Underappreciated historical weapons: THE GUN-AXE 

As always thanks for your content Shad, always pure gold. Some additional feedback. Not only it was indentified with the Polish, but with Hungarian Hajdú as well. As light infantry the Hajdú were often used in sieges and setting up ambushes. There the gun axe shined, as after the shot you still have a pretty hefty axe to deal blows. Also most of the Hungarian and Székely infantry had various type of axes as part of their equipment already so combining that with a gun, although expensive was advantageous in the martial sense.

“The sword’s weight is situated near the handle, making it more elegant” Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster

Moral of the story: attach melee weapons to your firearms, not the other way around.

Jelly: Jelly is made with strained fruit juice. There are no pieces of fruit in jelly. Jam: Jam is made with mashed fruit. Preserves: Preserves have whole fruit or large pieces of fruit. Some fruits such as blackberries or raspberries will not stay whole during the processing so there may not be much difference between raspberry jam and raspberry preserve. Fruit spreads (only fruit): These are 100% fruit with no sugar added. If needed, a sweet fruit juice such as white grape juice or apple juice may be added. Because of the sugar in the fruit we cannot call these products sugarless. These spreads offer the most amount of pure fruit flavor. Butters: Butters are made from pureed fruit. They are not as sweet as preserves, jams, or jellies but offer a full fruit flavor. Butters are cooked for over 6 hours ,at a low temperature, allowing the product to thicken. Butters tend to be dark because of the exposure to air during the cooking. These are also available with no sugar added. Learn your fruit based condiments Shad!

This is why the shotgun-axe is the best gun/melee weapon hybrid. Generally dont need great aim

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter had an axe-gun, but that movie didn't get a lot of attention, because it was called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

When you run out of bullets, you still got two options. An axe and a throwing axe.

When people say Bloodborne was unrealistic with its weapons.

The moment Shad mentioned the gun axe being implemented more, I thought of fantasy Dwarves. The gun axe sounds like a weapon they would definitely use and perfect especially with their ability to forge incredible weapons and armor. Imagine a hefty Dwarven shotgun or hand cannon with an axe blade attached to a strong sturdy barrel resistant to the shock of firing, and the impact of the axe biting its mark. Yeah, wouldn’t want to face a fully armored Dwarf who can both chop through foes like they’re skinny trees, and blow them away from range should the foe be too dangerous to fight up close.

I appreciate that he gets fully kitted even in videos where the armor doesn't come into play.

As someone from America: Jelly, Jam, and Preserves are all different things.

"I'm GUNna AXE you a question" -Some Polish cavalryman, probably.

It's also worth noting that having the axe on the end allows you to hook the axe over objects to take a carefully-aimed shot, pivoting the gun around as if it had a stand.

Also worth noting that guns back then were not especially accurate so a slight decrease in accuracy wasn’t a big deal. What was a big deal was that because they were inaccurate you might miss, and they took so long to reload that the enemy could well get into melee range before you did. In which case your gun also being a hefty melee weapon without modification would have been ideal.

"It would be harder to be accurate with rifle-axe" is actually an interesting point to think about. Because if you have an option to use normal, accurate gun, and you use gun-axe, it logically means that there is high chance of going melee SO FAST, that you can't switch to a melee weapon. And that usually means close distances (or you are cavalry, as Shad mentioned, which makes you inconvinient to switch). So, HOW MUCH do you need accuracy of a rifle? Or even of assault rifle? Because you probably want 1 big shot and good melee option after this shot. So, if I'm not a cavalry, I would want not a rifle-axe or pistol-axe, but a shotgun-axe.

We have Jam in the US as well. Jelly here is just a jam made with juice and no solid fruit. What you call jelly down under, we call gelatine or Jello here.

Yeah, I need to do an under barrel axe attachment

In the United States, jam and jelly are different things. Jelly is smooth and gelatinous, jam will almost always still have seeds and/or some kind of roughage left in. It's basically the same kind of difference between orange juice with or without pulp. As for the idiom, it just rolls off the tongue better to most of us. EDIT: Someone responding to this has given a more accurate explanation of the difference.

that family guy joke in the beginning is litterally how I felt watching the thumbnail

I love how passionate you get with topics like this, before this is saw your video on why double blade axes are terrible and your passion really shows there too! It makes for a great teacher to have that passion and it helps us, your students, get excited too!

Assassin's Creed Unity actually had a DLC called "Dead Kings" that had these. They were referred to as Guillotine Guns and they were closer to mortar/halberds than axe/guns

In the game Hunt: Showdown there's a shotgun-axe which has absolute cult status in the community.

I think Assassin's Creed Unity had something like this... Though it probably is more of a grenade launcher with an axe than a gun. But it definitely is one of the coolest weapons in the game

in marvel's agents of shield, one of the characters had an axe shotgun that was really cool to see.

Actually RWBY, the show famous for saying "It's also a gun" all the time, HAS a teacher use a gun-axe. Specifically a blunderbuss with dual axe heads. Though his was unfortunately impractical because the axe heads were on the shoulder mount.

Pretty sure Mack in the Marvel show Agents of Shield makes a shotgun Axe

It would be awesome to see a pirate or rogue type character going wild on their enemies with an Axe-Pistol

I have actually seen a weapon like this portrayed, under the name “guillotine gun,” in the game Assassin’s Creed Unity.

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An example of a gun with an attachable axe head is the muskets used by Strelets in Age Of Empires III.

"Shotgun axe." - Agent Mack from Agents of Shield. And it worked really well.

check out Total War: Warhammer 3 Kislev unit roster, they have some Axegunners

”Yeah, that gun is cool and all but can we put a blade to it?” Is what was most likely running through the minds of mediavel weapons designers.

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Ah yes the gaxe, the ultimate weapons used by American lumberjacks

"I'm gonna smite'im too!" "But, you're not a paladin! You're a dwarven fighter!" *BOOOM!* "Axe-gun, 's 'a same thing."

2:40 Shad being a man and eating with a big knife Shad's mom: "WHAT ON EARTH YOU THINK YOU DOING !? WHERE IS YOUR SPOON ? "

AoS: Director Mackenzie’s shotgun-axe. “Am I a joke to you?!?”

"remember switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading"

I am someone who is getting starting in blacksmithing, and this video gave me ideas that I have to wait until I am 18 to get myself a valid gunsmith license to make.

I remember when I was an army cadet and we were told about characteristics, a rifle axe could be more accurate with a little tinkering as it WOULD counteract the barrel jumping when fired and send it more directly back so it might do even less to trouble you than you think, look at the weights and stabilizers on Olympic rifles and bows...

Jam is with seeds. Jelly is without seeds. Both are good and pair with gu- I mean, peanut butter

There was a dlc for assassin's creed unity that had gun axes and I think they called them 'guillotine guns'

In the Pirate series Black Sails, which is a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Treasure Island, in the first episode a man named Singleton carries a gun axe with him. You can see it in his hand as he gives a speech to the crew of the ship they just raided.

As a hardcore RWBY fan, I appreciate any melee weapon that is also a gun.

I believe in Assassins Creed Unity, there was a DLC or really expensive in game musket-halberd option. that was probably one of the few places it is seen within modern and prior gaming.

Not to mention that in an era where it can take anywhere from 20 seconds to a full minute to reload and discharge a gun, an solid melee option is always preferable.

Hunt: Showdown’s use of the gun axe (which is a sawed-off shotgun with an hatchet head fixed to the barrel) has made it part of OP load outs since you have your strong short range gun and a strong melee in one gun and then enough space for a sawed off long ranged rifle to snipe with

We say both in the US, shad, Jelly and Jam are different things.

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Delightfully enough during the wild west era in America, crazy gun mods made a comeback, many were indeed melee-based like axes or knives or even brass knuckles attached to pistols, shotguns, and rifles. There are some pretty insane and dumb ones if you look hard enough at early American gun history lol.

You know what's more underappreciated? A gun-spear.

Early pistols were so inaccurate they would often be shot point blank ; adding an axeblade on that thing certainly makes sense.

After seeing this, I am really sad that DOOM Eternal's Marauder didn't have a combined axe-gun. Wouldn't it be awsome if he had a double barreled shotgun with a huge energy axe-head on it's end?

What about an axe-blunderbuss? It hardly needs any accuracy to shoot.

Thanks for the inspiration. Now I have to see how to integrate this unappreciated historical weapon into a fantasy setting.

Shad: “I DEFINITELY DON’T STRUGGLE THIS HARD TO MAKE A PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICH”. Me: *”SURE, SHAD....SURE YOU DON’T!!!”*

Next you should review the gun spear. Oh wait, that’s just a bayonet.

In the show Agents of SHIELD, one of the characters in a later season uses a shotgun-axe

Smithy: Did you want a gun or an axe? Polish Cavalry: Yes. Smithy: .... I'll teach you, smartass. Later... Polish Cavalry: THIS IS AMAZING! Smithy: I, uhhh, am glad you enjoy it?

Me, a polish dude: We had gun-axes in our cavalry? History and Shad: Yes indeed. Me: ...Cool... Why did my history classes missed this fact?

The Necrons had the right idea. They had axe-gauss blasters, and the fact that their robots would really help with that. Pog

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Also, there is a game called "hunt showdown" that has a gun axe in it

Also an axe head can be used as a "bipod" to prop the gun onto something, while also keeping the barrel at usable height. Also an axegun can also be used for axe stuff(chopping wood, breaking down barricades, etc) And an axe head should have much more metal keeping it on the gun, making it alot less likely to break off compared to a bayonet. And having a Winchester style trigger guard can make it much harder to knock it out of your hands, due to it being around all of your fingers.

Once concept I have toyed around with is the idea of putting the axe head in the opposite end, keeping the top of the axe head against the shoulder when firing. That _does_ mean you have to flip it when you want to switch to melee, but it also resolves the whole weight distribution issue as additional weight near the stock would not offset the balance. In fact, it might actually make it more stable, as it would bring the balance back a bit.

Hi, long time fan first time caller. Just wanted to clarify, in the US we define jam as being made with whole fruit, whereas jelly is just made with juice, so we say both

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Fun fact: Total War: Warhammer III is gonna have gun-axes!

Hunt: Showdown has some gun-axes in form of shotguns, and it's pretty cool (and useful). Nice content!

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I'll be honest, adding a gun to any melee weapon makes it infinitely better. Like, look at Monster Hunter's Gunlance. Still one of the most glorious things I've seen ever, and it's literally just a big stick with heavy artillery taped to it.

Harpoon launcher: exists axegun: exists Spears: we don’t get launched we get thrown

Not flintlock, but Hunt: Showdown has a single barrel shotgun with an axe blade fixed to it Set just before 1900 iirc

A gun-axe was most recently reintroduced in Agents of Shield Season 3. Character Mack reveals it in the season 3 finale. A shotgun-axe.

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Shad looks like a medieval camper, and cooks foods that look good that maybe he should start a cooking channel relating to camping which who's theme should be based on history.

I am, from now on, going to refer to guns with bayonets as "rifle-knife"

Im pretty sure they did this in Agents Of Shield. An axe attachment for a shotgun. Don't have to worry about being accuracy when the gun isnt meant for that.

Shad: Stupid - Nunchucks, double bitted battle axes. Underappreciated - Gun-axe.

There was a character in the Marvel: Agents of Shield series that used a shotgun with an Axe blade on the end of it. As a relatively recent pop culture use of such a weapon. Is that enough love for you, Shad?

Best way to describe combination stuff is thusly: It's not the best axe, it's not the best gun. But for an axe, it's a really good gun. What you trade in specialization you make up for in versatility.

this was actually a weapon used in agents of shield quite frequently by director mckenzie

When I read the title I immediately thought of Macks shotgun axe from agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

I saw a neat concept for a "Gun Blade" in the anime Ga Rei Zero where the girls katana instead of firing a projectile when the trigger is pulled, the gasses from a blank are directed through the blade and verted from the tip to accelerate the sword, which she uses at the end of a swing then turning the blade before pulling the trigger the launch the blade back the way it came. She also has a pneumatic draw system in the sheath.

Oh wow i forgot about these things. Beautiful invention

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Hey shad. Good video. I own a flintlock pistol where the axehead is where the stock/handle is. And once you shoot, you flip the thing and have a very functional hatchet. Cheers mate.

Hunt: showdown is a game ambiented on a somewhat "Wild West" era where a curse debastated some parts of the world and there are zombie-like creatures, and this game shows very prominently some guns with blades, some make more sense than others, but a lot of axe-shotguns look like they could be very usable in real life.

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That was hands-down the best ad I've ever seen

Shad: Double bitted axes are dumb. Also Shad: The axe-gun is really cool.

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A giant axe shotgun touches me to my core. I'm a woodsman and an American. This weapon is perfect for me

I bet you'll love Mack's Shotgun Axe from Marvel's Agents of SHIELD S7

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Axe heads attached to Winchester Model 1894 lever action rifle makes for a deadly combo for the Wild West.

Kislev

A “caught” of law? Isn’t that what we call an “arrest”? 😆

My favorite weapon in AC Unity was the guillotine gun, which was an axe-grenade launcher type weapon. The way it was shaped could have also easily passed for a blunderbuss.