History Primer 166: Scandinavian Nagants Documentary 

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Othias: "Corporate needs you to distinguish the difference between these two guns." May: "The're the same gun."

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Scandinavian army officers: We insist that our sidearms must be as dainty as possible Their vikingur ancestors: ಠ_ಠ

I was sure the "big" difference between the Swedish and Norwegian Nagants was going to be that they had screw heads sized for different coins.

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Othais, Mae, and other C&Rsenal viewers, In the church scene in the first act of 'The Harder They Fall,' Nat Love is shown removing the spent casings from his revolver using an ejector rod. I didn't catch this upon first viewing but did in my second and I owe this to the revolver episodes of the Primer series. Mae's shot pattern with the Swedish Nagant looks like a leaning Christmas tree.

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I quite like the design of this era of revolvers, a very efficient look.

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Some notes: A longer time ago, in a german arms magazine i read , that swedish revolver was used up to 1950s, may be early 1960s. According to those article, last users had been postal service and lighthouse service, some few guns had been changed for use of 7,65/.32 ACP, which was from 1920s to 1980s a common cartridge. In german language countries the word ,Landsturm' was also known, and in Switzerland used up to 1990s. In 19th/early 20th century this Landsturm was used for the units formed of properly trained, but elderly reserve soldiers. When wwl started, the Landsturm units had been not intended for full frontline service, only fighting enemy breakthroughs, their job was doing military work in rearline, away from front, which is underrated, but very important. As longer wwl lasted, also untrsined men came to army and got shortened military training, the older ones came to Landsturm, also men of younger age , when not realy fit for frontline service ( after accidents, war injuries or with health problems etc.) In 17th/ 18th centuries Germany, the armies consisted of professional soldiers, but there hat been still relicts of medieval/ tribal age levies (Aufgebote). In few cases not so well trained and equiped, but usefull militias, sometimes a mix of target shooters society, tradition keepers and police, but mostly units, badly trained and with dated weaponry. Such units could be used as guards, escorts, armed workers, may be to man field fortifications to defend a narrow valley. Landsturm is used as umbrella term for such low quality levies of 17th/ 18th century.

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1:10:46 Toki talking to Skwisgaar... voice, pronunciation, cadence are all there 😂

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Best Othias line: “If we strap them together we are gonna need a differential”

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Scandinavian Nagants, aka HInga Dinga Durgen Nagants :D I wasnt aware we scandinavians had Nagants

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My question is, what happened to " War were Declared" ? I always enjoy that bit.

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This is actually the episode I've been waiting for a while. My grandfather's general store apparently had some swedish (so I was told, they could have been norwegian) nagants come in the eighties apparently who knows, but I've always been interested in details about them. Apparently one was in 9x20 Browning so maybe they were

This was a great episode covering two countries that there side arms, beyond the 1914 Norwegian and modern firearms, are not talked about much in English language books and such.

Always glad to have another episode to watch at work!

Have to be honest, this is the first episode where i really lost track, but still fun to watch. Ballistol also works great to remove paper stickers from stuff.

Never seem to sleep on time Monday nights, thanks othias and may

This vid really holds important insights into revolver history. Thank you so much for delving into the arcane facts. Well done. The delivery by you two makes it fun as well. What a mix.

I really hope one day you are able to cover the Fiat-Revelli 1914 and/or St Etienne 1907 machine guns. Those are the two oddball Rube Goldberg great war guns that I really want to see the history on. I know its not your formula and some consider it sacrilege...but even if you can't find working examples I'd love even a history only no shooting episode.

43:25 Could the crown-over-N just stand for Norge/Norway? The distinction of having the crown, where the others didn't, makes me question whether it's merely an inspector's initial.

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"Where's he going with this? I don't know, I'm scared." You and me both, Mae. You and me both.

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I so want to see May go full John Wu movie at the range with a pair of those.

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The Norwegian front sight reminds me of the front sight on old H&R revolvers

I really appreciate the sharing of knowledge. When I need to give an example of my interest in firearm development history, I use you!

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Primer 003 is from July 2015, so considering that there's two redone episodes that used to be before that we're just shy of 6 1/2 years of C&Rsenal. Gonna have to give us at least 6 months worth of curious ol' gats before you're allowed to toss in the towel. ... Also as someone with anxiety, I'm fine remembering that I want to see a modern materials Nagant-lockwork revolver with a swing-out cylinder more than whatever childhood memory still gives me second-hand embarrassment.

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Great episode you guys! When you had basically wrapped up all of the firearms of the Great War I wasn't sure where the subject matter would go. I've been enjoying these late 19th century revolvers. These Swedish, Swiss and Norwegian Nagant revolvers are beauties for sure!

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Gah! Was just about to turn in and you drop this? Tomorrow is gonna be a tired day...

High quality historic content as always, as a Norwegian that has seen Norwegian Nagant in the wild in Norway "unregistered" after WWII. I like them better than the Russian ones, the triggers on those have an excruciating heavy trigger due to the gas seal system.

Funny, I was looking for videos with the 1887 a week ago or so, but didn't find a full C&R episode on it. But today it's here! Thanks! 😁

Oh I really like that Fluted 9mm version. That is sexy as hell.

For real though, that revolver looks so damn good in the thumbnail. The smooth collie gradients on everything, it’s so sexy of a gun

A furiously interesting episode!

A partner that is 100% what you do is the finding an indomitable Guinea pig boar under a dumpster that has taken over the channel kind of luck.....Well Done guys and partner.

The information regarding the purchases of the Norwegian Navy is generally low or missing, since the archive in the city of Horten, was burned down during the second world war.

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It wasn't until 1:30:32 that I realized Mae's shirt has mushrooms on it! :D Also, Ballistol is good for keeping swords oiled as well. [support comment]

I bought a Ballistol t shirt after I saw yours. Use it all the time. I keep “moose milk” ready at all times for cleaning my flinters. Bought your t shirts too and am much looking forward to them! Great video as always!

Hey guys loving this channel. Being a shooter and reenactor, both French Polish legion 1917 to 1918 and the Polish Soviet war. And Australian AIF 26th battalion TAS QLD, volunteers, infantry. Please tell me one day the Polish inter war Mauser will star in a video? I have handled and fired a original and it is the only one I have ever seen. The workmanship, machining, and Crown eagle stamping are high quality in finish and lovely to shoor. The owner would not depart from it.. In ny country French and Polish arms are not seen much

Dang I love this show. How does May deal with Othais? xD

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I’ve always wondered where yall get your obscure ammos, but granted that I just bought a Husqvarna 1887 last year, how did you obtain 7.5 swede? Old stock or reloads? If you reloaded, did yall use substitute dies/brass or old reloading equipment designated for that cartridge? So glad yall finally made a video over these pretty pistols!

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The lock work is blissfully simple. Funny the one Nagant revolver everyone knows is known for being ruined by unnecessary mechanical complication.

I literally just got that old Ballistol bottle for my dad as one of his Christmas gifts because of this video. I prefer Hoppe's but my dad loves and always uses Ballistol.

As a Swedish person, seeing the original text, would be great. I'm just going to guess the word was "nätt"? I would assume, if this was the case, it was meant as "compact and neat/proper".

Thanks!

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Paused, ordered, returned.

Ahh nagant revolver is definitely up there on my "surplus pistols/rifles I wish I bought while they were super cheap but didn't cause I thought they'd be cheap forever somehow" list.

Don't worry, I've already forgotten everything important to make more room for trivia.

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For some reason we have a lot of 1895 Soviet Nagants... and weirdly not many got in to our arsenals but just to the grunts. 😆

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