Small Arms of WWI Primer 06B*: German Reichsrevolver M1883
Added 2021-02-02 03:04:33 +0000 UTC
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correct. But gloves don't necessarily make your finger longer.
C&Rsenal
2021-02-04 01:56:50 +0000 UTCNope. Henry's sauce is king. But sadly their pork has slid in recent years.
C&Rsenal
2021-02-04 01:56:12 +0000 UTCmy bad.
C&Rsenal
2021-02-04 01:55:19 +0000 UTCFor the hand to hand combat without ammo question, would you really choose the reichsrevolver club over the Colt Cutlass? Now I have a rather different mental image of hand to hand combat with ammo stuck in my head. Using a 75mm shell to bludgeon one's opponent, literally fighting with ammo...
Andrey Gardner
2021-02-03 23:33:45 +0000 UTCIf the '79 was originally intended for cavelry use maybe it was sized to use with gloves.
mark chabot
2021-02-03 18:51:05 +0000 UTCwould argue putting a stick in a hole kind of sounds like funthingtodo but certainly NOT during combat reloads on a horse! (soory. too good of an oportunity to not comment that)
Guido Schriewer
2021-02-03 18:50:49 +0000 UTCstill the very last thing a SAO revolver would ever need: a safety! hammer over the empty THE safest handgun out there no matter how many safetydecockerwhatever levers a fancy autoloader have or not.
Guido Schriewer
2021-02-03 18:36:06 +0000 UTCDepends. Does the walker have the updated loading lever latch, or the early spring type that always broke so you had to tie the rammer to the barrel with a piece of wire or leather? AND Does the Reichsrevolver come with the proper ejection stick?
Gage
2021-02-03 05:42:36 +0000 UTCIf I had to guess, I would say that either they: 1. Didn't trust the half-cock safty that most single action revolvers have, so they wanted an extra manual safety OR 2. Much like modern armies, some pencil pusher was in charge of creating the requirements for the revolver, or reviewing the features, and he INSISTED it have a safety 3. Its very far fetched, but perhaps it was originally meant so that the revolver could be carried cocked-n-locked, but was either dropped from doctrine, or the exact function was deleted from the design
Gage
2021-02-03 05:37:22 +0000 UTCThats science-y enough that it just might work!
Gage
2021-02-03 05:29:49 +0000 UTCThat 10+mm cartridge had better be an effective man-stopper on the first shot, because I am not going to want to go through all the unergonomic efforts of re-cocking that thing.
Edwin A. Novak
2021-02-02 19:05:38 +0000 UTCWhere is the "Make room for Mae" t-shirt?
Tiger in man's clothing
2021-02-02 16:57:30 +0000 UTCBTW, you aren't by any chance referring to Maurice's BBQ sauce as an epicurean standard are you?
Wayne Dygert
2021-02-02 12:49:49 +0000 UTCThanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to my (repro) Walker. With it the lack of a built-in ejector is not an issue, the speed of reloading (with paper cartridges) is roughly the same, the grip is vastly superior, the cudgel factor is roughly equivalent, and IT DOESN'T HAVE A KNUCKLE BUSTING SAFETY LEVER. YMMV
Wayne Dygert
2021-02-02 12:46:56 +0000 UTCPut a bbq source poll on the YouTube community tab. Not even joking, the Youtube algorithm has a very loose interpretation of who your "community" is and will send that poll out to places you wouldn't otherwise reach. Drop in a couple of keywords like historical firearms or education to point the algorithm in the right direction. something like "What's your favourite BBQ sauce to go with your favourite educational historic firearms content?". (credit to The Spiffing Brit, the Youtuber who shared this algorithm hack with the world).
Geoff Lamb
2021-02-02 12:03:13 +0000 UTCI understand how Mae is attracted to old weird things.....how else can you explain Othias??? On a serious note, many of the European handguns underscore their belief that they ARE NOT a primary weapon. This attitude changed slowly, with even WWII carry often involving "you got to be kidding" side arms. The interesting thing about the period from1860s to WWII is how many different ways can you design a firearm to do basically the same thing. Personally I've been trying to find a Reichsrevolver at a decent price for a few years.....but the more recent attention/publicity (thank you Othias) has jacked the market up.
Richard Anderson
2021-02-02 06:20:13 +0000 UTCI suspect it's entirely to prevent "bounced" fire.
C&Rsenal
2021-02-02 05:21:05 +0000 UTCCudgel might be a better word than billy club, just sounds better, to me anyway. Really like the series, I have experience with about 3-5 % of your subjects, and am in agreement on your conclusions (though contusions would be a better word in re the richsrevolver).
Robert Finley
2021-02-02 04:47:31 +0000 UTCDoes anybody else own a 5gal pail of sweet baby rays on it (the marking not the sauce)
Austin Minder
2021-02-02 04:09:52 +0000 UTCI still can't figure out what they were thinking with that safety, it's like it was put there to beat your thumb, and nothing else.
lovot
2021-02-02 03:53:18 +0000 UTCDon't matter. Both make a lethal war club.
Markus B.
2021-02-02 03:52:35 +0000 UTCNow for the all-important question: which would you pick in a gunfight? A walker or an 1879 reichsrevolver?
David Herman
2021-02-02 03:46:45 +0000 UTCI’m imagining lanyard rings and BBQ sauce
Derrick Smith
2021-02-02 03:29:58 +0000 UTC
