Confiscated Homemade Poachers' Guns from Zimbabwe
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I had a chance to visit Hire Arms in Johannesburg - a movie arms supply company. Among many other things in their collection, they had an assortment of extremely crude handmade firearms confiscated from poachers in Zimbabwe. As something we don't see much of here in the US, I thought they were pretty interesting, even if just in a train wreck sort of way. So I pulled out a couple of the most unusual to put on camera.
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This is a poachers weapon, made from recycled materials. It is, at once, the most and the least eco-friendly gun ever made.
Schrodinger's Rifle
@@johannes_lee9351 ?
@@johannes_lee9351
😂 Haha, I'm not sure the majority of TH-cam will get that.
@@WhoThisMonkey Probably because it has absolutely nothing to do with Schrodinger or the cat-theorem lol
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Imagine working in a mine for months, stealing safety fuse until you finally get enough black powder for one shot, go hunting, and miss
Imagine doing all that then going hunting and having your rifle you worked so hard on blow up inches from your face
Imagine doing all that work just to get it confiscated
Imagine getting a gun an firing it.
Sadly, I am unable to imagine as I don’t have one..
Imagine
Imagine imagining
gotta give them props for trying to modernize muskets lol
Africa was where European gun makers used to dump there surplus stock of.outdated guns. It was also where captured nazi surplus guns were sent post war.
Trying out 1700s technology in the modern times
A step down from Fallout 4's laser muskets
You know right, that there are actual modern muskets being made for hunting purposes?
@@toryknotts8026 Pipe guns bro
Just in case anyone's wondering, these weren't meant to be fired at range. These function much the same as a cattle gun would. The animal falls into a trap that has been set beforehand by poachers, and they come up and execute it at close range using the guns.
Kinda makes sense......you wouldn't want to hunt a tiger with this without a trap......
@@Mr-Ad-196
Luckily there's very few tigers in Zimbabwe...🤣🤣
MR AD "A tiger? In Africa?!"
thats probably why the shotgun had a bipod
Why even use guns then? That doesn't make sense
I'll take your weapons for 15 bottle caps
15 bottle caps! What do you think I made it from.
15? Most I’d give him is 2
@@jasonarmstrong5750 moira pays 1 Cap for a 100% durability 10mm pistol. This shit is worth 0.1 caps
The gods must be crazy!
Thallan good point
Level 1 Scrap Rifle
Rarity: Common
Quality: 5%
Durability: 15%
Value: 3$
Level 100 barret 50 cal.
That's how firearms work
Ryan Karuna nae bother terminator
Is that three dollars US? Because that would be over one thousand Zimbabwean dollars.
Dropped from Ork boss.
Honestly, if you're just some dude working in a mining town and you make this shit, it's kind of impressive
Impressive in the wrong way
Like killing someone but so perfectly that u never get discovered
@@urneighbourhoodchomie5339 there is nothing wrong with this, people have a right to defend themselves
@@aweaeawwfwawe7394 these guns weren’t used for self defence mate
@@urneighbourhoodchomie5339 doesnt really matter, people should be able to make what the want
@@aweaeawwfwawe7394 it’s illegal to manifacture a firearm
"you don't fire it until you have this latch closed" - because, you know, safety first.
Because that's the actual chamber, if not latched the bullet won't fly...
@@johndododoe1411 no? It's just there to prevent shrapnel...
Seeing stuff like this makes me realize game devs don't give post-apocalyptic gunsmiths enough credit sometimes
Lookin' at YOU, Fallout...
@@jacrispy3275 One of the only things that bethesda did astoundingly well with Fallout 4's lore (imo) is the pipe weapons.
@@jacobthompson3605 I think that's the opposite actually. Pipe weapons are terribly portrayed in FO4. For "Makeshift" and "Hand crafted" weapons, it sure is dumb that they all have the exact same receiver, have the same magazine on the side and accept the exact same .38 ammo.
The whole point of homemade weapons is to make use of what's available to the maker. Did everyone in post-apocalypse Boston have access to the same rusted iron pipes, comically oversized screws and .38 ammo? Did everyone suddenly decide side-loading magazines are the way of the future? Why the fuck can they only accept .38 or, rarely, .45 at most?
If your game portrays makeshift, homemade pipe weapons as things that come out of a factory production line, it's best not to have them on the first place.
Joel Filho but they do have variations to them
It’s just that it’s very common to find pipe weapons that use 38. Bullets because that’s the most common type of ammo to find in the wasteland but there are some pipe weapons that you can find that have a different receiver and other modifications
Joel Filho there’s a guns and bullets magazine you can find called “street weapons of Detroit” and it shows a pipe pistol on the cover so someone who studied how Detroit gangsters built these guns built a couple and people went from there, breaking them apart to learn how to make them to adding their own modifications to them
I never thought I'd see a tactical musket. lmao.
Tacticool
never bring a knife to a gunfight bring your tactical musket instead haha
MrGamerman001 the navy seals use these in CQB hostage situation and I heard the SAS are replacing the G36c with this now aswell
same
Drake VEVO lol
Saw one of those on Armslist once: “Tactical antique sniper rifle. $2,000, no less. I know what I have.”
But I want to pay more!
$2000??? what a steal!
Man, the hustle is real in Zimbabwe.
No kidding and make sure you get paid in $$$ not in their more or less worthless currency.
@@jackkraken3888 *cough cough* Occupied Rhodesia
@@ajax1475 how to say you're a nazi in 4 words or less
@@ajax1475 loser
@@ajax1475 been watching alot of documentaries on Rhodesia/Zimbabwe lately. Interesting.........
Some Zimbabwe poacher out there is proud because gun Jesus has reviewed his weapon.
The Conservative Gaming Channel well if he had internet....
Andrew Perryman poaching can be very profitable he can make 8k from poaching he probably can afford the internet
but if his weapons were seized he was probably arrested.
Probably in some jail telling some jailmate : See? It's my ticket that got me into this sh#t hole
@@Dawe360 well.. it's confiscated.. so perhaps he is still alive somewhere with a new ak47 for turning in his relic ? And probably he is smart enough to not target animals protected by armed animal protection crew?
Remember, switching to your spear is always faster than reloading
This joke gets the official "As Close To Racist As You Can Get While Still Being Funny" award, congrats.
@Leon Delalić
A. I said it was close to being racist, not that it was racist.
B. It is kinda reinforcing the stereotype of all Africans being somehow "primitive", or "tribalistic" in nature, which in spite of supposed accuracy, is still racist.
@Leon Delalić because of the connotations of depicting native africans as spear-wielding tribals. "spear-chucker" being a particularly common slur for quite some time historically.
Stereotypical jokes are funny. Not that deep
@@cheskotokarev Don't you think calling him out is a subtle admission that you hold the exact same perception that you're claiming is derogatory? Like, what's wrong with using spears? Nothing. It's not that deep. No one said anything bad about spears or spear users
Definitely not garbage. Like it or not, they are historically significant to some degree and very well may be featured in an exhibit sometime in the future.
"I'm not particularly worried about damaging this one'
Ian just roasted some random African guy.
Did he? It's been a while since I saw that, but wasn't he talking about the one with the breech already BLOWN APART? What's left to damage?
@@henrysokol3466 could you not be a grouch about my joke? Go back to yelling at umpires at little league baseball games you grumpy gus.
@@henrysokol3466 Oscar the grouch lookin ass
@@ZacharySkan (shrug) Okay. Didn't mean to seem angry in the first place.
But of the two of us, which responded to a >possibly< critical comment by first comparing the other to a petty bully, then a mangy green trash-dwelling douche? And *then* typed a second post just to restate the insult? You can't really fling too big a stone at me.
By the behavior standards of the 'Net, I'm actually a level-headed pussycat.
@@henrysokol3466 lol
Imagine going to the range and you see someone firing a tactical musket
Most modern muzzle loaders fit that term pretty well o.o
Especially the blackpowder muzzleloader uppers they make to fit AR15 lowers o.o
@@grayeaglej I want one just to fuck with people
@@williamknopp6936 Tactical Troll o.o
@@grayeaglej exactly, THEY CANT BAN IT IF IT AGREES WITH "bUt tHe sEcOnD aMeNdMeNt wAs fOr mUsKits"
@@williamknopp6936 And by ATF definitions there were machineguns in Civilian hands two hundred years before the 2nd amendment was written, not to mention most cannon and warships were owned by private citizens, not governments, when America was founded. There has never been a single anti-2nd-ammebdment argument or law that has any basis in Reality whatsoever. :/
Bipod on a "shotgun" what a thinker
Probably tried it with slugs and it is Zimbabwe lol
Recoilless shotgun. Could disable a panzer at 200 yards
It could use uranium slugs
It's Africa we're talking about
@Na tu Realistically we're probably talking about poaching elephants and rhinos so no, they really dont need the animals to be intact. They take the parts that people buy and leave the rest of the animal to just rot there.
@@Invizive it could use elephant nuts, it is africa after all
These Guys had absolutely nothing yet they were able to make guns.
Kinda impressive
It really is ingenious
Is it though? It’s just a crude spring loaded into a tube
@@giovannifederici673 wtf do you think a gun is
@@giovannifederici673 If you think it’s so easy, then I’d like to see you build a working gun from scratch
@@birdiepitchfeather63 I’d do a better job than that, that’s 4 sure
"They went super tactical on it"
Hmm, yes, my breach loading, flintlock black powder rifle, most certainly tactical.
Real talk though, the double grip is probably for better control and accuracy.
The genuine tactical musket is so much funnier.
WHAT ACCURACY? ITS A SMOOTHBORE BLACK POWDER MUSKET
@@fifervonpiper6707 If you don't point the gun at the target you're never gonna hit. Even if you're rolling dice with the accuracy of your gun, which you are, you'll never hit what you didn't adequately aim at.
@@secretbaguette Pretty sure you don't need pistol grips to point the rifle in the general direction of the animal you are trying to poach...
You know we all came back to this video after seeing him call that AK the worst firearm hes ever seen.......
I just came from the pakistani bolt action AK vid.
The fact the longer gun has a shoe nailed to the butt makes me laugh
Yep.
And still, given they had probably at most some weaponry to "look at" as plans....truly amazing what they cobbled together...and that it didnt explode.
Yes lol
I think considering the circumstances and materials these guns are quite impressive. That krink was an embarrassment Bc someone did that to a parts kit
Holy hell, that tacticool foregrip on a percussion gun. Now I've seen it all.
Except the G11, still haven't seen that.
He said in another video that it would drop on Christmas.
@@EvilElecBlanket I know, I know...just wanted to beat that particular dead horse one more time before the video drops and we all have to shut up about it. :D
@@nindger4270 why am i not surprised to see you here :D
@@Asgar1205 While flattered that you seem to recognize me, I'm afraid you have me at a disadvantage. Where do I know you from? :D
@@nindger4270 cowabunga?
I worked with the Kenyan military in the mid-90's. The Kenyan Wildlife Services rangers allowed me to tour their "evidence room" where guns, cartridges, hides, ivory tusks, and other items were stored that had been confiscated from poachers. A very interesting tour.
I genuinely don't know whether to be impressed or appalled.
How about both
Impalled
@@DarkPsychoMessiah We are talking about Zimbabwe, not Romania. We don't need to be impaled.
Should be appalled by the horrible inequality of this world, I don`t feel we can judge people who have to gather powder from the mine they work on for killing animals for more money.
It sort of reminds me of people in former French Indo-china colonies who salvage active landmines for scrap metal to sell. Both have that, "I gotta do something to put food on my table, even if its dangerous or illegal or both." Its tragic.
Improvised firearms need more coverage. Always interesting to see whats done and the thought behind some things
I'd love to see them fired. Send them to Demolition Ranch.
Agreed! The Chinese mystery guns and the Southeast Asian Vietnam War era samples along with the "ghost guns" from Central and South America are intriguing as hell for some reason. I too, would like to see as much of that as possible....when possible.
@@greavous93 Improvised automatic weapons are also fascinating.
i agree i love seeing improvised weapons or homemade armored vehicles
Bill Holmes' designs definitely needs an analysis over them. His MP83 and .50 cal "Sniper" are often seen across the world.
As a side note, the slam fire shotgun would make a good coverage due to its origins from the Filipino Resistance movement from WWII and its brief commercial sale during the post-war years in the US.
I’m actually quite impressed, yes there made of junk and far from perfect, however precisely because there made of junk is what makes them so impressive.
@Daniel Mc Dowell, Blah Blah Blah
They're a perfect example of human ingenuity. They were probably made with little more than a hammer, a drill and a hacksaw. Sure they're junk, but they obviously work. Imagine what those guys would be building if they had proper tools, techniques and materials...
@@devo3243 you should look into where some of the illegal manufactured firearms come from. there's some great reporting of 1911 being made with hand tools in the jungle. Except for the complete lack of makers marks you would swear they came out of a factory.
@@blindsniper35 Humans in general have incredible potential and if we could quantify how much is being lost everyday we'd be ashamed.
@@blindsniper35 In like Cambodia right? I saw a docu about em once
if born in different circumstances, one wonders what the makers would have been capable of achieving
their ideas: shotgun with a bipod
@@Villosa64 would really help with shotgun camping in games
Probably still drinking from the same pond they shit in.
@@glasstuna Either you're a gross misanthrope or you're virtue signaling over how much brown people make you seethe.
@@avae5343 ?
I feel like it's crazy how well made they are. Like of course they are super unsafe, but they are extremely impressive for being homemade.
"There's a safety cover here..." *nervous chuckling intensifies*
“Safety”
The animals theses guns are aimed at are safer than the shooter even with the " safety cover "on
@@burdenonsociety1968 Yet no shortage of poachers, whilst animals get extinct all the time. I'd say the guns work for their purpose more often than not.
@@jarioncecilio5077 "Safe"?
@@burdenonsociety1968 Well I'd assume poaching wouldn't be an issue if these things were not effective.
These make Khyber Pass guns look like fine H&H rifles
In all fairness, the Afghans have had a lot more practice in manufacturing. I wouldn't even want to lash these things to a tire and remote fire. Look like damn pipe bombs.......
@@richard1165 Pipe Bombs are probably safer to handle, though.
Still, it's the user. If you built it yourself, or personally know and are possibly related to the manufacturer, you'll know it well enough, and so it comes down to how much powder you fill in.
I'd personally prefer a crossbow, but to each their own.
@@richard1165 khyber pass is not in afghanistan.
@@carlchaze2255 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass
@carl chaze He never said it was in Afghanistan, he was talking about native Afghans who have traditionally lived in the pass for centuries. Although the pass is in modern day Pakistan, Afghan tribes have controlled it for much of history.
I now have a desire to "experiment" with ground up matchheads.
Look up 'armstrong's mixture' on TH-cam. It's made using matches and is incredible powerful. It's not widely used because it's impact sensitive and can explode when it's not meant to.
Wear your safety glasses.
Did that whilst still at high school. Works, fired electrically.
I nearly lost my eyebrows doing that as a youngster (wadding to touch-hole diameter ratio was all wrong).
@@hexadecimal7300 Conduct all of these experiments remotely, and wear all relevant personal protective equipment.
In the Old Country Palestine my father and his friends used to make muzzleloaders from truck steering wheel pipes , steering link between steering wheel and the gearbox in the old vehicles was 3/4 of an inch steel pipe .
These guns are awesome for being cobbled together in someones bedroom or garage, I'm blown away by the ingenuity.
I was thinking the same thing. The fact someone from Africa with likely no internet or reliable tools was able to manufacture this is an insane feat
It's Africa fam it was made in a small hole
I know right! I feel like this guy is making fun of their designs in a way, but it’s not like they have the resources to build something more complex. Imagine seeing one of those guys out there with like a semi-automatic rifle that looks like one of these. Also, the guns kind of remind me of fallout 4 😂
You guys look at continent of Africa as if its entirety remained in the 18th century.
There are plenty of places with broadband internet connection. The continent is practically littered with internet/cyber cafés.
The smartphone is widespread throughout the continent. In many places, owning a smartphone is a thing of complete commonplace, even in tribes way out in the bush.
Long story short, wikipedia and google is accessible to a vast number of people, its not north korea.
as a 14yo who makes homemade crossbows from scrap metal and wood i can confirm that it is qite hard to make those
Fallout raider wants to know your location
Yaoi guai wants to know your location
Courier wants to know -Benny's- your location
Metro or Fallout, yeah
You're icon fits your comment. (At the current time of my comment.)
These would be definitely unique in the fallout mod world, I’m sure with some convincing, asXas or wardaddy could make a mod like these...
It's pretty mind blowing how those poachers are in a situation where they have so little chance of getting hold of a real gun that you'd be better off using one of these. Also kinda sad how desperate you have to be to go through all this and the other myriad of issues that come with being a poacher to get out of poverty.
This is proof that gun control works and if you take away guns criminals will be left with almost nothing
@@0IIIIII if anything this is a huge arguement against gun control, while i don't think poaching is in any way good and it's incredibly destructive gun control in this situation just helps keep people in poverty to the point where they are forced to cobble shit like this gun together just to make ends meet. if the political power spent on gun control in zimbabwe had been spent on actually improving people's lives so they don't NEED to poach to get by these makeshift arms would never exist.
@@0IIIIII poachers aren’t unable to get real guns because they’re illegal, it’s because they can’t afford them
@@Dogirot does it matter? Either way, the guns are unobtainable and they are hard to get. No black market, etc
@@cageybee7221so you agree Gun control is effective because in your words you say it keeps guns out of criminals’ hands, except for bad ones like this?
I just laughed so hard because I used get gunpowder from match heads and safety fuse as a kid when I made guns. Luckily I never got hurt but I would never reccomend it to any of you guys.
Mf was making guns with safety fuse at 14 y.o.
Looks like something I imagine the tusken raiders in Star Wars carrying
Thus Spake Vespasian I know right and they would have the totokia as a melee weapon
Thus Spake Vespasian - They scare easily but they’ll be back, and in greater numbers.
@@Thoroughly_Wet Another benefit was that slugthrower projectiles can't be deflected back at the firer by say a lightsaber. Plus blasters made it fairly obvious what direction the fire was coming from.
@@BDNeon "Tracers work both ways," after all.
Reminds me of how the sniper rifles in old Battlefront 2 had much shorter projectile effects to make it harder to see where they came from.
Thus Spake Vespasian Hahahaha idk why but your comment made my day. Thanks
Bethesda: this is how you do pipe rifles right.
I bet those Guns work Better than fallout 76
Mikel Duffy tbh idk why pipe guns in Fallout are uniform, each one should be unique unless one group is making them all lol.
@@spartan1010101 if they were super-simple (like muzzle and breech loading single-shots and double-barrels with the odd open-bolt STEN-type gun thrown in for flavor, it'd actually make a bit of sense: people who make wheels, usually make them round after all.
*111th like*
I liked to imagine that the f4 pipe guns were made by a single guy are a group of people. Perhaps some settlement in the commonwealth had access to some prewar gun manufacturing manuals so they started mass producing the pipeguns and sellling them in large batches
I'm honestly impressed by the craftsmanship
If their repair skill was higher, their starting condition of custom-made weapons would be higher!
i wonder what they could achieve with some decent suplies and or money lmao
@@Driessens_Peter Really! Lol
@@SFforlife if i see what they can do with only scrap parts, i find that very impressive. and having the balls to shoot with it also lol
More schematics would also help.
now i can stop picturing soldiers running around during the revolutionary war with pistol/foregripped muskets.
@Pub Thumpin Sorry I misread that. I thought it said "oil powered tactical tampons"
@Pub Thumpin These weapons remind me of the weapons you build on the game Dead Island. Find some blue prints and get to work building your zombie killing weapons.
Wouldn't even surprise me if they put red dot sights into muskets for Battlefield 1776
You really haven’t had a full childhood in the south until an older relative shows you how to make a slam-fire shotgun out of old F-150 parts
I live in Indiana, and for the most part, it's the same.
In the backwoods country of the south *
And lift a f350 with gun parts
@Nathan Brown Hell Yeah... making a SLAM FIRE shotgun is actually pretty damn easy.. I wouldn't recommend doing it with a 12G until you get the complete idea of what you need to do to make sure your not going to get hurt like making little cuts so that much pressure can escape safely but start off with the 410 and work your way up you'll be surprised at how well it works.. Look at videos online and YT on DIY SlamFire ShotGun..
@Nathan Brown Ahh dont feel too bad there's plenty of people who live in big cities like The Rotten Apple aka NYC, or Washington DC., and even LA who never really get the chance to enjoy 1/10th of all this cool crap you see here on Bube Tube..
the laws are very confusing on purpose and can be completely different from state to state or even city to state
(NYC to NYS. Is so ridiculously different in laws that you can end up in jail for leaving a town somewhere 45mins upstate New York with your CCW pistol and coming in to NYC with it) makes no sense but they do it...
"Who would import this."
*I actually want to buy that flint-lock double pistol grip breech-loading rifle*
When you max out the starter weapon
Imagine what would happen if they had easily accessible hardware stores
Nuke on a basement
It would be beautiful (what they could potentially make)
Africa is a pretty varied place, in terms of development. There's plenty of developed areas, mostly the cities, which would have hardware stores, but if you live there, you probably don't need to do that to get a gun anyways. The people who are too poor to buy new weapons are probably also too poor to get decent parts as well, unfortunately.
Lol keep telling yourself that
@@fuckerupper5800 You mind telling me what's wrong with that statement? I never said African nations are paradises, in fact most nations in Sub-Saharan are unevenly developed; Botswana and Angola have massive wealth and poverty gaps despite their development, but there are large urban areas nonetheless.
So you watch the first part and think, "Hey they modded a percussion gun." And then you go "No they didn't, they made one from scratch !!!" Certainly beats the British Officer who came across a rare flintlock rifle (can't remember which) in amazingly good condition in the hands of a local hunter in Borneo, he traded it for a modern rifle and both must have been convinced they had the better deal.
That's a cool story! Do you have a link or source for that? I want to read more about that.
@@DKrumpp I must have read about it about 30+ years ago don't remember the title though, the officer served during the Malayan Crisis and then continued to serve in Borneo until it became independent in 1963. IIRC he was doing security work with the locals and found a hunter whose family must have acquired it somewhere in the 19th century and somehow managed to keep it in good condition right up until the 1960's. Maybe that helps to track it down.
Ah yeah my grandpa (we are dayak, native to borneo) used to have flintlock gun in almost mint condition (ilegal obviously). Sadly my uncle sold it when my grandpa pass away.
The saddest part is that the musket with the dong grip would be illegal in California, New York, New Jersey, etc.
"dong grip"
I will forever call front grips this until I die
Dongs are a very specific type of foregrip that if I’m not mistaken are all curved forwards.
Most homemade guns you see from other countries look like pieces of junk put together. Zimbabwean ones look totally steampunk!
Yeah, there's clearly an understanding of firearms and how they work being shown here. Surprising level of competence on display here.
I guarantee 95% of people wouldn’t be capable of crafting a firearm and setting up operations to get pure gunpowder and all the necessary components.
That's also the percentage of lawful citizens.
Jim Kirk did it in a cave with a box of scraps!
Uhhh, that is because most people don't have access to the crude materials. If you can just gather everything from trash, its not that hard.
The reason why majority of people can't make a gun is because almost all governments don't want us to know that we can make our own guns at home, as it challenges their authority and it nullifies the point of gun control.
Mazda Miata I wanna see you build a gun at home that can challenge the authority of a fucking predator drone
Im actually really impressed. They made guns that worked reliably enough from scratch. And powerful enough to poach with at that. This is pretty cool.
In a 3rd world country, you have to think and use what you have
The guns are cool, but the thing they are meant for is horrible.
@@nettemarie2 other than the fact that they are poaching what is horrible about them?
@@shashasharan1744 what they are meant for is poaching, so what they are MENT for is horrible.
nettemarie2 I can’t believe that needed further explanation... actually, it doesn’t really surprise me it did lol
“Safety” cover... yeah
Would you prefer to fire with it open?
this dudes been all over the world to bring us these weapon reviews. what a cool job
I can't speak for others...but this is exactly the kind of stuff I subscribed for!
Can’t think of a channel more qualified to analyse these absolute dumpster-fire creations.
same
Yeah, It really reminded me of the Khyber Pass and Chinese Mystery Pistol Videos @@borismuller86
Are you joking? Im not! I LOVE this kind of content! Id like to import this kind of crap and sell it off as curiosity firearms. Every store in America could, should, probably would buy at least one to keep on the wall. Im sure buy for $3@ in bulk and ship 10,000 into USA. Sell for $35@ to stores who could charge whatever. . .$320,000 profit on investment of $30K. Not a farfetched idea.
You know it baby
I love the crudeness of these, looks like they belong in a post-apocalyptic world.
Zimbabwe pretty much is a post-apocalyptic world. In 1979 it was the most modern, wealthy and productive country in Africa.
@@Thx1138sober what happend? Communism?
@@LachskoenigIV the UN forced the white minority government Rhodesia to submit to the Black majority revolutionary movement and then the country was named Zimbabwe. Biggest mistake ever.
@@Thx1138sober "Zimbabwe pretty much is a post-apocalyptic world. In 1979 it was the most modern, wealthy and productive country in Africa."
No it was not...
@@Mr.Universe 😂 wakanda
I like their determination. They have the brains for an legitimate business as a gunsmith they they chose poaching...
Damn that shotgun one was actually really smartly made
5:00 I just imagine HK slapping it and then losing a part of my hand
This comment brings laughter.
When you make a fully functioning firearm on your own without any actual firearm parts:
THE ENGINEER
SovietTrout 390 lol
Just imagine the meet the ___ , music
Meet the Gunsmith
@Ray West you aim it, it hurts the target and doesn't (in most cases) hurt you. I'd say it's fully functioning.
Mine pretty powerful goes through 1/2 in wood... got to test on 1 in
I’ve never even thought about it but it totally make sense that these guys wouldn’t have access to quality firearms or even professionally made ones. Fascinating video!
Omg....I love the percussion cap pipe with the tactical pistol and forward grip.
You've got to be a true Zip™ Operator™ to use these guns.
unironically i have more confidence in reliably firing and hitting things with these guns than I do the Zip which probably will fail to fire off even one round before jamming, these at least shoot. Not straight mind you but vaguely at whatever you're pointed at.
@@OhNotThat better the round fail to feed than actually using one of these confiscated rifles.
All these are still more robust than the L85A1.
Dave Newton its a club ,effecgive us a club
Dave Newton
Lol
At least the A2 and A3 were good
Dave Newton Presumably then, you would prefer to use these over the L85A1? If so, then you're an idiot, if not you're just blowing hot air and don't really know what you're talking about.
Frank Anderson
Look I believe that the Sa80 is the best assault rifle that fires a 5.56 and is also the best bullpup ever made as well.
But deep down we all know that the L85a1 is absolute shit and that you should never use it
Xxx_Noobmaster_420_xxX
Yeah HK promoted the l85 from beta lad to alpha chad
I was never particularly a gun enthusiast but this channel has made me a big fan of firearm history 👍🏻 great stuff
Bruh these guys legit be living the ark survival evolved life
teh
Rust’s pipe gun
My grandfather was a cop in Rhodesia back in the day and confiscated what I believe is an Enfield musket. He had it converted to a lamp stand and still has it to this day.
@WorkabelGamingX1 Might take a while but I'll see what I can do
would definitely like to see it
That's dope sounding
@ a friend of mine many years ago had a Enfield 303 converted into a 410 .not the best shotgun I must admit .
We have a mounted sable head in the hotel where I work .N E Rhodesia 1917 in gold on the mount.
Im from Zambia, poachers here use a lot of powder from fireworks as well for their muzzle loaders
Are you the guy that emailed me about $1000000 ?
@@grarglejobber7941 "probably like 95" How scholarly of you. I'm 100% sure it was closer to 64 than anything else. The reasons why peasants didn't commit crimes was because 1.) they couldn't leave their master's land and 2.) their masters had swords, horses, and armor, while they had pitchforks. That's why there wasn't any crime until education rolled around, when the reasons changed and people learned morals and the importance of society.
The situation in Africa is what happens when colonial nations abandon their colonies in an unorganized haste. Look at the Middle East; same story, different place.
@@grarglejobber7941 Yes, I know that education improves IQ. I'm just curious as to what point you're exactly trying to prove; education is lacking in Africa because of mainly poor government education subsidies, among other factors, most notably the absence of rule of law. If education in Africa was brought up to European standards, the average IQ in Africa would be very similar if not identical to the European average. Rule of law is still not present (and was not introduced by colonial powers) in many African countries, which explains most of the problems there.
I'm not saying anyone is racist, I'm just stating the fact that the governments of Britain and France should have put a lot more thought into the decolonization process.
@@grarglejobber7941 fukn eww gragle mc'jobber nutz
@@antarcfroze lmao wut
3:11 The reason could be that the further away the hand is from the barrel the bigger the chance that you keep it when the thing blows up.
This is just...
INCREDIBLY COOL!
This deserves respect imo! If you have access to basically nothing, and make your own gun!
And I thought the Pipe Rifles and Pipe Pistols from Fallout 4 were crafty
oi mate im pretty sure pipe pistols have existed for a while already
All of them are Left-handed variants, but no raider I have ever seen is Left-Handed
@@fashionsoulsonlysouls5575 I don't really understand why people in fallout universe use left handed gun. Hunting rifle is one of the best example
@@tigermafiaug1615 Not Fallout universe, just Fallout 4. As far as I remember, the weapons in the previous games were mostly of proper handedness.
@@tigermafiaug1615 Because the animators thought it'd look cooler. Thats the reason why for most games. A few exceptions are Counter Strike where a dev was left handed and made every gun right handed being shot by a leftie which was then mirrored, and some Die Hard game since the main character is left handed.
The last one (the blown up one) is from a Belgian rifle, probably obtained from Mozambique. I imagine it used some nitro powder out of a shotgun cartridge. The others are like West African 'Dane guns'. Car steering columns for barrels. Traditionally Morris Minor steering columns. Morris once sent out a rep to find out why West Africa was needing so many spare steering columns. Made from good seamless steel tubing. People laugh at such things (and I wouldn't fire one ever) but how good a gun could you make in your garage with just a hacksaw, hammer, file and a simple forge fire? I respect the makers even as I fear to use the resultant firearm.
Well, when society collapses at least my Morris Minor will come in useful...
"but how good a gun could you make in your garage with just a hacksaw, hammer, file and a simple forge fire"
You're looking at it - 16th and 17th century "crude" firearms; the quality of tools and materials necessarily dictates the type of firearm you can produce. These guys are (mostly) making muzzle-loading, percussion-fired weapons because that's as advanced (mostly) as these people produce with the crude and rough equipment and materials they have with which to produce them :) The other part of the equation is general education - most poachers that are in the field are from places with incredibly abysmal literacy rates and virtually no access to decent education of any sort, so their grasp on principles such as physics and mechanics are a little... tenuous. Some of the poachers who've worked other trades, e.d. miners or other heavy industry-type work, will often apply whatever limited scope of experience they have to the weapons they have to craft, which is why a lot of them tend to produce percussion-fired muzzle-loading weapons rather than other solutions that could use less resources (e.g. wood or paper cartridges, locking breaches, etc).
I could definitely make somthing better than this, especially if I had infinite amount of time.
@@DudeInWalmart go over to home depot and build a slamfire shotgun in 5 minutes.
@@DudeInWalmart Yeah but you don't have infinite time? Or resources? And you have to do it all alone, without getting caught?
Whilst in Zimbabwe, our hunting group came upon two, local young guys that the local tribe or clan had retained to halt poaching. This was in 2012 and after the most high and Exalted Great Elephant Robert Mugabwe had instituted his chaotic and disruptive land reform policy. But I digress, to a point.
The locals wanted to have game available for out-of-country hunters such as myself to generate revenue and meat for the local community. These two young guys had rifles that were either nailed or wired together. The thought of touching off a round in one of those rifles was a scary prospect. The young game “wardens” were the most pleasant and polite young men. Fond memories of the land and people in Zimbabwe.
4:48
notice that when he moves the bolt back, the entire firing mechanism moves too, watch where the piece of metal lines up perfectly with the wood, near his right hand, it moves back a considerable amount!
“Ground up match heads” I did this as a kid and am thankful I didn’t blow the house up or set it on fire.
I always put them in co2 cartridges. I didn't have the patience to fill a tennis ball.
As kids, we took ground up match heads and put them in the rear of our paper airplanes. None survived.
I did this for a thick paper cannon, it ended up just being a phosphorus flamethrower
It's unfortunate Ian didn't mention the ingenuity of using an old brass cupboard/drawer handle as a trigger guard on the muzzle loader.
Its not that ingenious.
Huh didn't notice that. Pretty neat
I admire the ingenuity, courage in the face of great risk, and determination it takes to make these. And furthermore, to use it must take a brass set.
Brilliant video! I have been on a team who apprehended Kenyan poachers and it is incredible to see the ingenuity behind their craft, even if it is evil and barbaric. (also they are usually poor folks trying to make ends meat forced into that type of lifestyle).
Now thats what i call a literal boom-stick
Adds a new meaning to the term ''firing from open bolt''.
more like a "blooey" stick.
@@SonsOfLorgar thanks. always happy to learn. as an amateur gunsmith, adding to my technical knowledge is paramount.
If it don't go BOOM!!! At least they could club whatever animals or people to death hahahaha
Stealing some safety fuse? Just have to run a bit faster down at the mines I guess?
MarcinP2 what could go wrong?
Or send the other guy who doesnt know you shorted the fuse by 30 seconds.
Well if you are willing to try to use it in a gun like this, you are by definition a daredevil (or more likely dirt poor)
That's easily stealable. You always end up with scraps of it and you can easily take a 10cm piece of it and say that you did a control burn on it. I could have easily gotten some from the military days.
No wonder africans can run so fast...
“Who on earth would import this?”
I would!
Damn. These dudes in Zimbabwe are livin in the apocalypse and I didn’t even know
So this is what Orc tech looks like up close.
*ITZ ORK YA STUPID HUMIE*
Not nearly enough dakka tho
HERESY
Orks don't need their guns to have functioning mechanisms though
Ork not Orc, Warhammer 40k orcs are called orks
The Metro 2033 Safari DLC looks great.
you made my day, stalker ! 😂😂😂👌
Tbh that would be lit would love to see mutated alligators and shit
lmao
That’s not even a fucking lie by the looks of it. I’m sure in the universe this is what people in South Africa use
Quite often crop fertilizer is used over and above explosive fuse.
Loaded with bearings cut up to retrieve the balls, normally 6305, 6304 used in Changfa engines imported from China and serviced out regularly.
I have seen 50 inch Kudu, leopard, hippo, crocodiles and a large range of smaller antelope taken with instruments just like these.
Safari outfitters here confiscate literally dozens of these items a year on each concession.
That's the coolest video you have done yet.
Holy shit, there's something out there that makes Khyber Pass firearms look as if they were designed and manufactured by FN Herstal...
khyber pass guns are actually quite well made and at least work relatively safe, better than century AKs anyways.
In other words, the animals laughed themselves to death when the poachers brought these out.
I would not want to be on either end of one of these guns lol
If you had to make a choice, standing in front of this thing is probably better for your health
Unfortunatley, when they do work,, it is no laughing matter. Poaching is deciminating species.
You best believe I would be terrified if i saw one of these pointed at me
You’d get lead poisoning just by looking at the friggin thing, it makes those Chinese SVD knockoffs look safe
Such a great and interesting video, also cool that you visited good ol' South Africa. Keep up this spectacular channel!
We must also consider that these weapons were not fabricated in a formal workshop…but probably under a tree in the shade on the weekends.
Possibly no vice with just a hammer and one file. In rural Africa there is no electricity so any drill would be a hand cranked wheelie!!
The ingenuity is quite astonishing.
5:19 every damn part of that gun moved in some way when you fired it.
It's literally a pipe, banded into wood, with a spring in it. All things considered, the fact that it's clear that the prior owner actually used and didn't kill or seriously maim himself is ludicrously impressive stuff. Is it well made? Oh lord no, I think I made macaroni art in 5th grade that had better durability than that, but gawddamn you gotta admire the the ingenuinity to cobble together a 'working' fire arm out of a kitchen cabinet, a suspension spring, and a pipe.
giving a whole new definition to "free-floating barrel." i bet she keeps 'er zero like a cheytac
@@twentylush zero in this case being the tally of shots that hit the intended target
I’ll offer you 14 shillings and a tiger claw for your musket
😂😂😂
I'll trade you some fresh cheetah meat and some mining fuses for your new tactical flintlock
Stop being sarcastic. Be humble, thank God for the wealth you live in, and try to solve the problems of the unfortunate
*tactical musket
It's Zimbabwe so i think you mean 50 billion shillings and a tiger claw
got to respect the work put in to these.
One day somebody might watch this and say "that was my gun you asshole"
Imagine how desperate you have to be to take one of those rifles and hunt elephants with it.
@@pirobot668beta Companies pay the ransom more often than we know.
@@pirobot668beta somali pirates are pirates because it's profitable. the practice started with fishermen trying to protect their waters from foreign ships. then they realised that they made more money from ransoming sailors than from fishing.
@@pirobot668beta the locals do at times because it can be profitable for them too
@@pirobot668beta Britain bungled Somalia's transition to independence. The US and Russia used Somalia as a Cold War Proxy conflict and flooded it with weapons while inciting violence. As usual the US left without fixing, after creating instability themselves. There was a brutal Civil War and in a power vacuum in a country full of weapons the most domineering/violent philosophy took over, aka Islamic extremists. Now they're heading towards a normal government (maybe) and piracy is decreasing due to enforcement. I don't blame them for piracy. Foreign countries did nothing but wreck their homeland. As for who's bankrolling them... They're pirates dude
@Succ my T0ES Hmmm, being in a civil war, power vacuum. Lot's of guns and violence and atrocities being committed. Governments across the world turning you away when you plead for help, ask for a safer place to live. If you even manage to leave the country. Survival instinct kicks in eventually.
I think if you or I got desperate enough to life and eat, we'd do some pretty savage things too.
I had to survive IRL at points in my early life, it was brutal. I'd have killed if that was what it took.
Fuck, I just enjoyed playing DOOM. Running around like a maniac, Rip and Tear. Enjoying the power fantasy and _some_ of that feeling of surviving. Cause it is still part of human nature.
And if you think that people in power don't know that they are causing these things. Then I'd advise you to go read around on wikileaks.
Absolutely amazing what people can produce when given so little to work with.
And those are not that horrible of the design really. Sure that build quality is scetchy at best, but over all design is not bad given tooling they had.
"I got it one fuse at a time and it wouldn't cost me a dime..." :>
Those things are so cool! I would never feel safe firing one, but they are extremely cool
7:31 Those things must've been worth hundreds of trillions of dollars! Zimbabwean dollars, so yeah nothing.
Id give them 10 chuck-e-cheese tokens each.
Nah I’ve give em that moldy smelling penny from 1963 I found while cleaning my basement
You misspelled Rhodesian there
I'm actually a Zimbabwe multi billionaire.......that'll get me a cup of coffee.....
@@DarkhalfBreed 10 chuck-e-cheese tokens have significantly higher value
That gun could have been fixed with a little *Flex Seal*
Not funny, didnt laugh
@Chad Kensington Not funny, didnt laugh
@Chad Kensington Not funny, didnt laugh
Funny I chuckled
@@justinbury1945 Not funny, didnt laugh
The breech loader is alot like a zipgun looks just as dangerous for the shooter as the target.
In the 1970 s in the rhodesia (now zimbabwe) we found many muzzle loaders from the 1800s that were used as trade guns by the early hunters and explorers to barter with the local tribes for goats etc😊