I love the stories that go along with these guns. A lot of gun channels are just sort of durr lookit tube that accelerates lead, slow mo iphone shot, tactless target sheet, royalty free but rock, lowest common denominator crap. Instead all your stances on gun control are balanced and reasoned, you respect gun safety, you seem to be more interested in telling the stories behind these interesting firearms and talking about how they work mechanically than just shooting watermelons in slow motion and droning on about politics.
Seems like an excellent design to me, especially given the era of manufacture. I wonder why they weren't more successful? Was it price or just straight competition with the Uzi's? That gun has gotta be very accurate, but maybe at close range 'accurate enough' was, well, good enough?
Good God, I'm 50, I was a child and I remember this was on the cover of Survival magazine at our market "The Linda" in big letters on the cover. Getting into firearms as I got older I always wondered whatever happened to this thing. Thanks Gun Jesus.
@@JuanPablo-pg3vx The craziest thing is this gun is common enough that its still being made and still has a company providing parts etc yet ive never heard of it
I’ve “seen” it in mags and heard of it plenty of times... but never actually ever seen or touched one in the wild... like at a range, LGS, or safe. It’s always, “a friend of a friend’s friend” or something had one of them “Linda subguns.” 🤷🏽♂️ Once I actually spent an evening researching the feasibility of buying one for a 9x19 PCC. Seemed like an interesting thing to do... but I chickened out. 😆
It's been a very long time since I shot mine, very heavy bolt pull/spring, if I remember correctly it needed some pretty hot 9mm to cycle, don't remember the trigger
@LabRat Knatz You can search the gun via imfdb www.imfdb.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Arms_Linda_Pistol#Wikinson_Arms_Linda_Pistol It was also in The Annihilators, Magnum PI, A-Team, and Jeremiah.
“Wilkinson's is famous for naming all of their guns after the founder's daughters or wives…” Wilkinson in the office:"This concept looks good enough for a trial run, but we're out of names. Hum… guess I'll hit the pub tonight."
I looked-up Wilkinson Arms, and found they're still in business (I recently moved to the Boise area, so was interested in their Idaho history), and you can not only still get a Linda "carbine", but you can buy that classic Linda poster for $9!
I've just watched and episode of The A-Team called Deadly Maneuvers Series 2 Episode 21, and Hannibal is using a Linda, with a holster, and it is pretty chunky haha
I remember seeing these and tec-9 clones filling up a entire display case at my fathers favorite gun store when I was a child in the early 90’s. Thank you for-reminding me of these memories Ian.
That laser module is big enough you could very likely fit a modern (tiny) laser inside its housing and keep it attached for looks and functionality, if you're into that. Personally I love the massive early lasers, bulky and heavy as they are.
His "Lindas"? Putting a pistol on a pintle, sure ok, but I think even in the 80s sticking your daughter on the other one would get Child Services called o.o
@@kentuckyboy541 Idaho has some beautiful spots for sure but Parma is not really one of them... potato and sugar beet fields..good duck and goose hunting though.
@@williamkeith8944 actually it was Wilkinsons brush with greatness. My dad made and survived all four combat jump made by the 82nd Airborne in WW2. Purple Heart .. plus a bunch of other medals.. got out at the end of the war and joined the Marines. After that he was one of the pioneer smoke jumper for the forest service.. after that he packed into the Sawtooth mts. with horse and mules and dynamite building trails for the forest service... definitely Mr Wilkinsons brush with greatness.
@UCg6jF3dqArajM3HMy-o6lEQ or a Weaver Qwik Point. That would definitely fit with the look of this thing. Edit: damn I can’t believe I predicted what he would use for the range video
RE the laser: if the He-Ne is all gone and replenishing it is too expensive, you could carefully remove the internals and drop in a cheap modern diode in a printed polymer adapter, should be a quick project but I don't know how that thing disassembles.
Should He-Ne be difficult to acquire, you would normally use a substitute. Unfortunately with the passing of Michael Jackson, there's no more supply of He-he.
someone in the comments said there's an episode of the A Team where a character named Hannibal has a Linda on him; i thought it was worth mentioning, since you said "A" :P
My expectations were low when starting the video, but that recoil spring around the telescoping bolt alone made it all worth it. Just beautifully executed.
Ah the 1980s, couldn't have asked for a better era to be a teenager. My friends and I were all into guns, cars, music and the Great American way! We all had either a surplus weapon or tacti-cool gun, an old car and a 22 rifle for cheap shooting. I had an M1 Garand and a Ruger 10-22. My car was a 1970 442 with a W30 455. My friends had 1: M1 carbine 2: SMLE 3: Mini 14 4: 03A3 and 5: Ithaca 12 gauge pump. All the kids had a Ruger 1022 except one guy had a Charter AR7. My buddies had 1960s Hot Rods 1968 Fairlane, 1969 Road Runner, 1970 Chevelle, 1971 El Camino and one kid had a 1964 Falcon (slow poke!) for cars. Mannn those years were great. Those old cars were cheap and plentiful, the Music was a completely new scene and Reagan was president. I remember one of the guys got a 'Linda'. I shot it and it was alright but other than the ads for the gun with the girl with the big.... hair, I didn't 'get it'. The gun was well made but I didn't know what it was 'for'. 80s tacti-cool! I think you should fix that old 80s laser. I got you that it's toast but you should be able to fit a modern tiny laser into that big housing. Use a pressure switch for a current flashlight and wire it into the new laser. Fill the hole with Bondo and spray paint it with gloss black. I have an 80s night vision scope that doesn't work anymore. It's a couple of feet long, 5-7 inches in diameter and heavy...but a cool retro look. Man, the 1980s! There were ashtrays in the grocery stores and they issued kids guns at school. I, on more than one occasion, have been late for a class because I had signed out my rifle/ammo and had to put it in my car. It was for practicing for the rifle-team and we had to leave school immediately after the end of classes to go to the National guard armory. The Rifle team had won as many trophies for my school as the other sports teams together. Take Care buddy and I enjoyed the little trip down memory lane. John
That old laser sight has so much space in it you could easily retrofit a modern laser inside it and keep the correct looks. It would be really cool to have that functional.
This would be the best plan. A modern LTD is going to be lighter, have better output and use less power in the process. Semiconductor lasers were a relatively new tech back in the '80s: the popularization of CDs, then DVDs & now Blu-Rays has driven development on the hardware side so that modern semiconductor lasers are superior in every way to anything available back when that pistol was new...
A nostalgic trip done memory lane. I really wanted one of these back when, especially after reading the reviews in one or more of the 'Survival' type magazines that were (AHEM) required reading for those living in Alaska in the late '70's to the early '90's.
What the heck is that thing? It looks so retro-cool! EDIT: so with that qwik-point are you going to the two gun match dressed as a Cylon from the original Battlestar, or as Flash Gordon? We need to know.
This is my all time favorite gun. I'm a kid of the 80s, graduated in 86. I don't know how I knew about this gun, maybe it was advertised in SOF magazine, but it stuck with me my whole life. I actually went looking for one a few years ago but I had to give due to medical reasons. The other firearms from the 80s I was infatuated with was the AutoMags (all AutoMags) and Detonics Combat Master, from the books The Survivalist. Other kids had posters of girls, I had posters of firearms...and The Road Warrior.
In the early days of IPSC, I helped my brother, Eric Schottler build one, and while he built a holster, I mounted a brick sized laser, and with the Linda's long barrel it made MAJOR with ANY 9mm load, only 30 rd mags were available so at the KC indoor championship which was mostly in the dark, everyone could see his laser going from target to target and gun-writer Walt Rousch declared : "This is the future of combat shooting" after every run he received a standing ovation and applause and never had to reload... Later a lot of rules were written to make it illegal for competition.
feels like it would fit better in a 70 starwars knockoff kind of deal and whit knock off I mean both the shoestring ones that could be a porno parody or a legit movie just not to any level of quality.
LMAO!!! “The Pig “ just in case anyone didn’t know what the above comment was referring too’ the M60 was lovingly/hatingly called “The Pig” by Grunts who had the job of carrying it.
That thing's beautiful! I love it so much. I love that early-80's aesthetic, since it's basically the 70's aesthetic still. And it seems rather ingenious on the operation! I'll have to look into getting one of those someday, perhaps.
