History of WWI Primer 053: Italian Glisenti 1910 Documentary 

Othais, between you and Ian (Forgotten Weapons) I get THE most complete picture of weapons possible. This time, your team shot it out of the park. YOU ROCK! Man I have read Hoog, Elmer Keith, Smith and Smith, Cooper, and almost every other writer for the last 100 years but between your knowledge of history, animations, Mae's shooting and comments, and the general way you run a show (also Mark. My GAWD! keep that guy, you folks are a PERFECT TEAM!) you have one of the best firearms history presentations...EVER. and, (I am not un-informed) I learn something every time. When C&Rsenal is on, I know I have a far better and informational entertainment then well heck...the rest of the netowkrs coudl EVER provide. In Other words Crew: Me 'at is off to yee. My Compliments!

You know, when the 1911 episode comes, I half expect Othias to go something like: "Hi, my name is Othias, and I have no idea what this thing is. Let's put it in the lightbox anyway."

9×19mm *-P* cartridge

Such a mild mannered gentleman... Until the "AHAHAAAHAAAHAAA" split my eardrums faster than a stokes landing a meter from my head. Cheers, Othias.

Sometimes I imagine Othias goes around and randomly shouts "BODEO!" Occasionally.

It's a good thing the Italians didnt adopt the Colt 1902. We all know that design was an evolutionary dead end.

17:53 All the stupid questions and time wasting emails finally broke him.

Good lord that laugh was horrifying.

JUST DAWNED ON ME! Where I had seen that gun before. When I was a kid, I loved the Saturday morning cartoon shows on TV! Mattel was the toy maker that sponsored many of them, and one of their great toys was the spy camera/gun. It was a camera that, of course, didn't take pictures but press the button and a barrel popped out the front, a grip dropped down and you had a cool cap gun! When in the gun mode, it looked very much like this pistol!

Othias, I like the way you plug their books and throw business their way.

This gun was made by my family

Part of comedic perfection is waiting for the right moment to reveal a new technique. Beautiful. Equal to Mae's smile in Fun Factor.

That Winchester on the wall is just there to taunt us, isn't it

Tomorrow is a holiday in my country (Flag Day) so I can watch this at 2 am and feel no guilt. Take that, C&Rrsenal!

*Already hyped for the Fiat-Revelli*

ravioli ravioli give me the giisentioli

Actually, at the time of it's introduction, and through all WWI the possibility for a Glisenti 1910 to shoot a 9mm Luger cartridge by mistake was close to zero (unless a German officer tried to use his cartridges on a captured pistol, but obviously the Italians didn't care of this case). The 9mm Luger was not the most widespread 9mm cartridge in the world, but a cartridge used by only one handgun. Due to it's use in the Villar Perosa since 1915, Much more 9mm Glisenti cartridges than 9mm Luger had been manufactured until the end of WWI. The real slaughter of Glisenti pistols came only in 1943, when, with the disbanding of the Italian Army, many of those guns came in possession of partisans, that had to use them with any cartridge they could find. For the "overcomplicated", the Glisenti is actually made with less parts than a Luger or a 1911. It's expensive to make, cause it requires a high level of machining, but not that complicated. In the end, it's a lot of good ideas, ruined by only one of them, the side plate, that makes the frame too flimsy. With a single piece frame (it would have required to change the way of stripping the gun, but not even that much) the gun could have probably fired 9mm lugers, and today you would have seen much more of those antiques used at the ranges, with the enthusiasts arguing on what was better between this, the Luger, the Astra, ecc... On a side note, when Mussolini was arrested by the partisans at Dongo in his attempt to flee in April 1945, he had a Glisenti 1910 with him.

I was reading "Liquidate Paris" by Sven Hassel and in the book, one of Sven's fellow soldiers traded a Nagant revolver for a Glisenti. Brought me to your video to find out what a Glisenti was!!

Once again we learn that Italian weapons have the most entertaining origin stories.

Even though pistols killed statistically zero soldiers in the great war, their history and production and engineering was awesome. And the glesenti kinda reminds me of the type 14 Nambu pistol.

Wow! That's the most balanced flip I've seen yet!

As one who is interested in WW1 history and an Italian I really appreciate your work, very interesting and detailed video; also because you give specifications also in metric system, thanks

FINALLY! You guys covered the Glisenti 1910. I don't know why but I have a weak spot for these pistols. My brother purchased a pair of these at a local gun show (seller wouldn't sell them separately) for a rather modest sum (considering there were two of them) after I brought them to his attention. He later sold the rougher of the two bringing his purchase point for one pistol even lower. Alas we have not shot it yet as we are trying to find ammunition for it. We are aware of a regular at our local gun shows who has the info to hand load some for us. Barring that we are somewhat leary about firing it as we don't know it's previous history. I don't know how one would tell if it has had 9mm Parabellum fired through it. Thank you Othias for the info about the safety. I'm sure we will check it out next time it emerges from the depths of the gun safe.

I love this series more and more with each episode.

17:52 Well that was unexpected. A good video as always though.

Once again you've satisfied my history jones. Thanks.

Yes, the animation highlights the parts being talked about. I hope this continues.

"it's not a very reliable handgun" "we had many stovepipes" The extractor is clearly bent. Bending the extractor inward is an easy fix for a weakened one, but you can't expect the reliability of one in pristine conditions. BTW the bore axis is EXACTLY as high as in a Walther P38. It's only the shape of the gun that makes it seems higher.

How do you spell “Hosslaroche”? 11:28 I love fusion of C96 and P08 designs and would like to know more about this gun but I can’t find anything under the various ways I’ve tried to spell it

The animations are getting better and better. Great work with the zoom-in and all that stuff.

Quality work Othais and team. Thankyou again.

Would .380 be a good substitute for 9mm Glisenti ? I've shot .380 out of a Norco 213, Chambered & fired, but , not enough power to eject & fully cycle.

Okay, first off, this isn't me asking for/demanding the M1911 episode. This is me understanding that the Browning 1900/M1911 setting the pattern for modern Semi-auto handguns is more than the gun being on the side of the victors of the history of the 20th Century.

Damn, mechanically ive gotta say that this seems like an all around pretty slick design.

any videos where Mae gives a "hard yes"? yeah... im serious.... much love C&R :-) you guys are amazing

I like the new animations. Also I'm glad you added the POV of the sights during the review. This is an interesting pistol, if only they would've left it alone when it was looking like a decent pistol it might've been better. Using a 9x19 cartridge was definitely a mistake too. By the way, I'm so excited about he shirts. My birthday is coming up and I'm getting at least one of each shirt.

I wonder if they had stuck with .30 Luger ?

"These cracked up as much as I did"... as I did too, as I did too...

good job guys production is so slick.

For the general public, the book's title in English is The Five Lives of the Glisenti 1910.

Sleep is for the weak.

17:53 SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE A GIF OF THAT SHIT

To quote Get Shorty "The Fiat of Guns"

Othais, can I please go to bed on time for once? ;n;

I have nothing to add but commenting helps the videos get ranking in search.

This channel deserves more subscribers.

When May said at end of review 'Im good' Really enjoy her role in review

He laughs like Rocket Raccoon. "That is the most real, authentic, hysterical laugh of my entire life..."

For some reason I misheard the intro as "Italy was fucking up" and thought Othais was just being real for a minute there.

Great episode !

Sad this wasn't in bf1, we did get the bodeo and modello (I think I misspelt it)

I love how you just threw Ians name out there and assumed everybody just knew who you were talking about. I mean we do, but I just thought it was funny lol.

At least it gave the Italians a cartridge for the villar perosa. I’d be sad if that weird thing never got made.

25:19 Winchester on the wall 43:19 No Winchester on the wall, BUT a Winchester with the best smile. :)

JAM-O-MATIC! Good effort on getting this episode in. That gun did not make it easy apparently.

Reminds me of the Type A "Grandpa" Nambu, but oddly taller. Gramps got some lifts!

The modello 1899 would be interesting.

You know I have owned plenty of guns in the past, from an old Luger that was in pristine condition, some of those little .32 and 380 pistols from the Checz area, 9mm makarav and plenty of 9mm par pistols, now all I have left in my drawer are two .45's one an officers model M1911A1 and the other an Astra A-100. Love the .45's but for kicks, I would love to have one of these pistols just to take out plinking with light loads of 9mm.

The music during the animation sounds like something out of the Mass Effect trilogy, it's quite nice!

so the cei rigatonni is next?

I'm wondering how much "high" that bore axis really is. Surely it's higher than that of the Luger, but, picturing the barrel as completely covered by the slide, the recoil spring under it, and a dust cover, it doesn't seem higher than that of a SIG P226, that's a relatively hig bore axis pistol, but modern and perfectly viable. the snappy feeling when firing is probably more due to the scarce mass on the front of the handgun. The more the mass is concentrated around the center of gravity, the easier is to make it roll.

I believe you've answered this question before, but do you plan to eventually do world war 2 firearms? I'd really like to learn more about the MP-28 and MP-34

"reached one bit too far" that sums up Italian military history brave soldiers let down by "good enough" mentality, poor leadership decisions, and Italian artisan hand made industry. though i'm glad it turned out that way or i wouldn't exist XD

I LOVE AND APRECIATE SO SO MUCH YOUR OUTMOST RESPECT TO THE AUTORS OF BOOKS .The world would be a better place if at least 30%of Her inhabitors would be like you .

Can you reccomend any books that detail information about Japanese handguns? I know the question is irelevant but I was just curious.

Posting from the year 2021 and still no Brixia episode.

What metal is the clip er... magazine fabricated from? It does look really flimsy, possibly aluminum. Has it lost it's hardening over time or was it not even heat treated?

It makes me sad that these are so hard to find now. I'd love to collect Italian WW1 equipment, but wew. Most Glisenti listings are for 1200+, and that's just not happening.

I'm waiting for the BAR

You guys really need to do an episode on that ppsh caliber m1911 you got on your wall...

Is that a Winchester 94 on the wall behind you? :D

The auto generated subtitles labeled it the placenta pistol, not glisenti pistol.

I'd love to see special that just focuses on the vast variety of bullets used in WWII.

I just have to ask what determines the gender of a firearm?

On the topic of kinda crappy weapon designs used by Italy in the First World War, the italian 1871/73 troopers/officers cavalry sword is utterly terrible. The handle is over-engineered and the blade is weak cutting, flexible and terrible.

Glisenti...the least awful Italian made autoloader of it's era. That's a real accomplishment.

ay Othias you lose some weight? you lookin' good my man.

Wakes up ready to study. Sees episode about Italian gun. No time to study, the Piave is calling!

The light box banjo theme music needs to replace the intro theme and caption with Mae’s playing “air banjo”🦊 6:10

Are you guys gonna do an Episode on the Krag Jorgensen? It'd be interesting to see how that action works.

They might have done better re-engineering the Bodeo to make it an automatic revolver similar to the Fosberry.

The first line drawing illustration the most notable feature however is that it doesn't have a trigger, and Italian Glisenti sounds like an Ice Cream or sorbet.

That laugh startled me. Don't do that man, now I need new pants.

great as always

Why does the pistol break when you shoot 9 mm Parabellum through it?

Yay, something to listen to while cleaning my M&P 9c.

Wouldn't it be the company armorer's job to work with it until it shoots reliably? at least when clean? So then it shouldn't be a problem for the soldier who should not receive the gun until the adjustments are done. Also, I hear that flimsy M1 Carbine magazines were replaced almost weekly in combat, so it sounds like they should have done the same with these, though we don't know if they did. I like the Luger look, so what else looks like a Luger but has interchangeable parts and can work dirty? After all, it doesn't need to be any more accurate than I am.

OH COME ON, I LITERALLY JUST GOT A CHANCE TO WATCH THE CHECKERING VIDEO

we are still waiting for may's top 10 pistols and top 10 32 acp's of the war .and top 10 revolvers.

You need an audio compressor, the laughs make the audio clip pretty badly. Moreover, the audio volume of the video in general is pretty high and there seem to be clipping pretty frequently. (edit: while I'm here, in Anvil episodes, there is a large contrast between the volume of the intro and the sound level of rest of the show, which makes it kinda awkward.)

As the 7.65? Would it be a yes or no for you?

C&Rsenal at 50% speed on your youtube settings- try it.

As a suggestion/favor, when you reference another video, e.g. Ian's or your own, could you put links to the video in the description? I think it would help drive traffic to those videos. also, some folks (me, for one) sometimes have trouble tracking them down.

Hi team, is there a anvil episode on this pistol

I know I'm really late to this party, and it's not all that important in the big scheme of things...but - @ 1:29 - "Francesco" is pronounced "fran-CHES-co" in my experience (said experience including that it was my father's name.) It's no big deal, but it's always good to know for the future. Cheers! :-)

You know it sucks when it basically shoots 9x19 Parabellum in wuss mode.

I love how it was nicknamed the Poormans luger

I want one now lol! Love your videos

Looking forward to a review of the earlier Berretta's.

A small part of me wished that you and Ian had secretly planned to release videos on the Winchester 1895 on the same day. Instead, i got this. Im still glad, just a little sad