Did this experimental Charlton Enfield see battle? With curator, weapon expert Jonathan Ferguson
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Another video looking at unusual firearms and guns. This time Jonathan looks at Experimental Charlton, a weapon knocked up in a mechanics garage!
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“Last ditch technology” is a really interesting term.
On a side note, I’d love to see Jonathan do a video on what he personally finds the most fascinating/interesting weapon in their arsenal
Late Night Gaming, you mind telling me what you're doing on a Royal Armories video?
@@darthferaligatr2968 Jonathan’s been doing collaboration’s with the gaming channel, Gamespot. Jonathan breaks down the different guns featured in video games and teaching us gamers a thing or two. It’s an interesting series which I highly recommend.
@@darthferaligatr2968 sir, finishing this excellent video
It's like choosing a favourite child :)
@@c0ldhandzzz the reply was a Halo reference
The weapon channel crossover everyone wished for...
When you wish upon a Star!
Jonathan is such a classy guy.
No wonder why Ian is so eager on working with him on the next book.
This is how most British people are, classy (well minus the people in the north) lol
@@samholdsworth3957 the people up north are a lot kinder, community minded, and less snobby tho lol so I guess it balances out
Me after seeing the screencap: I wonder what a "Gun invented in a garage" looks like.
*Clicks video*
Jonathan: *holds up gun that looks like it was most definitely invented in a garage*
Between this and Forgotten Weapons I've learned very much about older firearms, thank you!
"Experimental Charlton" should have been the designer's nickname, like Carbine Williams. "Oh dear, here comes old Experimental Charlton again, wonder what mad gadget he's come up with this time."
The Charlton looks terrifying to use. All sorts of moving parts in the open to remove fingers. The Electrolux looks pretty slick and realtively safe for the user.
they both look like guns out of the Fallout games
Charltons and Electrolux could be alternate history games as well as games for Post Apocalypse.
It looks like a Thompson prototype,which to fire rifle rounds.
Well yeah its kinda the point you just need something that works
The most soothing voice on youtube 2021 is talking about weapons
Johnathan, Ian McCollum, and the Lockpicking Lawyer have amazingly relaxing voices.
Have you heard Hickock?
If you like an interesting voice, check out Chef John on Food Wishes
Thumbs up for Royal armories.
Greetingns from Finland.
When you put the gun up the first thing i think was "Omg wtf is that"
Nice video btw
My grandfather was issued with one of these in the NZ home guard. After the war he turned it in to the police....sadly I assume it was probably cut into bits.
@@krullingmyballs damn, that’s pretty cool and sad at the same time. My grandfather was kicking himself for doing it. Luckily they seem to have at least one Charlton at the museum in Waiouru as well ....if only they had a Bob semple too, two kiwi wunderwaffe!
@@krullingmyballs Jesus lol, I bet there's a story behind how he got those.
@@krullingmyballs I must wonder, what will you all do if the Chinese decide to get more aggressive in their property aquiring moves in the Pacific. You know - another Asian co-prosperity sphere??
F
That is sad...my great grandfather brought back his M1 grand and is sniper rifle, both in 30-06....my grandfather brought back his M4 from Korea...but he turned in his M4 after the first assult weapons ban, the M1 was buried with my great grandfather and the sniper...it went missing we have no idea where is it, we're thinking that one of the druggy cousins swiped it for drug money and pawned it off as it went missing right before my great grandfather's death...altimers got him...even after he completely lost his mind he could remember every second for what happened...my dad during college sat down with him and did an interview with him that's floating around somewhere in a documentary, he had a street named after him, dad doesn't know but when I was little and my dad was outside talking with my grandfather, great grandfather told me to set on his lap that he had something to tell me...he said he knew what happening to him, he said that he knew he would not see me grow up into a man...I was just 6 at the time...but I remember literally everything he told me..so,e of which will never leave my lips as he made me promise to never tell (mainly because some of it was still classified) but during the darkest of moments of telling me what happened to him he grabbed hold of my arm as if he was gripping on for his life, hurt but I could see it in his eyes, the tears will never leave my memory he started calling out for his men, begged me to find them,..he took machine gun fire from the japs, in his back as well as shrapnel from one of our own shells and a grenade, he still had most of it in his back, too close to his spine to remove..he cleared out that pillbox, even with all the damage with his fellow fallen man's BAR, the commander of the japs until surrendered to him wouldn't surrender to anyone else...later after great grandfather's death grandfather returned a katana to the family of the person that surrendered. They told him to keep it that great grandfather earned it...I don't know what happened to it...unlike great grandfather, grandfather refused to talk about anything to do with war...still to this day barely says anything and gets both sad and calms up...he wants to talk about it but he's afraid to...probably because the stuff he saw is both too terrifying to him to talk about and because it's probably still classified...I found great grandfather's purple heart grandfather told me to keep it, but I told him that great grandfather earned it it should go with him...dad didn't know that, and he was buried with it. Sadly I never got to say goodbye to him...great grandfather passed away a year later due to complications..he was found in his favorite chair. He was a man of few words...even with his lost mind...if he spoke you listened because there was no telling what he'd say...I think that's what helped hold on as long as he did, he still wouldn't let a Japanese or any asian person in the house with him...dad said it was because he hated them...but from what I gathered...it was both hatred and fear that in his lost mind he might hurt them, he was done with blood shed...he was peaceful in his last days...even with his constant breaks and episodes...I rarely got to speak with him, but when I did I made it count.
I really can not wait to visit the Royal Armouries when all this is over!
AFAIK, they only make the collection available to accredited researchers, because UK hoplophobia... Hope I'm wrong, I could easily spend a month or two there when I make my triumphant return to Blighty sometime in the next few years. (Spent time there on a study abroad program a lifetime ago & have dreamt of returning on another extended visit ever since! Couldn't live there permanently of course, because reason above...)
@@callumwright7459 Having a large and growing but proportionally small community doesn't really contradict his remark. If a community is 1% of the population and then doubles in size (without adding people from outside sources), it's still 2%.
@@callumwright7459 But it is relevant. He said the UK has an anti-gun culture, and your response was saying there's a shooting community. It was your response that was kind of irrelevant, because he never said that there was no shooting community. He just said that culture as a whole isn't very fond of guns.
@@callumwright7459 That's not how I "chose" to read the situation, it's literally the only way to read the plain text. Objectively. There's no subjectivity here.
"there is not, in fact most people, as is very often the case, have somewhat mixed feelings on the subject." - Then how come there's hardly any effort to undo the current laws?
"an attempt to dissuade the larger, more pervasive myth that people in the UK hate, are scared of, are unable to own or are otherwise adverse to firearms" - But then again the proof is in the pudding. A very large number of people in the UK actually thinks guns are banned, and a very large percentage is unable to own them because they simply do not meet the requirements.
"my point was that it is unfair to declare the British as a people, or the UK as a nation to be such, because it is simply not true." - But how is it not? If British society was tolerant of firearms, the laws would be different.
I remember when i was shooting in the 90s all the fuss over milsurp Enfield's and the like and the scare that they could be converted to semi auto, this very much proves they can, but the term "readily" was bandied about with this. I'm not sure about you but in both cases just shown, "readily" seems to mean six months with a lathe and drawings, and the ability of a master gunsmith.
@@Simon_Nonymous My dad ran a deer stalking concern, we had a surprising number of idiots come through boasting that they had illegal weaponry. I've not held an FAC for decades or handled a firearm either, but i still wake up in cold sweats from a reoccurring nightmare that i am responsible for off ticket guns. to be clear, I've never had an illegal gun, but the paranoia still lingers.
You are the best presenter out there for firearms education!
And by that I mean,
Most humorous,
most entertaining,
Best accent!
Not boring or boxed into any genre
Keep it up!
Why thank you Tom!
Loving these videos from the Royal Armouries, so much so that I'm heading back to Leeds when Covid distancing allows
Can't help but wonder how many of the guns in the collection that Jonathan can fieldstrip and then put back together, all while blindfolded
Im from NZ and never knew about this
Much more impressive and a better example of kiwi engenuity than the Semple tank
We love you, Jonathan.
Jonathan you’re the best person on the internet!!!
I LOVE these conversions! So steampunk/neo futuristic!!!!
I love Jonathan’s videos but every time I watch them I can’t help but think he looks like he was probably in killer synth pop band before he got this Royal Armories gig.
“STEN opened for Depeche Mode many times in the early 90s...”
Known for their experimental minimalist song construction and machine-gun drum sound.
Jhonatan !!
Please make a video with Ian about some very rare guns that he could not find anywhere else !
You do such an amazing work and as i found you by making commentary about games guns on gamespot
you would make awesome content with forgotten weapons an i would love to see you with Ian sign some shirts and books to sell helping both forgotten weapons and of course Royal Armory Museum !!!
those books and shirts would be like a relic to everybody interested in firearms history !!
Hey Johnathan, really enjoying these vids. Would love to see a collab with the Bloke and the Chap at some point!
I would definitely be up for that.
@Stupid Bitch yeah but there's webcams and this covid crap won't last forever 😒
@Stupid Bitch bloke recently traveled to finland and recorded videos together with the "gun jesus", it would not be impossible to Jonathan to go to Switzerland after covid
@Stupid Bitch Uh, I suspect Bloke is still an English citizen & even if not, CH & UK probably have visa-free visits like US & UK. It's only a 3 hour flight away fer chrissakes...
@Stupid Bitch lol for sure
I would love to see a walk around Fort Nelson and some of the more unusual firearms on display there
Holy snotnose 5K of these - did not even know about this until Ian touched upon it. A real bit of Kiwi ingenuity and Kiwiana!
God damn that Australian semi-automatic rifle is beautiful
Needs a suppressor, red dot, drum mag, and ugly gold camouflage
@@prouddegenerates9056 heretic
When the need was at it's height and the options were nonexistent Charlton came through with the goods -- brilliant innovator.
The Electrolux version looks downright polished.
I would of loved to see this during the Metro series analysis
The man with the best job description in the world!!!
I'm from NZ and had never heard of this firearm until now, great video!
Can we see some Light Artillery and a history notes on thous ?
It's honestly a very attractive firearm.
"Only two of this ever made....and we have one", man i love the pride in that sentence.
Starting to study at the University of Leeds in September. Might pop in a fair bit
For those unfamiliar with the brand, Electrolux manufacturers vacuums. They're pretty standard in the UK, altho' their popularity has somewhat faded stateside.
Electrolux are into a lot of things you wouldn’t expect. That includes firearms (and seat belts).
Looks like a gun befitting a steampunk setting.
The GOAT
I have a feeling Ian from forgotten weapons and mr. Ferguson would get along very nicely.
He made together with Mr. Ferguson a video about DIY firearms.
Now I kid of want to see what Jonathan's top 10 Forgotten Weapon's videos. Like the videos essays that Ian has done that deserves the most attention.
Yay! My favourite puckle gun is back along with an assortment of other interesting weapons and perhaps a model maxim in the far left corner?
These videos keep getting better, brilliant stuff.
Royal armouries is a amazing place to visit
It would be cool to see a “how I got here” video, what is the career path that leads to “keeper of firearms and artillery”?
probably studying gun engineering and some history on top, and being very very good at it, and instead of actually manufacturing guns, write some books on them and apply to work in one of the biggest gun museums
I really hope it involves a ritual duel to the death with the old keeper.
Ready for a star wars movie, especially electrolux version
I was hoping you would showcase the Charleton!
I had no idea the other existed!
Love the content, incredible to see inside this museum.
I saw a Charlton in the Auckland museum in 2009. Interesting gun.
imo the perfect rifle bc it does not just fully and semi auto but also sniper stuff without the problem of wear and tear reducing accuracy like a semi auto (pedersen'd m1903 also good for this reason)
I remember having seen an example of the Charlton in the National Army Museum out in Waiouru. Definitely piqued my interest
Thank you for making and sharing all these kind of videos, this is so interesting! I think you're doing a great job!
Being a kiwi this is cool. I have seen the forgotten weapons video prior. I am also interested in how he got that scar on his face.
I love that, despite all the UK government's hatred of weapons, the Royal Armouries are still able to maintain a collection of this magnitude. Keep up the good work, chaps!
Oh get rekt. We have sensible firearms laws. Means we don't have mass shootings every day and hundreds of thousands dead by gunfire every year.
Just the thing to accompany the Semple tank...
We probably had many more ditches than just that.
Some commenters suggest it should be renamed the Kiwishnikov
Love these videos!
I want one.. Perfect steampunk gun.
I've held one of these. We had one in the gunshop I worked at in Christchurch New Zealand. It got cut up when our government banned "military style" firearms, history be damned.
I had no idea we made guns (Kiwi here). My initial gut reaction was that it was some precursor to the Bren. Really weird.
Edit: I should've said conversion. Technically we didn't make the surplus rifles but converted them to serve as LMGs.
Found this very interesting 😮
Like the the cultural difference in style between Jonathan F & Gun Jesus Ian! - watch & like both! even better when they get together. "Hands across the pond".
I liked this video genuinely enjoyed
If Dr Frankenstein made a rifle, it would look like this, I dunno if that's good or bad though.
It's good if it fires and hits anything.
The bad is well.... Look at it. Try maintaining and reloading it.
Looks like a cross between a Lee smle and a Thompson smg
WW1 & WW2 weapons are still, and always will be sexy.
The Charltons in New Zealand were all built on Lee Metford’s…
I wonder is their an example in the collection of the FN self loading rifle that was under development just before WWII. I have read of its existence but it was only a very brief sentence in an article about the FN49. I have never seen a picture.
Ohhhhh such beautiful guns
I want one U want one........
Big Howell vibes
Hey Mr Fergusson. Nice video! Would love to see a collab of you and Forgotten Weapons
We've done a few :)
I put a weapons similar to these in my fictional wild west novel... when the wild west went into the time of the 1911 and motorcycles
Even if ot can throw lead anymore it still makes a good club
Just like the L96, three blokes in a shed
every day jonathan looks more like an english max payne
Talking of last ditch weapons, I have known about the Sterling LMG for years but I have no idea how it works (I guess it's not blowback . . .) so, if you're taking requests, please could you do a spot on the Sterling LMG? I would be grateful!
It’s a Thomson sub machine gun.
Have the Royal Armouries got a Bob Semple tank on which to mount the Charlton Enfield, seems a missed opportunity somehow?
could you do a video on the luty smg's?, i know ian have made one, but i am sure that there is interest in jonathan's opinion
Imagine all the granddads sitting in a pill box on a beach in n.z with their Charltons a thermos of tea and and their pipes just in case a Japanese sub popped up ,much easier to operate than a bolt action and has a panic switch
What the hell did they do to a Lee Enfield was my first reaction
Can we talk about that wicked shirt he is wearing?
One of many amazing finds by my wife. It's 'Torben' by 'Banned'.
@@jonathanferguson1211 Oh nice! Yeah I'm gonna have to get one then haha I don't know how cool I will look without the Charlton though lol
if you think this is last ditch engineering you should see our tank!
I'm honestly just eyeballing that Calico M960A on the table.
Really cool
It makes sense that Charlton was the most successful. It's relatively simple and svelt while many of the other conversions were rube goldberg horror shows.
Yes boys, don't say we never gave anything to the world! Good old Kiwi ingenuity!
Ian from FW (also called "Gun Jesus" for his haircut and good nature) goes in depth into mechanical stuff. That's already covered.
What I would like to hear more of, from a custodian (hail Emperor!:), are the stories and anecdotes about the weapons.
Isn't that the point of a museum? To store, preserve and teach history?
Well, bring that history to life! Make it interesting. Give us some juicy historical trivia.
This gun is on cod ww2 3-4 shot kill
Jonathan was very quiet here, almost mumbling
Try operating this while in intense combat situation. No really, imagine it.
POV: You're on the frontline and you are issued a Charlton rifle.
it looks like a mix of a VERY VERY early ak47 and a Tommy gun
Do you have the Huot too?
I think there is a Charlton in Auckland Museum
Does anyone have a link to video of ANY bolt action to semi auto conversion guns firing? Ive done some rudimentary searching but cant find a thing.
It looks like a mutant Thompson
seem a good junker ... 😉 an awesome example of junk recicle ... good luck 👍
THE KIWI FIREARM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I assume at 4.17 you meant to say Charlton.
Thompson that's what it looks like to me
Is it possible to ask questions here directly addressed to Jonathan?