I love how he openly acknowledges Ian's video. Ian and Jonathan are the kind of people who make inherently boring topics interesting, where you actually want to listen to them
Indeed! In an era of online tribalism, on a platform known for its septic comment section, it is so delightful to see that kind of gentlemanly acknowledgement.
They wrote a book together and collaborate alot. Ian, Jonathan and other fireaem youtubers like C&rsenal seem to get along well. They all appreciate the academic and engineering side of guns.
@@hugolevesque1570 TH-cam's famous comment section, I find to be what TV Tropes calls an Informed Flaw. I'm still waiting to actually see one of these cancerous TH-cam comments we hear so much about.
If there's some game developer watching this, please add this weapon to your game AND put a damn picatinny rail on it just to freak Jonathan out when he sees it. Congrats Royal Armouries!
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries wait... THE Jonathan Ferguson? You just made my day, so am gonna belive it and gonna brag about this till the day I die. Greetings from Chile and congrats on the subs :D
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries Not possible? Nonsense. Just use the side where the embellishment is attached on your example, the side that would be opposite the palm. Mount the rail on a bit of metal so that it would protrude a bit outside the hand, and then put a laser on the rail. Presto, it's a distance weapon. :)
The sheer amount of pride and happiness exhibited when he talks about the play button is just the best. Really happy for him, although he should have *at least* a million if I'm honest. Cmon people, sub.
I often feel I don't understand enough about the mechanics of a conventional gun to appreciate the nuances and experimentation displayed in this series, so I'm very happy to see a gun that is so obviously odd that anyone can appreciate it even with zero expertise
I had the opportunity to fiddle around with one of the US built Protectors back when I was in High School (a friend's dad was a gunsmith and had a guy who would bring in some rare firearms). Craziest weapon I've ever held in my hands.
Ian McCollum has a good description for these.:"to be used at bad breath distances", but "phone booth distance" is also very good, too. A bit of improvement to a fist fight, punching holes.
museums from all over the world should take notes here. this is how you reach the audience that might not be able or want to visit a museum in person. and maybe it'll even generate some additional income. I imagine it has for you guys. well done!
Congratulations! Really well deserved. The Armouries is such an amazing museum and Jonathan is an excellent and knowledgeable teacher/presenter. Great work all round.
You're going to have to practice a bit no matter how you're holding it. But realistically, how could anyone buy one of these and not immediately go and do some target shooting?
Still helps to get horizontally on target, being too low probably wouldn't matter that much at close range and with training the drop would always be the same so you could learn to adjust by aiming a little higher.
You made me yawn, sloth Edit: I did not mean this as a disparaging remark directed toward your comment, but instead simply as a humourous reference to your username
Jonathan is an awesome teacher and makes me want to learn more about firearms i live in Hull which is only 1 hour away from leeds so ill definatly be paying the royal armouries a visit !
I just find it so amazing that Jonathan just references Ian in this video, they're both gun gods and they're well aware of it, it's absolutely wonderful
I have been watching quite a lot of your uploads, I like the fact that you provide a history to each and every item you make a video about. In short.. Great job!
About the decorations on the larger version, doesn't that look a bit too dark blue to be turquoise? My guess would be lapis lazuli or possibly sodalite. As for the attachment method, I would agree that they were most likely soldered on with lead solder. Brazing or hard soldering would involve too high temperatures and would probably ruin the black inlay as well as destroying the tempering on any springs or other bits of hardened steel. Great video, and an awesome piece of history!
oooh you got the plate! Congratulations Royal Armouries! You're on the road to the million, and with this content i am very sure you will indeed get there.
Mission accomplished! It should be an honor that shall be relished and cherished, so glad for you, the team, and the museum for doing an outstanding job. It clearly comes across the screen to see an organization, such as the museum, that does such a phenomenal job! Bravo!
im not big on swords i came to this channel for the firearms, but you need to have a sword guy as well there are just as many people interested in that sort of thing.
Brilliant . You are one of the , if not the best channel I have found on TH-cam. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and upload..
Editing has gotten a little better, like more then one camera angle. Glad to see Johnathin with some editing support. John and Ian are international treasures.
Honestly, I believe the palm protector is probably the most successful turret revolver of all of these kind. It's just a beautiful of self-defense-oriented firearms. Wow. Just wow...
Congratulations on the award.!!!! If you used that as a knuckle duster, the barrel would easily break a rib. Then when you shoot them, they get a punctured lung
These like most pocket pistols are most effective at just outside of arm's reach and closer. Also known as "poker table distance." That said, I have an Iver Johnson pocket revolver in the fairly wimpy .32 S&W (Sometimes called S&W Short. Very close in power to the 8mm rimfire discussed here.) My Great Grandfather used to use it to shoot rabbits as he _rode his horse_ from his farmhouse to the schoolhouse where he was the teacher. In North Dakota in the 1920's wild game was a big part of their diet. I've shot it a bit, and it's definitely capable of hitting a rabbit sized target at up to 10 meters. Which I must say surprised me. I don't know if I could head-shot a rabbit at that distance, but a shoulder shot is not unreasonable.
Yes, I'm not sure if it made the edit, but I always say '10 metres' when asked about effective pistol range. Even I can hit a target at twice or three times that distance, but could I if I was being shot at or having to move? Nope! Obviously some have the talent/experience, like your great grandpa. Rabbits from horseback is seriously impressive.
@@brokeandtired I doubt there was much air rifle rabbit hunting going on in Great Britain in 1920ish. Sure there were air rifles, but the rules for firearms ownership in the UK were much different then. .32 caliber was considered a good small game hunting round on both sides of the Atlantic back in the day, when .22 long rifle wasn't as prevalent as it is today.
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries "Combat range" and "hunting range" are a little bit different too. I don't shoot at people, but if I were ever in that position and the other person was more than about 7 metres away I wouldn't be attempting the shot. I would be running away. I've had plenty of experience on the range shooting at 15 metres and I'm good, but that's not with someone shooting back at me. At more than 10 metres even if the other guy is a good shot I think my chances of running are better than my chances of hitting him before he hits me. My Great Grandfather was a good shot. I have pictures somewhere from back then with him and strings of dozens of ducks and rabbits laid out on the lawn. I have no clue what they were going to do to preserve them. He died when I was 5.
@@tarmaque .32 is good enough to kill a human, so it's better than .22LR...Also air rifles were very common in the 1920's for rabbit hunting in Britain, because break action BSA rifles were cheap for children ( it was a popular pastime for UK teenagers ), it put food on the table and helped farms with pest problems. In fact it's still a thing in England in rural communities. Ammo is cheap and unlike a firearm it requires no licence ( outside of Scotland ).
Congratulations on the plaque Johnathan, very well deserved for both you and the whole team at RA for all your work during the last difficult two years! Considering the negative stigma around firearms in the UK, you've done a great service in showing that preserving historical value and the education that provides on (multiple) nation's histories outweighs any current negative political sentiment. Onwards towards gold.. and your inevitable MBE! ;D
hell yeah glad to see yall got a play button you guys disserve it for the incredible work you do on and off the screen. i shall someday visit and try my hardest to not drool on the display cases .
Is it a revolver? Is it a pistol? Is it a brass-knuckles?... IT'S LE PROTECTEUR! Congrats for the 100k subscribers, hope the channel reaches 200k in no time
Putting aside Le Protector and its surprising practicality at fisticuffs range, woah, look at those background racks. I'm sure it would be smoother if we could look down the aisle, but Carcano, Carcano, Vetterli-Vitali, Carcano, ARX160 is certainly a... stark contrast.
congrats man love your stuff i think you've got a great way of explaining stuff, I know nothing about guns being British n all but I love the history. super cool
You know, I think this concept would still be fairly viable, even more so with modern smokeless ammunition (.32 H&R Magnum maybe), and perhaps a discrete laser for point shooting.
As the channel is now over 100k, Jonathan should get a nickname in the same vein as Ian's "Gun Jesus". My vote is for Jonathan to be called "The Lord of Gun's" or simple "Gun Lord".
Alright alright alright. Apologies for the audio of the earlier upload. Now engage BOTH of your ears and feast on Jonathan's dulcet tones.
Thank you
Jonathan has a nice voice and gives a good ear feel
@@Azguella Royal Amouries ASMR
Some beautiful English accent for my ears. Greetings from Argentina!
@@crispindry2815 They will remain fondly in our hearts/on internet archive.
I love how he openly acknowledges Ian's video. Ian and Jonathan are the kind of people who make inherently boring topics interesting, where you actually want to listen to them
Indeed! In an era of online tribalism, on a platform known for its septic comment section, it is so delightful to see that kind of gentlemanly acknowledgement.
@@hugolevesque1570 They have quite literally collab’d before, more than once too if I recall correctly.
They wrote a book together and collaborate alot. Ian, Jonathan and other fireaem youtubers like C&rsenal seem to get along well. They all appreciate the academic and engineering side of guns.
@@hugolevesque1570 TH-cam's famous comment section, I find to be what TV Tropes calls an Informed Flaw. I'm still waiting to actually see one of these cancerous TH-cam comments we hear so much about.
I've seen a video they made together a while back but I had no idea they collaborated one a book too!
Also how the way he moves the plaque with the gloves and lay down like a delicate firearms is pretty awesome. Now let's go to the million botton.
botton
He’s very purposeful with some of these firearms handling them very gingerly and I do appreciate the care he takes
Ummm....what?
@@rileyclarke6594 what’s the matter?
If there's some game developer watching this, please add this weapon to your game AND put a damn picatinny rail on it just to freak Jonathan out when he sees it. Congrats Royal Armouries!
Luckily, I'm not sure that would even be possible in this case :) They'll probably hang a charm off the end of it though... Maybe a tiger stripe skin.
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries wait... THE Jonathan Ferguson? You just made my day, so am gonna belive it and gonna brag about this till the day I die. Greetings from Chile and congrats on the subs :D
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries Not possible? Nonsense. Just use the side where the embellishment is attached on your example, the side that would be opposite the palm. Mount the rail on a bit of metal so that it would protrude a bit outside the hand, and then put a laser on the rail. Presto, it's a distance weapon. :)
@@jonc4403 You're a very bad man.
@@capturedflame I doubt I've achieved that level of notoriety, and hopefully they have better things to do :)
Still can’t wait to visit! 👍😊
Jonathan looks so chuffed with the 100k award, well deserved guys 👌
The fact that thing fires multiple shots blew my mind, quite a threatening device.
One of the best gun channels on TH-cam and it’s British too! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
The smile on Jonathan's face in the beginning while showing off the silver play button is priceless.
The sheer amount of pride and happiness exhibited when he talks about the play button is just the best. Really happy for him, although he should have *at least* a million if I'm honest. Cmon people, sub.
He have an unique bold/strong Classy, modest personality, it's so rare to meet people like him
Jonathan doing his best force ghost impression in the thumbnail...
congrats on the silver play button, guys!
I often feel I don't understand enough about the mechanics of a conventional gun to appreciate the nuances and experimentation displayed in this series, so I'm very happy to see a gun that is so obviously odd that anyone can appreciate it even with zero expertise
I had the opportunity to fiddle around with one of the US built Protectors back when I was in High School (a friend's dad was a gunsmith and had a guy who would bring in some rare firearms). Craziest weapon I've ever held in my hands.
Ian McCollum has a good description for these.:"to be used at bad breath distances", but "phone booth distance" is also very good, too. A bit of improvement to a fist fight, punching holes.
It’s kinda like a naa revolver.something you can drop into your pocket and at be a self defense weapon to hopefully fend off a wild rapscalion.
Congrats on the play button to you all, hope to be visiting the museum early next year!
Congrats! So nice to see you excited with the TH-cam Plate. You (and the Armoury) deserved it, Sir. 😄
Thank you! Definitely a team effort - especially now with this setup.
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries fantastic work from a fantastic team
museums from all over the world should take notes here. this is how you reach the audience that might not be able or want to visit a museum in person. and maybe it'll even generate some additional income. I imagine it has for you guys. well done!
My mans got *two* camera angles now
Fancy
I like this more offical kinda formal style of presentation
It’s a nice mood
Congratulations! Really well deserved. The Armouries is such an amazing museum and Jonathan is an excellent and knowledgeable teacher/presenter. Great work all round.
We need to get you guys to a million. You certainly deserve it.
"I think that would improve your chances of hitting the target"
*Muzzle points down from where he is pointing*
maybe not
You're going to have to practice a bit no matter how you're holding it. But realistically, how could anyone buy one of these and not immediately go and do some target shooting?
give him some credit, you'd fuck up holding this too without an aid like a laser.
Still helps to get horizontally on target, being too low probably wouldn't matter that much at close range and with training the drop would always be the same so you could learn to adjust by aiming a little higher.
The kind of situations these would expected to be used in would generally be close enough that it could still cut it.
100,000 SUBS! Way to go, your channel is amazing
Thank you - sloths are also amazing :)
You made me yawn, sloth
Edit: I did not mean this as a disparaging remark directed toward your comment, but instead simply as a humourous reference to your username
Congratulations Jonathan and team, excellent work over the years! here's to gold and diamond!
Jonathan is an awesome teacher and makes me want to learn more about firearms
i live in Hull which is only 1 hour away from leeds so ill definatly be paying the royal armouries a visit !
Much love from America, great budding channel Jonathan.
Thank you! Looking forward to getting back Stateside soon.
Let's goooo Jonathan! Let's goooo Royal Armouries!
Literally deadly fingerguns. Add some wayfarer shades and a wink and you get a +10 to your charisma roll
Well deserved. Great new setup, backdrop and all.
I just find it so amazing that Jonathan just references Ian in this video, they're both gun gods and they're well aware of it, it's absolutely wonderful
Congrats!!
Thank you very much for the information, Jonathan! Can't wait to visit the Leeds Museum in April when I'm in the country! Keep up the great work!
We look forward to seeing you then!
I have been watching quite a lot of your uploads, I like the fact that you provide a history to each and every item you make a video about. In short.. Great job!
Congratulations! And as always, an interesting video!
Loving the production quality here!
Congrats Jonathan
congratulations jonathan and royal armouries crew on your 100k plaque! :D
Much improved camera work complements your excellent content. Congratulations on silver award!
About the decorations on the larger version, doesn't that look a bit too dark blue to be turquoise? My guess would be lapis lazuli or possibly sodalite.
As for the attachment method, I would agree that they were most likely soldered on with lead solder. Brazing or hard soldering would involve too high temperatures and would probably ruin the black inlay as well as destroying the tempering on any springs or other bits of hardened steel.
Great video, and an awesome piece of history!
Agreed, was thinking lapis lazuli
Jonathan's not a gemologist so it was a guess.
Congrats on the plaque my friends! Much love and I have cannot wait to be here for the 500k and million sub videos 🍻
oooh you got the plate!
Congratulations Royal Armouries!
You're on the road to the million, and with this content i am very sure you will indeed get there.
Thank you! With that username I'm guessing you followed me over from Gamespot :)
I came across ur channel because of ur great video weapons reviews
Mission accomplished! It should be an honor that shall be relished and cherished, so glad for you, the team, and the museum for doing an outstanding job. It clearly comes across the screen to see an organization, such as the museum, that does such a phenomenal job! Bravo!
Gungrats on the Silver Play button! I await y'all hitting Diamond!
Wow! Look at the ARX behind him! It's cool that you guys have modern firearms, too.
im not big on swords i came to this channel for the firearms, but you need to have a sword guy as well there are just as many people interested in that sort of thing.
Great with a few close ups this could be brilliant, thanks love what you do
Great new format and audio. Congratulations on the play button.
Know what thank you for the history and love you put into this series and I'm so glad you guys preserve history
Hell yeah moved on to a table and camera tripod. Stoked to see the channel success and the improvements yall have been making.
Brilliant . You are one of the , if not the best channel I have found on TH-cam. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and upload..
Well deserved, let's get him to the next level. Like his videos, promote this treasure of a person.
Great new setup! Congratulations!
Editing has gotten a little better, like more then one camera angle. Glad to see Johnathin with some editing support. John and Ian are international treasures.
Honestly, I believe the palm protector is probably the most successful turret revolver of all of these kind. It's just a beautiful of self-defense-oriented firearms. Wow. Just wow...
new set uo looks great, lovely video as always, thanks Jonathan and team!
Thanks Jonathan and team. A really interesting and peculiar firearm and congratulations on your 100,000 subscriber award.
Congrats on the play button!
Congratulations on the award.!!!!
If you used that as a knuckle duster, the barrel would easily break a rib.
Then when you shoot them, they get a punctured lung
Or point it at a head hole
hell get an Apache knuckle duster brass knuckles a revolver and a knife all in one!!!
@@julianshepherd2038 If you hit a head hole with the barrel, pulling the trigger wouldn't really serve any purpose anymore.
Oh... Great.
Well done on 100k!!!! Must visit the Royal Armoury next time I'm in England
Congratulations! 👏👏👏👏
fantastic as always
These like most pocket pistols are most effective at just outside of arm's reach and closer. Also known as "poker table distance."
That said, I have an Iver Johnson pocket revolver in the fairly wimpy .32 S&W (Sometimes called S&W Short. Very close in power to the 8mm rimfire discussed here.) My Great Grandfather used to use it to shoot rabbits as he _rode his horse_ from his farmhouse to the schoolhouse where he was the teacher. In North Dakota in the 1920's wild game was a big part of their diet.
I've shot it a bit, and it's definitely capable of hitting a rabbit sized target at up to 10 meters. Which I must say surprised me. I don't know if I could head-shot a rabbit at that distance, but a shoulder shot is not unreasonable.
Yes, I'm not sure if it made the edit, but I always say '10 metres' when asked about effective pistol range. Even I can hit a target at twice or three times that distance, but could I if I was being shot at or having to move? Nope! Obviously some have the talent/experience, like your great grandpa. Rabbits from horseback is seriously impressive.
Rabbits are hunted with air rifles in Britain. So a wimpy .32 is overkill.
@@brokeandtired I doubt there was much air rifle rabbit hunting going on in Great Britain in 1920ish. Sure there were air rifles, but the rules for firearms ownership in the UK were much different then. .32 caliber was considered a good small game hunting round on both sides of the Atlantic back in the day, when .22 long rifle wasn't as prevalent as it is today.
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries "Combat range" and "hunting range" are a little bit different too. I don't shoot at people, but if I were ever in that position and the other person was more than about 7 metres away I wouldn't be attempting the shot. I would be running away. I've had plenty of experience on the range shooting at 15 metres and I'm good, but that's not with someone shooting back at me. At more than 10 metres even if the other guy is a good shot I think my chances of running are better than my chances of hitting him before he hits me.
My Great Grandfather was a good shot. I have pictures somewhere from back then with him and strings of dozens of ducks and rabbits laid out on the lawn. I have no clue what they were going to do to preserve them. He died when I was 5.
@@tarmaque .32 is good enough to kill a human, so it's better than .22LR...Also air rifles were very common in the 1920's for rabbit hunting in Britain, because break action BSA rifles were cheap for children ( it was a popular pastime for UK teenagers ), it put food on the table and helped farms with pest problems. In fact it's still a thing in England in rural communities. Ammo is cheap and unlike a firearm it requires no licence ( outside of Scotland ).
Congratulations on the plaque Johnathan, very well deserved for both you and the whole team at RA for all your work during the last difficult two years! Considering the negative stigma around firearms in the UK, you've done a great service in showing that preserving historical value and the education that provides on (multiple) nation's histories outweighs any current negative political sentiment. Onwards towards gold.. and your inevitable MBE! ;D
We need to petition for Jonathan to play Q in the new James Bond films
Thanks for the amazing content! That silver awards is well earned, looking forward to soon see the golden plaque!
hell yeah glad to see yall got a play button you guys disserve it for the incredible work you do on and off the screen. i shall someday visit and try my hardest to not drool on the display cases .
Congratulations on the 100k. Here’s to the next 100k.
Gratz on the play button
Always wanted one of these.
you deserve another 10,000,000 great content.....
you are a lucky man especially for someone in the uk with our laws, speaking of do you personally need a licence to deal with all these weapons?
Is it a revolver? Is it a pistol? Is it a brass-knuckles?... IT'S LE PROTECTEUR!
Congrats for the 100k subscribers, hope the channel reaches 200k in no time
Well done on the Award
Congrats...also I recognise this from the movie Inglorious Basterds.....the lads use it in their attempt to kill hitler near the end.
You're thinking of a sedgley oss gun I believe
@@suddenwall the glove gun, yes sorry 🙈😅
Wowe that's a step up in quality, love the close shots and the background is epic. Keep up the great content!
Guess I’ll have to watch it again! Lol
Congrats on the 100,000 subs! And another great video, which may or may not have inspired a D&D weapon…
That's how we get ya. Thanks for the support David
Congrats on the play button! 🎉
I really like the new "set"! Keep it up, Jonathan. You always add very interesting things even on weapons that Ian has already covered.
great work, awesome content
more ultra compact guns please! they`re super interesting
itd be nice to see a video on that ARX behind Jonathon :)
Putting aside Le Protector and its surprising practicality at fisticuffs range, woah, look at those background racks. I'm sure it would be smoother if we could look down the aisle, but Carcano, Carcano, Vetterli-Vitali, Carcano, ARX160 is certainly a... stark contrast.
Congrats on the 100k, 1M next.
such a cool backdrop
Congratulations on the 100k award, really well deserved :)
I have an excellenytcondition French version, and a very cool pack (80/100) rounds of Made in Paris" Le Protecteu" bullets
Congratulations!
Congratulations on the plaque! Here's to many more subscribers (and videos) going forward! Are there many other examples of turret revolvers?
congrats man love your stuff i think you've got a great way of explaining stuff, I know nothing about guns being British n all but I love the history. super cool
Thank you. And hey, I once knew nothing about guns, being British also :) There are a few of us who can hold their own with our American friends.
Congratulations on 100,000 subs!
I have never been so obsessed with a British person.
I'm not 100% certain, but, are these the same firearm used in Inglorious Basterds during the finale in the cinema?
Major congrats on the youtube plaque !
So great to finally see you with a better video and audio setup. Vastly improved the overall quality. P.S. Congratulations on the TH-cam plaque!
You know, I think this concept would still be fairly viable, even more so with modern smokeless ammunition (.32 H&R Magnum maybe), and perhaps a discrete laser for point shooting.
Great video
As the channel is now over 100k, Jonathan should get a nickname in the same vein as Ian's "Gun Jesus". My vote is for Jonathan to be called "The Lord of Gun's" or simple "Gun Lord".
I thought Ian hated being called that.
someone suggested primeminister of guns
Well done! An excellent chanel, you truly deserve it!
Congratulations on 100k subs!