>used an already butchered parts kit as a base >scope has a removable mount, isn't just drilled and tapped into barrel/receiver Even back then, Ian bubba'd responsibly...
@@sir0herrbatka I was talking about the bayonet, but as I've said, this solution is both ingenious and kinda ridiculous and definitely better than taping a light to the rifle directly.
@@olekzajac5948 Well he did mention the bayonet was a scrapped bayonet as well so who knows what sort of condition it was in. All we know is it had some amount of blade left.
What we expected Ian's collection to be: - half a French armory with guns dating back to 1850 - A bergman pistol that has been presented to Kaiser Wilhelm What it is actually: - a krinkov kit that he found in a ditch somewhere and outfitted with an Airsoft stock - a cut down garand with a scope mounted to it
That Remington "Auto 8" is pretty boss too. Auto 5's are wonderful to shoulder and the sights intuitively fall right into your eye line. Now add three more rounds to that ammo capacity and hot damn
To be honest i think those scrap/surplus made guns are more interesting than overly fancy show pieces for someone important. Others are made for show and other ones most likely for actual use. Nobody is laughing for scrap made pipeguns when it is pointed directly to someone in dark alley.
@@Sosaparks It's actually a stock pattern from the Chinese Type 56-2 (doubtless copied by the Chinese airgun manufacturer in question). Given the Sino-Soviet split, they were running guns to the mujaheddin during the '80s through Pakistan. There were even some NORINCO M-16 clones showing up there back in the day.
That flashlight "assembly" is bonkers. Ian earned his membership in the esteemed "drunken russian field improvisation armorer" club right there and then. A true gem all around.
i made one for my ak but less field expedient, i replaced the grips with rail and as the ak bayonet encircles the muzzle, i lathed my preferred amd-65 brake (which normally can't be used with a bayonet due to diameter) down to flange into the bayonet and secure it better than the normal latch, eliminating movement
I have a reweld "tanker" 30.06- bought it in the mid 80's and had the very trouble that Ian spoke of- the operating rod dragged and I always had trouble with it-could not get more than 2 shots out of a clip. This past year, while on Covid lay-off- I took it out and 'fixed' it, tried to straighten out the old rod, carved away some of the interior wood, finally got a new rod from Numrich, which was sized for the tanker. Now the rod works with no drag- anxious to try it- haven't shot it since the mid 80's- hopefully the problem is solved. Thanks Ian for a great (as always) clip! P.S. I had a friend that shot it way back when- it is a 30.06, no muzzle brake, and when he fired a few shots, his exact comment was: "This thing was forged on the anvil of hell by the devil himself", I always get a smile when I think of that...
To avoid bending the op-rod again, I would suggest getting a Schuster adjustable gas plug so you can vent excess gas from the gas system. Bent op-rods are a symptom of an over-pressure gas system, and an adjustable, venting gas plug can ameliorate that issue.
Get a op-rod guide from Fulton. The one that comes with the kit has the spring stops too far forward, which causes the op-rod and spring to bind. The one from Fulton has the stops further back on the guide, which gives more travel.
The best thing about this is that even as your knowledge and budget improved, and as better options became available, you kept it the same. You've made a time capsule of your own armory
I think it's similar to showing similar one offs, prototypes and bubba'd collectors items as an insight into the contemporary thinking of the weapons life , and design elements borrowed from/influencing other designs.
I feel like the bubba-ness is slightly absolved by the fact that the rifle itself was a bubba'd cut down barrel M1 converted to 7.62 NATO. Until he got to the flashlight. That was....something.
I think most his customized stuff has largely already been bubba’d to some degree or in some manner when he acquired them which renders later owners (him) immune to bubba status, in this case he just customized an M1 tank bubba.
only reference on the internet I can find about the Comp-Tac Garand clip holder is a 2006 six forum post by Ian AKA Elf-boy (lol the hair) gushing about it
I love seeing how he lowkey tacticools his budget armory. it's actually really practical and showed he used what he had to the best of his ability to surprisingly functional results.
Othias: Let me say that Ian and I see eye to eye on many things and I admire a lot of the work he does. But there are some things that Ian does or says that I just profoundly do not understand.
In these dark days seeing Ian’s bayonet light has raised my spirits. If this goes to a 2 gun match I think the pistol should be an Iver Johnson M1 Enforcer, so two shortened M1’s can share in glory together.
To be honest, I thought a WML built with bayonet mounting hardware was a great idea back in the 1990s before rifles had All The Rails on them. Seriously - I was surprised that wasn't a standard sort of thing for SWAT teams back then.
I think the light is pretty legit, before everything had rails and mlok and whatnot even special forces were mounting lights with duct tape and hardware store shit.
@@badopinionsrighthere Back in the 1950 era Beretta would have put the mod into production. Cross reference early BM-59. Geoff Who passed on several guns, I don't want to think about missing.
That's a really attractive rifle, even considering the somewhat dated elements. The fact that you were able to put it together even without the knowlege and experience you have today should be a point of pride, in my opinion.
Much like when you hit your 40s and rediscover and embrace the embarrassing music's from your youth, I absolutely love how Ian is finally in a position to be comfortable and at peace with his bubba past. I feel that the bayonet torch 🔦 was an act of pure confessional catharsis.
Honestly considering the number of Suplus rifles that have Bayonet mounts but no rails of any type. Surprise no one has made bank by making a rail piece that can snap on to a Bayonet Lug so you can attach lights lasers what have you to that.
"I don't know if there's enough market" Well, you just created the market with this video. Thousands of viewers will e-mail CompTac asking them to bring this product back.
@@tanstaafl1960 Maybe, but it functions based on how that formed plastic bends. Standard PLA won't do. You would have to have real knowledge on plastic/resin types.
@@tanstaafl1960 Better to use a vacuum former with Kydex -- it warms the plastic then wraps it around a form. For an example (NSFW): th-cam.com/video/TuiOcD4YJq0/w-d-xo.html
I built four "Tankers" very much like Ians back in the day, when Blue Sky Garands were all over the place for under $300. Most of the Blue Sky guns that came in from Korea had garbage bores anyway, so rebuilding them like this was no major loss. I built two for customers and two for myself. The two for myself never really worked all that well, the ones I set up for customers ran perfectly. Last I heard, one of them was knocking around in a bush plane in Alaska. Ah, the good old days...
This seems like the type of mods you'd see coming from a US Marines armory, or even Special Operations Unit armories. It was so common to see jury rigged solutions for flashlights and older WWII era rifles repurposed for more specialized roles in Cold War era conflicts.
Reminds me of one time here in the Philippines, around 2015 iirc, our Navy needed to arm it's ship personnel. So they tool bunch of M3 Grease Guns in the armory, cleaned them up, given a paint job, added suppressors, picatiny rails and red dot sights, and gave it to them.
Smith's is once again producing the muzzle brake "due to popular demand" And, Comp-Tac is most definitely still in business.....got a couple of holsters from them a few months ago.
I have a CMP 1942 SA M1. I don’t take it to the range very often but whenever I do it brings a smile to my face as well as drawing a crowd. My 70 year old eyes are terrible but those fantastic sights still allow me to put eight shots into a paper plate at 100 yards and without looking through them I can’t even see the plate. A wonderful rifle and yours is no exception. Well done
I love the fact that two of Ians customs, this and his shotgun, perfectly mirror my own 2 favorite guns. I have a Springfield M1A Scout rifle and a Browning A5 shotgun. I did not plan to use him as inspiration, it just happened that this is how my extremely practical mind worked.
I really love this series. It feels like Forgotten weapons series of Ian himself. Quirky, weird but yet interesting and fun collection of guns which Ian adores. Thank you for awesome content as always!
Really enjoying a delve into Ian's collection and the explanations behind his choices. I personally find them quite cool so far. And man that thing makes a thunderous noise on camera
When I was learning clays at around 14 there would always be an old farmer with a pitted old side by side with hammers. He'd load his own with black powder and he had loved that gun since 1928. he would always beat those of us with better kit Later I had a little Record air pistol. Kinda like a smaller heavier 1911. It was a crap pistol with crap sights. But I LOVED that gun. I shot it all the time in the bark yard. I could hit flies at eight feet. bees in flight, anything. I never sighted, both eyes were open and I hit everything. I have never managed to shoot like that with anything else. If you love the gun and just shoot it you can become very good indeed. Never forgot those old farmers with their shitty old shootguns...
I have way more fun talking about custom builds when they are an interpretation of an idea. Particularly when the end result looks "unique" but each part has an element of thought behind it.
Yeah. I've got an AR15 where each element on it was specifically chosen for specific purposes. There are a few blind alleys on it, and the overall result is an abomination, but I keep it around as an example of following a concept process. (And as a reminder that one can turn individually good parts, even when assembled assembled properly, into a cumulative dumpster fire if you keep listening to the Good Idea Fairy.)
@@geodkyt no joke, that makes me feel way better about what my ar has become. 7.62x39, side charging handle, and possibly getting a gas piston to make this the most wannabe ak47 that ever was
That takes me back. I took my International Harvester M1 out with a high school buddy (he’s gone now) who was a lefty. He watched the ejection as I fired four, then he fired the last four - and the clip landed on his head. Great rifle, great fun! 👍
I never understood why the government had IHC making guns instead of tractors, trucks or tanks. Having said that there was a vendor at our local gun show (back when we still had one) that had an IHC M1 for sale. I thought it was cool but he wanted a lot for it. It is probably worth what he was asking back then by now.
@@1978garfield I think I gave $500 for a good shooter, but that was years ago. Since I have old IHC 4x4s, I figured that gave me a coordinated ensemble.😅
@@1978garfield The Chieftain actually made a video recently about IHC trying to make a tank, the M7. Lets just say that it was quite the cluster. th-cam.com/video/9AXSXqTrSoU/w-d-xo.html and the link to the video if you are interested.
Ian, was it you who said that the M1 Garand would be the earliest rifle that they feel they could arm a squad with and have them still be competitive or mostly viable in the modern world?
@@Karyovin comparing this to a Steyer Scout is like comparing an M2 Bradley to a technical truck: they are both "light" in that they aren't a tank, but one of them is quite heavy, and they really aren't in the same league.
I run a crit build with the gallant (the in-game equivalent of the garand) with a tanker barrel, green laser sight, clip pouches on the stock, a 23 round mag, and it basically always headshots XD
That MacGyver'd weapon light is sweet. Gets the job done! The rifle as a whole has a certain "I made this with what I could afford and what I thought was best at the time" beauty to it. If you have a custom pistol, you should definitely do a two gun match.
It would be AWESOME to see you run that in a 2 gun. You may get some sneers and jeers at the start, but I think you would do well and shock some people with it
That flashlight mounting has to be one of the best things I have seen, on something like the Vz. 58 it might be a lot better than taping a light to the handguard, lol.
@@jacobmccandles1767 US soldier with M1s carried 80 rounds, 88 of you could a loaded rifle. Yes a modern C7 rifle with 3 mags is more ammo and lighter. 1 30-06 will decimate a soft target while a .223 is designed to incapacitate. Let me ask you this, what other self loading rifle would you recommend for mass issue to an army?
@@zs5636ah, 88 rounds then. A single .223 will decimate a soft target as well...if it isn't fired at 400m through a 14" barrel...and isn't that green tip crap. Remember that we are matching fmj to fmj, not soft point to soft point, and our "game" will only be about 12" thick. With sporting ammo the '06 is devastating. With ball...its okay, but the .223 will often tumble in flesh, leaving a soft point-esque wound track. It's being designed to wound is a nonsense old rumor. Probably dumb stuff a DI said once. In fact the truth is quite the opposite: it's hyrodynamically unstable bullet is meant to FIX the problems of Hague Accord style bullets that don't do enough damage to soft tissue. This it does by tumbling instead of ice-picking like .30 ball.
@@jacobmccandles1767 I suppose that is true. An -06 would likely travel to fast to really tumble, unless it hit a spine or femur. While a .223 will tumble after hitting basically anything due to its lighter weight. By this are you saying that an exit would from a .223 is worse than one from a -06? I haven’t seen either so I wouldn’t know personally. I still think for the time frame of WW2, if given a choice from any countries weapons, I’d probably want a garand over a gewehr or SVT
My dad told me a great story about his rifle. He was a accountant/ supply clerk in Vietnam. He came across an M1 that someone had done exactly this modification to and since could not be issued. He had no idea who did it or where the rifle came from. He kept it mounted in his M37 during paperwork runs. Eventually he traded it and a ton of ammo and MRE's to a couple of SOG guys that came to pick up supplies and mistakenly ended up with a pallet of steaks. Fast forward to a few years ago, he bought a tanker from Springfield Armory. It's now mounted on my mom's wall under his urn; never fired.
I love videos like this, seeing how Ian's mind works and how far he's come with his knowledge and experience with firearms. Also to see Ian happy and having fun puts a smile on my face.
I think Tim Schufflin will still build you one of these, he does great work. Tim rebarreled one of my Garands. Glad to see Ian with a proper battle rifle .
I had him do one for me about 12 years ago. I bought one of the beat up Winchester M1s that the CMP was selling at the time. They were missing stocks and some small parts. I combined that with one of the .308 Italian kits that Sarco was also selling back then. Tim put it all together for me and refinished it, looks like a brand new gun and works great.
Just bought the latest M1A to come out in the 2020 shot show. The M1A Tanker. It has a 16 1/4" barrel. It was inspired by such rifles as Ian's. And yes Ian's rifle is gorgeous. 777
Damn!, yeah, you should take that out more and film it for us; it's really pimp and everything seems to work just fine, the scope, the muzzle break and even that FO4 weapon light. Yeah, i want to see that on matches or at least on the clock; looks great to me and very fun.
truely a thing of beauty Ion. the light mount is genius. perfect solution. what i wanted back years ago hunting in South Carolina.woods to fields. in 243 ? settled on the SKS.
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>used an already butchered parts kit as a base
>scope has a removable mount, isn't just drilled and tapped into barrel/receiver
Even back then, Ian bubba'd responsibly...
Maybe except the flashlight mount, but that thing is still ingenious.
Also, bayonet flashlight combo, that would be awesome.
@@olekzajac5948 Flashlight mount is not destructive (except for the bayonet) so this is acceptable.
@@sir0herrbatka I was talking about the bayonet, but as I've said, this solution is both ingenious and kinda ridiculous and definitely better than taping a light to the rifle directly.
@@olekzajac5948 Well he did mention the bayonet was a scrapped bayonet as well so who knows what sort of condition it was in. All we know is it had some amount of blade left.
That flashlight mount is gheeeeeeeetooooooo
>didn’t want to pay for a picatinny rail
>goes through 12 dremel wheels
Honestly I admire your dedication
The second I saw the bayonet handle mounted light this thing became 1000x cooler
That is how he attained enlightenment as Gun Jesus
Honestly it's a clever way to mount a light.
@@ianh2950 it really does. i feel like a well designed bayonet lug mounted light might sell good with AK people in particular.
@@terrorform242people already sell all manner of shit to be mounted on sks bayonet lugs
What we expected Ian's collection to be:
- half a French armory with guns dating back to 1850
- A bergman pistol that has been presented to Kaiser Wilhelm
What it is actually:
- a krinkov kit that he found in a ditch somewhere and outfitted with an Airsoft stock
- a cut down garand with a scope mounted to it
That Remington "Auto 8" is pretty boss too. Auto 5's are wonderful to shoulder and the sights intuitively fall right into your eye line. Now add three more rounds to that ammo capacity and hot damn
To be honest i think those scrap/surplus made guns are more interesting than overly fancy show pieces for someone important. Others are made for show and other ones most likely for actual use. Nobody is laughing for scrap made pipeguns when it is pointed directly to someone in dark alley.
I saw the ak vid a while back and a few tbans have been catching my eye in videos with the same stock lol
@@Sosaparks It's actually a stock pattern from the Chinese Type 56-2 (doubtless copied by the Chinese airgun manufacturer in question). Given the Sino-Soviet split, they were running guns to the mujaheddin during the '80s through Pakistan. There were even some NORINCO M-16 clones showing up there back in the day.
@@danspragens4935 apparantly the airgun might not be a copy so much as made by the same people possibly out of spare stock parts.
That flashlight "assembly" is bonkers. Ian earned his membership in the esteemed "drunken russian field improvisation armorer" club right there and then. A true gem all around.
That is the most cursed light mount I've ever seen. That includes fiction.
Absolutely disgusting, I love it
i made one for my ak but less field expedient, i replaced the grips with rail and as the ak bayonet encircles the muzzle, i lathed my preferred amd-65 brake (which normally can't be used with a bayonet due to diameter) down to flange into the bayonet and secure it better than the normal latch, eliminating movement
It is not awesome; it is Billy Bobsome.
It makes me imagine a flashlight that could attach directly to the bayonet lug
"never shot it out to substantial range"
*Henry Chan breathes heavily*
Rooftop Chanman you mean?
Hahahah that’s hilarious
The more we see Ian’s old rifles, the more we uncover his Bubba history.
Bubba-gump shrimp company
Let he who is without bubba, cast the first stone
the rumor come out:
does ian mccollum is bubba
That flashlight setup is the most Bubba yet.
@@mcintoshpc Is that a Game Grumps reference on a Forgotten Weapons video?
Words cannot describe how much I'd like to see Ian run this at a serious 2-gun match lol.
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@@amajewski56 Sir! Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)
a night shooting class would be way more awesome lol
Or tested by 9 hole
with the light XD
"Ian's cursed gun collection" should be this series
Should send a pic of Ian’s custom weapons to Brandon for his cursed gun images.😂
Been done. Bug-eyes and a low "wooooah..."
cursed? This thing look awesome
If you don't have at least one gun which makes people nauseous to look at you are failing at life.
@@spanishcastlesinspace2899 😂
Ian remembering why he did it the way he did and just being happy is nice.
I have a reweld "tanker" 30.06- bought it in the mid 80's and had the very trouble that Ian spoke of- the operating rod dragged and I always had trouble with it-could not get more than 2 shots out of a clip. This past year, while on Covid lay-off- I took it out and 'fixed' it, tried to straighten out the old rod, carved away some of the interior wood, finally got a new rod from Numrich, which was sized for the tanker. Now the rod works with no drag- anxious to try it- haven't shot it since the mid 80's- hopefully the problem is solved. Thanks Ian for a great (as always) clip!
P.S. I had a friend that shot it way back when- it is a 30.06, no muzzle brake, and when he fired a few shots, his exact comment was: "This thing was forged on the anvil of hell by the devil himself", I always get a smile when I think of that...
To avoid bending the op-rod again, I would suggest getting a Schuster adjustable gas plug so you can vent excess gas from the gas system. Bent op-rods are a symptom of an over-pressure gas system, and an adjustable, venting gas plug can ameliorate that issue.
Get a op-rod guide from Fulton. The one that comes with the kit has the spring stops too far forward, which causes the op-rod and spring to bind.
The one from Fulton has the stops further back on the guide, which gives more travel.
Ian’s hobo rifle is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen today
That hobolight really got a chuckle out of me. But if it works it aint stupid.
@@schullerandreas556 he went about it a weird way though didn't he.
Gosh, if that's what hobos own then i want to be a hobo.
Amen
Pretty fancy hobo!
The best thing about this is that even as your knowledge and budget improved, and as better options became available, you kept it the same. You've made a time capsule of your own armory
Very true, a real glimpse into the mindset of the user. A time capsule!
I think it's similar to showing similar one offs, prototypes and bubba'd collectors items as an insight into the contemporary thinking of the weapons life , and design elements borrowed from/influencing other designs.
I feel like Ian is confessing the sins of his earlier bubba life to us with these videos. 🤣
I feel like the bubba-ness is slightly absolved by the fact that the rifle itself was a bubba'd cut down barrel M1 converted to 7.62 NATO.
Until he got to the flashlight. That was....something.
Of course. What would the world be without Gun Jesus who began life as just another "Bubba"!? It s called EVOLUTION.
What's bubba means?!
That rifle will flip you like a cheese omelette
I think most his customized stuff has largely already been bubba’d to some degree or in some manner when he acquired them which renders later owners (him) immune to bubba status, in this case he just customized an M1 tank bubba.
only reference on the internet I can find about the Comp-Tac Garand clip holder is a 2006 six forum post by Ian AKA Elf-boy (lol the hair) gushing about it
If anyone is able to find anything else I would be very interested
I love seeing how he lowkey tacticools his budget armory. it's actually really practical and showed he used what he had to the best of his ability to surprisingly functional results.
Othias: Let me say that Ian and I see eye to eye on many things and I admire a lot of the work he does. But there are some things that Ian does or says that I just profoundly do not understand.
lol
Standing face to face.. I believe that Ian vs Othias.... . Is muzzle vs nipple
I’d love to see Ian’s Scout Garand vs Othias’ Scout KelTec. That’d be sweet!
We mere mortals cannot hope to comprehend the workings of the lord.
@@notforsaletoday1895 yes we can, he regularly publishes books on the subject
Ian, since you haven't tested it on long range: Send it to 9-hole reviews and let them shoot it!
Excellent idea.
Yes please!!!
I 4th this motion!
If need be, let them shoot at it!
Brilliant idea
In these dark days seeing Ian’s bayonet light has raised my spirits.
If this goes to a 2 gun match I think the pistol should be an Iver Johnson M1 Enforcer, so two shortened M1’s can share in glory together.
Ian's light mount caught me so off guard. Never in a million years would I have expected him to pull out that thing, but I absolutely love it.
that is the coolest way i've ever seen someone put a weapon light on an old rifle. really nice looking gun.
I was mostly ok until he broke out the light. Sometimes ingenuity just looks really ugly but still presents all the same functionality. I like it
I thought it was a great idea.
To be honest, I thought a WML built with bayonet mounting hardware was a great idea back in the 1990s before rifles had All The Rails on them. Seriously - I was surprised that wasn't a standard sort of thing for SWAT teams back then.
Murphy’s 6th rule of combat:
If it looks stupid, but it works, then it ain’t stupid.
I think the light is pretty legit, before everything had rails and mlok and whatnot even special forces were mounting lights with duct tape and hardware store shit.
The SAS pretty much did the same thing by clamping D cell MagLites onto MP5 scope mounts lol.
Please make a playlist for Ian’s Customs!
Imagine if Ian Custom's was a company.
i litterally just checked the playlist to see if he has a playlist for his own guns haha
@@marcondespaulo Elbonian's would be a huge contract
@@badopinionsrighthere Back in the 1950 era Beretta would have put the mod into production. Cross reference early BM-59. Geoff Who passed on several guns, I don't want to think about missing.
I've got you: th-cam.com/play/PLdFp7aiPKLuhEJ61GRpm8FO0gIOna1H5C.html
I'll update it as they are released.
That's a really attractive rifle, even considering the somewhat dated elements.
The fact that you were able to put it together even without the knowlege and experience you have today should be a point of pride, in my opinion.
It's got a vietnam sf bitch mod vibe too, looks awsome.
these old bubba goes to college guns makes Ian so much more relatable.
Much like when you hit your 40s and rediscover and embrace the embarrassing music's from your youth, I absolutely love how Ian is finally in a position to be comfortable and at peace with his bubba past.
I feel that the bayonet torch 🔦 was an act of pure confessional catharsis.
Honestly considering the number of Suplus rifles that have Bayonet mounts but no rails of any type.
Surprise no one has made bank by making a rail piece that can snap on to a Bayonet Lug so you can attach lights lasers what have you to that.
@@ericzaiz8358 I was thinking the same thing tbh.
Run this at Desert Brutality this year. The Internet needs it.
Seeing an adult man with a pony tail joyfully geek out over a piece of cydex is the best thing today 😂👌🏻
Thanks Ian
Kydex
Quydex
The fuck is cydex
Thanks gun bubba
@@draxxsklounst6595 yo momma
"I don't know if there's enough market"
Well, you just created the market with this video.
Thousands of viewers will e-mail CompTac asking them to bring this product back.
Yup, a seriously great product that people now know exists.
I wonder if someone could 3D print some if they had an original to use as a template? 🤔
@@tanstaafl1960 Maybe, but it functions based on how that formed plastic bends. Standard PLA won't do. You would have to have real knowledge on plastic/resin types.
@@tanstaafl1960 Better to use a vacuum former with Kydex -- it warms the plastic then wraps it around a form. For an example (NSFW): th-cam.com/video/TuiOcD4YJq0/w-d-xo.html
@@squarewheels2491 You think ABS might work, or not flexible enough?
There's something really special about seeing how giddy Ian is talking about his old projects
I built four "Tankers" very much like Ians back in the day, when Blue Sky Garands were all over the place for under $300. Most of the Blue Sky guns that came in from Korea had garbage bores anyway, so rebuilding them like this was no major loss. I built two for customers and two for myself. The two for myself never really worked all that well, the ones I set up for customers ran perfectly. Last I heard, one of them was knocking around in a bush plane in Alaska. Ah, the good old days...
Got mine in Alaska back in the early 90's. Runs great and it's been all over Alaska bear and caribou hunting.
I've been watching the channel for years and can't remember such a green-ed up desert. Looks nice!
We have gotten more rain this summer than any year since 1920.
@@ForgottenWeapons Just that area of AZ?
So used to just seeing sands then we see it looked like Arizona was terraformed
@@LadyAnuB in east Texas we had so much rain that my corn didn't pollinate.
@@daviddawson1718 is that a thing? I live in a country with way more rain then Texas gets and we happily grow corn. Love to know more about it
Ians Customs sounds like a great show.
Just so long as it doesn't turn into a firearms version of Orange County Choppers
@@mpetersen6 That was Red Jacket Firearms LLC on TV as "Sons of Guns." Geoff Who remembers.
I'd watch the shit out of that
That light/bayonet mount is some left field thinking
@@BruceLortzHI while yes it would be better, it would take away all of the charm imo.
Seeing Ian get happier and happier as he shot it was cool :)
Also, I’d love to see this cool rifle at a two gun match!
The ingenuity behind that weapon light is breathtaking! Absolutely love it.
This seems like the type of mods you'd see coming from a US Marines armory, or even Special Operations Unit armories. It was so common to see jury rigged solutions for flashlights and older WWII era rifles repurposed for more specialized roles in Cold War era conflicts.
Reminds me of one time here in the Philippines, around 2015 iirc, our Navy needed to arm it's ship personnel. So they tool bunch of M3 Grease Guns in the armory, cleaned them up, given a paint job, added suppressors, picatiny rails and red dot sights, and gave it to them.
@@WingMaster562 I'll bet they worked well. I wouldn't feel poorly armed for CQB with a grease gun.
to quote Phuc Long on the op-rod thing, "it always bad day when you bend your rod."
Smith's is once again producing the muzzle brake "due to popular demand"
And, Comp-Tac is most definitely still in business.....got a couple of holsters from them a few months ago.
That is good information. It would not surprise me if Comp-Tac would make more of those clip holders as custom items.
@@Bolo2028 I'd buy some if the cost, and shipping to Canada, wasn't too exorbitant.
@@VosperCDN You could just get your local kydex guy to make you some. There's a holster maker every few miles in america and canada
"I was poor"
Ha ha, that's how I feel when I look at my first AR builds vs the newer ones
get in the PSA NcStar Tapco pit. the water is nice.
*M1 and M1A and M14 and Mini 14 Scouts
Ian is the OG bubba of the M1 rifles. That light assembly is nothing short of ingenious in the early 2000s on a budget.
"Yo king, how much eye relief you want?"
Yes.
Yeah, that's a Scout Rifle for you. That's gotta be front-heavy!
All.
😜😜
This gun means you can't make fun of Othais' kel-tec any more.
Othais’s Sub Nine now looks cool.....the ping means the bad guys make their move.
Not only can Ian not Othais, but this gun in comparison to that cursed kel-tec proves that Othais can't Ian.
I have a CMP 1942 SA M1. I don’t take it to the range very often but whenever I do it brings a smile to my face as well as drawing a crowd. My 70 year old eyes are terrible but those fantastic sights still allow me to put eight shots into a paper plate at 100 yards and without looking through them I can’t even see the plate. A wonderful rifle and yours is no exception. Well done
I love the fact that two of Ians customs, this and his shotgun, perfectly mirror my own 2 favorite guns. I have a Springfield M1A Scout rifle and a Browning A5 shotgun. I did not plan to use him as inspiration, it just happened that this is how my extremely practical mind worked.
I really love this series. It feels like Forgotten weapons series of Ian himself. Quirky, weird but yet interesting and fun collection of guns which Ian adores. Thank you for awesome content as always!
"In perhaps hunting a civilian context..."
Ian no
@J F the most dangerous game...man
Well I'm sure they're in season somewhere
@@krissteel4074 yes, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and most of Sub-Saharan Africa.
@@terry7907 you can cancel Afghanistan from the list; the politicians have lost another one.
@asdrubale bisanzio who is a person of culture, and why?
For some reason the bayonet-light setup screams “Resident Evil” to me.
"You do not have the Dremel Wheel"
I would have left the blade alone ...
Really enjoying a delve into Ian's collection and the explanations behind his choices. I personally find them quite cool so far.
And man that thing makes a thunderous noise on camera
That bubba'd flashlight mount is fucking brilliant. What an absolute delight
Another piece from Ian's Funnies
"Ian's Cursed Sporterizations"
When I was learning clays at around 14 there would always be an old farmer with a pitted old side by side with hammers. He'd load his own with black powder and he had loved that gun since 1928. he would always beat those of us with better kit
Later I had a little Record air pistol. Kinda like a smaller heavier 1911. It was a crap pistol with crap sights. But I LOVED that gun. I shot it all the time in the bark yard. I could hit flies at eight feet. bees in flight, anything. I never sighted, both eyes were open and I hit everything. I have never managed to shoot like that with anything else. If you love the gun and just shoot it you can become very good indeed. Never forgot those old farmers with their shitty old shootguns...
At the end of the day a shotgun shoots where you aim it,no matter what gun all the other things are luxury and skill is what's important here.
How much you wanna bet I could throw a football over them mountains?
I love my Trophy Match 1911 but shoot much better with my cheap little M&P.
I have way more fun talking about custom builds when they are an interpretation of an idea. Particularly when the end result looks "unique" but each part has an element of thought behind it.
Yeah. I've got an AR15 where each element on it was specifically chosen for specific purposes.
There are a few blind alleys on it, and the overall result is an abomination, but I keep it around as an example of following a concept process. (And as a reminder that one can turn individually good parts, even when assembled assembled properly, into a cumulative dumpster fire if you keep listening to the Good Idea Fairy.)
@@geodkyt no joke, that makes me feel way better about what my ar has become. 7.62x39, side charging handle, and possibly getting a gas piston to make this the most wannabe ak47 that ever was
That's pretty neat and unique. The bayonet/light mount idea was classic!
I'm English and that rifle really gave me a smile on a Saturday night, thanks for sharing. It's certainly something I could see a use for.
"at the time i was poor" necessity is the mother of invention
Little known fact, ian made this video just hoping the viewers would send him their kydex holsters for the m1 clip.
Hahah my thoughts too 😅
And it'll probably work 😂
Glad to see items from Ian's personal collection, would love to see more of these vids!
Good to see the Arlington Ordnance Tanker back in action with even more details from your 1st video.
That takes me back. I took my International Harvester M1 out with a high school buddy (he’s gone now) who was a lefty. He watched the ejection as I fired four, then he fired the last four - and the clip landed on his head. Great rifle, great fun! 👍
I never understood why the government had IHC making guns instead of tractors, trucks or tanks.
Having said that there was a vendor at our local gun show (back when we still had one) that had an IHC M1 for sale. I thought it was cool but he wanted a lot for it. It is probably worth what he was asking back then by now.
@@1978garfield I think I gave $500 for a good shooter, but that was years ago. Since I have old IHC 4x4s, I figured that gave me a coordinated ensemble.😅
@@1978garfield The Chieftain actually made a video recently about IHC trying to make a tank, the M7. Lets just say that it was quite the cluster.
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and the link to the video if you are interested.
You forgot the most important reason for choosing an m1:
That satisfying PING when you run out of bullets.
The PING then the clip flying into your face, if that first one is anything to go by.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Its a sound your enemy love
Do you mean the sound of letting everyone you are shooting at know your weapon is empty?
Jeff Cooper would be proud. A great set up Ian and looks like a lot of fun as well as being practical in a variety of situations. Thanks for sharing!
This does keep the idea of a scout rifle alive...not light ...but heavy hitting and a great trigger
I think Jeff Cooper would have approved of the honest wear marks!
Jeff Cooper would have declared it "not a scout".
Very refreshing to watch someone enjoy shooting offhand... and knows how to hold.
Ian, was it you who said that the M1 Garand would be the earliest rifle that they feel they could arm a squad with and have them still be competitive or mostly viable in the modern world?
Needs a big ol conical flash hider like the LE Jungle Carbine. 😆
Also this needs to be tested by 9HR
Dude, that would be awesome
This !
That and a comparison to the Steyr Scout
@@Karyovin comparing this to a Steyer Scout is like comparing an M2 Bradley to a technical truck: they are both "light" in that they aren't a tank, but one of them is quite heavy, and they really aren't in the same league.
@@jacobmccandles1767 True, it's just they are examples of the Scout Rifle concept.
Does anyone else just love the sound of that gunfire echoing off the hills or is that just me?
Literally came to the comment-section for this. Such an amazing sound.
This is something RussianBadger would do with Payday2's guns customization
23 round 8 round clip
... I legit have done this and use it in Payday 2. Works.
I run a crit build with the gallant (the in-game equivalent of the garand) with a tanker barrel, green laser sight, clip pouches on the stock, a 23 round mag, and it basically always headshots XD
@@Yourantsally yeah I swear Payday 2 Garand is broken as fork
@@Yourantsally ah yes
4boolet + 4boolet = 23 boolets 😂😂
Even on camera audio that muzzle brake and short barrel are a BEAST.
love these videos because it reminds me of the various guns i wanted when i was younger, before realizing an ar is really all i need...
after watching this, I believe there's a high probability that somewhere deep in Ian's basement, a tacticool chauchat is waiting to be revealed
That MacGyver'd weapon light is sweet. Gets the job done! The rifle as a whole has a certain "I made this with what I could afford and what I thought was best at the time" beauty to it. If you have a custom pistol, you should definitely do a two gun match.
He shoots a lot of two gun mate
It would be AWESOME to see you run that in a 2 gun. You may get some sneers and jeers at the start, but I think you would do well and shock some people with it
I bought a Socom16 about a year ago and it quickly became my favorite rifle.
OMG this is so great the sounds and the gun built itself is amazing. Gotta love them M1's out there
I really want to see this in a 2-gun match. It seems pretty much perfect for it. You might even be able to get a spinner with it. 😜
That flashlight mounting has to be one of the best things I have seen, on something like the Vz. 58 it might be a lot better than taping a light to the handguard, lol.
I really love how you picked the M1. I’ve always held the belief that it is one of the best patterns for a self loading rifle
How many miles have you humped an M-1 or M-14 with a 120rd bandoleer?
@@jacobmccandles1767 US soldier with M1s carried 80 rounds, 88 of you could a loaded rifle. Yes a modern C7 rifle with 3 mags is more ammo and lighter. 1 30-06 will decimate a soft target while a .223 is designed to incapacitate. Let me ask you this, what other self loading rifle would you recommend for mass issue to an army?
@@zs5636ah, 88 rounds then.
A single .223 will decimate a soft target as well...if it isn't fired at 400m through a 14" barrel...and isn't that green tip crap.
Remember that we are matching fmj to fmj, not soft point to soft point, and our "game" will only be about 12" thick.
With sporting ammo the '06 is devastating. With ball...its okay, but the .223 will often tumble in flesh, leaving a soft point-esque wound track.
It's being designed to wound is a nonsense old rumor. Probably dumb stuff a DI said once. In fact the truth is quite the opposite: it's hyrodynamically unstable bullet is meant to FIX the problems of Hague Accord style bullets that don't do enough damage to soft tissue. This it does by tumbling instead of ice-picking like .30 ball.
@@jacobmccandles1767
I suppose that is true. An -06 would likely travel to fast to really tumble, unless it hit a spine or femur. While a .223 will tumble after hitting basically anything due to its lighter weight. By this are you saying that an exit would from a .223 is worse than one from a -06? I haven’t seen either so I wouldn’t know personally. I still think for the time frame of WW2, if given a choice from any countries weapons, I’d probably want a garand over a gewehr or SVT
My dad told me a great story about his rifle. He was a accountant/ supply clerk in Vietnam. He came across an M1 that someone had done exactly this modification to and since could not be issued. He had no idea who did it or where the rifle came from. He kept it mounted in his M37 during paperwork runs. Eventually he traded it and a ton of ammo and MRE's to a couple of SOG guys that came to pick up supplies and mistakenly ended up with a pallet of steaks. Fast forward to a few years ago, he bought a tanker from Springfield Armory. It's now mounted on my mom's wall under his urn; never fired.
That flashlight is the most Billybob thing i've ever seen...
And it's awesome. Well done sir, well done
"This is my Tanker/Scout M-1. Let me show you its features!" -Ian
Gonna let 9hole Reviews try it out?
Yeeeaaaah.
If it works, it ain't wrong. That flashlight mod although crude, probably works fantastically. So sayeth Gun Jesus
He should have kept the blade on the bayonet for maximum tacticool points
It's not like a flashlight has to be perfectly zeroed either. So it's perfect.
As a former Tanker this makes me very happy.
I was infantry for 5 years , tanker for 16 , good times , where were you at ?
But how does one tension the tracks? Besides if the tanker ever needs his tanker M1 he has already experienced a significant emotional event.
@@mpetersen6 We did track tension by pumping grease into a grease fitting which created pressure keeping the track taught
@@StabbinJoeScarborough interesting
@@StabbinJoeScarborough 1-5 Cav at Hood.
I love videos like this, seeing how Ian's mind works and how far he's come with his knowledge and experience with firearms. Also to see Ian happy and having fun puts a smile on my face.
Loved to see a reimagining of a M1. Very nice.
Loving Ian’s Customs, your customized collection is fascinating.
Knowing that Ian never got very good at shooting with both eyes open makes me feel a lot better about my own skills!
Given enough time it's starting to look like Ian will single handedly populate Herrera's proposed "Blursed" gun images video.
Tho they will be "blessed" guns
Who's Herrera? Lol
@@steelwhisperer the ak guy
@@steelwhisperer Brandon Herrera. AK Jesus.
Not gona lie I really want a custom model of this pro grade bubba m1 for Left 4 Dead 2s hunting rifle slot .... also the light is pure genius imho.
Love the creativity of the weapon light....purely awesome
Man this elbownian scouting rifle seems pretty good. The lights on brand though xD.
I think Tim Schufflin will still build you one of these, he does great work. Tim rebarreled one of my Garands. Glad to see Ian with a proper battle rifle .
I had him stamp a new made stock with the correct stamps for my M1’s serial number. Great guy to do business with.
I had him do one for me about 12 years ago. I bought one of the beat up Winchester M1s that the CMP was selling at the time. They were missing stocks and some small parts. I combined that with one of the .308 Italian kits that Sarco was also selling back then.
Tim put it all together for me and refinished it, looks like a brand new gun and works great.
Getting a head start on your What Would Garand Do rifle I see
Ian, that taclight is amazing!
I haven´t smiled this much watching someone at the range for a long time.
Just bought the latest M1A to come out in the 2020 shot show. The M1A Tanker. It has a 16 1/4" barrel. It was inspired by such rifles as Ian's. And yes Ian's rifle is gorgeous. 777
Damn!, yeah, you should take that out more and film it for us; it's really pimp and everything seems to work just fine, the scope, the muzzle break and even that FO4 weapon light. Yeah, i want to see that on matches or at least on the clock; looks great to me and very fun.
This was a great watch!, I love how Ian is super excited when talking about it and even ore excited whilst shooting!.
That looks like a lot of fun, I'd love to see you run it at a two gun match. I'm really liking these trips through Ian's gun cabinet videos.
truely a thing of beauty Ion. the light mount is genius. perfect solution. what i wanted back years ago hunting in South Carolina.woods to fields. in 243 ? settled on the SKS.
This might be my favorite series you've ever done.