Spencer lived till 1922!?! So as a boy he lived in a world of muzzleloading muskets and lived to see Browning's machine guns. Wow. From single shots to many, many shots.
Definitely the best timeline to be alive, born in a world of black powder, cap and ball muzzleloaders and flintlocks and leave it at smokeless, center fire metallic cartridges in fully automatic guns.
there are way more things that would actually impress spencer in 1922 and you chose browning hmg LOL like he could die in 1899 and still be aware of machine guns
My great grandma (on my father's side) lived long enough to ride in an ox wagon as a kid, and fly in a jet airliner as an old lady. The 1850-1950 period was disruptive in ways that we're just not used to anymore. Not innovation or evolution, but invention and revolution.
@@sangomasmith Orville Wright lived long enough to see supersonic airplanes. If a 10 y/o kid had seen the first flight they'd have been only 66 when they watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon. As a young officer Winston Churchill led lancers in a cavalry charge. They had lances, he was armed with a sword and pistol. When an old man, in his second term as Prime Minister in the early 1950s, he was armed with nuclear weapons. Yeah, pretty incredible.
...sort of. It was intended to be an offshoot series, but there wasn't enough time. Now they're making the ones that can stand on their own as full episodes
Not playing the game, but - thanks to a certain museum employee from england - I am aware of it containing a number of interestng firearms of the mid-to-late 19th century period. I'm still holding some hope of us getting an episode on the Vetterli before the sun starts to burn helium. Bloke on the Range has done an extensive video on it, but I'd love to get Othias' and Mae's take on it.
Had to snicker when Othais and Mae talked on the problem on how to capture the clay hits for the video. I remembered on the DVD of the 2003 film "Second Hand Lions" in the behind the scene extras they told of the problem in the scene where Micheal Caine and Robert Duvall was suppose to shoot corn cobs out of the sky. Well corn cobs don't break when hit with shotgun pellets, so they had to rig the corn cobs with explosives to blow up dramatically to save the scene.
@@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 If we talking only about slugs shots then maybe it's better but for just using regular ammo on the spectre spread cant be beat with the long barrel version
I'm another one who found Ballistol through this channel, and have been using it for my muzzleloaders. It works wonderfully at keeping out rust, and doesn't seem to gum up like some other commercial gun oils.
Awesome! I just inherited a Marlin Model No 30- G. Neither I nor anyone else knows a thing about them, so these episodes will be a personal help even beyond the usual entertainment!
You must be reading my mind. A week ago or so i became interested in Spencer's work and found a wonderful 3-part article, and now THIS? you are spoiling me.
I got invited to a black powder shoot. Hadn't done it before, but Othias showed how Ballistol can clean my shiny "Fairy Dust" revolvers, so I gave it a go and enjoyed. I'm still not a regular BP shooter, but I'm still using the Ballistol. Thanks Othias!
I would agree you are the foremost expert on revolvers based on your detailed and extensive revolver series’. Now for that inevitable book? It would be fantastic to have a contemporary book explaining revolvers with nice colour plates and updated development information.
Chicopee Falls, MA! That's where my father was born and raised. Right next to Springfield. My father's cousin had a knitting machine company, making small machines useful for individual use. It is still run, as far as I can tell, by his sons. When that market for those machines crashed, they went into contract machining using their CNC machines and were quite successful. Actually, after the Soviet Union broke apart, they found a market for their knitting machines in Russia. It's crazy how these patterns repeat themselves.
I think the whole magazine cutoff idea is basically top off loading between shots. If you fire a shot, open the action, and at the same time insert a new round into the tube, that will be the next round to enter the chamber once you close the action, giving you the ability to leave any subsequent rounds in the tube in there until you stop adding an extra round each time.
The filming of the shotgun firing as well as the view of the clays was very good in my mind! Personally I think I’d be happy if you stuck with the same format.
Imagine being Spencer, seeing Browning surpass your design, then just go for a semi-auto, then see machine guns and WWI. Firearms advanced so far in his lifetime, in large part thanks to him.
I thought the shooting segment was great. Very fun to watch. I've always wanted one of these because my first name is Spencer and my elder brother is Christopher.
I would really enjoy an episode in civil war era rifles even if they can’t always be shot, I know you’ve done black powder pistols, shotguns and rifles both old world and new world and I can’t wait to see what’s next. Maybe a Spencer carbine
This has been a long time coming, excited for the future of C&Rsenal! Have you looked at firebird clays? Could make things more exciting and the hits more obvious especially for those of us viewing on a smaller screen or without the best eyesight.
On shooting camera angles, about the only thing I'd change is pulling the over-the-shoulder camera back a bit further to get more of the field, and Mae, in the shot, although appreciate this would make it harder to see the clays. Great work folks!
I think that peening you saw on the chamber that was preventing the barrel from unscrewing was actually from the firing pin. Once fired the firing pin can get stuck out and impact exactly those points. On some worn out examples the hammer can dig into the beach block slightly causing the firing pin to not fully retract.
I always wonder what happened to Snipes!?? Thanks for the information!!! I have used Binsal!!! But not on a gun. I was doing some work on my bike. Helped out a lot. Told dad about this don't know if he's using it though???
Walking into the hardware store in 1886 and seeing this, I know I would want it. Hunting ducks at that time was a business around here and I could make a few bucks. As a market hunter, I would ask for it in 10ga.
the double pump for the first round with a 'carrier' position for the round reminds me of the Mk15 belt fed Grenade launcher that still uses a similar method
We're used to guns that do this more efficiently because of centuries of refinement, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the action isn't inspired by farm or early industrial machinery. As an example, the action almost "ghost loads" itself as part of its function because it has 3 positions of swing in the breech block instead of activating the shell latch during extraction, ejection, and loading with all linear motion. Reminds me of a pull-push machinegun in some ways.
Speaking of the lack of safety features, one could theoretically load a shell onto the carrier, five into the tube, and then keep the pump to the rear until ready for use (with little concern of any shells falling out).
Repeating shotguns are all fun and good, but I saw those clays flying. When's the next Episode of the Handtrap show? (In all seriousness I've been so excited for the shotgun series since Othais first mentioned it on the show, I know the hand trap episodes are a lot of work for not a lot of gain, I enjoy them as a special treat when we get them.)
We see it time and again with these brilliant engineers and inventors. Their first love is clearly guns ! They design, build and sell a gun. They go broke. They move on to design build or sell something entirely unrelated to guns. They find success ! But the pull of their first love of guns brings them back to designing yet another shooter. That finds success and then they go broke again or get restless and yet again build sewing machines or bikes or whatever…. And then you guessed it, are pulled back into gun design one more time. These guys are all like everyone that watches this channel. They are gun nerds.
I have two thoughts: 1) Is it possible to press the breach block down from the top whereby you could load a shell for single shot? 2) it is interesting to note that Browning suggested to Winchester that a pump-actions shotgun would be better suited to a repeater action, but Winchester insisted on a lever action design, so Browning designed the 1887 Lever-action shotgun instead. I wonder whether Browning's suggestion was influenced by the Spencer shotgun or was an original thought?
