Repairing and Testing an FG42: The MOST EXPENSIVE Gun of WW2

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Slightly different video this time, since I had to work on this interesting and uncommon gun I thought I'd make a video about the FG42.
Also a while ago I had made a similar video about the STEN titled: "how bad was the CHEAPEST gun of WW2?" and considering the FG42 was with little doubt the most expensive one, I thought it would have been fun to cover the other end of the spectrum as well.
A special thanks goes to Michelangelo Neri Orliani for helping in the making of this project
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@Backyard.Ballistics Год назад

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@melihasoderlund6171 Год назад

I love ur videos and learning stuff about guns

@ddoherty5956 Год назад

Love your videos👍🇬🇧

@jocking3 Год назад

Stop advertising war criminals.

@thelaughinghyenas8465 Год назад

Thank you for your videos. I have learned so much, and have an old .22 revolver turning all coppery for rust blue based on what I learned from you at the moment. I'm really sorry that RU-vid screws with the monetization so you have to do War Blunder. Your channel is so much better than that!

@sheogoraththedaedricprince9675 Год назад

Masterfully done, a true work of art.

@bryanstotts3466 Год назад

This is truly one of the best firearms channels on RU-vid. I'm also at a loss as to why this channel is not more popular. Please keep developing this fantastic content.

@richkidd1263 Год назад

I agree, I learn something every time I watch a video. One of the Best channels on the tube

@richkidd1263 Год назад

Curious, if they would have developed a new round, think 308 to the 30-06, but in 8mm bullet diameter, if that would have solved the reliability problems.

@JorgenKesseler Год назад

@bryanstotts3466 no clickbait titles, no arrows or O-face in the thumbnail. No loud talking or screaming, just genuinely good content. It’s almost as if YT dislikes good content as a whole.

@thedancingguy828 Год назад

@@JorgenKesseler hancock has 7m views and the old man is the deal, its just a matter of luck

@Heike-- Год назад

Guns. RU-vid and the coastal elites who run it hate guns.

@Punisher9419 Год назад

The STG57 also had similar requirements other then it was also designed to fire huge rifle grenades however wasn't designed to be dropped on a paratrooper. There are similarities I think between the two as well. The FG42 is probably my all time favoruite small arm from WW2, very much ahead of it's time only really being overshadowed by the STG44. The 57 is the superior design in terms of reliability although at the cost of weight.

@phileas007 Год назад

The 57 is indeed very usable but not the most pleasant gun to shoot. I always consider it more of a light, portable MG rather than a true assault weapon.

@phileas007 Год назад

The 57 is indeed very usable but not the most pleasant gun to shoot. I always consider it more of a light, portable MG rather than a true assault weapon.

@noanat 11 месяцев назад

I recognize a swiss when I see one

@Punisher9419 11 месяцев назад

@@noanat Jersey actually. The island.

@neutronalchemist3241 10 месяцев назад

@@phileas007 In weight and dimensions, the STG57 is comparable to the Johnson M1941 light machine gun. As an automatic rifle, even the 1931 Breda PG was lighter and more compact.

@AtlasNL 8 месяцев назад

6:53 I never knew how much I needed to hear an Italian man say “bollocks!”

@Jonathansww2 5 месяцев назад

This is one of my favorite channel, with history secrets, Mark Felton, world war wisdom and few others. Everybody who is destroying hostory, like Mike B can fuck off. This channel is purely gold, preserving/saving history and telling about it. Some people out here are shooting real helmets, preaking historical items etc. Thank you Backyard Ballistics!

@squibblez2517 Год назад

6:33 I really appreciate how safety-first you are. Guns are awesome, and historical firearms even more so, but they are still lethal weapons, and very precisely made machines (for the most part) that require a good foundation of knowledge to understand the more complicated bits, like trigger groups and gas piston systems.

@andersjjensen Год назад

They are first and formost lethal contraptions that impart explosive force (hopefully) in the intended direction, and everything else second, third, fourth, etc depending on how you value each individual other aspect.

@dedonkers Год назад

I think he just doesn't want us to accidentally make unregistered full auto firearms without realizing it

@squibblez2517 Год назад

@@dedonkers every gun nerd knows if you know how you should lmao. (For the FBI agent assigned to me, this is a joke)

@hellishcyberdemon7112 9 месяцев назад

@@andersjjensen That could be said for may things we use and operate today, but they dont receive the same level of disgust that guns do which isnt fair

@greydominguez9195 Месяц назад

@@hellishcyberdemon7112 Well, I don't know about that. I'm not anti-gun, but the disgust with which guns are viewed is understandable. I'm not sure how many other things today available to the civilian market are designed to be lethal contraptions.

@MB-nn3jw Год назад

That was a good take on the FG2, giving detail that other channels have not covered.

@realmofrandom3696 Год назад

A few tweaks to the design could make this an amazing battle rifle for the modern day, fixing the feeding issues could be done with relative ease by switching to 308 and using standard 308 magazines, the gas system and front handguard can be adjusted to not vent hot gas onto the users hands, modern materials and techniques such as polymer materials and stamped parts can be used to reduce weight in certain areas and reduce production costs, the way they got closed and open botl firing is brilliant, and a modernized version of this could have serious potential.

@snowflakemelter1172 9 месяцев назад

Back to your gaming now.

@DoRC 3 месяца назад

Awesome video but at least one of if not the main advantage to an open bolt gun is that when you aren't firing the barrel is open on both ends making it cool itself a lot more easily than with a closed bolt gun.

@Gunbudder Год назад

1:02 my cousin made a documentary about this battle! my family fought in the war there and killed nazis and helped capture the German general and end the occupation. It always bothers me that so few people know about the battle of Crete. one of my cousins still has the rifle he stole from a German cache of rifles that was dropped on the island during the invasion. The germans dropped these big wooden crates basically that were filled with rifles and often they got blown closer to the villagers who would just steal all the rifles and then kill the nazis with them hahahaha

@Jordan-rb28 11 месяцев назад

Wow. What rifle did he get? Very interesting story.

@QuovadisDomine317 10 месяцев назад

Crete is always a liar, an evil beast, and a lazy eater.You give them a hard scolding-Titus 1:12-13

@andylipscomb5199 10 месяцев назад

I saw a documentary on the invasion of Crete. They interviewed residents who where there and fought back. One of the coolest bits was an old gentleman showing off the MP40 he had captured personally and managed to keep.

@DrStockmann 8 месяцев назад

All right! Thats German property! Give me back the rifles right now!

@specialagentgeralt9763 Год назад

It's really interesting to see all the little engineering quirks this design had primarily due to the insistence on creating a "jack of all trades" that utilized full size rifle cartridges. This undoubtedly was a direct influence on the development of intermediate cartridges and thus assault rifles. This thing actually reminds me a bit of the AUG with it's almost bullpup layout and the way it vents gas.

@jaskajokunen1572 10 месяцев назад

Its a miracle that German engineers almost pull the miracle.

@gameragodzilla 10 месяцев назад

Ironically the US ended up making the same mistake of trying to make one gun do everything with the M14 program, to similar results. Meanwhile the Italians did the BM-59 (very similar weapon) much cheaper and timelier because they were more realistic in their goals.

@allenstayduhar7139 9 дней назад

Everyone pay attention this guy's gonna end up being one of the best gun smiths in the world!

@ismovirtanen7225 Год назад

6:52 funniest part:D

@stahlfaust70faust91 11 месяцев назад

I am, from Germany, like it when People from other Countries tell true and Professional things about German Guns from WWII 👍

@spektakelkd Год назад

The best channel of its kind. No competition. Well done

@Backyard.Ballistics Год назад

Thanks!

@AshyGr33n Год назад

Early-production FG-42?? I can hear Ian McCullum's spidy sense tingling from here.

@gorbalsboy Год назад

Quite a gun only surpassed by the L85A1 for its shittiness(tech term)great vid

@marcusott2973 Год назад

I find it fascinating that it took H&K to buy the company, and then at last for the 1st time to actually take an L85 and film it high speed to actually see what's going wrong? That they didn't have that idea before, when they were stovepiping on having other issues to feed and eject. A high-speed camera and a rifle firing isn't exactly the most expensive test setup. The mind baffles. 🤦‍♂️

@meanmanturbo Год назад

Failing because of overambition is still much better then because of general incompetence. The L85A1 was not that amitious, it could have been good.

@snowflakemelter1172 9 месяцев назад

You have no clue what you're talking about.

@snowflakemelter1172 9 месяцев назад

@@marcusott2973HK didn't buy the company, the company ( Royal Ordnance) bought HK.

@Garyandrewalexander Год назад

Loved the subject and the way it was presented.and the the "Bollocks" midway,guess youre based in UK.

@garymitchell5899 11 месяцев назад

Wow man you got an expensive gun! But it looks so new!?!

@Ww2enthusiasts529 10 месяцев назад

Do you sell these guns that you restore or do you just keep them or give them to museums?

@4C0-q7h 11 месяцев назад

Why does that Fg 42 stock look so uncomfortable to shoulder fire.

@Fer-De-Lance 9 месяцев назад

Interesting, thank you for sharing.

@johnfrench5279 Год назад

I would dispute the claim that the FG42 was the most expensive small arm of WW2. The USA did not have the industrial ability to produce small arms in large quantities by using stamping methods. To produce the FG42 in the US would require an entirely new industry to be created practically from scratch. This is why the FG42 would have been prohibitively expensive for the US to produce. Germany already had a well established stamping industry for small arms and therefore the FG42 was not that expensive for the Germans to produce; the German problem was lack of suitable raw materials which actually made the FG42 even cheaper for the Germans because they were forced to use cheap materials in the gun. Unfortunately, Nazi price fixing policies, complete state control over the economy, incompetence and corruption of the Nazi officials involved make it impossible to figure out exactly how much it cost to make an FG42 in any currency other than Reichsmarks which had no stablished exchange rate with foreign currencies.

@zombis89fisto Год назад

1:49 what is that last fourth gun and is it ww2 era.

@richkidd1263 Год назад

I wonder if the Germans had developed a new round, think 308 to the 30-06, but in an 8mm diameter, if that would have solved some of the reliability problems this piece had. Instead of forcing the 8mm Mauser into a smaller platform.

@jason200912 Год назад

Spain developed 7.92 cetme which was effective for burst fire at 1000m

@hyperx2985 11 месяцев назад

Don't even take them apart even a small mistake can and will end up in an accident or a felony

@makeintoschu Год назад

8650 Euro for a jamamatic;(

@StudSupreme Год назад

Sembra che l'impugnatura e a un angolo molto scomodo. Ma e molto interessante lo stesso come disegno.

@SolRC Год назад

I would have just made the parachutes bigger lol.

@martinlatvian5538 Год назад

Reminds me so much of the game "Return To Castle Wolfenstein" from the year 2001. Games aside it's an incredible machine. German engineering God dammit.

@B0jangle5 Год назад

Great game, i used to play this with my friend, where one would move and shoot and the other would do the kicking 🤣

@martinlatvian5538 Год назад

@@B0jangle5 it is called inovation

@multipl3 9 месяцев назад

Great channel. Subbed

@Arzual 10 месяцев назад

11:24 Wait a minute O_o

@SteveReynold Год назад

Nice he hit puberty after he turned 28

@zillsburyy1 11 месяцев назад

remakes are 5000

@HatsuneM1ku01 Год назад

Don’t try to repair or mess with trigger packs. Trying to tell your mostly American audience or to mess with or take apart their hun as if we do t know how to do that

@liammgill 11 месяцев назад

Love your videos, but dude I have to ask you, what accent is that? I know you're from Italy, and maybe it's just my American-centric brain, but it sounds Italian mixed with something else.

@Kingrizz69 8 месяцев назад

I hear an English twang in your intriguing accent am I wrong?

@jansobol8649 Год назад

powinien byc na nabój kurz patrone 7,92x 33

@sexylegs3015 Год назад

You should weld the trigger disconnector in place and file down the ledge

@richkidd1263 Год назад

He has a Patreon page correct?

@stevelenox152 Год назад

Mein Gott! I would love to own one of them

@Boniswahn 9 месяцев назад

The M 60 is a copy of the FG 42.

@FullSpectrumDev Год назад

I'm so glad he leave in the 'ping' followed by 'Bollocks!' at 06:53, after telling us how disassembling trigger groups is a pain in the ass. Kind of really drove the point home in a humerous fashion :D

@stevenunyabidness Год назад

85% of gunsmithing is finding springs, pins and detents expelled quite fast and at angles that make you question general relativity.

@Peaceful_Gojira Год назад

@@stevenunyabidnesscan confirm. Taking apart any of my own guns and having a spring fling off into the void of my shop floor is a real nightmare, haha.

@beardedchimp 11 месяцев назад

I'm fascinated that he went with the very British/Irish "bollocks" over swearing in Italian. Has producing so many youtube videos made you start to think in English? Or at least while angry!

@Dethecus0 9 месяцев назад

Springs like this when found in cars/engines are usually named "ting-ting-fucks" where I'm from, because thats the sound that is made when you take them out.

@ripcut28 Год назад

It seems like its largest hindrance was the 8mm cartridge. A smaller, lighter cartridge would have been easier to hit the design goals.

@talonsclaw9058 Год назад

Honestly, imagine if they went with the x33 rim like the stg instead of the full size x57 rim, it would have been interesting

@Backyard.Ballistics Год назад

the possibility of using the 7,92x33 Kurz was there, and it was evaluated from the start, but keeping the Crete disaster in mind the designers weren't very keen on using any cartridge that wasn't considered "full power", worrying the paratroopers would otherwise risk being "outranged" again.

@King.Leonidas Год назад

@@Backyard.Ballistics according from what i've seen in IAN forgotten weapon video the gun is really controllable for the cartridge it's lobbing out at full auto standing. and it seems to do it better than a FAL and certainly an M14 and G3

@czwarty7878 Год назад

No because then it couldn't perform as LMG substitute.

@102ndsmirnov7 10 месяцев назад

I wouldn't say so, from what I've seen of people firing it, it is probably the most full-auto controllable battle rifle ever made.

@cberge8 Год назад

I'm still completely confused by how such a high quality content creator doesn't have more subscribers. You deserve at minimum 2+million. Keep up the great work. Hopefully your content gets the recognition it deserves in time.

@CandidZulu Год назад

He needs a collaboration with Ian McCollum to pick up speed!

@andersjjensen Год назад

@@CandidZulu Now THAT'S an idea. Ian, being an absolute preservanist, can most certainly get behind Backyard Ballistics careful and considering approach to firearms restauration. Ideally it would never be needed for a collectors item, but for some examples (and budgets!) it's better to have a faithfully restored example than none at all.

@pedropedro58er Год назад

@@CandidZuluexcellent idea !!!!

@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS Год назад

Not that I am disagreeing with the sentiment of your post, but it certainly is a niche market within a niche market (firearm repair in the already, albeit larger, niche firearms fanbois). He certainly does deserve a larger viewership than he has already, and while a crossover with Ian is very likely to be a pipedream (imagine how many requests for just that he must receive in a day?) I of course would love to see it happen.

@shapsugh1864 Год назад

Unfortunately gun themed channels are not monetized and advertised much by YT, the beginning is always rough for them.

@j.robertsergertson4513 Год назад

Don't know how it happened, but I bet since the disconnector prevents the gun going full auto the"malfunction" was some one tinkering with it ,messed it up and the gun doesn't fire at all

@andersjjensen Год назад

If that was the case they'd completely misunderstood it's basic principle of operation. The way you turn this into a full-auto-only weapon is to file off the little disconnector "flag" that protrudes above the trigger pack. Or buy a spare one and do it to that so you can switch back and forth. Putting in a weaker spring accomplishes nothing (except the failure we saw). Putting in a stronger spring would, at worst, introduce feed problems due to drag on the bolt. But that's unlikely since 8mm Mauser can strong arm any spring of that size regardless of stiffness.

@j.robertsergertson4513 Год назад

@@andersjjensen Never said it was done by a mechanical engineer. Probably Bubba or the European equivalent , figuring that , the disconnector is what makes gun go Brrrrrrrt .I be willing to bet ,if you mic that return spring it's a few coils short.

@REXOB9 Год назад

Thanks for the background history on the battle of Crete. What an interesting firearm. Nice to see that even professionals have springs go flying ;-)

@SatanicBeard Год назад

The design of these older weapons always intrigues me and even more so when you consider they’ve been designed and manufactured during wartime with the massive added pressure that obviously comes with it.

@black84z28camaro 9 месяцев назад

With no computers

@crazy8sdrums Год назад

Excellent analysis! I think the FG-42 would have been a far more viable rifle had they used 7.92x33 Kurz or maybe a similar variation. The Mauser cartridge was too much for it's intended purpose, and as you noted in this video, too much to deal with in the design of the rifle. I love the appearance of the FG-42, and I think that modern repros should be made to chamber 5.56....which would require an internals redesign...but with CAD it shouldn't be too hard to do, considering the ease of machining today. Maybe not cheap...but certainly doable.

@DavidCowie2022 Год назад

" I think that modern repros should be made to chamber 5.56.." According to Ian of Forgotten Weapons, the sort of people who are willing to pay a lot for reproductions of historic weapons want them to be as close to the original as possible, and do not care for alternative ammunition. Using 5.56 might make the gun easier to make, but would also make it harder to sell.

@crazy8sdrums Год назад

@@DavidCowie2022 Any 8mm Mauser firing ARs out there?

@mpetersen6 Год назад

@@DavidCowie2022 There are versions chambered in .308/7.62 NATO. Ian has one video does the FG-42 live up to its hype. Much more controllable in full auto than say an M-14 from the shoulder judging by the video. Now was it a good idea? One also needs to remember that German infantry tactics were built around the MG-34/42.

@c1ph3rpunk Год назад

Oh, the money I’ve I’ve made off people that say “that should be easy to do”. Please keep up being that naive, getting yourself in trouble then calling me to bail you out. The moment I hear someone say “we thought it would be easy” on the intro call, I double the cost.

@crazy8sdrums Год назад

@@c1ph3rpunkReading isn't easy for you.

@joesaad3089 Год назад

Please post more content like this . Your presentation was very clear and interesting

@capatainnemo Год назад

that little spring has a name, its called a pingfuckit

@warrenharrison9490 Год назад

It's cousin the (E clip) Jesus clip, because after it launches you exclaim "Jesus where did it go?"

@projektkobra2247 Год назад

WAIT..This WASNT found in an Italian crawlspace, or dumpster?

@Backyard.Ballistics Год назад

No, this is from our warehouse 😉. Essentially a private collection.

@hellishcyberdemon7112 9 месяцев назад

@@Backyard.Ballistics You guys know how lucky you are right? a warehouse filled with guns in Italy NOT EVEN IN THE US

@bvreagle1708 Год назад

Thanks for all you do, your videos are highly informative and entertaining. You've given me the confidence to try to restore an 1893 Webley RIC my grandfather found in his home in th '80s. Wish me luck 🤞

@Backyard.Ballistics Год назад

Best of luck!

@themightiestofbooshes9443 Год назад

The CETME Modelo A for the Spanish Armed Forces was developed by refugee German gun designers postwar using the 8x41mm CETME cartridge; the introduction of 7.62NATO is the reason we do not have 8mm CETME today. This was what the FG-42 was supposed to be. The requirements were for lightweight, long range accurate automatic fire, and supersonic past 800m or something. The projectile achieved this with an Aluminum/Aluminium core surrounded by a Copper jacket so that it would engage the rifling. It was brilliant. Too bad Spain went with 7.62NATO instead of going through with the perfect intermediate 8mm cartridge. It would have been legendary!

@mrblack5145 Год назад

What a beautiful and complex weapon.

@olenb Год назад

I just want to say I have watched your videos since way back when you had those sponsored ads for your channel on RU-vid, and I am so happy you have come so far since then, you seriously deserve this and more.

@Backyard.Ballistics Год назад

Wow, thank you!

@Zenitchik_130 10 месяцев назад

So German engineers essentially was forced to make short SCAR-H suited for paratroopers all while in a war and with 1940s technologies and materials and the actually kinda succeeded? Insane

@allegrofantasy Год назад

Superb presentation from beginning to end. The views and likes are rapidly clicking away as I'm typing this ! I watched other videos showing significant muzzle flash which I presume came from unburned propellant due to the unusually short barrel for 8mm Mauser to keep within the length and weight limits. I am curious there was no muzzle flash in your demo.

@Backyard.Ballistics Год назад

The propellant chemistry plays a big role, some powders are much more prone to flash than others. Modern propellants often have flash suppressants included

@Glasher1 Год назад

As far as it's doing double duty as a light machinegun the manufacturer suggests this the FG42 rarely be used in that manor. I'm sure you read the book, Death From Above. which includes the manual where it states, "The weapon fires single-shot and in emergency, in the full-automatic mode." I enjoyed your video! I fell in love with the FG42 so long ago because of CoD and the like. When the opportunity to acquire one (a repro) happened I jumped on it. I bought the ZF-4 scope before the rifle actually. There was a limited run by Meopta, the direct descendant of the original scope maker. I heard they made a 1000 unit run of the scope and didn't want to miss the opportunity for one of theirs rather than a Chinese knock-off. There is/was a gentleman in Auburn, WA machining the mounts (cool!). Got one. A correct reproduction sling was ordered. I picked up a magazine loader and ammo clips to feed the loader. I'd like to find some more magazines though. Luckily I have a VERY understanding wife!

@Backyard.Ballistics Год назад

Yes I did read the book😉

@Glasher1 Год назад

@@Backyard.Ballistics It was good to see another video on the FG42. Thanks. I've owned firearms for fifty years and currently I have a small collection of pistols and rifles (about a dozen) that range from black powder to centerfire. The funny thing is that I've had this FG42 seven or eight years and have yet to take it to the range. Go figure. Take care, sir. 8 )

@MrIrondog55 Месяц назад

You know an Italian man has spent too much time in the UK, when he proclaims; "BOLLOCKS!!", so eloquently!

@officedullard8722 3 месяца назад

Not sure if anyone else has said it but 'assault weapon' isn't a thing that has ever existed. You might mean Assault Rifle, though the FG42 is not one of those. The best classification you could give to this gun would be an Automatic Rifle or Light Automatic Rifle. Not unlike the BAR.

@baptistamercado1380 3 месяца назад

It seems everything that the FG42 was trying to be, was successfully accomplished by the STG-44.

@carsoncasmirri3874 6 месяцев назад

Imagine if WWII saw wider use of things like the FG42, the Colt Monitor, and the SVT 40

@wadekirby8575 Год назад

If this one feeds better with an magazine only 1/2 or 1/3 full a new mag spring is likely in order.

@martinlatvian5538 Год назад

Sir, You are a true master. I must be lucky I found Your channel. So much to learn. I respect Your attitude towards artworks of engineering.

@enternamedad 10 месяцев назад

The way you proclaimed “bollocks”! really made my day, a truly British expletive. Nice one.

@juribossi2684 11 месяцев назад

Hey great video you are always very detailed and specific and I love it. Anyway I think that a long time ago you made video about some sort of air powered bullet(like you pump air in it and then with the hammer the pressure is suddenly released and the bullet goes flying) am I crazy and I'm misremembering or did you actually post something like that? And if that's so where can i find the video? Sorry for the long comment and again love your videos

Год назад

@ForgottenWeapons channel has a whole set of videos about FG42: the description, comparing two patterns, shooting, legacy,...

@thatguyoverthere9634 Год назад

Funny how the wildly successful solution to the FG 42s design requirements would be met within a year of it's adoption by the conception of the 7.92x33 Kurtz and the plethora of cheap, light, and reliable select fire rifles that the germans would design and adopt in the following years. Though if the MP43 had been created in 1941, the world likely would have missed out on this wonderfully complicated yet amazing rifle here

@czwarty7878 Год назад

Not exactly, 7.92x33 weapon could not act like an LMG stand-in on longer range. That's exactly why they needed FG42, similarly how today's battle rifles can't be replaced by 5.56 rifles

@quiteindeed6809 Год назад

I'm more of a Johnson LMG fan myself. Too bad I don't have a spare $100k lying around to own one :(

@sandroevangelisti9515 Год назад

Video interessantissimo e fantastico

@briankerr4512 Год назад

awesome gun ... I don't even know if a semi auto version would be legal in Canada ... probably not

@p0_0kie_001 Год назад

Just a hypothetical question, can you convert the replica to a fully automatic one?

@mattynek2 11 месяцев назад

Not on RU-vid, that's for sure

@hellishcyberdemon7112 9 месяцев назад

you absolutely could, just dont get caught by someone or the police who would report you

@hellishcyberdemon7112 Месяц назад

So you gotta worry about snitches

@Mrxxynotxx 10 месяцев назад

Love how educational and satisfying these videos are, it's easy to see just how much effort you pour into these. You offer a wealth of knowledge! But I still can't place the accent...

@nicosvarietychannel7858 Год назад

I think one gun that I found is one of the easiest to take apart, clean, and put back together is a Browning Hi-Power.

@sski Год назад

Seems to me, right off the bat and I'm no 'firearms expert', but if they had just developed an intermediate cartridge for the gun, they would have had less issues with overpowering the buffer and the gun in general instead of using those 8mm Mauser rounds. Cutting back the round to a 7.62 x .39 or similar dimension would have taken a lot of stress off the gun and maybe made it a more workable machine?

@willblack7353 Год назад

I'd agree, except you have to consider the issue of logistics. They already had stocks and manufacturing lines ready for the 8mm Mauser cartridge, and although the adoption of 8mm Kurz was underway (sort of, the Angry Mustashe German Man wasn't a fan, but the development of 8mm Kurz and weapons in that cartridge was being done under his nose), they didn't have really any of that. Logistics wins wars, not wunderwaffe. Wunderwaffe helps, but only if you can get it to the troops (see M1 Garand).

@ChrisCraigie-oi1un Год назад

Outstanding presentation! You really did a very thorough presentation that taught me a lot about this firearm. Thank you. Great job.

@crasstafaricrasstafari5319 Год назад

Most excellent work! Thank you for your content. .... I'm just going to say it.... Forgotten Weapons has really deteriorated and i have been looking for better content. I have subscribed to BB for many years but i shall be eagerly checking each new post now. Great work. Thanks.

@CarlosHenriqueXavierEndo 8 месяцев назад

Eu até cliquei no link do "WarThunder", mas a opção de língua portuguesa estava mostrando a bandeira de Portugal. Assim, que o jogo se limite aos 12 milhões de portugueses, ao invés de servir aos mais de 200 milhões de nós, brasileiros! Bela escolha de mercado, não?

@pricklydingus8604 Год назад

Who was the manufacturer of this semiauto replica?

@warrenharrison9490 Год назад

See Forgotten Weapons recent episodes on the FG42, both were replicas, one was given away as a prize in August. The manufacturer was mentioned more than once (I don't recall the name).

@lptomtom Год назад

@@warrenharrison9490 The guns in the FW videos were made by SMG, but I don't think this one here is, it doesn't look as polished and high quality

@sinisterthoughts2896 Год назад

it was still a very impressive design to even if only tentatively, do a decent attempt at its demanding criteria, while under ridiculous weight and length constrictions.

@andersjjensen Год назад

Indeed it was. And it was a driving factor behind moving to an intermediate cartridge. After looking at the impressive engineering effort, but ultimate failure, it was clear to everyone that you simply can't bend physics over and have your way with it. 8mm Mauser and 30.06 are practically pipe bombs where you hit the enemy with one end cap. You're either going to give up any kind of full auto controllability, accept substantial weight, or step down in power.

@mpetersen6 Год назад

@@andersjjensen One major factor behind its design and manufacture. The harness used on German parachutes basically had the jumper hanging from one strap reducing his ability to carry any loads while jumping. Also beyond a few limited occasions German paratroopers never jumped into combat after Crete.

@Alex_Guy1011 11 месяцев назад

In RCtW, the FG42 was a rather useful scoped battle rifle weapon. I only wished that the original IRL gun had the same slow but steady firing mode, with no crappy bipod and the gun flying all over the place in full-auto. Heck, a wooden foregrip would have been nice to help with the accuarcy. I appreciate that you got an opportunity to work on this one.

@JustaGuy1250 Год назад

quick warning: i just noticed i was unsubscribed from you I never unsubscribed from you myself, but it seems to have happened automatically due to some YT system!

@generalrubbish9513 11 месяцев назад

A compact, fully automatic weapon chambered for a rifle cartridge and designed to fulfill the role of an infantry rifle, assault weapon and light machine gun at the same time. From my completely uneducated perspective, that sounds like one of the first attempts at what we would today call an "assault rifle", pre-dating even the Sturmgewehr 44.

@lohikarhu734 Месяц назад

Came here from your second channel, sub'd to support your work! (I'm not so much a "gun guy", more like a "broad spectrum engineer", always looking out for learning!)

@creightonleerose582 11 месяцев назад

NICE werk! If you'd like the ultimate in FCG frustration, completely disassemble a Mossberg 500 trigger group! (Preferably an older example) DEF wear safety specs when working with ANY springs! A few Rubiks Cube-esq springs in there that have retention legs on both ends, so they perform tasks & function in two directions...Neatly weave'd between other parts w/minimal space to spare in betwixt. The many armed Hindu God, -Shiva, would prob even see issues!...HA! Makes an H&K G3 FCG look SIMPLE in comparison! Those SMG FG42 re-pro's are simply GORGEOUS arent they?...Looking forward to getting my hands on one @ some future point.. -Simply IMPRESSIVE that he'd reverse engineer'd & measured EVERY single component part from an original example. YEARS of meticulous n' intensive work before ya even possess a semi/partly/fully functional prototype piece....

@threeplayers670 Год назад

Im happy that you decided to make the viedo about the fg-42 even if the restoration video got more votes in the poll. It's nice to see some variety!

@miketeeveedub5779 Год назад

An absolutely magnificent weapon - hard to believe the design is 80 years old. That buffer/recoil spring and open/close bolt mechanism is pure genius! Ian McCullum from Forgotten weapons shot the select-fire OG example on a video, and says it lived up to it's hype...not including reliability or durability of course. Regardless - you did a great job on the presentation, teardown and repair on this replica. Love your content - cheers!

@jason200912 Год назад

It wasn't that expensive. 250 reichs was the cost to produce an mg42. Basically every country except the us were amazing at price production efficiency (the us saving grace was the grease gun which surpassed the sten at late war cost efficiency) The Thompson before 1943 was super expensive at about 200 usd. And the standard garand before 1943 was 80 usd!! After 1943 I think the Thompson went down to maybe 60 and garand went down to 30 or 35 as my estimates from memory. And don't forget the fg42 was only for the super expensive paratroopers and wasn't a standard production gun

@blakeslide6919 11 месяцев назад

Lol, of course the US examination would call it an excessively expensive weapon. We were handing out stamped open bolt sub machine guns to everybody. Thank God the US defense budget decided on making M1 Garands, if it weren't for politicians having their arm bent they would still be out there handing out Springfield 1903's.

@matthoskin3572 Год назад

How good?!...... probably the BEST assualt/battle rifle of WW2. It is still 80 years on regarded as incredible. If they had perhaps made it in the 7.92 Kurz round or say half powered 8mm then it would have been a winner

@TheFenrirulfr 11 месяцев назад

War Thunder itself doesnt really have a model of the FG42, that would be Gaijins other game "Enlisted" which is an first person shooter infantry/tanks game. The FG42 is truly beautiful there.

@ibanezjemgmc 11 месяцев назад

The SSD replicas are high quality (as is the Smith Machine Group FG42, but the SSD is a more faithful rendition) but the example in the video appears to be over gassed as the recoil stroke looks too fast and violent. I'd try a smaller gas port in the regulator.

@leviadragon99 Год назад

I do wonder at the kind of person who wishes to own a FUNCTIONING version of a Nazi paratrooper weapon... seems a little questionable, but the engineering is undeniably fascinating.

@kwanchan6745 8 месяцев назад

I guess the FG42's role was replaced by the STG44...to put an overwhelming amount of fire onto an enemy, albeit only at intermediate range

@ScatterlingsOfAfrica Месяц назад

I'm not even a gun enthutiast, but i like you videos because you care about your craft, both in repairing guns and editing the videos. Bonus point for the safety warnings !

@steveholmes11 2 месяца назад

Fantastic Video. You have masterful knowledge of the subject, and deliver it very well.

@JG54206 Год назад

One of the coolest parts of how they made the closed bolt/open bolt hybrid design work is how the main action spring also serves as the striker/firing pin spring when in closed bolt. It’s basically black magic/witchcraft to me.