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01:13 – Rifles that arrived too early
04:14 – DETAC Arms’ new rimless 12ga shotgun
09:55 – WWCD (What Would Cooper Do)
13:34 – The P7Pro
15:14 – Mauser bolt actions with aperture sights?
16:16 – If NATO had adopted an intermediate cartridge, what would it have been?
19:35 – PM63, Stechkin, or vz61?
21:58 – How much does old metallurgy contribute to weak antique actions?
25:29 – Current US-made FAMAS
27:14 – Long & convoluted feed paths?
29:35 – Japan’s reduced-power 7.62×51 NATO loading
32:57 – Did German engineers help perfect the stamped AKM?
36:10 – 6.8 SPC vs 6.8×51 / .277 Fury
42:53 – AR charging handle options
43:55 – Why squared-off trigger guards on pistols?
46:00 – What collections are the most difficult to access?
48:32 – Market for collecting vintage suppressors?
51:50 – With the NFA transfer tax gone, will the whole law be scrapped?
54:08 – Are replicas worth collecting?
57:54 – Amorality of firearms
Rifles that arrived too early — how about the US Hall rifle? The idea was good, but paper cartridges, black powder fouling, poor metallurgy leading to breakage, and troops who just weren’t the cream of the crop and could not take advantage of the technology.
“(…)Rifles that arrived too early(…)”
I would pick land variant of Burton 1917 https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Burton_Model_1917 for that. This intermediate-cartridge firing full-auto weapon might gain more traction, if it would appear in 1942, rather than 1917.
“(…)If NATO had adopted an intermediate cartridge, what would it have been?(…)”
NATO actually did that in 1980. Result is known as 5.56 NATO.
“(…)convoluted feed paths?”
I pick Korobov TKB-022PM https://modernfirearms.net/en/assault-rifles/russia-assault-rifles/korobov-tkb-022-eng/ (see animation inside video) as contender for that challenge.
“Long(…)feed paths?”
I do not have possibility to measure that, but I want grant honorable mention to Szczeniak https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Browning_Automatic_Rifle#Wz._37_Szczeniak
Karabin maszynowy obserwatora wz. 37 (“Observers machine gun M1937”) is a Polish aircraft mounted flexible machine gun, based on the Wz. 28 Browning. The main difference between the base Wz. 28 and the Wz. 37 is a new feeding mechanism that uses a 91-round pan magazine mounted on the standard receiver. The buttstock of the infantry machine gun was replaced with a spade grip…
Therefore, described weapon has mag-well at bottom surface AND magazine sticking upwards.