Italian Pistols of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special feat. C&Rsenal
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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In this edition of our live stream episodes with C&Rsenal we take a look at the Italian pistols of World War 1.
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My wisdom teeth were just removed, and here I am, in extreme pain. Nothing better than watching the Great War while I get better. Thank you very much Indi, Flo and the rest of the team for this.
Getting wiser even without the teeth is a good strategy.
Am I the only one who is still waiting for that German Asia Corps special that Indy promised a year ago?
What sound does an Italian pistol make?
Bango!
john sobery Ba-Dum-Tsssss
Sounds more Mexican than Italian.
wrong it sounds like this:
*YAHooo*
log out next time perfect
Le nostre pistole so' le meglio!
That dangling trigger on the bodeo is actually quite clever in my opinion
Although the Italians missed the mark with their Carcano, with the carbine perhaps being the exception, the beretta 1917 was just glorious. I want one of these.... lol
It would be nice to have C&Rsenal talk about an ideal "load out" for WW1 soldiers had they been able to mix and match the best equipment available to the Allies and Central Powers
Saw one of those Italian revolvers with the dangling trigger bring sold on consignment at a Gun Range last weekend. Had fun sharing what little I knew (from you guys!)0 about the trigger design with the staff there
+John Gibbon great moment to drop some knowledge!
"Just flip her around ... and we're in the action" oh Bodeo.
Very cool show. I particularly like the weapon collaboration it really works in giving you a feel for what the soldiers were using.
Thank y’all for these videos
I recommend going over to C&Rsenal and watching all of their videos because watching Mae shoot is awesome.
The Italian pistols are stronger than the Italian generals
Janos Jalics i
They were strong enough to defeat the Austrians-Hungarians. Learn some history. Read up about the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. It lead to the dissolution of the Austo-Hungarian Empire and contributed to the end of the First World War.
Richard Hari Haha!
Agreed.
That's cool .😎😎😎😎
Always interesting to see how different countries approached their firearms. Another nice job from the folks at C&Rsenal
Belle le pistole nostre nella grande guerra mio bisnonno era ufficiale dell'artiglieria e aveva la beretta 1915 nella fondina capitano
Antonio Lante cazzate
@@lucignolo8333 bel nome😂
That trigger safety seems like a hazard if you were you were fight say a mountain firing at people below
Love gun history... and C&Rsenal just adds to Indy's WWI history... Amazing
Really like these specials with Othias. Plz keep em coming. Figuring out how to involve Mae more often wouldn't hurt either.
So basically the Bodero is the Kalashnikov of ww1 hand guns..? 😁
Morten Poulsen The Video was initially conceived for equipping mounted troops only: that the reason behind d the folding trigger. In fact the chances to have a misfire not while drawing but while holstering the revolver at full gallop were very high
Mounted troops actually mostly kept on using the Chamelot Delvigne. the longer barrel and better materials were appreciated, while the heavier weight, longer reloading time and more difficult field strip were not really defects for mounted troops (that really didn't reload or field strip their weapons while in action).
Yes I'm early I must say I watch this show every week and hope to go into conflict archeology and go to France to work on the wwi battlefields 'tis my dream
That Springfield rifle on the wall is beautiful
To say that the 9mm Glisenti "doesn't belong anywere in the spectrum" is a little too much. Power wise is in the same ballpark of 9mm Makarov (service cartridge of all eastern block during cold war), 9mm Steyr (Austrian service cartridge in WWI), 9X20mm Browning long (service cartridge of Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden during WWI) and 9x18mm Ultra (German Police service cartridge in the '70s). The only "mistake" (that's only a modern problem, back there it was ininfluential) had been to make it of the same dimensions of the 9mm Para instead of cutting the case one mm shorter (that's what the Germans did with the 9mm Ultra, that's a 9mm Glisenti with a 1mm shorter case).
If you can get Othias to make a full special episode on semi-automatic rifles someday, that would be great. Technological development allowed for some use on the battlefield even if that was not in the trenches.
When is Indy going to head back to the states to go to the range with C&Rsenal?
Khanclansith Right?! We'll eat some gravy together too.
Very interesting episode! Especially the Beretta part. A point about the revolver: I could imagine it would be difficult to shoot somebody fast from above (let's say from the ridge of a trench) with that floppy trigger pointing downwards.
Stamen Belchev
Probably, assuming you drew it at the moment you are coming up to the trench, but I imagine it'd be out of the holster before leaving your own trenches.
But I don't know enough about the standard loadout for the average Italian officer, so I can't be sure if it was a primary or secondary weapon for them.
Garret LeBuis
Yeah, I also thought about that. In the episode Otaious (I butchered that spelling) said that pistols were secondary, but it is a good question if there secondary for the Italian officers too. Still, a floppy trigger sounds like a silly solution to the problem at task.
Weren't they usually shooting upwards toward the Austrians on the mountains above them?
When you were above the ridge of an enemy trench you were supposed to already have the pistol in hand and the finger on the trigger.
The Hill 70 memorial is brand new and includes a Maple Leaf for every Canadian K/MWIA and MIA in the fight, nice job again Indy and crew.
Dear Indy,
I perceive that you take this work seriously, and try to be as respectful of the material as possible. Question: Does the material ever get to be "too much" to handle, or rather, are you ever emotionally moved enough by your research that you have to stop and take a breather?
What an awesome video!
"say hello" says Hi.
John2903 he's a rebel
I always wonder, where these weaponry was produced? I mean, the main industrial region of each country and its exposure near the frontlines. I think is Milan in this case, isn't it?
Yes but the austrians never reached it, they were close, but they hot pushed away
Alan De Anda probably Brescia and the tiny cities around produce the mayority of little arms
And Brescia it's even closer to Austria and the 1915 border
The Carcano rifles were manufactured in four state arsenals, the main one being Terni, in central Italy. The Bodeo revolver, being very simple to make, had been manufactured by several private contractors. The Glisenti 1910 had ben manufactured only by MBT in Brescia, but the production had already ended first than the beginning of WWI. The Berettas had been obviously made in Gardone Val Trompia, again near Brescia. The Fiat machineguns were made in Turin and the Villar Perosa SMG in Villar Perosa, a town near to the French border
A slight design oversight that i see with the first revolver they showcased is that it can't shoot down, which could be an issue in mountain combat or when raiding an enemy trench.
if you have your finger on the trigger and then point downward it most certainly will shoot.
Another splendid episode with Othais
Me going into one of these: Surely they won't mention 'x'
Me coming out of one of these: Wow, they mentioned it. And then some.
11:40: I was waiting for Othias to say 'War were declared'.
Since when does Hank Hill know so much about Italian pistols?
Did the glsenti inspire the nambu pistol
I was wondering if you guys will ever do a special on the various military awards and medals of the war.
The Glisenti looks like you took parts from a nambu and a webley self loading pistol and mashed them together
Waiting on the American weapons and that MP-18
2:42 oooorrrrrrrr just have a trigger guard.
WE NEED A "WAR WERE DECLARED!"!!!
I have 1 question " why in WAR would you care about licences " about copying a gun type ? great channel by the way.
Manufacturing for war is still a business operation and you don't want to alienate the companies that produce.
I like this Otis fella
When i heard beretta i immediately thought about the game Max Pain.
The way he used those guns in slowmotion hmmmmmm.
I can't wait to see the American pistols like the classic M1911 .45 Pistol.
i love these vids!
23 minutes late and i just get the notification when i click on video
Wait, wasn't this recorded a really long time ago? Together with rifles.
yep
So like their rifles Italian pistols were neither particularly great nor terrible. Just okay. Nice job.
Are there any modern guns with a trigger like that? I don't know about any but appreciate that safe potential of it.
Did anyone else notice he called that 1917 handgun a 1517 because he was just talkin about the 1915 handgun
The fact that the Bodeo doesn't have a trigger guard is terrifying
Hynox Xitio the officer model does
yeah. my 1st thought was that it may not swivel down enough to accidentally shout yourself in the foot but is sure as heck is enough to shoot everyone else in the foot.
I can guarantee that not one person would want to be shot with any gun on the table
I hope you haven't forgotten to make a video about the German Asia Corps.
AVANTI SAVOIA!!!!
Favorite favorite favorite other channel? What about Military History Visualized?
Hey Guys I love your channel keep up the good work I have question how long did Honduras lasted in the war ?and where they involved in any big battles? I'm sorry it just came up in my head during school 😂
How about a show comparing the weapons of each country and have a competition between them.
Quando parlate del fronte Italiano potreste mettere i sottotitoli in Italiano?
Grazie.
PIZZA PIE-A MOTTO MEGILO! EAT A DA SPAGHETTI!!
Basta scriverli i sottotitoli in italiano...
Was their artillery pastacannones
I'm italian and yes, we have tons of pastaccanones, and even pastanukes
Giant Kitten
You mean our 203mm?
Giant Kitten cannoli cannon and ravioli shield, spaghetti rifle and pizza tank
And don't forget our spaghettibayonets
For out of the trenches:what did the french do if the chauchat lmg was broken? What weapon would they use to replace it
That person that wont shut up about TF2 throw 2 weeks old baguettes
I'm a complete slut for italian guns. My fav carry is a baretta cheetah- the .380 thought the bobcat (.25) is a good hold out. I also had, and sold at a profit, a mataba.-semi-auto .357 magmum.-a powerful load on an amazingly steady platform it was incredible-unfortunately having too many moving parts it started to jamb very easily-like the chauchat-and it was way too huge for CC. The guys at the rang called it 'the italian monster' I liked it to an expensive mistress. amazing but expensive and needing lots of up keep
What was so hard about putting a trigger guard on a friggin revolver.
I guess one of the most popular excuse for self inflicted wounds was gun malfunction
I have a question for out of the trenches what would happen if Spain joined the war on the central powers ,would a invasion of Portugal happen or an invasion of france
No trigger guard because YAY FIREARM SAFTY!
That's the funniest thinge about sidearmes which are crude or overly simple ... it doesn't matter, if you get shot with those while trying to stab someone, you're still dead and you're just as dead after a stomach hit by this one as you are by a stomach hit with a .50AE Desert Eagle ^^
Why did pilots discontinue the use of Aerial darts? Because Aerial darts could pierce a helmet.
Indiana Jones I believe it was the same problems with flamethrowers in WWII, they were considered in humane.
A 'Merica I think flamethrowers were used in WWII by the Germans and Americans
I would also say that bombs would atomize a helmet, and the man underneath it.
kind of a waste killing one single soldier when you could bring a bomb and possibly maim many, WW1 was all about reducing people to statistics
Throwing darts don't sound like an effective or easy way to take out enemy pilots
What does he mean when he says the revolver has foxing?
The first one is in BF1
The M1915 too
the m1915 is the ancestor of the 9mm m9 pistol
why is Indy so red today, and the map behind him? Someone forgot the colograde somewhere? :D
nice show, no offence ;)
Jemand hat eher vergessen, den UA-cam-Codec ordentlich zu programmieren. Zieht alles ins Rot, wenn man H264 hochlädt.
"Someone has rather forgotten to properly program the UA-cam codec. Pull everything into red when you charge H264."
Via GoogeTranslate.
Don't ever tell Othias not to worry about mispronouncing names with which he isn't familiar. He gets in a huff.
DO A BIO ON DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
Interview Mae!
he Glesenty looks like the pistol Japanese officers used in WWII
(------- when you two shot sombody with bodeo
The game Isonzo brought me here. Anyone else?
wouldnt earlier manufactured Bodeo's be dangerous to fire with smokeless because of the iron frame they were built with?
Have you found the answer to this question already by now? Trying to figure out the same thing, I have a 1890 Bodeo I wonder is safe to shoot with smokeless
Do you guys plan on going over Russian rifles and pistols? or have you already done so
please invent a timemachine so i can go back and get some weapons
We italians know our shit! We dont need any fancy modern things in 1914! If we could we brig our great grampa blunderbuss in war!
You weren't alive back then, amico.
Arturo Cevallos Soto yeah... but my great grampa was! My grampa was a parmigian in ww2
Actually the average Italian soldier's equipment in WWI was very modern. "simple to manufacture" shouldn't be mistaken for "old". It's actually easier to design a weapon complicate in its manufacturing and functioning than a simple one.
Indie why was is that the Austrian army was effective in the Italian front while their was ethnically devided
Nikos Takos The minorities grow up in the Empire so they fought for it !
They also had a better general
vicks008kid not true, as Indy stated in various episodes, the Italian army was equipped and armed as well as all other allies armies.
vicks008kid You don't need a lot of time to recover from a war that lasted one month and never fought on your land
Berreta wins again!
Tutti Frutti gun
mama mia it’s a pizza pie
No Kolibri? Inadequate video.
I really like these collab video's with C&Rsenal, I've watched every single one. However, the guy seems to either mispronounce or mix up numbers, production years or caliber sizes in almost every single video.. I can't be the only one to have noticed. Great content still!
Check his channel for the detailed stuff. Much more informative, and not simplified as much.
Mine, too. ;-)
William Cox It's good to see you here!
Soon for astro hungarians
Kolibri?
Still no Serbian weapons? :(
Denny FPS is kosavo serbian
Black Acid Gaming its albanian
Make a video about Italian war heroes, or would that be impossible.
Azamat Bagatov Giovanni Messe, Francesco Baracca, Nazario Sauro, Luigi Rizzo and much more... He has a ton of material.
Enrico Toti
Luigi Rizzo
Francesco Baracca
Andrea Bafile
Ettore Laiolo
Giulio Zanon
Gian Luigi Zucchi
Agamennone Vecchi
Giorgio Tognoni
Carlo Del Greco
Ernesto Giovannini
Giovanni Vannini
Silvio Scaroni
Raimondo Scintu
Agostino Setti
I could go on for hours. We don't need barrage troops with rifles pointed at us to fight, unlike your kind.
Do a video about the "devil dogs" aka the US Marines in France
Le Arbiter
I'm sure they'll get their due sometime around the anniversary of Belleau Wood.
teuffel hunden.
Marchello!!!!! THATS NOT HOW YOU HOLD A PISTOL
This channel talks alot about how many prisoners keep getting taken, i was just wondering if somebody can clue me in on how one nation faires with how many prisoners they had by the end of the war, and the care given to said prisoners?
I just read an anecdote that by 1917-1918 in Russia the care was non-existant because the government was collapsing. When the Bolsheviks took over the camps they just told the prisoners that the country they were prisoners off no longer existed and they HAD to go. The prisoners were left to their own devices to reach home.
That is just an anecdote of ONE austro-hungarian prisoner. Not sure about how representative it is.
Its carcano not carcarno
Mexican guns?
8:15 Nobody expected the First World War? Advent or nature? I have encountered accounts to the contrary.
Not expected as in the sense: "Wake up! War just started!".
Quizás, quizás, quizás.
they got neither the war they expected or wanted.
Thank you Sir, I'm honestly glad I'm not the only one that thinks that.
wonderful fingernails.
he sounds like Kermit the frog
except with guns! way cooler!
The best thing about finding an Italian pistol? Never been fired and it's only been dropped once!
Justin Pakarno stfu
I too would be envious of Italy, if I had to live in a third world shitcountry like yours.
You are confusing with France
early