8 лет назад

+Agent Camtho Well, technically, they could, if someone would have the balls to aim it at the proper target.

@ThePerfectRed 8 лет назад

"Schritte" just means paces by the way and was equal to 75cm. The Austrian army thought a soldier could judge distances better this way. This measurement was already used in the muzzle-loading era, e.g. on the Lorenz rifles. Great video, keep up the good work!

@LocovsworldNL 8 лет назад

You guys are gonna get so mutch traffic because of battlefield 1 and its great for you guys honour to you all!

@MilsurpMikeChannel 8 лет назад

Austro-Hungarian Rifles are a hole in my WWI collection. I need to get a full sized M95 soon.

@handofdoom4970 8 лет назад

+Milsurp Mike i have on but its not for sale sorry

@kreol1q1q 8 лет назад

+MarsTheGodOfGaming where did you get it?

@handofdoom4970 8 лет назад

Krešimir Koržinek my father got it at a store when he was a kid

@SuperCompany007 8 лет назад

'Murica

@handofdoom4970 8 лет назад

+Company007 .........

@Petro1683 8 лет назад

I love Mannlicher M95s, I have one that belong to Bosnian Herzegovinian Inf regiment :D

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Petro1683 Interesting find.

@gulamman5817 8 лет назад

I hope we can have more focus on Austria. I am a big fan of the country just because of The Sound of Music.

@BikerJim74 8 лет назад

yes, these are some of my favorite episodes.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Biker Jim Thanks, we love them too.

@thesayxx 8 лет назад

yeees more gun presentations! I love these. Good job guys!

@kreol1q1q 8 лет назад

Yaaay, finally!!!! Great work both channels! Love both of you :)

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

+Krešimir Koržinek I love you.

@kreol1q1q 8 лет назад

+C&Rsenal As much as this has sent butterflies fluttering through my belly, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is your flu medication talking. Rest Othais, we need you in full health to make us those excellent primers - and talking about primers, there is still the matter of making a full episode on this certain Mannlicher rifle. I love you too C&Rsenal, I love you too :)

@mdocevski 8 лет назад

+C&Rsenal love your stuff. Btw the annotation at the end doesn't lead to your channel, i think it might be a type-o. Cheers

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Marko Docevski Sorry, RU-vid had a hick up and we fixed it. But you can always find it in the video description too when we do collaborations.

@5c077andstuff 8 лет назад

I was excited to learn about the Austria-Hungarian rifles since I knew nothing about them before this video.

@bennychenley9113 8 лет назад

I think I like the Austro-Hungarian bolt action rifles because of the breech opening.

@klively9390 8 лет назад

Absolutely love this project! I'm a huge WW1 nerd as well, which until this series I thought was somewhat rare among Americans. Recently saw your channel linked on "the firearm blog". So very happy to see this project becoming more widespread! Keep up the good work y'all.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Court Lively That's great to hear.

@ritterbruder212 8 лет назад

Can't wait for C&Rsenal's full episodes on the Mannlicher rifles. Been really interested in learning about all the variants.

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

+ritterbruder212 We have lots.

@WillN2Go1 4 года назад

Cool. Thanks for this. So my grandfather trained and qualified on one of these; to a high level of competence, because...after he deserted... and emigrated to the Unite States, and either joined or was drafted in 1917; he was praised for his shooting in training, given a Rifle badge (Maltese cross, with 'rifle' hung below it). But then when he explained that he hadn't learned hunting around a farm "I'm not a farmer" (He was Polish from Vienna) but had instead learned in the Austrian-Hungary Army; they said, "You can't be in our army. You could be a spy."

@dsducky 8 лет назад

Great show. Thanks for all your work!

@anthonyzorn773 8 лет назад

Indy, you should do a live stream where people can ask you questions about WWI, that would be pretty cool.

@generalcarlgustavfleischer368 8 лет назад

+Anthony Zorn ^^

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Anthony Zorn We'll think about it.

@anthonyzorn773 8 лет назад

+The Great War Why thank you Flo! You guys do an awesome job

@Sneemaster 8 лет назад

I really enjoyed this episode and I like how excited everyone was talking about the guns.

@the_major 8 лет назад

Love these collaboration episodes! Keep up the good work Great War and C&Rsenal!

@maewinchester2030 8 лет назад

+themajor Thanks and will do!

@vukov2000 8 лет назад

I am less and less surprised by the greatly supreme quality of your videos. Loving the show! Quite interesting how these weapons worked, especially considering this video covers my favorite Empire XD Great work from both channels!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Animativision Studios Thanks, glad you liked it.

@Thermopylae2007 8 лет назад

The M95 carbines and rifles are real fun to shoot. I've got a pair that I cast bullets for and they're an interesting addition to any history buff's collection. Thanks for putting up such an informative and thorough review!

@mmartinu327 6 лет назад

I have a photo of my great-grandfather from 1916. On the photo he had Mannlicher 1895. (He was 17 years old at the time)

@wonberger7283 8 лет назад

These are awesome episodes! Loved it

@TheShoreman1 8 лет назад

These collaborative videos are great. Really gives you a broader perspective on the subject. The one on the hand to hand fighting methods with shovels and clubs was fascinating and gave great insight into the average soldier's actual experience vs. the thinking of the commanders when choosing weapons and equipment. Thanks for the videos.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+TheShoreman1 Thanks, glad you liked it.

@donovian2538 2 года назад

Othais is a masterful presenter. I really appreciate his attention to detail.

@fhsreelfilms 8 лет назад

This is such a cool collaboration. I've heard the recoil on the M95 Steutzen is horrific with the later 8x56mm loads.

@611_hornet5 8 лет назад

The M95 does have a reputation for kicking like an angry mule.

@WhatIsYourMalfunction 8 лет назад

+fhsreelfilms I can confirm my 95/30 is not fun to shoot.

@JoeySher 8 лет назад

I love your channel so much!!! It's like a crave I constantly want to learn more and more about world war 1

@Dor2177178 8 лет назад

an extrem lovely and educational video , good work and a great crow

@sirdouglashaig967 8 лет назад

Love these, great work to both of your channels

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Thanks.

@NuclearRockstarMD 8 лет назад

Yes! I've been eagerly awaiting the return of Othias on this channel! More than anything else, I think I really enjoy learning about the history of the weapons and tactics of this conflict. This little part of the show is one of my favorites because of that.

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

+RedCrownActual We have a whole other channel you know...

@NuclearRockstarMD 8 лет назад

+C&Rsenal And I am a subscriber! But what I love about this team-up you guys do with The Great War is that you run through the weapons by country all at once. It really gives perspective to the march of progression each country had, especially in the ever-evolving battlefield of WWI. Love both channels!

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

RedCrownActual Thanks man!

@KirbyComicsVids 8 лет назад

I was honestly expecting the Austrian rifles to be of kinda poor quality but apparently it seems they were actually pretty good!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+KirbyComicsVids That's what we expected too actually.

@jorgeadelprado 8 лет назад

i been waiting 2 years for this episode!!! thank you thank you!!! lots of love from Spain

@maewinchester2030 8 лет назад

+Jorge de lprado Hope it was worth it!! Keep an eye out for the pistols episode next :)

@jorgeadelprado 8 лет назад

+Mae Guns It definetly was, thank again and eager to see the gun one :)

@ChaplinONLINE 8 лет назад

I'll be watching this on the morning commute tomorrow!

@jackalvzz 8 лет назад

Awesome work both channels

@thurin84 8 лет назад

i always enjoy your and C&Rs collaborations!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+milcoll73 Thanks, we do too.

@ColTravis 8 лет назад

I'm waiting for the Atni-Tank rifles!!!

@kacperdz03 8 лет назад

SPOILER !!!!!!! xD

@EDSKaR 8 лет назад

+C&Rsenal BOOM *grin*

@wingracer1614 8 лет назад

+C&Rsenal LOL, I was just about to post on here that everyone needed to head over to your channel to see that.

@mo45327 8 лет назад

You meen "rifle" because T-Gewehr was the only anti-tank rifle of WW1?

@mollyclock8238 8 лет назад

i absolutely love the depth, that you and your guests go to , in order to inform us unwashed masses. thank you for your hard work. molly

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+molly clock Thanks for watching.

@mollyclock8238 8 лет назад

the great war, i study ww1 and ww2. the work you've done has greatly increased my understanding of not only what happened, but more importantly, why. love, peace, and mercy. molly

@ousiavazia 8 лет назад

I love to learn this stuff! I'd like to see someday the comparison of the rifles in the fronts, like the mannlichers VS the russian equivalent, or VS the italian, or russian rifles vs ottoman rifles and so on... Nice serious work you guys doing!

@andreibuceceanu3755 8 лет назад

Really nice episode. Also, Indy, can you tell us from where you got that vest? because its really good looking.

@ohboysabu 8 лет назад

Good video. I had not considered how a straight pull action was basically the forerunner of the semi-auto. When you said that, it was very obvious. Thank you.

@maewinchester2030 8 лет назад

+James Bond Learn something new every day :)

@Thoran666 8 лет назад

Good video that cements the fact the commanders cost the Austrians the war, not the weapons or soldiers.

@nicolasdefribourg5666 8 лет назад

cool stuff with sub titles Indy ty

@YuriPRIMErpg 8 лет назад

Damn, that girl has best job in the world XD

@CrimsonGhost107 8 лет назад

She holds rifles weird though.

@edcrichton9457 7 лет назад

If she hits the target weird is fine.

@popedassalxvi5375 6 лет назад

I do envy her

@MedicMain9 6 лет назад

Yuri PRIME she's hot tough

@shawngilliland243 5 лет назад

Watching her load and fire the small arms of the Great War is one reason I never miss any of the firearms specials!

@jbc98k 8 лет назад

Great Vid A+!

@davide7398 8 лет назад

Wow! You guys have a great channel can't wait tell you get to WWII rifles.

@Hopeofmen 8 лет назад

You'll have to wait 20-30 years for that.

@ZerokillerOppel1 Год назад

Funny to see that "Stutzen" rifle in Othais's hands looking like a bb gun but in Mae's hands looking like a full lenght rifle😎

@OlaJustin 8 лет назад

1/4 of a million subs! It's getting there! :D

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Ola Justin YES!

@OkinSold 8 лет назад

Love This!!!

@7hart2 8 лет назад

Nice Arisaka 99 Shirt.

@7hart2 8 лет назад

*Type 99

@KalojanGostun 8 лет назад

Great Video! Love it! Interesting is, that actually the Austrians had some really good engineers in that time, and made some real pioneer work. Günther Burstyn made in 1911 the first concept of a modern tank with turret, which was never built (because Austrian Generality was quite conservative). The Navy was better. The Torpedo was for example by Giovanni Lupis invented (an Italian from Rijeka), and first built and tested with Robert Whitehead in Triest

@ericswain70 8 лет назад

great show

@MadMatt1990 8 лет назад

Excellent collaboration; can't wait for the Austro-Hungarian pistols!

@maewinchester2030 8 лет назад

+MadMatt1990 Those are some weird pistols but definitely fun to shoot!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+MadMatt1990 No ETA, yet but we're working on it.

@davo171 8 лет назад

Hemingway's protagonist in A Farewell to Arms likely faced these rifles. Interesting to see how this straight pull compares to the Lee Navy and Swiss K11.

@treerat7631 6 лет назад

davo171 The Itailians copied it

@EntryLevelLuxury 8 лет назад

I love how technical, yet straight forward these weapon segments are. I often feel somewhat marginalized as a gun-owner, but I love being able to own such significant pieces of history!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+nelson3300 They are part of war history of course. No way you can ignore that, so we thought it deserves some attention.

@user-kf6nc5jv3l 7 лет назад

I'm Austrian and the M95/30 in 8x56R is my favorite rifle.

@user-kf6nc5jv3l 7 лет назад

It's great.

@blabboo 3 года назад

I know I’m 4 years late but are you guys allowed to shoot those over there?

@user-kf6nc5jv3l 3 года назад

@@blabboo Yes we are and we can own them without any restrictions as soon as we turn 18. Austria's gun laws are very liberal when compared with the rest of Europe or even some US states

@blabboo 3 года назад

@@user-kf6nc5jv3l Wow that’s awesome! I’ll have to visit Austria someday!

@farmerboy916 8 лет назад

You know, these C&Rsenal segments have really grown on me; they're definitely quite good.

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

+farmerboy916 thanks. There is way more detail on our channel

@ladderjoe8545 8 лет назад

nice video. always wanted to see my fav. rifle m1895

@warhund 8 лет назад

C&Rsenal does a great job. Love these specials. Cant wait to see the one on Serbian weapons.

@kgb3559 8 лет назад

+Warhund Serbia Will the make one? I was not aware Serbia produced its own weapons.

@warhund 8 лет назад

Well we used a specific riffle variation called the Kokin-Mauser, produced by Mauser but partly designed by one of our engineers. It would be interesting in the perspective of Serbia using probably the largest variety of weapons in the entire war. We used weapons produced by German, Austrian, Russian, French.. old types, new types.. Weapons captured from the ottomans, all kinds of artillery.. It would be interesting compared to Austrians arsenal. A lot of all these weapons where modified by Zastava arms but i dont know if that counts..

@kgb3559 8 лет назад

Warhund Serbia Ah I did not know that, I just figured they used whatever they could get, like you said. Russian, German, Austrian etc.

@warhund 8 лет назад

Well Serbia did use all it could get but a lot of this stuff had to be modified since it would be a nightmare in maintenance department. An interesting thing is that the first anti-air defence (dunno the exact name for it in english) was performed by Serbia in WW1 when they used a modified cannon to destroy an Austrian airplane near Kragujevac. Dunno what the type of artillery was that and what was the modification but i think its kinda cool

@kgb3559 8 лет назад

Warhund Serbia I also thought it was interesting how the Serbs used grenades against the invading Austro-Hungarians and they were quite taken aback by that since they had not experienced grenades before.

@davecarlson1918 8 лет назад

Superb! Very well done! I've read in a book about the development of "storm troop" tactics by the Austro-Hungarian k.u.k. that there were crash programs to make Stützen length short rifles/carbines during the war. In addition, there were proposals, apparently, to simply do away with shoulder arms all together for the storm troop groups so that they'd simply have flame throwers, hand grenades, pistols or revolvers, and all of the "gonna get medieval on your a$$" type melée weapons, e.g. daggers, maces, clubs, knouts, truncheons, bludgeons, coshes, etc. etc. And sharpened spades. As it happened, the pistol and revolver production lagged even further behind all of the other infantry weapons, so the proposal went nowhere. It is also my understanding that in desperation, many rear-echelon troops, militia and reservists in the k.u.k. widely used captured foreign arms and also very, very many obsolete pattern single-shot rifles. Great videos and a very nice collaborative effort! Very informative. Love the "sights" point-of-view shots with the hideous "no man's land" background.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Dave Carlson Did you see our special and our collab on trench raids?

@davecarlson1918 8 лет назад

+The Great War Oh yeah. More great stuff! In Barthes memoir _Poilu_, which you Great War folks reviewed, he mentions French raiders as a sort of highly specialized separate force brought in from elsewhere to conduct the missions. My sense is that many "frontschweine/poilus/tommies/mehmetçik/grunts/diggers/etc./etc. looked askance at anything that might add more chaos and artillery to the sector... Be it a trench mortar installation, rifle grenadiers, trench raiders, tunnelers/sappers, what-have-you. Thanks for marking the anniversaries, terrible as they are.

@MrAwsomenoob 8 лет назад

wow i didn't know straight pulls were so prolific the mannlichers, the Ross rifle the lee navy rifle i even had the privilege of seeing a Swiss straight pull rifle at a gun store a while back thanks for the video

@maewinchester2030 8 лет назад

+MrAwsomenoob Interestingly enough out of the three types you've listen the Ross rifle is the smoothest straight-pull I've handled so far.

@MrAwsomenoob 8 лет назад

+Mae Guns i heard the ross rifle was a very bad rifle for some reason

@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer 8 лет назад

I always love these weapon videos. If we run out of each nations main weapons (pistols and rifles) before the four years is up, will there be any videos about directly comparing and ranking each model of gun? (distance, power, etc)

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

+Jeremy Meadows Oh don't worry, there will be guns to come!

@AfrikaKorp42 8 лет назад

On page 126 of that Serbian Mauser book is a diagram of the Púska M95/41 7,9mm. That's the semiautomatic Mannlicher he talks about. It was formulated and tested weeks before the German invasion. They used M95s that were rechambered for 8mm Mauser and configured the magazine similarly to the Gew88/05 for stripper clips.

@lllPlatinumlll 7 лет назад

I know that I am ages behind but I'm yet to see a video on Marksmanship and how it effected performance. Having grown up in the country and had firearms as second nature I've often been amazed to see just how bad others who have never been around guns are at shooting even quite large targets. I also read Audie Murphy's "To Hell and Back" and noticed how his childhood of hunting small game may well have saved his life over and over in his WW2 experience. So I'm kinda amazed that there is so little discussion on the marksmanship of conscripted and volunteer soldiers.

@kaboom138 8 лет назад

Excellent episode guys! I hope you guys also cover other countries rifles as well (such as Britain, Russia or the Ottomans)!

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

+kaboom138 All on the way. Ottomans will be tricky but we're working on it!

@hanna-justinawalliarosalin8769 8 лет назад

Russians also used a lot of Arisaka rifles, so I hope we will see a Japanese rifle special as well. (and ofc they fought in the war on the side of the allies in Qingdao/Tsingtao as well)

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

Hanna-Justina Wallia Rosalind Sieglinde Marseille Yep, we will be including the Type 30 for Russia and the Type 38 for Japan

@juanpablofacciniespinosa1464 5 лет назад

you are a champion men!

@Mr.Viridian 3 месяца назад

I love the Mannlichers nice quality and really interesting

@sryan9547 6 лет назад

The M95 is my favourite gun in Battlefield 1. I use the infantry variant at medium-close range.

@haboob308 8 лет назад

8:27 Last to give it up, first(and only) to land a man on the moon. :) Before anyone gets upset, I am joking. Thanks for another great collaboration.

@XLesky 8 лет назад

+haboob308 Put on the moon thanks in large part to your pardoning of Nazi scientists ;)

@haboob308 8 лет назад

+XLesky I didn't pardon anyone. But yes, America was able to utilize European scientist better than Europe did, or would have.

@jrdnbkr25 7 лет назад

you guys should make a video series talking about the weapons in battlefield 1

@tojo9979 3 года назад

Just shot one today at the range. It was fun.

@mohammadwaquiullah6049 7 лет назад

The straight pull is literally genius along with the stripper clip. Mannlicher was an einstein of guns.

@neilwilson5785 8 лет назад

Wow! the Ausrians had a different measurement system! cool.

@MichaChrobot 8 лет назад

Damn, I love it

@ZemplinTemplar 8 лет назад

Agreed that the main downside is the greater need for precision manufacturing. All in all, though, Austria-Hungary had some high quality small arms for the time. While the A-H armed forces had lesser combined arms variety, they at least made up for it with some good infantry and artillery tech.

@WildBillCox13 8 лет назад

A bunch of collaborators . . . I like the cross referencing and linking to expert analyses. This acts to lift the series up out of the sea of its contemporaries and in to a better place for the veteran documentary fans out there . . . me among them.

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+William Cox Thanks.

@icostaticrebound6007 8 лет назад

Enshuldigung, @A&Rsenal, but can you put a silent film filter when at the firing range and perhaps a replica uniform? Thanks

@Alopex1 7 лет назад

10:36 - a Berndorf Helmet? Really like the design...

@wingsofwrath4647 8 лет назад

Well that explains a lot. As an active reenactor whose grandparents fought in the Austro Hungarian Army during WW1, I've shot a lot of these rifles (both full size and Repetier-Stutzen M1895) and absolutely hated the stiffness of the action and weakness of the extractor, especially when compared to the Gewehr 98 or the Mosin M1891. Turns out the problem was time and slapdash assembly, not a design weakness as I thought. Although putting the bolt back together after cleaning is still a fiddly mess ...

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

+Wingsofwrath Use a dime!

@kentr2424 3 года назад

I'm surprised that there's nothing in this video on the Austrian conversions of captured Russian M1891's. Surviving records showed that at least 114,000 captured Russian rifles were converted to fire standard Austrian ammo and using the standard Mannlicher clip - and said conversion didn't include rebarreling or boring out the barrel (the first conversions did, but it made the conversion process too long). Since said surviving records only went to the end of 1915 IIRC, it's likely one heck of a lot more were converted.

@KickingJoub 8 лет назад

My immediate response to the question at 4:02 "Not great for the one getting shot! Duh." I may or may not be having an intelligent day.

@KickingJoub 8 лет назад

Later on I think a potential Out Of the Trenches question appears, that is if it hasn't been mentioned in one of the many awesome videos: What measurement systems did the nations use and did that cause issues? I've read that in WW2, US and UK manufactured airplane parts weren't exchangeable.

@jessefilmpjes 8 лет назад

I love this channel.

@maewinchester2030 8 лет назад

+jesse van Ravels So do we!

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+jesse van Ravels We love you too.

@donneale7555 4 года назад

The Austro-Hungarian bullets are nuts.....like shooting batons at people

@Gray-Wolf 3 года назад

I must say, the Austro-Hungarians did a great job with their rifles, I've noticed they really liked straight-pull bolts, which (when you look at the mechanism from the soldier's view) is an advanced weapon that could beat rotating bolt rifles. Edit: Yet they're fragile

@Happy-cn9vt 8 лет назад

Do a video about different grenades used by different countries and the grenade evolution from start from the war to the end

@circleofsorrow4583 8 лет назад

Oh yeah, great suggestion oh glorious leader!

@westofsouth 8 лет назад

love the show can you tell me when the UK program comes out please

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+andres Hemingway Othais is still getting together British rifles, so it will take a few more months at least.

@uncle7215 8 лет назад

Mae had a bit of a struggle at 9:24 XD

@MrBenj1984 8 лет назад

Hi Guys, great channel. Unfortunately I was late to the party, only finding you guys around Christmas 2015 but I'm enjoying catching up with past videos. I'm really interested in military history and although I know a little bit about a lot of the main points of the war, I think it's a great format to be covering the war week by week because, in doing so, you cover a lot of areas that I know little or nothing about. Keep up the good work! I have a question for OOTT. Apologies if you've already covered it in a previous video. The use of mines by the British as a precursor to an offensive is well documented (for instance at Messines Ridge) and I know that the Germans counter-mined, but did the Germans use mines as part of larger offensives/operations or were they only used defensively?

@TheGreatWar 8 лет назад

+Ben Leaney Can you ask that question again when we talk about Messines? We will gladly add it then.

@MrBenj1984 8 лет назад

+The Great War Sure. It's some way off but I'll try and remember. Thanks

@MrOlgrumpy 8 лет назад

I've just found your channel,very interesting,also that you'r in Berlin ?

@Rocketrollrebel 8 лет назад

That straight pull action on the 1895 Manlicher doesn't look as smooth as I imagined it would be

@Candrsenal 8 лет назад

Not too glassy

@mannco9458 2 года назад

I’m not gonna lie I’m a big gun geek and seeing these old beauty’s still in working condition just mmmah

@mathman1923 8 лет назад

I can't get over how long the bullet is on the older cartridges.

@IAmStatzy 7 лет назад

I'd love to watch you guys play battlefield 1. Not gonna be upset if you don't (not really expecting you to) but it'd be funny to see.

@millionjakeus 8 лет назад

ive been looking for an m95 forever just so hard to find in canada

@iamtotallynotanenemyspy1200 7 лет назад

Can't wait for your video on Kekistani rifles....

@nicholaspatton5590 7 лет назад

I have a question regarding disadvantages of straight-pull rifles. Of the rifles shown, I really like the m1895. I have heard in other weapons videos that a disadvantage of straight-pull actions is that you must move your head while pulling back the bolt and therefore lose sight of the target. I was wondering if the woman that was shooting was able to maintain her sights on her target when pulling back the bolt.

@treyriver5676 8 лет назад

The M.95 in 8x56R produces a serious amount of free recoil as well, I have shot mine with 1937 production ammo. As an odd aside the 8mm here is .329 in while mauser 98 is .323in so reloading for the 8x56r is not nearly as easy as 8mm mauser I have a M.95M which is a conversion between the wars to make the M.95 shoot standard 7.92x57 Ammunition and use Mauser Stripper clips. (new barrel and modified feed system)