@@nikolajc7617 Because it can be pronounced in multiple different ways depending on the historical origin of this particular persons family and how it evolved. It could be Shouboe, Skovbo etc.
@@nikolajc7617 So am i, and there are multiple ways you could pronounce that. All of them are easy to say, but which one is the right one in this case.
Danish Officer:"Sir, the world is rejecting our weapon designs! They say that they are very silly and our language is bad!" Danish Officer:" Never mind Carl, we will have our vengeance with our new, tiny, brightly colored plastic caltrops!" *Throws Lego*
Mark my words, some day Lego is going to develop a line of firearms with an incredible degree of modular customizability and Americans will throw so much money at them the Danes will be hauling U.S. currency around in dump trucks.
_"It's Danish, and thus not physically pronounceable."_ *Raises index finger and opens mouth* *Says nothing* *Lowers index finger and closes mouth* *Shrugs*
That is the most awkward holster-stock I have ever seen. "The enemy appears to be in range, let me take a minute or so to open this safety deposit box, convince my pistol to get out of it, close it up, open this wingnut, finagle my pistol into this loop, wingnut the loop closed, get it to my shoulder and -" ~shot~
Wooden-cored bullets, now I know why the Danes have no Vampires!! Seriously though, that is one heck of a collection of esoteric and extremely rare pistols ... thanks to the owner, and Ian, for sharing them with us - very much appreciated, sir.
Thank you, Ian, for bringing these truly forgotten weapons to light. I don't miss any of his videos and from time to time I review the older ones. Thank you again. Greetings from Brazil.
I'm just enjoying the fact that Ian was able to show that highly embellished gun again. I bet that collector he visited to make this video is passionate about his Schouboe pistols based solely on the number they have. Very impressive collection and nice to see one of those rare niche guns being collected. Thanks for sharing Ian.
I'm living near Denmark and know a thing or two about the danish Language. It is hard to pronounce, but I think Ian's take is harder to pronounce than what it probably is: just "Shobo" with both "o" 's pronounced like the o in "word".
Love to see guns related to my country Uruguay!! I have seen the previous video way back, this is a cool bonus. President Claudio Williman was in ofice between 1906 and 1911 so its posible both guns were presented to him in diferent moments of his presidency. Knowing myself a litlle of history and a bit more of Uruguayan diplomacy I realy doubt that anyone else but the president could wet such gift. In Uruguay we would be proud to have such pistols to be properly exibit but as this many of other important artifacts have gone to the international market. Ian is in some form making posible to everyone to see things that maybe would be never be seen outside private colections. Thank you.
I've been waiting for Ian to take a look ant these for years, didn't realise they made so few. The little .32 is my favourite. I'd love to see some modern analysis of the ballistics of the .45 round though I guess that's pretty unlikely.
Given what I've seen with the liberty civil defense rounds when intentionally clogged with super glue (78gr instead of these 60gr wood bullets) they would honestly perform almost identically to ordinary 45 acp ball in an unobstructed target. Notable differences are the vast decrease in velocity (and thus penetration in a non-performing bullet) and difficulty with soft barrier penetration. An ordinary shooting not involving concealment or cover would probably not give any indication of different performance between 45 ball and 45 wood core. Recoil would be more abrupt but overall less. Wounds would appear as a sub-0.45" wound, likely resembling a stab wound with a piece of 0.45" round stock sharpened in a pencil line profile.
"scow-bo" - still not physically pronouncable by an american but closer to the 'truth'......Incidently, Schouboe (or in modern spelling "Skovbo" literally means "Forest-dweller"
I guessed at the pronunciation and I wasn't far off. I served in Denmark with the NATO MND (C) for about a year, in Ringstead and Copenhagen (apologies for the spelling, it's been 27 years). I loved it there to be honest, the whole experience.
Collector to friend; "Just got some .32 ACP.W." "Wow, what's the W for, Wild or Wonder, for extreme power bullets, sounds amazing." "No, no you've got the wrong end of the stick there, literally, the W stands for wood. It fires a wooden core bullet, because it can't handle decent ammo."
Honestly I wouldn't mind if people used a big, light and slow projectile like that. Lower chance of penetration you know, more stopping power and less lethal potential..
Two observations concerning the shoulder stock: The major complaint of the then existing designs from Mauser & DWM, were fragility & stability. It seems that the Danes have addressed both these points in that the loop clasp insures a repeatable secure attachment without the problem of the backstrap slot or stock mount wear causing a wobbly connection over time. Second, there appears to be a lot more wood in the Stock/holster in this configuration, without the hinged door at the back, as with most other designs. This one looks like it would hold up to more abuse. That all being said, it must weigh a TON.
That has got to be the most bizarre combination of over-engineering and backyard crude I have ever seen in my life. That front bracket on the holster stock is really nicely done. I mean that whole thing was machined out of a giant block or forging. Just look at all those little zigzags and curves that have been machined into the bracket and how the thickness varies over it's length. Then, apparently, the engineering budget ran out, and somebody drew the plans for the rest of the stock on the back of a grocery bag with a crayon. That thing looks like it was hacked out with a handsaw and tin snips. The retaining mechanism for the door looks like it was made by a 10 year old who didn't have access to anything other than scrap metal and repurposed tools.
Paul Ste. Marie As a Dane, I can reliably inform you that we still use that exact same combination of engineering principles to this day, in most thing we do. It works just fine, except for when it doesn’t. ;)
I just saw a company that sells parts kits of 'buy back guns' with one of these in .45acp. They disassemble them, destroy the frame and sell the parts.
The fireplace gun guy strikes again! He’s the bloody Jay Leno of guns and obviously his house is huge and probably doubles as a museum. I wonder if he has an on duty staff who are consistently repairing, conserving and making ammo and parts for his armoury/collection.
It's funny how these god damn danes flooding the comment section can't even agree amongst themselves how it's properly pronounced, and when some of them do reach a consesus, that consensus is wrong as well. Danish, truly the silliest language of all scandinavia.
@@emmaisalone A brave effort from a misguided soul, but alas; I am not falling for your sophistry. Danish remains a silly, silly language, and exceptionally so.
Nelson Prue hehe, well. We Danes might have been geniuses with regards to that, but the rest of the design I think was made after 10 pints of beer consumption.. ^^
Please thank the owner of the clean fireplace for sharing all of his toys. I know when I see that fireplace I will see something, a bunch of things, that are really cool. You should have a "FIREPLACE GUY'S GUNS" playlist.
I read somewhere that Dansk Rekylriffel Syndikat used this pistol as an apprenticeship exam (Svendeprøve) for gunsmiths in training, which is one of the reason there exsist so many varients. But looking for the quote i could not find it :( Has anyone else read/heard that?
@@OldJenso Well, yes. I talked to a man that was selling a Scouboe pistol at weaponsexhibision in Rødovre hallen. He was himself a gunsmith from Riffelsyndikatet (Madsen) in the 1950´s-60´s. While talking about the pistol he told me that it was made for an exam and they used to do that in the period it was made. I didn´t buy it though -it stod at 60000kr = 9000us dollar :(
@@justinterestedmusic We like doing things differently, especially when it comes to old danish. ch, sometimes becomes a k, e's may be silent, aa is pronounced å (which is pronounced a bit like the o in over) and i/j can be interchangable. Old danish is fun.
16:14-16:25 : This door design was not made by a gunsmith. Rather, it was made by an extremely annoyed house wife who was tired of her husband not locking the door on the way out of the house when he went to work and was like, "Oh, you're not gonna remember to lock the door? Well, ya gonna rember for ya damn gun!".
tho im danish that "schouboe" sounds more like south jutland/north schleswig-holstein accent more than the danish im used to. maybe just bc of the "sch" part, idk. GREAT vid man, i love these vids. denmark is proud to be in your vids
@@roboactive well, you how the love to neighbors could take the expression! But you are right the Dutch are even worse. However as far as I know, they really never tried to design guns?
This is the first Forgotten Weapons video where the absurdity in design actually had me laughing by the end. That stock/holster design -- wow. Especially strange and definitely contributing to the comedy is how these guns went through such a *frequent* series of seemingly illogical iterations.
Dansk Rekylriffel Syndikat was the company name of the Madsen guns manufacturer, and was called Compagnie Madsen A/S before the name was changed to Dansk Rekylriffel Syndikat as far as I'm aware. The name changed in 1936 to Dansk Industri Syndikat A/S, and produced weapons for the nazis during WWII. The company still exists, now called DISA, but they have stopped producing weapons a long time ago and now produces high-tech foundry machinery. A somewhat confused article, all in Danish, about it: www.dengang.dk/artikler/2378
When you picked up the first pistol, the 1903 it looked so similar to the little guns they used in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and you're handling looked like the shots they did of real hands in place of the marionettes when they showed something being manipulated in close-up.
It's an older way of spelling the name Skovbo (Skowbo is more phonetical on point for english) ... Skov means forest and bo can mean a few different things, but all pertaining to where you live, reside or come from. Your house is a "bo" but in case of a person it means (or meant) one who lives in the forest. But like Thatcher, Fletcher, Miller and such it probably meant your ancestry did ... You would probably be surprised to find out how many english words is derived from danish Anyway keep up the good work 😘
You at least got the hard "ch" sound right but yeah, it's hard to pronounce, probably a lot of younger people here who wouldn't be familiar with this variation of spelling of this name. Modern spelling would be "Skovbo", pronounced exactly the same, "skuvv-boh" is the best way i can render it. Infinite thumbs up for pronouncings Madsen properly unlike every other anglophone in the world, it's especially weird when people talk about Mads Mikkelsen and call him "Mats".
With crazy esoteric stuff like this, how do these guns even survive to this day? How did enough examples of these weird one off prototype even exist anymore?
Wasn't the pinfire revolver from 1865? Anyhoo; points for trying to pronounce Schouboe - it's the Low German version of Skovbo, so even a few Danes would have to improvise
this thing just got more and more impractical as the video continued. I also couldn't help but notice that the holster is designed to be used left handed.
There were plenty of wooden core bullet designs during the 19th century (mainly for muzzle loaders). For some of them the rationale was that splinters would be impossible to totally remove from the wound, and thus would cause a deadly infection... Ugh!
