Vetterli-Ferracciu for the Italian Navy 

“Italian strategic reserve of rolled R’s”

In 40+ years of marriage my wife and I have learned to accept the fact that we don’t find the same things funny; until this morning when we both cracked up over the Italians using up their strategic reserve of rolled r’s. Thank you Ian for the moment.

I have one converted to center fire (original Vetterli) using modified Lebel brass for cartridges. when using it for deer hunting, you take your shot, run up to the deer, tackle it, then hold it there til the bullet arrives.

I recommend the Italian navy technical museum in La Spezia, large exhibition on firearms included captured and prototypes. Great museum

When Italy depletes it’s reserve of rolled r’s they’ll switch to vigorous hand gestures.

I think forgotten weapons just covered all of hunt showdowns weapons with this last video. Fantastic job

My dad has an old Vetterli he bought on a whim back when he was a kid, mostly because it was 'cheap and looked neat'. He didn't even really know what it was until I finally saw it in the safe and got curious. Fun little memory trying to track it down in my books (this was slightly before the internet was a nearly house-hold thing). It had been bubba-sporterized to hell and back, which tripped us up a bit in identifying it, but it's still a stylish old gun and I still can't help but look on any Vetterli with fondness since.

Ah! Right when I'm thinking of cooking some nice Italian spaghetti, Gun Jesus comes in with a Italian rifle. Best birthday present.

“The Italian strategic reserve of rolled Rs”

Proper rifle for pirates. Has lots of rrrrrr´s.

"Strategic reserve of rolled R's" Ha! I love you Ian, and your pronunciation of italian has improved quite a bit over your many videos. Great job

About the pronunciation of Ferracciù: the first half it's just like in Ferrari the second half should sound like cchu, like in Pikachu, whit the accent at the end.

More Vetterli videos please! I just recently took an interest in Italian firearms and I find this one to be one of the more fascinating and very good looking guns i've seen.

The much less known spaghetti western: “A Tubefull of Cartridges”.

Hi, Ian. Thanks for helping me to overcome my education. I was taught some very erroneous ideas about the French and Italian military. I had no idea about Italy until I got my own Vespa 150. This rifle shows a lot of appreciation for style and grace, aspects which are mostly missing from modern arms. Thanks for sharing! Stay healthy! Peace! Love! Charity!

Great stuff! Nothing starts the day better than a Forgotten Weapon video and a cup of coffee!

Everybody laughing at the "strategic reserve of rolled R's" joke while I'm laughing at Ian's _sharp_ change from Italian to American accent at "1870/90".

Thanks for the video Ian! There's relatively few information available in English about historic small arms of Italy compared to for example British or German small arms. So it's great to see something like that.

Is it just me or is it always the Navy (no matter the country) to adopt a new, better, design than anyone else?

As an Italian speaker, props on the prrrrrrrrrrrrronounciation.

Thanks for the historical aspect of these rifles. Always interesting to see what happened and how they came to be used. Thanks for sharing Ian.

I love how bit by bit all the guns of Hunt:Showdown are being covered by you! ;D keep it up

awesome video as always

I found a Vetterli barrel in Sweden. It was stuck muzzle first into the ground and used as a fence post. It had probably been there for at least 50 years by the state of the wire fence. I'd love to know the story behind that. (Not far from the Norma factory). The barrel got a new future as the barrel of a 1650 style northern German wheellock pistol since most of the bore was still in good condition.

Hey Ian, just some pointers in terms of Italian. The vowels always make the same sounds. Not like in english where "ea or ou" makes a unique sound from the vowels alone. In Italian you've only got 5 vowel sounds, and you pronounce all of them when they are present. The letter "c" is a bit different than in english. It makes the hard "k" sound, and the soft "ch" sound but never the "s" sound like in english. It is very easy to tell how to pronounce the letter "c". If "C" is followed by an "E" or "I" (only ever "E" or "I" never any other vowel, these vowels trigger the name phoenetic shift in other applications) it becomes "ch", and if it is written as "che/i" then it is pronouced "ki" This principle applies to "sci/e" and "ghi/e" (you just replace the "C" with "g" and "sc") An example of this: "Brescia" is pronounced "Breshia" because the "sci" turns the sound from "ski" to "shi" and it applies the same to "k" and "ch". Since watching your early videos, I can see that you've improved a lot. Hope this helps.

Your sarcasm is duly noted and appreciated.

Thank you GunJesus! Another great video with NO MID-ROLL ADS!

Thank you , Ian .

There's just something cool about the steampunk stylings of those old world early-approaching-modern designs.

Thanks Ian great channel

I acquired a Vetterli back in the early 90s. It's the other kind with the tube magazine and it loads from the side. Pretty cool wall hanger. Rim fire of about 40 caliber.

"The Italian strategic reserve of rolled R's"... killing it!

Chi altro è Italiano, ed è scoppiato a ridere quando Ian ha detto "credo di averlo pronunciato bene"?😂

Love the many Vetterli variants.

What a beauty!

The strategic reserve of rolled R's...pure gold.

Oh, this is new for me...thank you!

I think there is a certain aesthetic, a certain elegance to these older firearms that is missing in the modern utilitarian arms. The Swiss target rifles and Vetterlis are good examples, but the target version of the trapdoor Springfield is another. Thanks, Ian.

Ian's Italian is definitely getting better

amazing video as always, also do you plan of doing one of the vetterli-bertoldo too? i'm interested into their tube magazine mechanism :)

Very interesting!

That's a very lovely and fanciful trigger guard. Ah...Italian style. You can't escape it. "Quick, we're running out of rolled R's. We need a rifle fast!"

This has been manufactured in the Regio Arsenale di Brescia (Royal Arsenal of Brescia).

Cheers from Italy , stay safe guys

That reloading thought is why I sold my KSG mind you I bought it when they first came out. And was one those A holes who sold it for twice what I paid for it. But I could get more shots down range with my 500 or 870 in a time period by simply dropping one in the action once they where dry. The KSG nope gotta load the tubes!

I love these vetterlis

Very cool.

I WANT this rifle so badly! Awesome lines and a mix of old and new features for the time. Ian, do you know if any of these were converted to 6.5 Carcano like some of the other Vetterlis were?

Very neat rifle. Like a Vetterli and an sks hooked up.

I found a similar vetterli at a rummage sale for $5 it’s welder shut tho. But the bolt still slides good

I hope you do get a chance to look at a vetterli vitali. I have a 1877 beaumont vitali and would love to know more about the magazine.

What about the Swiss Vetterli and others swiss weapons? If you coule make some more videos about it, it would be so cool!

Will we get a C&Rsenal episode out of this one? It has an interesting story no doubt

*Humming intensifies*

Ferracciu.... bless you

That’s a really sweet looking rifle.

Last time I'm this early, it was top of the line

Anybody know what that hole on the left side of the rear sight was for? Was that an aperture sight for more accurate shooting or is it something else? Cool video as always Ian. Keep it up!

Wow, good stuffs! I got the Swiss rim fire one. I currently got one can feed with carcano clips. Really got no clue whether is safe to shoot modern 6.5 52 ammo. Please do another video of this in the next sermon.

Now we need videos on the Vitale and the 6.5 conversion 70/87/15

Thankfully, with modern technology, we no longer have to worry about "peak rolled R's" due to the development of Thorium Rolled R reactors, which are capable of transforming common, inert, non-rolled R's into more-useful rolled stock by bombarding them with alveolar particles with a trill + spin.

hi, greatest Ian !!! you are the best, i wish you a biggest thank you for this greatest video ... on this italian marine rifle "Ferracciu`" full of "history", ciao ...

There's a gun store near where I live that has some pattern kf Vetterli rifle hung up away from public hands

*C&Rsenal needs to do a vid on it..*

Vetterlis are always interesting. It sounds like the ballistics compare favorably with the Krag- slightly heavier bullet of larger caliber at similat velocity, maybe just a tas slower. So it should have some thump. Just as i finished thinking, it doesn't look like there is any provision for stripper clips, Ian mentions them. I seem to remember articles by Dr Fackler where he mentioned using his 10.4 mm Swiss Vetterli as a benchmark in his study of wound ballistics, and it was comparable to 45-70. The old blackpowder cartridges were nothing to laugh at, except maybe the 41 rimfire......

oooohhhhh! I used to have one of those. It was so heavy.

Just how rare are these exactly? I remember at my old work seeing one of these as a barreled action/stock with the bolt tack welded into the receiver. It was the exact same, except the stock didn't have the internal cutout for a tube magazine. I think the barrel said 1882, and the maker had two letters in an elegant script I didn't recognize.

Looks brand new

I noticed what looks like brass rubbed off on the front of the barrel. Were the muzzle rings on the bayonets mad of brass, or was it something else.

I'm guessing the hole on the left side of rear sight was used when bayonet installed to compensate.

Now imagine if they had have made the rifle in such a way that once your box magazine was empty the tube magazine would feed single rounds at a time into the box magazine.

hi, Ian !!! this rifle is a piece of great history !!! it tells to us the story of italian marines, that they fighting together english yankee et al ... in China during the BOXER RIOT, at early of twenty century !!! i wish you thankyou for this great video ... ciao

2:15 Why the hole next to the V notch?

Another video on our firearms, by Gun Jesus. Already liked!

Cool bro

*Carrrrrrabina a Rrrrrrepetissione Vetterrrrrli Ferrrrrrucci* It didn't use up the Italian Strategic Reserve of Rolled Rs, It *_was_* the Italian Strategic Reserve of Rolled Rs. Great video as always, anyway!

and now i want to have a video abbout the swiss ones :D

That looks surprisingly ELBONIAN!

Wow the condition of this rifle after +100 years.

Hello Ian. I know it's not your modus operandi, but I was wondering if you could look over the firearms from the game, Hunt! Showdown. It's a shooter based in the year 1895. And many of the firearms are well known. But I don't know how accurate the are with the history of said weapons. Like the Mosin avtomat. It's getting quite popular and I would really appreciate your expertise on the subject of the weapons. Thanks and have a nice day!

"R rolling skill increased"

Looks good to me.

2:35 later the reserve was sold on surplus market an bought out by J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin.

Mamma mia

She’s a beauty! So elegant!

what was the hole in the rear sight for ?

I'm hoping this video leads to a video of the Dutch Beaumont Vitali.

55 days at Pekin, the movie

Ferraciu' Fer-a-choo pronunciation. Bertoldo Ber-tol-doe pron. Great expose' on V-F short rifle. Doc AV

I actually own a 1881 variant of this rifle, it still fires as far as I am concerned.

Yeah I have a standard usually you give everybody a good answer could I get away with firing modern ammo out of this or is that a bad idea

Oh shit I got that rife in my collection

why didn't they just use the standard Vetterli with the 12 shot tube magazine with the cutoff if they wanted more firepower?

This weapon is in battlefield 1 damn good

It goes like: 👌🏻Ferraaacciu👌🏻

Ah, yes, the ISRdRR is a famous arsenal. I think they also stockpile catcalls and V12 engines.

3:54 That is a “taco shape”

Well, time to hit up some grunts in the Louisiana swamps..

Isnt this gun in BF1?

Vetterli depends a tad on where you're from if it would be pronounced "Wet-terly" or "Fat-terly" always though with the emphasis on first syllable not second one. I'm not totally sure about the preference in Switzerland, but where i'm from (Hesse) it would be "Fatterly" (think Tshina /Chelsea versus kina / chemistry), but the italian sounded at least very close for a non native speaker