Wildebeest Pistol!
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- I really like this gun! I use the term "beast" several times in this video, because that's what it is! Like a lot of gun nerds, I like guns for their mechanisms almost as much as for their downrange effects. And it's great to see people around the world coming up with their own designs, especially when they come out this nice! Check out Bernard's UA-cam channel and drop him some comments! / @impulseresearch
You keep not posting a video about our short lead times...
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Tell Mark he's got to start making 10/22 barrels. I wish somebody would make a 18" titanium 10/22 barrel with a stainless liner. I can't be the only guy with $1,000 burning a hole in his pocket for a titanium Ruger barrel.
Hey Val: Your Dad isn't the only one who misses your videos! You need to get back in front of the camera and show us the assembly of a BFG-50A!!
I looked and it still shows 3 year backlog on BFG50.. :(
i picked up my rn50 last thursday and shot it for the first time today
Major gun manufacturers: Aren't making cyberpunk guns to go with our cyberpunk dystopia.
Bernard: "Fine, I'll do it myself."
I NEED IT
Well, didn't the US have a advanced rifle commision that got cancelled because all the ideas were too unreasonably complex and expensive
So they just ended up improving the guns they had
@@aslamstudio558 Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
I see you boy. I smell you. I know how you like your coffee. I'm in your walls.
Bernard: "you know what be cool? a semiauto 500sw..."
gov: "NO you cannot do this."
Bernard: " WATCH ME."
Wildebeest is actually the proper spelling of that word
Also, super sick looking Robocop gun. I need that in my life.
I spent half the video trying to figure out what was misspelled.
Hmm . . . a Conservative showing he's lacking education. What are the odds?
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@danman2677 Uh, nope.
Really clever to use the tipping barrel to allow for such a low bore axis, grip looks a little awkward but I love that angular aesthetic, very 80’s cyberpunk
I'm assuming some day somebody will want to suppress it. The barrel tilts but also slots into a sort of sled too- so maybe it could affix there instead?
The frame is chunky enough to support modification.
The issue will be that a bigger grip would look good, but feel bad in hand.This is quite slim while still having the space for .357 Rem Magnum mags.
I absolutely love the "Deagle of/from the future" aesthetic of it
this would definitely fit in a cyberpunk themed universe, like something you'd see in 2077 or Bladerunner used by the badass veteran character
With some lil changes I bet it could look like Johnnys pistol from 2077
The gun community in Australia is actually growing, so take that as you will. Everything is on back order, reloading powder is hard to get and PPU ammo you absolutely must get in on fast when it comes into stock.
Tell me about it!
Probably because everyone is expecting a full on bann.
@@peepopalaber Apparently primers are hard to get in the US as well. If there is a strong demand in the US, for powder and ammo, they don't send to Australia.
I thought you weren’t allowed guns generally in Australia... what are you allowed to have?
@@petergraves9006 Basically, pistols 9mm and below, no semi-auto rifles and must be a member of a club or association.
Personally, I seriously like the aesthetic. This looks like a pistol that the protagonist in a sci-fi movie would carry. I sincerely wish this man and his pistol the best of luck.
It’s weirdly angular and slab sided but it’s not bad
Hopefully we can get something like this imported or made in America because people will buy a low bore axis .357 Magnum
and it for sure has a lot of room for improvement and refinement. This is very clearly a prototype.
I love it. The handle needs some love, but the rest of the gun with that beefy angular design is epic. Looks like something out of blade runner.
put some wooden grip panels on that instead of the current truck bed liner looking stuff and *chefs kiss*
@@irregularguy6465 99% sure that stuff was made using a process (that youtube doesn't like when it's to do with guns) that involved multiple dimensions and a p-word
@@brandonwestfall3241 Pineapple? Begun, the Pineapple wars, have.
@@brandonwestfall3241 P-word? Like _pussy?_
@@brandonwestfall3241 The grip, the rear of the feed slide and the trigger guard were multiple dimensioned and p-worded as it's a prototype 🙂
Always wanted to see a magnum automatic that wasn't a Desert Eagle (or a roided 1911), I hope there'll be a day when we see these on the shelves.
Automag made i think 4 different variations.
Automag II = 22mag
III= 357 Mag
IV= 44 mag
V= 500 mag or 50ae, can't remember which.
Point being, they exist
There's been a few.
The Coonan is closely based on the 1911, and aims for a similar (enough) size, and then there's the LAR Grizzly pistols, which are like cutting two 1911s apart to then weld them together for making one longer front to back (in fact, that was what the prototype Grizzly was exactly). The Grizzly is pretty fat and bulky, but it's also intended for big and hefty cartridges like .45 Winchester Magnum and .50 Action Express, and it has some compatibility with normal 1911 parts.
Then you've got the AMC Auto Mag, a short-recoil Magnum with a rotating bolt head and proprietary .44AMP cartridge, also the later AMT Automag, which is more like the common Browning short-recoil and slide setup (and made kind of poorly).
The Wildey uses a rotating bolt with a gas piston, one which has an adjustable gasblock, and I always wondered why the Desert Eagle never had this as an option.
For some which never entered production, I'm aware of a .357 Magnum one from I think Switzerland, which is essentially a big Luger if the toggle was sideways. There's the Magmatic, which I don't recall that much about actually, but I kind of wonder why that floundered.
The earliest I can think of is the NAACO Brigadier, which was a very wacky post-WW2 military initiative in Canada, with the intent to make a sidearm which could reliably stop in a single shot. This manifested as a giant sized Browning Hi-Power chambered for .45 NAACO, which is virtually identical to the later .45 Winchester Magnum
Unsurprisingly, most found this a difficult sidearm to handle, and the proposition of making a select-fire carbine conversion kit I don't think ever even came to prototyping.
@@RichardCranium321 That'd be Arcadia Machine & Tool (separate from the earlier Auto Mag Corporation), and it'd be .50AE, they predated the .500 S&W by a good bit of time.
Given that the lone .454 AMT prototype couldn't keep itself together, and that AMT were not exactly the most talented of manufacturers, I can only dread what kind of handbomb they would have cooked up trying to make a rimless counterpart to the .500 S&W
@@RichardCranium321The AMT Automag III wasn’t chambered in 357 it’s only in .30 Carbine and 9mm Winchester magnum
LAR made the Grizzly, in .44 mag and .50 ae, it's basically a magnum 1911 with a big feck off muzzle brake on the end
As an MEng - I will never hate on a someone's design for their passion. Just making something like this work in-itself is a brutal process. So hats off.
Ye I wonder how well a double stacked mag version would work
Edit: Apparently it’s too complicated, heavy and expensive for smaller calibers
@@Cheesepuff8wasn't it 357?
That honestly looks super cool. I think the grip could use some better contours and that trigger guard would look slightly wonky, but overall looks like a fun one. Love it when folks come up with new designs that dont just look like a derivative of a 1911.
Dude it's just a prototype ! If this thing gets to production of course they gonna play with ergonomics and looks
That just might be the coolest thing you can't own in Australia.
You mean, aside from the people owning their government?
I bet they wish they had those gun rights back these days…
@@KyleKalevragun rights never existed in Australia. We’re not Americans, we never viewed gun ownership as a right. Even before the NFA came in you needed a license to own a gun.
It’s also worth noting you can own this in Australia on a category H license
@@noneed4sleep64wouldn't this only be allowed in a few of the states there? I've been curious and doing some reading on Australian gun laws but there's a lot I don't know and am confused by. As an Australian gun owner I hope you can answer. As I understand it semi autos are banned for a regular civilian to own, aside from people with certain busielnesses. But then some semi auto pistols you can own, so how does that work?
We can own it though?
As someone who loves cyberpunk fiction, I think this is awesome. As someone who loves new firearm designs, I think this is awesome. Earlier this week, a Forgotten Weapons video covered the newest version of the Laugo Alien, and I couldn't help wondering if a Browning-style tilting barrel could be flipped upside down. And this pistol seems to say yes, the recoil spring can go on top, with a barrel on the bottom that tilts upward.
The most interesting part of this in a practical sense is the magazine capacity - it looks like the position where the magazine meets the chamber is very close to where that happens on a normal pistol. The Alien loses a round or two for its magazine size, thanks to the lower position of the barrel. This pistol seems to have a loading position very close to a normal pistol, allowing for magazines designed around feeding ammunition to a barrel overtop of the recoil spring.
The most interesting part of the design is the location of the firing pin/fire control group. I would be very interested to see a disassembly video, but fully understand why that wouldn't happen.
Thanks. But it not simply a Browning system upside down since half of the recoiling parts stay in front of the magazine. I'm going to do a field strip video on my channel.
Very strong cyberpunk vibes, I want one.
@@ImpulseResearch Look forward to it! I subscribed to your channel to make sure I see that.
Don't know if you want any suggestions, but like it or not here comes one: do it in the style of Forgotten Weapons. Talk about what the origin of the design was, and detail how the parts work together as the gun cycles while you're taking it apart, pointing out the significant aspects of the design.
Obviously, I'm entitled to none of that and you may not be comfortable going into that level of detail on this prototype that you've been working on for years. Perfectly understandable why you'd want to play things closer to the vest.
The funny spelling is due to the name being Dutch, the origin of Afrikaans, hence "wildebeest" is spelled correctly. Thank you for sharing this design, as a mechanical engineer myself, I can only appreciate the design efforts. Big smile!
Yeah I was like.. "funny spelling?" ... Turns out, dumb american.
Damn he really got things lined up. Low barrel and a high grip, a lot of guns have tried to get that.
Hope he's successful.
I like the aesthetics and the mechanics to get the bore axis so low. Very nice job from Bernard.
Looking like something an 80's action hero would carry. I'll check out his channel.
I was about to say the same thing. It is the DeLorean of pistols. If I were to buy one, I would have to change my name to something like Snake.
@@JulioAvalos3000 So there's zero downsides? Count me in.
I liked it because of that 😂
@@handroids1981 Nah, bro.
@@JulioAvalos3000kkkkk
It looks like a Ruger Mk.III had a three-way with a DEagle and a Coonan .357
I love it!
I know. I was the camera man! 🤣
They became a Thruple.
I usually say it's a combination of an FK BRNO Field pistol, Laugo Alien and a break open shotgun 🙂
@@The_Horny_Ghostcool, someone else that saw Jatimatic =D
@@The_Horny_GhostJatimatic wasn't the first, though.
When you racked the slide, i instantly remembered the Laugo Arms Alien. Especially since you mentioned it having a low bore axis. Impressive
Design-wise, it looks retro-futuristic
The Alien has a fixed barrel and does not tilt.
@@mixalisstathis274noted. Didn't realize the alien was fixed, what a neat pistol
really cool gun, looks very futuristic. Also was really impressed with the sound quality! You don't usually have such a clean gunshot from gun channels, it's always muffled in some sort. Great gun and great vid!
Good point. I just used a smart phone. Maybe the good microphones have a muffle feature for sound overpressure. I'll have to keep that in mind.
I have always loved low bore ideas and i have a couple of my own id love to get proto'd but holy hell it would have never occurred to me to just cycle the whole slide at an angle. That is absolutely genius.
Thanks. The slide at an angle is not totally new. In my research, I found a patent US8037805 by a Randy Neroni. I don't know if it worked or not. But he had a rotating barrel with an inclined slide. My patent has totally different additional elements which make it novel. Check his patent out on Google Patents. Maybe it is one of the ideas that you have been thinking about. If inventing you must check patents because a lot of ideas the public don't see. But the Patent Office knows, and will not grant a patent even if the other one never worked, because the Patent Office doesn't know if it worked or not. 🙂
Yo! Making the barrel tip UP to allow the cartridge a path into a barrel that's so low down is BRILLIANT!
This is basically a modification of the Browning action seen in most modern firearms, pioneered by John Moses Browning with the 1911. Instead of the standard Browning action, where the outside end tips up and allows the round to be pushed up into the barrel, this design is the reverse, where the inside end tips up and the round pushes down into the barrel. From the looks of things the result is remarkably less barrel flip combined with extremely low bore axis allowing for much better accuracy and faster follow up shots. A really well thought out design I must say.
It’s the Australian take on Browning
That's what Laugo did with the Alien, they turned an HK P7 upside down... brilliant. Maybe this Aussie got the idea from them? Or maybe he was first... who knows?
@@1htalp9 No, I'm not saying placing the barrel so low down is a new idea; I'm saying having the barrel tip up for feeding to allow the barrel to be lower than would otherwise be possible is a new idea (I think).
@@oktayyildirim2911Seems totally new, but you can bet there's some obscure Serbian thing that did it before.
That looks like it belongs somewhere between RoboCop and Fallout 4. I love it.
Needs a bayonet lug
Now that's how you do super low bore axis! What a fantastic design. All it needs is a threaded barrel.
Thanks!
This is the coolest pistol I have ever seen!
Ultra low bore axis with the barrel levelled up to the bullet, as opposed to down like a Glock. Absolutely ingenious.
Thank you very much. Cheers. Bernard.🙂
I just love how it basically is a very sophisticated break action. The bolt doesn't hold the pressure it's just for extraction. Genius!
That's basically true. I prefer the term 'feed slide' which extracts and feeds the rounds. Cheers. Bernard. 🙂
I'm literally in love. I'm a huge cyberpunk genre fan and this is something straight out of that genre. The funkiness reminds me of the Malorian 3516
Choom, if that scales up to 500 Magnum, it'll WORK like a Malorian, too! Drop a chromed-up psycho with one shot, even!
Fuck if Johnny's, gun was real in like 357 or 300 blk I'd Def get one
This should have been RoboCop's sidearm. It actually looks pretty pleasant to fire too.
Robocop was gonna have a Desert Eagle in the script, but with the costume more or less finished, they realize it looks kind of tiny in his massive mitts, hence why they went with an alternative. The burst-firing "Auto-9" they devised I think is much more iconic than just a big pistol.
Neat! I know the action is different and brand new (way to innovate, Bernard!) but the whole off-axis thing reminds me of the Jatimatic SMG from the '80s and of course, Stallone's underappreciated classic, Cobra.
Yes, my thoughts, too, it uses an angled receiver like the Jati to reduce barrel lift
I’m not usually a 10mm person and I don’t think I’ve ever commented need this in 10mm but I think that’s a cartridge that could propel this to production and help to fund future development
oooh cool, this looks like something straigh out of fallout or cyberpunk.
Reminds me of the 12.7mm pistol from new vegas
I like it
Mark you have no idea how much respect you just gained from me for your comment about radio DJs. I think 100% literally that is my biggest pet peeve and my entire life! Haha. You're the first person in over 30 years I've ever heard point it out. 🤣🤣🤣
I think that's just a hang over from when DJ's were required to talk over the intro to prevent piracy.
very futuristic and simplistic looking, i love it. This is what the gun industry needs, more remakes of cool ww2 guns and futuristic looking guns that actually work.
A Wildebeest is a South African giant antilope with huge horns. Google it. This gun needs that name soo much. I love it.
In Australia even the barrels tilt upside down.
My first take is the guy managed to cram a closed breech JatiMatic action into a handgun. Not bad... and one cannot mention the JatiMatic without saying: "In the files, find form 4473..."
Yep, definitely deep roots from damn far, a stray Jati-Matic wondered down under and boinked...what, Desert Eagle, Kel-Tec, ...?😂
WOLVERINES!
There's also: "You're a disease, and I'm the cure!"
@@anonplayer8529”DAMMIT! This is SO US!”
-kel-tec execs looking up from the cocaine model train they use to come up with ideas
I was thinking in a tilting up barrel as a means to increase reliability on conventional designs. That has 2 advantages: one, you can feed the bullet strait to the chamber, no ramps required. Ideal for hollow points. Two, when extracting the case, its is pointing to the outside of the gun, not the inside like a traditional Browning action. That reduces the possibility of a "stove pipe" failure. Imagine a Beretta 92 built that way. The thing would be unstoppable.
It looks like what Robocop would carry. That may well be one of the most 80s pistols I have ever seen, and it's glorious.
I'm actually really impressed with the design, and I hope it goes far. looks like it wouldn't be hard to mount optics and lights, assuming a bit of polish on the final. I love the look and the action! Thanks for the vid, Mark!
It reminds me of that Finnish submachine gun.
Jatimatic.
I love that angled bolt. I'd love to have one as well!
The gun looks awesome.
The fact that someone actually made it a reality is great.
This is becoming a favourite gun channel for me, it's devoid of gimmicks and childish shit and is instead down to earth back to basics nuts and bolts firearm😅s and I bloody like that! I have a genuine interest in guns and shooting and though many of the gun channels on UA-cam are entertaining and all I personally think that in the pursuit of numbers of subscribers some of the actual wanted content is lost in the catering for the attention of folk who need a little bit of goofball shenanigans to keep their dopamine levels up and their eyes and ears open, good stuff Mark Serbu thanks a lot
I should just take a second to admit to being one of those goofballs myself a lot of the time ,, this is a totally different flavour though and it's appreciated and enjoyed,, now if you will excuse me I'm off to watch Scott from make Poupon and Nacho cheese jokes and throw tables around like they weigh sod all 😁
Personally I like it and can't imagine the hoops, red tape, and bureaucratic bs he had to go through to even get this approved for a "maybe a production we govs ell giv ya".
He doesn’t have to do much he already has a manufacturers license to even make the thing in the first place and from there all he has to do is submit it to each state to see what they register it as. The gun looks like a normal pistol and not a PCC so he won’t have a drama selling it to the domestic market we have in Australia of pistol club members. To export it just one permit that doesn’t take long to fill out the hardest part is dealing with the ATF as their a pain the arse.
It’s a great looking prototype! I can see a lot of potential with honestly not very many tweaks to final product design. I’d probably want one. Not much has happened with large bore handgun cartridges and auto pistol frames. Glad to see some development.
Thanks!
What an awesome design, very unique! Some inspiration has definitely derived from the Jatimatic I think.
This I come to think too. Definently Jatimatic style. But never the less. Awesome construct. Bad ass cyberpunk 2077 gun.
Like something Mr. Inbetween would carry Down-Under.
Never seen this gun before, but the lore bore axis and rejection port location reminds me of the Laugo Alien.
Perfect pair for Jatimatic
Really a neat design
Thats dope
I like how the breech tilts up to unlock. Already looks like a blade-runner weapon. Can't wait to see it in movies and on shelves. Pruno
Kinda neat, but also kinda the Temu version of a Desert Eagle, honestly. Except the Browning barrel tilt feature.
The lines remind me of that Tesla truck..
It really has a brutalist vibe (as in the architecture style). It would match pretty well with the latest map that @AntonHand is making for H3.
This is the gun you carry for when you're expecting to fight Cyborgs on your way to the 25/7 deli.
This thing is GORGEOUS.
I like the fact it doesnt have a bunch of unnecessary nooks and crannies. Slab sided no extra bullshit. I dig it. 👍
The reverse tilting barrel is a cool idea for rimmed cartridges
Honestly, I never thought about what a gun might look like if it was designed by a brutalist.
It's actually kind of cool.
Dude, "now THAT'S a knife, uhhhh, I mean GUN!". There's something rather appealing about this piece, kinda like an accident on the freeway that you can't take your eyes off of? I love it. The 1st thing I thought of was the last thing you said, I could see that in some type of action movie.
I like the looks and having a new semi-auto 357 mag is always welcome!
Looks like a steampunk/sci-fi tank of a pistol.
It's VERY professional looking, like something that's been around for decades.
I would 100% buy one of these if it ever came out for the consumer market
That thing looks like its straight out of the Bladerunner universe, allready love it!
I'm glad I'm not only one wanting big caliber semi auto pistols. This gun looks amazing and what it can possibly become is even more interesting to me.
Thank you. Very perceptive. Cheers. Bernard.
As an Aussie shooter, i dont understand why everybody says its impossible to own, you just have to have a H-Class license and go to a pistol club. You can own this pistol, same way you can own a Deagle or a Chiappa Rhino, with the right licensing. Super nifty meaty gun, would love to see it in a bigger cartridge
Waiting for a mad scientist to train all the poisonous spiders to go and attack the legislative body.
I like the style of it. Very "brutalist" and rigged. If this was a commercial gun in 9mm competing with the rest of the handgun/carry selection, I think this would be my favorite.
absolutely digging the cyberpunk aesthetic. Can definitely picture these in the hands of "corporate security" one day
A clever design!
Besides French MAS 38, Finnish Jatamatic, and KRISS SMG. Another attempt to reduce muzzle flip by changing the bolt travel direction.
From this video, such a design is quite effective to do so.
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Cool! Looks a little like my Wolf Ultramatic. Brilliant design on the camming elements and creating a low bore axis. Hope Mr. Bernard can produce them!
That's a really cool firearm, but I'd like to see it adapted to more modern standards - handier mag release, bolt hold-open, and perhaps something like an extension to the charging handle that wraps around the frame, making it possible to rack it like a more traditional handgun
Gotta take baby steps. Most of those features are planned for the production version. 🙂
@@ImpulseResearchOh. That’s really cool! I thought this was going to be like a one-off.
In this case, I can’t wait to see more. It looks really cool already
Looks like something an 80s scifi action hero would have
Looks like something you'd see in a movie. Interesting design.
Bernard is gonna make a lot of Americans happy. This thing is badass. Cheers.
I like it, the design is unique and low barrel placement would help with the recoil of the large rounds it would fire. Over all I would be interested in buying one.
I dont think ive seen a magazine fed handgun with a low bore axis like this. And it lifts the barrel up instead of pulling it down. I hope this inspires new low-bore axis semi automatic handguns!
I think it looks awesome we need more gun designers that use more than just rubber and polymer, I miss the old wood furniture quality metals from the days of old.
That thing sounds like it can take down any demonic beast spawned out of Australia.😂
I came across the patent for this a while back when i was searching for a different pistol, I thought I recognized it from somewhere! It's straight out of Cyberpunk and I definitely want one!
In a world where every main character hero is wielding a Desert Eagle, this Wildebeest is more of a hero weapon!
I couldn't agree more! 😁
This man has made the quintessential "Florida Man" pistol.
That guy is on to something here. It'll make shooting a semi auto big bore so much easier when the muzzle isn't snapping straight up.
If they come into production I might buy one in Aus to support local businesses.
It's the perfect CyberTruck gun. I want it double stack with 10mm though.
9x25 Dillon should be an option too
Actually if this will handle rimmed cartridges well, would we see a successor to the S&W Model 52-2? A .38 Special wadcutter pistol?
As far as appearance there's room for adjustments & refinements but I'd love to add one to my collection. I think it looks pretty good as is but it's obvious it's in its early stage. I like unique.
Incredible. It's like a Jatimatic combined with a Laugo Arms Alien.
Just off the name alone I would want one as a backup when hunting big game. The Wildebeest title fits it’s looks really well.
That's what I thought! 😁😁
Would 100% buy this. Keep going Bernard!
It looks like something out of Hellslinger and I love it!
Looks like somthing every cyber truck should come with it.
I love it 😂
It looks like it could be in a blade runner movie, such a pretty pistol.
THAT THING IS GORGEOUS!!! I would love to get my hands on one of those things!
I've sketched a gun that looks/works like this a billion times, it's really cool to see that it can actually exist!
Well you should have patented it like me. Don't go to court and show the US patent office your date verified sketches otherwise I'm in trouble. 😁
@@ImpulseResearch I'm gonna get a BILLION patents and become the low-bore axis .357 kingpin with the cool vaguely Ruger .22/C96 slide that has the nubbin on the back you pull OF ALL TIME!!!!
Seriously though, very cool gun!
That is an awesome deign. The low bore access is going to help with target return.
Damn! I REALLY like that gun! I absolutely love the looks of that thing!
It's not about 'gun hating...liberals' it's about safety to the citizens of the country. Lot's of countries with strict gun control allow gun ownership for safe use; it's about responsibly. Nice pistol, I want one. Shame about the bullsh1t comments that went with an otberwise good video.
Sure, because strict gun control always leads to less gun violence and lax gun control always leads to more gun violence. Just ask Ecuador and Switzerland. Oh, wait...
That slide action is clean it's a good competitor for the alien gun
This is so fkn cool. Big, beefy, fires 357mag, and if by .50 S&W you meant .500 S&W - oh my lord I need to see that