My dad was one of the first to get this gun in the military sevice and I was one of the last. It was quiet heavy to carry around all the time, but I had just one single jam during the whole service.

@risingmoon3387

3 жыл бұрын

And i was probably one of the first in basic military training (Rekrutenschule) with the Sturmgewehr 90 in spring of 1991.

The amount of work, engineering that is needed is spectacular and testament to our people's intellect and determination to create. Best yet is that Swiss army man get to keep their service weapon once they are done.

@hangphan8920

2 жыл бұрын

Súng bắn

nice documentary ..... I served as a mountain infantry gunsmith in the swiss army, first completed training on this wonderful rifle, then in 1990 I switched to the new stg90, still continued to do maintenance on stg57 and stg90 for many years. after my service in the army I had to deliver the stg90 and I asked to have a revised stg57 that they gave me and that I jealously keep at home (modified without burst shooting) ;-)

That just made me happy. I don’t speak Swiss German etc. but I do speak gun. ❤️

The Swiss and Czechs underappreciated when it comes to weapon manufacturing and development.

@makeintoschu

2 жыл бұрын

Germans, Austrians, Americans, Belgiams are also quite good

@12345fowler

2 жыл бұрын

Underappreciated maybe, but not from the people in charge. I think the U.S. Navy bought Oerlikon cannons in WW2 to strengten their carrier air defense.

@plenex

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely not. Swiss oerlikon guns and czech guns are worldwide known. Slovaks are underappreciated when it comes to weapon manufacturing and development.

@juliaeastbourne6310

2 жыл бұрын

Swiss arms have a good reputation for quality in Europe. Even if their choice of service arms is bit eccentric.

I love to see well tuned manufacturing processes in action. Well trained machinists, operators, assemblers, and technicians all backed with step by step quality control.

@confitdcanard

2 жыл бұрын

It's really really cool!

@myparceltape1169

2 жыл бұрын

Q/C reminds me of "How often do we check our Q/C tools?" There is a gradual drift in almost everything that moves.

I got mine in 1975, it's an excellent weapon, I was in the armored troops, tank grenadier in Thun

Good to see that the Swiss also issue One Size Fits None uniforms to recruits. An international constant.

@badbotchdown9845

2 жыл бұрын

No they have two sizes too tight or too huge 😂

I used the sig 510 in My military service in CHILE 🇨🇱, glad to found this channel , we used and produce under license our versión call the sig 542-1 I have the luck to serve with him as well.

Ich habe 1976 mein STGW57 erhalten in der Rekurtenschule und ich habe diese Waffe immer noch. Das Ding ist gut, robust und sehr zuverlässig, genau und vielseitig einsetzbar. Bei der Einführung damals 1957 war das ein absoulter Hammer und ein Quantensprung für jeden ADA.

@12345fowler

2 жыл бұрын

Hey do you remember the one previous ? I remember some troops carrying it, it had even wood parts.

@p.o.ackley1540

2 жыл бұрын

Ich hab schon mit wirklich vielem schießen dürfen, beruflich wie privat. Das StGw57 leider noch nicht. Was ich hoffe bei einem Besuch in der Schweiz nächstes Jahr mal nach zu holen. Waffentechnisch sehr gut durch konstruiertes Sturmgewehr. Und man blieb der 7,5x55 treu!

@tiknife8654

2 жыл бұрын

Das war noch eine Tradition, leider gibt's sowas nicht überall.

@luzianwasescha6056

2 жыл бұрын

@@12345fowler the k31

@3isr3g3n

27 күн бұрын

Gebaut wie ein Panzer.

Stamping is no doubt simpler than casting, forging and milling, but it's by no means a simple process, to say nothing of the production of the complete weapon. Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic Dale!

I love the firearm itself, but the most interesting thing in this video is that "cold hammer" machine. It looks surreal.

Dale, thank you very much!!!!

This thing is so incredible. One of the strangest looking, but simultaneously coolest looking rifles ever made. They were still manufacturing these as late as 1984?

@badbotchdown9845

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude and ten years after issued last producing serie we have as mountain artillery troops (1994) . we have exchanged their olds for new Stgw 90. In the mean time army was reformed deeply and most of them was discharged of their last days of duties including ones from 32 to 42 of age and from 43 to 50. Still only Elite from 20 to 32. Passing from 650'000 to 240000 and today reaching 83000

@TitusLos

2 жыл бұрын

And the best (but expensive) mass produced assault rifle ever made, period.

@IndianYouThoober90

2 жыл бұрын

What i see is that its a mixture of mg 42 and stg 44🤗🤗

@jcrossier20

5 ай бұрын

​@@IndianYouThoober90 No. Mg.42 ; Fg.42 ; Stg.45

@IndianYouThoober90

5 ай бұрын

@@jcrossier20 eh?

Engineer: do you want a new sniper rifle, machine gun or assault rifle? Swiss government: YES

Thankyou for this beautiful documentary. I have noticed that unless your talking about guns like the Sten the attention to detail in the factory is enough to make a watchmaker jealous. I have never believed any crap about AK made bad because if made badly it would not be reliable and kept for decades. The Sten and other weapons like it are war emergency style construction with an eye to save money and time and use less well trained machinists. Even then the gun barrels had been made very well.

* * I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE INTENSIFIES * *

@darkelf2x1

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude sorry, meant to invoke starship troopers meme Though I am still curious about headspacing the rifle via the removable locking shoulders (? term)

Awesome find and thanks for sharing. Keep em coming! Subscribed.

Thank you for the subtitles, I am currently learning German (hoch Deutsch), as a third language, so I do understand some of it. But French, it's impossible for me to understand. I came here from your videos on Bloke on the range channel, subscribed instantly and looking forward to more videos here. So please up the good work mr Ding.

so much detailed. rechecking again and again. mental n physically stresses. for perfection. saluted. maybe nowday gun maker more faster. machine use more often. but good old gun smithing spirit remained same.

İ dont like everyone think this gun is ugly. It looks really nice and has unique beauty.

It was a robust system. But also with a negative side. The recoil when firing should not be underestimated. The length and weight were always a problem. When I was retrained on Stgw 90, it was a quantum leap to Stgw 57. I didn't shed a tear for the Stgw 57 for a second.

👍👍👍 de la bonne vieille mécanique solide. Et surtout du savoir faire.

I've always wanted one.

The last step the older gentleman test firing YOU KNOW HES GOAT at his job . 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾beautiful 🤧🤧🥲🥲

Oddly enough your channel was suggested on my home page. I thought it must be the STG 57 expert from BOTR. Happy to find out I was correct. Fascinating content so far. I subbed and will catch up on your back catalogue. Good luck with the channel.

So advanced that the workers even had built in safety google in their eyes

Ah, cool to see so much pre-CNC machining, like the good old turret turning machine used for the breech. Deep drilling still need special machines and is generally a pain in the ass even in modern machining. Makes sense to use grinding for the gas seal on the rifle grenade spiggot, probably down in the RA 0,2 range of surface roughness.Switzerland still makes good grinding machine like Studer and Kellenberger.

@meanmanturbo

2 жыл бұрын

Makes me interested in looking at the technical drawings. I work as a process planning engineer in transmission machining. Curious as to how I would like to set up the machining for modern manufacturing. Of course it is designed with 50s manufacturing in mind, but still it would be kind of fun.

Beautifully made rifles!!!!!!

3:14 that’s one specialized QA setup. Never seen anything like that, different world before CNC. Great video.

@SilencedMi5

2 жыл бұрын

For mass production lines like this specialized QA rigs are still common. CNC parts still need to be checked!

7:30 hand polished, holy cow

I wish there are more videos like this with other battle rifles

Good thing I subscribed.

The barrels were cold forged. Normally such a method is only employed for Sniper Rifles. No wonder they were expensive to manufacture.

@DaletheStgwDude

Жыл бұрын

That’s not entirely true in my opinion. Cold-hammer forging is a great way to get good barrels quickly and cheaply in large volumes (since it’s capital-intensive). As far as I know, it’s the opposite for precision rifles. These have conventionally cut rifling, as the process induces less residual stress in the material than with cold hammer forgoing, thus reducing the barrel’s distortion when it heats up.

How guns are made documentaries are your only therapy to relax, eat something or sleep.

FINALLY!!!

@fochdischitt3561

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude Yup, I subbed you after seeing you on Blokes channel over a year ago 😁

my dad was one of the last soldiers to get this rifle before switching to the Stgw 90

57 is the best gun ever made

Guter Film. Danke Gruß max

que de souvenirs...

The Rolex of the battle rifles.

@DaletheStgwDude

9 ай бұрын

…with Swatch aesthetics!

@garetz2011

9 ай бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDudeOK, the grip is a little weird, but when I purchased my first GUN DIGEST back in 1982, except from the AR15, for me, it was beautiful. I love its ejector, it's not a simple ejector, it's a built in reliable machine to kick out cases, inspires a lot of confidence. The swiss are roght! A soldier takes 19 years to be ready, so, give him the best rifle money can buy; if you don't do that, like the germans, sooner or later you will be aending 15 years boys to war.

*The guys at **09:13**. Best job in the world*

High Quality swiss made gun

Оружие Швейцарии дорогое...не всем по карману!А так нормальное.

The closest other weapon I can compare this to is the BAR, and the category I'd fit it in is also that of an automatic rifle. It is as heavy as a BAR, closed bolt but I think a comparison with the FN FAL & G3 rifles isn't compatible because of the sheer weight of this weapon, those "battle rifles" are comparatively light.

Beutyful gun

Historical movies it's great. Don't forget what happened.

This is what I am looking for years. Could you please upload any documents relate to MG51 swiss machine gun? Thanks

@safarisauer3160

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude Greeting from Canada. I am quite like the quality of swiss rilfe. I have one K31 rifle. We could purchase sig pe 90 in the past, but this rifle became prohibited class in 2020. Stg 57 and HK G3 are among those best roller delayed assault rifles.

Legal👏👏👏

I want that test-firing-guy-job

@danielroesner2342

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude Nope... Full auto Stgw57 is a beast. You feel every Single shot in your shoulder and hell, I love it every time i shoot it. Never gets old

@pauljones9746

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielroesner2342 Yeah.. Till you go into work with a bad hangover haha

@Haaraff

3 жыл бұрын

With tears of joy in your eyes... or is it just the sweet cloud of powder gasses stinging in your eyes?

👏👏👏👏👏

good good good rifle

dumping full auto mags best job ever

Do you have information about how steel surfaces of the Stgw57 were finished/treated? Maybe paint over a liquid or gaseous ferritic nitrocarburized surface?

@DaletheStgwDude

2 жыл бұрын

It’s hard to give an overall answer, as different parts require different treatments. It can range from gas carburizing, quenching and tempering, to hard chroming, to salt bath nitriding. From the factory, most steel parts are sand blasted and blued, some pre-parkerized or parkerized. Aluminium parts are hard anodized. Paint was only really used for filing in diopter and selector markings. During some periods, adhesives and epoxies have also been used. For refurbished and overhauled guns, aluminium parts are not reanodized, but painted over with Miraschwarz for economy reasons.

@viggenguy4411

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude I really appreciate the detailed response. I suppose I am most interested in the finishes/treatments of the stamped and welded receiver shell. Since rebuilding a Stgw57 in the US involves procuring a new receiver, they tend to be delivered by the one gentleman who manufactures them as just a bare steel shell. Trying to get an idea of how to then treat this part to be as close to factory-new as feasible

A beautiful rifle.... what caliber is it? Great show 👍🇺🇸💪❤️

@dankmazzi2376

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude thank you sir... God bless... take care..

@jorgpusch8830

2 жыл бұрын

7.5x55 Swiss is the caliber

Hand polished FCGs 😍

you could build 20 stens for the price of one barrel......

秀樹感激Goodです=3

u cant hand a little boy such a thing man

this vid is bilingual french and german?

holy jesus

Mr Dale...........Chile also used this rifle right........

@luqmanhakim7379

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude Thanks Sir.......... 👍👍

The gun looks like a Sci fi gun

Is this the biggest battle rifle in the world because it sure looks like it.

@Cacowninja

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude Yeah the L1A1 FAL is longer overall but has a shorter barrel than the Sig 510. I live in the U.S. and would love to own both of these guns!

👏🏻👏🏻🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Silencers not sound or small sound.

この動画にを見ればSIGが高価なのが納得

😯😯

Compare this to how the USSR made AK-47’s…LOL…. Fine Swiss Watch vs Russian Hammer!

@mattconley541

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude Back when this was filmed?

I heard that Swiss Army allowed their soldiers to purchase their service rifle when they retired. Is this true?

@justin764

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude Wait, so they actually allowed their soldiers to take their rifles (though converted semi-auto) home just to get rid of them? I would have gladly took them off of their hands :(

@justin764

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude Scrapped? SCRAPPED? NoOOOOOOo

@Radbot776

2 жыл бұрын

Justin Swiss guns are like BMWs there only nice when their new, especially them with their super weird calibers there guns have worst resale than Brazilian shotguns

@johnhighway7399

Жыл бұрын

@@Radbot776 You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Swiss guns are highly prized no matter how old

@MrKamuffel

2 ай бұрын

no purchase- received for free, later for SFR 50.-

Очень интересно, но я не черта не понял.

Hello sir I am interested sir

Leck du bisch echt voll de stgw dude!

işcilik kalitesi üst seviye ancak tasarımı yanlış çok agır ve hantal bir tüfek sanki birinci dünya savaşındaki mevzi savaşları için üretilmiş ... kolleksiyon degeri var

@DaletheStgwDude

7 ай бұрын

Definitely!

So they don't just make chocolate and watches!

World's most evil gun.

😅😅

and to think that the swiss is neutral. and they are building this things

Sg sih 510 army chilean

In vain, the Swiss switched to AK (SG 5xx), this is garbage with mediocre reliability, it was necessary to develop the Sig 530 in 5.56 or 5.6x48 Eiger.

that rifle is just too well made to be given to conscript soldiers. just like giving Breitling watch to a hobo..

@badbotchdown9845

2 жыл бұрын

You don't know about Swiss mentality and never been in my country, people are respectuous of other property and giving a weapon still an honor and need to be keep in marching order.

The Russians made 1000 AKs during the time this video runs...Chinese made 10,000 AKs during the tine this video runs... Russian and Chinese conscripts shoot less ammo in 2 years of service, than the guy at the end of the video.

@johnhighway7399

Жыл бұрын

And those conscripts would serve no other purpose other than act as cannon fodder

@unsuisseegare1291

Жыл бұрын

quality over quantity

AK 47 forewer the Best.

Why are they speaking in French? Seriously, why?

@DaletheStgwDude

2 жыл бұрын

All it takes is Google. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland

@OffizierHashem

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaletheStgwDude I know, but why French? the other language is pretty 😁 Thanks for the reply dude, cool video too. Respect from Egypt 🇪🇬

The 2 leg support was also a disaster. Totally bad design. I once had the pleasure of holding an M16 and despite its age it was in a completely different league. There is more patriotism being spread here instead of sticking to the truth. Long after the war, Switzerland was extremely modern and innovative when it came to military technology. But politicians have stalled this, a good example of self-constructed fighter aircraft. After that, most of the company's own defense industry was limited to 0815 products. The only exception to this was Oerlikon Bührle.

@DaletheStgwDude

Ай бұрын

It's important to understand the political context behind the Stgw. 57's adoption. The Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution meant that innovative concepts such as the intermediate cartridge had to be dropped in favor of a more conservative design for immediate production. In comparison to the Kar. 31, the Stgw. 57 was a huge technological jump, even when compared to the Stgw. 90.

STG - 57 дорогое оружие и .....уродливое.

German weapons not great Russian is the best from Somalia🇸🇴

@pluto-9047

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't you see the Swiss flag at the end of the video?!

@mahadljama4578

2 жыл бұрын

@@pluto-9047 so why were they speaking german

@pluto-9047

2 жыл бұрын

@@mahadljama4578 Because Switzerland has four official languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansh. Besides everyone and their mother knows SIG is a Swiss company!