Hey guys!
Thanks for tuning in to another video on ForgottenWeapons.com.
I thought you might be interested in seeing some gun malfunctions in high speed
because, over the years, I've compiled
something of a video library of these things.
So, let's go ahead and take a look.
We'll start with a 1905 Mannlicher. The ammo out there for this is...
Wait for it...
Not always reliable. So, yeah, that's a dud.
Here's a Type 99 Nambu that the gas system isn't quite adjusted right on.
So it closes, you can see it lock,
fires... when it opens, opens just enough to eject
but not quite far enough to pick up the next round so the bolt just
closes and goes "ka-chunk".
Here's that .276 Pettersen.
Ejects the case...
Can't... quite... get the clip out of there.
That's just gonna kind of bounce around in the action for a moment.
That by the way was an extraordinarily cool gun to shoot and we got some amazing, awesome,
regular high speed footage of it, but we also got that malf.
Next up here... Let's see... This is a ZK-420S.
Czech rifle, and there's one malfunction.
That thing opens up just enough once again to kick out the empty cartridge
but not enough to load another round.
Now keep in mind the cartridge case there when you see this next shot.
It looks like a .45 Auto coming out of it!
That is actually like the back third of an 8mm Mauser case!
In this situation, the case head tore off and we had to then go use a tool to get the rest of the case out of the chamber.
Here's the same gun looking down from above... and...
Uhh! Errk! Chunk!
Not quite gonna work there!
Didn't quite give the back of the case enough time to lift up.
Here, we have a ZH-29.
So the first trigger pull on this closes the bolt, kind of a unique system.
So that works nicely.
Then I'm going to go ahead and pull the trigger a second time.
Which, in real time,
I'm pretty much doing as quickly as I can make two trigger pulls
and at a couple thousand frames per second you get this nice perceptible delay.
Alright, so there's- there we are firing.
You know, this is the most common sort of malfunction to see on camera.
Again, it it manages to hit the ejector,
hits the empty case out, can't quite pick up the next cartridge.
Have a couple in a row here on a BM 59.
This was a commercial production BM 59 that didn't quite work right as you can see right there.
So I was hoping to do a video on this gun for the company that made it I never ended up doing that because
never really managed to get the gun quite running right.
But I took a bunch of high-speed video to send to them to explain what the problem was.
There's one where it comes closer, but...
[the] bolt scrapes over the top of the cartridge case and and jams at halfway in the chamber.
See, what's the next one?
Same gun, what will it do now? Let's find out it will...
eject...
close on an empty chamber.
Yeah, so problem here is probably gas port not quite big enough.
In this one, I'm deliberately holding the magazine in place because at the time I was thinking that that was part of the problem.
In reality, of course, that's not related to the problem.
The problem is that the bolts not coming back far enough to get to the empty- to the next case.
I did have a chance to shoot a Japanese Type 44 submachine gun once.
Didn't do a video on it because it didn't quite work very well.
So, we got a couple rounds out of it, as you can see here, but the magazine was not so good and...
At the very end of this it's just gonna malf "chunk" right there: cross fed a cartridge.
Can't see it in the receiver in the shot,
but I figured it'd be cool to show you a little high-speed of that gun because it is such a quite rare gun.
Now if you saw the ZiP 22 video that I did, now you know what's coming here.
This thing created all sorts of funky malfunctions.
So there's one: you can see the next cartridge get jammed up over the top of the barrel.
That's not so great.
Let's see. What do we have on this one this time?
The empty cartridge just doesn't really want to come out at all and the bolt jams open.
Also, really, malfunctions were kind of the norm for this piece of firearms junk.
I guess we got one more of these guys.
Let's see, that one the empty case comes out and then it fails to feed the next cartridge.
Awesome. Well done guys.
Also tried to do some video on a Breda PG recently
and it worked but not very well, not reliably.
So I have... what I was trying to do here was get a four round burst because one of the
things about the Breda PG is that it was one of.. it was the very first
gun out there to have a actual, like, six cycle-limited burst mechanism.
So I was trying to show a four round burst and I gave it three tries and never quite got one.
So the first time I got one round, this time I got two rounds, and on the last one..
How many do I get on the last one? There's one round...
See that case bounced off the front of the receiver there.
That's two rounds and...
That's it. Just two rounds again so we gave up after this point.
So I don't have any footage going looking down right into the action, unfortunately.
This is a fun one. I had a Beaubourg or a Bond Arms Bullpup 9. It says do not fire Blaser ammunition.
So I immediately of course got some Blaser ammunition and went out and tried it.
Now, let me show that to you one more time.
Now in fairness to Bond Arms,
they specifically say don't do this, but it is one of the most magnificent malfunctions I've ever caught on camera.
So if you watch closely you will notice
that because there's no taper crimp to this ammo, it pulls the cartridge back off of the bullet.
You can see the bullet down there, just barely.
The powder gets dumped, the bullet then breaks free of the magazine,
rotates 180 degrees, gets stuffed back in the case like a wad cutter, and then almost chambered.
That's just glorious.
Alright, and now let's finish this off with some Luger. This is a 45-caliber Luger.
It's a .45 Martz Luger and I had the chance to try and do some shooting with one.
It did not go well.
So, you saw that first one, failed to kick the cartridge out.
Ooh, there's a fun one: the cartridge kind of goes down instead of out.
Flips around 180 degrees and gets jammed in the front of the toggle.
So that that's not so successful
Let's go ahead and try another shot. There we go. Maybe it'll work this time.
Let's see... bang...
Um, oh oh wait!
The cartridge kind of stays where it is and pulling the gun down out of recoil
allows it to come out of the chamber!
But in this case the toggle locks open on... something.
I'm not- I think it probably pushed the cartridge
forward into the barrel face, there.
Not very much, but certainly failed to work
I give it one last try here, a little bit more angle in the top on this particular shot.
Kick out the cartridge, but nope: only chambers the next one about halfway.
So, "womp womp", sad trombone.
My experience with Martz Lugers has not been good.
At the same time, we also tried out a .32 Martz Baby Luger and
no dice there, they're supposed to be an empty cartridge case that comes out but...
No, so try it again.
Maybe two hands? Two hands? Will two hands make any sort of difference on it?
Here we go and...
No.
Ejector doesn't quite kick the case out fast enough and it gets jammed in front of the toggle face.
Got one more shot here. Can we do it? Can we?
Maybe? Maybe?
Oh! Yes, almost.
Except that it didn't actually pick up the next round in the magazine.
So the next shot was just a click.
Anyway, that's just a little assortment of
firearms malfunctions and whoopsies that I've caught in high speed.
I think they're really kind of cool to watch in high speed.
It gives you a view of the mechanism that you don't often see, so...
Hopefully you guys enjoyed that.
We'll be back again tomorrow with another cool video for you.
Thanks for watching.