History of WWI Primer 185: Foreign 1911s Documentary 

You misspelled tea-volver

I hope that firearm made it into a museum before the Brits outlawed possession of handguns, ….for law abiding subjects

Didn't he accidentally shoot his own camel in the head with it.

Why would a film maker, depicting a British Gentleman in the distant past with some kind of Modern looking standard autoloading 45 acp colt pistol? When we can give him a much more refined and classy and traditional British Revolver appropriate for the era!?! That Colt rubbish is Far too advanced for before World War Two. Did you see what they used in the trenches of WW1? Single shot rifles and single action pistols! They couldn't buy enough of them and pushed them into service. Then realised they were crap and rolled out newer Magazine guns, then they invented machine guns and everyone got one, and they dug trenches, then they had to learn to attack trenches and pistols were winners, so they invented the double action revolver and GOD Moses Browning sold his machine guns to the USA and his pistol 1911, and we went to war strapped them to the British Tanks and won the war of the slow to adapt Europeans! No. Sorry revisionist historians. But actually we had all the guns of world war 1 before the war began, except the paris gun: that was a one off specialist gun. The problem with war is it eats your people and their equipment and about 100 bullets or shells for every person you manage to kill. And you MUST replace those or you will be unable to inflict the same cost on your foe. There were not enough guns. Never enough guns. Not even the USA which had been preparing for joining the war for Years with Europe's Gold to spend, was prepared, nor had enough guns when they joined the war. Which was why last episode they had barely confirmed the creation of 6 new supply chains for new 1911s when the war suddenly ended, and the contracts had to be revoked. And yes. Lawrence had a 1911, and it probably served him well, just like it did soldiers in the trenches.

A case of historically accurate but "unrealistic." Similar to if you had a movie about Roman gladiators and had a scene where they get a sponsor from a local merchant guild or a film about Lewis and Clark where someone uses a heavy caliber air rifle to down over a dozen targets in under a minute (something they frequently did to impress/intimidate new native tribes they met).

@VeraTR909 Ballistol is great stuff, easy to use cause its safe to almost every material, from skin to steel (carefull with nickled/gold ornamented guns thou), but the thing smells really bad.

@@kimmoj2570what‘s the problem with Nickel?

A hundred years in the making....you think they could do something about that stench. I don't use it for that reason alone.

A great time to slow down and have a smoke and enjoy myself.

This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fool in’ around!

I'm just waiting for there to be episodes to the point that they are covering 1911 use in Vietnam and they're just blaring fortunate sun 😅

I am a bit confused as to why Colt got Newfoundland but not Canada. With Britain and North America being allocated to Colt, why was Canada specifically excluded? Not to mention Colt already having a significant presence in Canada and was actively selling to the government.

At least they got their revenge with the adoption of the 7.62 NATO cartridge. Britain: "Why can't you adopt an intermediate cartridge like everyone else?" USA: Bureau of Ordinance *autistic* *screeching*

@@user-bi7xd8ry5p RIP the Enfield EM-2. It would've been a fantastic service rifle...

@@rdrrr I see you have drank the Gun Jesus koolaid as well😂 cuz I think about the EM2 like once a month.

The Webley is a gorgeous firearm, you tasteless philistine

I'm willing to bet it served as inspiration for Scaramanga's Golden Gun.

Fun fact, they did in fact make a .46: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.46_rimfire

Yes....on the shirts!

With the runup and the actual 1911 episodes it has been worth the wait.

At least you didn’t say (Glock). Now I don’t have to wash my mouth with soap…

Man's got beef with the Glock@@samiam619

The Webley looks like a gun from Fallout.

it's long overdue

It's an extra 0.005", not 0.05" (and the actual difference in bullet diameter is even less than that)

Not sure there’s really enough of a story there for a full episode

Yeah, the Tokarev ain’t easy on the eye… but you can at the same time see it’s original bloodlines. Yes, I would love to see a potato digger get the C&Rsenal treatment

​@@8.6GivenAdqVacSysmOn the contrary, Tokarevs are very easy on the eyes of you prefer rounded 1903/1908 outlines to blocky 1905/1911 ones. Especially the Yugoslav model since it corrects the "grip is too short" problem.

@@hailexiao2770 well I guess we will agree to disagree. I find it, like most products of Soviet Communism to be rather brutish and utilitarian

The Royal Navy, AKA for varying reasons, The Andrew. Is the Senior military service in UK. It also was profitable, as the doctrine at the time, a long carry over, was 'Why sink a ship? We can capture it and sell it to the Goverment, and every sailor involved, gets a share. The RN is also responsible for the Royal Marines, or as the reply goes when asked, 'What does the RM on the shoulder tab mean. Real Marines'. The RN is also a leader in use of modern technology, including tanks and and aircraft. Being independent, and throughout history being first with boots on the ground,policing the Empire, showing the flag etc. We want our own kit, not Army left overs.

The surprising thing here is that they went for the right-handed gun shooting quite a potent cartridge. Cutlass was still carried well into the 1940, and the predominant doctrine at least since the early nineteenth century was to use it in the dominant hand, so your handgun needs to be lefty-friendly. And with steel ships all around, ricochets were a real problem, so there's really no need to use potent cartridges in your handguns, as long as you don't expect to use your pistols in land combat, for which case a rifle would be better anyway, even for an officer, as the Second Anglo-Boer war had shown.

@@F1ghteR41 Arguably .45 ACP would be an ideal cartridge for shipboard fighting, because it's potent, sure, but it's also relatively slow and heavy and doesn't really have much 'bounce' to it when hitting hard surfaces, so it doesn't ricochet nearly as much as many smaller pistol cartridges.

@@RvEijndhoven But how many people could've made good use of it in the off-hand? .32 ACP, as used by many navies by the time of WW2, is much milder in terms of recoil, and since double-stack pistol magazines were already available by 1907-08 (see Savage M1907 for example), one can reach relatively high ammo capacity with less difficulty.

metric or imperial?

wait! someone had them before the us? shouldnt they be called "the us hoe islands"?

true, but when Colt and FN signed their agreement the islands were still Danish.

@@mrjockt The Antilles never where Danish

First of all, it wasn't the flaw of the C&Rcenal, but the FN and Colt employees writing the original document, as you can clearly see at about 5:00 mark. And secondly, judging by how they misspelled Curaçao, these guys preparing the agreement weren't on the best terms with toponyms at all.

Could the Vis 35 be considered as the first 9x19mm 1911?

@@hendriktonisson2915when did the Spanish “Star” come out?

@@samiam619 Before the Vis. The first 1911 "style" pistol made by Star was the model 1920. Beat the 35 by a decade in design. And the model B was sold starting in the mid 20s while the vis again was more mid 30s by the time they had a decent number in production.

@@einzelfeuer_2855 Thanks for the info!

@@hendriktonisson2915 You're welcome. Spanish guns are rather interesting to me. Especially Star and Astra. They're really very high quality.

I have been known to put mineral oil on some…

@@samiam619 When I'm blueing a handgun I'll use the oil recommended by the people who make the blueing solution. But mostly I love Ballistol.

how do you shoot them without putting hands on them? on second thought, forget it i asked. i dont want to know.

lets hope it doesnt become THREE WURLD WARS!

If it had been given time to work out the issues and spared the political BS of "must be Canadian" it could have been.

The British would be pushing to standardize regardless as soon as they had enough SMLEs. But there is no real reason they couldn't have kept the Ross rifle. In the big picture, a Ross that was functioning properly was certainly good enough to fill the role and production was sufficient to keep the Canada Corps equipped with them.