Thanks to Dave from Dublin and to be honest, I am glad to see the show in this direction. I love and appreciate this content and if you are willing to accept these larger donations, it means I can continue enjoying it. I also hope it means some of the burden and stress is off the team because you do AMAZING WORK!
aw man I watched zulu and got a cowhide shield and assegai. turns out you need a considerable number more than 1 each to worry a British colonial expeditionary force. theyve annexed my domicile so I've strategically redeployed to the dog house where i plan my coup. I can smell them making tea day and night 24/7 and can see all the windows are fogged up with steam. they also play this game in my yard that looks sorta looks like baseball but every aspect of it looks dumb and awkward. I also overheard one of them talking about "kill-o-meters" I think it's some kind of device for measuring kills, I dunno I got a headache from just hearing the word. I'm starting to wonder if the place is even worth recovering.
Never have I been more interested in the history and functioning of the second model of a seemingly basic single-shot rifle. I don't know how, but you guys have managed to provide content that is as captivating as it is informative. Never stop.
A bit of additional trivia on your 3rd model Mark I converted to Mark II. You can tell it was originally a late or 3rd model MK I because it doesn’t have a fill in for the earlier Mark I set screw for the block pin. One point you may wish to make to owners and potential owners of the Brit MH....most of the rifles in current circulation came from the Nepal cache, which was hurriedly refurbished and shipped to Nepal, where they were maintained by local armorers. Clearly during the refurb and later maintenance the "parts is parts" philosophy was used and you can find any number of weird combinations of parts in any given rifle.
True to an extent, of course. They WERE aware of parts compatibility. I have seen Mk I buttstock that had been rehsaped and reconfigured for fitting to Mk IV's. The Ft William arsenal was interested in producing functional rifles, not collector's pieces. Having said that, My IMA Mk II had all the correct parts, though the rear barrel band was a BSA part, rather than an Enfield part. I have a nn-Nepal Cache Mk II, and it is cool to see one that will well-used, doesn't have any of the Nepalese markings. It even still has the faint original cartouche on the butt stock. My IMA mk II has a slightly better bore, though.
Othias: another hit out of the park. And I think you’ve hit something on the head in regards to firearms legends and fame. The mosin nagant isn’t a great firearm, the martini isn’t a perfect firearm, the M1 is a fantastic firearm (for its era) but it’s not the gun that made the legendary victories or final stands. As a Sousa march is titled it’s “The Man behind the Gun.” Hope you’re enjoying your trip (even though it is for work). Have a great day.
One of my favorites growing up. I remember feeling betrayed when I found out how badly the filmmakers twisted the characters. For example, Commissary Dalton was a former Non Commissioned Officer, and a beast of a man. (He got so angry at the Zulus' probing attacks that he threw his pith helmet at them.) Hook was a teetotaler who helped out in the hospital, and Bromhead and Chard were decent, typical officers of the era. I highly recommend Col. Mike Snook's books on the Anglo-Zulu war.
Ha small world. I live just down the road from the Weedon Repair facility. Labelled as the Weedon Royal Ordnance Depot, usually told by locals the place did nothing more than store arms up until just after WW2. Cool to hear it did do more than be a glorified warehouse. The site has sort of languished in obscurity. I believe it hosts a series of small shops now and there is talk of turning the into apartments or offices. Kinda sad story for the place really but with it being out in the sticks and attached to Weedon the little village of nothing much it's no wonder the places history in British arms has been lost and forgotten. Thanks for the fun lil bit of info Othias, nice to know it took part in such a massive conversion and had a bigger role to play than I'd known.
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Mandatory comment to satiate the algorithmic gods. Seriously though, this is one of the most consistently awesome shows on RU-vid, and it's downright criminal how they're throttling your reach.
"When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch, Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old b!tch; She's human as you are -- you treat her as sich, An' she'll fight for the young British soldier. Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . ."
I love your content and wanna do something to help y'all out. It's not as much as I wanna give, but it's all I can afford at present. Will donate more in the future.
I wish you could get your hands on a Swinburne-Henry variant, like the ones used by Durant Scott and the Natal Carbineers. (The Zebra Warriors at Isandlhwana are still remembered by the Zulus in song.) However, they are BEYOND unobtanium; I have only seen one for sale on GunBroker in 10 years, and it went for more than my car cost.
Huh, something seems off since it says I'm subbed and has the bell lit up but I wasn't given a notif that this went up. Glad I check the channel manually every other day.
Great video as always C&R crew! Martini carbines are frankly adorable. British imperialism not so much, do appreciate the fantastic history lesson from the perspective of arms / armourers / procurement, fascinating stuff. Thanks so much!
I recently read that the most common national holiday, the thing celebrated on its own day every year by more countries than anything else, is independence from the British Empire.
Excellent episode as always! But WHERE CAN I BUY THAT SHIRT? I love that color combination. Keep up the good work, whenever i smell Ballistol i think of you folks! :)
Towards the conversation at the end about the all 32 channel time period I gotta say the "worst" slump to me was when C&Rsenal was the all Mauser channel. How many slight changes to the bolt do we have to sit through? But damnit I'll sit through it and I'll learn something. I'm actually currently rewatching everything starting from episode 1 and am currently on 86... damn mausers....
The Kabul Arsenal carbine length martinis I have, starting production after these, now makes slightly more sense in context. I had wondered the design purpose of the tulip head style cleaning rod. That didn't stop the crowns getting chipped to hell in the last 100+ years. One question: does the hollow screw that holds the firing pin/spring assembly in place in the block not extend forward more to partially tension the spring? Or was this omitted in the animation for visual clarity?
I have a carbine sword bayonet I dug up in London it's missing the pointed end by about four inches but it's nice to have I found it three meters in the ground when I worked in utilities in London
You can also tell it's a Mk I converted to Mk II by looking at the II stamped on the side - It's not centred as there was originally a I centred there, then they stamped a second I to the right of it :)
You Tube can do what they want, they don't like guns and they own the website. You are lucky they provide you with these videos and C&R are lucky they carry their content. I find it annoying that people carp about You Tube while taking the money You Tube provides them. C&R, like everybody else, can post it on their own web site if they are unhappy.
I mean this in a good way, i use these videos to fall asleep. I have probably seen every single one. Love gun history and battlefield 1 was one of my favorite games, so many iconic weapons. Also have come to the conclusion you guys are vampires. Im onto you 😐
Greener has produced a whole line of shotguns using the Martini action, I own one in 12 gauge. Its an affordable, shootable firearm, with all of the old school cool and much cheaper ammo.
I find it interesting that this rifle stayed in production until the end of the 1880s. That was the time when many european nations were already busy introducing smokeless repeaters. The Martini-Henry must have looked rather obsolete by that time...
Considering they used by the people who invented the concentration camp I wouldn't call it a more civilized age but there is definitely nothing like the old world craftsmanship that goes into firearms made at this time
Alien. That makes SO much sense! But seriously....your example of how an historian can and should do things, and your passion for the subject, are examples that every person studying history could learn from. If you haven't got a degree in History, there should be a few schools looking to correct that situation. Heck, I'll share mine with you....I teach math anyway!🤣
