This video explores a rare prototype of the Czechoslovakian vz.38 pistol, specifically a 9x19mm variant known as the 'Nutcracker'. While the standard vz.38 was a simple blowback .380 ACP, this prototype features a locked breech with a rotating barrel system, DA/SA trigger, and a manual safety, indicating attempts to adapt the design for a more powerful cartridge. The video highlights the historical context, the rarity of the surviving example, and thanks the VHU (Czech Military History Institute) and the Army Museum Žižkov for access. The project was ultimately not pursued, with the exact reasons for its termination being unclear.
This video delves into the physics of recoil in handguns, explaining why perceived recoil can differ significantly even between firearms with similar specifications. It utilizes high-speed footage to illustrate the mechanics behind recoil and relates it to Newton's Third Law. The description also links to a related video discussing blowback versus locked breech/recoil operated pistols.
This YouTube Short showcases the SIG MPX K, highlighting its locked breech action. The video includes links to the creator's other Shorts, Instagram for daily content and giveaways, Patreon for support, and Facebook. It also lists several companies with whom the creator has collaborated, providing discount codes for American Defense Manufacturing, Accu-Tac Bipods, and affiliate links for Bolt Action Coffee and Black Arch Holsters. Additional gear mentioned includes UF PRO combat gear, AR 550 Targets, HRT Tactical plate carriers, Rhino Metals safes, Gallowtech gun walls, Vickers Guide books, Dixxon flannels, and Fist Handwear gloves.
This video delves into the mechanics of toggle-action firearms, a unique locking system. It highlights its presence in iconic firearms like the Luger and Maxim/Vickers, while also acknowledging its application in shotguns, military rifles, sporting rifles, and submachine guns. The description explains that toggle actions typically function as a locked breech system, often unlocked by a secondary operating mechanism such as short recoil, but can also be the foundation for delayed blowback actions, exemplified by the Pedersen rifle. The video aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of this less common but historically significant firearm mechanism.
This TFBTV video reviews the Hush Puppy Project's Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0, focusing on its unique "locked breech" modification designed to significantly reduce firearm noise. The Hush Puppy Project aims to address gunshot sound through specialized silencers, subsonic ammunition (optimized for their own Super Vel Ammunition), and a Slide Lock Device that prevents slide reciprocation, thus eliminating the operational cycle noise. The review explores the technology behind noise reduction in firearms and positions this M&P 2.0 as a potentially "best silencer host gun."
This video delves into the Mannlicher Model 1896 pistol, highlighting its innovative design advancements over earlier models. It discusses the shift to a locked breech action and a bottlenecked cartridge to improve ballistics and handling. The description notes early blowback models were quickly replaced by locked systems. Key improvements in 1897 included the transition from a 7-round fixed magazine to a 6-round detachable magazine, though stripper clips remained an option. The video clarifies potential date confusion due to patents and commercial release timings, suggesting Mannlicher's focus on military contracts. It also mentions the availability of variations like longer barrels, shoulder stock lugs, and sporting carbines.
This video provides an in-depth look at the Bergmann No.5 pistol, introduced in 1897. It was notable for being the first Bergmann pistol to feature a locked breech action, derived from Schmeisser's machine gun patents. The No.5 utilized a more powerful 7.8mm cartridge, equivalent to the .30 caliber Mauser, and replaced Mannlicher clips with a 10-round detachable box magazine. It also came standard with a detachable shoulder stock/holster. Despite its advanced design for the era, the Bergmann No.5 was tested by Switzerland and England but ultimately rejected due to concerns about reliability and caliber, with only about a thousand units produced.
This video delves into the early .45 ACP Ruby pistol, produced by the Spanish company Gabilondo y Urresti (later Llama) starting in 1924. It highlights the pistol's locked-breech design, a modified copy of the Colt 1911, and its innovative captive recoil spring. The description notes that fewer than a thousand of this initial variant were sold before a closer 1911 replica was introduced, which achieved significant popularity as the Llama pistol. The video explores this historical firearm and its lineage.
This video features slow-motion footage of the Roth-Steyr M1907 pistol. The description highlights its rotating-barrel, locked-breech design and a trigger mechanism similar to a Glock, where the action cocks the striker to half-cock, and the first stage of the trigger pull fully cocks and then releases it. It also links to other videos providing historical context, disassembly, and its use in a pistol match, as well as a history of the gun from C&Rsenal.
This video delves into the Mauser HSv, an experimental locked-breech pistol developed as a potential replacement for the Luger P.08 in the late 1930s. It was one of three main contenders alongside BSW and Walther (whose design became the P.38). The description details Mauser's design evolution, including adapting to military requirements for an exposed barrel and adopting a Webley-like lever system for the recoil spring. While considered a capable pistol, its higher production cost led to the Walther P.38 being selected. The video highlights the fate of Mauser's larger locked-breech design compared to their successful smaller blowback models like the HSc.
This video provides an in-depth explanation of how the German Mauser C96 pistol works. It covers key mechanical features like its double-stack, clip-fed magazine, hammer-fire mechanism, and short recoil locked breech system. The content is presented as part of a WWI Primer series, suggesting a historical and technical focus on this iconic firearm.
This video delves into the development history of the iconic Walther P38 pistol. It traces the lineage from Walther's initial development in 1932, exploring two distinct design paths: a scaled-up blowback PP and a locked-breech design. The presentation covers early prototypes like the "MP" pistols, the "Armee Pistole" (AP) in standard and long-barreled configurations, the second Model MP, and the commercial "HP" model that preceded the final P38. A notable inclusion is a sheet metal prototype from the earliest stages of the locked-breech development. The P38 is highlighted as Germany's 1938 replacement for the Luger, driven by cost-effectiveness rather than inherent Luger flaws.
