Vila Velebita: Croatian Submachine Gun Made in a Shed

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @TammoKorsai
    @TammoKorsai 11 місяців тому +647

    As the British have proven, sheds are a great place for inventing submachine guns.

    • @Foreskin-Forest
      @Foreskin-Forest 11 місяців тому +58

      Australia too, and new Zealand sheds make great improvised tank factories

    • @paleoph6168
      @paleoph6168 11 місяців тому +39

      "Look what you've done to my bloody shed man!"

    • @Bob.martens
      @Bob.martens 11 місяців тому +73

      Sheds have long been essential for inventing anything in Britain.

    • @balood
      @balood 11 місяців тому +12

      I don't have a shed

    • @krissteel4074
      @krissteel4074 11 місяців тому +36

      Its the man safe space where no one comes and annoys you

  • @Uncle_Roadkill
    @Uncle_Roadkill 11 місяців тому +262

    Every shed should have a submachine gun making corner

    • @Jreb1865
      @Jreb1865 11 місяців тому +8

      Some do in the US...

    • @Uncle_Roadkill
      @Uncle_Roadkill 11 місяців тому +13

      @@Jreb1865 we need 'em across the world!

    • @thekraken1173
      @thekraken1173 11 місяців тому +6

      @@Uncle_Roadkill On every continent

    • @pom8130
      @pom8130 11 місяців тому +2

      @@thekraken1173In every country

    • @thekraken1173
      @thekraken1173 11 місяців тому

      @@pom8130 In every household

  • @Weeboslav
    @Weeboslav 11 місяців тому +307

    A bit of info on the name. It's named after Croatian patriotic folk song from 19th century. Literal translation is "Fairy of Velebit". Velebit is largest mountain range in Croatia.

    • @engineer1941
      @engineer1941 11 місяців тому +38

      Fairy of Velebit in that song is also reference to Croatian Fairy from Petar Zoranć book Planine ("Mountains") from 1536. One of most important defences of Croatian language in literature where she cries because Croatian writers are ashamed to use Croatian language while writing their books but using foregin languages.

    • @jureboban6658
      @jureboban6658 11 місяців тому +9

      za jugoslavije je postojao brod petar zoranić, a danas... zna se. inače, pratim ovaj kanal i lik je nakon nekoliko intervencije prestao koristit "civil war" za D. R. Za ovu strojnicu prvi puta čujem.

    • @AlbertCamus-r6i
      @AlbertCamus-r6i 11 місяців тому +4

      Based.

    • @Bleilock1
      @Bleilock1 10 місяців тому

      ​@@jureboban6658 kad nije bio gradjanski rat niti domovinski
      Nego buržuazijska revolucija
      Doslovno samo ljudi iz ex yuge vjeruju i misle da je to bio domovinski rat
      Nitko drugi na ovoj planeti to ne misli

    • @antoniomosley4961
      @antoniomosley4961 10 місяців тому +3

      ​@@jureboban6658Iskreno lik je Amer, ne krivim ga. Počeo je govoriti "their independence war" što je ok, za nekoga je to građanski rat a za nekoga (za nas) rat za nezavisnost.

  • @joshuarebennack68
    @joshuarebennack68 11 місяців тому +112

    "...made in a shed" is favorite sub-genre of Forgotten Weapons.

    • @absolutjackal
      @absolutjackal 11 місяців тому +2

      even better would be French made in a shed

  • @Vincent-S
    @Vincent-S 11 місяців тому +161

    Ha, more than 100 but less than 200 guns out of a very small home shop in the middle of a war is a pretty dang great production run!

    • @alexsis1778
      @alexsis1778 11 місяців тому +1

      Not quite a home shop if its coming from a "dockyard". Probably slightly nicer than what the majority of people would have at home with likely more than just 1 person working on it.

    • @noreply-7069
      @noreply-7069 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@alexsis1778 Still a decent production quantity imo.

  • @77gravity
    @77gravity 11 місяців тому +112

    I work in a shed - I make cutting-edge precision parts for Formula 1.
    A garage is just a small shed.
    A factory is just a large shed.

    • @dposcuro
      @dposcuro 11 місяців тому +6

      @@Ramonatho Not always. Used to work in a factory where the most advanced thing was a CO2 Laser CNC table. Everything else was turret punch presses, manual brakes, mig welders and angle grinders.

    • @stephencolley334
      @stephencolley334 11 місяців тому +5

      ​@@dposcuro
      And STILL turned out plenty of quality thingamabobs!
      😉😉😉

    • @jweathers131
      @jweathers131 11 місяців тому +10

      A garage is a large shed.
      A factory is a maximum shed.

  • @brandonobaza8610
    @brandonobaza8610 11 місяців тому +196

    "Is that a sub-machinegun?"
    "No, it's a shed-machinegun."

  • @maxkennedy8075
    @maxkennedy8075 11 місяців тому +79

    New Forgotten weapons playlist
    “Guns made in sheds”

    • @petrimakela5978
      @petrimakela5978 11 місяців тому +7

      Does Accuracy International count?

    • @maxkennedy8075
      @maxkennedy8075 11 місяців тому +11

      @@petrimakela5978 100%. Just cos its made in a shed doesn’t mean its an unrifled simple blowback SMG made illegally
      Thats just most of the time

    • @petrimakela5978
      @petrimakela5978 11 місяців тому +4

      @@maxkennedy8075 Like my sh... Nevermind 😂

    • @wdj4015
      @wdj4015 10 місяців тому

      ​@@petrimakela5978my lawyer has advised not to speak in this matter

  • @nekomasteryoutube3232
    @nekomasteryoutube3232 11 місяців тому +40

    I'm glad that in 2024 its possible to view these "homemade" guns in peace.

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 11 місяців тому +245

    "So you've got to remember is that: everything good in the world - especially everything good that ever came out of Britain - came out of a shed.
    Radio, television, jet engine, printing press, and in other countries: the aeroplane, the hot air balloon."
    "Look what you've done to my bloody shed, man!!"
    - James May, _Top Ground Gear Force,_ 2008

    • @bobfranklin2572
      @bobfranklin2572 11 місяців тому +18

      I was, quite literally "made" in a shed😬

    • @paleoph6168
      @paleoph6168 11 місяців тому

      ​@@bobfranklin2572you are good!

    • @jubuttib
      @jubuttib 11 місяців тому +12

      Wonder why it never stuck out to me that he said "printing press". Even if you don't take Gutenberg as the originator (and he was by no means the first, just the one whose technique was finally good enough to spread and become commonplace), it'd be really hard to argue Brits invented it. =)

    • @Geroaergaroe
      @Geroaergaroe 11 місяців тому +9

      @@jubuttib Didn't you hear ? The brits also invented curry.

    • @FTWIHA
      @FTWIHA 11 місяців тому +3

      @@bobfranklin2572
      Prooves May was wrong about that.

  • @ifell3
    @ifell3 11 місяців тому +27

    Ive been to Croatia, an absolutely lovely place to go ❤

  • @aaa72317
    @aaa72317 11 місяців тому +16

    Damn, Croatia has some fine garages.

  • @Crangaso
    @Crangaso 11 місяців тому +11

    Congratulations on winning the Best Gun Reviewer Gundie Ian!!!!

  • @Decebalus
    @Decebalus 11 місяців тому +25

    As far as early 90s submachine guns made in a shed during a war go, it doesn't look too bad really.

  • @MrTJPAS
    @MrTJPAS 11 місяців тому +47

    At this point, if they ever made Croatia into a Civilization in Civ 6, they need to have a special building called a shed that produces modern infantry for cheaper than usual

    • @reliantncc1864
      @reliantncc1864 11 місяців тому

      While I would love that, the game still hasn't included Israel as a civilization. Sid Meier is an actual communist, and we shouldn't expect him to make sense.

    • @tuobniklat
      @tuobniklat 9 місяців тому

      @@reliantncc1864Israel has no particular unique culture or likeable historical leaders and would be an obviously bad fit for a civ game, you’re so brainwashed it’s hilarious

    • @bvonm9557
      @bvonm9557 7 місяців тому

      hahahahhaha best comment ever.

  • @michael2636
    @michael2636 11 місяців тому +36

    The knurling on that gun looks very well done!

    • @ElRel
      @ElRel 11 місяців тому +4

      Agree. This is definitely not a luty

  • @aaronleverton4221
    @aaronleverton4221 11 місяців тому +85

    Watching all of that play out on the nightly news I didn't really think about who was arming who. But, looking back it seems like the kind of time where someone would have been ecstatically happy to have the complete technical drawings of the Sten or the Owen handed to them. "Hey, I hear you need a national emergency sub-machine gun in an awful hurry."

    • @darkiee69
      @darkiee69 11 місяців тому

      Or the Swedish kpist M/45 aka the swedish K

    • @stephencolley334
      @stephencolley334 11 місяців тому +8

      I wonder /bet that today, in January 2024, those are available "somewhere" on the Internet.
      Anyone?
      BTW - NOT intending any violation of UA-cam policy! Just curious.

    • @dwightehowell8179
      @dwightehowell8179 11 місяців тому +1

      Maybe on the dark web but about all I know about that is that something is out there. @@stephencolley334

    • @innocentgunn
      @innocentgunn 11 місяців тому

      What about that Lutty guy from Britain, who made all his "blue prints" available. I believe he was jailed for it. But a lot of his designs showed up on the streets of Australia after the ban?

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 11 місяців тому

      @@innocentgunn And when was that? Because Yugoslavia tore itself apart before the world wide internet became available to all of us.

  •  11 місяців тому +12

    As a non-Croatian-firearms-designer-form-the-nineties - this was enjoyable.

  • @CobraDBlade
    @CobraDBlade 11 місяців тому +22

    I could see a single manufacturer being set up to make the bolt and recoil spring assemblies en mass for them to be distributed to various manufacturers with the instructions of "make a gun that these will go into" in the sort of desperation that a sudden war would bring about.

    • @stephencolley334
      @stephencolley334 11 місяців тому +2

      UNOFFICIALLY of course.
      Plausible Deniability (in case your side looses)!

    • @dwaneanderson8039
      @dwaneanderson8039 11 місяців тому +2

      It would be kinda cool if someone made a submachine gun kit that was just a bolt, barrel, and magazine. You could design the rest yourself.

  • @Rodzyniastyyyy
    @Rodzyniastyyyy 11 місяців тому +18

    Nothing beats the shed aesthetic. NOTHING>

  • @dcspooky6903
    @dcspooky6903 11 місяців тому +19

    Another great gun review! Congrats on your Gundie award.......well deserved acknowledgement of your dedication.

  • @unlearningcommunism4742
    @unlearningcommunism4742 11 місяців тому +50

    Vila is a mythical creature present in all Slavic nations. They are the most beautiful, forever young girls, with long hair, dressed in long white dresses. They are dangerous. They can lure you like sirens, or you can accidentally hurt them, or step on the ground where they have danced and it will make you seriously ill. General advice is to avoid them and not to disturb them. They are also good with herbs, both poisonous and medicinal. Top Tier heroes have them as sisters and they help them sometimes with wise advices. There is a famous medieval song in which 2 heroes were fighting and at some point one of them was reminded by Vila that he has a hidden knife. This is how he won the duel.

    • @daviswall3319
      @daviswall3319 11 місяців тому +2

      Pretty sure I dated her for awhile in college 😎

    • @reliantncc1864
      @reliantncc1864 11 місяців тому +1

      That's very cool. I'm sure I would be lured successfully.

    • @unlearningcommunism4742
      @unlearningcommunism4742 11 місяців тому +1

      @reliantncc1864 watch out if you visit Dalmatia (Adriatic coast of Croatia). Those blondes, genetic combination of Slavs and Italians, are stunning. On top of that, they use "ee" instead of "e" (they would not say bear, but beer instead), making their language so poetic and probably the hottest Slavic dialect.
      I'm a Serb, but my only love at first sight was with a Dalmatian girl.

    • @unlearningcommunism4742
      @unlearningcommunism4742 11 місяців тому

      @daviswall3319 I was captured by the 6ft tall one. 15 years later, we are still together. I even managed to resist the one described in the comment below

  • @lairdcummings9092
    @lairdcummings9092 11 місяців тому +15

    A simple design, but it has all the features you want, excepting a drop safety. Actually, the charging handle notch can serve that role, so... Essentially complete.

  • @engineer1941
    @engineer1941 11 місяців тому +24

    Also fun fact. Song Vila Velebita after which is this called was heavly forbiden in Yugoslavia, you were sentenced to jail time and heavly beaten if you were heard singing it by police.

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 11 місяців тому +10

    I gotta say, for a "we made this in the garage" gun, it doesn't look too bad. Usually the one's I've seen look rough as hell and scream "don't use me or you'll lose a hand".

  • @Matt-md5yt
    @Matt-md5yt 11 місяців тому +11

    Sweet a new Croatian weapon being covered

  • @PalKrammer
    @PalKrammer 11 місяців тому +3

    The machining on this gun looks very well done.

  • @dakotahrickard
    @dakotahrickard 11 місяців тому +7

    Oh yeah. Open bolt smg is SOOOO easy to design and produce. I'll just whip one up, shall I?
    I mean, I get the idea, but dang. This guy is so smart and capable! I'm honestly a touch envious of the experience, cleverness, and presence Ian brings to the table.
    "You just rotate this, lock that into place, pull the trigger and it comes right off." Meanwhile I'm happy I got the slide off a 1911 without janking the whole shebang.

    • @franknstein546
      @franknstein546 11 місяців тому

      As i understood it, the hard part is actually getting the mag right :D

    • @dakotahrickard
      @dakotahrickard 11 місяців тому

      @@franknstein546 I doubt I could get the stock right.

    • @franknstein546
      @franknstein546 11 місяців тому

      @@dakotahrickard Yeah, same here .. :D

  • @Eric-vs2he
    @Eric-vs2he 11 місяців тому +17

    Ah yes the good old shed, the place where many great weapons are created

  • @graf_marcula
    @graf_marcula 11 місяців тому +14

    Optically it looks a lot inspired by an MP40 to me. The overall shape. The Bakelit. The position of the rear sling mount.

    • @mucicafrajer
      @mucicafrajer 11 місяців тому

      Yeah visually it looks hella like an mp40

    • @chriszenier826
      @chriszenier826 10 місяців тому

      And the barrel nut

  • @dan_taninecz_geopol
    @dan_taninecz_geopol 11 місяців тому +28

    Trogir is an absolutely astonishing town. I highly recommend the entire area around Split.

  • @miketeeveedub5779
    @miketeeveedub5779 11 місяців тому +1

    If it wasn't for shed warfare Croatia would still be a part of Yugoslavia! Praise the Shed!
    BTW - Ian, this video's sound is only being channeled through the left speaker. Please remix and reupload as mono for both channels.

  • @Tonci87
    @Tonci87 11 місяців тому +22

    Hi, it´s not Velabita, it´s Velebita. Velebit is the name of a montain range in Croatia and Vila Velebita basically means Fairy of Velebit

  • @rickh9396
    @rickh9396 11 місяців тому +2

    Congratulations on the Gundie award, Ian. Well deserved.

  • @TheMailmanOfSteel
    @TheMailmanOfSteel 11 місяців тому +9

    The Croatian Sensation.

  • @joza3592
    @joza3592 11 місяців тому +14

    I see the Croatian war wave hasn't stopped, could we hope for some other iconic designs soon, like RT-20, MACS or the infamous drunken Ustasha?

    • @JosipVr
      @JosipVr 11 місяців тому +5

      @@oskng 300m 😉

    • @ZP1993
      @ZP1993 11 місяців тому +4

      I'm hoping for the RT20 and APS95 videos

    • @JordanFlayer
      @JordanFlayer 11 місяців тому +3

      @@ZP1993working on it!

  • @FRIEND_711
    @FRIEND_711 11 місяців тому +21

    Croatia and SMGs be like a smash mouth song.
    "They dont stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop comong."

  • @fredboat
    @fredboat 11 місяців тому +3

    Thanks for the show.

  • @kaboom4679
    @kaboom4679 11 місяців тому +8

    We're gonna need a bigger shed

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier 11 місяців тому +5

    It’s not too shabby for a shed gun.

  • @MarshallBananar
    @MarshallBananar 11 місяців тому +21

    How do these videos keep being uploaded with only one audio channel? :(
    feels like it happens suprisingly often

    • @ryanpenrod1859
      @ryanpenrod1859 11 місяців тому

      Whoever edits these is a dingus

    • @Stevo_1998
      @Stevo_1998 11 місяців тому

      ngl thought my audio had broke, but everything else (except this video) is fine
      this is also the only comment I could find mentioning this???

  • @pjm204
    @pjm204 11 місяців тому +12

    It appears their garage was a pretty nice garage 😂 That looks like a pretty solid effort to me.

    • @stephencolley334
      @stephencolley334 11 місяців тому +2

      Even with a "smooth bore" barrel.
      Hey, it throws lead. Wa ja wan? 🙄🙄🙄

  • @EnSayne987
    @EnSayne987 11 місяців тому +7

    As a Croatian firearms designer from the 90s I can confirm that you shouldn't believe everything you read

  • @sabregunner1
    @sabregunner1 11 місяців тому +3

    my thought with the differences, is that there are specific pieces that required hight quality and they limited it to those specific parts, everything else was just good enough

  • @MunyuShizumi
    @MunyuShizumi 11 місяців тому +4

    Misspelled name, it's "Vila Velebita" ("Fairy of Velebit", Velebit being the largest mountain in Croatia).
    EDIT: Video used to have incorrect title, fixed in meantime :)

  • @jasonb7230
    @jasonb7230 11 місяців тому +5

    i ended up with a Croatian use Yugo M59 sks recently, just having and m59 on its own is cool to me

  • @callumgordon1668
    @callumgordon1668 11 місяців тому +39

    SMGs definitely seem to be the easiest most effective firearm to make. The Warsaw Uprising museum has some brilliant examples of Sten copies and original designs.
    A person I know in the U.K. boasted on his cop friend’s social media he could easily build such a thing. The cop took it down and DM’d the bloke reminding him some of his friends were in specialist police roles and not to be so …. Stupid!
    I’d add that even if I had the skills and resources I’d never attempt such! 😊

    • @causewaykayak
      @causewaykayak 11 місяців тому

      The British authorities make much of historical patriotism and skill at arms but given the sacrifices made by their people (The Somme for instance) they are neurotically twitchy about the common man having a gun. America beware you don't end up like them.

    • @lairdcummings9092
      @lairdcummings9092 11 місяців тому +4

      Anyone with access to a hardware store can obtain the materials and tools to assemble a basic, functional submachine gun. You don't even really need access to the simple plans on the Internet; a bit of thinking, some paper, and a pencil is enough to figure it out.

    • @exploatores
      @exploatores 11 місяців тому +5

      It´s not illigal to know and have the skills to do something. Doing it, is. if it was Illigal to have skills. then I would have been in a high security prison. Mostly because of things the govrement themself told me.

    • @callumgordon1668
      @callumgordon1668 11 місяців тому +2

      @@exploatores no it isn’t illegal to have skills, but drawing attention to yourself by inferring intent shows someone might not be as clever as they think they are!

    • @hans-joachimtenhoope1744
      @hans-joachimtenhoope1744 11 місяців тому +2

      That reminds me of a guy who walked into a Dutch gun store with an illegal derringer on a chain around his neck and was promptly told to leave.🤣

  • @andydaniels3029
    @andydaniels3029 11 місяців тому +22

    Ian McCollum, preparing UA-cam fanboys everywhere for a future dystopian world, one homemade firearm at a time…

  • @MrSomethingdark
    @MrSomethingdark 11 місяців тому +8

    They should have taken these Croatian domestically produced firearms for SW Andor show. Much better models for SciFi

  • @tomislavblazevic2742
    @tomislavblazevic2742 11 місяців тому +10

    It's actually "Velebita" :D, after the mountain.

  • @STRAKAZulu
    @STRAKAZulu 11 місяців тому +7

    Not quite to the "Tony Stark built this in a cave!" levels of British shed work, but when duty calls...

  • @paulfryejr2918
    @paulfryejr2918 11 місяців тому

    Thanks another interest and good review.

  • @Tammy-un3ql
    @Tammy-un3ql 11 місяців тому

    Thanks Ian

  • @unlearningcommunism4742
    @unlearningcommunism4742 11 місяців тому +7

    There was a dad joke that goes like this: What is the name of a mountain 8 times higher than Velebit? Vele-byte

  • @eleks12
    @eleks12 11 місяців тому +5

    Sound is broken. only works in the left side.

    • @80krauser
      @80krauser 11 місяців тому

      Gives that old time FW feel.

  • @niconico2004-whoop
    @niconico2004-whoop 11 місяців тому +3

    Audio is only in one ear?

  • @guyplachy9688
    @guyplachy9688 11 місяців тому +1

    Trogir is a beautiful little town! Would love to be rich enough to be able to afford a holiday home there.

  • @Barnie-pi7mk
    @Barnie-pi7mk 11 місяців тому +5

    The Croatian MP40 nice

  • @SirBoden
    @SirBoden 11 місяців тому

    The birds in the background are a nice touch

  • @damirblazevic4823
    @damirblazevic4823 11 місяців тому +28

    Ian, you made a typo. It's Vila VelEbita (Velebit is the name of the mountain in Croatia, not Velabit)

  • @Demo12345
    @Demo12345 11 місяців тому +1

    I'm watching this video two days after it came out. Am I having a weird glitch or is only the left channel working while the right channel has nothing but static for the audio?

  • @nhansemark
    @nhansemark 11 місяців тому +5

    What would the (reasonably) practical range be for a smoothbore like this?

    • @Jacgren
      @Jacgren 11 місяців тому +8

      MAYBE 25m tops, I've shot some other crude smoothbore centerfire weapons and anything beyond that you're just throwing the rounds in a cone of fire

    • @nhansemark
      @nhansemark 11 місяців тому +2

      Not too bad if you're indoors or such. Thanks for the info

    • @stephencolley334
      @stephencolley334 11 місяців тому +4

      ​@@Jacgren
      When your butt is in "the shit", throwing bullets in "the cone of fire" is FANTASTIC!
      😁😁😁

    • @athompso99
      @athompso99 11 місяців тому

      I remember that no-one wanted to go up against Al Capone *because* he was such a lousy shot, you didn't know who or what was going to be hit, there was NO safe spot to be!
      As a "discourage the f--- out of those guys" weapon (i.e. suppressive fire) inaccuracy isn't necessarily a significant problem!

  • @Snipe-uc8df
    @Snipe-uc8df 11 місяців тому +1

    is it just me, or is the audio only on one side?

  • @Sh4rlabyzer
    @Sh4rlabyzer 11 місяців тому +8

    "vila velebita" translated to english means the fairy of Velebit

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 11 місяців тому +1

      Fairy. Maybe nymph?

    • @TemperedMedia
      @TemperedMedia 11 місяців тому

      @@aaronleverton4221 Vila = a type of mythical figure. Nymphs aren't quite an analogue. Beautiful and alluring, deadly and wise, free-spirited and faithful... all of it depends on the source reiterating on the tales.

    • @aaronleverton4221
      @aaronleverton4221 11 місяців тому +1

      @@TemperedMedia Being the largest lexicon on the planet, English is replete with synonyms, or "similar, but not quite exactly the same". Fairy, dryad, nymph, siren, naiad, sprite, sylph. Okay, some are water-based and not arboreal. But, sometimes the first translation by a non-native speaker can be tweaked. In this case, perhaps not.

    • @TemperedMedia
      @TemperedMedia 11 місяців тому +1

      @@aaronleverton4221 Yep. The accepted modern use of "fairy" is even different from its roots. English is, for all intents and purposes, a language comprised of nearly every other language and culture throughout time.

  • @UnderTrack_
    @UnderTrack_ 11 місяців тому +5

    it would seem the sound is in mono on the left channel
    (it's not my headphone's problem, it works just fine on other youtube videos)

  • @Meldonator
    @Meldonator 11 місяців тому +2

    no right audio channel is quite disturbing :P :D

  • @CookieArcher
    @CookieArcher 11 місяців тому +2

    What a piece!

  • @freetobe3
    @freetobe3 11 місяців тому +2

    Would be awesome if they had made a few billion of these or similar.

  • @dantesfinferno7248
    @dantesfinferno7248 11 місяців тому +1

    TROGIR REPRESENT !!!! I bet I can find Juraj today and ask him about the gun and design lmao.

    • @br2299
      @br2299 11 місяців тому +1

      Već je obaviješten o tome da ga Ian traži...

  • @Lameguy
    @Lameguy 11 місяців тому +3

    why is all the audio in the left of headphones?????

    • @bobskool
      @bobskool 11 місяців тому +1

      Ian's using a Croatian shed built microphone

  • @derpanzermacher9094
    @derpanzermacher9094 11 місяців тому +1

    "Can we buy an Mp40?"
    "No we have Mp40 in the shed"
    *Mp40 in the shed*

  • @alijankhan3330
    @alijankhan3330 11 місяців тому

    Interesting, I was just watching an old video of yours about the TZ 45 and now I see this. Both smgs that look very alike

  • @thekraken1173
    @thekraken1173 11 місяців тому +1

    Men in sheds are backbone of technology

  • @hypethekomodo6495
    @hypethekomodo6495 11 місяців тому +14

    "...A simplified version of this gun."
    Man. At that point I imagine a barrel, a bare bones firing system, and a mag.
    Still, more proof that if people want to make a gun, they very well are going to. Even if it's in a shipyard with the bare minimum of tooling (and maybe know-how).

  • @adamkilby2273
    @adamkilby2273 11 місяців тому

    I love rapid fire shed bangers

  • @TMFShooting
    @TMFShooting 11 місяців тому +1

    Another Great Video Ian 💯, Thanks 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

  • @lizardjr.7826
    @lizardjr.7826 11 місяців тому +2

    Audio is only on the left side

  • @oneneoeno9824
    @oneneoeno9824 11 місяців тому +3

    I’m kind of bemused that so little is known about it, even considering the tiny production run. This was only 30 odd years ago, almost everyone involved should still be alive, if mostly retired by now. At least some names are known, it should be possible to research this by picking up the phone. I guess its more of a case of priorities and available research time vs significance, or lack of it, of the weapon.

    • @athompso99
      @athompso99 11 місяців тому

      Except for the little "war" thing, which has an unfortunate habit of getting in the way of still being alive - especially if you're a known armourer, which would make you an extremely-high-priority target. :-(

  • @gooondie
    @gooondie 11 місяців тому

    You really should have given this Croatian gun series a goofy name of some sort. Some of these guns are so bonkers

  • @PF2015
    @PF2015 11 місяців тому +3

    I believe famous composer Arthur Jackson wrote a song about these heroic fighters.

    • @jginsberg1
      @jginsberg1 11 місяців тому +1

      Yes, but he had double the number of sheds as the make of this gun

  • @beter21137
    @beter21137 10 місяців тому

    Behold! The SMM (Small Machine Musket)

  • @ukkox3636
    @ukkox3636 11 місяців тому +4

    Neat video once again.

  • @Damoinion
    @Damoinion 11 місяців тому

    It may have been the camera angle but it looked like the rear sight was missing a screw because the holes didn't line up. Sight off a different weapon?

  • @Hosenfuhrer
    @Hosenfuhrer 11 місяців тому +2

    It literally looks like "the MP-40 at home".
    Also: I swear I hear birds singing in the background.

  • @JMFP01
    @JMFP01 11 місяців тому

    I friggin love guns, always have. I'm a mechanic by trade and I do a bit of shed engineering. I modify tools to make them suit my purpose, I do some light fabrication. I would love to be able to tinker and build an open bolt submachine gun. Unfortunately that would land me in jail for a long time. A man can dream...

  • @tiagobelo4965
    @tiagobelo4965 11 місяців тому

    The mention of an uzi magazine on what I would've guessed was made in the mid 50s at the latest kinda threw me for a loop

  • @Gunnutt
    @Gunnutt 11 місяців тому

    Did the police remove and reinstall the feed ramp backwards? 7:04 in the video.

  • @markzenhorst5259
    @markzenhorst5259 11 місяців тому +2

    it can be me but it sounds like the audio is all mono (left side only). hopefully its a easy fix and otherwise it wil be mono ian today :P

  • @lafeelabriel
    @lafeelabriel 11 місяців тому +1

    Is it just me or is the audio only coming out on one side in this video?

  • @PacificPounding
    @PacificPounding 8 днів тому

    This is a rather historic firearm, as it was gifted to the Croatian president. (Who then gave it to the Croatian police museum, who then loaned it to forgottenweapons) and is the VERY FIRST ONE which is crazy,

  • @spiloFTW
    @spiloFTW 11 місяців тому

    7:05 I don't think its missing there is no hole for the second screw. The sight is probably donated from a different gun.

  • @DanStaal
    @DanStaal 11 місяців тому +1

    The audio on this video is a bit messed up - it's all coming from the left speaker.

  • @andersjjensen
    @andersjjensen 11 місяців тому

    I am only getting left channel audio on this. Perhaps it should have been down-mixed as mono?

  • @alias1719
    @alias1719 11 місяців тому

    7:05 Interesting removable feed ramp (installed backwards). Screw underneath the receiver does not look original.

  • @john050994
    @john050994 11 місяців тому

    Machinist here. Why the serial number on the charging handle?
    If the guy who made the other parts also made that charging handle, he was probably pretty proud of that part. Thats a good looking part with a lot of fifferent machining steps.
    Id number it too

  • @bio-plasmictoad5311
    @bio-plasmictoad5311 11 місяців тому +2

    Looks nice to me.

  • @DoRC
    @DoRC 11 місяців тому +3

    Audio is left channel only.

  • @proZach380
    @proZach380 11 місяців тому +2

    I identify as a Croatian firearms designer from the 90's

  • @Mr.Z1989
    @Mr.Z1989 11 місяців тому +1

    Why only left sided sound?

  • @oshawott2250
    @oshawott2250 11 місяців тому

    This thing looks like someone drew a MP40 from memory while drunk and then decided to actually go and produce it.