Tales of the Gun on You Tube

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Kev

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I absolutely love this show.
I watched 2 episodes last night on my iPad.
The first was a GREAT GREAT history of Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson,
The other was this one on US firearms of WW2.
My jaw dropped at the US Army's museum collection of WW2 era arms.
17,000 plus vintage weapons, in crates..BAR rifles new in box, crates full of 1911's...just drooled all over like an idiot.

I hope some of you drool a little as well

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ayK0oVJWD9s
 
I have about a dozen of the Tales of the Gun on Youtube bookmarked.

The most amazing man in guns was John Browning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZxKOBmO4aU&feature=related) If it wasn't for Browning, many weapons we have come to love and enjoy may have been very different. Many of the guns he invented were sold to Oliver Winchester. Winchester knew little about guns (he was a shirt manufacturer) but he was a good businessman. He bought good designs, hired good employees and even had a couple of good inventors work for him, like Henry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqf9iUo_A6U&feature=relmfu
 
I also learned from the History of S&W that the Winchester repeating rifle
is an improved S&W design they had been working on.

Amazingly educational and I pop the headphones into my ipad or phone and can ignore whatever "real housewives of ____" My wife is watching..
:D
 
If you watch the one titled "Gangster Guns" I met the guy that played Baby Face Nelson. He lives in north Tx. His name is Donny Adcock. They came to the gun club he belongs to and used some of their guns and picked him to be Baby Face. He is a heck of a nice guy. I was the insurance adjuster that looked at his hail claim.
 
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I love the Thompson one and the "Guns of the Wehrmacht" one.

Honestly feel bad for BG Thompson, wish he would have got to hear how many Medal of Honor citations feature his design.
 
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