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guys the sound of Freedom we have Taylor here with Nyctea systems and the belt fed 1919. now
about 10 minutes ago we shot down a pine tree you missed that you better go watch it but we
wanted to do a technical aspect of the guns so thanks for stopping by for today's video
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well so check them out gunspot now let's get on with the video so this is a Browning 1919
it's not necessarily a Browning there are a few companies that made them starting from
towards the tail end of world war one all the way through Vietnam a lot of these guns
actually ended up when they left service they went out of the country so they went to Israel
we stopped using them we started adopting the M60 and using the m250 more so a lot of these went out
to Israel they then converted all of these guns from what used to be 30 out six over to 308 to
meet NATO standards that's cool just to make it way more easier for them to be able to use ammo
and and deal with the interoperability between branches and countries so this is the 308 version
yes and this one was actually this was an Israeli gun this was one of the guns that went outside of
the country Saginaw steering which a lot of people don't realize this was a department of General
Motors okay they actually manufactured these guns and this one was manufactured by them sent over
to Israel and then brought back by them so the markings are all the same this gun technically has
been converted over to semi-auto but I guess we can get out of that here in a second there's a few
different ways that you can get these one would be transferable you're going to be looking tens of
thousands of dollars right close to a hundred yeah that doesn't surprise me oh yeah it's it's the
Market's pretty crazy as far as semi-autos you can get these anywhere between three to five thousand
um now me being an sot or a special occupancy taxpayer right I'm a manufacturer so I can pretty
much do as I need to or as I please with this with these things so I've manufactured a drop
in post-sample machine gun bolt system so the bolt itself is the registered machine gun right firearm
itself is actually considered a semi-auto still and we'll get in all the legal aspects of how you
can own a full auto machine gun in another video what's the operation because the barrel will kind
of move and what's that right so I'm going to go ahead and clear the weapon out right quick
so we'll lift the top cover up this is a standard built fed there goes the live round yep so these
guns unlike most belt sets that you typically see are are closed bolt which everything went
over to open bolt for safety reasons oh yeah so cook-offs yeah number one so when this chamber
gets really hot if a round sits in there too long and if that chamber is hot enough that round will
fire off I've done it and uh in two two three I've done it with a propane torch Just for kicks and so
what that is uh your Barrel needs to be it's 300 degrees is around when your cook-off round will
happen so it's not going to happen right away but if it's once your Barrel's 300 degrees and
that cartridge is sitting in there for however if the brass is thin I mean this is warm and that
was just from shooting the tree down and so now you've got me thinking another video idea let's
do some cook-offs that would be pretty cool so stay tuned as far as um cook-offs like yeah if
you're sitting about 200 rounds 300 rounds and you're running this thing cyclic that chamber is
going to get hot enough in the time we were just talking before I cleared the weapon it very likely
could have fired by then that would have been awesome so everybody went over to uh open bolt
after this but this is still one of the original close bolt machine guns from early World War One
Design they started out as the 1917 which was a water cooled and then there were some revisions
made and then there was a need for a tank gun and then that's when the 1919 was born gotcha
and then this one is considered a 1919 A4 which a few few little revisions some things I modify
myself like I put Spade grips on there that's not part of this but they went and changed some
of the barrel cooling the barrel link itself um and speaking of the barrel it is a reciprocating
Barrel so these are actually a recoil operated machine gun they're not gas operated or blowback
that's it's straight recoil and I will show you now that we're clear so I've closed the
bolt closed the top cover and then we'll go and pull the booster off and it is warm so
these boosters create a seal at the crown of the barrel then building up the proper gas pressure
to seal around the crown then operating the whole Bolt cycling so you can see the bolt or the the
bolt and the barrel moves back and forth so this is like a blast chamber and a suppressor exactly
so it's causing back pressure on that barrel and the whole Barrel Cycles back causing the next
round causing the bolt to then feed the next round out that's cool have you considered suppressing it
I have I've seen it done I have and there are a lot of really really technical things that
go into that such as playing around with Barrel weights right playing around with the actual uh
it's all over the suppressor a lot of experiment right there's a lot of things that are involved
and it's actually very similar to some of the variants of these um which not sure if anybody
knows about these but there was the a M2 the a M2 was an aircraft specific okay and they
actually had a thinner profile Barrel which upped the rate of fire so these guns fire around 650
rounds per minute okay the aircraft versions fire anywhere between 1300 to 1500 rounds per minute
but they could handle that because they were an aircraft the barrels were hanging out and it was a
lot faster cooling which this can't really handle that you'll have a meltdown pretty quick so this
is neat so it I know we can't show this on YouTube because we'll be demonetized so some of this will
be blurred or cut but the uh this booster actually screws into the Shroud yes and so this this Barrel
is saying this is free-floated that's yeah it was seeing it now and seeing it hang yeah and
finally puts it together for me that's pretty neat because that's not something normal Joe's
are going to see on that normal gun yeah it's not really a common thing and the barrel is actually
indexing on the inside of that booster so if that booster is not there it no worky all right so but
accuracy they're actually pretty accurate I haven't stretched this thing out very far
um but the leaf sights do go up to 1800 meters so that's a far tree yeah so you
do have quite a bit of capable range on here now whether we're talking about point target
area Target yeah or or what those are very very different things okay we're
going to set up a Target downrange and a camera and I just want to see it hit
a few times at even 100 yards that just sounds kind of cool to me yeah all right let's do it
all right so I got to shoot a tree down earlier I got to test fire this before but this is the first
accuracy test big shout out to our friends at the American Marksman dot something we can't say
because YouTube but uh they uh sent us the ammo to shoot down the tree into play today we have a 100
yard Target still Target out there we're gonna try to do some burst on it we have some 65 millimeter
Firebirds so if I hit just right I get a prize of a nice flash I'm trying to find out which
way to brace but I kind of have let's see that that should kind of do it let's see what happens
oh it's hot in the balloon get a prize
the target's gone okay so since our 100 yard target has disappeared I've got a Target way
back in there in the back we're not suppressed so we'll have to just uh
you all have to spot for me and tell me if I actually hit that 200 yard Target
all right that was really fun though 200 yards here we go foreign again
the first round is really all that counts because then it like jumps around too much
you hit I heard something I heard something
all right here we go accuracy by volume
I heard it at the very last one yes all right guys so we had fun today with the 1919 make
sure you check out when we shut down the tree and then tune in for the next video where we
talk about the legality of machine guns thanks to Taylor for bringing the fun toy out awesome
and we'll have a link in my link tree go look for the firebird 65 IR the infrared ones they
make some for night vision because this Taylor's company makes and sells night vision so if you're
in the market go check him out if you're local he hosts shoots and stuff oh yeah it's a little
fun that's right you can go out and try them and then you'll be like yeah how much to keep these
because that's what we did all right so thanks for joining us today okay I love you bye-bye