Minute of Mae: British Vickers MkI
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Interesting Fact: When the British Army was retiring the Vickers machine gun, they had stores of .303 rounds to get rid of. So they ran the Vickers machine gun for 3 days until all of the ammo ran out!
That was just what was on hand at Catterick garrison.
And apparently by the end of it, the vickers used was still serviceable.
This is just going from memory so take it with a grain of salt, but the Vickers was nearly rejected from service trials because it almost failed the 'how many rounds until failure' test, not because it failed too early, but because it was so overbuilt they couldn't get it to fail at all. As long as the water jacket was kept topped up, the damn thing would keep going no matter how many rounds went through the feed, and 'did not complete trial (ran out of ammunition)' was not a valid result for the test.
I think they ended up 'sabotaging' the unit by letting the water boil off and letting it heat up until it jammed, resulting in a pretty ludicrous 'rounds to failure' number.
@@Vespuchian thats the most British thing ever! You can imagine the conversation.
1- Well I guess its passed then... we're out of rounds.
2- No, it hasn't passed. It hasn't failed. It must fail to provide accurate data.
1- But... if it doesn't fail then... surely its superior?
2- **adjusts monacle, sips tea** It *must* fail. Carry on.
303 fits Lee Enfield rifles
The "Minute of Mae" videos are absolutely astounding. What a scintillating format to display C&Rsenal's vast selection of firearms. Thanks a million!
jeez. thanks a million, really? sounds like you got a bj together with your auction item
When they could, they'd weigh the tripod down with sandbags to help hold it in place to correct the issue you referred to.
They mentioned in the Hotchkiss video (#095) that they do not weigh the tripods down (or bury them) to provide a reasonable level of comparison between each gun - if they weighed them down, they'd have to weigh each one down identically, and that's just not feasible across EVERY single tripod.
@@NimbleJack3 fair enough.
“Right Corporal, you see that line of German horses coming at us? I don’t want to see them any more”-British Colonel, 1914
A sadly common unfortunate revelation for both sides in 1914.
A platoon armed with Lee Enfield Rifles had a similar impact. The Germans discovered that in 1914 too.
20 men firing 30+ rounds per minute (mad minute rate) each is not a pleasant experience at the wrong end.
@@allangibson8494 And every one an aimed round
Finally, a Minute of Mae on the Vickers!
There can be nothing more poetic than Mae with A Machine Gun. Look at her grin😊!
There's something intensely satisfying to the sound of charging arm cycling.
Now that brought a warm fuzzy feeling to the old heart.
Our battalion used them in the early 80s for battle inoculation courses. Had a great time with them.
Minute of Mae is quite possibly one of the best short format videos on da TH-cam. Although... I sometimes wonder if Mae has an internal monologue when firing full auto pieces that sounds like the Heavy from TF2 going "Ya-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta ya-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta do-de-da-va-da-da-dada! Kaboom-Kaboom!" Or maybe that's something more in Othais' wheelhouse.
“I am Heavy Weapons Mae, and this…is my weapon.”
_"She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute."_
I always thought Mae's internal dialogue when shooting full auto was "Wheeeeeeeeee....Hell Yeah!" At least, that's what her smile at the end says.
She isn't boring. MKI was a great weapon.
you guys are hyping this girl through the rough. it's an OK format. pretty good videos. but you're just floored? 🤣
My Grandfather was on a Vickers at Passchendaele. 9th Hawkes Bay. B Company 15th Wellington Infantry Battalion. One night the Germans attacked and were very close to overrunning the trenches. His ammo belt ran out and he turned to his loader to find he had deserted his post. He loaded a new belt and by this time the Jerry's were very close. You can guess the result of 250 rounds of 303 at close range. The next day he was promoted to Lance Corporal.
I’ll always love the fact that an improved version of this fired for literal days going through millions of rounds and with just barrel and water changes stayed in perfect working order
It wasn't an "improved" version of the Vickers that was used in the Catterick test. It was just like this one. They saw no mechanical changes during their service life.
I was watching part of a great series called "Our World War" today about the 1914 Battle of Mons which featured the Vickers MK1. The episode I watched was about how Private Stanley Godley got his Victoria Cross by being the last man to stay behind manning a Vickers! What a strange co incidence that this Minute of Mae should also feature a Vickers!
Sidney Godley, who was told he had been awarded the VC when in a POW camp, he didn't actually receive the medal until 1919.
I think he was shot as well in the process. A bullet hit him in the head but it wasn’t fatal and he threw the machine gun into the river to stop the Germans capturing it.
Beautiful machine. Thank you Mae!
Mae is the perfect person to showcase these classic weapons, because she is so classy, and gives them the respect they deserve.
I’m a very, very serious historical investigator, oh god full auto is so much fun 😹
Mae. I can't get enough of the joy in your smile once you've dumped a mag or a belt.
Very nice, excellent summation. Thank you very much.
I never get notifications for your channel. It’s set to all. It’s been so long that I’ve forgotten about your channel. This is the first video I’ve seen in my feed in years. I admit that I have been watching more space related videos everyday however, I’m getting old 75 and that may be contributing to my forgetfulness but TH-cam still should be sending me notifications.
Video Idea: Mad Minute of Mae using the Enfield
They have been doing that for quite a while...
I always look forward to seeing Mae grin at the end of the minute :D
“If you put enough lead through it the hot water makes a great cup of tea”
The grin at the end speaks volumes!
Her smile at the end going all out on the burst says it all great vid!!!
I assume this is the gun Mae will use to save us all from the zombies.
There is a scene in the Australian mini series Anzacs. World War One. Aussie troops just arrived in Britain from Gallipoli and before dispatch to France, are shown two Vickers in action. First, General fire at silhouette targets, then shown crossfire, how the Germans operate. Confronting
Big full auto burst grin at the end!
Love your smile at the end, such happiness
Such an iconic sound.
Here from taufledamus (sp?😅) So take my sub for the beautiful bit of British history 👍
Her smile at the end is priceless.
I was in our School Army Cadet unit (Australia) in the 1950's specialising in the Vickers.
The manual I remember in stripping the lock (Which had many parts) described "The indentation of the prolongation of the left side plate" (a dint) - that's the Army.
To empty the gun it was Crank on Roller twice & on the firing range an Army instructor did not clear a gun properly & one round remained "up the spout" & they made the mistake of putting the gun in the back of the truck with us Cadets.
Sure enough one Cadet lifted the safety & pressed the trigger & the round went through the truck cabin hit the stearing wheel & over an Anti Tank crew. ( Very white driver after he saw it could have been him)
When Dakka came with a Cuppa.
Even as a rebellious "Yank", I luv me some .303! (Took me first deer with one M8!) Me Mum was impressed! Oh, I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and we did call our mothers "Mum", LOL. (I think this happens sometimes in Canada as well..) Seriously I'm a big-time SMLE fan-boy! For me, as to import guns, if it isn't Belgian, it better be British! (Ok, I like my "Com-Blok" stuff too!) OTOH My budget would NEVER allow me to do more than LOOK at a Vickers (even if I OWNED one) Have you seen what .303 goes for?!?! "Good stuff" is like $3 a round! 😳
“I’ve been looking forward to this” ~ count Dooku
Should have released on April 1st with it just being a one minute belt dump
That looks like it would still lay down some pain even now on the current battlefield..
My father was a vickers machine gun gunner 22nd battalion Chester . all through the second world served Italy cissily north Africa and Normandy beach and his works to me was look after your gun like a baby and it will look after you when called upon he died at 90 years young and born 1917 and was one of 11 children god bless you my dad xx
Mae behind a gun is sweet. Mae behind a Vickers is beyond awesome!!!!!
Mae, not sure which is the prettiest, you or the Vickers, you of course!
The knuckle buster. You couldn't hold that with a full grip
0:32 - there's a brief burst here where the rate-of-fire is substantially higher than at any other point in the video. Did the footage for that part get accidentally sped up in the edit, maybe?
This gun really is the “whole nine yards”
"No ma'am, that's not what we use Vickers for; you'd want the pest control vehicle."
"For the RWS:"
I would have been grinning like a fool, the entire time!
I don't like how close that wildly swinging charging arm gets to the gunner's fingers
it do be dripping
Dammit, Mae... I love that smile when you finish a full-auto dump! 😊
Love that smile!!!
Ok,cool video,always love the pure joy on Mae's face!
Now,I'd like to know where you found so much 303 British ammo!!!! I cannot find any!!!! I love my Enfield,just a joy to shoot,but I Can't Find Ammo!!!!!
Ammoseek is your friend
Thanks for the info! I'll give em a look!
If Mae were in the Trenches in the Great War. There would be no more wars. Great video
It is called a safety pawl, not a pad. Magic gun, did my military training on it.
Lovely I love this WW1 mg keep it up guys!🙌🙌👍👍👌👌
That's interesting. Usually see belt-fed guns being loaded from the left side and that gun is loaded from the right side
'Surprisingly light' Christ on a bike
"James, you can't do that!"
"Yes I can."
For its dedicated tactical purpose it certainly was.
My mate did his apprenticeship in the 80’s in Vickers Crayford. He found a Vickers gun in the back of a store cupboard he was asked to clear out.
Thanks Mae
"Give 'em whole nine yards!"
Also very useful for making a cup of tea.
SOME of these people know nothing about the history of this iconic weapon and should do more research before commenting.
Can it be five minutes of Mae with the cooler guns?
She gets to have WAY to much Fun , just look at her face 😊
Muy bueno tu vídeo saludos desde Argentina
Thank you
The classy Maxim
Outstanding weapon Mae
Is the fire rate higher at 0:32 or am I imagining it?
Might be the video, but Maxim guns had highly adjustable rates of fire (I believe it was more to deal with the gun getting dirty, but it functioned to alter the rate of fire) so it definitely could have been a different rate of fire.
Yay a Min of Mae 💓
I have always wanted to fire one of those. There was a park behind my uncle's place that had one as an ornament. Unfortunately, it was welded into a solid block
I used to do small bore target shooting with a chap that was a victors gunner, he told me there are something like 21 procedures for different kinds of stoppages
0:32... MG-42 is in the house. It may be a 250 round belt, but I prefer to give them the whole 9 yards.
The term, the whole nine yards, has got NOTHING to do with the length of the ammo belt, Its a British saying, inherited from the Empire. It refers to when a woman of means went to buy her SARI, getting the whole 9 yards of cloth that it took to get a full and proper sari. So when a Vickers machine gunner was giving the opposing forces , the whole 9 yards, he was not short changing them of any of his Vickers FULL and proper fire power. not 9 yards of ammo belt.
Go Mae, at least they did not make you hold it! Hope you smashed the target!
The Vickers would get it done! 👍🏼👍🏼
Mae-chine gun! :)
Mae has all the fun!
What do you think of the japanese type 92 HMG?
You want it to waggle about a bit or you don't get an effective beaten zone. Especially when used for indirect fire. Its raining lead - hallelujah!
Awesome. A classic
Bro where did you find .303 British FMJ!?
are you nuts?
how come the Maxim was a competitor of Vickers, when Vickers bought Maxim's company and based this MG on the Maxim's design?!!!
Ahh WW1 the days when .303 wasn’t 2.00 a round. Some would say they were practically giving it out.
All you had to do was stand there and they'd throw it your way.
Thank you TH-cam for the free gun content.
Love ❤low recoil . Looks like fun
Ain't nobody cheating on this bird
I just realised how ancient I am, I was trained on the Vickers in 1975.
What colour holster do you use?
production of that live fire footage costed a fortune
Is there water inside this gun?
Yes, you can see it dripping out around the end of the barrel.
You have to properly kick the arse out of it with successive bursts to get the steam going. A single burst alone being 25 rounds for a Vickers gun team.
Water-cooled barrel, a product of its time.
Very cool
THX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP 😮
Спасибо,Мэй.👍👍👍👏👏👏
Nice
the machine gun looked a bit leaky at the water cooler thingie
hey Mae you forgot to mention the knuckle breaking changing handle!! one of those bastards got me good at knob creek twice!!
I don't suppose you tried to make tea with the water jacket, like some British soldiers would do?
was there any water in the jacket during the firing ?
Yeah, you can even see it drip right at the beginning of the video
Mae, you get all the best toys.
That gun is almost as long as she is tall
Awesome!
Any day is a good day when its gotta mounted on a tripod!
Sweet.....