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http://www.Patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons Hammer price: $16,000 As World War One stagnated into trench warfare, snipers and machine guns quickly proliferated, and exposure above the parapet of one's trench could be extremely hazardous. This leaves one with the question of, how to shoot back without risking a bullet? One answer that was devised was to mount a rifle to a periscope. That way the rifle could be lifted up to get a clear shot at the enemy trenches while the shooter remained safely out of sight using mirrors to see his sights and a length of wire to pull his trigger. While all the major powers in the war developed devices like this, the one we are looking at today is German. It's simple, but effective. In addition to the trench periscope stock, this rifle has also been fitted with a couple other WWI modifications. It has clamp-on luminous sights to allow more accurate shooting at night, and also an extended 25-round fixed magazine to give the shooter much more ammo to fire before needing to reload. The rifle also comes with another neat accessory, which was not fitted for the video. This particular trench stock is a factory-made item, but does not include a mechanism to cycle the bolt - a shooter would have to bring the rifle back down after each shot. Some more complex versions were made which included articulated levers for cycling the bolt from below. The range of trench stocks also goes the other direction, and includes plenty of examples that were handmade in the trenches by individual soldiers...where necessity was the mother of invention. However, trench stocks of any type are quite rare to find, and they made very clumsy souvenirs for troops coming home.
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Sadly today nobody is bringing anything back anymore and neither is there prize money in navy anymore as far as I know (even if you manage to capture an enemy vessel!) :(
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i have seen one of these in a small museum in italy a few years ago.
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Stolen idea from the Aussies
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Trench Mauser .That was the name of a character played by Arnold in Expendables lol
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I don't really see the point for a bolt action but maybe for machine guns it would be a good idea
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Wow. That rifle has a nice tiger striped stock.
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Love this channel, Keep up the great work man!
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Old, radioactive glow in the dark material stays radioactive long-term in nearly all cases (it's typically radium and has a vastly longer half-life than modern tritium based alternatives). The phosphor compound is what degrades, wears out and grows dim with time. (typically zinc sulfide is used as the phosphor) http://www.theodoregray.com/Periodictable/Elements/088/index.s7.html neat info and several examples of this here. -
that rifle is not a modified Gewehr98?
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cool world war 1 German rifle
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just get some binoculars, a rifle, and some mirrors and duct tape it all together
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I love when Americans or Britans speak German Words😃
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I've seen pictures of ANZACS with setups like this who where fighting in Gallipoli, but ofcourse they had a lot more jerryrigged setups than a factory produced attachment, Its amazing how necessity breeds invention. Awesome overview as always FW
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:D the leica
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Battlefield 1 first update
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So let me get this straight. Trijicon charges me $1000 for an Acog that uses illumination technology used by the damn Germans in WW1?!?!?!? Well fuck!
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Well now we have aks
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You know what's funny about these designs? They still try to have ideas with it. Remember the early 2000s when they had the "Solider of the Future" project going where they had these silly around the corner guns. It seemed neat but very bulky like this. Very hard to transition and carry around.
However, I think the modern soldiers of today have it better as far as knowing what is around the corner. With the advancements in drones and other things soldiers can easily carry, I think the modern solider has more battlefield awareness and capabilities than they ever did. -
Wall hax
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On Gallipoli periscopes provided a less dangerous way of observing the Turks from the trenches. Looking over the parapet at Quinn's post, for example, was extremely hazardous as the enemy line was less than 50 metres away.
The periscope rifle was invented in May 1915 by Lance Corporal William Beech, 2nd Battalion, a builder's foreman: this device allowed a soldier standing in a trench to take accurate aim and fire without exposing himself to the enemy.
The upper mirror of the periscope was so fixed that it looked along the sights of a rifle; this image was reflected in the lower mirror, into which the soldier peered. Sometimes the periscope rifle was used by a sniper and observer working together.
The rifles were produced in a makeshift workshop on the beach at Anzac Cove. Though less effective than conventional rifles, the periscope rifle proved to be a useful weapon, and it was soon in use in many front-line trenches, in particular at Quinn's Post, where the closeness of the opposing trenches had earlier made it virtually impossible to fire a shot by day.
Beech was a British born Australian
there was previously the Youlten Hyposcope but that still meant the firer had to reach up to pull the trigger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_rifle