At Forgotten Weapons I think the most interesting guns out there are the most obscure ones. I try to search out experimental and prototype weapons and show you how they work, in addition to more conventional guns that you may not have heard of before. You're much more likely to find a video on the Cei Rigotti or Webley-Fosbery here than an AR or Glock. So, do you want to learn about something new today? Then stick around!
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We created History of Weapons & War for two reasons. One was to ensure a home for historical, educational firearms content if and when YouTube stops allowing it. The other was to provide some income for the small channels doing really good work but not getting any monetization income from YouTube. Well, here at Finnish Brutality 2025 we have a perfect confluence of those two factors with Bloke on the Range...
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The new Colt 633 Department of Energy clone from PSA/H&R was really quite a lot of fun to shoot, so I decided to take it to a PCSL match. This was basically a USPSA pistol match with two sets of targets, one for pistol and one for rifle (in theory PCSL goes out to much longer range, but that match at my local club was all within about 25 yards). I brought a Beretta 92 to match the vibe of the 633 clone, but decided once I saw the stages that I really just wanted to shoot the carbine. So I opted to completely disregard the rules and shoot everything with the 633, with my pistol as a backup only in case the carbine malfunctioned.
As it turned out, the H&R 633 ran perfectly through the match (although I fumbled one reload). And it was a whole lot more fun to blast everything with it than to play two rounds of hide-the-target-behind-barrels on each stage by using the pistol too. My score suffered, of course (ie, tied for last place) but I think I had more fun than anyone else there.
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Today we are looking at the entire scope of Aimpoint's firearms development division...which is actually just this one firearm. Aimpoint was founded in 1975 as a partnership between Arne Ekstrand (a Swedish inventor with an idea for a brand new "red dot" type of optic) and Gunnar Sandberg (a wealthy Swedish entrepreneur interested in new technology). The company began by developing the Aimpoint Electronic sight, and in the later 1970s the men were introduced to another Swede, Carl Bertie Johansson (CBJ). He had an idea for a new firearm mechanism, and found an interested audience in Aimpoint. He was hired on, and the company now had two divisions; one for optics and one for firearms.
A single prototype of Johansson's firearms was made, circa 1979. It was a PDW type of weapon, with a short stroke annular gas piston and a rotating bolt, chambered for .221 Remington Fireball using a magazine in the pistol grip. What made the design quite interesting was the axially symmetric nature of the action - it all acted around the center of the bore. The company sent Johansson to the US to look for a market and a manufacturing partner, and there they encountered a number of major players in the firearms industry, including Bill Ruger and Jeff Cooper. They were unable to find a suitable factory interested in making the gun, however, and a short time later Sandberg (the money behind the Aimpoint company) decided that the firearms division did not have the potential to justify continuing it. Johansson parted ways with Aimpoint on good terms, and is still doing firearms work today (you may have heard of his 6.5mm CBJ cartridge).
The one PC-80 (a name given to the gun by Jeff Cooper in his 1980 article for Soldier of Fortune) remains at Aimpoint to this day. Many thanks to them for giving me access to it to film for you!
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During the Latvian War of Independence, the nationalist forces receiver a fair bit of support form the British, including some 20,000 P14 Enfield rifles. These were great for the Latvian infantry, but the Latvian cavalry wanted something shorter. So in the early 1920s, they ordered 2200-2350 (the numbers are unclear) carbines from BSA. These were assembled using old Lee Metford and Long Lee parts, 21 inch barrels, and modified with charger clip bridges per the British CLLE pattern.
These carbines remained in service until World War Two, as we know that replacement barrels were purchased from Tikkakoski in Finland in the late 1930s - and this example has one of those Tikka barrels installed. During the Soviet occupation of Latvia, the Latvian Army did not fight, and many of these carbines appear to have been put into reserve service with the Red Army (some appearing to have been retrofitted with Mosin-style sling slots). Others disappeared into the forest with anti-Soviet partisans, and very few survived after the war.
Many thanks to viewer Sam for loaning me this exceptionally rare rifle to film for you!
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