As I recall, you're not *allowed* to give Alan a machine gun... Stephen Fry: I'm afraid I was given specific 'Alan not to touch' instructions. Ross Noble: I love the fact that somewhere there's a memo that just says: "Machine gun - for Stephen Fry's use only".
Greg Bolin yep. I’ve only fired an AK 47 in burst but one of the other guys in our stag group fired on full auto. At one point the instructor put his hand on his back so the recoil didn’t have him shooting the ceiling of our hut but he did hit the target a couple of times.
Did he really expect to be competent with a fully automatic weapon on the first go? He strikes me as the kind of person you can't teach anything because he thinks he already knows it all.
Not remotely, Jeremy was pathetically wrong with his anecdote, just because he is a shit shot doesn't mean everyone is, I could hit a target from 70 meters with an ak at the age of 15, he is such a narcissistic rube
@@ottojagenstedt9740 No it makes sense the way it is. I think you misinterpreted it. Also I don't know if this was intentional but you sound kind of condescending. Right or not there was no reason to be so rude
@@tommythecat7752 Okay having a "moving target" would mean more ammunition would probably be sold that's true. I was thinking the opposite, if people pay lots of money for the show/experience of blowing up a cow with a bazooka, unlike paying for a carnival thing with some tries of hopefully doing that. I'd assume going to a range and trying out a weapon, being able to hit the target is a good thing unlike a carnival thing.
@Common Sense Bit of a self fulfilling prophecy, that one. There could be hundreds of Vegetarians around you every day that haven't said anything about their eating preferences, but ofcourse you wouldn't be able to tell unless they told you.
I remember when I joined up (RAF) in 1981, the first time we went down the firing range they gave us SLRs with a .22 conversion kit in them, just to get us used to handling weapons, easy. the next time it was full bore .762, it nearly took my shoulder off,, that was sore. Imagine turning up to a fairground with one of them.
I think the Brighton Pier had a live .22 range years ago. I had a go and, being American, I did pretty well, and the locals were amazed. I then quit while I was ahead.
The carousel at Knoebel's Grove has a ring catch for the people riding the outer horses, but you hook it with your finger. If you get a golden ring, you get a free ride. I've actually got one of the silver rings from that ride that I keep my keys on. :)
I've done it. I've talked about a real thing that happened so many times that I then realise that I can't remember the actual event, only the "story" I tell about it
Basically all stories you tell are part fiction anyway. The mind often fills in the blanks with stuff that likely happened or would make sense to have happened. The memories also can change a bit every time you remember them. For a comedian it must be pretty usual, since they often get their ideas from things that actually happened to them, but exaggerate and change the pace and timings of the stories for better comedic effect.
The carousel thing is true! And at some point I think it was in the States and a sort of carnival game for civilians. My dad used to talk about it a lot, and said if you managed to hook a ring, you won a cigar-and that that’s why he always said, “Close, but no cigar!” to us.
I've been to a fairground that had a live ammo shooting range. Not for a very long time (mid 80's), and only .22 short, but still live ammo. The sad events of Hungerford pretty much put an end to that in the UK though.
The carousel’s traditional origin can be seen in the Central Park Carousel in NYC. As the ride runs, riders can reach out and grab metal rings from a vertical magazine that dispenses them one by one. About one in twenty is gold colored, which can be redeemed for a free ride!
Yeah it must be complete bollocks Stephen's assertion you can use "up to a .23". That includes the vast majority of battle rifles out there chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO or similar intermediate cartridges like the 5.45x39mm Russian, which is exactly .22". I didn't know (but it makes perfect sense) that they used frangible cartridges, thanks for that info!
@@johnnunn8688 They were firearms (ie. powder powered, rather than air), but the ammunition they used in them was frangible, ie. ammunition designed to disintegrate into very small particles on impact. This was to avoid the risk of ricochets.
@@BedsitBob, wrong. I’ve been doing some research. As recently as 2009, there was a rifle range at the Dorset Steam Fair, using .22LR. Also, until even more recently, the Lamb Inn, Devizes, had a club range. There’s plenty more examples out there.
@@johnnunn8688 There's a difference between a rifle *range* and a shooting *gallery* . A rifle range will be many yards long (typically 25 yards), with a proper backstop, whereas a gallery, such as you will find on a fairground, will be a few yards long, with a very basic bullet catcher, often no more than a vertical steel plate. Also, gallery rounds don't look all that different to regular ammo. They look much like .22 Short, or shortened .22LR. www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Box-of-Remingtons-1024x925.jpg
The Merry-go-round still has that ring, for kids to grab (spears sadly no longer allowed... dang) If they grab the ring, they "win" another extra few rounds on the Merry-go-round. The meaning changed, the tradition stayed. (At least, in the Netherlands it has)
@@blah__3000 Yes, well of course it's obvious for them to call it "The American War", so as not to confuse it with the war with the Japanese, or the French, or the Chinese, or the Kampucheans. However, for the rest of us it's just a lot easier to name it after the country it (mainly) happened in.
I knew a guy who was a chief constable who went to the US at one point. They gave him a go with a whole range of weapons. He said that with 5he AK on single shot it was impossible to miss.
@@Chilukar It's the same with most automatic small arms. Modern assault rifles are excellent marksman platforms, doesn't mean you can't spray like a lunatic.
@@oliver8928 It's why full-auto has been removed from almost all assault rifles. Semi-automatic fire is much more accurate. That's why the distinction between civilian and military assault rifles is pretty much non-existent now.
@@DomWeasel The term "assault rifle" is bullshit. For most of history, there was no appreciable difference between civilian and military rifles. By the time fully-automatic rifles were readily available as individual weapons (as opposed to crew-served), the fully-automatic firearm was already heavily regulated in the US.
@@jsquared1013 interesting tidbit is that for a long time civilian rifles could be and were more advanced than military issue stuff - because budgets and logistics are very important when equipping a whole army. So the wealthy citizen could shop for the fancy new toys while the footsoldiers got what was cheap enough to produce and buy en masse. (That's one reason why flintlocks were more used by militaries than wheellocks, even though the latter predates the former)
I like that the kids in the background photo are using Soviet SKS semi automatic rifles. They even have the folding bayonet! The little girl is legend with her one hand shooting of the rifle.
Obviously Jeremy wasn't listening when they told him about fire discipline, but then, he's the kind who wouldn't listen to people who know. I've fired an AK-47 at an Army range, and the rule is, short bursts.
"Ringriding" where you on horseback lance an ever decreasingly small ring is still a popular sport in Southern parts of Denmark and Northern parts of Germany, you know where the Angels originally came from.
A friend in the US gave us some of his old guns because he'd run out of space in his gun safe. He had a 50mm sniper rifle with high explosive bullets that he'd only fired once in a quarry. The rock exploded, peppering him with fragments at the opposite end.
Before the ban in the late 80's, I used to own a .44 Magnum. Specifically an IMI (Israeli Military Industries) Desert Eagle semi automatic. What a kick!
My daddo once pointed out that the lighter the machinegun the worst is the upward recoil. Even with that, I find rather strange that the most popular weapon in the world (AK 47) has bad handling. Perhaps it's just because it's not meant to be used in auto-fire, just like every other auto rifle.
Wow, that 'having live ammo on a fairground' thing sounds like a massive oversight... .22 is not a heavy caliber, but I'm pretty sure it WILL pass through the wall at the end of the range and WILL be potentially lethal to any person or animal standing behind it.
They use _extremely_ low power cartridges with "frangible" (i.e. turns into dust when they hit anything) projectiles that would have a hard time penetrating a t-shirt. But it'll pop a balloon or knock over a kewpie doll. If you got shot with one it might leave a bruise or a blood blister, but it certainly isn't going to go through the "wall at the end of the range." And even if it did through some miracle make it through the wall, even before it went through the wall (let's say it was a tent) it couldn't possibly do any damage to anyone. I have pellet guns that are more powerful and I've been shot with them. It wasn't pleasant, but I didn't bleed.
@@mikemiller4065 Exactly. Certainly not a 22 'long'. I shot a duck in the head once with a .22 long from 100 yards away. Enough power for a perfectly flat trajectory. People who use shotguns just aren't playing fair. If shooting ducks with anything can be said to be fair.
Carnival shooting ranges generally use .22 CB or BB Cap rounds, which were designed for indoor target shooting. They don't contain any powder, and the primer is the only propellant.
In the 1950s , when I was a little girl, we had a local amusement park run by a local rather wealthy family. In the park was what we called the "flying horses", a merry-go-round. A brass ring was hung just within reach of the outside circle of horses and, if you could catch the ring as you went by, you could have a free ride. The park is nonexistent today.
From what I understand, Vegas automatic weapons are usually chambered in 9mm parabellum for cheaper costs. That reduces the kick a fair bit, despite being exactly the same bullet weight. The soviet rounds kick about 2.2x harder than a 9mm round.
Yep, Alan Davis was a child soldier in Vietnam. Totally canon. He had to pay for his own bullets too. Guess he must have been fighting on the capitalist side.
Quaker gun story; A man breaks into the house of a man he knows to be a Quaker, and is confronted by the owner, holding a shotgun. He continues to take stuff, thinking himself safe. Then the home owner speaks. "Brother, I would not harm thee for all the world, BUT THOU ART STANDING RIGHT WHERE I AM GOING TO SHOOT!"
BBC really, REALLY should (for the end part of say these UA-cam videos) have Stephen Fry pop in and bother Sandy.. (Or just mill about in the background)
Our local amusement park still has a carousel where you can try to catch rings alas only with your finger not a sword. All of the rings are stainless steal except for one which is made of brass. If you get the brass ring you get a free ride.
I watched a former soldier compare the M-16 with the AK-47 on a Discovery channel show. With an old van about 200 yards away in a quarry, the M-16 put all it's shots through the front door window, in a controlled manner. The AK got a few shots to hit the van, erratically, the rest missed. It's a very crude, approximate thing, which jack-hammers in the soldier's shoulder.
Slow mo, of an original Kalashnikov of 1947, few survive, shows the barrel flexing and springing in all directions. At a fair ground I demonstrated my exceptional abilities with a pellet gun and was told to F--k off. No cigar.
Do you still have the footage of that? I would like to see it. I've only been able to see people firing the AKM variant from ca 59-74 and the AK-74 variant. And those are fairly well-made. Despite the fact that most Taliban, ISIS, and Al Qaeda fighters tend to run around with AKM's as their weapon of choice... That and the Chinese knockoff rifle that was used in Vietnam called the Type 56.
Are they really sure you're allowed up to a .23 round? Your stall could have AR-15s chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO (.223") or perhaps fulfill Jimmy's dream with an AK-74 (updated AK-47) in 5.45x39mm (.22" exactly) Russian. Both are high velocity rounds around 3000fps and would go straight through several fairground stalls and various people behind them before stopping. Plus the noise would deafen anyone nearby... Stephen's elves obviously just forgot that ".22" doesn't just refer to ".22 Long Rifle", the tiny low-mass, low-velocity cartridge used by farmers shooting rats etc.
I've been reliably informed by gun nut friends from Russia AND the US that the AK47 is a superb assault rifle. The M4 wielding 5.56mm ammo just isn't scary enough for some. The AK47 fires the much more powerful 7.62mm ammunition which REALLY barks! The AK has 4 settings; Safe, Single shot, 3 round burst, and full auto. The key is to never never never under any circumstances, EVER! switch it to full auto. If you're in a shootout with adversaries armed with AK47s and they are shooting full auto, your dealing with a bunch of morons. 3 round bursts or semi auto, your dealing with people who might know a bit about gun fighting.
“Have you ever fired an AK47?”
“Not in anger, Jeremy” 😂
As I recall, you're not *allowed* to give Alan a machine gun...
Stephen Fry: I'm afraid I was given specific 'Alan not to touch' instructions.
Ross Noble: I love the fact that somewhere there's a memo that just says: "Machine gun - for Stephen Fry's use only".
“Oh, no that was a stand-up routine. That’s not true...” -Alan Davies
I've seen that bit so many times (new clips maybe, QI?) and it's funny every time
I've seen that routine lol
@@andymcl92 be very hard assuming fry doesn't do it anymore
@@METALFREAK03 By assuming you mean considering? But Sandy has taken over so it still runs...
Frank Spencer What was the joke then?
If you give Alan a machine gun, he's going to have his vengeance for all the times "blue whale" was wrong.
And he’ll shoot the moon.
@@nocalsteve which moon?
How many you got?
one bullet for every claxon
He'll storm NASA to find out the deal with the moon once and for all
Clarkson: "I tried it once and was rubbish, therefore it's impossible."
Greg Bolin yep. I’ve only fired an AK 47 in burst but one of the other guys in our stag group fired on full auto. At one point the instructor put his hand on his back so the recoil didn’t have him shooting the ceiling of our hut but he did hit the target a couple of times.
Did he really expect to be competent with a fully automatic weapon on the first go? He strikes me as the kind of person you can't teach anything because he thinks he already knows it all.
I'm ex army and I've fired several weapons that fire 7.62 mm rounds, including the AK-47 and i hit what I was aiming at...Mostly.
@@verisimilitudeteller Its a entertainment show get a life you fucking muppet.
@@minners71
Except the the guest on the show was speaking seriously. Why wre you swearing, it is only commentary on an "entertainment show"...
With jeremy, jimmy and alan, it is the most interesting show ever. Those 3 mock and jokes are such legends.
Not remotely, Jeremy was pathetically wrong with his anecdote, just because he is a shit shot doesn't mean everyone is, I could hit a target from 70 meters with an ak at the age of 15, he is such a narcissistic rube
Stephen's laugh at the end is a glorious sight to behold
“They used cattle. It’s hard to hit a mooing target.” Said no one on the show. Darn it.
One could almost say it wouldn't meat their expectations
SebSk Maybe they could have used a cattling gun! 😜
Change it to DIDN'T use cattle because of mooing targets and the joke actually makes sense buddy
@@ottojagenstedt9740 No it makes sense the way it is. I think you misinterpreted it. Also I don't know if this was intentional but you sound kind of condescending. Right or not there was no reason to be so rude
@@tommythecat7752 Okay having a "moving target" would mean more ammunition would probably be sold that's true. I was thinking the opposite, if people pay lots of money for the show/experience of blowing up a cow with a bazooka, unlike paying for a carnival thing with some tries of hopefully doing that. I'd assume going to a range and trying out a weapon, being able to hit the target is a good thing unlike a carnival thing.
Speaking as a fellow vegetarian I fully understand the fascination that might drive Alan to want to bazooka a cow
@Maxx Kroes yeah thats how it works.
@Common Sense Why is that?
@Common Sense you're thinking of vegans
@Common Sense Bit of a self fulfilling prophecy, that one. There could be hundreds of Vegetarians around you every day that haven't said anything about their eating preferences, but ofcourse you wouldn't be able to tell unless they told you.
Vegetarians can still hunt for sport, they just don’t eat it.
That was quite interesting.
They should make a show with that title.
@@minners71 Would never work.
@@tipperary1082 What if they used an acronym?
@@romaliop What would the acronym be?
@@tipperary1082 RI - Rather Intriguing
I remember when I joined up (RAF) in 1981, the first time we went down the firing range they gave us SLRs with a .22 conversion kit in them, just to get us used to handling weapons, easy. the next time it was full bore .762, it nearly took my shoulder off,, that was sore. Imagine turning up to a fairground with one of them.
I think the Brighton Pier had a live .22 range years ago.
I had a go and, being American, I did pretty well, and the locals were amazed. I then quit while I was ahead.
The carousel at Knoebel's Grove has a ring catch for the people riding the outer horses, but you hook it with your finger. If you get a golden ring, you get a free ride. I've actually got one of the silver rings from that ride that I keep my keys on. :)
I remember seeing a carousel that had a brass ring you were supposed to grab, way long ago when I was a teenager.
Can you imagine the machine gun you could build with a Ferris Wheel
TheHutchy01 That's called a Tommy Gun. 😉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun
A minigun is basically a little ferris wheel of barrels...?
@@gizmoguyar Hehe, yep!
Machine Mako Cannon at Junon
wordreet i think the Gatling Gun would probably be a more appropriate comparison :P
I do wonder how many of the stories comedians tell are actually true, or how many they mistakenly conflate with their own lives?
I've done it. I've talked about a real thing that happened so many times that I then realise that I can't remember the actual event, only the "story" I tell about it
Basically all stories you tell are part fiction anyway. The mind often fills in the blanks with stuff that likely happened or would make sense to have happened. The memories also can change a bit every time you remember them. For a comedian it must be pretty usual, since they often get their ideas from things that actually happened to them, but exaggerate and change the pace and timings of the stories for better comedic effect.
Every time we recall a memory we slightly change it.
All of them!
As a comedian you tend to base them on true stories. If you don't they fall apart pretty quick.
The carousel thing is true! And at some point I think it was in the States and a sort of carnival game for civilians. My dad used to talk about it a lot, and said if you managed to hook a ring, you won a cigar-and that that’s why he always said, “Close, but no cigar!” to us.
"Call of Duty's better, isn't it?"
*Chernobyl Ferris wheel appears*
50 thousand people used to live here...
@@JustLiesNOR Naw it's a ghaast tahhn, you slaaaag
Knives only at the pool?
WOLVES!
I've been to a fairground that had a live ammo shooting range. Not for a very long time (mid 80's), and only .22 short, but still live ammo. The sad events of Hungerford pretty much put an end to that in the UK though.
Mr Fry said that in law, fairgrounds could still have them. I imagine the insurance would be prohibitive though.
1:09 - It might just be a trick of perspective, but I think the girl on the left in that picture might have played too much Resident Evil.
Or she's not one to let something as trivial as spraining your wrist to get in the way of firing an SKS like a BAMF
@@TheMonkeystick hahaha
Does she even have her finger on the trigger?
The carousel’s traditional origin can be seen in the Central Park Carousel in NYC. As the ride runs, riders can reach out and grab metal rings from a vertical magazine that dispenses them one by one. About one in twenty is gold colored, which can be redeemed for a free ride!
Oh gosh, I'm old enough to remember fairground rifle ranges with live ammunition. A lot of my childhood holiday money went that way.
I am too, im American, it wad last year, I think 8 dead
The .22" rounds used on fairgrounds are "gallery" rounds. They are low powered cartridges, with frangible projectiles.
Yeah it must be complete bollocks Stephen's assertion you can use "up to a .23". That includes the vast majority of battle rifles out there chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO or similar intermediate cartridges like the 5.45x39mm Russian, which is exactly .22". I didn't know (but it makes perfect sense) that they used frangible cartridges, thanks for that info!
In the 50s and 60s, I most definitely used .22 firearms (rifles) at the fairground.
@@johnnunn8688 They were firearms (ie. powder powered, rather than air), but the ammunition they used in them was frangible, ie. ammunition designed to disintegrate into very small particles on impact.
This was to avoid the risk of ricochets.
@@BedsitBob, wrong. I’ve been doing some research. As recently as 2009, there was a rifle range at the Dorset Steam Fair, using .22LR. Also, until even more recently, the Lamb Inn, Devizes, had a club range. There’s plenty more examples out there.
@@johnnunn8688 There's a difference between a rifle *range* and a shooting *gallery* .
A rifle range will be many yards long (typically 25 yards), with a proper backstop, whereas a gallery, such as you will find on a fairground, will be a few yards long, with a very basic bullet catcher, often no more than a vertical steel plate.
Also, gallery rounds don't look all that different to regular ammo.
They look much like .22 Short, or shortened .22LR.
www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Box-of-Remingtons-1024x925.jpg
The Merry-go-round still has that ring, for kids to grab (spears sadly no longer allowed... dang)
If they grab the ring, they "win" another extra few rounds on the Merry-go-round.
The meaning changed, the tradition stayed.
(At least, in the Netherlands it has)
You still have servants holding rings in the Netherlands?
@@CJT3X lol nah :P the 2nd Carrousel operator usually does that ring thingy :)
I have been on one where you still give the kids a lance. It's called a 'Jousting carousel' now.
@@Ansible1000 yeah i been on one of those as a kid, but didnt know they still were still around as such, great fun for kids :D
You have secondary operators in The NLs? In America rides are usually pretty understaffed... oftentimes of questionable mantienence.
Alan is a national treasure. Never get rid of him England...
I'd dearly love for Clarkson to come visit in the Ozarks. We could have a talk out behind the barn. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
the answer is;
he starts sounding like Jimmy Carr laughing.... huuuuuuhhhhh hhhuhhh haaaahaaaaaaa
I rode a carosol with the brass rings you tried to grab, when I was a kid. I think it was in Asbury Park, NJ
QI is the best setting for Jimmy
That title made my heart skip a beat.
I find it Quite Interesting that Alan refers to it as the 'American War'
That's what they call it in Vietnam.
@@mattdickie4696 you're quite right, and that's very much what it was
@@blah__3000 Yes, well of course it's obvious for them to call it "The American War", so as not to confuse it with the war with the Japanese, or the French, or the Chinese, or the Kampucheans. However, for the rest of us it's just a lot easier to name it after the country it (mainly) happened in.
@@bp837 I don't disagree.
blahblahblah3000 you mean the continuation of the French war?
Live ammunition in a fairground? Any fair in the US South.
Short controlled bursts, don't spray and pray!
I knew a guy who was a chief constable who went to the US at one point. They gave him a go with a whole range of weapons. He said that with 5he AK on single shot it was impossible to miss.
@@Chilukar It's the same with most automatic small arms. Modern assault rifles are excellent marksman platforms, doesn't mean you can't spray like a lunatic.
@@oliver8928
It's why full-auto has been removed from almost all assault rifles. Semi-automatic fire is much more accurate. That's why the distinction between civilian and military assault rifles is pretty much non-existent now.
@@DomWeasel The term "assault rifle" is bullshit. For most of history, there was no appreciable difference between civilian and military rifles. By the time fully-automatic rifles were readily available as individual weapons (as opposed to crew-served), the fully-automatic firearm was already heavily regulated in the US.
@@jsquared1013 interesting tidbit is that for a long time civilian rifles could be and were more advanced than military issue stuff - because budgets and logistics are very important when equipping a whole army.
So the wealthy citizen could shop for the fancy new toys while the footsoldiers got what was cheap enough to produce and buy en masse.
(That's one reason why flintlocks were more used by militaries than wheellocks, even though the latter predates the former)
See! Jimmy understands the American condition! Now can we please have this show on some streaming service? Like full episodes?
Britbox.
Love the Grand Tour reference with the AKs 😂😂😂
I like that the kids in the background photo are using Soviet SKS semi automatic rifles. They even have the folding bayonet! The little girl is legend with her one hand shooting of the rifle.
Wubba mah SKS!
Obviously Jeremy wasn't listening when they told him about fire discipline, but then, he's the kind who wouldn't listen to people who know. I've fired an AK-47 at an Army range, and the rule is, short bursts.
"Ringriding" where you on horseback lance an ever decreasingly small ring is still a popular sport in Southern parts of Denmark and Northern parts of Germany, you know where the Angels originally came from.
we used to use 22 short at fairs
A friend in the US gave us some of his old guns because he'd run out of space in his gun safe. He had a 50mm sniper rifle with high explosive bullets that he'd only fired once in a quarry. The rock exploded, peppering him with fragments at the opposite end.
Stephen once fired a .44 Magnum in his documentary "Stephen Fry In America. He quoted Clint Eastwood first before firing.
Before the ban in the late 80's, I used to own a .44 Magnum. Specifically an IMI (Israeli Military Industries) Desert Eagle semi automatic. What a kick!
You can watch it here - ua-cam.com/video/rT-Jd3LOjfY/v-deo.html from around 5.25 onwards.
1:16 I bet when he said that, there were a lot of carnies going "Hmmm, might try that out"
Alan's got the bloodlust.
I’ve shot an Ak-47
There’s some kick back but it’s not impossible to control...they do warn you to grip it tightly while at the range though.
thats also why carousels usually go in the same direction, because most knights were right handed. ty Genial daneben.
No it's because they keep the earth wound up.
Seriously, try stopping all the carousels around the world and it would stop spinning.
#TrueFacts
Nah it's because the horses would be going arse first if it went in the other direction...
@@telectronix1368 Is that why time moves forward? Why it's always day-time then night-time and never the other way round?
My daddo once pointed out that the lighter the machinegun the worst is the upward recoil.
Even with that, I find rather strange that the most popular weapon in the world (AK 47) has bad handling. Perhaps it's just because it's not meant to be used in auto-fire, just like every other auto rifle.
It typically has loose tolerances which adds to reliability but takes away from accuracy.
0:52 50 000 people used to live here. Now its a Ghost Town.
Wow, that 'having live ammo on a fairground' thing sounds like a massive oversight...
.22 is not a heavy caliber, but I'm pretty sure it WILL pass through the wall at the end of the range and WILL be potentially lethal to any person or animal standing behind it.
You use 22 short and put some sandbags in front of the back wall, you will be ok.
They use _extremely_ low power cartridges with "frangible" (i.e. turns into dust when they hit anything) projectiles that would have a hard time penetrating a t-shirt. But it'll pop a balloon or knock over a kewpie doll. If you got shot with one it might leave a bruise or a blood blister, but it certainly isn't going to go through the "wall at the end of the range." And even if it did through some miracle make it through the wall, even before it went through the wall (let's say it was a tent) it couldn't possibly do any damage to anyone. I have pellet guns that are more powerful and I've been shot with them. It wasn't pleasant, but I didn't bleed.
@@mikemiller4065
Exactly. Certainly not a 22 'long'. I shot a duck in the head once with a .22 long from 100 yards away. Enough power for a perfectly flat trajectory. People who use shotguns just aren't playing fair. If shooting ducks with anything can be said to be fair.
Carnival shooting ranges generally use
.22 CB or BB Cap rounds, which were designed for indoor target shooting. They don't contain any powder, and the primer is the only propellant.
@@DanDownunda8888 Why would you shoot a duck in the head?
In the 1950s , when I was a little girl, we had a local amusement park run by a local rather wealthy family. In the park was what we called the "flying horses", a merry-go-round. A brass ring was hung just within reach of the outside circle of horses and, if you could catch the ring as you went by, you could have a free ride. The park is nonexistent today.
I wonder how many people suffered a broken wrist on account of this?
0:54 ain't that the ferris wheel in pripyat?
Yes it is
This gives fun at the fairground an entirely new meaning
@ 0:52 the Ferris wheel is an abandoned one near Chernobyl.
Jimmy is actually wrong, someone was shot once in episode of the a team!
Somebody once went through the series and calculated that around a dozen people died
@@Trek001 correct and each of the a team was shot at least once except Murdock
@@deanmoncaster Murdock was shot. Mr. T even offered to give him blood if a transfusion would have worked. It was a clip-show.
@@TWX1138 you are right he was shot twice. I meant it was Hannibal that was never shot
I've shot an AK whilst on holiday in Vegas, did kick back but not that badly still hit the mark sometimes, just don't hold it down on full auto
DcLoki12 jeremy was talking about full auto....
That's why I think gun laws around automatic is dumb and stupid. Automatic makes the weapon less effective.
@@kablouserful Not if you are vaguely aiming at a crowd.....
@@kablouserful but in a crowded area accuracy doesnt really matter does it.
From what I understand, Vegas automatic weapons are usually chambered in 9mm parabellum for cheaper costs. That reduces the kick a fair bit, despite being exactly the same bullet weight. The soviet rounds kick about 2.2x harder than a 9mm round.
I adore Alan
As a child of the 50s and 60s, I used .22 rifles at the fair. Then it all went .177 air rifles with bent barrels and even benter sights.
The 1st time i heard it, i thought that guys is quite young if he's fighting in Vietnam.
Yep, Alan Davis was a child soldier in Vietnam. Totally canon. He had to pay for his own bullets too. Guess he must have been fighting on the capitalist side.
Nah, the Brits somehow managed to stay out of that war.
@@grahamlive to busy spying
It was probably on a tourist trip in the last 10 years.
The carousel shown rotates clockwise, I thought that the ones with the ring rotate anticlockwise.
Lol, thanks for the laughs 👍🇦🇺🦘✌️🐶🍻
Technically it was the Ferris wheel given the great Panjandrum was made in a similar way. Unless there were ferris wheels from earlier in time.
My old SMI in JROTC used to say that automatic rifles were nothing but a waste of ammo.
Spray n' pray.
Hell, Disneyland in (of course) California, had a shooting gallery during at least the 60s. Granted, they probably shot 22 shorts...
Quaker gun story; A man breaks into the house of a man he knows to be a Quaker, and is confronted by the owner, holding a shotgun. He continues to take stuff, thinking himself safe. Then the home owner speaks. "Brother, I would not harm thee for all the world, BUT THOU ART STANDING RIGHT WHERE I AM GOING TO SHOOT!"
Clarkson mentions COD, and then the "Fifty thousand people used to live here..." Ferris wheel appears behind him 😆
Alan's a vegetarian, because there's nothing edible left on the animal when he's done with it...
BBC really, REALLY should (for the end part of say these UA-cam videos) have Stephen Fry pop in and bother Sandy.. (Or just mill about in the background)
Based off what Jeremy said, Stormtroopers we’re armed with AK’s
I don't doubt for a second that Jeremy has an AK.
Doesn't Alan have a lovely smile 😊
Our local amusement park still has a carousel where you can try to catch rings alas only with your finger not a sword. All of the rings are stainless steal except for one which is made of brass. If you get the brass ring you get a free ride.
I fucking love Alan Davies.
It would have to be an AK74. AK47 has a larger caliber than .23.
“I mean....surly bullshit, no?” 😁
Sure firing on full auto it's hard to control...fire in bursts
Yes Alan, the cows in minefields gag
You don’t do a burst from AK-47
Yep I've fired 22 at a fair ground.
So.. Clarkson has played call of duty??
Is there an internet clip I havn't seen yet?
He's quite a videogamer, according to old Top Gear shows when he mentions it a few times.
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@@jadecook9963 That's me, equable and informative! :D
(and slightly insomniacal)
@@zetetick395 xD
Alan breaking the magic of every stand up comedian there.
1:39 A .22 would work.
Why would I be wearing a ballet dress?
That would be tutu much...
I watched a former soldier compare the M-16 with the AK-47 on a Discovery channel show. With an old van about 200 yards away in a quarry, the M-16 put all it's shots through the front door window, in a controlled manner. The AK got a few shots to hit the van, erratically, the rest missed. It's a very crude, approximate thing, which jack-hammers in the soldier's shoulder.
Bazooka + cow = instant barbecue
Course you have to pick out the shrapnel, dirt, and bone but still good eating i suppose.
Slow mo, of an original Kalashnikov of 1947, few survive, shows the barrel flexing and springing in all directions. At a fair ground I demonstrated my exceptional abilities with a pellet gun and was told to F--k off. No cigar.
Do you still have the footage of that? I would like to see it.
I've only been able to see people firing the AKM variant from ca 59-74 and the AK-74 variant. And those are fairly well-made.
Despite the fact that most Taliban, ISIS, and Al Qaeda fighters tend to run around with AKM's as their weapon of choice... That and the Chinese knockoff rifle that was used in Vietnam called the Type 56.
I never thought Barbie and the Three Musketeers had some factual basis for their training...
“If this AK was an AK....!”
Are they really sure you're allowed up to a .23 round? Your stall could have AR-15s chambered in 5.56x45mm NATO (.223") or perhaps fulfill Jimmy's dream with an AK-74 (updated AK-47) in 5.45x39mm (.22" exactly) Russian. Both are high velocity rounds around 3000fps and would go straight through several fairground stalls and various people behind them before stopping. Plus the noise would deafen anyone nearby... Stephen's elves obviously just forgot that ".22" doesn't just refer to ".22 Long Rifle", the tiny low-mass, low-velocity cartridge used by farmers shooting rats etc.
I've been reliably informed by gun nut friends from Russia AND the US that the AK47 is a superb assault rifle.
The M4 wielding 5.56mm ammo just isn't scary enough for some. The AK47 fires the much more powerful 7.62mm ammunition which REALLY barks!
The AK has 4 settings; Safe, Single shot, 3 round burst, and full auto.
The key is to never never never under any circumstances, EVER! switch it to full auto.
If you're in a shootout with adversaries armed with AK47s and they are shooting full auto, your dealing with a bunch of morons.
3 round bursts or semi auto, your dealing with people who might know a bit about gun fighting.
3 round burst. Hm, I know that there is a polish ak in 5.44 that have a three burst, but the old 7.62, never heard of that.
You even learn in Counter Strike to even shoot in small bursts! xD
True I fired an AK47 and it was almost impossible to handle
Probably being a big bloke with long arms he didn't quite get the rifle into his shoulder fully
No, the AK-47 is NOT a precision instrument.
he is left handed but right eyed (or the other way round) so if he fires it, the bullets hit his arm
@@DrDespicable on full auto not many guns are. The AK47 is precise enough on semiauto.
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A.K. is ok on semi auto,in 7.62 i would go for the F.N. FAL in 7.62 x51.
AK-107 or Galil for me thanks.
Ahh, I miss the old QI. soooo funny.
What happens? Great television
He goes for that frickin' raptors, that's what happens
I have no idea what kind of sad excuse for human you'd have to be, to honestly dislike a snippet of an episode, as fantastic as this one.
I see no dislikes.
Rimfire .22" shorts.
Oh wow. I've been to the same place as Alan, probably. I didn't shoot anything though.
1:20 What is this, the U.S.?!
Did Alan call the Vietnam War, 'the American War'? How odd...
OK
Rounds, not bullets, Rifle, not gun
The barn door was open wasn’t it Jeremy? You’re meant to close it