Underappreciated historical weapons: THE GUN-AXE
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As always thanks for your content Shad, always pure gold. Some additional feedback. Not only it was indentified with the Polish, but with Hungarian Hajdú as well. As light infantry the Hajdú were often used in sieges and setting up ambushes. There the gun axe shined, as after the shot you still have a pretty hefty axe to deal blows. Also most of the Hungarian and Székely infantry had various type of axes as part of their equipment already so combining that with a gun, although expensive was advantageous in the martial sense.
Do you know of any instances where the axe head was placed/used as the rifle stock? Bayonets make sense on the barrel for stabbing, but with axes being most effective when swung, it seems like placing them at the barrel tip would make them more cumbersome both for aiming and the first swing of the axe
The gun Axe was famously used by President Abraham Lincoln when he hunted vampires
@@GMYSTERYICTNF as an american, i can comfirm
@@JeffHykin
I don't know of the history of the weapon but I'd say that putting it in the stock would make aiming even worse due to how uncomfortable would be to held a protruding axehead your direction. And it would lose a lot of heft due to the lack of weight in the back of the gun (btw good luck grabbing the barrel side of a gun of those periods without getting burn or having to make a thin stock).
@@JeffHykin The axes were rarely placed on longer firearms. The longest axes used in combat at that time in this area of Europe were shepherds axes around 1,30 m or shorter. I am talking about 16 and 17 th centuries. As to why they where placed on the muzzle end I can think of few reasons. Most importantly if you would place it at the back end you have a sharp axe head pretty close to your body and with the recoil of a gun it is easy to get an unpleasant accident. Placing the axe on the front of pistol or small carbine used by mounted shooters instead of the crossbow ( półhak in Polish ) actually could made it more controllable and you could easily attack your opponent after you fired. I would like Jason from Modern History TV to try this weapon out from horseback one day as the gun axe could be also used in hunting. In the end the axe was stripped of the short carbine and it evolved into rifled Stutz ( you can see it on capandball channel ).
never have i known gun-axe existed. underappreciated one indeed.
Total Warhammer 3 introduced this weapon to me like 3 weeks ago, the concept had never occurred to me before then.
You could say it axeisted for a long time.
@@TheEchoreader clever joke
I only knew it existed because of Pathfinder. Its a weapon in it and had to look it up
Just wait till you discover the spoon-bow...
Jelly: Jelly is made with strained fruit juice. There are no pieces of fruit in jelly.
Jam: Jam is made with mashed fruit.
Preserves: Preserves have whole fruit or large pieces of fruit. Some fruits such as blackberries or raspberries will not stay whole during the processing so there may not be much difference between raspberry jam and raspberry preserve.
Fruit spreads (only fruit): These are 100% fruit with no sugar added. If needed, a sweet fruit juice such as white grape juice or apple juice may be added. Because of the sugar in the fruit we cannot call these products sugarless. These spreads offer the most amount of pure fruit flavor.
Butters: Butters are made from pureed fruit. They are not as sweet as preserves, jams, or jellies but offer a full fruit flavor. Butters are cooked for over 6 hours ,at a low temperature, allowing the product to thicken. Butters tend to be dark because of the exposure to air during the cooking. These are also available with no sugar added.
Learn your fruit based condiments Shad!
The subject of next week’s Shadiversity video: Jelly Is Stupid
Blue ribbon answer. :)
Big stick energy right there boy
Schooled
Is marmalade a preserve?
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter had an axe-gun, but that movie didn't get a lot of attention, because it was called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Still on my list of movies I've yet to see.
@@Saint_nobody it's better than it sounds. Nice popcorn b movie. Recommend if you're wanting to waste 2 hours.
@@Saint_nobody it's not as bad as people make it out to be, but the ending is kinda wacky
So did Mack from Agents of SHIELD. That was his thing. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title.
I've seen it, but I didn't remember that.
This is why the shotgun-axe is the best gun/melee weapon hybrid. Generally dont need great aim
Very true, why are you the only one to realize that?
shotguns: the 'fuck everything in that general direction' gun
I mean load one of these with rock salt and you have a shot-axe. Bullet variety was kinda limited with small calibre guns when these things were used, Larger cannons had grapeshot, but making granules that small wasn't really a thing. And well, the further on technology went, the battlefields were getting dominated with rifles and melee combat was more of an emergency/unusual feature.
Shotgun-Axe is something that should've been in Bloodborne.
“The sword’s weight is situated near the handle, making it more elegant”
Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster
Yeah, so uncivilized.
An elegant weapon from a more civilized age
@@pheonix_soldier "Well, here you go. You're father's light saber. he used to murder a bunch of children."
@@seanburke997 thats not true! That's impossible
@Avery Chance That seems to mostly be the effects in the films (other than the incident in the Mos Eisley cantina in Episode 4). That said, it makes me wonder how effective a lightsaber would really be as a thrusting weapon, as it would simply bore a neat, cauterised hole through a target's torso rather than causing rapid blood loss.
Come to think of it, lightsabers would be horribly inhumane weapons. Nonfatal wounds from them would get infected fast due to the loss of blood flow to the affected tissue. The fact that the Jedi consider it more "humane" to maim targets by cutting off limbs is truly barbaric as well! Granted, medical technology in the Star Wars universe is far more advanced than anything in the real world, and they clearly have a better healthcare financing system than the shambolic mess that is favoured in the U.S., so I guess most victims of lightsabers can get good augmentic replacements... if they survive.
Moral of the story: attach melee weapons to your firearms, not the other way around.
Yeah, basically. It also makes sense since you would mainly use the pistol part, and the axe would be mostly to protect yourself if someone gets close.
Feels leki Terraria's Terra Blade
Yeah like the bayonet, which is like a gun spear of sorts
Nah dude modern shotgun are
Break action and beefy as hell
it already exist
they called it bayonet
"Honey, it's the neighbour again"
"What is he using this time?"
"I... I'm not sure"
He is using a "Gaxx"
@@alejocouderc4495 GAXX?
@@faithrider94 **GAXX!**
@@churchboy4609 *G A X X*
Imagine being the officer filling out that incident report
It's also worth noting that having the axe on the end allows you to hook the axe over objects to take a carefully-aimed shot, pivoting the gun around as if it had a stand.
Nice.
Definitely useful for hunting
When the artificer and barbarian team up
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
Also Shad, maybe it's time to revisit the fight scene analysis series and do Duel of the Fates. That'll be very interesting!
Don't mind me just taking notes for my Tiefling artillerist. Could make some gold even if strength is a dump stat.
>Fight Starts
>Barbarian, duel wielding gun-axes, lets loose both in a volley
>No reloads, proceeds to use in melee
>Fight Ends
>Artificer argues with him for 15 minutes to get the weapon for reload and service or they won't do the shooty thing anymore
>Repeat
Yeah that checks out.
Or they rolled well and multiclassed
@Michael Ewoldsen what I meant was that I would do like zero damage myself having traded strength for dex to actually hit what I'm shooting at.
Australian politician’s worst fear: A gun-axe wielding emu
What about Koalas with gats?
@@MrLolguy93 or Dingoes with RPGs and Wombats with Flamethrowers
Souns like we're making a animal army to finish invading Australia
Come on mate, tje Quokka with a sniper rifle is the deadliest little bastard. They got rottnest all to themselves.
@@thedootlord I for one welcome our animal overlords
"I'm GUNna AXE you a question"
-Some Polish cavalryman, probably.
lmao this needs to climb up the likes ladder
spanish*
Isn't it an Ork Shoota at that point? 🤔
I don't believe they have tried more dakka yet
And I'm not gunna axe if that pun was intended or not
The moment Shad mentioned the gun axe being implemented more, I thought of fantasy Dwarves. The gun axe sounds like a weapon they would definitely use and perfect especially with their ability to forge incredible weapons and armor. Imagine a hefty Dwarven shotgun or hand cannon with an axe blade attached to a strong sturdy barrel resistant to the shock of firing, and the impact of the axe biting its mark. Yeah, wouldn’t want to face a fully armored Dwarf who can both chop through foes like they’re skinny trees, and blow them away from range should the foe be too dangerous to fight up close.
I agree that would be very scary to go up against
For an example, look up Warhammer Fantasy chaos dwarf fireglaive.
Mac's shotgun axe from Agents of SHIELD was the first thing that popped in to mind.
Same
same. I thought it was silly but still liked it, so this video is a welcomed surprise
One of best introduced weapons in a TV series. It wasn't introduced out of nowhere, they had a gradual build up to introduce it.
The diminished accuracy also makes a shotgun make more sense than a rifle. So the shotgun axe is a lot less silly than we thought. Mack knew what was up.
Oh i didnt knew they had an Axe~Shotgun, the thing that poped in my mind was the SC. Easter egg Tauren with its AxeRifle
As expected, Enter the Gungeon remains the pinnacle of weapon design and historical accuracy
God enter the gungeon is a fucking hoot to play: snarky, fun and with really good weapon design.
B-U-L-L-E-T-!
Gungeon doesn't like melee: this is more like Sunset Overdrive
Aside from being a blood-borne / agent of shield/ axis of Evil reference
@@SavageGreywolf thats why the shotgun axe/the wicked sister is a cursed weapon
Gimli: “and you have my double axe!”
Shad: “Double bitted axe are stupid! Here, take this”
Gimli: “What’s that?”
Shad: “A gun axe of course!”
*happy dwarven noises
Well done sir, you have created a Chaos Dwarf in the Middle Earth. Now the world will suffer.
Aragorn: You have my sword.
Legolas: And my bow.
Gimli: And my axe...gun.
LotR dwarves just became WoW dwarves.
Maybe Warhammer dwarves should start having axe-guns. They already use a lot of guns, and axes individually.
@@siegfriedc2332 Chaos Dwarves love their Flintlock Axes already.
Yeah, I need to do an under barrel axe attachment
When you run out of bullets, you still got two options. An axe and a throwing axe.
Just don't lose it or you're screwed
*and or throwing axe
and no need to lose time searching for your secondary weapon in case of emergency, it's already in your hands
And the best of both: Since it has nearly the size of an Axe, you can keep two of it with you
I appreciate that he gets fully kitted even in videos where the armor doesn't come into play.
Ong you can't catch my boy lacking, he keeps the drip on no 🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢!!!🥵🥵🥶🥶🥶🔥🔥🔥💯
Tell me you wouldn't take any excuse to wear armour if you had it
Safety first, guys.
It's foam, so it's not as uncomfortable as his real armor.
@@ФотографииШирина shad is the drippiest man on the planet
When people say Bloodborne was unrealistic with its weapons.
What's that's quote?
Fact is stranger then fiction.
@@thelordofthelostbraincells indeed
Like wheel, The greatest weapon of all.
@@wedran9225 if I defeat enough people with an improvised cart wheel, I could imagine it would be haunted by all the unfortunate souls who got crushed by it.
@@wedran9225 A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR!
9:28 In an alternate universe: *Shad unfortunately forgets that this was not his dull practice sword.*
As someone from America: Jelly, Jam, and Preserves are all different things.
Was going to say Jelly and Jam two different things, nothing to do with where you live they are just different.
YES!! I came here to say this. Jelly has very little to no fruit in it and a higher gelatin content often. Jam has more fruit in it. Preserves have large chunks of fruit. Marmalade has citrus fruit and prices of the rind too
Was wondering if someone said it. I was gonna if no one else did. Lol
I mean there are some similarities, but they are definitely not the same thing.
@@kainnak I think he mainly said it because shad mentions mentions America specifically in the video
Through watching Shad I realize that the sword was really romanticized and mainly a symbol of power while Axes n spears were the real MVPs of warfare.
Well Modern History TV made a good point when discussing his big chopping sword. A knightly arming sword is more likely to be preserved and used as a decoration/status symbol because of the regality and elegance of its design. A cheaply made, chipped, and dented purely functional bit of sharpened steel on a stick is less likely to be kept by or valued by someone after using it on the battle field because there's no grace to it. It served its purpose and will hopefully no longer need to be used and will either be refitted or melted down into something more usable. That's probably why we find so many fancy swords in museums and probably why pop culture values the sword so much. There's glory in killing someone nobly with a sword, but there's no glory in butchering someone with an axe.
So THIS is why swords are shit in GBA Fire Emblem
I think it has to do at least a little bit with the versatility of them. With things like murder strokes and half swording, the sword alone can at least somewhat function in the way you want most other weapons to function but not the best. Sure, you can puncture armor with your cross guard, but it's not as good as a good old fashioned halberd or pick. But it does up close combat much better than either of those weapons. With a longer sword you can get and keep your enemies at a distance like a spear, but not as well. Unlike the spear though, again close quarters. It's not as good at cqc as say a dagger, not as good at finding all the tight gaps in armor, but you can defend yourself a lot better and you can still do it alright with half swording. It doesnt have the crushing capacity that an axe or mace has, but it's much more maneuverable, you have more options and more subtle ways to attack.
And then of course theres the civilian aspect. Sure almost every peasant had a wood cutting axe, but spears not necessarily, and almost never a halberd. These were weapons reserved for soldiers. Swords however remained popular among the average civilian (who could afford them) for a long time. And when facing an unarmored opponent, you want that extra manueverability and ease of use.
So while spears axes and halberd make amazing military weapons, the sword is kindof the ideal for a solo fighter, which is why they become more iconic I think. And of course, being almost entirely metal rather than a metal head on a wooden shaft, if taken care of they last much longer and are more likely to be handed down or maintained in general
And the noble blunderbuss blows them all away
I've always loved axes in games lol
Hey now, regarding that "jam/jelly" thing. There is actually a difference. A jelly is smoother because it's only made with the juices and syrups whereas a jam is made by mashing a bunch of fruits. Jelly is more gelatinous whereas jam is kinda like a fruity puree.
Ah yes the definition I needed to see today
Exactly. Jam is a gel that spreads much more easily than jelly which is more closely related to a jello mold that tends to only break down into small chunks.
@@texan_nerd8168 you can never know too much about the specifics of tasty breakfast confections.
@@armontek9084 yes
The only difference between jam and jelly is that you can't jelly your di..... oh, wait. This was a serious discussion.
"There was even a multi-barreled version made in Germany."
*distant Joerg Sprave noises intensify*
_"Let me show you its features!"_
That was the best “Too stupid to operate a blanket” style ad I’ve ever seen. Embracing the ridiculousness is the key to making them work.
I don't really like seeing food wasted for a joke. I know it doesn't hold a candle to all the wastage that goes on normally, but still.
@@gunnar6674 it's not wasted, it just wasn't used for it's intended purpose.
Wasting food would be getting it, and then throwing it away.
Shad used it for a comedic sketch.
That food wouldn't have helped anyone, because there's no shortage of the food he used, no lives were lost, no family went hungry because of it.
I was raised in a home where you didn't leave anything left on the plate, and it's hard sometimes to realize that food waste isn't a big deal if you're middle class or higher.
Final Fantasy developers: "write that down, write that down."
Fromsoftware:can I copy your homework
Hahaha seriously
Funnily enough, there's a gunblade that fits the "gun with an axe head" talked about in this video that got added in the latest expansion of FF14.
"It would be harder to be accurate with rifle-axe" is actually an interesting point to think about. Because if you have an option to use normal, accurate gun, and you use gun-axe, it logically means that there is high chance of going melee SO FAST, that you can't switch to a melee weapon. And that usually means close distances (or you are cavalry, as Shad mentioned, which makes you inconvinient to switch). So, HOW MUCH do you need accuracy of a rifle? Or even of assault rifle? Because you probably want 1 big shot and good melee option after this shot. So, if I'm not a cavalry, I would want not a rifle-axe or pistol-axe, but a shotgun-axe.
You might want to do something more like what the Rus did. While most of the world (16th century-ish, I think) was using a stand to hold the rifle while aiming, they used a bardiche. If you got caught reloading or the enemy had cavalry getting close, just drop the rifle and go for the axe.
Just a thought.
Did you consider the recoil of a shotgun/blunderbuss axe when used in one hand? At the kind of range you'll be using that weapon during a cavalry charge, you'll want to keep one hand on the reigns so you can actually direct your horse. And if you think the Mongol archers example explains this there are two problems with that. One, they were using bows which do not have recoil at all, which brings its own set of problems given the high power of shotguns. Two, they used their bows at long range with hit and run attacks, not charges into the enemy line where they get stuck in. At that range, they switch to one-handed melee weapons so they can effectively attack their targets and control their steeds at the same time. You don't want to lose control of your horse in a melee.
@@scoman91 You can just shoot it two-handed a bit further away and then grab the reigns. Shouldn't take more than two seconds. A cavalry charge being a very close formation, accuracy doesn't really matter, you're still gonna hit something 10 or so meters away
@@gaolmiralis2247 Yep. Shotguns are also more accurate and effective at range than people believe. Folks, when it comes to shotguns, Call of Duty lied to you.
Could also just use grapeshot
I love how passionate you get with topics like this, before this is saw your video on why double blade axes are terrible and your passion really shows there too!
It makes for a great teacher to have that passion and it helps us, your students, get excited too!
Also worth noting that guns back then were not especially accurate so a slight decrease in accuracy wasn’t a big deal. What was a big deal was that because they were inaccurate you might miss, and they took so long to reload that the enemy could well get into melee range before you did. In which case your gun also being a hefty melee weapon without modification would have been ideal.
In the up coming Total war: Warhammer III game there will be units with gun axes
Praise Ursun for our Kislev axe-guns
I was wondering how many people would be here from that game. Certainly no coincidence that it was recommended to me lol.
FINALLY
Maybe we’ll see them rise up as well!
WH40k has had pistols built for clubbing gits over the head since the beginning. :)
Kislev happy axe-gun sound intensifie
We have Jam in the US as well. Jelly here is just a jam made with juice and no solid fruit. What you call jelly down under, we call gelatine or Jello here.
All I can think about is how this means he's never heard one of the "whats the difference between jelly and jam" jokes
(Eng) (swe)
Jam = sylt
Jelly = gelè
And then there's preserves....
@@Damonnanashi preserves are just chunky jam.
Calling Jello Gelatine is like calling candy "sugar" like yeah it's a main ingredient but it isn't the entire thing
0:20 Acktually, jelly and jam and two different things. Jelly is more like gelatin (the similar sounding names help in distinguishing), whereas jam has more fruit bits in it. So jam has more of a colloidal structure to it.
Exactly! 🍑🍓🍒🍉🥭🍏
In the United States, jam and jelly are different things. Jelly is smooth and gelatinous, jam will almost always still have seeds and/or some kind of roughage left in. It's basically the same kind of difference between orange juice with or without pulp. As for the idiom, it just rolls off the tongue better to most of us.
EDIT: Someone responding to this has given a more accurate explanation of the difference.
Growing up I did not like grape jelly on my sandwich but enjoyed strawberry jam. Or just forget the jam or jelly and go with apple butter.
@@MandalorV7 ah, a fellow man of culture
@@MandalorV7 I haven't had apple butter but man I love me some peach butter
Thank you i was going to post something like this.
The difference is Jelly is made from fruit juice whereas Jam is made from the fruit it self typically crushed so pulp still exists in the jam.
@@shinjofox Ah, thank you.
Gun-Lance: "look what they have to do to mimic our power"
I raise you, GUN SCYTHE!
Kaboom > Gun-axe
And they still have nothing on wyvern fire
@@bbebee224The four words that reign eternal in the world of Remnant: "It's also a gun."
Ah yes gun Lance stab then boom
Professor Port from _RWBY_ uses a double-bitted blunderbuss axe, but the head is on the stock end.
Kamen Rider Para-DX also uses a pistol axe (the Gashacon Parablaygun) but the axe and pistol heads rotate to swap modes.
in marvel's agents of shield, one of the characters had an axe shotgun that was really cool to see.
That was Mack. By the final season, he was Director.
@@tinear4 yeah i didn't say that incase it would spoil it for someone
Agent Mackenzie’s shotgun axe is awesome.
Lmao the the first version of the shotgun axe was quite literally an "axe"(cleaver) taped to a shotgun.
Hey Mack- Hammer, can't touch this
Assassin's Creed Unity actually had a DLC called "Dead Kings" that had these. They were referred to as Guillotine Guns and they were closer to mortar/halberds than axe/guns
Was looking for these comment. Thanks man
so they didnt lie to us!
Was really hoping someone would say this. Loved that mortar axe
*happy assassin noises*
I think Assassin's Creed Unity had something like this... Though it probably is more of a grenade launcher with an axe than a gun. But it definitely is one of the coolest weapons in the game
Some historical flintlocks were designed to launch mortar like the guillotine gun in Assassin's Creed Unity, so it's definitely on topic.
"It's also a gun."
_Ruby Rose, 2013_
"Woah! Is that a scythe?"
If I didn't already know from a previous Shad video that scythes we think of weren't REALLY weapons, I would be spamming for a scythe-gun video.
Knew I’d find this here somewhere.
Professor Peter Port is smiling at this video.
@@thehackingburger3002 It is too polish to be wide spread.
that family guy joke in the beginning is litterally how I felt watching the thumbnail
The US has three different types of jellied fruits, in fact: Jelly is a gelatin-and-fruit-juice product, Jam is a gelatin-and-fruit-puree product, and Preserves are a gelatinized crushed-fruit product. In other words, they increase in chunkiness in the order in which I listed.
Came down here for the jelly explanation. 😄
nice
I still call it a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, even if I use jam or preserves. I am so bad.
It’s actually pectin that thickens it, but yes thank you for this comment lol
I thought it was jam has seeds and jelly doesn't
An example of a gun with an attachable axe head is the muskets used by Strelets in Age Of Empires III.
Pretty sure Mack in the Marvel show Agents of Shield makes a shotgun Axe
That was so much fun to see him use in the show
Was about to comment this lol
After looking at pictures of it, I bet Shad could improve it. The mount for the axe looks wonkey and me, I'd want some kind of pointy bit for hallway thrusts pointing forward. Maybe even as small as a bow tip with blades that could also be shot.... whoa...
He did
There’s only one thing I learned from this vid:
Shad doesn’t know jelly is a different thing from jam, and not just another name
Jelly is jam with american synthetic ingredients to make the stuff look good/funny but be infinetly worse for you since the actual berry that jam is made with is disposed of.
@@Birkarl_ "synthetic ingredients"
You realize there are people in America who make homemade jelly right? It's not just a word Smuckers uses.
@@Birkarl_ Jelly is a clear fruit spread made from cooked fruit juice and sugar, and possibly pectin, which helps it gel and thicken. After the initial cooking, jelly is strained through a muslin stockinette or “jelly bag” to remove any solids.
Jam is a thick spread made from fruit juice, chopped, crushed, or puréed fruit, and sugar. Pectin may also be added to help it gel, but jams are usually looser than jellies. Jam typically contains a bit of fruit pulp, so it’s not entirely transparent.
Difference between jelly and jam? Shad can't "jelly" a sword through your eye socket.
Jam is also the superior spread to jelly... 😈
In the game Hunt: Showdown there's a shotgun-axe which has absolute cult status in the community.
I use the shotgun axe all the time in hunt
I was just thinking an axe and a shotgun might go really well together lol
Also in Killing Floor 2, its called the Frost Fang
@@AJ-zu7ct Frost Fang is bae
Romero hatchet go brrrrrrrrr
I love how this is teetering dangerously close to RWBY weapons, a gun war pick might work even better less shock for the barrel
All we need to do is find historical evidence of Shotgun Nunchucks.
@@CryoJnik Texas Bruce Lee.
"I need a bigger gun, I guess. Or my axe. Or maybe a shotgun-axe combination of some sort." - Mack, Agents of SHIELD
Perfection.
was about to write this
This is why I clicked on the video
The gun axe was Abraham Lincoln's favourite weapon when he went hunting for Vampires.
Very American
Finally
I was looking for this!
I have actually seen a weapon like this portrayed, under the name “guillotine gun,” in the game Assassin’s Creed Unity.
It launches grenades...
The black flag sword gun is probably closer
@@cameronroy2129 Those are not even used as guns, though. To my great disappointment, the gun mechanism is only used to dislodge the gunswords from their targets. They are close to historic otherwise.
Or the shotgun Axe from AoS
Also seen in the game Hunt: Showdown.
Shad beating food with an axe is something I didn't know I needed to see.
Shad Fact: Adding to his travelers defense school. Shad has created martial arts for, frying pans, cooking pots, spits(with food attached), and spatulas.
God bless you
God bless you.
I mean frying pans are actually pretty effective weapons sure they are slow but I mean it would still kill you
S T I C K
Hmmm wlep I know what I must do now
"Shotgun axe." - Agent Mack from Agents of Shield.
And it worked really well.
I was hoping some would say this lol
Shad didn't mentioned it and my disappointed is unprecedented
You beat me to it. Mack is awesome with it.
I came down here to comment this and found three comments, back to back to back, that beat me to it. Glad to see Mack getting representation on Shadiversity 😁
You beat me to it. Agent Mackenzie’s shotgun axe is such a cool hero prop.
Actually RWBY, the show famous for saying "It's also a gun" all the time, HAS a teacher use a gun-axe. Specifically a blunderbuss with dual axe heads.
Though his was unfortunately impractical because the axe heads were on the shoulder mount.
Nothing like accidentally shooting yourself when a strike jostles the lock.
Try and lean your cheek on that should rest. :D
Port's weapon was the first thing I thought of as well.
i always assumed Port never shouldered the thing, just hipfired
@@qq13563817153 That's even dumber because blunderbusses have insane kickback.
It would be awesome to see a pirate or rogue type character going wild on their enemies with an Axe-Pistol
"The messengers offer you a trick weapon. Choose one."
Saw Cleaver
Hunter Axe
Threaded Cane
PISTOL AXE
Not gonna lie, the instant access is gonna make a hunter very, very happy
Saw Cleaver, no doubt about it.
@@manolomartinez5033 My first game, I used the Saw Cleaver the whole time.
Dane-axe/sniper, now that's what I call a headshot machine!
*GUN CLEAVER*
I'd watch a series of Shad cooking like a barbarian
Tribal Shad
Tribal Shad
Ooga Chaka
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Conan the Sharbarian
Honestly I think it would be dope for Shad to use his land and make a mini film, some sort of small skirmish battle or something and have the opening be him and his men cooking and chilling by a fire before going to battle with an opposing force. I know for a fact he has the weapons for it, but armor may be harder to give out.
Really cool. I've seen a shotgun with an axe blade attached to the end in modern media before, but never knew it was a real historical weapon before now.
check out Total War: Warhammer 3 Kislev unit roster, they have some Axegunners
Hunt Showdown has "romero hatchet" which is shotgun with axe head... It works really well in the game both as melee but also close range finisher. Also there was this ps2 vampire cowboy game that iirc had the 1st main gun be a shotgun with melee... I think it also was axe (edit: checked, the game was Darkwatch and it indeed had shotgun axe, altho in that game the hatchet head is on talon which i think irl wouldnt be ass effective and maybe even dangerous to user in case impact trickers hammers)
I was thinking the same. the timing for this is also bloody perfect.
When they first time reveal this unit I thing that is nice but stupid design... Now I feel like a ignorant
@@michachojnacki9370 well they did do the axes wrong way around.. Still a nice unit to put there.
@@Olav_Hansen To be fair, japanese long rifle fighting uses the butt of the gun like an axe, like the longer Kislev rifles.
I remember seeing this weapon in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
the what
Say what now what now?
@@YataTheFifteenth It's a documentary about the life of Abraham Lincoln. Really accurate.
@@benkalem yup. Can confirm.
Pardon me
Abraham Lincoln the what now
Jam is with seeds. Jelly is without seeds. Both are good and pair with gu- I mean, peanut butter
but what the heck is marmite it sounds like a component of a deadly poison gas.
I think it's less of the seeds and more of made with the whole fruit or just the juice
American jam and jelly also usually has more sugar too. Both also pair well with ax- I mean peanut butter
@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck chocolate flavored dead beer yeast
@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck it's like vegemite, it's a yeast extract, like msg.
Disgusting on its own imo however a teaspoon in a stew really gives it a deep umami flavour
Not to mention that in an era where it can take anywhere from 20 seconds to a full minute to reload and discharge a gun, an solid melee option is always preferable.
“Because the ingredients are prepackaged the meals have less waste”
????
Someone ordered hello fresh to the wrong address and it ended up at my house. The amount of plastic packaging was atrociously wasteful. The reason cooking your own food is cheaper is because buying ingredients once have you set for several meals.
The only down falls are time to prepare and it's not as easy. You end up getting more for less that's also healthier and normally taste better so I think it's better over all to learn to cook.
@@ignisshadowflame1027
Its good to learn to cook and discover new foods, but I cannot recommend it for sustained use
The Samwer brothers (the real founders of HelloFresh) specialize in stealing other peoples ideas and then using massive financial backing to obtain a monopoly. Nobody should support their companies.
I dont understand why people how lazy & rich enough to buy pre-processed food but have enough money and time to keep up the delusion that they are doing themselves and the environment a good deed without even going to the store to buy shit. the cooking kits in stores at least have the fact that they are actually cheaper going for it, whatever pays for shad's bills i guess.
@@ChevalierdeJohnstone yeah i had a local (as in its in Quebec only) buisness that started that sort of thing at least two year before hello fresh and now jello fresh has run them into the ground and a ton of people lost their jobs during the worst part of the pandemic. Hello fresh can go roll their ankle while walking down the stairs and fall, bruising their tailbone
Both short range AND long range. This is clearly the best weapon ever invented and all militaries must implement it IMMEDIATELY!!!
as soon as they attach a pommel to it
A rifle a with a bayonet stud has you covered about as much, and those are still pretty common.
I feel it would be awful to shoot though
Just wait till you see my ICBM wielding Gundam. Wack everything with it at close range and launch it to the other side of Earth. For short AND long range.
Sir, let me introduce you to... The GUNCHUCKS!!!
I am someone who is getting starting in blacksmithing, and this video gave me ideas that I have to wait until I am 18 to get myself a valid gunsmith license to make.
I believe in you! Dew it! I want that gun-axe or axe rifle modernized!
Well, depending on where you are, black powder weapons have far less regulation, you might be able to experiment legally now
if you can get a parent or guardian to order it for you theres always a traditions muzzleloader kit if you live in the us
Ooh I'm planning to learn blacksmithing but I can't really find good teachers here and teaching myself would get pretty costly really fast
if you live in the U.S. there are no laws against making guns for personal use you only need the license to make guns for sale. if you intend to become a gunsmith I suggest learning machining skills mostly CNC. blacksmithing is a very small part of being a gunsmith
Early pistols were so inaccurate they would often be shot point blank ; adding an axeblade on that thing certainly makes sense.
In Hunt: Showdown, a dark fantasy western PvP PvE multiplayer, there’s a gun called the Romero 77 Hatchet, which is a single-shot sawed-off shotgun that has an axe head strapped to the end of it just underneath the barrel.
So you can clear out the undead quickly by smashing the axe into their heads and then turn around to blast an enemy hunter in the face with the shotgun.
There's also a shotgun-axe for the Support class in Killing Floor 2 called the Frostfang.
I scrolled down looking for a comment mentioning this, thank you
A pump action shotgun with an axe on the end would be one hell of a ‘trench broom’.
As a hardcore RWBY fan, I appreciate any melee weapon that is also a gun.
Ah yes, the blunderbuss-axe, I wonder if the prominence of gun axes would be enough to outweigh Shad's dislike of double headed axes.
@@Great_Olaf5 I don't think so, since Peter Port's weapon has the axe heads on the rifle butt.
Nunchuck and gun?
The blunderbuss/battle axe combo is the topic of today's episode.
@@nujevad28 Sun? His weapons aren't nun-chucks. They're tonfa.
Ah yes the gaxe, the ultimate weapons used by American lumberjacks
Well yeah, how else are they going to fight off Slenderman?
Also it was used by one of their best presidents while killing the creatures of the night
Gex
And American presidents/vampire hunter’s
Dammit, I gave here to make a gaxe joke 😦
It may not have been incredibly effective to not be portrayed so often, but it was definitely good (and stylish) enough to see adoption to an official capacity.
"I'm gonna smite'im too!"
"But, you're not a paladin! You're a dwarven fighter!"
*BOOOM!* "Axe-gun, 's 'a same thing."
”Yeah, that gun is cool and all but can we put a blade to it?”
Is what was most likely running through the minds of mediavel weapons designers.
In contrast to the "Yeah, that weapon is cool and all but can we turn it into a gun as well?” mindset of the weapon designers of the RWBY series
War is a laboratory of crazy ideas
"Dad, can I put a gun mount on my axe?"
"Bobby, do you know how long I've been waiting for you to ask that?"
Still an Idea that holds some merit today, think of a semi-auto tube-fed 12 gauge shotgun. Could easily have 6-8 full-size rounds or 12-16 mini shells. Then because of the added weight, the recoil on the gun would be lessened meaning quick-firing would be less jarring also the added weight would make the axe swing deadlier. On top of that most modern body armor is rated for ballistic damage and isn't good at stoping blunt or slashing wounds so an axes cleve may pass through it especially if it has just received the trauma from a 12 gauge shotgun. The military could in theory also make a full auto variant if they made it a bullpup design with a nonstandard magazine design like the G11 or p90 so it didn't stick out and get in the way. The idea may actually have some merit in a close-quarters or modern trench style warfare senario
"Yeah, that stick is cool and all but can we put a rock on it?" -Someone, Ethiopia, 280,000 years ago
"remember switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading"
yeah, it takes like 2 seconds to reload the axe to attack again, even more if you miss, so switching to the pistol, or even a rifle is generally faster and increases effective range too XD
Not if your pistol is already on your weapon!
what if the axe gun was made to be a trap door loader conversion?
You should look up the tv show Agents of Shield where a modern version of this is used by a main character. A shotgun with an ax head!
We say both in the US, shad, Jelly and Jam are different things.
so, is PBJ with jelly or jam?
either way, I prefer jam ^^
@@Nerobyrne either or, you can do it with jelly, jam, or preserves. We have a company that majors in making all three of them called Smuckers lol.
This pic explains it all:
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The gun axe is represented in the game Hunt: Showdown. There is a weapon called the Romero Hatchet, which is a combination single-barrel shotgun and axe.
This. Also you have a few "unconventional" melee attachment on several other guns : blades fixed on the rifle's butt instead of tip (talon), or said buttstock turned into a mace, blades on the pistol's handle ... I think analyzing the functionality of some of those attachments would make for a good video.
Shad, if you read this, look into it, hunt showdown and it's zombie-hunting weapons deserve to be known more !
Yesss another Bayou Bro. I love the Romero hatchet and the bomblance. I Unga and Bunga. See you in the Bayou.
DID SOMEONE SAY *BOMB LANCE?!*
Wow, I did not skip the sponsor part lol
AoS: Director Mackenzie’s shotgun-axe. “Am I a joke to you?!?”
I'm reminded of the halberd-rifles used by the Papal Knights in Hellsing Ultimate.
Honestly ses like a logical leap don't know how effective it would be.
@@mercerholt8299 You'll get a longer barrel, which means better accuracy and velocity, but it would also add quite a bit of weight to an already heavy weapon. A standard halberd weighs around 3-4kg (6.6-8.8 pounds), I guess adding a long barrel would get the weight to anything from 6 all the way up to 9kg. A standart 18th century British Land Pattern musket (taking the Brown Bess as a reference) weighs around 4.5-5kg (9.9-11 pounds) with a barrel length of 1100-1200mm (42-46 inches) and an overall length of 1500mm (59 inches). A halberd being around 1500-1800mm (59-70 inches) long, the musket would be integrated seamlessly.
It would be a very heavy weapon, that's for sure, and the firing mechanism would surely get in the way if you'd like to change grip. But if it's used in a formation, you'll get a unit of infantry that can not only shoot, but also fend off cavalry, infantry and even pikemen, to some extent. It would be one hell of an expensive unit though, so you'll likely have only one or two on the battlefield, and composed only of elite soldiers. It would also be somewhat fragile. If you want to protect the barrel in melee, the wooden handle would have to be pretty thick, which would likely mean an added 1-2kg (2.2-4.4 pounds). You'll have something close to an early Renaissance Arquebus at that point, which would have to be fired from a fork rest and would be hard to use in melee, but in a formation I guess it could be somewhat effective. The reload would also be very long and rather unpractical
So we have a very expensive weapon, which is a jack of all trades but master of none, and it will lose to both a standard halberd and a standard musket as well as tire the wielder much faster. That's for the medieval version
Now for a modern version as depicted in Hellsing... Just take a bloody M4/AK with a bayonet. It would be much more versatile and an overall better alternative. Melee isn't as important anymore
I find it amusing that he mentions the gun-axe needing more love when Total War Warhammer 3 just released its Kislev roster with units that have Gun-axes
That is not enough love. It needs even MORE!
Hell yeah streltsi lookin awesome
An axe-blunderbuss seems like a fantastic age-of-sail boarding weapon. The wielded would be able to one-shot rigging and the accuracy concerns wouldn’t matter so much at such close range. And an axe-shotgun would be terrifying as a trench-raider’s weapon.
A trench-raider's weapon you say? You mean the Winchester 1897 shotgun with a 17-inch bayonet, used to such great effect in WWI the Germans whined about it? There's a problem with an ax: you have to have room to swing them. A long-arm with affixed blade is a spear.
@@md_vandenberg I get your point. 😬. But it’s easier to rush down with a swingy thing than a pokey thing. Trench raiders used a variety of swingy type improvised weapons (clubs shovels etc). And an axe head has enough mass to deliver a debilitating blow right through heavy winter clothes or military headgear. Besides think of the moral impact (on both sides) if some Eton-grad JO outfitted his raiding company with custom-made axe-headed trench sweepers. Edger’s executioners would be legendary!
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@@muninrob Wow! So 14 barrels, but only two shots… It is intimidating.
The thing with Jelly and Jam is that they're different things (at least we differentiate them here in the states), and some people prefer jam over jelly, but most people I know over here eat jelly more often than jam.
There was a dlc for assassin's creed unity that had gun axes and I think they called them 'guillotine guns'
It's funny how sometimes reality is so strange it seems like fiction. What's really wild were the "lantern shields", they were round full metal shields with lanterns built on the outside so guards could see at night while defending themselves, and they sometimes either had cut outs to stick a pistol out of so you could block and shoot at the same time, and they often had built in swords or spikes. That way you could light up the alleyway, block a blow, stab the dude, and shoot him all at the same time.
2:40 Shad being a man and eating with a big knife
Shad's mom: "WHAT ON EARTH YOU THINK YOU DOING !? WHERE IS YOUR SPOON ? "
Jam and Jelly are different things:
Jam: has chunks of fruit in it as well as seeds.
Jelly: is complete mush
@Fremen aye
What they have in common: they are both delicious
thank you
@@zacharyyoung1588 no problemo
I remember when I was an army cadet and we were told about characteristics, a rifle axe could be more accurate with a little tinkering as it WOULD counteract the barrel jumping when fired and send it more directly back so it might do even less to trouble you than you think, look at the weights and stabilizers on Olympic rifles and bows...
Hunt: Showdown’s use of the gun axe (which is a sawed-off shotgun with an hatchet head fixed to the barrel) has made it part of OP load outs since you have your strong short range gun and a strong melee in one gun and then enough space for a sawed off long ranged rifle to snipe with
How desperate must one be to resort to powder and not barrel length to fight at range?
@@typehere6689 Ah yes, all Hunt: Showdown weapons are loaded via cartridge or some form of cartridge conversion. Lever action rifles or late versions of cap and powder rifles (I forget the correct terminology).
Fr I think I have gotten more kills with the hatchet part of the Romero hatchet than the actual gun part
Also, in the later updates, you can carry Starshells for flares (useful vs Husks), Slugs for range or Incendiary for fights. You essentially have a gun that has a melee slot, utility slot and a shot-range slot all in one.
I believe in Assassins Creed Unity, there was a DLC or really expensive in game musket-halberd option. that was probably one of the few places it is seen within modern and prior gaming.
There wasn't. Only regular muskets & this axe-gun thing (called a "guiotine gun" in the game)
Enter the gungeon actually has a gunaxe
@@jacrispy3275 I REALLy dont wanna be that guy, but the guillotine gun was basically a gun axe, and exactly what he's thinking of.
@@onesaltysardine3232 - duh. I'm simply saying, that's what it was called in the game. Lmao
@@onesaltysardine3232 gun is a bit of an understatement. It was a grenade launcher with a blade on its head to be more accurate or a small cannon with an axe head
"It's not as good of an axe and not as good as of a gun."
And that's why the bayonet won: because a spear was easily the most adaptable weapon to be a hybrid with a gun. Heck, if you use a sword or knife bayonet, it's actually a polearm hybrid. Bayonets for the win.
I thought the bayonet won out cause making a bayonet (a blade) is much easier to make then an axe head: cause you can just make a sharp piece of metal then having to meld a axe head, cause dark. Want I’ve seen of these 2: the axe gun has much less issues in use then a bayonet
@@VentA_7 actually the bayonet won out because of multifunctionality attached it turned your gun into a spear detached it was still a functional trench knife and survival tool
@@VentA_7 I highly doubt the effectiveness of an axe head on a modern rifle...
The physics work better as well
A bayonet’s blade puts less stress and pressures on the gun,while still being as effective to the point their just reduced to slightly inaccurate and less sustainable versions of the weapons while the sword and axe either make sacrifices for either or weaken both
A bayonet is so slim and light to do a bayonet’s job that it’s essentially as effecting as the rods the muskets would have
While the axe would weigh down,often apply pressure that would eventually morph either the blade or barrel and both are reduced to subpar versions(same goes for swords)
@@vaclavjebavy5118 best one to put it on is shotguns
But it’s a shotgun so what’s the point
In my D&D setting, there are dwarves with double-barreled "breaching carbines" and large, tower shield style shields.
Breaching carbines are double-barreled flintlock shotguns with axe bayonets.
From what I know, jelly and jam are two different things. Jelly is smoother and easier to spread than jam. I’ve gotten both here in the us
Correct.
Jelly is usually made with Fruit Juice.
Jam is usually made with Fruit Pieces.
Yes, exactly. If jam is your arming sword, and jelly is more like a rapier. THEY'RE NOT THE SAME SHAD!
I can here for this!
The Gun Axe: for when your Dwarf has had it with the rest of the party.
assassin's creed unity dlc, I remember that thing blasting like a cannon
Aye, i was going to comment that. Really surprised they actually exist
You are the ultimate nerd. You’re brilliant and the work you do is insanely important. I’m an anthropology student and I love your show.
Delightfully enough during the wild west era in America, crazy gun mods made a comeback, many were indeed melee-based like axes or knives or even brass knuckles attached to pistols, shotguns, and rifles. There are some pretty insane and dumb ones if you look hard enough at early American gun history lol.
That’s sounds like an AWESOME idea for a D&D type thing or a western movie!
"even brass knuckles attached to pistols" giving me flashbacks to the Apache revolver.
To be fair, you can find a lot of insane and dumb stuff is you look at current American guns too.
@@runawaygemm5397 D&D meets wild west where everyone has guns, even the wizards, especially the wizards.
@@henrypaleveda7760 Great idea!
Smithy: Did you want a gun or an axe?
Polish Cavalry: Yes.
Smithy: .... I'll teach you, smartass.
Later...
Polish Cavalry: THIS IS AMAZING!
Smithy: I, uhhh, am glad you enjoy it?
Imagine a winged Hussar with one of these!
@Nicholas G. didn't know that. Thanks!
You know what's more underappreciated?
A gun-spear.
Bayonet charge memes
*Bloodborne's Rifle Spear says hello*
Rocket Propelled Javelins
Well, a rifle with a bayonet attached sort of are that but yes I can see some use for that. Especially really long spears like pikes. So that cavalryman think he is safe stopping just out of reach from my pike and tries to shoot me with his pistols? Think again! Well typically they mixed in musketeers with the pikemen partly for this reason. And the musketers got protection from cavalry charges.
Chinese fire-lance
In the Pirate series Black Sails, which is a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Treasure Island, in the first episode a man named Singleton carries a gun axe with him. You can see it in his hand as he gives a speech to the crew of the ship they just raided.
Honestly thought this was a 'Total War: Warhammer 3' sponsorship as one the new faction has a unit with this weapon
considering the timing I would imagine that this video was made because of TWW3
Kislev.
Soviet Russian jokes are weak in Kislev. WINGED HUSSAR TO BEAT CHAOS!!!
In the US, we call jam "jam" and we call jelly "jelly" because they are two distinctly different things. Jam is derived from crushed fruit and jelly is derived from fruit juices. Apology accepted.
In US culture, jam also has many negative connotations. You can have toe jam, a gun jam, and worst of all band jam.
"From the creators of Ass: the Swear Word, and Ass-Burgers, comes another universe brain misuse of existing words, bound to cause confusion and stupid debates. Out now in theatres."
@@tahunuva4254 I need to see that shit now!
@Luc Max - here in the UK (and I assume the same goes for Australia, hence Shad’s comment), jelly is the name for what Americans call ‘jell-o’ while jam is the name used for all fruit spreads that aren’t sauce or marmalade.
@@lordofuzkulak8308 Actually, Canada calls it Jell-O too.