The Three Lives Of A Schmidt-Rubin K00/11
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- čas přidán 1. 02. 2017
- A philosophical episode, this one - on the many lives lived by milsurp rifles. This one is a Schmidt-Rubin K00/11, a K11 converted from an earlier model 1900 short rifle. The rifle lived a number of lives, and we have a bit of the human history behind the last one.
I promised someone I'd do this, so here it is.
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Always great to actually know the history of an old firearm.And delivered in two languages.
Thanks Bloke, and thanks to the family for allowing you to share the story of the man who carried this rifle.
beautiful story. Thank you for telling it so eloquently
Fascinating to actually have a name and a family history associated with a firearm like this...thanks for sharing.
The personal history aspect makes the story that much better, be it a rifle or a carpenters plane.
Nicely done BOTR, good stuff.
Thank you for sharing. I have K31 and was able to track the owner through the troop tag underneath the buttplate. I sent a letter with some pictures by Airmail, and after many, many months, finally received a response via email. Unfortunately, the original owner passes away just a year before, but it was quite humbling to hear from his grandson. I'm still waiting on a response to my email, but what I found interesting is that the Grandson took so long to respond because there are lots of scams targeting the elders in Switzerland, and they were being very cautious.
History has made me appreciate this rifle even more, and I cherish my K31 more than any other rifle I own.
Amazing. I think it's probably every collector's dream to know the "lives" of one's rifles. We ourselves are hopefully just keeping them safe for owners 100 years from now to drool over.
Very interesting video. I often wondered about my old military surplus rifles. Who owned them, where they have been, and the many questions that follow. I always do as much research as I can on my old rifles. Very interesting history.
Absolutely fascinating!
Thank you and thanks to the family.
Damn. This video is awesome. I never considered owning a C&R type firearm until this video.
This is why I love to collect military surplus firearms.
Awesome story, thanks for sharing.
My K11 & K31 both have small slips of paper under their butt plates that detail some of the lives of the Swiss Army gentlemen to whom these rifles had been issued, including name, DOB and unit. I ran into a guy @ the range who spoke German and he translated them for me.
Thanks for the vid Mr Bloke!
Might be a bit late to the party but I appreciate the detail of your video Bloke! It helped me work out several details of my K00/11 though I don't have any history on the rifle. Still awesome to learn more about it as I wait for 7.5 Swiss ammo to be available again.
Love to hear such stories, they add so much to the human element of history. I own a 73 French Revolver that a friends father liberated from a German officer in WW2. It was by then totally obsolete. How did the German officer come by it, perhaps he or his father liberated it from Frenchman in WW1? Certainly obsolesent, if not obsolete even by then. I would really like to know but the story reaches a dead end as my friends father hadn't shared much and has long since past. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting the gun shooting again and I ponder it's life whenever I get it out. Thanks for sharing Mike.
There were 73 revolvers still kicking around during WW2 - Résistance modified them to take 45 ACP even. Not sure that would be guaranteed to survive many shots (if any), but they did it.
@@BlokeontheRange thanks for responding. I had heard that the 73 was still around during WW2 but not about any rechambering to 45acp. Even though they are robustly built it does seem like a receipe fo disaster. Not only the higher pressure of smokeless powder but the 45 acp bullets are enough oversized to raise pressure even more. My load is a 23gr charge of FFF in a cut down 44 40 case under a 200gr pure lead hollow base .432 bullet. Safe, but no tack driver, an adequate "moment of paper plate" at 25yds. It certainly is an attention getter at the range.
I like this Forgotten Weapons style of video. Make more if you want.
No Ian has been known to utter complete rubbish from time to time the L85/SA80 video is a case in point. I Only follow Bloke on the range now.
I am no expert, but a lot of British soldiers with experience with the rifle agreed with Ian's assessment... Read the comments.
John Hunt I carried it for 19 years .
What was your experience with the L85A1?
Very good to be honest for a very short period before the mag release guard was fitted you had to be careful. I have used it from extreme cold to desert to Jungle and it has never missed a beat a couple of mag related stoppages but nothing mechanical. most of the nay Sayers are either not users or not front line troops or parroting urban myth. I was lucky enough to work on a trials team and one of the teams did the research into to Royal Marines and their problems before it got very political and the upgrades happened. The main problem was poor maintenance and a desire to have a "special forces weapon". One RM 2Lt. when asked why he thought the M16 was more suitable weapon stated "it's just better" when asked what exactly was better he stated "Oh I haven't fired one". So in summary would I carry one in combat again? hell yes the ergonomics are awesome I have and would trust my life on it again.
Thanks for this video! Fascinating
Now that's something you don't usually hear, the history of a firearms owner. Interesting.
Thank you for sharing that with us.
Great video! Well done :) Always nice to hear the history behind weapons and it's amazing that you have the history of it.
Awesome you'd do this for someone, love these kind of backstories. I myself don't know a lot about riffle's and such but im very interested in it. Love your channel and subscribed after thge first video i saw, back when you were arround 15k subs. Anyway awesome work you're doing!
Excellent!
Excellent video. I always enjoy handling an older rifle (or other object) that you can see could tell a few stories, a shame that you cannot always find out the full provenance.
good man
Cheers
Nice Video , I always think of the path that the rifles took to end up in my safe. A part of me is a always a bit sad that they are no longer with their original families. I try to do them all justice.
Great Story, and you worked in a python reference! How British.
Blessed are the skiing cheese-makers.
Good on ya sir.
that's was awesome
I salute you Auguste Geiser! (hope I spelt that correctly)
Is this the end of the Swiss straight bowl series? I'd love to see more on in the subsequent models such as the 1896/11, the 1911, the K11, at the K31. I hope you return to making these videos soon.
I used to live 5 minutes away from the hopital. Now I am 15 minutes away.
How many languages do the bloke speaks? From what i can gather at least, English, German and i recall some many videos ago his excel was in French. I deeply respect polyglots.
That's an awesome story to have. The Swiss take their service rifles home if they're reservists right?
I got the impression of a school project that you didn't really feel like doing.
Wait, the mechanic gives injections?
Yikes sounds like me! I'm a nurse, into guns and machanics! Crazy a totally like minded person
German is my 4th language, didn't speak it in 8 years, can't even greet someone.
Watched deutsch version for a minute before switching to this, right after you talk about it being made for artylery men.
Damn I'm gut.
Or pretty slow.
Scheiße...
cool
Hitler, aka. "Economic problems." Anyway, incredible detail! You've got so much info on this rifle and the previous owners. Any clue as to how to grab a K31 or Shmidt-Rubin and ammo? Fantastic video! Do you know what'd be the the features to look for?
Indeed, the reparations from the Treaty of Versailles and collapse of the money-go-round with the stock market crashed crippled the Germans and made them desperate and angry enough to support or ignore Hitler. Any thoughts on my questions or have I annoyed you (not my intention). Gotta say it again, great story.
Cheers mate! I'm in New Zealand though originally from the UK, I take it your in Switzerland? Is it possible to import one? Thanks for the advise!
mine is S/N 852 🙂
+blokeontherange do you know what the Swiss used to finish those stocks?
I got a P series (Zoll) on the way.
The previous owner of my 1911 was born in 1904 and served with tk 567 ? and it has rothenthrum on tag ,would that be birthplace or where stationed
Interesting Vid as ever Bloke, but why the pyjama top? :-)
He does seem to have a penchant for variations on blue and white striped shirts.
So I guess that k00/11 was taht guys rifle you talked about?
The P on the rifle indicates that the rifle was sold to the soldier or reservist at the end of their service and was no longer military property. Sometimes it is P followed by the year or month and year. (CORRECTION: MONTH IS NOT SHOWN...IN MY CASE I HAD AN ADDITIONAL ARSENAL DATE IN A SMALLER FONT RIGHT ABOVE THE FINAL ARSENAL DATE. THANK YOU BotR FOR THE CLARIFICATION)
Not sold. Given. And the P is (almost always) followed by the year up to 1963, but never the month.
@@BlokeontheRange check your facebook messenger. I sent you a photo with the P stamp I commented on. I look forward to hearing your interpretation of the date stamps.
Are there any details you left out in this version as opposed to the german version? I noticed the german version is 2 minutes longer.
Bloke on the Range That is interesting. I thought maybe you made a german version because the guy's relatives are german or something. How did you learn German anyway?
Bloke on the Range 'Swiss-German'. I had no idea that was a language. Very interesting stuff sir. And keep up the awesome work on the videos.
I have a K31 with a Soldier's name and address. If there any way I could pass this information along to you?
Check the swiss rifle forums. There is a reenactor the helps with translations. You have to do a search and mail each person with that name and cover the postage.
search.ch is like the swiss yellowpages.
A wager lost, dues paid? Or how did this video come to be? I do find the idea quite cool actually
Bloke on the Range yeah i was wondering how that came about? did they just ask you out of the blue to do that or was there more of a story to it?
Bloke on the Range ahh cool thanks for the background info
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