Hans Larsen's Unique Falling Block Rifles 

Rustknuckle Irongut I doubt theyd let him anywhere near it never mind handling it, but if anyone has the knowledge and care to do it its be ian! I would love to see that and I think its be the most valuable firearm on the channel. Potentially the most valuable Ian has ever handled, but I wouldn't like to assume that be true, goodness knows what he's had the chance to be around!

You would be surprised what we let famous/important/nice/dangerous foreigners do in Norway. We even let the Top Gear guys jump a Mini Cooper(old type) off an Olympic ski jump hill and back in the forties we even let a bunch of Germans run the government and oppress our people for a while.

Mot betaling så kan vi nordmenn gjøre så å si hva som helst.

this revolver might be the oldest once, but just as we have seen in the videos about how some auctions have ended, popularity is much more important than age. We have seen 200 year old needlefire masterpieces with the most exquisit engravings go for 5digit numbers and Frist and second world war service pistols go for 6 figure numbers. Its just like art, trends come and go, and church art that was super valuable around 200-2002 is now unsellable for those prices that were quoted back then

eberbacher007 Important for what? We aren't buying it, we're interested in its history, design and anything else Ian can glean about it for us. We don't care if it's $50 of $5M.

It’s been bored out so it not in its original configuration. That is why it went for cheap.

@@TinkerTailorSoldier1 wonder how much a original configuration would fetch

@@a1fromdisc432 probably 5k-10k

thats insane i would have out bid that 2x haha

the bore...

cptreech First thing I noticed about it. Absolutely gorgeous.

cptreech I think it’s perhaps a kind of birch called «masurbjørk»/«valbjørk». It’s just regular birch trees that has an genetical error that forms beautiful patterns in the wood.. You’ll see this type of wood used in both Swedish and Finnish guns as well.. 😊 «Flammebjørk» is another name for it as well (translates to «flamebirch»).

They imported a bunch of non whites,, so no worries, they won't be putting out anything interesting anymore

@@jonathangarzon2798 The ignorance is strong with this one.

@@jonathangarzon2798 Jesus dude, people are people. Please stop thinking of us in terms of shades of colour. You're not doing anyone any favours. Immigrants come from all over, and they're more than welcome up here as long as they don't kill anyone.

wtf I was just going to say the south African guns are wayy more interesting

@@jonathangarzon2798 in the spirit of your tasteless comment ill bring it up a notch and say, plenty of moving targets make good marksmen and by experience better rifles, now go cry jerking somewhere else

They are tools. I collect vintage tools, hammers, paper cutters, sheet metal presses, drill presses, etc. They're still tools.

And i didn't realize you where this dense.

That's rich. "where" this dense. Over "their"?

its not a misstake....

It must be said that even though military guns or similar may look scary and are "built for killing" they don't have to be used in a such a way. In fact many "sports guns" are more lethal, accurate and easier to use than military ones, but are not adopted by the military for reasons of role, technical or political. A weapon is dangerous no matter what it was designed to do and the same can be said for many other things like knives, hammers and cars.

Ruby Do you not see beauty in a simple product executed well? I'm a fan of austere functionality. For a non-firearm example I'd much rather have a 4WD F350 diesel with white paint, roll up windows, and vinyl floors than a fully loaded Lincoln Town Car in black.

Ruby I'm glad that we both see beauty in functionality. But I disagree with the worldview that recognizes "weapons" as a separate class of technology in the first place. To find examples I did a little digging online. I found that the very foundations of digital computing are rooted in the Manhattan Project. In addition the Internet owes its existence to ARPANET, another military innovation. It doesn't matter if a technology is designed in wartime or peacetime. If it's effective it will be used during both war and peace. I'd like you to perform a thought experiment for me. Take a long, slow look around you and ask yourself how many items in that one room could be weaponized simply by picking them up with intent to use them as weapons. I suspect you'll come to the same conclusion I have. The *only* weapon on Earth is the human mind, and it's the only weapon man will ever need.

look up Fidjeland and what he designed and built that was later copied without his approval .

The hammer that slips is my biggest concern. Not fit to handle ammunition in any circumstance. Just mantel piece.

@@nagasako7 dude. Shut up

@@dugpet2916 Fuck off 2018.

AND WE HAVE TO LOVE SKIING CAUSE WE ARE NORWEGIAN!!

TheHitoriShinobi No. But your enemies will make sure it goes to a good home instead of using it to pound tent legs. That counts for something, right?

veryberrykeri not unless you plan to sell it at auction.

If it were a rifle built for speed or combat, probably. But for shooting matches, why add complexity?

Hah! Larsen is an extremely common leftover name from when they transitioned to using family names instead of paternal names. It simply means "son of Lars", Lars being a common name. Petersen, Gustafson, Olsen, Nilsen (and many others) follow the same pattern. It´s not exactly elegant x)

Like I said... it's a long stretch.

nagasako7 you can run out of well known forgotten weapons (like the G11), but there are too many obscure guns to cover in a lifetime.

John J the .50bmg projectile I have in front of me is 2.25 inches and pulled 7.62x51projectiles from different years just measured from 1.12 to 1.16

thank you man, that helps me a lot. because i'm trying to design a magazine fed air rifle that can use normal rifle bullets and cast ones. Thus as you can imagine these length matter a lot.

John J I just pulled a projectile from .50bmg PSD 05 headstamp cartridge and it measures 3.05 inches. then I grabbed 18 fired projectiles ​from a pile of them from WW2 anti-aircraft training that were fired into the air and they measure all over the place from 2.248 to 2.296. not sure how much firing them changes the length but they still shoot good enough that I know a guy who buys them and reloads for his semiautomatic M2 Browning. I checked 9 pulled bullets from 7.62x51 and they were from 1.108 to 1.172. I have noticed that they were different lengths before but I never measured them. that would be pretty cool to have an air gun they could fire a normal projectiles I hope it works out

Those numbers help me a lot, because now i know for sure 308 can be used (all be it, only usable for hunting deer and boar at the 220-230 grain bullet weight ranges) and 50 cal is as i thought just a bit to long. Even so i'm tempted to just change things, and drop the lever action for gas operate. Just so i can get that extra room for it to open up and thus get the 50 cal bullets to fit.

@Ben Dover might be not up on the imperial casesizes but know that we load these using same brass shotshell case that we form the 577 cases for martini from just cant remember the gauge

@Ben Dover exactly what im sayin but just cant remember the gauge but know it is same as the shotguncase we use to form 577 cases from

anti-gun laws suck moose dick & generally lack basis in reality ...

J J Easy, the norwegian populace has very unique and interesting features, so why wouldn't the guns mirror that? Just a shame there's no current small arms manufacturers.

Every country has had plenty of one off extremely unique firearm designs. Usually, the most practical design is the most common one that ends up being remembered because all the others fade into obscurity.

J J I think one of the reasons is that pre 1900 Norway was one of the most isolated countrys in Europe. We was and still is very decentralized nation with few cities, towns or villages. Because of that gunsmiths didn't have much knowledge of what happening in the rest of the world and they come up with their own solutions for their needs.

Jacob yeah it's really comparing apples to oranges in these situations. I mean I can fully understand why in the USA people would want to be suitably armed to the standards they could expect an attacker to be, I mean with more guns than people in the USA (that is known) I can completely understand the whole self defence side of things. As for stuff like hunting and sports, well a lot of countries in the western world especially have little to no reason to need to hunt to survive like how some people need to in certain areas of the USA or in countries with more wilderness and little to poor infrastructure; now sports is totally different story and that just simply falls under personal tastes and funding so the fact that there may not be a lot of people who want to spend a lot of money and time on a sport is understandable.

US is ridden with violence because it's a county full of "undesirables". It's nice to have a social security and well-established welfare state when you only tolerate "master race". Tens of millions fled the Nordic countries towards the US in late XIX and early XX centuries because as far their governments cared, they could die of hungry. With them, the problems of joblessness, homelessness, poverty, social disparity, etc... went away. America on the other hand welcomed all, with free land if they want to farm or rights to work if they preferred cities. In America, everyone was welcome (except if they were native Americans, that's it) no one was expelled in a way of "flee or die of poverty". Much on the contrary, people had a welcome environment to put their skills at use. If America got rid of some of its population deemed as poor or undesirable now, and then started to bribe the rest of the population left to follow the political correctness agenda (that is what welfare state really is, including that huge oil fund of Norway), Western Europe would be the one looking like a dangerous place. Guns are fine and everyone of good mind should have the right of owning one with little bureaucracy if they want.

IDeO James D. Julia is in Fairfield Maine. it'd be, what, three hours later there than in AZ?

I would buy it! 🤓🍻

Yurigora Isn't he in Maine right now? The James Julia sign being him says Maine at least.

Calvin O'Blenis Silly me. Him currently being in Maine negates the fact that he hails from AZ.

Yurigora Should I surmise from your sarcasm that this cold has been going around Arizona for a while?

Calvin O'Blenis Lol, yeah. Sadly it has been. All over the valley, unfortunately. Ian sounds like a lot of my friends ATM.

Yurigora I know I've got that bug. Luckily, I only ever seem to get a weaker version of what other people get. Genetically gifted I guess.

R Cloud the oxidation of metal not rust but patena and markings and other little details

Samme her as, hvor i Drammen bor du?

Åskollen dude

Jaha, Konnerud her ;)

Haha nice!

Scawer Ja as :)

Jacob Absolutely agree, well said!

Jacob Absolutely agree, well said!

I see tons of comments on these videos from non-Americans. Oddly, some of them both love his videos but still have no interest in fighting for their right to own firearms.

Well, perhaps while they love the information about the firearms, they, like me, see no reason to sink that much income into things they will have little to no practical use for. If you're not going to bother, then there's no need to defend that right.

+wayne heern Is it normal in your country to only defend rights that directly impact yourself?