Boys Mk I Anti-Tank Rifle at the Range
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(Edit: Tungsten carbine is, of course denser than steel, not lighter. Sorry.)
I have done several previous videos on the Boys antitank rifle, but never actually fired one - until today! We're out at the range with a MkI Boys and five rounds of its .55 Boys ammunition. So let's see if it's an painful to shoot as people say...
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"Seriously, you're at the range by yourself?"
"NAH, I'M WITH MY BOYS!"
*Incoherent screaming noises in the background*
I give that joke a solid 6.9/420
*the boys
YOOOOOOOOOOO
Ugh, daaaaaaad. :)
Imagine what a Man's anti-tank rifle would be like.
This comment is under appreciated
120 mm Smoothbore Rheinmetall firing a Depleted Uranium Discarding Sabot round at 1400 meters per second mounted on top of an Abrams tank.
The Lahti
I'm such a child, I laughed SUPER hard at this. Take my like.
@@shawnr771 That's actually the Armchair Warrior's weapon. *R E A L* men use the L55 variant
My grandfather knocked out an Italian machine gun position with one of these during the Australian 2/2 Battalion attack on Tobruk in January 1941. He was apparently unhappy to have been issued with this weapon but his actions allowed his company to continue to fight through to their objective. He went on to fight the Germans in Greece and Crete (where he was POW). Nothing but respect to you grandad. X
Thanks for sharing this Story 👍🏻
I believe the Australians, who were not shy about being honest and open about military kit, called the Boyes "Charlie The Bastard".
I thought it was a Boyes rifle rather than "Boys".
A man who was teaching me gunsmithing let me shoot his Boyes rifle. It was many years ago and the ammo was rare then. He had about 50 or so rounds for it and let me shoot 2 of them. I was 13 and weighed about 90 lbs. Me and the rifle were pushed back on the ground. I too didn't think the kick was bad. It was more like a heavy push than a sharp kick. We fired a total of three rounds that day and demolished an old chimney in the woods. The chimney was from a cabin that had burnt back in the 50s. My first round really cracked the chimney all over and a little fell. We moved to an angle about 65 degrees around. My teacher fired a round and the majority of the chimney fell. He let me fire again and about all that was left was a mess of old bricks. Great video and Memories!
Yall Take Care and be safe, John
A really lucky...boy.
At first I wanted to type 'punk', but that would be egregiously inappropriate.
Many more fond memories, John.
Stay safe yourself.
*Boys
Boys with their toys
Boys
Wasted opportunity to name this video "Me and the Boys (at the range)"
Great video idea for stuff from the cutting room floor
@@alohm Not bad idea actually, since I reckon Ian would have an extensive collection of bloopers by now worthy to be shown in some sort of compilation
or a Manhandling a Boy's rifle
cracking open a cold one with the BOYS
it's too easy
Tungsten is actually considerably denser than steel. I'm assumin the core is quite small to get the bullet weight down.
Came to the comments to make sure this comment was here lol
Yup, it is of course denser than steel. I should have phrased that better.
@@ForgottenWeapons i got confused when you said tungsten is lighter than steel
@@spearton-1912 same lol
As one who has designed and fabricated some of my own projectiles that caught my attention. FYI - Tungsten is even slightly more dense than typical depleted uranium. (19.3 v 19.1 g/cc) Tungsten typically has greater hardness than steels so that might have been the additional benefit that they were looking for to go along with the higher velocity of the lighter projectile.
"55 boys, or in metric terms, 26 men."
Underrated comment!
😂🤣
Guy in the intro: "Yeah I needed a new shoulder anyway"
Ian: _evil chuckle_ "...that's actually kinda fun. let's do it again!"
Kind of like Steve1989- “oh, yeah - that is definitely rancid! ... let’s take another bite....”
Intro dude made it look much worse on the body than our Lord did
Yep, looks like gun jesus braced it better, and it didn't get to build up momentum as much. He's used to abominations such as lathis and such after all
Cracking a tank open with the boys
ay lmao!
Or dislocating a shoulder... That recoil is insane
Will it bump fire tho?
Thank you. Its a real treat to be able to watch one being shot. Really cool.
@@antoochibbo1355 DIslocating? It's collar-bone breaker
Finally, something for the rabbits in my yard
Are you sure they’re not furry kaijus??
Those are REALLY aggressive rabbits, yeah?
...or maybe Mammoths?
Must be some really big rabbits.
Don't mind Ninja, he barks squirrels with a .460 Weatherby. Geoff Who notes the squirrels are small in Florida, the predators get them young.
"Stripper clip of .55 cal ammunition"
Yes.
On the retreat to Dunkirk my dad and his mate were given a Boys with 5 rounds and told to hold a road junction one night. Dad said he could hear the tanks in the fields, needless to say he did not fire on them. Made it back from Dunkirk and returned 4 years later at Normandy.
Was about to head to bed cause I heard the birds chirping, but one more vid can't hurt
"Da sun is shinin' an' da boids is choipin'..."
With over 2300 videos this is me every night
Its like 4 in the morning for me when he uploads
(4 hours later, watching a documentary on Japanese balloon bombs...)
Thanks for sharing Ian. Sir Roden Cutler, VC, former Governor of NSW and Honorary Colonel of my former Regiment, the Sydney University Regiment, earned his Victoria Cross as a young 2nd AIF officer firing the Boys against French Vichy tanks in Syria in 1941. He lost his leg in the same action. I had the honour of meeting him in my youth and he was still possessed of nerves of steel which one would need to fire such a weapon. His citation read as follows: “War Office, 28 November 1941.
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the VICTORIA CROSS to the under-mentioned:-
Lieutenant Arthur Roden Cutler (NX.12378), Australian Military Forces.
For most conspicuous and sustained gallantry during the Syrian Campaign and for outstanding bravery during the bitter fighting at Merdjayoun when this artillery officer became a byword amongst the forward troops with whom he worked.
At Merdjayoun on the 19 June 1941 our infantry attack was checked after suffering heavy casualties from an enemy counter attack with tanks. Enemy machine gun fire swept the ground but Lieutenant Cutler with another artillery officer and a small party pushed on ahead of the infantry and established an outpost in a house. The telephone line was cut and he went out and mended this line under machine gun fire and returned to the house, from which enemy posts and a battery were successfully engaged.
The enemy then attacked this outpost with infantry and tanks, killing the Bren gunner and mortally wounding the other officer. Lieutenant Cutler and another manned the anti-tank rifle and Bren gun and fought back driving the enemy infantry away. The tanks continued the attack, but under constant fire from the anti-tank rifle and Bren gun eventually withdrew. Lieutenant Cutler then personally supervised the evacuation of the wounded members of his party. Undaunted he pressed for a further advance. He had been ordered to establish an outpost from which he could register the only road by which the enemy transport could enter the town. With a small party of volunteers he pressed on until finally with one other he succeeded in establishing an outpost right in the town, which was occupied by the Foreign Legion, despite enemy machine gun fire which prevented our infantry from advancing.
At this time Lieutenant Cutler knew the enemy were massing on his left for a counter attack and that he was in danger of being cut off. Nevertheless he carried out his task of registering the battery on the road and engaging enemy posts. The enemy counter attacked with infantry and tanks and he was cut off. He was forced to go to ground, but after dark succeeded in making his way through the enemy lines. His work in registering the only road by which enemy transport could enter the town was of vital importance and a big factor in the enemy's subsequent retreat.
On the night of 23-24 June he was in charge of a 25-pounder sent forward into our forward defended localities to silence an enemy anti-tank gun and post which had held up our attack. This he did and next morning the recapture of Merdjayoun was completed.
Later at Damour on 6 July when our forward infantry were pinned to the ground by heavy hostile machine gun fire Lieutenant Cutler, regardless of all danger, went to bring a line to his outpost when he was seriously wounded. Twenty-six hours elapsed before it was possible to rescue this officer, whose wound by this time had become septic necessitating the amputation of his leg.
Throughout the Campaign this officer's courage was unparalleled and his work was a big factor in the recapture of Merdjayoun.”
My family still has an album with a black-and-white picture of my grandpa posing with one of these... (Portuguese Army)
I had no idea anyone else used them.
@@Matt_The_Hugenot According to the Wikipedia article on that rifle (which in turn refers several other sources), it was used by over 20 countries.
Ian a couple of vids ago: "Guns are much safer in private hands"
Ian in this vid: "Please stop converting this historical rifle"
xD
At least they are converted and not welded into a single steel piece of furniture
Thought the same thing, but I would think that if converted the .55 barrel could be kept depending on how the Bureau of Alcohol tobacco and FIRES feels this week, about constructive possession . (yup I still remember Waco.)
Haha he still wants you to buy it. Just don't convert it. I personally disagree, though. If I ever get one (hahhaaa) it'll be converted so I can actually use it.
This may be a stupid question
( I'm in th UK, so we cannot play with these guns)
Is there such a way of doing the conversion, that would allow you to strip it back down, and rebuild back to original specification?
Or is it, once it's modified, that's it.
@@richieb7692 You can own this in the UK.
Of course I need a Boys anti-tank rifle. How else will I deal with 3-5 feral L3/35 tankettes that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play.
Give the kids a couple molotovs. If they can't handle a couple feral L3/35 tankettes on their own, then they're not worth raising up.
I thought we covered this in the M2 video
I have heard their has been recent news of supernatural aliens that have been showing up recently that the Boy's Mk 1 would be very effective against.
Esspeically when you seek out the services of a cute magical girl from the 1940's to help you. :3
A PIAT good sir, or falling that one HM governments assortment of 2- 17lber anti tank guns would be ones recommendation. If course the lady's may not be partial to the stress of loading said piat but it should remidie your situation.
Tungsten: 19.3 g/cm3, steel is around 8 g/cm3
Thank you got me so confused when he said that.
Yep! Tungsten is super dense. About 1.6 times denser than lead, so you can really imagine how heavy the stuff is.
It's an amazing material.
Steel 7, 85 g per cubic cm. Trained metal worker/ Facharbeiter.
@@brittakriep2938 also depents a bit on the type of steel i imagine. High carbon steel should be a bit lighter then low carbon steel right?
@Mummel92 Being that its armor penetrating, its probably tungsten capped or tungsten tipped. If Ian was right about the bullet weights, and the tungsten projectile is actually lighter than the steel core projectile, it most certainly only made up of a only a fraction of tungsten. Otherwise if it was a tungsten core, it would be far heavier than that the steel core projectile.
I believe that the Australian service designation was "Charlie the Bastard."
Tungsten is not lighter than steel: the Tungsten cores were smaller, but denser.
@@zoiders Thank you. But I am pretty sure that the older generation used the name for the Boys.
"Charlie the Bastard" is what the Australians called the Boys Tank Rifle in North Africa.
@@johnanon6938 I think I remember it from a website about WWII weapons and equipment. I certainly hadn't heard it in connection with the Carl-Gustav.
One thing about WW2, is that each Commonwealth Army in the different theatres had its own slang. You notice this when you read books written by soldiers, rather than historians: George MacDonald Fraser has a different vocabulary from Spike Milligan.
It wouldn't surprise me if there was an indivdual cannon in the English Civil War named "Charlie the bastard" either.
@@alexanderdickson419 Thank you! I am beginning to remember where I first saw the reference, and it was in the context of LRDG weapons. I would remember more things, more easily, if I had read less in my life. But then I would know less.
@@johnanon6938 See also Alexander Dickson's reply, which I read after I'd replied to your comment. It looks as if my remark about different Commonwealth armies having different slang was a response to what he says, but actually I'd just had that thought and then I saw the "Charlie the Bastard" was what the Australians in North Africa called the Boys, and that jogged my memory as to where I'd first seen the reference.
I love how the crickets literally stop altogether when the rifle is fired
They were just blown away by that muzzle blast
If I remember correctly, Tungsten is heavier than steel, but as it is tougher than steel, they might have needed less than steel for a core leading to a lighter bullet
exactly
Yep, Tungsten is more than double the density of steel (19g/cm3 to ~7g/cm3) So they use less of it, coated in a lighter shell to make up the size.
Not really tougher, but harder. That's not toughness as tungsten carbide is quite brittle. The outer shell serves also to cushion the blow and channel the penetrator into the armor in case it hits at an angle.
Similar technology to contemporary Armor Piercing Composite-Rigid or High Velocity Armor Piercing tank rounds.
Aye. Basic principle is that smaller penetrator will have smaller contact surface with armor, so will have to displace less steel to get through. But at same time, you want penetrator to be possibly heavy, so it can carry more kinetic energy. Steel surrounding penetrator (sabot) makes it fit bore of a normal sized gun. Obviously overall lighter round will gain more velocity while leaving the gun, so you want sabot to be possibly light. Later the design was improved by making sabot fall off penetrator right after leaving barrel, reducing air resistance that slows down penetrator.
Remember, tungsten has almost the same density as gold. When you are making fake gold bars, take tungsten bars and coat them with gold. You can learn a thing or two from Bill Clinton.
Love to see a comparison between the
50bmg
50Russian
55 boys
13.5 mm German
14.5mm?
@@davidgoodenough6450 different class tbh
@@user-xp5df5yt7j perfect for urban combat lol
What about large hunting calibres? .500 jeff, .577, .700/577 etc?
50BMG is actually 13mm - same as the muzzle on the TuFG which is a squeeze bore from 13.2mm case size.
Shame you didn't have some steel plates to shoot to see how good those AP rounds are.
Not that bad in fact , but often used in salvo ( 3 or 6 pieces group ) on slot/track or gun's mobile part of the tank for effect ... in africa , against "early" pz3 on the mantlet 's side border for shift or block the elevation mechanism for exemple
My Grandad was Royal Artillery AT from 39-46, He absolutely Loved the Boys, Said it was best used Mounted on a Bren Carrier/UC than from an Infantry role.
I've actually got a .55 Boys ammo from WW2, heavily corroded. Was found in one of our many bunkers here near Dunkirk!
They had one of these mounted as a decoration in the WO & Sgts Mess in JHCFS Aldergrove just outside Belfast. Lovely looking piece.
During the very early 1980s, de-milled Boy's Rifles were sold in Australian second-hand stores for around $200.00 (which was a lot of money in the '80s for an expensive paperweight) but were super cool for me as 18/19-year-old at the time!
The ones I saw were not de-milled.
I can see why they changed the muzzle brake on the MkI* to just go straight out to the sides.
Cracking open a cold one with the Boys 👌🏻
Cracking open an armored* one
@@pffpffovich2398 * an *armoured* one. It's the Brits we're talking about.
* Cracking open a scolding hot one in the searing African desert sun, with the boys.
fun fact: tungsten dioxide is o=w=o
It isnt fun
The W being for Wolfram.
@@yegorgribenuke6853у тебя фамилия, как у моего препода, забавно
When you're the metal with the highest known melting point yet you still oxidise.
O=W=O what's this?
@@Hirosjimma carbon oxidises too, even though it's got even higher melting point (not in regular conditions, of course)
As i recall this was one of Mattel's more controversial products...
That final slowmo shot is cool. You can hear the concussion wave hitting hitting the camera after the sound of the shot.
While it was certainly enjoyable to see this historic rifle in action, it would have been nice to see what those rounds would do against various thicknesses of steel plating.
My Dad use one in WW2 while in the British Army and he said it kicked like a mule!
I think he also said don’t fire one, while your back is against a tree.
The physical embodiment of the phrase "use more gun."
I wonder if an elephant was ever shot with one of these. Hopefully not, that would be a cruel mess.
Imagine being a solider and not having ear plugs, and a tank is coming at you, so you better get the hits.
Now this is a nice start to the year
Me and the boys at the range
Get out.
Damn you
A while back I had a friend who was a 'Machine Shop' High School Teacher and he had his own Metal Lathe in his garage. He had gotten a surplus Browning M-2 Heavy Machine Gun Barrel and, through the MAGIC he taught the kids at Pulaski County High School, mated that 25-Lb BEAST to the receiver of an 1898 Mauser he'd gotten at a Yard Sale whose barrel had seen better days, so to speak. The Mauser's receiver ended up being bored out then tapped and the M-2 Barrel was spun down and threaded to where they mated beautifully; he went ahead and made a removable Muzzle Brake similar to what comes on a Barrett Light-50...
I took my Springfield Armory SAR-48 (a Semi-automatic version of the FN-FAL chambered in .308 Winchester) to his rifle range one afternoon and he was there shooting the "Mauser from Hell" by unthreading the M-2 Barrel, dropping into the chamber an M-2 Cartridge, rethreading the Barrel into the Receiver, hefting the beast onto a Benchrest, working the Bolt-action to cock this Monstrosity then ever so gently pull the trigger... BAROOM!!!
After he'd fired around 10 Rounds or so I asked, "Can I give it a try?" And he grinned then removed the Muzzle Brake so he could swab the bore. He then had me do the entire step-by-step routine of loading this creation of his and setting it up with a good, sharp aim at the Steel Plate Target cut out to look like a Rhinoceros at 50 Yards... BAROOM!!!
Holy Mother of God - I was kicked back over 5 Feet off the stool as if I'd been hit in the shoulder with a Sledgehammer! He had NOT put the Muzzle Brake back on and, according to him, he just wanted to see how effective it truly was and unbeknownst to me I had volunteered for the experiment...
To quote from a tale of being on Safari:
"The Hunter fires both Barrels of his .460 Weatherby Magnum rifle at the charging Rhinoceros. The 4,000-pound Rhinoceros goes down and the 160-pound Hunter goes down. Whoever gets up first is the winner. If neither gets up, then the Hunter's belongings are distributed amongst the Tribal members of the Safari according to the Laws of the Serengeti."
6:09 The camera's movement from the concussion gives you a visual feel of the blast - very cool to see!
If that's the Boys anti-tank rifle, how big is the man's?
Believe the Man's anti tank rifle was named Firefly - as a joke
GAU-8...
The lahti L39 on full auto
@William G you are joking, but there was a full auto AA variant of the Lahti.
It’s also known as Gustav
When just one of these isn't enough, the use of milkshake is recommended.
I see what you did there. Well done!
I love Forgotten Weapons, it's a very informative and entertaining series in equal measures. I have a little rolodex of guns I would like to shoot before I die, and this one is quite high on that list.
The British were quite keen on the use of Tungsten in shells, they used it in 17-pounder shells, it was the only round in the Allied arsenal that could effectively punch through the frontal armour of a tiger 2
"Can I shoot .22LR at your range"
"no sorry, Only anti-tank or higher."
*shows a M1 76mm gun* will this suffice?
Clay pigeons? Wouldn't clay panzers be more appropriate?
I think they call it zimmerit
I once got to shoot the .50 BMG version of the Boys ATR back in 2004, along with an 8.5" "Mountain Howitzer" (basically a repro of a Civil War-era mortar) that used bowling balls as munitions. The owners of both (who were long-time friends and neighbors of each other) brought them out for celebratory purposes. Oh, and there was a bowling alley down the road.
My great uncle manned one of these in the Pacific. One time at night, he heard a rustle, turned at said noise, and fired. In the morning he found the remains of a water Buffalo.
There was a time when these could be had through the mail for $100.
Doc Brown: “We have to go back!”
Why do you think these things are so rare? They've all been bought by time travellers!
I worked at a gun shop years ago. We had one of those converted to 50 bmg come into the shop once. We took it out to the range to test fire it. Ian is right, it was the concussion not the kick. Still it is a beast and it wouldn't be something I would recommend for deer hunting
Thanks Ian for giving us a look at one of these. Remember reading somewhere the .55 cartridge had been considered for use in a machine gun. Someone may remember the details. Read a book recently on the battle of Milne Bay mentioning The Boys. The Aussie soldiers were sent out on a hit and run mission to meet the advancing Japanese. They were to be lightly armed, minimal rations to be carried, heavier weapons including their Boys AT rifles to be left behind. This made sense as this was to be a flanking manuvre involving climbing a jungle mountainside. Orders changed however. Instead they were to hold open parkland with next to no hard cover. Coming face to face in the dark with 2 type 95 HA-GO light tanks, they found their issued sticky bomb grenades to be totally useless. In the tropical climate they just did not stick. Having no option, they retreated to the jungle. Later, a small party left the base to set up a delaying ambush along the only road, the only option for tanks under the extremely muddy conditions. A soldier, inexperienced with the Boys, got away a couple of rounds at the lead type 95, to no noticeable effect. They left quickly as they were hotly pursued. One of the shots had in fact killed driver outright. A less skilled driver then took over, later hopelessly bogging the tank when he strayed from the narrow track. Both tanks were abandoned after the other suffered the same fate.
A Browning .50 cal. note. The P-40 Kittyhawks the Australians operated from the island had the rifling completely eroded from the barrels due to lack of spares. Operating in the unimaginably filthy conditions even the ejection ports could be packed with mud. They resorted to taping them over. All the P-40s were flown out to an American base before nightfall as being overrun was likely. They returned to strafe the Japanese in the morning, as they did every morning. Thanks to our American friends who gifted them with new barrels so they could shoot straight again plus some much needed maintenance.
Oh Ian, my father has never forgotten the hit a PIAT gives your shoulder when he fired one back in the 1950s.
Q: How do you kill a Superhero/villain/Homelander?
A: With 'The Boys'
"Actually that's not horrible"
I'm in agreement with Ian, as well as everyone else in the comments who seems to have ACTUALLY shot one of these monsters. The recoil isn't bad at all. I got to shoot one about a year ago, and being as we were actually on a cement floor and the cookie cutter didn't have anything to blast into my face, it was surprisingly pleasant. Maybe not too surprising, though, given the weight of the gun itself.
I love it when John shows up on the channel. I spent years playing tabletop RPGs and wargames with him when I was a kid.
This just in, local boy throws man's shoulder 500 feet behind him
"Ouch......fetch the damn PIAT!"
PIAT > boys
@@galahad-history Bazooka > PIAT
PIRATE > PIAT
@@randomnameseventytwo1307 Panzershrek > PIAT
@@pffpffovich2398 Super Bazooka > Panzershrek
Legend has it that this was Chuck Norris' first pellet rifle...
Ian is absolutely right, that tungsten bullet IS lighter than the corresponding steel bullet. He didn't say tungsten was "less dense" than steel. A pound of lead is "lighter" than 20 pounds of feathers.
This was begging for a hard target like a junked truck t put rounds through.
That would have made short work of some 1/2 inch AR500 plate, but I still would like to have seen some high speed footage of it.
If only he could take it to the Bovington Tank Museum and try it out on the early-war tanks and pre-war tankettes. Getting it through customs might be difficult though.
Shooting with John Keene the Morphy Auction machine gun expert. I wonder what else they had to fire that day?
Though expensive the British didn't have the same issues sourcing Tungstenn as other nations, in fact during the war they made a point of buying as much as they could from Spain and Portugal, just to keep it out of the hands of the Germans. So using i tungsten to increase the service life of the Boyes made sense in a way that it wouldn't for other nations.
What a coincidence! I was just re watching through the anti-tank playlist yesterday!
You could say: "The boys are back in town". Thank you for all the exciting and educational content.
tungsten is way, way heavier (denser) than steel.
Many people are nervous about shooting this!
Ian: yippee!
My Dad told me he fired one of those. He said the recoil was like a hammer! He was in the 67th Anti tank reg.
The density of tungsten is very similar to Gold, so much so that people have sold fake gold bullion bars that had a tungsten core
Tungsten is more than twice the density of steel, so You got that wrong, However it is also a lot stronger, so these rounds could have been made with a lot less material and have great penetrating force at higher velocity.
I believe the core was smaller with the tungsten, versus the steel core.
the theory the denser core would penetrate further.
it can be made to weigh less as a projectile to go faster...
Tungsten is about the same density of gold, which is denser then lead, which is denser than copper, which is denser then steel. Now if you thought of the weight of Titanium, then yes, it does weigh less than steel. But people don't really used Titanium in bullets.
Oh my the bucket list just grew again. That looks like a good time. A partial list of guns I want to shoot before I kick off. M16 full auto I carried one through 13 weeks of boot camp. Never got to fire full auto. M2 50 cal target a small car. Hotchkins hand cranked 35mm cannon. And all the anti tank rifles. Also a few oldies prmitive like a mskettoon. Peace love & jello. TomCat
0:03 that's about 5mm off being a dislocated shoulder.... :/
Edit; talking about recoil travel, not calibre.
It would have been interesting to see what sort of damage it could do to a steel target.
A friend owned one & I had the pleasure of firing it several times back in the very early 80's, rounds then were $20aud so I could only afford 2 shots but that was enough, back pressure was brutal.
Thanks for the memories, great vid.
South Africans mounted Boys .55 cal ATRs in the turrets of Marmon-Herrington armored cars deployed in the Western Desert '40-42. Some in turret w/co-axial Bren .303 LMG, or sometimes pintle-mounted on turret top.
Well if you do go on that pig hunting trip you were talking about I think we've found your ideal weapon.
You'd have to hunt for the meat after hunting the pig.. "there's a piece! In that tree over there"
🅱️ois Anti-Tank Rifle
If I had 5 rounds to fire in a one off, probably never to be repeated opportunity, I’d want to shoot 6, even if it put me in hospital! I admire your self restraint!
This gun was obsolete very early in the WWII. But the British shipped a bunch of these guns to the Greeks when Italy invaded Albania, and since the Italians were the first country to arm up for WWII their tanks were obsolete as well. In one action Greek infantry knocked out 9 Italian tanks with this weapon.
i always thought tungsten was way heavier then steel
It is, roughly 2-2.5 times denser.
@@Nerdslayer09527 thanks was a bit confused there
I’m goin’ bird huntin’ with the Boys this weekend.
“Oh, cool, whatcha huntin’”?
A-10’s...
Ian audibly grunts when fires
Also Ian “it’s not that bad.
I have a cartridge, ready to shoot, from 1939. Found it in the farm we used to own not far from Dunkirk. It was probably left there by the Brits during the evacuation. It's in perfect condition, i did clean it and polish it as it had light surface oxydation.
I'd love to shoot it, but I think those guns are a little problematic to own here in France.
Normal world can’t get basic 9mm. Ian has Boys rifle ammo 🤷🏼♂️
Girl: he went out to party with the boys again, i bet he his cheating.
Me and the Boys:
A rare video of Ian shooting right handed.
In one of Ian "Ivan" Hogg's books he says that Rolls-Royce had considered making a bomber turret machine gun firing .55 Boys rounds, not followed up as Browning 0.5's were becoming more available.
Gun Jesus training to fight Satan's armor units at Megido circa 2021
Would like to see what you're shooting at / hitting.
Density of tungsten is 19.25g/cm3, density of gold is 19.3g/cm3, steel usually ranges between 7.75 and 8.05 g/cm3 .
A slight addition to the recoil damper on the lower pot with the addition of sheet metal twisted forward - will move the blow gases away from the ground thus stopping the dirt and earth flooding the use and 2 lower existing screws will hold it in place - this is a must have
Can you put a camera on some sort of interesting target, that would relate to the type of gun you are shooting..would be helpful in understanding the power of a gun like this
In case anyone has a spare Panzer laying around to donate.
It wouldn't need to be anything fancy, a 3/4" AR500 .50BMG gong would probably serve the purpose.
Tungsten is nearly twice as dense as most steels
And youtubers are typically three times as dense as tungsten.
came looking for this comment
Roses are red,
Bananas have peels...
Propably Saying tungsten but meaining tungsten carbide? :p
Back in the '60s, Ye Olde Hunter, out of California, was selling these guns for around $150 each plus ammo, shipped by truck. He always had off-the-wall ads and for this one, he suggested it was great for picking off cars on the freeway. Got a lot of flak for that one.
If you are ever in Oregon, I have a .50 bmg converted Boys Rifle that you could shoot until your heart was content
Seeing the rounds on a clip got me thinking, there must be a separate stripper clip magazine loading tool, right? I can't imagine loading is done by flipping the rifle over and filling the magazine from the bottom through the receiver.
probably done that way to keep ammo in place during transport but i wouldnt doubt that there is a tool for loading the magazine and they are just hard to find
Probably had a couple spare magazines and the loader took care of it.
@@shawnr771 thats what the loader peasant was for
@@shawnr771 actually, a box of (about) 10 spare mags.
@@charlesfitton9677 cool.
Girls at the range:
O M G , it's so loud here!
Boys at the range:
While the whole US is complaining about expensive ammo, Ian is out here shooting some weird and obscure ammo that hasn't been produced for some 70 years
Cracking open a cold Panzerkampfwagen I with the Boys.
Teacher: We’re going to the shooting range.
Girls: It’s going to be so loud.
Boys: