General GunTuber thread

[AGPinochet]

Thought this might be of interest to the thread, either Ian had reasons for delaying the video release or he has a several month deep stack of videos at any given time

On August 31st small time guntuber Czech My Guns uploaded to fairly little notice a video featuring not only the obscure ZB-47 submachinegun, but none other than Ian McCollum, in the midst of recording a video.
Ian uploaded his video on the ZB-47 on the 23rd of December. So Ian recorded a video in either late August or early September and only got around to releasing it in late December. Gives you some potential insight into how deep he keeps his video stash.

 

[Rainbow Idiot]

Hell, the anecdotal evidence that I personally have access to suggests that grunts who prefer the M14 to the M16 were either non combat MOS or were deployed somewhere that wasn't Vietnam and consequently never actually saw combat. Furthermore, the more recently they served the more they hated the M14 because it's accuracy was only dabteably better than their M16 or M4 and the M16/M4 gets better while the M14 stays the same. The only vets I've met who prefer the M14 are guys who unironically buy into the ".223 is meant to wound" line.

Again anecdotal but a family friend who I'll call crazy Fred did tell me he preferred the M14 over the M16 because of brush primarily. He got called crazy Fred because apparently putting sandbags in the bottom of what he called a tank but I think based on the story was a APC and using it to clear mines was his version of a good idea. Anyway Dad told me he'd been blown up a few too many times and was a bit crazy but a good dude.

 

[Seafarer]

Again anecdotal but a family friend who I'll call crazy Fred did tell me he preferred the M14 over the M16 because of brush primarily.

Iirc the Rhodesians gave a similar compliment towards their FAL’s, so I think it’s more about caliber at that point rather than the particular weapons system. Don’t know how much truth there is to that anecdote though and soldiers can be somewhat unreliable in assessing ballistics (like the M1 carbine fiasco during the Korean War).

 

[Foley]

Thought this might be of interest to the thread, either Ian had reasons for delaying the video release or he has a several month deep stack of videos at any given time

This is the case, at least that was the case some years ago. I think he said during covid that the world could completely shut down for a year and he could keep his normal schedule going. Obviously that would've included some new videos shot regarding his collection and whatnot, but still he said he has plenty of footage waiting for editing and publishing.

Following his instagram, I think I've seen some videos published like a year after they were filmed.

 

[74164978231]

Plus when it comes to the grunt lore for the M14 it depends entirely on who you ask, I know plenty of Vietnam vets (including my own grandfather) who adored the M16 and preferred it to the M14 because they hated lugging around the long, heavy, bitch (in my grandpa's specific case he had to lug around a rifle whilst simultaneously handling a dog) and enjoyed the fact that they got to carry more than sixty or eighty rounds.

As someone who carried an A4, Im gonna go out on a limb here and say the only people who think the M14 was a good service weapon are those who never used one in combat or never got to use one an M16.

Troops will always prefer lighter, more ergonomic shit over larger clunky shit. I know me and the boys shook our head every single time we saw someone walking around with an M4(gotta love them going to SNCOs and Os who never left the wire) while we where stuck carrying A4s.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

As someone who carried an A4, Im gonna go out on a limb here and say the only people who think the M14 was a good service weapon are those who never used one in combat or never got to use one an M16.

Again anecdotal but a family friend who I'll call crazy Fred did tell me he preferred the M14 over the M16 because of brush primarily. He got called crazy Fred because apparently putting sandbags in the bottom of what he called a tank but I think based on the story was a APC and using it to clear mines was his version of a good idea. Anyway Dad told me he'd been blown up a few too many times and was a bit crazy but a good dude.

Iirc the Rhodesians gave a similar compliment towards their FAL’s, so I think it’s more about caliber at that point rather than the particular weapons system. Don’t know how much truth there is to that anecdote though and soldiers can be somewhat unreliable in assessing ballistics (like the M1 carbine fiasco during the Korean War).

I have met precisely one vet who preferred the M14 to the M4, but his reason was because when he was in Afghanistan the 5.56 wasn't as good as returning fire on assholes taking potshots as the 7.62 was at the ranges the potshots would come fro., and the M14 was the only 7.62 rifle they had ready access to without needing to grab the M240.

I did know a guy who was green beret in the eighties and he had a love affair with the G3 and preferred it over any M16 or M4 variant but he was also one of those guys that did hush hush shit. IIRC he trained locals for Just Cause.

 

[74164978231]

I have met precisely one vet who preferred the M14 to the M4, but his reason was because when he was in Afghanistan the 5.56 wasn't as good as returning fire on assholes taking potshots as the 7.62 was at the ranges the potshots would come fro., and the M14 was the only 7.62 rifle they had ready access to without needing to grab the M240.

Well of course youre gonna want a 7.62x51 rifle with an magnified optic if you need to shoot people at 500m+ distances. Of course when it came time to clear canals and mudhuts hed drop that M14 in a heart beat for the M4.

I did know a guy who was green beret in the eighties and he had a love affair with the G3 and preferred it over any M16 or M4 variant but he was also one of those guys that did hush hush shit. IIRC he trained locals for Just Cause.

Lunacy.

 

[Samhain]

Lucas is a giant faggot.

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>Just let America become full of sub-80 IQ mystery meats. It's fine as long as they're Christian!
>t. the average White American Christian conservative

It's insane how many White conservatives think like this. They unironically believe it's fine for Mexico to relocate half its population to America because "they're Catholic, they're family oriented, they're natural conservatives!" A street shitter prayed to some Hindu god at the RNC and these boomercon retards clapped like seals. I'm not even Christian and it disgusted me. America is fucking cooked.

 

[Belgians in the Congo]

Say it after me, free White person of good moral character. (being a Christian is a pre-requisite to a good moral character)

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Say it after me, free White person of good moral character. (being a Christian is a pre-requisite to a good moral character)

Considering how compromised western churches are by dispensationalism and woke infiltration, the signifier "christian" may no longer be proper. But that's a convo for another thread.

 

[08903248752]

My favorite grunt lore was that on the Eastern Front, many Soviets thought the MP40 was better; while many German troops believed the inverse. So you had German troops using captured PPSHs and Soviet troops using captured MP40s.

 

[millais]

My favorite grunt lore was that on the Eastern Front, many Soviets thought the MP40 was better; while many German troops believed the inverse. So you had German troops using captured PPSHs and Soviet troops using captured MP40s.

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To elaborate on that a little, it's more that the average landser and frontovik on the Eastern Front was issued with a 5 round bolt-action Mauser/Mosin, so at the first opportunity they upgraded to the first automatic weapon they could get in order to increase their firepower, regardless of whether it was a German or Soviet weapon.

But for the guys who were swapping their issued automatic weapons for enemy captures, the Soviet recon/scouts and vehicle crews supposedly appreciated the lightened weight and handiness of the MP 40 compared to a PPSh 41 with fully loaded drum mag. But once the box mags and the PPS 43 started being issued, it made MP 40s less highly coveted. And the Germans of course appreciated the higher capacity of the PPSh 41 with drum mag.

 

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books like the brigade actually get what a second American Civil War would look like a lot better than these idiots a lot of bombings by the freedom fighters and then when they take over an area a lot of clean up duty of people who disagree with your politics as well as the federal allies hiding up in fortified bases

A very good point. Is there anything else that differentiates Harold A. Covington's work in terms of portraying how a real revolution in los Estados Unidos ennegrecidos, vs. ridiculous libertarian fantasies like 'Unintended Consequences'?

He got called crazy Fred because apparently putting sandbags in the bottom of what he called a tank but I think based on the story was a APC and using it to clear mines was his version of a good idea

SOP for US crews using the M113 (one of the former Wunderwaffen sent to Ukraine in the 21st century) to murder Vietnamese civilians was to cover the bottom of the shitty little aluminum hull with sandbags to lessen the impact of mines.

 

[Foley]

A bit different from the Lord of War intro:

 

[likeacrackado]

>Just let America become full of sub-80 IQ mystery meats. It's fine as long as they're Christian!
>t. the average White American Christian conservative

It's insane how many White conservatives think like this. They unironically believe it's fine for Mexico to relocate half its population to America because "they're Catholic, they're family oriented, they're natural conservatives!" A street shitter prayed to some Hindu god at the RNC and these boomercon retards clapped like seals. I'm not even Christian and it disgusted me. America is fucking cooked.

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Sure, I don't disagree but you're taking all of this from him admitting to employing 2 Australians years ago? Nothing in those tweets implys he wants to flood the country with a bazillion dotheads. He is an idiot for engaging with purity spiraling "right wing" twitter accounts(themselves probably swarthy at best).

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

A very good point. Is there anything else that differentiates Harold A. Covington's work in terms of portraying how a real revolution in los Estados Unidos ennegrecidos, vs. ridiculous libertarian fantasies like 'Unintended Consequences'?

Yeah basically everyone stops trading with the white supremacist slash national socialist Republic

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

I remember this video being my introduction to gun youtubers, it is funny as shit and the fact that some Congressman brought it up is even funnier

 

[waffle]

Iirc the Rhodesians gave a similar compliment towards their FAL’s, so I think it’s more about caliber at that point rather than the particular weapons system. Don’t know how much truth there is to that anecdote though and soldiers can be somewhat unreliable in assessing ballistics (like the M1 carbine fiasco during the Korean War).

Per deer hunting experience: heavy bullets shoot truer through brush.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Per deer hunting experience: heavy bullets shoot truer through brush.

That one is always such a clusterfuck though.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Per deer hunting experience: heavy bullets shoot truer through brush.

Heavy and slow with a wide front is best, light and fast with a narrow point is easily deflected. It's happened with 7.62 for sure but with all variables involved, visibility being chief, it's hard to tell in any case and I fear it's a similar line of cope to, as someone else brought up, Korean War veterans talking about Chinese Carhartt jackets absorbing .30 Carbine.