"You know what they call a .45 ACP in Germany? Tell him, Vincent." "Eleven point two-five millimeter." "Eleven point two-five millimeter! You know why they call it that?" "Because of the... metric system, right?" "Check out the big brain on Brad!"
Seems like there is no problem getting guns in brazil ,oh I get it now its like being in chicago and washington dc that have real tough gun laws that dont mean shit as their nicknames are chiraq and death zone capital.
@@jeffreyprezalar220 sounds like my country. Here you have to pay 3000$ tax per year for owning a .22 handgun (Only .22 pistols,bolt action rifles and pump shotguns are legal here) meanwhile the criminals are sporting Glocks,full auto MP5s and Chinese M16s .
Kongsbergs have always been fascinating. I hope you do a podcast episode on this showing us the internals and maybe talking about any differences in manufacturing or metallurgy. And why the Germans were interested in them and their opinions of the pistol.
Fun fact: Pet name here (Norway) is "Kongsberg Colt". Last produced 1947. Baned from use in peace time 1991, and taken out of service in 1992 (Norwegian Navy). Replaced by the P80 (glock), phasing in from 1986. You can still see them in use, at different gun ranges/clubs to this day, and a few competitions (for fun).
Thanks for putting this out there. My country bought the license to make these pistols in 1914 when the germans occupied liege in belgium where they were produced. They made a fair amount up until 1940. Today they are a common "gangster" gun in Norway since many were kept by their previous home guard/army owners and then found their way on to the illegal firearms market.
Can't help but imagine somewhere in the back room of a European antique shop there's a dust covered case of Waffen marked 11mm (45acp) ammo just sitting there lost to history.
During the production of these , around 500 or more where produced in addition to the 900 or so numbered guns. These where smuggled out of the Kongsberg factory as parts before they where numbered, assembled outside the factory and given to the Norwegian ressistance. These 500 pistols are known in Norway as lunchbox colts :-D The penalty to the workers would have been execution had they been caught.
For some reason Larry's recoil control is sooo satisfying. He doesn't death grip the gun that just the slides moves back but let's his hand move with the recoil I find it so satisfying
Nice, I had the fortune of shooting a M1914 some years ago. To me, it was a very pleasant pistol to handle and shoot. The ammo was some thirty year old Winchester white box.
Holy crap, that last high speed shot where you could see the projectile mid-air, incredible. Need more shots like that! That's like the money shot of the gun world!
True Norwegians welcomed our German brethren in Norway. They were fighting for us and defending us. The only people that formed these resistance groups were enemies of Europe like communists, they weren't Norwegians nor Europeans I'm Swedish and I'm proud that my family fought for the right side, beside our Germans cousins and Finnish, to defend North Europe from bolsheviks
Good thing about the slide etc with numbers on it was you can put the gun back together with all its same parts if you were group cleaning wether in field or in rear with armory and that extends life of gun with same wear patterns.
This one is rather interesting. I remember the stories of English speaking German troops that were posing as Americans during the battle of the bulge. It wouldn't surprise me if that pistol was also used among the American gear the germans captured.
The Norwegian produced weapons would have stayed in Norway along with the Stomperud Krags that were produced. There were 400,000 German troops in Noway at wars end and as with elsewhere in Europe foreign weapons factories that were captured were used to produced local weapons that were deemed good enough for issue. These tended to stay local or go to the Atlantic Wall etc to free up standard issue Wehrmacht weapons, for the frontlines in the USSR in particular, to simplify logistics. 1911 spare parts and .45acp ammo was a quartermasters nightmare outside of Norway. For the small units disguised as Alied soldiers in the Ardennes offensive the Germans had been capturing Allied weapons and vehicles from POWs for sometime. They had brought back bazookas and rockets taken from American units in North Africa for instance that got re-engineered
Man, that is what sweet piece of history. Hey Larry one suggestion. Could you begin filming more shots from behind the shooter aka you? Showing target impacts from a distance and so on. Also, maybe a little less music so we can hear the awesome audio of the weapons? Love the video as always, and the audio was great btw.
Been loving your Podcast Larry. The visuals in these bits are nice, but I love the in depth we get with the podcasts. You're a wealth of knowledge yourself and with your background. Thank you for sharing. Edit: BTW many of us want to know more about Larry too. Way more. Interesting fella.
Very cool blaster..and learned something new today! I have a Browning high power in 9mm. that my grandfather brought back from the war with the exact same Nazi markings on it..it's become a family heir loom type thing... but I still shoot it every now and then. Thank you for everything you do LAV! ✌️
In Norway it was named the "lunsjbox" pistol. Norwegian workers were forced by germans to continue to produce the pistol. They would bring one part a day home in the empty lunsjbox. Germans would not notice that. Then when they had a complete gun from one part a day, they would assemble the gun and give it to Norwegian resistance. Pretty cool 😀
Good "cavaet" insight into and explanation of that unique slide stop. Many years ago I remember seeing surplus of these advertised, glad I passed on buying and installing one based on this video.
We live close to the Norwegian border and during the war someone from the resistance probably stayed in my great grandfathers house, my parents live there now, and hid one of these in a wall in the basement. Grandpa found it in the wall and we have it now, deactivated though because Swedish gun laws. Still very cool tho!
What a blasphemy to deactivate such an amazing piece of history. It would never have been used let alone with malicous intent in a basement, It's asinine.
@@WetaMantis Yes, well it was the only way we could keep it. Very sad though and my father was an officer in the airforce at the time, even so he had to do that to be able to keep it.
What a coincidence. I just got my Vickers Guide WWII Germany Volume I in yesterday and read about this pistol. And today I got to see it in action. Very interesting pistol. He's not lying about the price. Looks like these sell anywhere between $2,850 to as much as $6,500.
@@dwizzleusa4202 in 1945 yes, but there were made more, and they would all stay in norway 1940 = approx. 50 pistols 1941 = approx. 4099 pistols 1942 = 3154 pistols 1945 = 920 pistols
The changes made to the US 1911 in the year 1924 give us today's 1911A1. I prefer the A1 over the original but I'm just a guy with an opinion. Prefer the feel of the A1. Your mileage may vary. Thanks to Larry V for another entertaining video
I'm curious about the Nazi's ammunition source. Was there a factory in Norway making 45 acp? I know this sounds a little off the wall but by 1945 the Nazi's didn't have a lot of resources and surely they wouldn't be trying to tool up a factory to make ammunition that would only be used in a weapon that was made in such small numbers. I am very curious about this... Great video. Take Care and be safe, John
I love 1911’s and little by little starting my collection. This I would love. A little unpleasant feeling if I’d own one due to the symbolism and the mean of the Nazi logo on it, but sure interesting and would be cool to see one in person.
The stamp your referring to is the German army Proofmark- Very different than a Nazi logo- look at Kar98K Rifles of the same era- they have the German Eagle stamp of acceptance not a Nazi party logo
I love it when you pull out the rare and unusual firearms. I do have a question I'm looking to get my first 1911 I don't want a cheap ass one but as of now I only have about 1100 to spend do you have advise
There is many of these Kongsberg Colt's made. Up towards 40.000 if I remember correctly. They are easy to find in Norway and generally cost from 300usd and up. However the late nazi made model with the 'reichsadler' on that you got here is, like you say not that common, especially not outside of Norway. And quite a few of these has been destroyed and thrown away in and after the war.
Mr Vickers Thanks for bringing this amazing piece of history to your followers. I have to know, how did it shoot???? It looked as though you were enjoying yourself. I just managed to acquire a VERY SPECIAL piece of history. I have been trying to collect one of EVERY pistol designed by John M Browning, I am now the very PROUD owner of a Colt 1902 38ACP. I am curious to your input as to whether or not IF YOU owned it if you would shoot it????? Along with the pistol and 5 magazines I also received 200 pieces of spent brass fired from this pistol. I also got a box of ammo from 1904, but will not shoot it. I have the loading data and dies to load up the brass and am trying to find newly manufactured ammo for it. So would you shoot it or not???? I have had it X Rayed for cracks and EVERYTHING is in good shape.
My norwegian pistol has a really strange almost russian bakelite main spring housing. I can't find any information on the 1911s from norway or anywhere having it.
About matching serial numbers - beside the quality, interchangeability of parts ect there is one more, very important reason to assembly guns from matching parts. Control. Remember, this was made in occupied country, most likely by Norwegians only overseed by Germans. Assembling the gun from parts with the same serial number (and than putting them in order) is the easiest way to prevent leaking parts out of factory, to the resistance movements.
@@gunnarkvinlaug7226 Thats exactly what Poles do in factory in Radom with ViS pistol. And it took Germans year and the half to figure it out - but after that they changed procedure somehow (I assume they increase control over stumping device, to prevent turning back the counter) and made such scheme imposible to pull off again.
It could be argued that the Polish VIS-35 was another 1911 pattern gun that was produced under German occupation, albeit not an exact copy and chambered in 9X19..
VIS is Browning High Power derived, so an improvement on Brownings own ideas for 1911 improvements (though he never finished the project, one of his FN colleagues did)
The numbers matching must have been a big thing for the Germans. I have a bring back gewher 98 that every number matches even down to the cleaning rod.
hola muy buenos dias cordiales saludos amigo Vickers muy bueno tus programa de armas deberias de tener tu propia armeria para que el publico que te sigue adquiera un arma saludos
I'm very surprised Norway didn't opt for 9mm. If they had done that they could have adopted the Hi Power instead or built a 1911 style pistol like the Radom. Anyway, great vid.
If my sources are correct, the FN Hi-Power was launched in the mid 1930s, way too late to be available in 1914 when Norway was searching for a new service-pistol. The name, M1914, is a reference to the year the gun was adopted.
*nazi-adopted* I kow it's nitpicking, but the guys Who made it was not nazis. They were unmotivated norwegian factory workers. Occupation guns are often lower quality than pre occupation ones.
How do you know they were unmotivated? How do *you* know some of them weren't super eager to craft the best pistols possible to help their brave teutonic brothers fend off the Bolshevik threat???
@@andreashofer2995 it's well documented. Despide having a large number of workers and production equipment, the number of weapons actually produced was staggeringly low, and quality was often usb-standard compared to pre-war. There was also internal sabotage. The workers didn't want to be fired, but neither did they want to help the enemy. The germans constantly complained about quality issued and low production numbers.
@@TeSolycMandalor It does not sound fake it IS fake by nature. And I'm NOT bashing them for it quite the contrary. It is physically impossible for a footage that slowed down to sound like this. Even while correcting the pitch I doubt you would get any usable sound from it. So you have to edit in a new sound you would have to custom fit to the scene. If you slow down sound the pitch gets lower and if you slow it down that much you just end up with garbage noise. An interesting watch from Smarter Everyday on the subject that explains it if you have the time: th-cam.com/video/aO7yzmc3ykw/w-d-xo.html An art in of itself.
"You know what they call a .45 ACP in Germany? Tell him, Vincent."
"Eleven point two-five millimeter."
"Eleven point two-five millimeter! You know why they call it that?"
"Because of the... metric system, right?"
"Check out the big brain on Brad!"
Pulp fiction
11.43
Brilliant 😂
Larry, I am from Brazil where laws are very restrictive in guns. I must say your channel is amazing, love your videos and you have my deepest respect.
Thanks!
Seems like there is no problem getting guns in brazil ,oh I get it now its like being in chicago and washington dc that have real tough gun laws that dont mean shit as their nicknames are chiraq and death zone capital.
@@jeffreyprezalar220 sounds like my country. Here you have to pay 3000$ tax per year for owning a .22 handgun (Only .22 pistols,bolt action rifles and pump shotguns are legal here) meanwhile the criminals are sporting Glocks,full auto MP5s and Chinese M16s .
Kongsbergs have always been fascinating. I hope you do a podcast episode on this showing us the internals and maybe talking about any differences in manufacturing or metallurgy. And why the Germans were interested in them and their opinions of the pistol.
@Travers Kilroy Cooper Alvirez Well the AG3 has a lot of neat improvements over the K&H G3
This gun is Captain America saying "Hail Hydra".
Fun fact: Pet name here (Norway) is "Kongsberg Colt". Last produced 1947. Baned from use in peace time 1991, and taken out of service in 1992 (Norwegian Navy).
Replaced by the P80 (glock),
phasing in from 1986.
You can still see them in use, at different gun ranges/clubs to this day, and a few competitions (for fun).
My father talked about this gun several times, and I totally forgot it existed. Apparently it made an impact on him.
Æ har litt løst på en😅
I love the history aspect of these channels
Thanks for putting this out there. My country bought the license to make these pistols in 1914 when the germans occupied liege in belgium where they were produced. They made a fair amount up until 1940. Today they are a common "gangster" gun in Norway since many were kept by their previous home guard/army owners and then found their way on to the illegal firearms market.
rart at alle gjemte våpen kommer fra i senere tid ,men samtidig forståelig.
Y'know you've been watching too much Vickers tactical when, you close your eyes to sleep but all you can see is Larry doing shooting drills lol
I find Mr. Vickers to be very pleasant to listen to. Like counting sheep.
Man he’s not kidding when he said he cut his teeth with a 1911.
Larry replied to one of my comments a few months ago saying he was gonna do a Delta 1911 build video, can’t wait for that one
@@Justin_GFM let’s bug him about it . Maybe he’ll do it . Jk 😅
I am - it’s on my list. I promise !
@@VickersTacticalLAV My eyes just bulged along with milk out my noise . Thank you Mr. Vickers!!!! Happy holidays!!!
@@CA.0verview told you buddy lol, Larry knows what the people want 😭
Can't help but imagine somewhere in the back room of a European antique shop there's a dust covered case of Waffen marked 11mm (45acp) ammo just sitting there lost to history.
Nazis be like "uhhhh can we borrow some .45 pls"
Akshually in this (unlikely) scenario we would say "Can we borrow some ELF KOMMA FÜNFUNDZWANZIG MILLIMETER bitte?!!!"
@@andreashofer2995 fünfundvierzig?
Americans be like "nah....but we do like all this captured 9mm luger you guys had"
😂😂😂 Hans, go over there and pretend you’re American. Tell them you need .45 as shnell as possible.
@@soopahjj11 this is going to end like that one scene in Inglorious Basterds, I bet 50 bucks.
During the production of these , around 500 or more where produced in addition to the 900 or so numbered guns. These where smuggled out of the Kongsberg factory as parts before they where numbered, assembled outside the factory and given to the Norwegian ressistance. These 500 pistols are known in Norway as lunchbox colts :-D
The penalty to the workers would have been execution had they been caught.
That is an awesome fact. Where there is oppression, there will always be some who say “oh he-e-ell no.” The Nazis weren’t counting on that.
Hey Larry,
I love your slow motion Videos.
Kind regards from Germany
For some reason Larry's recoil control is sooo satisfying. He doesn't death grip the gun that just the slides moves back but let's his hand move with the recoil I find it so satisfying
Nice, I had the fortune of shooting a M1914 some years ago. To me, it was a very pleasant pistol to handle and shoot. The ammo was some thirty year old Winchester white box.
Holy crap, that last high speed shot where you could see the projectile mid-air, incredible. Need more shots like that! That's like the money shot of the gun world!
Thanks! We have that shot in many of our videos
My grandfather had a Kongsberg 1914 given to him by a resistance fighter, no idea where it ended up, it would be nice to find it.
YOU HAVE TO FIND IT!!
You must find it the fate of the world is in your hands!
True Norwegians welcomed our German brethren in Norway. They were fighting for us and defending us. The only people that formed these resistance groups were enemies of Europe like communists, they weren't Norwegians nor Europeans
I'm Swedish and I'm proud that my family fought for the right side, beside our Germans cousins and Finnish, to defend North Europe from bolsheviks
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess 🤔you talkin bout Nazi’s?
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess amen brother
He's right about that in his description. Never knew it existed AT ALL.
Holy crap.
Good thing about the slide etc with numbers on it was you can put the gun back together with all its same parts if you were group cleaning wether in field or in rear with armory and that extends life of gun with same wear patterns.
This one is rather interesting. I remember the stories of English speaking German troops that were posing as Americans during the battle of the bulge. It wouldn't surprise me if that pistol was also used among the American gear the germans captured.
They would have not been equipped with material with anything connecting them to Germany.
Why on earth would anybody take the risk for the novelty.
I remember during the Vietnam war the North Vietnamese is well made their own version of the 1911 I remember reading
The Norwegian produced weapons would have stayed in Norway along with the Stomperud Krags that were produced. There were 400,000 German troops in Noway at wars end and as with elsewhere in Europe foreign weapons factories that were captured were used to produced local weapons that were deemed good enough for issue. These tended to stay local or go to the Atlantic Wall etc to free up standard issue Wehrmacht weapons, for the frontlines in the USSR in particular, to simplify logistics. 1911 spare parts and .45acp ammo was a quartermasters nightmare outside of Norway. For the small units disguised as Alied soldiers in the Ardennes offensive the Germans had been capturing Allied weapons and vehicles from POWs for sometime. They had brought back bazookas and rockets taken from American units in North Africa for instance that got re-engineered
Thanks Larry, just recently subscribed and love the content. I am a huge 1911 fan, Saint John made a brilliant piece of kit, cheers from Australia
Man, that is what sweet piece of history.
Hey Larry one suggestion. Could you begin filming more shots from behind the shooter aka you? Showing target impacts from a distance and so on. Also, maybe a little less music so we can hear the awesome audio of the weapons? Love the video as always, and the audio was great btw.
In my opinion, you just can't beat the smart good looks of a 1911 pistol!
Thanks for this LAV.
great info!
Been loving your Podcast Larry. The visuals in these bits are nice, but I love the in depth we get with the podcasts. You're a wealth of knowledge yourself and with your background. Thank you for sharing.
Edit: BTW many of us want to know more about Larry too. Way more. Interesting fella.
Very cool blaster..and learned something new today! I have a Browning high power in 9mm. that my grandfather brought back from the war with the exact same Nazi markings on it..it's become a family heir loom type thing... but I still shoot it every now and then. Thank you for everything you do LAV! ✌️
Love ❤️ the channel, the gun is priceless, absolutely a classic 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
In Norway it was named the "lunsjbox" pistol. Norwegian workers were forced by germans to continue to produce the pistol. They would bring one part a day home in the empty lunsjbox. Germans would not notice that. Then when they had a complete gun from one part a day, they would assemble the gun and give it to Norwegian resistance. Pretty cool 😀
I like how you didn't even need to use slow-mo to capture the .45 bullet in flight
Good "cavaet" insight into and explanation of that unique slide stop. Many years ago I remember seeing surplus of these advertised, glad I passed on buying and installing one based on this video.
Hey Mr. Larry, could we see a video on the British SA80a3 rifle. 😁 I’d really like to see that
Larry, you are living the dream dude! Your books also rock. Awesome pistol!
We live close to the Norwegian border and during the war someone from the resistance probably stayed in my great grandfathers house, my parents live there now, and hid one of these in a wall in the basement. Grandpa found it in the wall and we have it now, deactivated though because Swedish gun laws. Still very cool tho!
@Travers Kilroy Cooper Alvirez I'll never get rid of it! I hope we'll be free one day.
What a blasphemy to deactivate such an amazing piece of history. It would never have been used let alone with malicous intent in a basement, It's asinine.
@@WetaMantis Yes, well it was the only way we could keep it. Very sad though and my father was an officer in the airforce at the time, even so he had to do that to be able to keep it.
@@lundholm4 It's totally unregistered. Don't talk about it and it never existed.
@@WetaMantis I wasn't around at the time. That's how I would do it hehe. They were more trusting of the government than I am. Can't change the past!
Nice piece of history.... :) I always wonder what adventures that particular gun went through....
You can really tell it’s closer to the M1911 vs the M1911A1 with that short hammer spur.
What a coincidence. I just got my Vickers Guide WWII Germany Volume I in yesterday and read about this pistol. And today I got to see it in action. Very interesting pistol. He's not lying about the price. Looks like these sell anywhere between $2,850 to as much as $6,500.
My father was in the Norwegian army in the 80s and they as offichers where issued old p38 and m1914s
Those pistols weren’t used outside of Norway or even by Norwegian SS on the Eastern Front.
Only 900 produced
@@dwizzleusa4202 in 1945 yes, but there were made more, and they would all stay in norway
1940 = approx. 50 pistols
1941 = approx. 4099 pistols
1942 = 3154 pistols
1945 = 920 pistols
That slide catch is a great idea. Shame no 1911 companies do this.
The changes made to the US 1911 in the year 1924 give us today's 1911A1. I prefer the A1 over the original but I'm just a guy with an opinion. Prefer the feel of the A1. Your mileage may vary. Thanks to Larry V for another entertaining video
I'm curious about the Nazi's ammunition source. Was there a factory in Norway making 45 acp? I know this sounds a little off the wall but by 1945 the Nazi's didn't have a lot of resources and surely they wouldn't be trying to tool up a factory to make ammunition that would only be used in a weapon that was made in such small numbers. I am very curious about this... Great video. Take Care and be safe, John
Sten was 9mm so it wasn't unusual. Federov Avtomat fired arisaka rounds.
Yeah, ammunition was produced locally by "Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker"
best firearms channel
Wait, did I click an episode of Forgotten Weapons? Great to see a historically unique pistol.
Please Review the Sistema Colt 1927 from Argentina!
That's still the same gun by the same people
@@TeSolycMandalor i know a few people can not-see what you did there.
"I know some stuff about guns and war history"
...And all of the sudden Vickers channel comes up with this video!
Very cool history. Thank you LV!
Loved the slow motion!
Hey Larry could you do a tutorial video on how to make your double mag set up on your delta carbine rifle.
I love 1911’s and little by little starting my collection. This I would love. A little unpleasant feeling if I’d own one due to the symbolism and the mean of the Nazi logo on it, but sure interesting and would be cool to see one in person.
History tends to be a little unpleasant. It should not be forgotten.
The stamp your referring to is the German army Proofmark- Very different than a Nazi logo- look at Kar98K Rifles of the same era- they have the German Eagle stamp of acceptance not a Nazi party logo
When will you make a video about the New IWI carmel?
Any chance you could get your hands on one of the Les Baer / Para Ordnance FBI trial guns from the 90s and do a video?
I love it when you pull out the rare and unusual firearms. I do have a question I'm looking to get my first 1911 I don't want a cheap ass one but as of now I only have about 1100 to spend do you have advise
There is many of these Kongsberg Colt's made. Up towards 40.000 if I remember correctly. They are easy to find in Norway and generally cost from 300usd and up. However the late nazi made model with the 'reichsadler' on that you got here is, like you say not that common, especially not outside of Norway. And quite a few of these has been destroyed and thrown away in and after the war.
The ejection port looks a bit enlarged, lowered, and flared. What kind of wood are used for the grips?
That’s impressive. Thanks, Larry.
Great video, thanks
Beautiful handgun a collectors piece, especially with the history behind it, very accurate in capable hands as well, must cost a fortune...
Mr Vickers
Thanks for bringing this amazing piece of history to your followers.
I have to know, how did it shoot???? It looked as though you were enjoying yourself.
I just managed to acquire a VERY SPECIAL piece of history. I have been trying to collect one of EVERY pistol designed by John M Browning, I am now the very PROUD owner of a Colt 1902 38ACP. I am curious to your input as to whether or not IF YOU owned it if you would shoot it?????
Along with the pistol and 5 magazines I also received 200 pieces of spent brass fired from this pistol. I also got a box of ammo from 1904, but will not shoot it.
I have the loading data and dies to load up the brass and am trying to find newly manufactured ammo for it.
So would you shoot it or not???? I have had it X Rayed for cracks and EVERYTHING is in good shape.
My norwegian pistol has a really strange almost russian bakelite main spring housing. I can't find any information on the 1911s from norway or anywhere having it.
Another bigfoot gun. I always heard about this firearm, never saw one. Till now. Thanks Larry.
Superb video!
Larry, any chance you might get to review a polish Beryl?
At a distance this may look like your average 1911 until you look closely at details
Did it use an internal firing pin safety?
“Kongsberg Colt” as the nickname goes
I had one that was obviously smuggled out of the factory as it was lacking all serial numbers. All it had were the slide markings.
What's that gun's price today?
Seems like everyone wanted their own 1911
Collector's pistol? Ah heck, We *STILL* shoot it!
About matching serial numbers - beside the quality, interchangeability of parts ect there is one more, very important reason to assembly guns from matching parts. Control. Remember, this was made in occupied country, most likely by Norwegians only overseed by Germans. Assembling the gun from parts with the same serial number (and than putting them in order) is the easiest way to prevent leaking parts out of factory, to the resistance movements.
They just made two parts with the same number, and then smugled one of them out!
@@gunnarkvinlaug7226 Thats exactly what Poles do in factory in Radom with ViS pistol. And it took Germans year and the half to figure it out - but after that they changed procedure somehow (I assume they increase control over stumping device, to prevent turning back the counter) and made such scheme imposible to pull off again.
Cool gun.
Papers please.
It could be argued that the Polish VIS-35 was another 1911 pattern gun that was produced under German occupation, albeit not an exact copy and chambered in 9X19..
VIS is Browning High Power derived, so an improvement on Brownings own ideas for 1911 improvements (though he never finished the project, one of his FN colleagues did)
@@davem2369 Deudonne Saive if I remember correctly?
Where does he find his ammo, I havnt been able to find crap on the shelf for months now haha
Dam these videos are good
My friend has one it has a swatica on it and it's a 9mm his dad packed it back in WW2 looks just like a colt 1911 45
Sweet, very slick running
From my view, shoot smooth for 1911 45acp pistol, nice gun!!
The numbers matching must have been a big thing for the Germans. I have a bring back gewher 98 that every number matches even down to the cleaning rod.
hola muy buenos dias cordiales saludos amigo Vickers muy bueno tus programa de armas deberias de tener tu propia armeria para que el publico que te sigue adquiera un arma saludos
Hey vickers don’t know if you know this or not this pistol wasn’t trialed from the 1911 pistol it was actually the colt 1902 pistol
wow...history lesson. never knew about this weapon.
I will watch, read or buy anything with LAV and the 1911.
I'm very surprised Norway didn't opt for 9mm. If they had done that they could have adopted the Hi Power instead or built a 1911 style pistol like the Radom. Anyway, great vid.
If my sources are correct, the FN Hi-Power was launched in the mid 1930s, way too late to be available in 1914 when Norway was searching for a new service-pistol. The name, M1914, is a reference to the year the gun was adopted.
*nazi-adopted* I kow it's nitpicking, but the guys Who made it was not nazis. They were unmotivated norwegian factory workers. Occupation guns are often lower quality than pre occupation ones.
How do you know they were unmotivated? How do *you* know some of them weren't super eager to craft the best pistols possible to help their brave teutonic brothers fend off the Bolshevik threat???
@@andreashofer2995 it's a blanket statement my guy
@@andreashofer2995 it's well documented. Despide having a large number of workers and production equipment, the number of weapons actually produced was staggeringly low, and quality was often usb-standard compared to pre-war. There was also internal sabotage. The workers didn't want to be fired, but neither did they want to help the enemy. The germans constantly complained about quality issued and low production numbers.
I don’t understand why theres a shooting video for this but not the federov
The sound of the gun firing at normal speed is amazing. Is it edited or original sound capture? (slowmo sound is obviously fake tho)
What makes you say the slow mo is fake?
@@TeSolycMandalor Maybe my comment wasn't very clear I never said the slowmo is fake just the sound.
@@WetaMantis what's makes you think the slowmo SOUND is fake?
@@TeSolycMandalor It does not sound fake it IS fake by nature. And I'm NOT bashing them for it quite the contrary.
It is physically impossible for a footage that slowed down to sound like this. Even while correcting the pitch I doubt you would get any usable sound from it.
So you have to edit in a new sound you would have to custom fit to the scene. If you slow down sound the pitch gets lower and if you slow it down that much you just end up with garbage noise.
An interesting watch from Smarter Everyday on the subject that explains it if you have the time: th-cam.com/video/aO7yzmc3ykw/w-d-xo.html An art in of itself.
Episode 2 which explains it: WARNING headphone users, very loud noise: th-cam.com/video/rfKQXaT2ACY/w-d-xo.html
Now you can find those guns in the hands of criminals and in the garage of an ex-police officer who stole them
I’ve heard about this pistol before but not a lot of history background on its service with nazi Germany
barly used tho, rarly issued mostly to wehrmacht in norway
I didn’t know the words nazi and 1911 were allowed together
When the Germans mimic the M10 from a Panther, it's a war crime. When the Germans mimic the M1911 with a Norwegian M1914...
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Where's that joke that said you didn't know anything about history, came here from FB and wanted to see. Can you pin that comment?
Last year was the year that I finally got a 1911, and now I am a proud owner of two, and one is a Colt, oh yeah 😎
Please bring back the Post-Production Sound Design!!!
Did he get thinner? He looks younger but older yet Healthy at the same time
Cool piece of history
Very cool. Didn't know this sweet little jem was made under nazi occupation, hi power yes but this is super cool history . Thanks Mr Vickers.
I just read an article on this at the NRA magazine. I would love to own this too.
His face at 5:33 is like, "yeahhh.... I'll give it to her, but I'm kind of tired and would rather just go to bed"
Test Zigana models and Canik