Timestamps (fyi I paraphrased some of the longer questions): 1:01 What was the biggest challenge in planning Woodland Brutality that you didn't have planning other events? - Orion Hollinger 3:10 What advantages do fixed power optics have over variable power optics? - Henry S 4:44 How prevalent do you think the SIG Spear and maybe other .277 Fury guns will end up being in civilian circles? - Levi H 6:44 Do you think the US Military's decision to change back to a Battle Rifle will last? If not how to defeat body armor with intermediate cartridge? - Russel S 8:12 Fennels (?) introduction 9:19 Why is it almost impossible to turn off modern smartphones and why do people think otherwise? - Robert S 11:08 Have you ever been approached by the Leviathan Group? - Drodge (?) H 11:42 Do you think channel has become more political? If so, what drove that change? - Nick H 13:48 Have you seen the film Old Henry? - Duke van Meep II 13:56 How do borders/immigrants affect InRange, do you often find stuff left behind by immigrants? - E Raha 15:54 What "unscary" rifle do you recommend for recreation? - Windwalker 57 17:51 Is AK-Platform obsolescent? - Gorn 20:35 Why do suppressors sound bad on camera? - Ashley D 22:44 Manufacture interest in sending stuff to InRangeTV? - John 24:30 If you could take one thing (specific item) of the NFA List what would it be? - Charlie T 25:28 Why does competition still see derision from tactical folks? - Zach B 27:50 Operating on limited capacity, what would be pros of .45 over 9? - Ryan 28:54 Another Wasteland Shuffle? - RGB 29:22 Thoughts on Transhumanism? - Folly (?) Steel 32:14 Clothing optional brutality when? - Patrick T 32:30 Other types of brutality? - Renegade W 34:02 To what extent does your social media engagement help with growth of channel? - Charles E 34:49 What accessories would make great use of powered rails? - Timothy L 35:43 What kind of person do you think has fired most rounds through a firearm in human history? - Faze 36:19 Only legal weapons rimfire, what do you recommend? For dual purpose home defense and pest control rifle? - Chris P 37:18 How often does possible inability to carry firearm impact your travel plans? - Rob S 39:26 Visiting civil war sights? - S Max 78 (?) 40:02 Modern top break revolver - viable or waste of money? - Andrew M 41:09 If you did Cowboy action challenge, how would deal with safety in regards to six shooters? - Stuka 444 41:57 Internal or external hammers on double barrel shotguns? Personal preference and whats better overall? - Günther 42:43 Opinion of prism sights? - Robert W 43:25 Why don't we get more infosec content? - Dennis S 44:29 48th time trying (!): Have you ever had to deal with someone abusing the honor system for marking a question as reasked to bump up its urgency? - Jordan W 44:44 Are junglemags useful in two gun matches? - LKJLKJLKJLKJLKJLKJLKJ 45:38 If you were in a ban state, would you rather have semiauto shotgun limited to five rounds or pumpaction with no mag limit? - Aman (?) B 46:12 Your choice for marksman rifle in 1876? - Brendan E 47:32 How did you like the ticks in West Virginia? - Scott S 47:54 Pineapple on Pizza yes or no? - Alex 48:03 Is the SIG Spear the M14 of 2022, heavy and soon to be replaced? - Elim (?) 48:21 Vignette on arcosante experimental sight (?) - JP
"[T]he sand planet on Star Wars ... uhh, where Luke Skywalker grew up. Anyways..." I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of nerdy voices suddenly cried out in blustered anger and were suddenly ashamed they did it out loud.
The Tatooine sets for Star Wars were largely just very old buildings in Tunisia, so I am not very surprised to hear that a self sufficient community experiment in Arizona would take architectural cues from there.
I visited that area in southern Tunisia, and the hotel I stayed at was one of those old-school 'pit' structures. It's amazing how much cooler it is down in the pit than up top at ground level - and I was there in late April so it was getting up to 115F during the day. It's not like it was air-conditioned down below, but it was reasonably pleasant - whereas up top 'you're-gonna-die'.
Re: AK obsolescence - thank you for moving the conversation beyond the tired AR/AK thing and into more the idea that given its ubiquitousness on battlefields and in conflict areas throughout the world, the AK will last at least 100 years. After all, we’re still seeing StG 44’s in Syria, and it didn’t look as though there was a whole lot of record keeping when Ukraine was dumping truckloads of AKs in the street - my first thought when I saw those images was “oh we’ll be seeing those guns pop up for a long long time.” Re: Fennel - yes please more Fennel content thank you.
So do the bolt actions. We see them having smle and mauser, them having ak the doesnt change the fact that the AK is heading to be obsolete. AK cant swap bolt without having to adjust headspace, Ak manufacturing requires factories having correct metallurgy for the trunions, bolt carrier, and bolt. Ak is front heavy, optics require sidemount which render side folding stock useless. Dust cover optics rail is dumb. Dont forget the height over bore is stupid even for just a red dot. Milled AK receiver is stupidly heavy while an m16a1 having the same performance is 3 times lighter. All rifles in the 21st century have bolt hold open empty, except AK platform. It is obsolescence, those who say otherwise are just trying to defend their purchases.
Im sure you know the history of those stg44s but in case you didn’t, they almost certainly came from the armoury in Libya. Gadaffi (Libyas dictator until the war) had a habit of picking up any surplus arms he could. He also liked to stir shit up, such as providing plastic explosives, rifles and rpgs to the IRA. When he knew he was going to be overthrown he told the world he would create havoc by letting his armoury into the world. He made good on that threat and before he was captured and killed the armoury was emptied and essentially thrown into the streets. Now its all over the place. And libya is very centrally located so they got into the world fast
The long term durability of a well built ak even one that's never seen ANY maintenance is astounding. That plus the sheet number of them guarantees they're never going away.
Further to the question about carrying (37:18), what's the balance between safety and interest there to decide whether it's "worth it," and how do you determine safety? Example, homicides (any means, not just firearms, no distinction between legal and illegal acts) per 100,000 population per year: South Africa 37.96 D.C. 22.81 Mississippi 14.52 Louisiana 13.79 Alabama 11.97 Missouri 10.22 Arizona 5.61 California 4.44 New Hampshire 2.79 Hawaii 2.47 Massachusetts 2.28 Vermont 1.76 New Zealand 1.61 Idaho 1.51 France 1.20 Germany 0.95 Scotland 0.77 Italy 0.57 Norway 0.47 Japan 0.26 Is there a point where a country is so safe you stop minding not being able to carry, or is it all about the principle of the thing?
I'm UK born, approaching sixty years of age. Forty of those years I've lived in Manchester, for a while referred to in the tabloid press as 'Gunchester'. Outside of a museum, gun club, armed Police Officer, Military guard, playing soldiers while at university or re-enactment event, I've seen a firearm once, a WWII era Soviet pistol that a friends family had inherited at some point, no ammunition for it, it was a curiosity, nothing more. This was when I was about twelve or thirteen, so long before I moved to Manchester. I think in America it is a principle thing, 2nd Amendment, a cultural thing if you will. Different countries make different decisions.
I have a dent in my left hand (and nerve damage) from somebody's _very good boy_ they thought didn't need to be on a leash. If someone asks why I need a carry gun: "wildlife."
In terms of powered systems. I think we will see a separation of the operating system. No more gas systems. An AR with a linear motor instead of a buffer and spring. No more gas system. No heat from it. No carbon from the DI system. Complete control of the lock time before it cycles. Run a super hot cartrage like the new military gun with that extra 0.1 sec to allow the pressure to drop before cycling. Sniper mode where the bolt does not cycle till trigger reset. Not a nfa issue as the AR trigger still makes it simi auto.
@@superfamilyallosauridae6505 It changes the component weight requirement, solenoid or linear motor actuation one direction still needs a spring return but can be a featherweight bolt carrier with no buffer weight because there’s no mass dependent cycling or gas pressure resistance by carrier momentum involved. And you could power both ways and do without a spring if you wanted. The felt recoil being driven by cycling mass impacting the rear of buffer tube drops significantly. Similar to a constant recoil mechanism in machineguns.
HAHAHA Kitty... Hey Karl, have you ever wanted to build your own guitar? I run the shop that built all of Jim Fullers guitars, we would love to have you come out to a class some time
I love that you combine infosec and guns. I've been in the cybersecurity industry for close to 15 years (DFIR and Pen Testing at different times) and the firearms community for more than 10. Interest in firearms seems pretty common in this world from what I've seen (Defcon shoot and whatnot) however this is the only channel I'm aware of combining the 2 on youtube.
@10:07 So a thing with most if not all modern smartphones; A lithium polymer battery is never drained completely as this would cause irreparable damage to the battery. this is why even though your phone is telling you that you that is at 0%, your phone still has the power to that and do most of its other functions for quite an extended period of time. however this would cripple your phone forever after. A lithium power source will also often need A Battery Management System (BMS) to keep all the cells in a balanced healthy condition; the BMS also needs power to function. This also means that no phone to my knowledge actually has an auxiliary power source (that one might expect in the form of a button cell on a PC-Motherboard) So if you want to properly turn off your phone, pull the battery. Could also be relatively easy to just add a toggle switch on one of the battery terminals as a kill switch. TLDR: your phone's battery is always on, it just limits what you can do below a certain percentage, there probably isn't an onboard aux battery as this would be superfluous. And yes the power switch is software as it streamlines the physical design quite a bit and limits ingress of water and grime (Though the Iphone's had a physical mute toggle forever so maybe not) Disclaimer: I'm just a guy with a fascination with how things work, could very well be entirely wrong DO correct me if so.
For the hammer vs striker shotgun question, there's one other little caveat. If it's going to be a sawn-off then external hammers are highly preferred, because once the barrels are cut down there isn't enough weight to easily cock the internal strikers and you wind up having to work harder to open the gun. But with external hammers you can easily pop it open. Just, figured I'd mention that.
You’ve found the key to defeating UA-cam’s algorithm… CATS!!! 😼 Add them to the thumbnails and see if it affects the analytics… plus extra cat footage is always a good thing!!
And made in America... let's face it, if you buy a Henry it is probably because you want one, not because it makes sense verse an AR. The prices for .38 Special are still harsh despite demand being out there.
Playing the guitar is my main non-internet outlet, too! If you have an acoustic, what is your method for dealing with the lack of humidity? I've got some of those gel/bead humidifiers where you just add water to them and keep em in the case. Works pretty well. Love the young kitty! Is that your only cat?
Pawnshop Brutality ?…….. $500 of take home pay from your $15 an hour / 40 hour a week job gets you a rifle and a pistol and 100 rounds of ammo for each, plus what ever other gear you can afford like extra magazines. Choose wisely as your resources are limited
On switching off phones: I do mobile forensics for a living. I have yet to come across any mobile phone that writes or modifies any files while switched off, or that communicates in any way in that state. However, on most modern devices you'll find the system clock keeps running even while "off", so clearly at least one chip stays active. Some devices may even play alarm sounds while "off", if you set an alarm to a time when the device is turned off. So you're kind of right in that manufactures could hypothetically make devices keep spying on you while "powered off", but I haven't seen any examples of that in the wild. In a targeted, high priority attack by some resourceful party one could also hypothetically see custom firmware being used to make the device appear "off" while actually remaining on, but that would be detectable via battery consumption. Also, generally speaking, turning off positioning both on the phone itself and in your Google account is something the manufacturer and Google does seem to honor in that there's no stored geolocation data to be found from time periods where those services are deactivated. Perhaps unfortunately, you cannot prevent the telephony provider from tracking which cell towers your phone connects to whenever you use mobile data or telephony services, no matter what you tell your phone to do as that data is all aggregated on the provider network side.
I'm subscribed but I don't have the bell turned on (InRange is a channel I catch up on periodically). After watching the P90 spinner video I've just had this video recommended to me (days after it came out), and UA-cam asked me if I was happy with receiving the notification. I gave it the happiest face possible. I thought it might be worth mentioning. Maybe it's a good sign. Who can tell?
Cats just love to photobomb lol, I have 2 of my own and they are no different. Some great questions this month, I think you hit the nail on the head regarding human/technology integration.
100% agree with your view on top-break revolvers and their superiority over swing-out cylinders. I wish we could see more of them made today. A break-action python would be unbelievably awesome.
@@Matt-xc6sp thanks! Unfortunately they are banned here. Most people including police use 9mm FMJs but that has led to some accidents with overpenetration, so I was looking at other options for a ccw for when I'll get my license
@@Matt-xc6sp nono they arent, I was still talking about hollow points, wadcutters are a great option, and a .38 makes a good ccw I think, my city isnt super dangerous so there is not a great need for more firepower than that.
I think what the guy talking about "parts interchangeability" for the AK meant the lack of ease of adding accessories like optics, foregrips, lights, etc. (stuff that's nice and sometimes necessary to compete with AR's at certain competitions). Where it's easy to modify most AR's with a drop-in replacement part from multiple AR's built to standard, it can be difficult to mod an AK with the same accessories from brand to brand or even lot to lot. Ian had Polenar Tactical on a Q&A the other day and they talked about that, referring to the current market in Slovenia where you can buy any AK for $600, AR's cost at least $1200, but to add the accessories to an AK to match an AR's flexibility, you'll end up spending several hundred $, so you might as well start with an AR. Ian also made a video with one of the Polenar Tactical's heavily modded AK's he uses in competitions.
Another great Q&A with cat-gomblin (great guest) I have no idea how this one slide without massive backfire 47:54 Pineapple on Pizza yes or no? - Alex (It's the most important questions that we usually start with) Yay or nay is a personal preference, so I halfheartedly respect the honest answer.
We all saw that Prusa 3D printer box in the background... (Prusa seems like a cool guy and I love his open source upgradable philosophy - definitely getting one myself when I've built my workshop). Really excited to see what you do with it.
I heard a statement that there were better cartridges around than the 45-70. I agree the 45-70 only survived to this day because it was a military cartridge. But, I heard a statement that there were better cartridges around then the 45-70 relative to the role that the 45-70 fulfilled. Exactly what were they?
All the military cartridges of the era are in the same ballpark, but you can argue that the 11x59mmR Gras is a better cartridge. Lighter, faster bullet, with a sligthly better sectional density. More energy and a flatter shooter. Mind you, the difference it´s not big.
I live about 20 min from Harper's Ferry in Wv. If your looking to come around here to make Civil War vids it would be awesome. WINCHESTER VA is close to. There were three major battles there during the war as well as the town changed hands over 20 times. There is an enormous amount of Civil War history around here. Thanks again Carl
Sorry if you mention it in the video as I'm asking right before watching...but what kind of guitar is that? Unfamiliar with the inlay and can't make out the brand! Edit at end of watching - hope you're enjoying getting back into the guitar stuff! A great way to spend some free time. Keep up the good, honest, content
The thing with body armor though is that, while Level IV is readily available it's also quite heavy and/or expensive. Level V if it becomes a thing can really only continue that trend, to the point where it's kind of impractical.
The problem of "heavy" when a plate stands between your vital organs and a bullet quickly fades when you even hear a hostile round. Training with that armor will mitigate that weight and allow you to fight effectively. Better to have it and not need it, armor among a gun fits the same category.
@@dwastart I agree to a point but I have a feeling we’re going to eventually see things happen almost like when firearms first made armor pointless the first time around, at least for a while. I also think back to just how many years armor wasn’t bothered with even in frontline infantry. My feeling is that plate carriers and armor are very much a product of the age of US Soldiers and Marines riding around in vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan in a COIN environment rather than humping it on foot. Set those Marines down somewhere in SE Asia or South China Sea island, in the jungle, on foot, limited resupply, versus a near peer and I think we’re going to be surprised how all that armor gives way to other priorities.
@@RT81775 I was an infantry Marine for 6 years, deployed to Afghanistan 11-12 and did a deployment to Australia and Okinawa. While in Afghan we conducted foot patrols daily and while training in jungle and desert alike we always wore full kit, kevlar helmet, front back and side SAPI. It may happen someday that firearms/bullet technology do limit the protection afforded by armor but as long as the threat of lethal fragmentation and non armor defeating munitions are on the battlefield you will still see infantry using armor.
@@dwastart Didn't know I was speaking with someone who was actually in this position I was speaking of! 😃 I didn't think of fragmentation and just basic shrapnel. You have a point there.
Hey guys. Great channel. Regarding rimfire semi autos, whilst I agree that the pick of the bunch is .22wmr, it's not likely that you'll find a reliable semi auto that fires it. Chamber pressure is surprisingly similar to .22lr, but the case is double the length, so most semis have trouble ejecting consistently, or so I've heard. My situation is similar, so soon I'll be getting a lever action .22 magnum lever. Hopefully a 2nd hand Ruger 96, if I can find one (takes 10/22 mags), but a Henry if I can't.
Hey Carl, long time fan of the channel here, I just want to bring up a point on the use of satellite imagery for match planning and how it was insufficient for Woodland Brutality. Are you aware/have you looked into open access digital elevation model datasets? These things are basically 3D terrain maps of anywhere on Earth and I actually had a small project last year using some DEM data to help a local shooting range do some planning on new firing bays they looked into opening up, but I see no reason you can't do the same to plan a match. Adding this data to GIS software can allow you to do line of sight calculations, measure distances, even do volume estimates if you need to. The drawback though is that the open data is often not high quality enough to be of much use, but that's very quickly changing. There's also fairly simple workflows available to use really any commercial drone (or just photos taken with a smartphone or camera if you really want to go the basic route) that can be quite effective for 3D mapping. And this is all using open-source software, just a question of learning how to do it. Feel free to give me a shout if you (or anyone else) is interested in the details of how to do this, would love to help out.
I must say Fennel is a cute name for a cute goblin. She obviously came to support you spitting facts about the mcx spear, it seems that the military adopted it just to be done and over with the whole thing, I hope it wasn't a waste of money and at least finds some use
re: california. the knife laws are hilarious. i legally concealed carry a 6" folding knife with a ball bearing quick deploy, but if I keep a fixed 6" blade in my purse it's a jail time offense. mace is also illegal.
The only thing that makes a gun platform obselete is the cartridge it fires. The 5.56 and 7.62 are probably never going to be efficiently replaced in our life time due to all the tooling available to make those rounds. Only guns we see that has fallen by the waist line are guns that have caliber types that are no longer supported.
If you ever did a cowboy theme brutality do you think you would do it with more pre 1900 (basically archaic revolvers like single actions and loadgate double actions and top breaks) or would you have more of a wild bunch circa WWI where WWI era semi autos and maybe conventional swingout double actions could come into play?
I would think you'd have to go with the more inclusive option to get enough interest and participants. I'd bet early automatics and swing out revolvers are far more commonly owned by the target audience.
It's bells, yeah. They also grew and sold pretty dang good olives when I was last there, but that was a while ago (summer of 2001!?) so I dunno if they still do. Oh and also they have a campground. Worth mentioning to people who are asking questions about transhumanism and cyberpunk stuff that Arcosanti was intended to be a small-scale working prototype of an arcology. The project was started in the 70s by the late Italian philosopher-architect Paolo Soleri, the guy who came up with the idea of arcologies and coined that term, but it has never managed to have the kind of funding and interest necessary to actually be that in practice. They've only actually finished building something like 10% of the planned structure. (My entire reason for pilgrimaging there when I was a teen was because of learning about the concept of arcologies from SimCity 2000 and thinking they were cool as heck.) The resident population is (or was) composed at least in part of a revolving door staff of architecture university students from around the world doing volunteer work to help build the thing, I guess while also sort of doing internships under Soleri; this might have changed after Soleri's passing in 2013. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a cult but it's definitely a collective of like-minded ideologues with strong opinions about urban sprawl.
I always enjoy the Q&As Karl. for the 45 vs 9 mm, I know this has been beat to death, but if you are talking FMJs or smaller pistols, I find 45 to be my go to. In small handguns, 9 mm seems more snappy, such that my recoil recovery is the same regardless if it's 9mm or 45.
@@ATH_Berkshire Cost, ammo availability, intended target/application, etc. Hollow points work well on humans if they are well designed, larger animals may require more penetration.
@@scruffysstash buy well designed hollow points, if the animal is to big for them them are to big for a hand gun. In that situation you need to carry a long gun.
I’m not saying the 1.5 ACOG is a bad optic objectively, but I hate it. I’m not sure why in particular. I don’t like the ACOGs in general because I’m older and I wear bifocals, so I really need a focusing ring to have the reticle in focus. I’ve tried the fixed powers from both Trijicon and Steiner. I’m still on the lookout for a good quality fixed power that suits me, so I’m open to suggestions. In my opinion, any company making a magnified optic with a reticle (not a dot) should also include a focusing ring or knob for half-blind folks like me. It just goes to show you, to each their own. I always say to go with what you like and what works best for you.
I think the spear in itself would be a bad idea but I’m hopeful with the optic on it which calculates everything it could be the right move and make the average soldier a marksman
Re: Sniper Brutality - I’m in Phoenix and happy to lend a 1/2 MOA LMT AR10 in .308 to anyone who needs to borrow one locally (can include a digital scope with a 1500m rangefinder, or you can bring your own). I also have a KE Arms lower with a variety of triggers (including a Voldemort trigger - if you get the ATF reference you can figure this out, otherwise you probably don’t need it) and a Larue upper that’s more accurate than I am.
With regards to the AK obsolescence, military arms channel is one if the last places you should look for solid information and practically. Parts interchanability is nice but you should headspace you ar15 hear and there. With regards to weight that Karl mentioned. M4s get really freaking heavy real fast to the point of the a fully fitted AK being about the same weight.
For the Spear needing more training, isn't that the point of the new optic that's included in the package? I agree on all other points but I was under the impression that the self-adjusting optic is just as big a component as the cartridge if not more so.
As a professional sound architect mechanic, I find your explanation of why a recording of a gunshot does not accurately represent what a gunshot actually sounds like to be acceptable.
If the demand doesn’t already exist, I think the creation of Cowboy Brutality or even 19th-Century Brutality would absolutely create the market for it. That’s the kind of thing people don’t know they want/combines familiar elements in a novel yet intuitive way, and your passion for the subject would give it life & specificity
Regarding the thing with people's ocular implants being shut off you mentioned @ 31:40, afaik that wasn't due to nonpayment of bills (the implants weren't connected to the internet or anything that would allow them to do that) but rather because the company that made the implants went under and was no longer offering technical support so anyone that had any issues with the devices after the fact was SOL. This is of course still an incredibly valid concern for any future technological implants though!
Regarding AK obsolescence: Is the platform uncapable of performing in the modern battlefield? Absolutely not. You can modernize it to basically the same standard as any modern STANAG-capable western rifle. Optics, lasers, whatever. Maybe it's heavy, so is pretty much everything else that's not an AR-15. Is there any reason why you would pick the AK as a platform if you are designing a rifle today (from scratch)? No. It's based on 1940s and 50s production methods, with ergonomic standards going back before WW2. If you like the gas system and the bolt mechanism, the Swiss already made rifle better than the AK in that configuration 50 years ago. It's called the SIG SG 540, which later became the 550. I think the MAC guys were taking a lot of US civilian shooter perspective into the discussion, which I don't think really matters at all when discussing the platform as a combat weapon which these guns are. The AK has never been as viable to a civilian shooter as the AR-15 in probably any country, and never will be.
When it come to actual battlefield, truth is that AK will be used there for WAY longer than people think, not only because of numbers, but also that its still used as a platform for military weapons, for example Vietnam latest STV-380 that is just Galil ACE, that is just AK really. Im sorry for saying that but MAC for some time started to talk really weird things that have nothing to do with reality, and sadly I noticed that most of things they discuss are straight from.... Internet copy/paste articles. No research just some dudes in the middle of US that think that their region and few shops represent world. Like idea of rating gun based on how much picatinny rails you can glue to gun and how many gadgets you can put on them is not even funny.... its just sad... Its like saying that planes are obsolete because not every seat have separate TV on them... no sene at all...
@@paranoiia8Yeah, I mean in a modern battlefield you need your service rifle to be able to accept optics, lasers and all sorts of gadgets. The AK does that. The fact that you as a civilian might have a harder time doing it than with an AR doesn't mean that the platform is obsolete as a combat weapon. Militaries have modernized AK's to the same performance standards as AR-15s. It might be less ergonomic, a bit heavier etc but those are not really arguments for obsolescence IMO. This is why the whole civilian perspective feels stupid if MAC labels the video "is the AK obsolete?".
InRange is NOT a solo endeavor. Karl and Fennel are the co-creators. Though Fennel is still miffed that Karl refused to rename InRange to “Butthole Productions”… 09:00 🤭
Further to my audio tech comment a suppressor in a mill context doesn't have to just make the gunshot quieter to be effective at concealing the shooters location, changing the sound profile of the shot is very effective too. High piched noise is easier for your ears to directionally locate where as low noises spread and echo more so a suppressor that isn't the best like the spears can be useful at hiding the shooter even if it's not the quietest.
It was possible to use a wake on WWAN package to wirelessly power on the 2G/3G smartphones from the cell towers due to the low power nature of the radios used. From there location services could be enabled and gps location obtained. I am not aware of this being applicable to the modern higher power radios used in current cellphones nor if they device maintains a radio heartbeat.
I'm a big fan of the AK platform, but anytime I just need to grab a rifle, I always just grab my 14.5 WWSD copy (self built upper with the 14.5" faxon integral pencil). Compared to my AK105 with full zenitco setup, the only advantage it has over my WWSD rifle is that I can fire it without earpro with the extended strela 4 piece flash hider that's pinned and welded. Comparably in terms of weight my AK105 is far heavier, and has less energy than my 14.5" shooting M855 (tested it on water jugs, was pretty surprised at how much more powerful M855 was compared to bulk wolf 5.45).
I grew up not far from you, down around Nogales AZ. We had a ranch about 8 miles north of the border and never had problems with migrants. The most common things we encountered were people drinking from our garden hose or sleeping in the barn, neither of which bothered us at all.
Most rounds fired by a single person question... Im gonna go with the guy that does quality control at Lake City AAP. They test fire samples of their batches through miniguns so those are some pretty massive round counts.
Regarding needing a more powerful round to defeat body armor: maybe it's not the chest plate you're trying to get through. As armor becomes more commonplace on the battlefield, we may see more forces trying to cover arms, legs, etc., just not with as much protection; so those C-zone hits might not be as feasible with lighter rounds.
Given your interest in the old west, I'd encourage you to visit Greasy Grass (MT) and Fort Phil Kearny, the site of the Fetterman Massacre, and the site of the Wagon Box Fight (WY). Both places are about as unchanged as they can be since the 1860s/70s. For Civil War sites, Shiloh (TN) and Chickamauga (GA) are both worth a visit, and, like the sites mentioned above, are largely undeveloped.
James, I agree Fort Phil Kearny is a wonderful site, full of history: Bozeman Trail, Wagon Box Fight, Fetterman Fight.... To me the most memorable element was the park services treatment of the Fetterman Monument. The monument is a tall stark field stone obelisk with a bronze plaque that was erected in 1908 to honour the men who "were killed by an overwhelming force of Sioux under the command of Red Cloud. There were no survivors.". The Park Services has erected a story board that places the monument in its historic context. "There are, however, several inaccuracies in the legend and some of the language reflects the racial feelings of the times". "The plaque states “there were no survivors.” But it obviously refers only to U.S. military casualties since approximately 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne did in fact survive". I visited the site many years ago but this method of putting an old and arguably troubling monument in its historic context has stuck with me.
Who's fired the most rounds personally? Its gota be Hiram Maxim. Years of RnD and demoing his guns around the world, doing day long endurance shoots, ect. I bet He would easily make the list.
i really would have liked ot see 277 fury to be the same cartirge size as .223 but with the new ammunition technology. I really dislike the idea of giving up that much ammo and adding that much weight.
Powder tech hasn’t moved on that much. Even at 80k psi a 223 case is getting nowhere near the power of a 80k 308 case. The Army requirements were for a lot more power and they had already decided on 277 with a particular projectile. These decisions were taken well before the start of rifle selection.
Timestamps (fyi I paraphrased some of the longer questions):
1:01 What was the biggest challenge in planning Woodland Brutality that you didn't have planning other events? - Orion Hollinger
3:10 What advantages do fixed power optics have over variable power optics? - Henry S
4:44 How prevalent do you think the SIG Spear and maybe other .277 Fury guns will end up being in civilian circles? - Levi H
6:44 Do you think the US Military's decision to change back to a Battle Rifle will last? If not how to defeat body armor with intermediate cartridge? - Russel S
8:12 Fennels (?) introduction
9:19 Why is it almost impossible to turn off modern smartphones and why do people think otherwise? - Robert S
11:08 Have you ever been approached by the Leviathan Group? - Drodge (?) H
11:42 Do you think channel has become more political? If so, what drove that change? - Nick H
13:48 Have you seen the film Old Henry? - Duke van Meep II
13:56 How do borders/immigrants affect InRange, do you often find stuff left behind by immigrants? - E Raha
15:54 What "unscary" rifle do you recommend for recreation? - Windwalker 57
17:51 Is AK-Platform obsolescent? - Gorn
20:35 Why do suppressors sound bad on camera? - Ashley D
22:44 Manufacture interest in sending stuff to InRangeTV? - John
24:30 If you could take one thing (specific item) of the NFA List what would it be? - Charlie T
25:28 Why does competition still see derision from tactical folks? - Zach B
27:50 Operating on limited capacity, what would be pros of .45 over 9? - Ryan
28:54 Another Wasteland Shuffle? - RGB
29:22 Thoughts on Transhumanism? - Folly (?) Steel
32:14 Clothing optional brutality when? - Patrick T
32:30 Other types of brutality? - Renegade W
34:02 To what extent does your social media engagement help with growth of channel? - Charles E
34:49 What accessories would make great use of powered rails? - Timothy L
35:43 What kind of person do you think has fired most rounds through a firearm in human history? - Faze
36:19 Only legal weapons rimfire, what do you recommend? For dual purpose home defense and pest control rifle? - Chris P
37:18 How often does possible inability to carry firearm impact your travel plans? - Rob S
39:26 Visiting civil war sights? - S Max 78 (?)
40:02 Modern top break revolver - viable or waste of money? - Andrew M
41:09 If you did Cowboy action challenge, how would deal with safety in regards to six shooters? - Stuka 444
41:57 Internal or external hammers on double barrel shotguns? Personal preference and whats better overall? - Günther
42:43 Opinion of prism sights? - Robert W
43:25 Why don't we get more infosec content? - Dennis S
44:29 48th time trying (!): Have you ever had to deal with someone abusing the honor system for marking a question as reasked to bump up its urgency? - Jordan W
44:44 Are junglemags useful in two gun matches? - LKJLKJLKJLKJLKJLKJLKJ
45:38 If you were in a ban state, would you rather have semiauto shotgun limited to five rounds or pumpaction with no mag limit? - Aman (?) B
46:12 Your choice for marksman rifle in 1876? - Brendan E
47:32 How did you like the ticks in West Virginia? - Scott S
47:54 Pineapple on Pizza yes or no? - Alex
48:03 Is the SIG Spear the M14 of 2022, heavy and soon to be replaced? - Elim (?)
48:21 Vignette on arcosante experimental sight (?) - JP
Thank you!
Thank you, as always.
Appreciated!
@@InrangeTv Svenske "Billy" IKEA bokhyller Karl, forræderi! 😁😆😉
...though I own them myself too so I guess we are in the same boat. 🤪
Please test modern body armor against 50BMG AP cartridges.
Important Cat Times:
7:18 Guitar Explorer
8:10 Shoulder Leap and introduction
12:48 Reflection Dash
14:18 Box Check. (Never apologize for cat content, Karl.)
Very important timestamps indeed. Lol, such a cute cat.
Love this!!
ayo free cat content in a q&a vid??? lets go
If 277 will not defeat body armor, Kitty will
@@DeadPollo absolutely yes to this
I never understand how people viewed this a pure firearms channel. I had always viewed as a historical-firearm channel.
People make things what they want it to be.
@@InrangeTv more history videos please
My boss told me to get to the job early and of course no one else is here. So glad you just uploaded this. Thank you!
"[T]he sand planet on Star Wars ... uhh, where Luke Skywalker grew up. Anyways..." I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of nerdy voices suddenly cried out in blustered anger and were suddenly ashamed they did it out loud.
Arrakis, Dune, desert planet... ;)
"Arrakis, Dune, desert planet..."~Capt. James T. Gandalf \\\///,
The Tatooine sets for Star Wars were largely just very old buildings in Tunisia, so I am not very surprised to hear that a self sufficient community experiment in Arizona would take architectural cues from there.
I visited that area in southern Tunisia, and the hotel I stayed at was one of those old-school 'pit' structures. It's amazing how much cooler it is down in the pit than up top at ground level - and I was there in late April so it was getting up to 115F during the day. It's not like it was air-conditioned down below, but it was reasonably pleasant - whereas up top 'you're-gonna-die'.
"More cops than people"
I love the implication that cops aren't people. Stay based, Karl.
Any group that think of themselves as elites by the very same fact unsubscribes from being "the people".
Gotta love cats thinking everyone wants to check out their buttholes! 🤣 No but seriously, she seems like a sweetie!
Cats will photobomb. It's in their nature.
Hi Fennel! Thanks for another interesting Q&A Karl. I really need to sign up to patreon. You're doing fine work.
Re: AK obsolescence - thank you for moving the conversation beyond the tired AR/AK thing and into more the idea that given its ubiquitousness on battlefields and in conflict areas throughout the world, the AK will last at least 100 years. After all, we’re still seeing StG 44’s in Syria, and it didn’t look as though there was a whole lot of record keeping when Ukraine was dumping truckloads of AKs in the street - my first thought when I saw those images was “oh we’ll be seeing those guns pop up for a long long time.”
Re: Fennel - yes please more Fennel content thank you.
So do the bolt actions. We see them having smle and mauser, them having ak the doesnt change the fact that the AK is heading to be obsolete. AK cant swap bolt without having to adjust headspace, Ak manufacturing requires factories having correct metallurgy for the trunions, bolt carrier, and bolt. Ak is front heavy, optics require sidemount which render side folding stock useless. Dust cover optics rail is dumb. Dont forget the height over bore is stupid even for just a red dot. Milled AK receiver is stupidly heavy while an m16a1 having the same performance is 3 times lighter. All rifles in the 21st century have bolt hold open empty, except AK platform. It is obsolescence, those who say otherwise are just trying to defend their purchases.
Im sure you know the history of those stg44s but in case you didn’t, they almost certainly came from the armoury in Libya.
Gadaffi (Libyas dictator until the war) had a habit of picking up any surplus arms he could. He also liked to stir shit up, such as providing plastic explosives, rifles and rpgs to the IRA. When he knew he was going to be overthrown he told the world he would create havoc by letting his armoury into the world.
He made good on that threat and before he was captured and killed the armoury was emptied and essentially thrown into the streets. Now its all over the place. And libya is very centrally located so they got into the world fast
Also FALs,G3 are still used.
@@brandonha Aha, more reasons to hate that green-obsessed b*sturd. He screwed over my country by funding a local secessionist group here...
The long term durability of a well built ak even one that's never seen ANY maintenance is astounding. That plus the sheet number of them guarantees they're never going away.
"More cops than people" its an awesome way to phrase that
Further to the question about carrying (37:18), what's the balance between safety and interest there to decide whether it's "worth it," and how do you determine safety?
Example, homicides (any means, not just firearms, no distinction between legal and illegal acts) per 100,000 population per year:
South Africa 37.96
D.C. 22.81
Mississippi 14.52
Louisiana 13.79
Alabama 11.97
Missouri 10.22
Arizona 5.61
California 4.44
New Hampshire 2.79
Hawaii 2.47
Massachusetts 2.28
Vermont 1.76
New Zealand 1.61
Idaho 1.51
France 1.20
Germany 0.95
Scotland 0.77
Italy 0.57
Norway 0.47
Japan 0.26
Is there a point where a country is so safe you stop minding not being able to carry, or is it all about the principle of the thing?
I'm UK born, approaching sixty years of age. Forty of those years I've lived in Manchester, for a while referred to in the tabloid press as 'Gunchester'. Outside of a museum, gun club, armed Police Officer, Military guard, playing soldiers while at university or re-enactment event, I've seen a firearm once, a WWII era Soviet pistol that a friends family had inherited at some point, no ammunition for it, it was a curiosity, nothing more. This was when I was about twelve or thirteen, so long before I moved to Manchester. I think in America it is a principle thing, 2nd Amendment, a cultural thing if you will. Different countries make different decisions.
I have a dent in my left hand (and nerve damage) from somebody's _very good boy_ they thought didn't need to be on a leash. If someone asks why I need a carry gun: "wildlife."
In terms of powered systems. I think we will see a separation of the operating system. No more gas systems. An AR with a linear motor instead of a buffer and spring. No more gas system. No heat from it. No carbon from the DI system. Complete control of the lock time before it cycles. Run a super hot cartrage like the new military gun with that extra 0.1 sec to allow the pressure to drop before cycling. Sniper mode where the bolt does not cycle till trigger reset. Not a nfa issue as the AR trigger still makes it simi auto.
@@superfamilyallosauridae6505 It changes the component weight requirement, solenoid or linear motor actuation one direction still needs a spring return but can be a featherweight bolt carrier with no buffer weight because there’s no mass dependent cycling or gas pressure resistance by carrier momentum involved. And you could power both ways and do without a spring if you wanted.
The felt recoil being driven by cycling mass impacting the rear of buffer tube drops significantly. Similar to a constant recoil mechanism in machineguns.
Camera: *exists*
Cats: "Here's my butt."
The wasteland shuffle was super fun to do! One of the coolest things your (and 9hole) channel as come up with!
HAHAHA Kitty...
Hey Karl, have you ever wanted to build your own guitar?
I run the shop that built all of Jim Fullers guitars, we would love to have you come out to a class some time
I love that you combine infosec and guns. I've been in the cybersecurity industry for close to 15 years (DFIR and Pen Testing at different times) and the firearms community for more than 10. Interest in firearms seems pretty common in this world from what I've seen (Defcon shoot and whatnot) however this is the only channel I'm aware of combining the 2 on youtube.
We all in CA should be interested since the DOJ leaked PII for thousands of CCW holders.
@10:07
So a thing with most if not all modern smartphones; A lithium polymer battery is never drained completely as this would cause irreparable damage to the battery. this is why even though your phone is telling you that you that is at 0%, your phone still has the power to that and do most of its other functions for quite an extended period of time. however this would cripple your phone forever after. A lithium power source will also often need A Battery Management System (BMS) to keep all the cells in a balanced healthy condition; the BMS also needs power to function.
This also means that no phone to my knowledge actually has an auxiliary power source (that one might expect in the form of a button cell on a PC-Motherboard)
So if you want to properly turn off your phone, pull the battery.
Could also be relatively easy to just add a toggle switch on one of the battery terminals as a kill switch.
TLDR: your phone's battery is always on, it just limits what you can do below a certain percentage, there probably isn't an onboard aux battery as this would be superfluous.
And yes the power switch is software as it streamlines the physical design quite a bit and limits ingress of water and grime (Though the Iphone's had a physical mute toggle forever so maybe not)
Disclaimer: I'm just a guy with a fascination with how things work, could very well be entirely wrong DO correct me if so.
For the hammer vs striker shotgun question, there's one other little caveat. If it's going to be a sawn-off then external hammers are highly preferred, because once the barrels are cut down there isn't enough weight to easily cock the internal strikers and you wind up having to work harder to open the gun. But with external hammers you can easily pop it open. Just, figured I'd mention that.
You’ve found the key to defeating UA-cam’s algorithm… CATS!!! 😼
Add them to the thumbnails and see if it affects the analytics… plus extra cat footage is always a good thing!!
Love the shirt, keep being you Karl.
15:15 less scary rifle: Henry lever 357 holds 10 rounds, with a 38SP/357 revolver. (5 or 6 rounds) lever action can be cycled pretty darn fast.
I thought if that two or a pump action hunting shotgun
And made in America... let's face it, if you buy a Henry it is probably because you want one, not because it makes sense verse an AR. The prices for .38 Special are still harsh despite demand being out there.
@@ryand2939 you’re missing the point “ less scary “
@@williamprince1114 why or? Personally, I like and.
Playing the guitar is my main non-internet outlet, too! If you have an acoustic, what is your method for dealing with the lack of humidity? I've got some of those gel/bead humidifiers where you just add water to them and keep em in the case. Works pretty well. Love the young kitty! Is that your only cat?
Pawnshop Brutality ?…….. $500 of take home pay from your $15 an hour / 40 hour a week job gets you a rifle and a pistol and 100 rounds of ammo for each, plus what ever other gear you can afford like extra magazines. Choose wisely as your resources are limited
Never apologize for your cat
On switching off phones:
I do mobile forensics for a living. I have yet to come across any mobile phone that writes or modifies any files while switched off, or that communicates in any way in that state. However, on most modern devices you'll find the system clock keeps running even while "off", so clearly at least one chip stays active. Some devices may even play alarm sounds while "off", if you set an alarm to a time when the device is turned off. So you're kind of right in that manufactures could hypothetically make devices keep spying on you while "powered off", but I haven't seen any examples of that in the wild. In a targeted, high priority attack by some resourceful party one could also hypothetically see custom firmware being used to make the device appear "off" while actually remaining on, but that would be detectable via battery consumption.
Also, generally speaking, turning off positioning both on the phone itself and in your Google account is something the manufacturer and Google does seem to honor in that there's no stored geolocation data to be found from time periods where those services are deactivated. Perhaps unfortunately, you cannot prevent the telephony provider from tracking which cell towers your phone connects to whenever you use mobile data or telephony services, no matter what you tell your phone to do as that data is all aggregated on the provider network side.
You put boxes out for your cat, of course it's going nuts.
She has more toys than she knows what to do with.
@@InrangeTv I'm guessing here, but does she ignore lots of them? I've had cats for roughly 40 years now, they do what they want.
your voice and perspective is desperately needed in the community, lots of chud tales that are just taken as a given
come for questions, stay for fennel
I'm subscribed but I don't have the bell turned on (InRange is a channel I catch up on periodically). After watching the P90 spinner video I've just had this video recommended to me (days after it came out), and UA-cam asked me if I was happy with receiving the notification. I gave it the happiest face possible.
I thought it might be worth mentioning. Maybe it's a good sign. Who can tell?
Cats just love to photobomb lol, I have 2 of my own and they are no different.
Some great questions this month, I think you hit the nail on the head regarding human/technology integration.
100% agree with your view on top-break revolvers and their superiority over swing-out cylinders. I wish we could see more of them made today. A break-action python would be unbelievably awesome.
If hollow points are out of the question, would anything change in the cartridge debate? Also, nice cat!
@@Matt-xc6sp thanks! Unfortunately they are banned here. Most people including police use 9mm FMJs but that has led to some accidents with overpenetration, so I was looking at other options for a ccw for when I'll get my license
@@Matt-xc6sp nono they arent, I was still talking about hollow points, wadcutters are a great option, and a .38 makes a good ccw I think, my city isnt super dangerous so there is not a great need for more firepower than that.
I think what the guy talking about "parts interchangeability" for the AK meant the lack of ease of adding accessories like optics, foregrips, lights, etc. (stuff that's nice and sometimes necessary to compete with AR's at certain competitions). Where it's easy to modify most AR's with a drop-in replacement part from multiple AR's built to standard, it can be difficult to mod an AK with the same accessories from brand to brand or even lot to lot. Ian had Polenar Tactical on a Q&A the other day and they talked about that, referring to the current market in Slovenia where you can buy any AK for $600, AR's cost at least $1200, but to add the accessories to an AK to match an AR's flexibility, you'll end up spending several hundred $, so you might as well start with an AR. Ian also made a video with one of the Polenar Tactical's heavily modded AK's he uses in competitions.
Love the Q&A videos! That's a badass shirt, too. What's the brand?
I don't know, I got it at a local gothy shop.
@@InrangeTv siiiick
You can find it online if you search for: "Official Skull Satan Justice shirt".
Thank you Karl, for never selling out to RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
Another great Q&A with cat-gomblin (great guest)
I have no idea how this one slide without massive backfire 47:54 Pineapple on Pizza yes or no? - Alex (It's the most important questions that we usually start with)
Yay or nay is a personal preference, so I halfheartedly respect the honest answer.
We all saw that Prusa 3D printer box in the background... (Prusa seems like a cool guy and I love his open source upgradable philosophy - definitely getting one myself when I've built my workshop). Really excited to see what you do with it.
How did anyone name anything leviathan group and thought "this doesn't sound like we are evil at all"
Bacon 🥓
Pineapple 🍍
Jalapeños 🌶
Best pizza topping combo 🍕
I heard a statement that there were better cartridges around than the 45-70. I agree the 45-70 only survived to this day because it was a military cartridge. But, I heard a statement that there were better cartridges around then the 45-70 relative to the role that the 45-70 fulfilled. Exactly what were they?
All the military cartridges of the era are in the same ballpark, but you can argue that the 11x59mmR Gras is a better cartridge. Lighter, faster bullet, with a sligthly better sectional density. More energy and a flatter shooter.
Mind you, the difference it´s not big.
I live about 20 min from Harper's Ferry in Wv. If your looking to come around here to make Civil War vids it would be awesome. WINCHESTER VA is close to. There were three major battles there during the war as well as the town changed hands over 20 times. There is an enormous amount of Civil War history around here. Thanks again Carl
Was here for the Q&A, stayed for the cat.
I love the content Karl, and I like your t-shirt.
Sorry if you mention it in the video as I'm asking right before watching...but what kind of guitar is that? Unfamiliar with the inlay and can't make out the brand!
Edit at end of watching - hope you're enjoying getting back into the guitar stuff! A great way to spend some free time. Keep up the good, honest, content
The thing with body armor though is that, while Level IV is readily available it's also quite heavy and/or expensive. Level V if it becomes a thing can really only continue that trend, to the point where it's kind of impractical.
The problem of "heavy" when a plate stands between your vital organs and a bullet quickly fades when you even hear a hostile round. Training with that armor will mitigate that weight and allow you to fight effectively. Better to have it and not need it, armor among a gun fits the same category.
@@dwastart I agree to a point but I have a feeling we’re going to eventually see things happen almost like when firearms first made armor pointless the first time around, at least for a while. I also think back to just how many years armor wasn’t bothered with even in frontline infantry. My feeling is that plate carriers and armor are very much a product of the age of US Soldiers and Marines riding around in vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan in a COIN environment rather than humping it on foot. Set those Marines down somewhere in SE Asia or South China Sea island, in the jungle, on foot, limited resupply, versus a near peer and I think we’re going to be surprised how all that armor gives way to other priorities.
@@RT81775 I was an infantry Marine for 6 years, deployed to Afghanistan 11-12 and did a deployment to Australia and Okinawa. While in Afghan we conducted foot patrols daily and while training in jungle and desert alike we always wore full kit, kevlar helmet, front back and side SAPI. It may happen someday that firearms/bullet technology do limit the protection afforded by armor but as long as the threat of lethal fragmentation and non armor defeating munitions are on the battlefield you will still see infantry using armor.
@@dwastart Didn't know I was speaking with someone who was actually in this position I was speaking of! 😃 I didn't think of fragmentation and just basic shrapnel. You have a point there.
Hey guys. Great channel. Regarding rimfire semi autos, whilst I agree that the pick of the bunch is .22wmr, it's not likely that you'll find a reliable semi auto that fires it. Chamber pressure is surprisingly similar to .22lr, but the case is double the length, so most semis have trouble ejecting consistently, or so I've heard. My situation is similar, so soon I'll be getting a lever action .22 magnum lever. Hopefully a 2nd hand Ruger 96, if I can find one (takes 10/22 mags), but a Henry if I can't.
Hey Carl, long time fan of the channel here, I just want to bring up a point on the use of satellite imagery for match planning and how it was insufficient for Woodland Brutality. Are you aware/have you looked into open access digital elevation model datasets? These things are basically 3D terrain maps of anywhere on Earth and I actually had a small project last year using some DEM data to help a local shooting range do some planning on new firing bays they looked into opening up, but I see no reason you can't do the same to plan a match. Adding this data to GIS software can allow you to do line of sight calculations, measure distances, even do volume estimates if you need to.
The drawback though is that the open data is often not high quality enough to be of much use, but that's very quickly changing. There's also fairly simple workflows available to use really any commercial drone (or just photos taken with a smartphone or camera if you really want to go the basic route) that can be quite effective for 3D mapping. And this is all using open-source software, just a question of learning how to do it.
Feel free to give me a shout if you (or anyone else) is interested in the details of how to do this, would love to help out.
Early morning squad
Also called "Europeans"
@@Smuzical negative. Currently located in Arizona
@@Smuzical nope, afternoon for Europeans :)
3 pm here :D
Regarding the topic of surpressors: have you ever considered using a decibelmeter on range just to demonstrate the difference?
I must say Fennel is a cute name for a cute goblin. She obviously came to support you spitting facts about the mcx spear, it seems that the military adopted it just to be done and over with the whole thing, I hope it wasn't a waste of money and at least finds some use
re: california. the knife laws are hilarious. i legally concealed carry a 6" folding knife with a ball bearing quick deploy, but if I keep a fixed 6" blade in my purse it's a jail time offense. mace is also illegal.
By mace do you mean actual mace? Like a medieval-ish blunt weapon?
@@randomnobodovsky3692 mace as in pepper spray. I can conceal a folding knife, open carry a katana, but mace == arrest
The only thing that makes a gun platform obselete is the cartridge it fires. The 5.56 and 7.62 are probably never going to be efficiently replaced in our life time due to all the tooling available to make those rounds. Only guns we see that has fallen by the waist line are guns that have caliber types that are no longer supported.
If you ever did a cowboy theme brutality do you think you would do it with more pre 1900 (basically archaic revolvers like single actions and loadgate double actions and top breaks) or would you have more of a wild bunch circa WWI where WWI era semi autos and maybe conventional swingout double actions could come into play?
I would think you'd have to go with the more inclusive option to get enough interest and participants. I'd bet early automatics and swing out revolvers are far more commonly owned by the target audience.
@@Broken_Yugo yeah plenty of people who are more world wars nerds than cowboy action types have 1911s
Technically he could probably do both and have different divisions
If this was done, I'd shell out the money (and I'm retired on a fixed income ) for the guns. Hell I'd work part time to make enough to get into it!
Another solution is to just build the pistol stages/sections around a SAA (clearable in 5 shots) and restrict everyone to 5 rounds and iron sights.
On prism optics 43:30 - The Vortex Spitfire 5x with an RDS is the perfect combo for 16” 5.56 rifles, change my mind!!!
Hi Carl what brand of guitar is in the background ? Great Q&A as always 😊
I think it’s an Urban brand guitar with a Les Paul design. I’m not familiar with Keith Urbans guitars but it’s probably close to that.
It's bells, yeah. They also grew and sold pretty dang good olives when I was last there, but that was a while ago (summer of 2001!?) so I dunno if they still do. Oh and also they have a campground.
Worth mentioning to people who are asking questions about transhumanism and cyberpunk stuff that Arcosanti was intended to be a small-scale working prototype of an arcology. The project was started in the 70s by the late Italian philosopher-architect Paolo Soleri, the guy who came up with the idea of arcologies and coined that term, but it has never managed to have the kind of funding and interest necessary to actually be that in practice. They've only actually finished building something like 10% of the planned structure. (My entire reason for pilgrimaging there when I was a teen was because of learning about the concept of arcologies from SimCity 2000 and thinking they were cool as heck.)
The resident population is (or was) composed at least in part of a revolving door staff of architecture university students from around the world doing volunteer work to help build the thing, I guess while also sort of doing internships under Soleri; this might have changed after Soleri's passing in 2013. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a cult but it's definitely a collective of like-minded ideologues with strong opinions about urban sprawl.
Karl, i have a black cat called Celery, hmm while yours is called Fennel, convergent evolution? jj
I always enjoy the Q&As Karl.
for the 45 vs 9 mm, I know this has been beat to death, but if you are talking FMJs or smaller pistols, I find 45 to be my go to. In small handguns, 9 mm seems more snappy, such that my recoil recovery is the same regardless if it's 9mm or 45.
Unless they are illegal why would you use FMJ in a self defence handgun?
@@ATH_Berkshire Cost, ammo availability, intended target/application, etc. Hollow points work well on humans if they are well designed, larger animals may require more penetration.
@@scruffysstash buy well designed hollow points, if the animal is to big for them them are to big for a hand gun. In that situation you need to carry a long gun.
I’m not saying the 1.5 ACOG is a bad optic objectively, but I hate it. I’m not sure why in particular. I don’t like the ACOGs in general because I’m older and I wear bifocals, so I really need a focusing ring to have the reticle in focus.
I’ve tried the fixed powers from both Trijicon and Steiner. I’m still on the lookout for a good quality fixed power that suits me, so I’m open to suggestions. In my opinion, any company making a magnified optic with a reticle (not a dot) should also include a focusing ring or knob for half-blind folks like me. It just goes to show you, to each their own. I always say to go with what you like and what works best for you.
I think the spear in itself would be a bad idea but I’m hopeful with the optic on it which calculates everything it could be the right move and make the average soldier a marksman
I am going infantry soon so I guess I’ll be able to try both the m4 and spear and see which is better
Not sure if they're reliable, but there are also those scaled down 1911s in 380 if you want something new that looks old.
Omg!!! your comment on info sec is spot on - people do not understand how critical this is.
Re: Sniper Brutality - I’m in Phoenix and happy to lend a 1/2 MOA LMT AR10 in .308 to anyone who needs to borrow one locally (can include a digital scope with a 1500m rangefinder, or you can bring your own). I also have a KE Arms lower with a variety of triggers (including a Voldemort trigger - if you get the ATF reference you can figure this out, otherwise you probably don’t need it) and a Larue upper that’s more accurate than I am.
With regards to the AK obsolescence, military arms channel is one if the last places you should look for solid information and practically. Parts interchanability is nice but you should headspace you ar15 hear and there.
With regards to weight that Karl mentioned. M4s get really freaking heavy real fast to the point of the a fully fitted AK being about the same weight.
For the Spear needing more training, isn't that the point of the new optic that's included in the package? I agree on all other points but I was under the impression that the self-adjusting optic is just as big a component as the cartridge if not more so.
Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Hey Karl! I actually live in Winchester, Va! I know where a few sights are. And know of a bourbon bar in a historic bank.
As a professional sound architect mechanic, I find your explanation of why a recording of a gunshot does not accurately represent what a gunshot actually sounds like to be acceptable.
If the demand doesn’t already exist, I think the creation of Cowboy Brutality or even 19th-Century Brutality would absolutely create the market for it. That’s the kind of thing people don’t know they want/combines familiar elements in a novel yet intuitive way, and your passion for the subject would give it life & specificity
“If you build it they will come.”
What's your favorite brand of absinthe?!
Regarding the thing with people's ocular implants being shut off you mentioned @ 31:40, afaik that wasn't due to nonpayment of bills (the implants weren't connected to the internet or anything that would allow them to do that) but rather because the company that made the implants went under and was no longer offering technical support so anyone that had any issues with the devices after the fact was SOL. This is of course still an incredibly valid concern for any future technological implants though!
Aloha; great content as always. Question: when you come up with a new concept for a Brutality Match how do you go about "testing" it? Mahalo
I'm really, really digging that t-shirt 👹🤘🤘Awesome!
Regarding AK obsolescence:
Is the platform uncapable of performing in the modern battlefield? Absolutely not. You can modernize it to basically the same standard as any modern STANAG-capable western rifle. Optics, lasers, whatever. Maybe it's heavy, so is pretty much everything else that's not an AR-15.
Is there any reason why you would pick the AK as a platform if you are designing a rifle today (from scratch)? No. It's based on 1940s and 50s production methods, with ergonomic standards going back before WW2. If you like the gas system and the bolt mechanism, the Swiss already made rifle better than the AK in that configuration 50 years ago. It's called the SIG SG 540, which later became the 550.
I think the MAC guys were taking a lot of US civilian shooter perspective into the discussion, which I don't think really matters at all when discussing the platform as a combat weapon which these guns are. The AK has never been as viable to a civilian shooter as the AR-15 in probably any country, and never will be.
When it come to actual battlefield, truth is that AK will be used there for WAY longer than people think, not only because of numbers, but also that its still used as a platform for military weapons, for example Vietnam latest STV-380 that is just Galil ACE, that is just AK really.
Im sorry for saying that but MAC for some time started to talk really weird things that have nothing to do with reality, and sadly I noticed that most of things they discuss are straight from.... Internet copy/paste articles. No research just some dudes in the middle of US that think that their region and few shops represent world.
Like idea of rating gun based on how much picatinny rails you can glue to gun and how many gadgets you can put on them is not even funny.... its just sad... Its like saying that planes are obsolete because not every seat have separate TV on them... no sene at all...
@@paranoiia8Yeah, I mean in a modern battlefield you need your service rifle to be able to accept optics, lasers and all sorts of gadgets. The AK does that. The fact that you as a civilian might have a harder time doing it than with an AR doesn't mean that the platform is obsolete as a combat weapon. Militaries have modernized AK's to the same performance standards as AR-15s. It might be less ergonomic, a bit heavier etc but those are not really arguments for obsolescence IMO. This is why the whole civilian perspective feels stupid if MAC labels the video "is the AK obsolete?".
Weird question here Karl but, do you know what size (in BTUs) your AC is and also are there heat pumps in Tucson AZ?
Computer! Insert 40k Adeptus Mechanicus music over Karl talking about transhumanism!
Will there be Woodland Brutality video along the lines of Desert/Finnish Brutality in the past?
There have already been a few. More coming?
@@InrangeTv yeah. Each stage
InRange is NOT a solo endeavor. Karl and Fennel are the co-creators. Though Fennel is still miffed that Karl refused to rename InRange to “Butthole Productions”… 09:00 🤭
The upcoming Finnish brutality sauna stage could be a challenge for some.
Further to my audio tech comment a suppressor in a mill context doesn't have to just make the gunshot quieter to be effective at concealing the shooters location, changing the sound profile of the shot is very effective too. High piched noise is easier for your ears to directionally locate where as low noises spread and echo more so a suppressor that isn't the best like the spears can be useful at hiding the shooter even if it's not the quietest.
It was possible to use a wake on WWAN package to wirelessly power on the 2G/3G smartphones from the cell towers due to the low power nature of the radios used. From there location services could be enabled and gps location obtained. I am not aware of this being applicable to the modern higher power radios used in current cellphones nor if they device maintains a radio heartbeat.
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I'm a big fan of the AK platform, but anytime I just need to grab a rifle, I always just grab my 14.5 WWSD copy (self built upper with the 14.5" faxon integral pencil).
Compared to my AK105 with full zenitco setup, the only advantage it has over my WWSD rifle is that I can fire it without earpro with the extended strela 4 piece flash hider that's pinned and welded.
Comparably in terms of weight my AK105 is far heavier, and has less energy than my 14.5" shooting M855 (tested it on water jugs, was pretty surprised at how much more powerful M855 was compared to bulk wolf 5.45).
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Ranger T in .45 expands to just over a full inch while achieving minimum penetration standards, something no 9mm can do simultaneously.
How exactly would you test a Faraday case? Have someone call it while it's in the case or something?
yes, why not?
I grew up not far from you, down around Nogales AZ. We had a ranch about 8 miles north of the border and never had problems with migrants. The most common things we encountered were people drinking from our garden hose or sleeping in the barn, neither of which bothered us at all.
Most rounds fired by a single person question... Im gonna go with the guy that does quality control at Lake City AAP. They test fire samples of their batches through miniguns so those are some pretty massive round counts.
I'd like to think if more shooting sports were like 2 gun then the real world vs. competition complaints would go down, but I've been on the internet.
Regarding needing a more powerful round to defeat body armor: maybe it's not the chest plate you're trying to get through. As armor becomes more commonplace on the battlefield, we may see more forces trying to cover arms, legs, etc., just not with as much protection; so those C-zone hits might not be as feasible with lighter rounds.
Clothing Optional Brutality? Black rifles and black bars!
Naked and AK'ed
Well, if it's in Finland in winter, then the black bars will probably be rather short.
Given your interest in the old west, I'd encourage you to visit Greasy Grass (MT) and Fort Phil Kearny, the site of the Fetterman Massacre, and the site of the Wagon Box Fight (WY). Both places are about as unchanged as they can be since the 1860s/70s.
For Civil War sites, Shiloh (TN) and Chickamauga (GA) are both worth a visit, and, like the sites mentioned above, are largely undeveloped.
James, I agree Fort Phil Kearny is a wonderful site, full of history: Bozeman Trail, Wagon Box Fight, Fetterman Fight.... To me the most memorable element was the park services treatment of the Fetterman Monument. The monument is a tall stark field stone obelisk with a bronze plaque that was erected in 1908 to honour the men who "were killed by an overwhelming force of Sioux under the command of Red Cloud. There were no survivors.". The Park Services has erected a story board that places the monument in its historic context. "There are, however, several inaccuracies in the legend and some of the language reflects the racial feelings of the times". "The plaque states “there were no survivors.” But it obviously refers only to U.S. military casualties since approximately 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne did in fact survive". I visited the site many years ago but this method of putting an old and arguably troubling monument in its historic context has stuck with me.
47:54 so happy that you agree with me on this
Absolutely on point and concrete stable
*Sorry haven't got to that point*
Forgotten Weapons AND FW Q&A on the same day, awwwww yeah.
Who's fired the most rounds personally? Its gota be Hiram Maxim. Years of RnD and demoing his guns around the world, doing day long endurance shoots, ect. I bet He would easily make the list.
i really would have liked ot see 277 fury to be the same cartirge size as .223 but with the new ammunition technology. I really dislike the idea of giving up that much ammo and adding that much weight.
I agree and I wonder how much better u can make 5.56 with that tec
How much more performance could you wrangle out of a 5.56 dimensioned footprint with the fury's pressure & case design?
@@NM-wd7kx I’m sure someone must have run the numbers on it
Powder tech hasn’t moved on that much. Even at 80k psi a 223 case is getting nowhere near the power of a 80k 308 case. The Army requirements were for a lot more power and they had already decided on 277 with a particular projectile. These decisions were taken well before the start of rifle selection.
It's called .277 Wolverine. Very cool cartridge, i'd like to try it myself.
you can get a top break Scofield replica in 357 magnum as well so they really can handle power.
Most rounds fired in history? My first guess would be a Vietnam-era Huey door gunner, after that WWII bomber gunners or AA gun crews.