"Hello i am a rich Nigerian prince and you have inherited my entire fortune, however i will require a shipment of 2000 units of wz. 96 Beryl Assault Rifles as collateral"
@@kajetandziebaj6405 I have travelled far and low. God bless the EU for road money haha. It had a very cute rural vibe where I am now, tho big cities feel kinda depressive
1. Many of them keep the Tantal-style selector lever, 2. The rifle Ian is showing us is already adapted for the optics rail. The little vertical peg on the stock mount and two cuts in the rear sight block are there to allow attachment of this rail. Early we had a weaver that was lower, but didn't allow for use of irons from below the mounted optic. New rail is a picatinny, and it gives an ever larger HOB. It's overall an adequate rifle for an evolution of an AK, if only THE FUCKING HANDGUARD RETAINING LEVER STAYS SHUT UNDER RECOIL
@@tacticalmattfoley Aluminum is called "Glin" (which is a derivation from the polish word for Clay, and i assume the guy who coined it this way had their siimilar plastic properties in mind)
@@stapi_0627 Dlatego namawiajcie przyjacieli i rodzinę aby załatwili sobie chociaż czarnoprochowca którym można wroga znienacka zabić i zabrać mu jego lepszą broń.
After serving for almost two years in Poland, now Ian does the Tantal and Beryl. But, I love it! While there I got to handle the Beryl and MSBS Grot. So, now, like everyone else, I’m waiting for the Grot video! There are a few units in the Polish Land Forces using AKMs, but those are rear echelon units. I’ve got some good pictures from local military museums in their armories with Polish firearms from WW2 to present. I can’t wait to get a chance to go back to Poland.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 I worked with both the Land Forces and the Territorial Defense Forces. Both are very professional and completely competent soldiers. Definitely can tell there is a little animosity from the Land Forces towards the TDF, but that’s understandable with everyone always trying to get their budget approved.
@@bragz81 Thanks for answering. The Polish military gets a lot of bad press in the country so it is hard to get an accurate assessment of the current situation within the army. Thanks again.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 no problem. Don’t get me wrong every army has its problems. The issues I could see from the outside were there seemed to be a lot of nepotism and we had questions what money was being spent on. But, soldiers were very competent and could perform their jobs.
When I saw the Tantal video last week, I got really excited about the possibility that there might be a Beryl video following... And now you uploaded one on my Birthday!! What coincidence, after following this channel for 4 years! Thank You! That's the most thrilling video for me since you got your hands on a full auto FAMAS! Keep up the good work, I look forward to see some day every gun covered I can only dream of
So cool to see a video on this! When I was in Poland in 06-07 this is the rifle they were issued. I saw them in both full size and carbine lengths, as well as with an under-barrel 40mm launcher.
@@lefunnyN1 i saw video where Radom Factory ppl change from Grot to bullpup. I'm just curious whats the difference between grot bullpup and DeserTech MDR. They look almost identical (on the outside) at least for noob like me.
Yep, as everyone say here. Bullpup is only one of proposed prototypes. If it was adopted at all it was some hush-hush deal for small batch. Never saw any info about it besides promo shots and videos.
these guys are completely missing your point. lol. your trying to use English spelling 'paradigms' to give a close approximation of the pronunciation of the word in the original polish. "y" in polish is similar to the pronunciation of "ы" in Russian which is represented in the ipa by [ɨ]. Beryl is realised in IPA as ['bɛ.rɨl]. The way Ian is pronouncing it is [bə.'ɹi:l] or ['bɛɹ.əl].
If this is the current service rifle for Poland than I can attest they're actually pretty nice to shoot. Was on rotation in Ppland and we did a foreign weapons familiarization where they shot our M4 and M9 and we shot their rifle and pistol.
Polish firearms are very interesting, liking this series a lot, thanks for enlightening me, as always. Blessed are the followers of GJ indeed, for they shall learn something new every day...
Very interesting story. Would be cool one day to see fully kitted, newest pattern Beryl with some sweet optics and barrel attachments. And ofc configurable stock.
0:14 'Beryl' is stressed on the first syllable. 2:34 Are we going to completely ignore Galil, Zastava M21 as well as AK-101 & -102? These are all military designs, after all. 6:53 This is in fact a standard AKM (or more precisely, AKMP) design, it's called _6Ch3_ (6Ч3) and is still produced in a slightly modified form for AK-74M variants. 9:17 I bet it's fine with a winter coat and armour vest on.
Makes sense as the Poles couldn't know for sure what NATO would expect of them, and not everyone had given up on rifle grenades yet because they can do things that the 40mm bloop-tubes can't. Poland knows its only real enemy is Russia, which means thousands of BMPs and other softer vehicles that are hurt a lot worse by a large anti-tank riflegrenade than a 40mm blooper.
I have one of those stocks. Aside from a cheek weld with optics just not being a thing, it's the most comfortable AK stock I've ever used. Ignoring the cheek weld, it beats out the wooden fixed stock.
@@paranoiia8 Yeah, common problem of gun experts on the UA-cams and such is that they tend to view most everything through a lens of civilian casual or competition shooting, so they don't always appreciate what the soldiers are actually doing and using with these weapons. Ian tries to address that at times, but he still mostly defaults to his casual shooting perspective when judging a military firearm.
@@genericpersonx333 Except Ian and Karl do use body armor with some of their gun runs so whatever is coloring Ian's perspective on the rifle stock probably has some credit.
The optics rail is not a part of any modernisation, it can (and always could) be attached to any pattern of the rifle including the one presented in the video. Over the years there has been a couple of optics rails patterns, the most modern ones are slightly taller standard M1913 rails that allow co witness with the iron sights, the previous ones were Weaver, both of them are in use but, regardless of that the rail has always been a part that is shipped with the rifle to the military. The muzzle device has never been changed.
How is that rail attached to the rifle? Generally with AKs the rear sight is so far forward because the dust cover isn't stable/solid enough for a sight; the Finnish and Israeli ones made the cover a lot more precision-fit and solidly built so they could move the sights back, am curious how the Beryl solved the problem.
@@vonschlesien here is a link to a video where they show the way the rail is mounted. Despite what he says the rifle in a video it is not an actual beryl but it is made to look like one, bud regardless of that the rail is attached in the same way. ua-cam.com/video/YFZcwsyrPWI/v-deo.html
@@ocwpzw ale może 9-hole reviews czy inny kanał. Chociaż wydaje mi się, że jeszcze poczekamy, bo w europie można kupić MSBSa, ale przez te prawa importowe do USA to jeszcze się zejdzie.
Been using Beryl C during my military service. Good, reliable and resistant. And easy to maintain. Still has some ex soviet drawbacks (like aiming way below the target to shoot in the target)
What do you mean? You don't have to aim below target to hit it with AK sights. If so you either have your sight set to wrong range (300 or S when shooting at 100 m target?) or making some kind of aiming error. I shot a few different AKs and beryls, but I only had similar issue with one Zastava M72 - I had to adjust front sight accordingly.
There was part of Beryl chambered in 7,62 M43 called M762 and produced in Poland as well. I think that they are still produced in small amounts, but i'm not sure.
On the other hand I can't really imagine being out at night, getting into a firefight and then suddenly noticing "Oh it's dark out there". You would most likely have noticed before and folded up your nightsight before you ever needed it.
@@sir0herrbatka not by the sunset, but the enemie tends to suprise to most unpleasent times or do you suggest to set up that (night)sight every evening, and every morning, and never to forget to do so, to be ready for a suprise night atack?
Father of my buddy from the uni was serving in Afganistan (he is now a retired captain), so I ended up with bunch of stories told from there. As far as he (the captain) was concerned, his and his troops biggest and major complain with the rifle was how ungodly hot it was getting in the local climate, to the point it was hard to just hold it properly without unpleasant feeling in your hands and cheek. Not from firing, but just from the ambient heat of the air and sun exposure. The Army never managed to address it properly until the full withdraw of Polish contingent. Which is funny, because he had a lot of harsh words to say about just about any part of the equipment and various vehicles, but his only complain about Beryl was just being too hot to handle comfortably. Also, some tid-bits of trivia I've managed to find while searching through mid-to-late 00s Polish articles dedicated to Beryl performance in "foreign missions" - They ALL list as serious issues in combat deployment the variety of things that were later addressed by production changes to the gun (different safety, extended mag release, transparent mags etc). Which is funny in the Polish style of humour, since "normally", the top brass would just ignore the complains and keep issuing the gun without any modifications. - Troopers in Iraq (but not Afganistan) apparently complained a lot about the stock being TOO LONG, rather than too short, because due to the nature of the deployment, the rifle as a whole was too long for urban combat they were often engaged in. - The introduction of Picatinny rail took extra three years, not because the military didn't want to nor there wasn't demand for better optics, but because handful of bureaucratic commissions were pushing papers between each other and there was also an issue of rivality among few politicians pushing said papers... and another conflict between potential manufacturers that would be tasked with needed modifications, slowing the adoption into a crawl and re-starting the paperwork from a scratch at certain point.
Mini Beryl video soon?? I know it would basically be the same but would still be a good video for the future with an SBR with all original military setup!
I have that stock on a weird early WBP 7.62 "beryl". Notice to anyone with that old stock, please please PLEASE, if you put it on an AK that doesn't have that "cutout" at 5:05, please be aware you might need to do some light grinding/sanding to give that spring some "breathing room" because otherwise, it'll be pinched up against the receiver whenever you fold it, and they don't make that spring anymore. You don't even need to do that big a cut out, just 2 slight channels to allow the spring to not be pinched.
There was a detachment from the Polish Army at a southern FOB in Iraq. And being a gun guy, I asked one of them about his rifle. Through basic english and a lot of sign langauge he explained that Beryl was better than AK. AK *spits, mimes shooting, holds up hands like holding basketball* AK. Beryl *grins, mines shooting, holds of single tightly closed fist* BERYL!!
Ian probably won't read this, as there's 816 comments so far, but Nigeria doesn't have to adopt Beryl to 7.62x39mm, as Radom/Fabryka Broni makes Beryl chambered in this calibre for years - it's called Beryl M762. So it is more likely that Nigeria has just purchased this design.
I like videos like this. I always find it interesting when you look at non-US/non-ruskie arms. Here you got an AK meeting 5.56 nato cartridge which I find to be a bit of quite the crossover.
It is a pity that you did not present the last version of the Beryl rifle, because this one is from the first years of production and looks like the zastava m21. Now the Polish army is starting to use the new Grot modular rifle.
There is a export variant of the Beryl, the M762 and is used by Nigeria. Recently released for sale in Poland. Also there are versions in 5.45x39, .223 and 5.6x15r (aka .22 lr)
@@perfectlynormalhuman5473 Surely that last one would just be an adapter? Also, you can fire .223 in a 5.56x45 chamber (although there's some debate as to whether that's safe the other way around).
@@jic1 yea kinda. Same reciever and stuff, but the front parts (barrel, furniture, gas system etc) are shortened. Also only fires semi. We once could get military versions of beryls, but our government and gun lobby has severely degaraded since then.
Great video, though the 2004 pattern is called Beryl B, along with modernizations from 2009 and 2014 being Beryl C and D respectively, though notably the D pattern (foldable collapsing stock and AR-15 magazines) was never adopted be the military because the AR magazines have proven to be less reliable than desired. What is also notable is that the Polish Military declared the Beryl unupgradeable after the 2009 modification.
You didn't touch much on the Beryl barrel, but it looks very thin/light for select fire. Seems like you could really heat up and shoot out a pencil barrel like that.
Pity that poles haven't used Beryll helmets. Or that soviets haven't used this rifle. I really want to see if it would have caused some people in logistics to have grey hair:D
@@bartuomyej if you have watched the video, this rifle was developed even before Poland left Warsaw Pact, it was just mothballed for a few years before being recalibered for NATO round. The context is Beryll vs Beryll anyway.
@@MrSinny you don't get it, it's perfectly reasonable. We have new semiautomatic M1 in 7.62mm produced by Winchester and new semiautomatic M1 in 7.62mm produced by Winchester, how could anybody mix them up?
@@silalublin9064 Well, enlighten me then. The only info I could find is that they’re used by WOT + Kompania Reprezentacyjna but I’m not counting the latter because it’s not a line unit.
@@sir0herrbatka It obviously doesn't DQ the rifle but can you name any other military rifle with a sight that pathetic and fragile looking? I mean, there were plenty good flipping and sliding night sights from decades previous.
I tried to trade my issue M-16A2 for a Beryl, got no takers. The example here doesn't look as good as those I saw Polish soldiers carrying in Iraq. Seriously high quality! Also, Polish 5.56 mags are straighter than 7.62/5.45 mags, similar to East German AK-74 mags and Yugo M84 mags--easier to pull out of pouches.
This model has the parts to accept the dog leg picatinny rail. At the rear trunnion there is an round knob what looks like a button to fold the stock. As Gun Jesus pointed out that isn't the release that is the mounting place for the rail. The rail slots forward then squeeze down on to that peg locking into a cutout with a swing clasp. If you look at the front trunnion you will see a grove on each side that shallows out going forward just below the rear part of the rear sight. So the rail slots into those grooves with pushes forward to become tight and then pushed down on the peg for the final lock. Given all the choices its rather good for the AK pattern. The only downside being you need to remove it and possibly adjust zero should you want to remove the dustcover. With the cheek weld being a chin weld the Poles said screw it and made the rail sit higher so you can still use the iron sights with the rail in place. The WBP fox in 7.62 has these rail accepting trunnions.
Ian, what is your statement at 2:33 based on? Would Arsenal's AR series not qualify, nor Kalashnikov Concern's AK-101? I get they're export models, but they were definitely intended for military adoption.
And don't forget abount Galil, Zastava M21 and the good old Stg 940. I'm wondering why there's no comments from Serbian, Bulgarian, Israeli and Latin American viewers wondering what's wrong with their rifles all of a sudden.
Looking at some of the equipement of the Polish military, its rather interesting seeing all the polish designed firearms they use (or used). Its like poland to soviet russia was like "Ok if we're going to be part of the party we're going to do our own thing" (either that or Russia was like "Yeah poland, your in our house now but you get nothing! You lose!")
2:58 Its cute how Ian accidentally said "Beryl" like a Pole would say it and then corrected himself
Yeah, made me chuckle.
Ikr?
Yeah, it's great
Interestingly enough, he corrects himself to a Russian pronounciation.
first pronounciation was closer to the correct one, if he only rolled his "r"
That giggle every time Ian says "Beryl barrel" is so adorable
THEM GIGGLES.... cant wait for the Ura rifle... Uranum Barrel :D
So Gay
Ian is so adorable*
@@Axonteer there is a WW2 Polish rifle called Ur :)
@@OneHunnitNoCapStannitOnBidnisz what are you talking about? even if op were gay it wouldn’t be your concern.
You've been going thru Polish firearms recently and I like it
Now we need WW2 stuff!
I like it too :)
now we waiting for Ur wz 35
Waiting for the wz35 Ur anti tank rifle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wz._35_anti-tank_rifle
We need a PM-98 review.
I've been waiting years for this one...
Why? It's just a big standard AK.
@@Poolboy001 Does standard AK has 3 modes of fire?
@@Poolboy001 it's the best iteration of the AK platform.
In case anybody wondered, Z is "zabezpieczony" (safe) and o is "odbezpieczony" (fire)
I understand why they just use a single letter instead :p
Literally saved/unsaved
@@Jarzyn44 kinda yes
@@Jarzyn44 secured/unsecured
The direct translation for the words is "for safety" and "no safety"
Can't wait for MSBS on Forgotten Weapons or 9-hole reviews
Polish weapons seem really cool though I’ve never even seen one first hand. The Maroszek wz.38M is my favourite rifle of all time.
Fr man, Poland had some of my favorite guns out of the WS pact
@@mayhem9052 it had it's best designs in the 20s and 30s. Warsaw pact period is actually considered to be a downfall of our military industry,
There is one in the Warsaw uprising musuem in Warszawa
Victory does not lie in selling stuff to Nigeria: victory lies in getting paid for it....
They must have hooked up with a real prince...
Probably why they let nigeria manufacture instead of importing whole firearms.
Based
"Hello, I am calling you from the Nigerian military and would like to buy $1m in rifles from you!"
_"Yeah, sure you are. "_ **click **
"... hello? "
"Hello i am a rich Nigerian prince and you have inherited my entire fortune, however i will require a shipment of 2000 units of wz. 96 Beryl Assault Rifles as collateral"
@2:59 the first pronunciation was actually closer to how we pronounce it in Poland :).
Love the polish ak content. Has given me some ideas for a personal build. Especially that beryl folding stock. Keep up the good work Ian!
I’ve been in Poland for a vacation this whole month, it’s a nice coincidence to suddenly see content about it haha
What are your general impressions abut our glorious country?
@@kajetandziebaj6405 I have travelled far and low. God bless the EU for road money haha. It had a very cute rural vibe where I am now, tho big cities feel kinda depressive
@@pandastical9205 Yeah the farther from civilization the better, to an extent of course.
Very same man haha
@@kajetandziebaj6405 glorious XDDD chyba dziura europy
1. Many of them keep the Tantal-style selector lever,
2. The rifle Ian is showing us is already adapted for the optics rail. The little vertical peg on the stock mount and two cuts in the rear sight block are there to allow attachment of this rail. Early we had a weaver that was lower, but didn't allow for use of irons from below the mounted optic. New rail is a picatinny, and it gives an ever larger HOB.
It's overall an adequate rifle for an evolution of an AK, if only THE FUCKING HANDGUARD RETAINING LEVER STAYS SHUT UNDER RECOIL
Indeed
There is no "ium" in chemical elements in polish. So beryl, tantal uran, tytan(titanium) etc.
@@tacticalmattfoley Just going by the given examples, I would assume it ends up as Alumin.
Pretty sure he was just giving us the English version for clarification…
@@lucky43113 You enough to comment on it?
@@tacticalmattfoley Alumin;
At a minimum, because English.
We can sure 'nuff minum
@@tacticalmattfoley Aluminum is called "Glin" (which is a derivation from the polish word for Clay, and i assume the guy who coined it this way had their siimilar plastic properties in mind)
Finally Ian got his hands on a Beryl! I was soo eager to see that! Now I'm waiting for an MSBS episode.
bardzo fajne, dziękuje panie Ian McColumowski
Bolzga gurom
Polski nikt nie pokona ... Bo my pratyzanci będziemy z krzaków nakurwiać wrogów patelniami
@@stapi_0627 Co ty pierdolisz LOL
@@ocwpzw Ale to się u nas tylko wtedy dzieje ,kiedy nam wrogów z zagranicy brak.
@@stapi_0627 Dlatego namawiajcie przyjacieli i rodzinę aby załatwili sobie chociaż czarnoprochowca którym można wroga znienacka zabić i zabrać mu jego lepszą broń.
5:35 saw a video a while back where some soldiers had the dust covers off already, before firing the rifle grenades, it all makes sense now!
After the Tantal episode, I dreamed that Ian would also present Beryl in the far future, but I didn't think it would happen so fast :)
As a representative of Polish Armed Forces:
Yes. Good.
Yez dobja a benje jascha lepjier! Sorry, it's been a very long time since I tried to communicate in Polish.
@@gunner678 Tak. Dobrze i będzie jeszcze lepiej. Welcome back brother. Or sister. Bro. Just bro.
After serving for almost two years in Poland, now Ian does the Tantal and Beryl. But, I love it! While there I got to handle the Beryl and MSBS Grot. So, now, like everyone else, I’m waiting for the Grot video! There are a few units in the Polish Land Forces using AKMs, but those are rear echelon units. I’ve got some good pictures from local military museums in their armories with Polish firearms from WW2 to present. I can’t wait to get a chance to go back to Poland.
Interesting. How do you find service in Poland and cooperation with Polish Army? Curious Pole here.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 I worked with both the Land Forces and the Territorial Defense Forces. Both are very professional and completely competent soldiers. Definitely can tell there is a little animosity from the Land Forces towards the TDF, but that’s understandable with everyone always trying to get their budget approved.
@@bragz81 Thanks for answering. The Polish military gets a lot of bad press in the country so it is hard to get an accurate assessment of the current situation within the army. Thanks again.
@@kamilszadkowski8864 no problem. Don’t get me wrong every army has its problems. The issues I could see from the outside were there seemed to be a lot of nepotism and we had questions what money was being spent on. But, soldiers were very competent and could perform their jobs.
GROT didn't turned up to well according to some of the media in Poland
The rifling in the barryl? Absolutely top notch
I've shot it a few times at the range and it was quite nice
When I saw the Tantal video last week, I got really excited about the possibility that there might be a Beryl video following...
And now you uploaded one on my Birthday!! What coincidence, after following this channel for 4 years! Thank You!
That's the most thrilling video for me since you got your hands on a full auto FAMAS!
Keep up the good work, I look forward to see some day every gun covered I can only dream of
Happy birthday 🎉
So cool to see a video on this! When I was in Poland in 06-07 this is the rifle they were issued. I saw them in both full size and carbine lengths, as well as with an under-barrel 40mm launcher.
And it is actually pronounced Barrel, no “ee” sound, and the R is rolled.
Hey, you guys over there should make a video of a highly forgotten weapon: the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl
@LabRat Knatz thank you c:
Thank you for this. When I was building Tantals 10 years ago, the Beryl items were fun to use, hand guards and rails. Pricey but fun to use on builds.
The FB Beryl had a capable of Attaching a GPBO-40 Grenade Launcher that uses a Grip and Side Opening version like M320.
Thank you very much Ian! I can't wait for you to grill the MSBS and all its modularity, as well as the tendency to fire when dropped!
So, next up is MSBS Grot?
Yup, I'm waiting too. Specially on bullpup version.
@@lefunnyN1 i saw video where Radom Factory ppl change from Grot to bullpup. I'm just curious whats the difference between grot bullpup and DeserTech MDR. They look almost identical (on the outside) at least for noob like me.
Yep, as everyone say here. Bullpup is only one of proposed prototypes. If it was adopted at all it was some hush-hush deal for small batch. Never saw any info about it besides promo shots and videos.
Yes! Please!
@@carlll6101 Yeah, it's proposed version, however there's no interest in it So far, So it's not produced, besides maybe few prototypes
I love the automatic subtitles on these videos. They change the spelling of "tantal" and "beryl" every single time.
The unstressed pronunciation like "berrill" is much closer to the Polish pronunciation than "beREEL"
its *BEryl.*
_y_ not _ee._ also in polish stress is always on second to last syllable.
Beryl and Tantal not "berril" but close enough😉 BTW some of examples was in test use in 96' Balkan war with Polish/ ONZ peace mission.
B.E.R.Y.L.
these guys are completely missing your point. lol. your trying to use English spelling 'paradigms' to give a close approximation of the pronunciation of the word in the original polish. "y" in polish is similar to the pronunciation of "ы" in Russian which is represented in the ipa by [ɨ]. Beryl is realised in IPA as ['bɛ.rɨl]. The way Ian is pronouncing it is [bə.'ɹi:l] or ['bɛɹ.əl].
I'm a geologist, its pronounced "beryl"
Thank you very much! I really appreciate the story of Polish weapons.
beautiful AK! Job well done Poland.
Thank you for reviewing Polish arms! It means a lot
Tantal: done
Beryl: done
MSBS: when?
Onysk: when?
Mini-Beryl: when?
WR-40 Langusta: when?
@@nickaschenbecker9882 "Pet" or less used "filtr" in Polish,
Haha, I love like in 3:00 he properly pronounced the name of it, and than immediately corrected to polish-american pronunciation
I’m glad I have one! Very nice AK. Thanks for doing a video on these.
If this is the current service rifle for Poland than I can attest they're actually pretty nice to shoot. Was on rotation in Ppland and we did a foreign weapons familiarization where they shot our M4 and M9 and we shot their rifle and pistol.
I find Ian trying to pronounce Polish names (for both people and firearms) greatly entertaining
Polish firearms are very interesting, liking this series a lot, thanks for enlightening me, as always.
Blessed are the followers of GJ indeed, for they shall learn something new every day...
I have waited a long time for this episode. Thank you.
Very interesting story. Would be cool one day to see fully kitted, newest pattern Beryl with some sweet optics and barrel attachments. And ofc configurable stock.
Weird I go to Poland for 2 weeks and gun Jesus starts cranking out the polish weapon videos...🤔😂
HE IS IN YOUR MIND MY DUDE! ;)
Where did you go my guy
I love your videos. I watch almost all of them ;) cheers from Poland!
0:14 'Beryl' is stressed on the first syllable.
2:34 Are we going to completely ignore Galil, Zastava M21 as well as AK-101 & -102? These are all military designs, after all.
6:53 This is in fact a standard AKM (or more precisely, AKMP) design, it's called _6Ch3_ (6Ч3) and is still produced in a slightly modified form for AK-74M variants.
9:17 I bet it's fine with a winter coat and armour vest on.
He finally got one boys!
Was waiting for this one, sure enough saw it only 5 min after release, nice.
actually it works very well at night
interesting that they kept functionality for both rifle Grenades and an underslung grenade launcher.
Rapid fire grenade launching power.
Yo dawg, I heard you like launching grenades...
They restricted noob tubes to 2 shots unless running Scavenger Pro.
Makes sense as the Poles couldn't know for sure what NATO would expect of them, and not everyone had given up on rifle grenades yet because they can do things that the 40mm bloop-tubes can't. Poland knows its only real enemy is Russia, which means thousands of BMPs and other softer vehicles that are hurt a lot worse by a large anti-tank riflegrenade than a 40mm blooper.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Considering how lousy Poland has had it for the last three centuries, I don't blame them one bit for wanting more kaboom.
TFW Ian keeps complaining about how short the stock is but my short ass is over here like "that sounds perfect"
Short stock is actually good when you have full body gear.
Same here!
I have one of those stocks. Aside from a cheek weld with optics just not being a thing, it's the most comfortable AK stock I've ever used. Ignoring the cheek weld, it beats out the wooden fixed stock.
@@paranoiia8 Yeah, common problem of gun experts on the UA-cams and such is that they tend to view most everything through a lens of civilian casual or competition shooting, so they don't always appreciate what the soldiers are actually doing and using with these weapons. Ian tries to address that at times, but he still mostly defaults to his casual shooting perspective when judging a military firearm.
@@genericpersonx333 Except Ian and Karl do use body armor with some of their gun runs so whatever is coloring Ian's perspective on the rifle stock probably has some credit.
Hell, Ian. How am I supposed to start telecommuting on time, if you upload a video every day at exactly 08:00 (GMT-4)?
The optics rail is not a part of any modernisation, it can (and always could) be attached to any pattern of the rifle including the one presented in the video. Over the years there has been a couple of optics rails patterns, the most modern ones are slightly taller standard M1913 rails that allow co witness with the iron sights, the previous ones were Weaver, both of them are in use but, regardless of that the rail has always been a part that is shipped with the rifle to the military. The muzzle device has never been changed.
How is that rail attached to the rifle? Generally with AKs the rear sight is so far forward because the dust cover isn't stable/solid enough for a sight; the Finnish and Israeli ones made the cover a lot more precision-fit and solidly built so they could move the sights back, am curious how the Beryl solved the problem.
@@vonschlesien here is a link to a video where they show the way the rail is mounted. Despite what he says the rifle in a video it is not an actual beryl but it is made to look like one, bud regardless of that the rail is attached in the same way. ua-cam.com/video/YFZcwsyrPWI/v-deo.html
@@Fiotr ah. Interesting - same connection points as the dust cover, but laid over it. Looks like it adds a step to disassembly, but still quite easy.
Maybe do a vid on MSBS GROT if you could put your hands on a civilian model
Good idea
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@@stapi_0627 powiedziałbym że wręcz zajebisty
@@ocwpzw ale może 9-hole reviews czy inny kanał. Chociaż wydaje mi się, że jeszcze poczekamy, bo w europie można kupić MSBSa, ale przez te prawa importowe do USA to jeszcze się zejdzie.
@@ThePolishedShooter no musimy być cierpliwi
he had a short hands on with it ua-cam.com/video/iDFL5S-s46Y/v-deo.html
Poland 🇵🇱 does not receive enough credit for their small arms.
Whoh the wis episod won of the Best polisch gun.
Neither does a majority of the countries that produce weapons around this planet.
The Best Polish Guns it's msbs grot A2 and wz.35
Thanks
Been using Beryl C during my military service. Good, reliable and resistant. And easy to maintain. Still has some ex soviet drawbacks (like aiming way below the target to shoot in the target)
What do you mean? You don't have to aim below target to hit it with AK sights. If so you either have your sight set to wrong range (300 or S when shooting at 100 m target?) or making some kind of aiming error. I shot a few different AKs and beryls, but I only had similar issue with one Zastava M72 - I had to adjust front sight accordingly.
There was part of Beryl chambered in 7,62 M43 called M762 and produced in Poland as well. I think that they are still produced in small amounts, but i'm not sure.
i can't imagine doing this 6:55 at night in the dark, with probably thick gloves on, or/and its raining AND under fire, without breaking the spring
nah, it is not that easy to break this spring
On the other hand I can't really imagine being out at night, getting into a firefight and then suddenly noticing "Oh it's dark out there". You would most likely have noticed before and folded up your nightsight before you ever needed it.
Well, are you getting surprised by a sunset? :D
Yes, I thought so too.
A flip up sight like almost every else? Nope, a system like those wooden bead toys on wire rails that babies play with.
@@sir0herrbatka not by the sunset, but the enemie tends to suprise to most unpleasent times
or do you suggest to set up that (night)sight every evening, and every morning, and never to forget to do so, to be ready for a suprise night atack?
Father of my buddy from the uni was serving in Afganistan (he is now a retired captain), so I ended up with bunch of stories told from there. As far as he (the captain) was concerned, his and his troops biggest and major complain with the rifle was how ungodly hot it was getting in the local climate, to the point it was hard to just hold it properly without unpleasant feeling in your hands and cheek. Not from firing, but just from the ambient heat of the air and sun exposure. The Army never managed to address it properly until the full withdraw of Polish contingent.
Which is funny, because he had a lot of harsh words to say about just about any part of the equipment and various vehicles, but his only complain about Beryl was just being too hot to handle comfortably.
Also, some tid-bits of trivia I've managed to find while searching through mid-to-late 00s Polish articles dedicated to Beryl performance in "foreign missions"
- They ALL list as serious issues in combat deployment the variety of things that were later addressed by production changes to the gun (different safety, extended mag release, transparent mags etc). Which is funny in the Polish style of humour, since "normally", the top brass would just ignore the complains and keep issuing the gun without any modifications.
- Troopers in Iraq (but not Afganistan) apparently complained a lot about the stock being TOO LONG, rather than too short, because due to the nature of the deployment, the rifle as a whole was too long for urban combat they were often engaged in.
- The introduction of Picatinny rail took extra three years, not because the military didn't want to nor there wasn't demand for better optics, but because handful of bureaucratic commissions were pushing papers between each other and there was also an issue of rivality among few politicians pushing said papers... and another conflict between potential manufacturers that would be tasked with needed modifications, slowing the adoption into a crawl and re-starting the paperwork from a scratch at certain point.
Mini Beryl video soon?? I know it would basically be the same but would still be a good video for the future with an SBR with all original military setup!
I have that stock on a weird early WBP 7.62 "beryl". Notice to anyone with that old stock, please please PLEASE, if you put it on an AK that doesn't have that "cutout" at 5:05, please be aware you might need to do some light grinding/sanding to give that spring some "breathing room" because otherwise, it'll be pinched up against the receiver whenever you fold it, and they don't make that spring anymore. You don't even need to do that big a cut out, just 2 slight channels to allow the spring to not be pinched.
it's such a nice looking ak
There was a detachment from the Polish Army at a southern FOB in Iraq. And being a gun guy, I asked one of them about his rifle. Through basic english and a lot of sign langauge he explained that Beryl was better than AK.
AK *spits, mimes shooting, holds up hands like holding basketball* AK.
Beryl *grins, mines shooting, holds of single tightly closed fist* BERYL!!
Ian probably won't read this, as there's 816 comments so far, but Nigeria doesn't have to adopt Beryl to 7.62x39mm, as Radom/Fabryka Broni makes Beryl chambered in this calibre for years - it's called Beryl M762. So it is more likely that Nigeria has just purchased this design.
I like videos like this.
I always find it interesting when you look at non-US/non-ruskie arms. Here you got an AK meeting 5.56 nato cartridge which I find to be a bit of quite the crossover.
There was also a trial folding/adjustable stock. Had an opportunity to buy one some years back but the price was too steep.
It is a pity that you did not present the last version of the Beryl rifle, because this one is from the first years of production and looks like the zastava m21. Now the Polish army is starting to use the new Grot modular rifle.
In 90 in Polish Army we use AKS and Beryl all together
another great video!! keep 'em coming!
Very nice quality rifle. Those sights are dope
How does he learn so many nuances about every gun he covers?
Gun Jesus knows all.
Thanks to the video game PUBG, millions of people think that the standard caliber for the Beryl is 762
There is a export variant of the Beryl, the M762 and is used by Nigeria. Recently released for sale in Poland.
Also there are versions in 5.45x39, .223 and 5.6x15r (aka .22 lr)
We get the 7.62 ones in the states now as well
@@perfectlynormalhuman5473 Surely that last one would just be an adapter? Also, you can fire .223 in a 5.56x45 chamber (although there's some debate as to whether that's safe the other way around).
@@jic1 yea kinda. Same reciever and stuff, but the front parts (barrel, furniture, gas system etc) are shortened. Also only fires semi.
We once could get military versions of beryls, but our government and gun lobby has severely degaraded since then.
Cant wait to see the range video for this baby!! Hope there will be one!!
any day Ian posts an AK video is a good day
Great video, though the 2004 pattern is called Beryl B, along with modernizations from 2009 and 2014 being Beryl C and D respectively, though notably the D pattern (foldable collapsing stock and AR-15 magazines) was never adopted be the military because the AR magazines have proven to be less reliable than desired. What is also notable is that the Polish Military declared the Beryl unupgradeable after the 2009 modification.
Thought it was odd the later Beryls came with the adjustable stock that could not be folded 🤔 Couldn't they design stock to do both?
Thank you , Ian .
neat video on an interesting 5.56 varient...with an AK background
You didn't touch much on the Beryl barrel, but it looks very thin/light for select fire. Seems like you could really heat up and shoot out a pencil barrel like that.
I never knew about the elemental names. That's pretty dope
Pity that poles haven't used Beryll helmets. Or that soviets haven't used this rifle. I really want to see if it would have caused some people in logistics to have grey hair:D
Logistics people already have to deal with 10 different M1 and M4 whenever the US comes over, it's no big deal for them
@@bartuomyej if you have watched the video, this rifle was developed even before Poland left Warsaw Pact, it was just mothballed for a few years before being recalibered for NATO round.
The context is Beryll vs Beryll anyway.
@@MrSinny you don't get it, it's perfectly reasonable. We have new semiautomatic M1 in 7.62mm produced by Winchester and new semiautomatic M1 in 7.62mm produced by Winchester, how could anybody mix them up?
There you have "A" version of Beryl Ian. Now polish troops uses version "C".
Nope, they are using "Grot" rifle
You're both right, Polish army uses Beryl C and Grot at the same time.
Grot at the moment is only used in Territorial Troops (youngest branch of the armed forces)
@@conradsz nope, you are wrong - easy to check...
@@silalublin9064 Well, enlighten me then. The only info I could find is that they’re used by WOT + Kompania Reprezentacyjna but I’m not counting the latter because it’s not a line unit.
Oh my gosh, I was thinking about this today!
6:55 has got to be the least militarily acceptable front sight I have ever seen.
Ain't that bad. You simply put it on for the nightime and remove when you can see your sights fine.
Agree
@@sir0herrbatka It obviously doesn't DQ the rifle but can you name any other military rifle with a sight that pathetic and fragile looking? I mean, there were plenty good flipping and sliding night sights from decades previous.
I was doing night shooting with those and it helps a lot. On the other hand it easly lost and kind of costs a lot.
@@OchotaJack How difficult is it to remove from the rifle? Was that typically done or left in situ?
Whoho ! Second Polish firearm in recent videos ... and it's one that I have been issued. Nice
@@hendriktonisson2915 yeah thanks, I did not notice the mistype ;)
It would be awesome to see a APS underwater rifle.
I tried to trade my issue M-16A2 for a Beryl, got no takers. The example here doesn't look as good as those I saw Polish soldiers carrying in Iraq. Seriously high quality!
Also, Polish 5.56 mags are straighter than 7.62/5.45 mags, similar to East German AK-74 mags and Yugo M84 mags--easier to pull out of pouches.
This is a *very* early series Beryl. The Beryl rifles our army uses are much better now.
I want one of the modern polish AK’s in 556 so f’n bad
Aesthetic of the rifle is very very nice!
My name's Beryl, this is my brother Beryl and that's my other brother Beryl.
I'm here all week folks.👍
Peter from Poland here, i love when u say "polish"
Tantal, Beryl... Should we expect MSBS Grot soon?
I hope Fabryka Broni invites you to Poland to try out the Grot!
Thank you gun Jesus for making my lunch more interesting today!
It was my service rifle. Greetings from Poland.
This model has the parts to accept the dog leg picatinny rail. At the rear trunnion there is an round knob what looks like a button to fold the stock. As Gun Jesus pointed out that isn't the release that is the mounting place for the rail. The rail slots forward then squeeze down on to that peg locking into a cutout with a swing clasp. If you look at the front trunnion you will see a grove on each side that shallows out going forward just below the rear part of the rear sight. So the rail slots into those grooves with pushes forward to become tight and then pushed down on the peg for the final lock. Given all the choices its rather good for the AK pattern. The only downside being you need to remove it and possibly adjust zero should you want to remove the dustcover. With the cheek weld being a chin weld the Poles said screw it and made the rail sit higher so you can still use the iron sights with the rail in place.
The WBP fox in 7.62 has these rail accepting trunnions.
Ian, what is your statement at 2:33 based on? Would Arsenal's AR series not qualify, nor Kalashnikov Concern's AK-101? I get they're export models, but they were definitely intended for military adoption.
Good point. On the other hand, weren't those primarily commercial models with a _hope_ of military adoption?
And don't forget abount Galil, Zastava M21 and the good old Stg 940. I'm wondering why there's no comments from Serbian, Bulgarian, Israeli and Latin American viewers wondering what's wrong with their rifles all of a sudden.
this is a sharp looking AK
I have a 5.56 AK magazine with a BHO follower for my 5.45 Galil ACE, which has no provision for holding the bolt open for cooling.
Looking at some of the equipement of the Polish military, its rather interesting seeing all the polish designed firearms they use (or used). Its like poland to soviet russia was like "Ok if we're going to be part of the party we're going to do our own thing" (either that or Russia was like "Yeah poland, your in our house now but you get nothing! You lose!")
2:58 you said Beryl correctly right there
The safe/fire selector looks like a sad fish with a hunchback.