As a mechanically minded person, what I really love about production guns, is that they have so many elegant little mechanisms to connect the different parts together without using any bolts at all! All those spring loaded plungers and connectors like for the aircraft sights, gun stands, steam cap etc. are so simple, yet ingenious. I'm not a gun-owner (living in Germany), but I've been a huge fan of mechanical contraptions and electronic devices all my life and I have taken apart, fixed and restored many things as different as turntables, lawnmowers, cars, but also radios, power tools etc. I've never really come in contact with firearms in real life though and that's why I'm really grateful for these videos. I think I will use some of mechanisms we see in your teardowns and use them in some of my DIY-projects. Thank you for showing these ingenious pieces of engineering to the rest of us, who otherwise would never get to see them!

@megalith7796

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly my situation. I love the machining on the bolts.

@nathan655555

5 жыл бұрын

what does living in germany have to anything to do with not owning a gun? you can own firearms legally there and it isn't even that hard

@robinb2286

5 жыл бұрын

@@nathan655555 oh yes it is, get your research right.

@nathan655555

5 жыл бұрын

@@robinb2286 no it isn't. Sure it's not as easy az in the us. But it really isn't that hard either, people are just to lazy.

@huehuehuehuehue

5 жыл бұрын

cool story bro

Lederhosen for the pistol grip is now officially the most German gun accessory ever.

@moosemaimer

5 жыл бұрын

It just needs a way to repurpose that antiair sight into a place to hold your beer stein and you're all set for Oktoberfest.

@jameshealy4594

5 жыл бұрын

Can't be Lederhosen, it goes all the way to the bottom. ;)

@RyTrapp0

5 жыл бұрын

I think that's to hold your cigar while you're enjoying a coffee break - no need to sit one of life's pleasures in the dirt, even if it is the middle of a war...

@xaverweigl7050

4 жыл бұрын

its meant as family planing

@user-nq2ij3zg2r

10 ай бұрын

Actually, that’s just one lederhose; “hosen” is plural.

Gosh, I'm so envious of you, Ian. Being able to go "hey I should compare this 100 year old machine gun to it's other version." and then going and just grabbing another machine gun, you sir, are living my dream.

@derpamongrimpar9944

5 жыл бұрын

He's gun jesus.

@claptrap4084

5 жыл бұрын

And then compare its other version to its other version and before you know it, Gun Jesus has 5 guns on the table

@GunsNGames1

4 жыл бұрын

That's one of the many miracles Gun Jesus can perform

@alexm566

2 жыл бұрын

he still doesn't own those I think

@kevinoliver3083

7 ай бұрын

Five MG08/15s lying on the pieces of table, on the floor. Those guns are heavy.

So when’s the video of you dual-wielding those two going live?

@bulldowozer5858

5 жыл бұрын

1 Mio. Subscriber special?

@SomaticApparition

5 жыл бұрын

Léo Mutombo IT’S YOU

@W0DAN88

3 жыл бұрын

@@bulldowozer5858 3 Mio special?

In Germany, if you call something 08/15 or say "this is so/this thing is 08/15" It means it's nothing special, normal

@sophie-144p7

4 жыл бұрын

I'd say it's more like cheap/budget

@Tatwinus

4 жыл бұрын

The expression does come from the weapon in the vid, since it was a really average gun. One might even claim it was a, run of the mill gun...

@T33K3SS3LCH3N

4 жыл бұрын

@@sophie-144p7 run of the mill is the correct meaning/translation. The alleged origin is a training manual that repeated the name 08/15 so many times that it became known as a synonym for "generic".

@baumloserwald

3 жыл бұрын

The expression is used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol and Luxembourg and can be understood or understood in a neutral or pejorative way. The term is used in the sense of “very common”, “not particularly”, “average”, “mediocre” or “not worth mentioning”. The idiom is used to indicate things that are out of date or inferior. This includes the reference to “cheap” if the standard or ordinary is to be expressed. It is used as an "indeclinable adjective" and the expression does not have a form of augmentation. Origin: MG 08/15 There are several explanations for the origin of the idiom that are related to the 08/15 machine gun. 08/15 stands for the year of introduction of the original MG 08 model, 1908, and for 1915, the year of further development. These numbers were hammered into arms. The first approach traces the phrase back to the fact that in the First World War the German soldiers had to complete lengthy and monotonous training with this machine gun every day. So at some point the term 08/15 stood for boring routine among the soldiers, which they had long grown tired of. Another explanation goes back to the length of the First World War and has to do with the quality of the weapons. From the time MG 08/15 was introduced, the material quality decreased and the frequency of errors increased. With statements such as “The weapon is run-of-the-mill!” The soldiers would have coined the meaning “of poor quality”. As standardization progressed, it was possible to manufacture individual parts of the well-known machine gun in bicycle or typewriter factories. At this point in time, the ammunition was also easily interchangeable between different models. The saying "this is 08/15" can also be related to an (average) standard. It is possible that all aspects played a role in creating the phrase.

@skornie123

10 ай бұрын

I thought the term "having a 08/15 life" referred to the machinegun crews doing repetitive training. Doing the same repetitive tasks over and over again.

A Sentry Kit is available near your position. ... Wait.

@seppesneyers3592

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha hahahahaha... the kit sucks as enemies are gas nades spamming at you....

@ethhics

5 жыл бұрын

@Léo Mutombo piss off

@pckkaboo6800

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, always pack gas grenade for every class, one good perk about battlefield ww1 is you can gas your enemy..a shady side of war.. I always wonder why no poison bullets...

@spooks4772

4 жыл бұрын

they should've made this gun available 4 support, sucks that they didn't

@clicheusername4416

4 жыл бұрын

You can an mg08/19 or something that has an air cooled light barrel other than that it looks mostly the same

You could say this one isn't 08/15

@jkilian86

5 жыл бұрын

A German will get this

@vrisbrianm4720

4 жыл бұрын

@@mawin_y2k I think CellularProjection is referring to a German joke

my great-grandfathers unit served with some kind of MG 08/15 in a Artillery Support company on the eastern Front.

@visionist7

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for his service against Communism

@ivandogshit7880

4 жыл бұрын

@@visionist7 Against capitalist Nikolaus 2 Russian ampire .

"Because Germany"-sums up the whole gun.

@jefflamica3284

5 жыл бұрын

@Léo Mutombo I don't have a clue what was said, but I agree completely.

Thanks Ian, I plan to bid this firearm. You answered many of the questions I had written Morphy about. Thanks! If you remember I sent you and you posted an article on this front mounted bipod attachement a few years ago. Also, for what its worth, I don't believe those oil cans in the stocks were added. I believe they came out late WWI as there are way to many of them in the US for it to be any other way.

@alecingram4669

5 жыл бұрын

MaximMachineGun good luck! How was this posted a week ago, the vid just came out haha

@biggles1024

5 жыл бұрын

@@alecingram4669 Patreon subscribers see videos before the non-paying public.

@Nomogizmo111200

5 жыл бұрын

good luck I hope you win it!!

@MrGreghome

5 жыл бұрын

Just because you're Maxim MG, doesn't mean you'd need to own a Maxim MG

@MaximMachineGun

5 жыл бұрын

Magic! Na, its been posted on Morphy's Auction website for a week. I am going to guess Ian just made it public, rather than unlisted. Thanks, I hope I do get it!

Ian, you live in a warm state of the USA. Here in Germany we have temperatures down to -20 ° C in winter. Leather protection makes sense for the handle of the weapon.

@jameshealy4594

5 жыл бұрын

Is wood particularly bad at low temps? I get that the metal would be horrible and assumed this was the purpose behind it (although it leaves quite a bit of metal exposed at the front).

@giostisskylas

5 жыл бұрын

During the First World War, the soldiers sat for hours in the ditch behind their machine guns on watch. Also in the winter. On the bare metal parts, the hands cool down very quickly. I can not imagine another reason for the leather protection.

@alphacoffeesins9197

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think this gun would function nearly as well in the winter of Canada where our coldest is -50 and sometimes - 51 lol

@charlesdorval394

5 жыл бұрын

Celcius, and yes it is, keep in mind Canada goes quite far north as well, but even at lower lattitudes, winter's a bitch here :P

@steveh1792

5 жыл бұрын

-40º is -40º either way, what's another 10º (or 18º using "USAB") among (shivering) friends. Where we can go down below -70ºF (-57ºC) in Montana. Glad I live in near-tropic Minnesota, where the record low was only −60 °F (−51.1 °C).

"This is needlessly complex..." Isn't that the point of german arming?!

@TammoKorsai

5 жыл бұрын

German complexity is nothing compared to Swiss complexity. Check out Ian's MP41 Furrer video to see how deep it goes.

@seppesneyers3592

5 жыл бұрын

GERMAN ENGINEERING!! Hahaha

@ScottKenny1978

5 жыл бұрын

@@TammoKorsai Agreed. *Needlessly* complex is Swiss. 'over-engineered' (ie, 'a little too lightly built for the purpose,' like the Panther tank's drivetrain) would describe most German engineering. And I'd argue that Russian engineering is "engineered to simplicity".

@GSIChamp__Andi

3 жыл бұрын

This have to be the reason, why most of your troops and officers use European Guns. Beretta, H&K, SIG, Glock??

The "08/15" comments down here are so 08/15

@erickwon8528

5 жыл бұрын

@Léo Mutombo stfu

@CS_Mango

5 жыл бұрын

*inception*

@thisisraw3413

5 жыл бұрын

Only germans understand ^^

@zombies4evadude24

3 жыл бұрын

5 days and it will truly be 08/15

Leather condom for the grip, just what all my machines re missing.

At one time I had a history book that had a photo taken in Norway. It was a German train it was protected by a machine gun platoon. In the open ore car was two or three of MG-08/15 on anti-aircraft mounts. Along with some MG-34's too

A lot of really cool features and design changes to adapt and accommodate the progression of machine guns between WWI & WWII Nice vid Ian 👌👍🙂

0:55 Achtung, Ian ! The Wehrmacht was created in 1935. You meant "The Reichswehr"

@racismceo797

3 жыл бұрын

read the name of video

Thank you , Ian .

"08/15" is a common word in germany because it means "nothing special" :-D

@bright890

5 жыл бұрын

That's because it's probably a German colloquialism

@wasteaccount1075

5 жыл бұрын

It isn't necessarily an "official enough" phrase to. be taught in school, but every German uses it. Although "nothing special" is a meaning of it "standard" would be more precise. It has its origin in the German DIN System (depending on the year: Deutsche Industrie Norm, Deutsches Institut für Normierung or similar), because some part of the Machine Gun 08/15 was the first to be standardized in order to be able to split production between different Factories.

@maxgrebe3199

5 жыл бұрын

@@ruhankarsten7352 It's like saying that a phone for example isn't something particular special. In german you could say : I got a new Phone. Wich type is it? Oh just an 0815 Phone.

@toarsted9422

5 жыл бұрын

It probably means more like "standard", that as i heard is actually because this gun was the first product in Germany which used standardized parts

@cnils407

5 жыл бұрын

as a german i can say thats crorect. Wir würden sagen "Das ist ja so Nullachtfünfzehn..... As example: Dieses Auto ist ja sowas von Nullachtfünfzehn. Translated: This car is boring. (In the meaning of "So normal") But what Ian had there is : Ein Maschinengewehr Nullachtfünfzehn das nicht Nullachtfünfzehn ist.

Absolutely gorgeous piece of master engineering. It belongs to a wall as an ornament, not on the battlefields.

What an amazing (and very original) machine gun to own. Wonderful!

I remember seeing Ian with what I assume was MG08/15 at his waist wearing a sling, is that a video I have missed or patreon only content?

If yall think this gun is badass now. Wait till he Pack-a-Punches it.

@xenuvelo64

4 жыл бұрын

ian got the free one with his maxis drone

@willhersey3884

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like the wondewaffe ate an mg 42 lmao

@indescribablecardinal6571

3 жыл бұрын

MAGNA COLLIDER

@shaneh1872

3 жыл бұрын

Nice zombies reference

@yaduwn8844

3 жыл бұрын

that thing is a point machine when packed I went from 40k to 100k in 3 minutes with that

That is a mighty fine piece of engineering.

What an absolute unit.

Really interesting piece of machinery.

You should do a video on the MG-13 if you can get your hands on one

would love to see a video on the 13.2mm MAN MG18... developed from the MG08, short-recoil toggle lock belt fed, would be really cool to see one taken apart...if you can find one

Funny how it became a figure of speech.

@DrKunze

5 жыл бұрын

Nullachtfufzehn

@FirstDagger

5 жыл бұрын

Nullachtfünfzehn

Gotta love the design elements from that era. I notice that the ads are back.

Who the heck disliked this ? I am surprised Ian forgot to mention the "EWB" marking on the right side butt stock for post war Bavarian service but this gun is so full of history that I am just happy he brought me a video of it.

Aaaaw special little lederhosen!

You get to be with some amazing pieces of history...dang your lucky

I really appreciate the flags on the thumbnail. They are all mostly pretty time accurate

That single crooked outlet in the background is a OCD nightmare XD Nice video as allways. Praise gun jesus!

Maybe the leather grip cover was added to protect the grip when you set up the gun so that the grip wont shatter when dropped on a hard surface

Reading "Storm of Steel' by Ernst Junger so this is appropriate.

Fascinating - you can already see a faint glimmer of the GPMG concept, in the two different bipod/tripod mounts and the antiaircraft sight. Doesn't go nearly all the way, but the Versailles restrictions likely helped get Reichswehr people thinking in that vein.

8:45 I was really hoping you were going to say 'built in flask'... 😂

I find this period so absolutely fascinating, the short and unrealistically idyllic 'Guns of August' slice of time between the death of Edward VII and the start of the Great War. The entire war and especially its armistice are very much at the forefront of the British consciousness right now--or at least they are in my area with many civic events to mark the 11th coming up. Obviously this gun was a product of Versailles, but then so was Hitler and the Second World War...

I would love to own one of these updated mg08/15's.

I would love to own this awesome piece.

It would’ve been perfect if Ian had uploaded this video on August 15th

Love the videos.

Holiday gift idea: socks for your pistol grips.

How do you fill the water jacket? Always wondered... 🤔

If you look at photos from the invasion of Poland in 1939 a lot of Wehrmacht had these. Same with Gewehr 98s.

Love your channel Ian. One question though has ww2 50bmg semi auto Winchester anti tank rife been fired since it testing by the Canadians? If so, has it been fired any time recently? Just now thought about that.

A video on how the waiter uacketvsystem works Long with other gun cooking systems

Ian, were the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles intended to be permanent, or would they have eventually been lifted?

Very, very cool.

I love so much the MG08/15

@theobuzat9091

5 жыл бұрын

@Léo Mutombo WTF mec

This looks absolutely ancient compared to the 34 & 42 lol

Please show us the 4711 as well!

Seeing this makes me long for a Day of Infamy game with way more equipment options!

It looks very intimidating. Lederhosen handgrip 😂 09:25

What is that key looking thing on the left side just behind the top cover hinge?

So whats that contraption the steam tube attaches to? Electric vent pump?

Getting close to 1 million subs Ian!

I Hope you continue making videos because i love them a lot:)

You need guns for mounts and static defense too. Use it until it's gone.

What a cool old gun.

Tut mir leid aber dieses Video ist einfach 08/15. Ein typisches Video von Forgotten Weapons.

@TodayLifeIsGoood

5 жыл бұрын

Was eigentlich ein gutes Zeichen ist^^

Do they have any of the Pack A Punch ones registered transferable? I hear they're hard to come by

Germany..providing solutions for everything since 1898

@snozzberry3934

5 жыл бұрын

More like since the Ancient Roman Empire collapsed. First solution was to rebuilt it as "Holy Roman Empire", followed by various other solutions for many problems like when the Eastern Roman Empire was conquered by the Arabs, Germans rebuilt it in Eastern Europe. You maybe know it as "Russian Empire". The titles Kaiser and Zar both come from the title "Caesar". ;)

You should take a look at the Venezuelan 7,49mm FN FALs

FYI the EWB on the stock means EinwohnerWehr Bayern.

the saying "das ist doch null acht fünfzehn" or "this is just 0 8 15" was ones a good word. Like "its top notch" or "brand new". Over the time it become "normal" or "just more of this crap". I dont know why this happen may becouse of the second world war where this thing got replaced by the mg34 and mg42.

@Rasta8889

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's because of the books by Kirst.

I've seen a picture of one of these mounted on a flat car on a WW2 Finnish military train. The troops all wear German helmets too

what would you call this version of the MG 08/15? MG 08/15 n. Ausf. F? MG 08/15 neu. Ausführung F - MG 08/15 new version F (6 modifications)

Spiderweb sights are super cool

As Ian went over more and more of these little trinkets, I kept thinking "Man, that's so German"... And then he covered the leather pistol grip protector. I fucking lost it.

All we need now is a fictional character - let's call him Johannes Rambow (for simplicity) - who returns from the western front after WW1 and gets in trouble with the local chief of police...

@ArcturusOTE

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like he's going to Spartakus

Seriously I want one of these guns but I'm just thinking about the guns I already have already have a lot of rifles from first World War and you know what they're excellent rifles

We in germany refer to anything be ming „nothing speckal“ or „standard“ as being 0815y Sidenote

Hey Gun Jesus, do you recall how much this gun went for at the auction? Probably in the six figure rang

Fantastic gun. I bet it weighs a ton when in operation.

@ineednochannelyoutube5384

5 жыл бұрын

Id wager 20-30 kilos without the water.

@KnifeChatswithTobias

5 жыл бұрын

I need no channel youtube!, just looked it up. 18 kilos (39.7 lbs) minus the ammo but with the water.

@ineednochannelyoutube5384

5 жыл бұрын

+Knife Chats with Tobias Heh. I only knew the Schwarzlose was 43kg with 10 liters of water in it, but than that presumably also includes the mounting.

So, who else wants to Ian uses one of these things at a 2 gun match?

This is the Battlefield 1 Apocalypse gun. Right?

Tank dempseys weapon of choice... nice

Serious question: Is it a protection, or added to provide a better grip?

@georgesheffield1580

Жыл бұрын

Winter and a little cushioning during sustained fire

Amazing that the US government declined Maxim's MG , deeming it too $! As a result, Sir Hiram merrily trotted off to Europe and sold his invention to Vickers (Maxim-Vickers) and also to the Kaiser! Queen Victoria was so impressed that she knighted him! Even Edison was afraid of Maxim, as Sir Hiram had many electrical patents under his belt. An amazing man who embraced the Industrial Revolution with MANY innovative inventions, learning his skill sets by apprenticing and mastering many crafts! Simply amazing!-John in Texas

does the bipod have the original painting?

I like this gun alot

What was the latest produced machine gun to utilize a water jacket?

@brianmfournier

5 жыл бұрын

M1917 probably

Oh when will you get to the MG13? So little on that gun online.

@michaellazorchak8175

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree.

Love your content. Really interesting video. But as a German it is virtually impossible to get something like this in hands. Would love to see this in #BFV to get a chance to experience this cool bit of engineering.

nice video, do you know what EWD on the stock reffer to?

@ForgottenWeapons

5 жыл бұрын

Bavarian Civil Defense - one of the Freikorps type organizations. It existed (legally) only in 1920 and 1921.

@carbonneauxbastien1195

5 жыл бұрын

tank you very much!

If you ever found one, please overview and if possible, fire the Bergmann MG 15 na

That Bipod is just a jack stand isn't it?

the 08/15 electrical wall socket was the standard wall socket used by the Wehrmacht until the Schuko socket was introduced in 1930

Looking at the description saying WHAT'S THE HAMMER PRICE, IAN?

I have a question: Does anyone know what "EWD" or "EWL" means? It ist stamped into the stock of the gun; you can see it at 5:57 for example. I am interested because we found a Gewehr98 - WW 1 version - in our attic a few years back which had the same letters stamped into the stock. Unfortunately searching for it on Google does not bring anything usefull up for me. If you know more please let me know.

@ForgottenWeapons

5 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikorps

@brittakriep2938

3 жыл бұрын

I think ,Einwohnerwehr Bayern'/ Inhabitants Guard Bavaria. Bavaria tried to reintroduce the once existing local militias, which had been up to 1840s/1850s a voluntary support force for army and police. But it was forbidden, as soon as the Allied Powers noticed this.

How very interesting, of course.

Bummed you didn't show the markings.

@mazkact

5 жыл бұрын

Me too even though it would have added an hour to the video.

Leather grip covers weren't that uncommon on double rifles for the tropics and double shotguns for the same conditions .

The leather grip cover must have been Germany's version of the $600 hammer, and almost as useful.

This looks like a moonshine machine with this tube...

A real lesson there....dont discard what works for the sake of it....that goes for everything not just weapons!

Imagine Hans hip firing this gun and holding off the enemy counter attacks.