A bit of info on the name. It's named after Croatian patriotic folk song from 19th century. Literal translation is "Fairy of Velebit". Velebit is largest mountain range in Croatia.
Fairy of Velebit in that song is also reference to Croatian Fairy from Petar Zoranć book Planine ("Mountains") from 1536. One of most important defences of Croatian language in literature where she cries because Croatian writers are ashamed to use Croatian language while writing their books but using foregin languages.
za jugoslavije je postojao brod petar zoranić, a danas... zna se. inače, pratim ovaj kanal i lik je nakon nekoliko intervencije prestao koristit "civil war" za D. R. Za ovu strojnicu prvi puta čujem.
@@jureboban6658 kad nije bio gradjanski rat niti domovinski Nego buržuazijska revolucija Doslovno samo ljudi iz ex yuge vjeruju i misle da je to bio domovinski rat Nitko drugi na ovoj planeti to ne misli
@@jureboban6658Iskreno lik je Amer, ne krivim ga. Počeo je govoriti "their independence war" što je ok, za nekoga je to građanski rat a za nekoga (za nas) rat za nezavisnost.
Not quite a home shop if its coming from a "dockyard". Probably slightly nicer than what the majority of people would have at home with likely more than just 1 person working on it.
@@Ramonatho Not always. Used to work in a factory where the most advanced thing was a CO2 Laser CNC table. Everything else was turret punch presses, manual brakes, mig welders and angle grinders.
"So you've got to remember is that: everything good in the world - especially everything good that ever came out of Britain - came out of a shed. Radio, television, jet engine, printing press, and in other countries: the aeroplane, the hot air balloon." "Look what you've done to my bloody shed, man!!" - James May, _Top Ground Gear Force,_ 2008
Wonder why it never stuck out to me that he said "printing press". Even if you don't take Gutenberg as the originator (and he was by no means the first, just the one whose technique was finally good enough to spread and become commonplace), it'd be really hard to argue Brits invented it. =)
At this point, if they ever made Croatia into a Civilization in Civ 6, they need to have a special building called a shed that produces modern infantry for cheaper than usual
While I would love that, the game still hasn't included Israel as a civilization. Sid Meier is an actual communist, and we shouldn't expect him to make sense.
@@reliantncc1864Israel has no particular unique culture or likeable historical leaders and would be an obviously bad fit for a civ game, you’re so brainwashed it’s hilarious
Watching all of that play out on the nightly news I didn't really think about who was arming who. But, looking back it seems like the kind of time where someone would have been ecstatically happy to have the complete technical drawings of the Sten or the Owen handed to them. "Hey, I hear you need a national emergency sub-machine gun in an awful hurry."
I wonder /bet that today, in January 2024, those are available "somewhere" on the Internet. Anyone? BTW - NOT intending any violation of TH-cam policy! Just curious.
What about that Lutty guy from Britain, who made all his "blue prints" available. I believe he was jailed for it. But a lot of his designs showed up on the streets of Australia after the ban?
I could see a single manufacturer being set up to make the bolt and recoil spring assemblies en mass for them to be distributed to various manufacturers with the instructions of "make a gun that these will go into" in the sort of desperation that a sudden war would bring about.
Also fun fact. Song Vila Velebita after which is this called was heavly forbiden in Yugoslavia, you were sentenced to jail time and heavly beaten if you were heard singing it by police.
A simple design, but it has all the features you want, excepting a drop safety. Actually, the charging handle notch can serve that role, so... Essentially complete.
I gotta say, for a "we made this in the garage" gun, it doesn't look too bad. Usually the one's I've seen look rough as hell and scream "don't use me or you'll lose a hand".
Oh yeah. Open bolt smg is SOOOO easy to design and produce. I'll just whip one up, shall I? I mean, I get the idea, but dang. This guy is so smart and capable! I'm honestly a touch envious of the experience, cleverness, and presence Ian brings to the table. "You just rotate this, lock that into place, pull the trigger and it comes right off." Meanwhile I'm happy I got the slide off a 1911 without janking the whole shebang.
Vila is a mythical creature present in all Slavic nations. They are the most beautiful, forever young girls, with long hair, dressed in long white dresses. They are dangerous. They can lure you like sirens, or you can accidentally hurt them, or step on the ground where they have danced and it will make you seriously ill. General advice is to avoid them and not to disturb them. They are also good with herbs, both poisonous and medicinal. Top Tier heroes have them as sisters and they help them sometimes with wise advices. There is a famous medieval song in which 2 heroes were fighting and at some point one of them was reminded by Vila that he has a hidden knife. This is how he won the duel.
@reliantncc1864 watch out if you visit Dalmatia (Adriatic coast of Croatia). Those blondes, genetic combination of Slavs and Italians, are stunning. On top of that, they use "ee" instead of "e" (they would not say bear, but beer instead), making their language so poetic and probably the hottest Slavic dialect. I'm a Serb, but my only love at first sight was with a Dalmatian girl.
@daviswall3319 I was captured by the 6ft tall one. 15 years later, we are still together. I even managed to resist the one described in the comment below
If it wasn't for shed warfare Croatia would still be a part of Yugoslavia! Praise the Shed! BTW - Ian, this video's sound is only being channeled through the left speaker. Please remix and reupload as mono for both channels.
my thought with the differences, is that there are specific pieces that required hight quality and they limited it to those specific parts, everything else was just good enough
SMGs definitely seem to be the easiest most effective firearm to make. The Warsaw Uprising museum has some brilliant examples of Sten copies and original designs. A person I know in the U.K. boasted on his cop friend’s social media he could easily build such a thing. The cop took it down and DM’d the bloke reminding him some of his friends were in specialist police roles and not to be so …. Stupid! I’d add that even if I had the skills and resources I’d never attempt such! 😊
The British authorities make much of historical patriotism and skill at arms but given the sacrifices made by their people (The Somme for instance) they are neurotically twitchy about the common man having a gun. America beware you don't end up like them.
Anyone with access to a hardware store can obtain the materials and tools to assemble a basic, functional submachine gun. You don't even really need access to the simple plans on the Internet; a bit of thinking, some paper, and a pencil is enough to figure it out.
It´s not illigal to know and have the skills to do something. Doing it, is. if it was Illigal to have skills. then I would have been in a high security prison. Mostly because of things the govrement themself told me.
@@exploatores no it isn’t illegal to have skills, but drawing attention to yourself by inferring intent shows someone might not be as clever as they think they are!
Misspelled name, it's "Vila Velebita" ("Fairy of Velebit", Velebit being the largest mountain in Croatia). EDIT: Video used to have incorrect title, fixed in meantime :)
This is a rather historic firearm, as it was gifted to the Croatian president. (Who then gave it to the Croatian police museum, who then loaned it to forgottenweapons) and is the VERY FIRST ONE which is crazy,
I friggin love guns, always have. I'm a mechanic by trade and I do a bit of shed engineering. I modify tools to make them suit my purpose, I do some light fabrication. I would love to be able to tinker and build an open bolt submachine gun. Unfortunately that would land me in jail for a long time. A man can dream...
@@aaronleverton4221 Vila = a type of mythical figure. Nymphs aren't quite an analogue. Beautiful and alluring, deadly and wise, free-spirited and faithful... all of it depends on the source reiterating on the tales.
@@TemperedMedia Being the largest lexicon on the planet, English is replete with synonyms, or "similar, but not quite exactly the same". Fairy, dryad, nymph, siren, naiad, sprite, sylph. Okay, some are water-based and not arboreal. But, sometimes the first translation by a non-native speaker can be tweaked. In this case, perhaps not.
@@aaronleverton4221 Yep. The accepted modern use of "fairy" is even different from its roots. English is, for all intents and purposes, a language comprised of nearly every other language and culture throughout time.
"...A simplified version of this gun." Man. At that point I imagine a barrel, a bare bones firing system, and a mag. Still, more proof that if people want to make a gun, they very well are going to. Even if it's in a shipyard with the bare minimum of tooling (and maybe know-how).
Machinist here. Why the serial number on the charging handle? If the guy who made the other parts also made that charging handle, he was probably pretty proud of that part. Thats a good looking part with a lot of fifferent machining steps. Id number it too
I remember that no-one wanted to go up against Al Capone *because* he was such a lousy shot, you didn't know who or what was going to be hit, there was NO safe spot to be! As a "discourage the f--- out of those guys" weapon (i.e. suppressive fire) inaccuracy isn't necessarily a significant problem!
I’m kind of bemused that so little is known about it, even considering the tiny production run. This was only 30 odd years ago, almost everyone involved should still be alive, if mostly retired by now. At least some names are known, it should be possible to research this by picking up the phone. I guess its more of a case of priorities and available research time vs significance, or lack of it, of the weapon.
Except for the little "war" thing, which has an unfortunate habit of getting in the way of still being alive - especially if you're a known armourer, which would make you an extremely-high-priority target. :-(
I'm watching this video two days after it came out. Am I having a weird glitch or is only the left channel working while the right channel has nothing but static for the audio?
It may have been the camera angle but it looked like the rear sight was missing a screw because the holes didn't line up. Sight off a different weapon?
This could've been made by a single person. I'm a machinist and I could make that bolt without much trouble (and possibly better) with a lathe and a mill, but if I had to do those side panels, I'd be absolutely thrilled if they came out as good as are.
"...made in a shed" is favorite sub-genre of Forgotten Weapons.
even better would be French made in a shed
A bit of info on the name. It's named after Croatian patriotic folk song from 19th century. Literal translation is "Fairy of Velebit". Velebit is largest mountain range in Croatia.
Fairy of Velebit in that song is also reference to Croatian Fairy from Petar Zoranć book Planine ("Mountains") from 1536. One of most important defences of Croatian language in literature where she cries because Croatian writers are ashamed to use Croatian language while writing their books but using foregin languages.
za jugoslavije je postojao brod petar zoranić, a danas... zna se. inače, pratim ovaj kanal i lik je nakon nekoliko intervencije prestao koristit "civil war" za D. R. Za ovu strojnicu prvi puta čujem.
Based.
@@jureboban6658 kad nije bio gradjanski rat niti domovinski
Nego buržuazijska revolucija
Doslovno samo ljudi iz ex yuge vjeruju i misle da je to bio domovinski rat
Nitko drugi na ovoj planeti to ne misli
@@jureboban6658Iskreno lik je Amer, ne krivim ga. Počeo je govoriti "their independence war" što je ok, za nekoga je to građanski rat a za nekoga (za nas) rat za nezavisnost.
Ha, more than 100 but less than 200 guns out of a very small home shop in the middle of a war is a pretty dang great production run!
Not quite a home shop if its coming from a "dockyard". Probably slightly nicer than what the majority of people would have at home with likely more than just 1 person working on it.
@@alexsis1778 Still a decent production quantity imo.
Every shed should have a submachine gun making corner
Some do in the US...
@@Jreb1865 we need 'em across the world!
@@Uncle_Roadkill On every continent
@@thekraken1173In every country
@@pom8130 In every household
As the British have proven, sheds are a great place for inventing submachine guns.
Australia too, and new Zealand sheds make great improvised tank factories
"Look what you've done to my bloody shed man!"
Sheds have long been essential for inventing anything in Britain.
I don't have a shed
Its the man safe space where no one comes and annoys you
I'm glad that in 2024 its possible to view these "homemade" guns in peace.
It would appear that I've developed an addiction to "guns made by dudes in sheds." Thanks Ian!
I work in a shed - I make cutting-edge precision parts for Formula 1.
A garage is just a small shed.
A factory is just a large shed.
@@Ramonatho Not always. Used to work in a factory where the most advanced thing was a CO2 Laser CNC table. Everything else was turret punch presses, manual brakes, mig welders and angle grinders.
@@dposcuro
And STILL turned out plenty of quality thingamabobs!
😉😉😉
A garage is a large shed.
A factory is a maximum shed.
New Forgotten weapons playlist
“Guns made in sheds”
Does Accuracy International count?
@@petrimakela5978 100%. Just cos its made in a shed doesn’t mean its an unrifled simple blowback SMG made illegally
Thats just most of the time
@@maxkennedy8075 Like my sh... Nevermind 😂
@@petrimakela5978my lawyer has advised not to speak in this matter
As far as early 90s submachine guns made in a shed during a war go, it doesn't look too bad really.
Damn, Croatia has some fine garages.
"Is that a sub-machinegun?"
"No, it's a shed-machinegun."
Hahaha! 😂
"Is that a sub-machinegun?"
"No, it's a shit-machinegun."
Lolololollolololololololololololololololo
Ive been to Croatia, an absolutely lovely place to go ❤
"So you've got to remember is that: everything good in the world - especially everything good that ever came out of Britain - came out of a shed.
Radio, television, jet engine, printing press, and in other countries: the aeroplane, the hot air balloon."
"Look what you've done to my bloody shed, man!!"
- James May, _Top Ground Gear Force,_ 2008
I was, quite literally "made" in a shed😬
@@bobfranklin2572you are good!
Wonder why it never stuck out to me that he said "printing press". Even if you don't take Gutenberg as the originator (and he was by no means the first, just the one whose technique was finally good enough to spread and become commonplace), it'd be really hard to argue Brits invented it. =)
@@jubuttib Didn't you hear ? The brits also invented curry.
@@bobfranklin2572
Prooves May was wrong about that.
Congratulations on winning the Best Gun Reviewer Gundie Ian!!!!
At this point, if they ever made Croatia into a Civilization in Civ 6, they need to have a special building called a shed that produces modern infantry for cheaper than usual
While I would love that, the game still hasn't included Israel as a civilization. Sid Meier is an actual communist, and we shouldn't expect him to make sense.
@@reliantncc1864Israel has no particular unique culture or likeable historical leaders and would be an obviously bad fit for a civ game, you’re so brainwashed it’s hilarious
hahahahhaha best comment ever.
As a non-Croatian-firearms-designer-form-the-nineties - this was enjoyable.
The knurling on that gun looks very well done!
Agree. This is definitely not a luty
Watching all of that play out on the nightly news I didn't really think about who was arming who. But, looking back it seems like the kind of time where someone would have been ecstatically happy to have the complete technical drawings of the Sten or the Owen handed to them. "Hey, I hear you need a national emergency sub-machine gun in an awful hurry."
Or the Swedish kpist M/45 aka the swedish K
I wonder /bet that today, in January 2024, those are available "somewhere" on the Internet.
Anyone?
BTW - NOT intending any violation of TH-cam policy! Just curious.
Maybe on the dark web but about all I know about that is that something is out there. @@stephencolley334
What about that Lutty guy from Britain, who made all his "blue prints" available. I believe he was jailed for it. But a lot of his designs showed up on the streets of Australia after the ban?
@@innocentgunn And when was that? Because Yugoslavia tore itself apart before the world wide internet became available to all of us.
I could see a single manufacturer being set up to make the bolt and recoil spring assemblies en mass for them to be distributed to various manufacturers with the instructions of "make a gun that these will go into" in the sort of desperation that a sudden war would bring about.
UNOFFICIALLY of course.
Plausible Deniability (in case your side looses)!
It would be kinda cool if someone made a submachine gun kit that was just a bolt, barrel, and magazine. You could design the rest yourself.
Nothing beats the shed aesthetic. NOTHING>
Another great gun review! Congrats on your Gundie award.......well deserved acknowledgement of your dedication.
Also fun fact. Song Vila Velebita after which is this called was heavly forbiden in Yugoslavia, you were sentenced to jail time and heavly beaten if you were heard singing it by police.
WOW!
A simple design, but it has all the features you want, excepting a drop safety. Actually, the charging handle notch can serve that role, so... Essentially complete.
Sweet a new Croatian weapon being covered
Ah yes the good old shed, the place where many great weapons are created
I gotta say, for a "we made this in the garage" gun, it doesn't look too bad. Usually the one's I've seen look rough as hell and scream "don't use me or you'll lose a hand".
Oh yeah. Open bolt smg is SOOOO easy to design and produce. I'll just whip one up, shall I?
I mean, I get the idea, but dang. This guy is so smart and capable! I'm honestly a touch envious of the experience, cleverness, and presence Ian brings to the table.
"You just rotate this, lock that into place, pull the trigger and it comes right off." Meanwhile I'm happy I got the slide off a 1911 without janking the whole shebang.
As i understood it, the hard part is actually getting the mag right :D
@@franknstein546 I doubt I could get the stock right.
@@dakotahrickard Yeah, same here .. :D
The machining on this gun looks very well done.
Trogir is an absolutely astonishing town. I highly recommend the entire area around Split.
The Croatian Sensation.
Congratulations on the Gundie award, Ian. Well deserved.
Optically it looks a lot inspired by an MP40 to me. The overall shape. The Bakelit. The position of the rear sling mount.
Yeah visually it looks hella like an mp40
And the barrel nut
Vila is a mythical creature present in all Slavic nations. They are the most beautiful, forever young girls, with long hair, dressed in long white dresses. They are dangerous. They can lure you like sirens, or you can accidentally hurt them, or step on the ground where they have danced and it will make you seriously ill. General advice is to avoid them and not to disturb them. They are also good with herbs, both poisonous and medicinal. Top Tier heroes have them as sisters and they help them sometimes with wise advices. There is a famous medieval song in which 2 heroes were fighting and at some point one of them was reminded by Vila that he has a hidden knife. This is how he won the duel.
Pretty sure I dated her for awhile in college 😎
That's very cool. I'm sure I would be lured successfully.
@reliantncc1864 watch out if you visit Dalmatia (Adriatic coast of Croatia). Those blondes, genetic combination of Slavs and Italians, are stunning. On top of that, they use "ee" instead of "e" (they would not say bear, but beer instead), making their language so poetic and probably the hottest Slavic dialect.
I'm a Serb, but my only love at first sight was with a Dalmatian girl.
@daviswall3319 I was captured by the 6ft tall one. 15 years later, we are still together. I even managed to resist the one described in the comment below
Thanks for the show.
If it wasn't for shed warfare Croatia would still be a part of Yugoslavia! Praise the Shed!
BTW - Ian, this video's sound is only being channeled through the left speaker. Please remix and reupload as mono for both channels.
It’s not too shabby for a shed gun.
Croatia and SMGs be like a smash mouth song.
"They dont stop coming and they dont stop coming and they dont stop comong."
It appears their garage was a pretty nice garage 😂 That looks like a pretty solid effort to me.
Even with a "smooth bore" barrel.
Hey, it throws lead. Wa ja wan? 🙄🙄🙄
Thanks Ian
We're gonna need a bigger shed
Hi, it´s not Velabita, it´s Velebita. Velebit is the name of a montain range in Croatia and Vila Velebita basically means Fairy of Velebit
TY!
I see the Croatian war wave hasn't stopped, could we hope for some other iconic designs soon, like RT-20, MACS or the infamous drunken Ustasha?
@@oskng 300m 😉
I'm hoping for the RT20 and APS95 videos
@@ZP1993working on it!
i ended up with a Croatian use Yugo M59 sks recently, just having and m59 on its own is cool to me
my thought with the differences, is that there are specific pieces that required hight quality and they limited it to those specific parts, everything else was just good enough
As a Croatian firearms designer from the 90s I can confirm that you shouldn't believe everything you read
Thanks another interest and good review.
What a piece!
The Croatian MP40 nice
Trogir is a beautiful little town! Would love to be rich enough to be able to afford a holiday home there.
It's actually "Velebita" :D, after the mountain.
SMGs definitely seem to be the easiest most effective firearm to make. The Warsaw Uprising museum has some brilliant examples of Sten copies and original designs.
A person I know in the U.K. boasted on his cop friend’s social media he could easily build such a thing. The cop took it down and DM’d the bloke reminding him some of his friends were in specialist police roles and not to be so …. Stupid!
I’d add that even if I had the skills and resources I’d never attempt such! 😊
The British authorities make much of historical patriotism and skill at arms but given the sacrifices made by their people (The Somme for instance) they are neurotically twitchy about the common man having a gun. America beware you don't end up like them.
Anyone with access to a hardware store can obtain the materials and tools to assemble a basic, functional submachine gun. You don't even really need access to the simple plans on the Internet; a bit of thinking, some paper, and a pencil is enough to figure it out.
It´s not illigal to know and have the skills to do something. Doing it, is. if it was Illigal to have skills. then I would have been in a high security prison. Mostly because of things the govrement themself told me.
@@exploatores no it isn’t illegal to have skills, but drawing attention to yourself by inferring intent shows someone might not be as clever as they think they are!
That reminds me of a guy who walked into a Dutch gun store with an illegal derringer on a chain around his neck and was promptly told to leave.🤣
They should have taken these Croatian domestically produced firearms for SW Andor show. Much better models for SciFi
Ian McCollum, preparing TH-cam fanboys everywhere for a future dystopian world, one homemade firearm at a time…
Another Great Video Ian 💯, Thanks 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
Not quite to the "Tony Stark built this in a cave!" levels of British shed work, but when duty calls...
The birds in the background are a nice touch
Misspelled name, it's "Vila Velebita" ("Fairy of Velebit", Velebit being the largest mountain in Croatia).
EDIT: Video used to have incorrect title, fixed in meantime :)
How do these videos keep being uploaded with only one audio channel? :(
feels like it happens suprisingly often
Whoever edits these is a dingus
ngl thought my audio had broke, but everything else (except this video) is fine
this is also the only comment I could find mentioning this???
I love rapid fire shed bangers
Neat video once again.
This is a rather historic firearm, as it was gifted to the Croatian president. (Who then gave it to the Croatian police museum, who then loaned it to forgottenweapons) and is the VERY FIRST ONE which is crazy,
TROGIR REPRESENT !!!! I bet I can find Juraj today and ask him about the gun and design lmao.
Već je obaviješten o tome da ga Ian traži...
I friggin love guns, always have. I'm a mechanic by trade and I do a bit of shed engineering. I modify tools to make them suit my purpose, I do some light fabrication. I would love to be able to tinker and build an open bolt submachine gun. Unfortunately that would land me in jail for a long time. A man can dream...
You really should have given this Croatian gun series a goofy name of some sort. Some of these guns are so bonkers
Would be awesome if they had made a few billion of these or similar.
"Can we buy an Mp40?"
"No we have Mp40 in the shed"
*Mp40 in the shed*
"vila velebita" translated to english means the fairy of Velebit
Fairy. Maybe nymph?
@@aaronleverton4221 Vila = a type of mythical figure. Nymphs aren't quite an analogue. Beautiful and alluring, deadly and wise, free-spirited and faithful... all of it depends on the source reiterating on the tales.
@@TemperedMedia Being the largest lexicon on the planet, English is replete with synonyms, or "similar, but not quite exactly the same". Fairy, dryad, nymph, siren, naiad, sprite, sylph. Okay, some are water-based and not arboreal. But, sometimes the first translation by a non-native speaker can be tweaked. In this case, perhaps not.
@@aaronleverton4221 Yep. The accepted modern use of "fairy" is even different from its roots. English is, for all intents and purposes, a language comprised of nearly every other language and culture throughout time.
Behold! The SMM (Small Machine Musket)
The mention of an uzi magazine on what I would've guessed was made in the mid 50s at the latest kinda threw me for a loop
There was a dad joke that goes like this: What is the name of a mountain 8 times higher than Velebit? Vele-byte
Interesting, I was just watching an old video of yours about the TZ 45 and now I see this. Both smgs that look very alike
Men in sheds are backbone of technology
Looks nice to me.
"...A simplified version of this gun."
Man. At that point I imagine a barrel, a bare bones firing system, and a mag.
Still, more proof that if people want to make a gun, they very well are going to. Even if it's in a shipyard with the bare minimum of tooling (and maybe know-how).
7:05 I don't think its missing there is no hole for the second screw. The sight is probably donated from a different gun.
Machinist here. Why the serial number on the charging handle?
If the guy who made the other parts also made that charging handle, he was probably pretty proud of that part. Thats a good looking part with a lot of fifferent machining steps.
Id number it too
I believe famous composer Arthur Jackson wrote a song about these heroic fighters.
Yes, but he had double the number of sheds as the make of this gun
Looks pretty cool
🎶 “Upside, inside out
She's livin' Vila Velabita
She'll push and pull you down
Livin' Vila Velabita” 🎶
it would seem the sound is in mono on the left channel
(it's not my headphone's problem, it works just fine on other youtube videos)
Something something the MP-40 at home:
I identify as a Croatian firearms designer from the 90's
What would the (reasonably) practical range be for a smoothbore like this?
MAYBE 25m tops, I've shot some other crude smoothbore centerfire weapons and anything beyond that you're just throwing the rounds in a cone of fire
Not too bad if you're indoors or such. Thanks for the info
@@Jacgren
When your butt is in "the shit", throwing bullets in "the cone of fire" is FANTASTIC!
😁😁😁
I remember that no-one wanted to go up against Al Capone *because* he was such a lousy shot, you didn't know who or what was going to be hit, there was NO safe spot to be!
As a "discourage the f--- out of those guys" weapon (i.e. suppressive fire) inaccuracy isn't necessarily a significant problem!
Men do their best thinking in the shed.
This thing looks like someone drew a MP40 from memory while drunk and then decided to actually go and produce it.
7:05 Interesting removable feed ramp (installed backwards). Screw underneath the receiver does not look original.
Sound is broken. only works in the left side.
Gives that old time FW feel.
Son-Mom, l want a MP40
Mom-We have one at home
The MP40 at home
@@AKK5I sure, maybe some stash in barn away, used for reference.
There was no mercy in this faceoff
I’m kind of bemused that so little is known about it, even considering the tiny production run. This was only 30 odd years ago, almost everyone involved should still be alive, if mostly retired by now. At least some names are known, it should be possible to research this by picking up the phone. I guess its more of a case of priorities and available research time vs significance, or lack of it, of the weapon.
Except for the little "war" thing, which has an unfortunate habit of getting in the way of still being alive - especially if you're a known armourer, which would make you an extremely-high-priority target. :-(
I'm watching this video two days after it came out. Am I having a weird glitch or is only the left channel working while the right channel has nothing but static for the audio?
Did the police remove and reinstall the feed ramp backwards? 7:04 in the video.
It literally looks like "the MP-40 at home".
Also: I swear I hear birds singing in the background.
WO! in a Shed! Wow!😎
IAN! It’s VILA VELEBITA not vila velabita. I’ll bet you Žiga told you that 😂
It may have been the camera angle but it looked like the rear sight was missing a screw because the holes didn't line up. Sight off a different weapon?
no right audio channel is quite disturbing :P :D
Audio is only in one ear?
This could've been made by a single person. I'm a machinist and I could make that bolt without much trouble (and possibly better) with a lathe and a mill, but if I had to do those side panels, I'd be absolutely thrilled if they came out as good as are.