Damn, that hammer on a 22 is impressive, even if you get a misfire the hammer will knock the bullet out of the case and barrel at a lethal velocity. handy!
Viable idea, if you look back at the Henry 1860 and the improved Winchester 1866, they had dual firing pins for the .44 Henry rimfire cartridge, one on the left, one on the right. I'm honestly surprised that I'm not seeing this feature with modern .22 caliber rimfire guns.
I always wondered if a bar that was wide enough to hit both sides of the primer would work. Would double the chances of a poorly primed case going off if it would.
I loved Mr. Roger's! My favorites as a kid were the little model neighborhood, the trolley and when he would take trips to factories and show us how things were made.
RIP Rev. Fred Rogers Not to be superstitious, but George Bush was elected about one year after his death. Interesting how after the end of his influence on American culture, America started spiraling further and further down the toilet, per se.
This man is a living legend! I cannot believe that his YT channel doesn’t have more subscribers! I 100% subscribed in a heartbeat. What’s not to love about Mr Rogers meets John Browning!!!
5:37 Estate brand field loads. I worked at a trap field for years and Estate was always very recognizable. Mostly just like burning cardboard, but I love that smell.
Hi Mark Mr Rogers was friends with my childhood doctor. As we came out of my appointment Fred was waiting to see my doctor. I looked up and saw him and said “Dad it’s Mr. Rogers from on the tv”! He talked to us for a few mins. My next doctor visit there was a photo of Mr Rogers holding me with my Dr., and my dad in the hallway of the Dr. Office. That was around 1975-ish…I was 6 years old. Fun memories. (Edit) I think 5.56 ammo has a very different smell than say 30-30 however my 17 HMR ammo smells the best. BeWell and StaySafe 🖖
Thanks Mark! I love seeing these builds. While many may not be able to complete this on one day. Anyone could make something very similar. Inspiring stuff !
Mark, glad to see that you're still around, the YT algorithm hasn't suggested your channel in some time. When I first saw that gun I thought it might be a semi-auto but then I couldn't see how it would feed. When you said that it was a one day build began to understand that a semi-auto probably wouldn't be possible in less it was heavy based on an existing design. Thanks for sharing.
That is the neatest thing I’ve seen in a long time. The Mr Roger’s analogy is fitting although you appear more like capt. kangaroo. . I look forward to more. Thanks.
I NOTICED YOUR HAAS SHIRT. I grew up in Highland Park, Illinois, where Haas had their shop near Stash's Hot Dogs, and I loved going there just to hear the racing engines being tested and tuned. Music to my ears, Mark; Chopin could not compose a more moving piece. All I ever wanted to do was race cars as a pro-am hobby. I was a member of the Racing Car Book Club, I watched racing on TV all the time, I used to tune my mother's 240-Z, then later on I modified my 280-Z to go faster and handle better. God, I had that racing bug! Finally in 1979 I went to racing school in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, and stayed in the original Château Beauvallon, run by Judy and Alex Riddell, which was only a couple miles from Le Circuit, the racing course. One morning before seating for breakfast I looked at their collection of greeting cards from customers. There was one from Haas in Highland Park. Really went full-circle for me at that moment.
5:50 - My Kel-Tec SU-22 has the same hammer and spring as the 5.56 SU-16. The rectangular firing pin embosses the holy hell out of the 22 rim... way more than is shown for the Q2. I love this channel.
Mark could you design and 22 pistol with a side fed mag that ejects in to the empty "traditional" magwell? Single shot.. that would be a cool pistol. Then later you can slide a trap door open and dispose of your captured rounds.
Thats got potential. A hinged breech that swung up for loading, spring loaded, and released with a button would make it faster. Nice design as is though.
I've always wondered how one could make a hammer striking a primer "silent" so you could have an actual quiet .22. Super oversized, insulated receiver/barrel shroud, oversized barrel, leather pad on the rear of the firing pin and a crazy big can? I know, a chamber with an induction heater, just cook it off. No impact noise. I need to go bed.
My favorite powder, for smell and performance, is still Varget. Love the stuff. Can't decide between a RMR cut and old school Luger sights but it definitely needs one or the other, and I definitely need one of each please!
Be the change you want to see in the world Mark. I for one would love to watch 'Mr. Serbu's Neighborhood.' You may need to up your sweater game though!
.22lr has the best smell. It takes me back to the good parts of childhood the smell of rimfire and hoppe's No.9. The old school toxic kind. Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.
you mentioned falling block, now I've got visions of a spring loaded block that locks open with the ejector, then closes when you load a shell like a tank breach
Hey Mark, nice work! Thread the bbl 1/2 x 28 and cut it so I can put Glock sights on it and I'll buy one. Hell, it's not even a gun. It's an upper for an AR pistol lower I already own.
Who has print info for those lowers? Now if one could find a machine for printing in a metal substrate, ooooooh the way to go, but the price of the printer, ouch! Too bad we didn’t have such equipment when I worked for a manufacturer of firearms.
For a sight you could make a pin that goes in from the top, retains the firing pin also. Gives something to guess with instead of a flat top. I enjoy these videos, thank you.
What I like about Mark, he builds things that he finds interesting. Don’t get me wrong he builds things that we all find interesting. But he is not chasing the same things as the rest of the firearms industry.
The best smell comes from federal shot shells. The worst would have to be wolf. It smells like if you burnt gas station Coffee and dropped an old leather belt in it.
Id kill to work with you. Machining is what pays the bills. Gunsmithing on the side is my passion 😂 Your designs never cease to amaze Mark. Your history of making flight Sims to moving to firearms is amazing. Do you continue making flight Sims? Have you considered breaking back into the industry and making machined aluminum flight simulator equipment for the at home enthusiasts into things like Digital Combat Simulator? I've made several sticks and shift knobs myself for my friends driving sim out of aluminum with brass accents/oil impregnated brass thrust washes and such.
16 Gauge loaded with Red Dot, would make a wicked cologne, Eau de Boom Boom, but you'd have all those perverted shooter guys sniffing around too much. Falling Block with extractor, come on Mark, Stir those creative juices !!!!
I thought of doing something quite a bit more crude than this. Using ar15 trigger group, but no firing pin or breach block. It would use the face of the hammer to slap the entire base of the 22lr. A normal chamber wouldn’t work, it would be a little shallow so the entire rim is exposed. Similar to if you just dropped the round in a tubing. This could be made as a stand alone pistol or rifle, or as a crude minimalist upper to use on an ar15 lower. Your thoughts?
5:30 Eley primed .22lr, whenever I shoot Aguila it always sticks out as a distinct good smell. It's not flowers or baking cookies but its a nice smell as far as chemicals go.
Mark, any thoughts on long barreled subsonic firearms? Think 45 acp in a barrel long enough for the bullet to slow down. Say 25-28 inches. Quiet without a suppressor?
I'm thinking the impact of the BFG50 hammer against the breech block imparts enough energy to counteract some of the muzzle rise. It'd be interesting to see slo mo footage of this version firing compared against the same pistol when fitted with an AR hammer to see if the change would make a difference.
i really like the cut you made on the barrel. have the metal parts, upper lower and barrel, hard chromed. i send a double stack 1911 to a place in Florida to get it hard chromed. this was in the 80s but the frame, parts and 3 mags was around $100.
If you ended up showing this to Ian that would be a cool video. The gun looks great. Has a bit of that old-school look. Similar to the PO-8 Luger, Type-14 Nambu, and a Liberator Pistol. In terms of shape, reminds me a lot of my personal favorite the P-38 Walther.
id buy one in 9mm threaded with a breach that maybe rotated out of the way for easier use. but make it work on any ar lower as a sort of survival pistol
I bet with that hammer spring you could make a sliding breech block that goes in from underneath that's held in place by the lower and cocked hammer. Put a little latch at the back that catches it when the bolt opens. Put a spring behind the breech block in a tube so you can protect it from gunk and act as an external guide rod/tube/enclosure. It wouldn't be semi-auto but you could make it a single-shot "repeater" with a manual bolt close. Might have to relieve the hammer for the spring tube, or alternatively just angle the firing pin channel so the hammer doesn't have to hit it square from behind. Of course you could instead make it magazine fed and replace the manual latch with a BHO. You'd have to make it side-feed or top-feed. Actually, come to think of it, if you rigged it to feed from the top, side-eject, and used something like curved Winchester 52 magazines that would look hilariously awesome. Give it tiny offset Bren sights... Actually just do all of that and make a miniature "Bren" gun. Call it the Brbu. Put a cute little carry handle on it and everything. Keep the lower no one will care if the thing isn''t a carbon copy it would just be a toy. You can do this. I believe in you.
Damn, that hammer on a 22 is impressive, even if you get a misfire the hammer will knock the bullet out of the case and barrel at a lethal velocity. handy!
redundance is everything xD
@@Cypher916 you can say that again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, don't we all love to dance?
Its the equivalent of tapping the back of a ketchup bottle with a sledgehammer.
I chocked almost to the death when I read your comment 😂😂😂 you have to do standup!
Wack a ketchup bottle with a sledge hammer? LMAO, then Mark should name this quick 'n dirty bullet squirter the "Gallager Pistol"
I have told myself to build a 22 with a dual strike firing pin(s). I have rotated countless 22 rounds to get them to go off
I like that idea-->Dual Extractors on the 3 & 9 and a split fork firing pin at 12 & 6 Goes off and gets out!
Viable idea, if you look back at the Henry 1860 and the improved Winchester 1866, they had dual firing pins for the .44 Henry rimfire cartridge, one on the left, one on the right.
I'm honestly surprised that I'm not seeing this feature with modern .22 caliber rimfire guns.
I always wondered if a bar that was wide enough to hit both sides of the primer would work. Would double the chances of a poorly primed case going off if it would.
The gevarm .22 uses a chisle blade fixed firing pin on an open bolt. It crushes the rim at the 12 & 6 positions. From the 1950s. France.
Google gevarm E1
They could be converted to 1500rpm with the turn of 1 screw..
I loved Mr. Roger's!
My favorites as a kid were the little model neighborhood, the trolley and when he would take trips to factories and show us how things were made.
i liked lamb chops and the song that never ends
RIP Rev. Fred Rogers
Not to be superstitious, but George Bush was elected about one year after his death. Interesting how after the end of his influence on American culture, America started spiraling further and further down the toilet, per se.
Mr Rogers changing sweater, shoes and EDC ; puts his 1911 with his street shoes, puts on his house shoes and a pump gun.
S&W 642 in ankle holster, with argyle socks and sock braces.
If I recall correctly Mr. Roger was a retire Green Beria.
Mr. Rogers with guns is Hickok45.
My immediate thought as well.
Had the same idea
Mr. Rogers did not adequately prepare me for the people in MY neighborhood…
How to say this?
The browning mansion in Ogden is in one of the worst parts.
24th and Monroe.
He always gave me creepy pedo vibes
@@csantiago6036Me too but I think that about a LOT of people tbf😂
The previous footage was overexposed. Thank you for the upload! Wolf 5.45x39 was a new smell for me.
This man is a living legend!
I cannot believe that his YT channel doesn’t have more subscribers! I 100% subscribed in a heartbeat. What’s not to love about Mr Rogers meets John Browning!!!
I like how the heavy barrel is solidly affixed to the frame, like a CZ 83. Which I have and love DEARLY! Accuracy is awesome.
Won’t have lite primer strikes that’s for sure.
Aguila laughing in 22lr
Aguila 60 grain still the best 22 LR if foung
Mr. Rogers is as wholesome as it gets.
5:37 Estate brand field loads. I worked at a trap field for years and Estate was always very recognizable. Mostly just like burning cardboard, but I love that smell.
I think a range day with you and Edwin, would be like winning the fun gun lottery.
Edwin retired from UA-cam
Best is 16 gauge - paper case from back in the 50's.. OR 303 Brit Cordite - WW1 stock! I have smelled that fragrance for lifetimes.
Honestly, a little falling block single-shot pistol (like, finished up so it doesn't fall *out*) would be one I'd enjoy.
Hi Mark
Mr Rogers was friends with my childhood doctor. As we came out of my appointment Fred was waiting to see my doctor. I looked up and saw him and said “Dad it’s Mr. Rogers from on the tv”! He talked to us for a few mins.
My next doctor visit there was a photo of Mr Rogers holding me with my Dr., and my dad in the hallway of the Dr. Office.
That was around 1975-ish…I was 6 years old.
Fun memories.
(Edit) I think 5.56 ammo has a very different smell than say 30-30 however my 17 HMR ammo smells the best.
BeWell and StaySafe 🖖
I’ve had some pretty gnarly stinky Chinese ammo before. 7.62x39mm especially
@ yah but have you found any ammo that smells good. Winchester XX shotgun ammo or clay pidgins smells good.
@ oh I forgot to say COMMUNIST!!! Lacquered steel cased ammo always smells bad.
Thanks Mark! I love seeing these builds. While many may not be able to complete this on one day. Anyone could make something very similar. Inspiring stuff !
I love your propane cylinder on top of the bullet trap 🤣
Mark, glad to see that you're still around, the YT algorithm hasn't suggested your channel in some time.
When I first saw that gun I thought it might be a semi-auto but then I couldn't see how it would feed. When you said that it was a one day build began to understand that a semi-auto probably wouldn't be possible in less it was heavy based on an existing design.
Thanks for sharing.
That was a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing. Great to see Edwin, too.
i have a feeling that even if the fireing pin broke off, it would still function lol
That is the neatest thing I’ve seen in a long time. The Mr Roger’s analogy is fitting although you appear more like capt. kangaroo. . I look forward to more. Thanks.
I NOTICED YOUR HAAS SHIRT. I grew up in Highland Park, Illinois, where Haas had their shop near Stash's Hot Dogs, and I loved going there just to hear the racing engines being tested and tuned. Music to my ears, Mark; Chopin could not compose a more moving piece.
All I ever wanted to do was race cars as a pro-am hobby. I was a member of the Racing Car Book Club, I watched racing on TV all the time, I used to tune my mother's 240-Z, then later on I modified my 280-Z to go faster and handle better. God, I had that racing bug!
Finally in 1979 I went to racing school in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, and stayed in the original Château Beauvallon, run by Judy and Alex Riddell, which was only a couple miles from Le Circuit, the racing course.
One morning before seating for breakfast I looked at their collection of greeting cards from customers. There was one from Haas in Highland Park. Really went full-circle for me at that moment.
5:50 - My Kel-Tec SU-22 has the same hammer and spring as the 5.56 SU-16. The rectangular firing pin embosses the holy hell out of the 22 rim... way more than is shown for the Q2.
I love this channel.
I remember reading that post on WG. Glad to see it up and running. Gotta love that .50 hammer.
Dude would have been the coolest shop teacher
Favourite gunpowder smell is old surplus cordite .303.
Ahhh yesss. The forbidden spaghetti.
It's too bad Edwin passed, gonna miss him... what a crazy way to go, too.
What!??????
Yeah, what??
Did you have something to do with it amigo? You seem to know too much….
??!!
I don’t even know who Edwin is.
whew i thought i was watxhing the ghost of mark past. thanksfully the real gun god came back
Mark could you design and 22 pistol with a side fed mag that ejects in to the empty "traditional" magwell? Single shot.. that would be a cool pistol. Then later you can slide a trap door open and dispose of your captured rounds.
Black powder smells better than smokless
Black powder isnt nearly as toxic
Thats got potential. A hinged breech that swung up for loading, spring loaded, and released with a button would make it faster. Nice design as is though.
Mark, you are a gift to humanity.
“I watched that as a kid”
My first thought was “wow, you’re younger than I thought!”
Then I realized I’m just getting old, too.
Love to see him poking fun at royal nonesuch
Poor kid. Probably still heartbroken over 50calVal.
I've always wondered how one could make a hammer striking a primer "silent" so you could have an actual quiet .22. Super oversized, insulated receiver/barrel shroud, oversized barrel, leather pad on the rear of the firing pin and a crazy big can? I know, a chamber with an induction heater, just cook it off. No impact noise. I need to go bed.
Electric actuation maybe using the Russian traumatic pistol primers
Lol I love the irons on that pistol 😜 A falling/sliding block pistol with this modern fitting would be so cool.
"Overkill is underrated." Joseph Bishop
My favorite powder, for smell and performance, is still Varget. Love the stuff.
Can't decide between a RMR cut and old school Luger sights but it definitely needs one or the other, and I definitely need one of each please!
You Sir are insane and a delight and one talented MoFo! Keep up the good work and keep the videos coming!
H380 and other ball powders have smoky overnote that I find irresistible 😂
I have a strange fascination with whatever powder TulAmmo uses. Cheap Russian steel case ftw. Well... Used to be cheap. Thanks Biden.
Be the change you want to see in the world Mark.
I for one would love to watch 'Mr. Serbu's Neighborhood.'
You may need to up your sweater game though!
.22lr has the best smell. It takes me back to the good parts of childhood the smell of rimfire and hoppe's No.9. The old school toxic kind.
Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.
One of the best smells on earth. It's like a time capsule to when we were all so innocent.
Clearly you need to collaborate with The Slo Mo Guys.
RIP Edwin 🤣
my understanding is the primer in the .22 rimfire cartridges is "spun into" the rim.
you mentioned falling block, now I've got visions of a spring loaded block that locks open with the ejector, then closes when you load a shell
like a tank breach
BTW RIP Edwin... 😂😝
Mr. Serbu, don't limit your nuttiness to just guns :) We respect you and your work.
Hey Mark, nice work! Thread the bbl 1/2 x 28 and cut it so I can put Glock sights on it and I'll buy one. Hell, it's not even a gun. It's an upper for an AR pistol lower I already own.
Black powder smell is hard to beat.
These uppers would be perfect for 3d printed lowers
Who has print info for those lowers? Now if one could find a machine for printing in a metal substrate, ooooooh the way to go, but the price of the printer, ouch! Too bad we didn’t have such equipment when I worked for a manufacturer of firearms.
A true DESKPOP Mr. Serbu.
For a sight you could make a pin that goes in from the top, retains the firing pin also. Gives something to guess with instead of a flat top. I enjoy these videos, thank you.
Yes, Forged in Fire but with gunsmiths. i like the idea.
.22 unsurpessed turns my crank, it kind of wafts through the air 😂
Mr.Rodgers said " boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls" I loved that man.
What I like about Mark, he builds things that he finds interesting. Don’t get me wrong he builds things that we all find interesting. But he is not chasing the same things as the rest of the firearms industry.
The best smell comes from federal shot shells. The worst would have to be wolf. It smells like if you burnt gas station Coffee and dropped an old leather belt in it.
Ever smell Aguila 22lr?
Looks like there's enough room to put a short rail section on the back of the receiver so you could mount a small red dot for a sight.
Good gun to start a kid learning safety.
Id kill to work with you.
Machining is what pays the bills. Gunsmithing on the side is my passion 😂
Your designs never cease to amaze Mark. Your history of making flight Sims to moving to firearms is amazing. Do you continue making flight Sims? Have you considered breaking back into the industry and making machined aluminum flight simulator equipment for the at home enthusiasts into things like Digital Combat Simulator? I've made several sticks and shift knobs myself for my friends driving sim out of aluminum with brass accents/oil impregnated brass thrust washes and such.
wtf mark was a flight sim nerd?? totally unsubbed
16 Gauge loaded with Red Dot, would make a wicked cologne, Eau de Boom Boom, but you'd have all those perverted shooter guys sniffing around too much. Falling Block with extractor, come on Mark, Stir those creative juices !!!!
There's no such as "overkill", it's a job well done.
Mr Rogers with guns - youre onto something!!
Back in the 90s, I ran a bunch of that sealed Soviet surplus 7.62x39 that came in the big sardine cans through a Yugo SKS. Those had the best smell!
I thought of doing something quite a bit more crude than this.
Using ar15 trigger group, but no firing pin or breach block.
It would use the face of the hammer to slap the entire base of the 22lr.
A normal chamber wouldn’t work, it would be a little shallow so the entire rim is exposed.
Similar to if you just dropped the round in a tubing.
This could be made as a stand alone pistol or rifle, or as a crude minimalist upper to use on an ar15 lower.
Your thoughts?
I am absolutely ready for "Mark Serbu's Neighborhood"
5:30 Eley primed .22lr, whenever I shoot Aguila it always sticks out as a distinct good smell. It's not flowers or baking cookies but its a nice smell as far as chemicals go.
Agreed.. I had some Aguila .22LR Kolibri that probably smelled exactly as you describe.. very pleasant to my “gasoline smells good” brain 😅
Unique Powder loaded in anything. A friend of mine told me it was just flammable dirt, but it smells nice.
I watched MR Rodgers for many years
Being able to shoot for your workbench is the dream
its a miracle that this man has gun distributing rights and we should cherish that
We bow to the Gun God!
You just gave me an idea for something to do with the extra 9mm Glock barrel I have in my box of parts. LOL
Mark, any thoughts on long barreled subsonic firearms? Think 45 acp in a barrel long enough for the bullet to slow down. Say 25-28 inches. Quiet without a suppressor?
Nope....
12 gauge of course. It takes me back to getting in the truck with my pawpaw and dad after a good hunting trip.
Very nostalgic for me.
Cool, quirky little single shot Mark!
I absolutely loved watching Mister Rogers Neighborhood when I was a kid growing up in the 80s. I miss him 😕
I'm thinking the impact of the BFG50 hammer against the breech block imparts enough energy to counteract some of the muzzle rise. It'd be interesting to see slo mo footage of this version firing compared against the same pistol when fitted with an AR hammer to see if the change would make a difference.
IMR 4350 has the best smell
30-30 gunpowder smell brings back childhood memories
Mr. Rodgers was a bad ass !!
He had a cool TV show for us back in the day as well.
i really like the cut you made on the barrel.
have the metal parts, upper lower and barrel, hard chromed. i send a double stack 1911 to a place in Florida to get it hard chromed. this was in the 80s but the frame, parts and 3 mags was around $100.
If you ended up showing this to Ian that would be a cool video. The gun looks great. Has a bit of that old-school look. Similar to the PO-8 Luger, Type-14 Nambu, and a Liberator Pistol. In terms of shape, reminds me a lot of my personal favorite the P-38 Walther.
12 ga powder is my favorite by far.
I dig the look for sure. It doesn't even need to be semi-auto really. Maybe a small lever on the side that opens and closes the chamber would be cool.
Aroma Therapy, sniffing the burnt powder.
Rust blued!!? Heck, gold plate that ting!! 😂😂
Oh, and the ATF preventing home built guns... They're so dumb....
12 gauge powder smell all the way. Reminds me of hunting with my dad
Surplus Israeli 7.62(.308). Has a wonderful smell.
Thanks Mark. Good stuff
id buy one in 9mm threaded with a breach that maybe rotated out of the way for easier use. but make it work on any ar lower as a sort of survival pistol
I’d like to see it with a buffer tube, the ability to accept mp5 mags, and an frt 😅
I appreciate you Mark.
Very cool gun and a really fun & creative way to pass time, when you have some spare :)
Looks sturdier than that Sheridan "Knockabout" pistol they made in the 50s or 60s.
The gun is sweet! It slightly redembles a P1,P38 or a luger
I think my favourite gun powder smell is the german black tip 4,6 we got for the MP-7. Kind of a crossover between .22LR and 5,56.
I bet with that hammer spring you could make a sliding breech block that goes in from underneath that's held in place by the lower and cocked hammer. Put a little latch at the back that catches it when the bolt opens. Put a spring behind the breech block in a tube so you can protect it from gunk and act as an external guide rod/tube/enclosure.
It wouldn't be semi-auto but you could make it a single-shot "repeater" with a manual bolt close. Might have to relieve the hammer for the spring tube, or alternatively just angle the firing pin channel so the hammer doesn't have to hit it square from behind.
Of course you could instead make it magazine fed and replace the manual latch with a BHO. You'd have to make it side-feed or top-feed. Actually, come to think of it, if you rigged it to feed from the top, side-eject, and used something like curved Winchester 52 magazines that would look hilariously awesome. Give it tiny offset Bren sights...
Actually just do all of that and make a miniature "Bren" gun. Call it the Brbu. Put a cute little carry handle on it and everything. Keep the lower no one will care if the thing isn''t a carbon copy it would just be a toy.
You can do this. I believe in you.