Rifles - WW1 Uncut: Dan Snow
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home www.bbc.co.uk/ww1 Dan puts to the test two of the most iconic weapons of the war. The Mauser Gewehr '98 and the Lee Enfield Short Magazine MkIII were the standard issue rifles for the German and British armies respectively.
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What kind of professional organization uses dubstep for a World War 1 documentary?
+Bionicman IDK Man IDK
+Bionicman Yeah, and it should be black and white too. And there shouldn't be any sound.
+Bluesruse Are you trying to be clever or just defending shitty dubstep in a fucking war documentary?
+Bionicman It's just ridiculous.
+XDreamless The younger people dubsteb would reach aren't going to care about world war 1, too busy with reality TV, the garbage on MTV, and call of duty montages. Perhaps if some Call of duty game came out over WW1 (hint: it won't, doesn't fit the COD crowd as well as modern/future warfare does) but that's a stretch.
did they hire a 12 year old Minecraft streamer for the music?
@sjoerd bakker - Sure seems that way to me, too!
Dude not even 12yr old minecraft streamers who knows a thing or two of WW1 would do such a thing.
is this a joke? becuase if its not your a dumbass
NO WW1 A WAR WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SO THEY REFLECT THAT BY USING A FUTURE TYPE NOISE , SHIT MAN DONT MAKE ME EXPLAIN EVERYTHING
No its called Skrillex there really good
Whenever i am learning about WW1 Rifles I think to myself... Some Skrillex would be perfect right now...
sarcasm
B. Lung I loved this comment way too much
Who's looking in the comments because they used a dubstep in a WW1 documentary?
yep it was weird
It was unfitting
That's exactly what I was doing XD
1:18 Well the Internet's has finally reached the TV shows. We are doomed.
DOOMED I TELL YOU!
exactly
the cringe when a fucking world war 1 document uses skrillex or dub step ugh it hurts
I.. W... But your user is literally doritosxmtndew?
Pixel Dispatch your name is literally pixel dispatch
But how is that related to Doritos and mlg music?
Pixel Dispatch idk how does it ?
JohnK1117 yea
I was going to comment about how everyone is being a little baby about the music choice...... but then I actually watched the video and laughed out loud at how bad that was. I can only imagine the conversation in the editing room when they thought this was a good idea.
"I bet you a tenner you can't mix dubstep into a WW1 documentery..."
jmalcolmg123 yep on behalf of gen z we don’t like dubstep
I think my ears got cancer.
Shut up you facist.
+Adrian Salvatierra He's talking about the music I'm pretty sure.
Nathan Bowie I know,but look at his user picture is the Italian facist propaganda.
Adrian Salvatierra It's Soviet you poop.
GeckoNovice sorry I don't even know im communist too
The dubstep was so unexpected LOLOL
ikr!
I DONT KNOW WHO THEY ARE TO ME IT WAS MORE ABOUT WW1 BEING AN TECHNICALLY ADVANCED WAR AND THE MUSIC REFLECTS IT BUT THIS AINT 1914 WHY USE OLD MUSIC
I'm sorry, but Jesus Christ, can you please cut out the dubstep bullshit?
And, also, the Enfield wasn't perfect. Most British soldiers would load in 5 rounds, fire off one or two shots, and then put another clip in. Having 10 in would cause occasional jams and malfunctions.
Actually, to clarify too, don't get me wrong, the Enfield was great, but it still had its faults.
It wasn't perfect but it was the best available.
TaZ101SAGA "best" the sight would adjust itself after a day of shooting. my friend has one, and i have a gewehr k98 the original type, not the hitler K98 k version. So far he adjust his sight every day, and i haven't had to do it once.
MonarchTherapsids Inostran Cool stuff, but a sight is one part of a rifle, it doesn't make the whole rifle bad.
it is far from the worst rilfe of World war one. Heck it is even a good Second world war rifle. Yet the sight is literally everything when getting accuracy a reliant thing. the lee enfield is certainly not the very best rifle. Each one has it's own ups and downs. Only thing the lee really has is the mag size. my mauser bolts faster than that slugish Karbiner gewehr 1898 Az. Pretty much just as good as the lee. Honestly the steyr rifle, carcanno, springfield, and mossin nanget are also REALLY good guns. By the first world war, you can say the bolt action is pretty much perfected as a technology.
Please send this back to edit. No dubsted damn it.
agreed 100x
Trygve Heivang What the " F " IS DUB-STEP ANYWAY???!!!!!! Is that what is called innovative these days????!!! LOL! Does anyone, any person play actual instruments anymore?! A woodwind, a string, or brass instrument. Or is EVERYTHING DIGITAL OR ELECTRONIC? WOW... I KNOW I'M JUST AN OLD FART NOW, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! DON'T mind me youngsters...it's your time now anyway. Carry on!
It's also the fact that they had to buy the rights to the song! Haha
Samuel Parker nothing wrong with electronic music but the music used here was inappropriate and cringy
@@samuelparker9882 hahaha im 23 years old japanese male and i was in our armed forces ie the JGSDF and i love classical music and true music but i like ACDC and others but my personal theme song is paint it black by the rolling stones
misleading title, it shouldn't be "WW1 Uncut" it should be "WW1 cut with shitty misplaced pop music"
pop music from 2012 is still pop music
i go by the definition of pop music that most intelligent people use, meaning POPULAR music. Yes, there was a time when dubstep wasn't popular but Skrillex is most certainly pop music no matter how much you think its not. for god's sake he's even appeared on top 40. why am i even arguing with a fool such as yourself? i must be bored.
Who the hell chose dubstep for this? You might as well put the Magic Roundabout theme onto a dinosaur film, or Thunderbirds onto a golf tournament
I would actually watch golf just for that. It wouldn't be great, but at least mildly amusing.
Thunderbirds onto a gold tournament would be good.
Love the music choice, really gets you into that WW1 atmosphere
"Grandpa, what do you remember about WW1?"
"Well little Billy jr, first they hit us with artillery for months but that didn't break us, then came the gas that melted our insides but we survived that too. But what they sent next broke our lines in two like a freedom eagle snapping the ungrateful spine of a jack rabbit. It was horrible and i'll never forget the faces of my friends as they screamed in agony and clutched at their ears in a futile attempt to keep out death itself. some of them stuck in perpetual loops, like time was stuck and was replaying itself... those poor souls, I saw one man get shot in the head 7 times in 2 seconds by the same bullet, dont ask me how thats... I'll never ever forget the BRRRRRRRRRR WAH WAH BREEEEEEEEB sounds as it came closer and closer, it'll haunt me for the rest of my days, only the embrace of death can save us from the Dubstep now... the Dubstep will come for us all little Billy."
did i hear skrillex there? what the actual fuck BBC? and then the editing when firing the gun, just why?? >_>
Appealing to youths
+CrazyCashGaming oh no
nicht jan What is it?
+CrazyCashGaming All the other episodes of ww1 are very good, but trying to reach a special crowd by changing things can harm the quality. In this episode I think it did.
nicht jan I agree.
"Here we have the british rifle, weighs about the same as the german one."
12 seconds later
"Wow this is such a light weight manoverable gun."
all down to balance. I guess the german felt heavier because it was front-heavy
@@paavobergmann4920the German rifle was a full length infantry rifle whereas the SMLE as the name implies is a short rifle, in between a carbine and standard infantry length of the era.
@@corditechewer SMLE: 3.93kg empty
Gewehr 98: 3.7 / 4.1kg
They are the same weight.
I guess it feels less, if the weight is concentrated closer to your shoulder, the G98 is really really long.
@@corditechewermore specifically it was a mix between carbine and dragoon rifle, dragoons typically having short or shorter than average weapons, traveled on horse for great mobility and flanking potential and fought on foot
they need to stop it with the dubstep.
That dubstep had me on the floor laughing lmao.
Get out if here, Dubstep, I'm trying to watch WW1 videos.
Midget Tosser I had to check to see if that was coming from another window, so out of place.
Good God it's annoying.
is the dubstep some misguided appeal on trying to attract youths into watching this show?
if that's the case then you're sorely mistaken my friend
M1886 Lebel?
1907-15 Berther?
M1917 Enfield?
1903 Springfield?
Styer Mannlicher M1895?
Mosin Nagant?
Carcano?
Ross?
Clay Ronso it be much longer than a 6min video.
***** true, but it was made in the late 1800's.
wait they had nuggets in ww1? Ronald McDonald must have been rich.
+Clay Ronso agreed the 1903 Springfield was the quickest bullet speed or as they said in the trenches if you here a Springfield fire you where not the target oh and it was Sergeant York's go to weapon
This is the comment I was looking for. Don't name your video "Rifles of WW1 if you're only going to show two of them.
1:19 when you start to rek som noobs
Commander Shepard hahahahahaha
#GeetNoscopedScrubMlgTrickshit
Exactly
Commander Shepard Lol
Commander Shepard Or maby doing MLG360 No Scope to rekt some nubs
"used by Hitlers SS Bodyguards"
And pretty much the rest of Wehrmacht during WW2...
And it´s used in the german "Wachbattalion" until today.
wehrmact used the K98 not the mauser
djjayem100
K98 is the model. Mauser is the brand.
The Karabiner 98k is a different weapon to the
Gewehr 98. The Wehrmacht used the G98 until 1935
but basically every german soldier used the k98, which is basically the smae thing, but shorter. so are they talking about the ww1 (g98) variant versus the ww2(k98k)?
While you're at it play Queen - Don't stop me now on a recreation on the battle of the Somme.
1:18 what the hell BBC hahaha!
Due to its relatively short throw, the trick with the enfield is to keep your thumb and index finger on the bolt and use your 4th finger to fire the gun as it takes extra time to move your index finger between the trigger and bolt in between each shot and re-chamber. Thats most likely how the rifle instructor managed to fire so many rounds.
You've got the dupstep, now all you need is the mountain dew, doritos and fedoras.
when the dubstep started I expected illuminati triangles and doritos to start flying all over my screen
My man here transformed into a mlg as soon as he picked up the rifle
da hell ....... dubstep in a war related video O.o how bout no
Liu.
the music couldn't be more unfitting.
omg.. why.. why why why. What a way to ruin a perfectly fine production and informative video. Whose bloody idea was to put a 21 century soundtrack over a early 20ths ?!- The soundtrack those rifles were putting off is all that's needed!
I just started laughing
It's a literary foil stuck into a video production. The modern soundtrack is supposed to contrast to the 1900's and really nail in the idea that this war was a whole century ago.
I own both rifles and love them both.Firepower goes to the Lee Enfield.
How do you feel about the mauser? I'm thinking of getting one.
@@MaxwellBenson80= It is an outstanding system! Majority of all combat and hunting rifles are based on the Mauser action. The British Pattern 1913 and 1914 are Mauser based system rifles. The American M1917 in 30-06 is modified from the British 1913/14s. The Springfield M1903 is a Mauser copy. Countries in Europe like Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, etc. adopted Mausers. Majority of all Central and South America. China was a big user of Mauser rifles. Japan in their Arisaka rifle is a modified Mauser action. Buy one. You will find it fun to shoot. I have 5 Mausers.
@@reddevilparatrooper I just picked up a 1917 a few weeks ago. It's excellent! I also have a few lee enfields and a mosin. There's a k98 at my local store that keeps catching my eye, It may end up as my Christmas present to myself. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
@@MaxwellBenson80= Outstanding Phil! This is a fantastic rifle. This rifle has seen the worst and the best use. The worst use was in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. The entire Philippine National Army was armed with surplus M1917s. The Japanese infantry got decimated in the jungles because of it's superior rear peep sight for close range and medium range combat. The bad part was the Japanese brought more artillery to stop the devastating fire from American and Filipino infantry. Both forces had to retreat and leave behind majority of their ammo and stock piles of food and were forced to surrender. Its good use was in the India, China, and Burma campaign. Gen. Stilwell was the epitome of the infantryman. He led Chinese and Burmese troops to route and flank the Japanese and trap them in the jungle. These are good examples of how the M1917 was used in combat during WWII and highly forgotten in history. Another is the Free French Forces that fought in Italy and finally to liberate their homeland along with their North African colonial troops.
what the fuck why would you do that
Well this was a surprise.
Why did they hire Faze to do the video editing?
wish they didn't do the bullshit dubstep crap. don't mind the music. but the video
aren't they missing a couple of rifles? What about the American Springfield 03? Or the Russian Mosin Nagant? or what about the French lebel rifle?
Austro-Hungarian Mannlicher... Millions served, also probably the only straight pull bolt action.
this is the BBC besides they might as well have just scraped the springfield
Well I belive he is focusing on the Western front, and the Springfield is an adoptation of the Mauser. The french one should be shown tho. (Video is very pro england)
to be fair the Springfield only served in large numbers briefly and as spare rifles sold by America before they joined, the French Lebel should be in the video though, and original Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles in working condition are a bit hard to find I'd believe, unlike the 91/30
No Moist Nooget, thats what i came for
This is a totally Anglo centric doco. This guy bugs me. I have owned and shot both, beside the magazine differences both equally lovely pieces to own and fire. This is how myths begin, like the superiority of the Katana to European swords, but that's another rant. So don't listen children the K98 will fuck you up just as much as the Enfield! This is just propaganda, If the Lee Enfield action is so good then why are most bolt action sporting rifles Mauser based? Do your own research don't just follow this guy. Oh and that rapid fire dub step bit when he was shooting the Enfield? Please…..
Andy at the end was taking his time with the Mauser because the director told him to.
You even find quite a few hunters today using converted K98. They would have a scope mounted and the stock replaced with something nicer than the military standard, but otherwise unchanged.
.303 L.E. - not so many.
But again - both are wonderfully crafted rifles!
loading more clips means more time as well. they should test with empty chambers load rounds and then fire.
agreed
Daniel Eyre the German mauser was pretty good for standing up to mud, and dirt. i hardly have to clean mine. probably should honestly o.o even the mossin nanget is better that the lee enfield for amount of time before cleaning.. then again most Russian things like to get dirty, and not need a bath for some time. LOL! if the lee enfield was more covered up, like an expanded internal magazine would help it. of coarse it would be integrated into the stock, like the mauser. Making it better against the muddy ground. not a huge difference, but it could go a long way.
either way the lee, and Mauser rifles were pretty damn good for the time. I'd love either one if i had to be equipped with one or the other gun for battle.
MonarchTherapsids Inostran I have to disagree, the Enfield is just as reliable as a mosin, or mauser. the catch is like you said the mag can get fouled up, and the mosin/mauser have a "safer" design with the locking lugs at the front of the bolt, vs the enfiled at the rear. its actually kinda a spooky thing to see XD.
this video made me laugh more than an average video intended for comedic purposes would
Dan I have nothing but respect for you, And being pretty much british meself I can understand the enthusiasm. But the Lee-Enfield, while a wonderful weapon, Did have faults of it's own. I have both and shot both. I love the both of them, but if I was in the trenches. I'd rather have the Mauser G98 rather then the SMLE. While the SMLE had double the magazine capacity and a shorter pull bolt. The thing was not as 'trench friendly', Plus with the rear locking lugs I get a little nervous as the lock up isn't as reassuring as the Mauser's. But most of all, you're more likely to hit what you're aiming at with a G98 rather then the SMLE No.3 Mk.1. And yes it only has a 5 round magazine, But reloading is so fast, that the firing rate difference is not as wide as people think they are. The bolt on a G98 is very smooth, Never does it snag on me.
I reiterate both are fine rifles and were I equipped with either of them back in the trenches, I wouldn't complain in the least. But there is no clear superiority in either of these as you're trying to suggest. By the way Dan, Dubstep was not a good choice for music in these videos.
What do you mean by trench friendly? The Lee Enfield was shorter, had a larger magazine, and a short pull bolt; all of which are beneficial to fighting in trenches. Reload speed won't matter if your Gewehr is empty and his Enfield still has 5 rounds left, no chance you can reload faster than he could cycle the bolt.
Though I agree, for long range combat I'd go with the Gewehr over the Enfield.
@@sam8404 what about the Springfield and Lebel, the other two rifles?
I don't know what you mean by "trench friendly" either. In terms of reliability in the trenches -- i.e. susceptibility to mud and dirt, every report I've ever read rates the SMLE as one of, if not _the_ best rifle of the war in that regard. And if you mean combat _in_ the trenches, after you've jumped down into an enemy trench, or he's jumped down into yours... I'd take the shorter, handier SMLE over the G98 any day. It would be much more maneuverable in the confines of the trenches.
I own an SMLE, a Mauser 98 (though it's the Brazilian contract version, not German army Gewehr 98), and an M1917 Enfield (which was basically the British P14 rechambered for .30-06). Of all of them, I'd take the SMLE as a combat rifle every time -- and I'm not British. I doubt the average, rack grade SMLE was any less accurate than the average, rack grade G98, and even if it was, I very much doubt the average solder would have been enough of a marksman to exploit the difference, so I dispute the assertion that you are more likely to hit the target with the Mauser. I also have to say your fears of for the strength of the action are _totally_ groundless. _All_ the military rifles of that era were built at least twice as strong as they needed to be to handle the chamber pressure of the cartridges they fired, and some (e.g. the Japanese Arisaka) were roughly ten times as strong. The Lee-Enfield, in its various versions, served the British armed forces from 1895 to 1957. If there had been any problems with the strength of the action and its rear locking lugs, I think they would have discovered it in those 62 years of use.
Who the fuck decided montage parody music was a good choice for this show
Pretty excited that we'll get to fire these in the new Battlefield game !
+davor novosel Do you even English?
What do you mean?
+Patrick Henry next battlefield is set in world war one
You can already in Verdun which is an excellent realistic WWI based fps .
Get Verdun and do it now
"HEY JOHN, THEY LIKE THEM DUBSTEP DON'T THEY? LETS GET 'EM TO WATCH IT WITH DUBSTEP FROM 2009, AND FOR THE NEXT ONE WHY DON'T WE PUT A COUPLE OF MEMES TO GET EVERYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 30 INTERESTED IN THIS, HELL YEAH THAT'S GOING TO BE A *GREAT* IDEA!"
It is known that the Americans made a accuracy rifle (Springfield M1903), the Germans a hunting rifle (Mauser Gew98), but the British made a *battle rifle* (Lee-Enfield rifles).
Mode countries copied or based their rifles on the German one
The smle was moreso a carbine
The important point about the different bolt actions is that with the "offset" SMLE bolt handle & shorter action, you can hold your aim while cocking, whereas with the Mauser, you have to move your head out of the way of the longer pullback & more upright bolt knob & so lose your general aim. This design element contributed greatly to the difference in rate of fire between the weapons. Dan kept dropping the Lee Enfield from his shoulder unnecessarily when cocking, whereas Andy got closer to the correct rapid firing technique.
I remember doing rifle drill as a Cadet with the Lee enfield 303. Good times :)
I always thought Dan Snow was an actual historian. This obviously biased piece of propaganda completley shattered my perspective
Well, he Dident take reliability into acount
I hate the fact that all these programs always have a biased view towards the Brits
Jakob Unsworth well they won the war...... don't really know what to tell you apart from the fact that the smle 3 is one of the best bolt action rifles from WW1 par maybe the Russian 1895 but that was lever action.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion but I always preferred the Lebel Model 1886 rifle.
Jakob Unsworth Mosin Nagant is best rifle, you will kill the Germans with it, protect the motherl- I mean Fatherland (Still Imperial Russia during WW1)
Steel Zsar I think it was good at the beginning but the french got outclassed by the other armies
Same they always paint themselves as the greatest army then but in reality, the Germans would have steam rolled them if it wasn't for their navy protecting the,
Interesting to see that some Great War propaganda is still being repeated today as "fact" - thirty eight aimed shots shots in a minute with a Lee Enfield No 1 MkIII is utter nonsense. There is simply not enough time for thirty seven manipulations of the bolt, reloading the magazine (six five round chargers in total) and aiming.
You've obviously never seen it done. It's insane how fast people can work a bolt and trigger. Just youtube it, I've seen someone on here pull of 34 or 35. I don't remember the number. Not quite 38 but pretty damn close.
Topher Glenn
You are right, I've never seen it done as it's impossible. If you think it is kindly point me to some credible footage of anyone shooting 38 full power 303 rounds out of a Lee Enfield No 1 MK3 in a minute and hitting a 12" target every time at 300 yards. That's the mythical feat of "Instructor Sergeant Alfred Snoxall", a man who never existed, at least in historical records.
If he had been left handed it would have been possible. You would never have to take your right hand off the bolt.
jockellis
No, it would not be possible. In fact it's even slower for a left handed shooter as they have to reach awkwardly over the top of the rifle. Regardless of technique there is simply not enough time in a minute to do thirty seven manipulations of the bolt, reloading the magazine (six five round chargers in total) and aiming. Folks seem to get hung up on how fast the bolt can be worked and the trigger pulled, that is only part of the equation, reloading the magazine takes time, and most importantly it takes time to aim the rifle with quite a bit of precision to hit a twelve inch target at 300 yards.
314299 Shooting Channel bolts fast enough, but reloading......makes it impossible. so yes your right.
My thoughts on this video:
PROS:
Good camera quality
The information is generally accurate and unbiased
Eye-catching
CONS:
Horrible background music
Was really promising right up until exactly 1:18
you use crappy dupstep for headshot montages, not a WW1 show
How did I miss this🙍♂️🤦♂️. Soooooo sick🤯. Thank you for the awesome video 🤘🏼🍄🍄🍄
They forgot that the Mauser K98 had a 25 round detachable magazine that could replace the 5 round one called the Trench Box magazine which would mean that it would be slightly better in my opinion.
This is honestly so distasteful and wrong that I don't even want to watch any further. The notion that the Mauser Gewehr 98 was descended from "hunting rifles" is entirely false and adding dubstep to it only makes it worse. If this is what the BBC thinks about WWI then Brittan is beyond saving.
it was designed for military use but it feels like a hunting rifle in the way it is set up so it is easy to make the mistake.
Vypr
They fail to mention that the Mauser is still used by modern militaries today, whereas the Enfield is used by third world countries and guerrillas. Besides, the Enfield owes some of its features to the Mauser.
10 rounds and higher rof beats 5
Today bolt action rifles are used only for their accuracy, since semi-automatics are so common and larger magazines are certainly available today. The mauser action is still used today as the Reminton 700 action is derived from it.
almost all bolt rifles are derived from it
The Lee rifle is way older than the Mauser, by decades. You can recognize it in the 1870's the mauser products of the time was wastly different from the 90's models. Even the Mausers up to 1893 worked on cock on closing prinicple rather than the 98's cock on opening.
To claim the Lee Enfield was influenced by the mauser is simply not true, granted it got the idea of chargeloadeing from the meusers of the boer war, but the system dont share any parts or principles. The .303 being a rimmed case made sure of that.
Modern bolt action rifles like the Mauser M03,Acuracy International, Sako TRG, the S&L M97,The Sauer 200/202, The Blaser R93 and R8 dont use the mauser action, I dont think any rifle designed after 1990 do, They all lock in the barrel as oposed to the mauser locking in the reciever. And thats a huge difference.
The Mauser is not used today while the Lee Enfield is used by Canada and some 3rd world countries because of Britain's massive empire
At the beginning I was like what Dubstep, why are people mad. Then it finally hit me.
When they used dubstep I could see all the WW1 veterans and soldiers rolling in their graves
Didn't know that the British were still making war propaganda about a war that began 100 years ago. Shoot-out between the two rifles was clearly weighted to give the Enfield an advantage. I personally prefer working with the Mauser action, although both are superb and very much equal weapons.
Have you ever shot a 1917 Enfield?
Mauser bolt, cock on close, great sights, and an American round. I thoroughly love the lee enfields ( I have 3 variants) but the 1917 is an excellent rifle.
I want a k98 as well, but the are rare where I live. What's your take on the mausers?
Or maybe that was just his opinion haha
Lol much prefer my Enfield can get a ton more lead down range compared to the mauser
@@MaxwellBenson80 the 1917 in best of all worlds and yet the dumb arse yanks think the Springfield was thier main rifle
DAT old fella stalled with the gewher
WW1 Soldiers had a rave when they won a battle
Good vid, cheers
I always thought, british tv is better than what we have in germany, (mainly because of top gear). But this piece right here could also come from german ard or zdf channel trying to be "cool and young"
Ah ja, Sie silly British. Oh ja
I had to mute it when he was about to fire the german rifle. That was torture.
What about the Ross, Styler-Manchiller, Carcano, M1917, Springfield, Lebel, Berthier, and Mosin Nagant?
Finally! a show combining my two favourite things, skrillex and bolt action rifles, bit biased tho, have one of each and i personally favor my Kar98k
Too bad they didnt show the time it took to reaload the enfield...
Good point, also after that initial 10 rounds in any engagement the Lee Enfield essentially drops to the same rate of fire because you reloaded with 5 rounds not a full 10. Taking an extra 20 seconds to reload another 5 rounds could easily mean ded.
@@nowthisis2stupid loading the full 10 rounds also lead to more stopages. mostly loaded 5 rounds.
Not to mention rim lock
@Alexander Challis Good for you, I own two no.4 rifles and one no.1 rifle and load them from chargers regularly. And I'm telling you, they do not load as fast or smoothly every time like they do battlefield. So apart from your limited experience as a cadet, I'm telling you from extensive experience of regularly shooting and owning the rifle I'm going to disagree with your 'drivel' and stick with my original assessment.
@@tomberney8459 no it doesnt
actually the enfield action is just a copy of the Mauser G93 bold action. it's weaker and lacks some safety features. at least that's what I heard and read. also the "expert" in the comparison (that was biased anyway, should be 1 minute, 30sec is rigged so that the enfield doesn't need to reload) took the munition stripe out of the 98 instead of closing the bold with the stripe still inserted. it's designed that way and makes for quicker reloading. the enfield can't do that because it needs two stripes.
yeah but often british soldiers would put only 1 stripper in at a clip at a time and if they need an especially quick reload they would only put one in you dont need to fully load a rifle
Enfields had 10 bullet strips
The Lee-Enfield action wasn't copied from Mauser 93, although both do cock on closing. The Mauser's have locking lugs at the front of the bolt, while the Enfield's are at the rear. Over time the rear lugs can lead to some head spacing issues, so the Enfield's also have detachable bolt heads, while the Mauser's do not. It also bears mentioning that the basic Enfield action was already in service prior to the M93.
While this demonstration is definitely skewed in favor of the British, the Enfield's smooth action and superior rate of fire compared to that of the Mauser 98 are well documented. The Mauser does however outclass the Enfield in strength and potential accuracy, which is why nearly all modern hunting rifles are based on the Mauser.
psychoorangex no you had to load 2 5 round chargers
Don't you mean the Pattern 14 & 17 Enfield rifles?They were copies of the Mauser action that the British put into production with the intention of replacing the Lee Enfield, just before WW1, but WW1 got in the way & the British decided to keep the Enfield anyway.
the part with the dubstep sounds like a MW2 montage :D
"Used by the SS" the Gewer 98 (albeit a shortened version) was still the standard issue weapon of the werhmacht, and (correct me if I'm wrong) might still be their dress rifle. Due to technological advancement, weapons like the G43, and Stg-44 became more common, but never fully replaced the K98
Actually, during WWII, the Mauser Karabiner 98 was the standard infantry rifle, which was a lighter and shorter than the Mauser Gewher 98, but it was still a masterpiece.
Still, the Gewher 98 was the best at its time, it was surely more accurate and powerful than the Lee Enfield, and this documentary is a very very biased piece of BBC scum.
Oh my god. They even had him stutter for the dubstep. I'm done. I quit. Fucksake.
What the fuck, dubstep
D-D-D-D-DROP THE BASS!
Made me kek hard.
The dubstep really adds to the authenticity
I have a Mauser from 1917 but it was refurnished in the 30s, it still shoots straight, (luckily)
The music wasn't bad enough to justify the dislikes
BTW, if I am correct, they made this so kids would learn more about the war. That's probably why they put dubstep
so you learn better when listening to dubstep ? interesting...
Oh. My. God. Do you have hearing problems? On top of that, I am sure that dubstep doesn't represent the situation in the trenches very well, eh?
It is not designed to represent the situation in the trenches. It is designed to keep kids watching. A majority of small kids would get bored with the bolt action rifle just firing and nothing else happening. Therefore, they put in some interesting editing while syncing it up to dubstep. As they continue watching, they will take in some of the info. All the dubstep was meant to do was keep kids (the target audience) from clicking away out of boredom. I would agree though that, it was a very lazy way of keeping these people engaged.
Ian Drsaurri also the music and editing is more shit than fecal matter
this is a good show, but the music really pisses me off
“Let’s hand it to Andy, the expert - fails to spot round ejection and forgets how many shots fired… He had one job! 😂
Once I get back stateside, I'm planning on doing a video on my BSA (1917) No1MKIII* - fantastic rifle!
THAT'S RIGHT GET NO SCOOOOOOOOOPED
"Used by Hitler's SS bodyguards"
I'm British but if I was a Tommy I'd use the German rifle because I like it.
Gewehr 98 and Skrillex - that´s exactly how i remember the Battle of Verdun.
This is more of a British propaganda video than an actual test.
yea
WW1 uncut rifles-shows only British and German rifles.At least put the words: British and German rifles.
and maybe some American stuff too
If it was pro British propaganda it certainly wouldn't be coming from the BBC
Lord Kitchener no one asked you Kitchener!
Interesting piece spoilt by the music.
This music is what happens when you ask a bunch of aging dinosaurs how to get that young demographic for your WW1 documentary
Him: Talking about how the guns work and how old it is
Shoots the gun
DUBSTEP
Random bit of Skrillex... wtf lol? :P
The Mauser model 98 is considered perfection in bolt action rifle category by almost every single weapons expert in the world. I can't believe they said the Enfield was superior. I would agree that the Enfield was a better choice for the untrained conscript however in 1vs1 comparison with all factors consider the Mauser wins easily. It still still used by competitive sports shooters and military snipers today. "No more reliable bolt action rifle has ever been invented. Almost all modern bolt action rifles are based on Mauser 98 principles, and subsequent "improvements" to the Model 98 action seem to invariably be in the area of cutting production costs, not making a superior action."
+damnedcarrot "Untrained conscript?" Seriously??? The British Army took a very serious view of Infantry being both accurate and knowledgeable with their assigned weapons prior to and in WW1 so I am afraid that your statement is badly flawed. If all factors to consider,(your wording) in a one to one comparison, why has the SMLE got a higher cyclic firing rate than the Mauser? FYI various forms of the Lee-Enfield are still used worldwide. U.S. military were getting killed in Afghanistan by accurate fire from insurgents using Lee-Enfields.of various vintages. Snipers were still using Lee-Enfields until recent years. Who cares what any "single weapons expert in the world" says? They weren't in the trenches in WW!, they weren't snipers in WW1 and their opinion doesn't mean "squat" in relation to the video. A dollar to a pinch of excrement, says that you have never spoken to anyone that survived the trenches in WW1 and heard their opinion before their demise. Too late now though, they are dead and gone.RIP.:(
*****
yes but being able to fire a 458 win mag is completely irrelevant to a rifles military service... You can't get an M16 to fire 458 win mag either, doesn't mean it isn't one of the best miltiary rifles ever produced.
+fdsdh1 The m16 isnt one of the best military rifles ever produced, maybe the most modular lol
BakeCakeMake Fake They had to modify it to three round bursts because the American soldiers wasted so many bullets missing their targets with it lol
+BakeCakeMake Fake it is, do some research it's more reliable than all kalashnikovs
He kept flinching every time he fired 😂
Whoever added the drop the bass part... you're fired
Was that awful music actually in the documentary?
Both good rifles. For brush hunting, I use my Enfield, for hunting over open terrain Mauser all day. However, this show is highly biased for British gear but who cares. You know what rifle kicks both their buts? My Mosin Nagant 91/30. Minute of angle, smooth action, easy to work on, ammo is cheap, durable as hell. Love it.
Oh god no.
I have a Mosin. I have a yugo Mauser (same action as the M98, of course) and I've shot a 1905 Lee Enfield extensively. The Mosin is the worse of them. Easily. Forever. Even for being a simple club of a rifle it isn't very good (two piece bolt lol), and the action feels like dragging a piece of steel over asphalt. Easy to work? Yes. Comfortable or pleasant? no. There are far better Milsurp bolt actions people can get for not much more money. Guess it's cus its a memegun. Don't get me wrong, I like the Mosin, but acting like it's anything more than a mass-produced brick developed for the sole purpose of getting as many rifles for the cost into the hands of peasant conscripts is kind of dumb.
It's saving grace is that it's cheap, it's ammo is cheap, and hex bayonets are the shit.
I agree with that. I own a WW1 Mauser and that is by far the hardest kicking round I have ever fired, in my opinion.
I think I believe the whole thing was built around an MG round, and turns out, after converting to smokeless powder, 8x57 is ridiculously overpowered for an infantry rifle. You can kill a moose, though.
Just a few years ago, I had a business trip to Dakka in Bangladesh. The airport security police had WWI Lee Enfield rifles.
why that music?
Nice concept, to bad the execution was so lame.
love the mauser
A moment of silence for the music guy who almost certainly lost his job after this video.
I can make something better and without that dumb dubstep also the Mauser was always a military rifle the first model adopted by Germany was the g71 and it was a single shot weapon but after the Russo- ottoman war where the the ottomans used Winchester yellow-boys or model 1868s and peabody martinis which destroyed the Russians who where using burdan riffles wich was a single shot weapon so seeing how single shot weapons where obsolete Germany went to the 71/80 where it had a tube magazine of 6 rounds but in 1886 France invents smokeless powder and adopt the labell and Germany panic so they created a commission rifle called the g 88 where it loads from an enblock magazine like the mannlichers but unlike the mannlicher where you can only load one way you can load both ways but Mauser is angry by this and created other rifles however the model 1895 is important it's striper clip feed smokeless powder and that gets reworked into the g98 with the roller coaster sites so it wasn't a hunting rifle however the action was used for hunting rifles and Mauser did make sporting arms
Correction it's Russo-Turkish war
Two words; Cringe and Propaganda.
Having both the Mauser is definitely more utilitarian while the Enfield is more refined. I especially like the adjustable peep sight on the Enfield. Both great deer rifles btw.
I can't believe they left this up for 6 years with that music lol