Damn..those soldiers from WW1 are on another level of bravery. Just put your self into a shit hole of a swampy trench, with officers willing to shoot you if you did not go over the top knowing that you will be torn to shreds by this monster!!
The DADDY of all belt fed heavy machine guns! No other MG can match the Vickers when it comes to maintaining sustained firing. There are recorded incidents of British troops firing Vickers machine guns for many hours without stopping-save for reloading. Am awesome piece of kit.
@SlowmotionDim True but in reality the MG42 would have trouble putting out a sustained rate of fire similar to this gun. Any air cooled gun will struggle to match a water cooled gun for sustained fire. The big advantage of the MG42 is that with a tripod it is quite light and can be used offensively which water cooled guns can not. Hence why water cooled guns have been phased out even though in many ways the are better.
The US M1917 once shot 21,000 rounds in 48 minutes non stop.
This kind of weapon is why so many WWI boys came home in body bags. Imagine going over the trenches and running straight into the teeth in that. Fuck the generals....
If we are speaking of urine, I read about one of the first gas-attacks on the western front.
Apparently the allied soldiers was caught unaware and they didnt have any gasmasks. I think they were canadians. These soldiers used pieces of cloth which they urinated into and used them as provisional gas-masks. Apparently it worked somewhat but there was of course gas-casulties.
The Germans were so numerous that many British & empire forces machine gunners fired the Vickers in the air.. causing a rain of bullets to come down on the attackers & was so effective that it helped blunt the offensive & caused huge losses.
@victinhoemn There are reports in history that confirm that but I'm leary on the story of British soldiers using the boiling water from Vickers water jackets to make tea. I once took a "spotless" and steam-cleaned water jacket on a Vickers and tasted the water after 1000rds and coming to a boil. Believe me, that was some nasty ransid water. If they did drink it they probrably got sick and died.
To be fair, the water in the trenches was just as bad. The boiling would've killed off most of the REALLY nasty bugs, and tea would've masked the terrible taste of the water.
So yeah, the stories are most likely apocryphal, but they can't be ruled out entirely.
Yeah i read that the water would have been tainted with oil from the barrel and the asbestos packing string. But other veterans have said they did do it and didn't care about a little grease.
(Source: "Boiling tea in the waterjacket", Vickermachinegun . org . uk)
@C2builder i would agree with you as well, but my grandad was an armouer in the army and he said they used to do when in the field....he didnt say it was a good cup of tea tho :P
Top video and a great machine. For the people commenting about them jamming a lot. That is probably due to the fact that they would have jammed in a battlefield circumstance. Dust, mud, sand, any foreign contamination can break down the simplest of machines.
@neumi107 It's not that bad. A well placed shot at a slow rate is just as effective as one fired at a higher rate. This is still faster than a bolt or even semi-auto rifle could fire. As far as aircraft go, they weren't terribly fast back then. You didn't need a high rate of fire to make sure the bullet and target came together. Nowdays, with faster planes, you DO need a faster rate of fire to increase the chances the bullet and target will be moving through the same space at the same time.
@ponllo007 any gun will jam if not properly manned and serviced. I say the Vickers (properly set-up) is one of the most reliable belt fed guns around.
@C2builder We used the Vickers in action in 1964 in the Radfan. It was reliable and had immense range but care had to be take to clean it. It only became obsolete when the new 81 MM mortar came in to rep[lace the old 3 inch mortar. And today a WWII gun ,the 50 Cal, is used by our forces.
@ponllo007 Dude, you have to understand... everything deadliest warriors says is bull shit once you understand that you will ask yourself "why I am I watching this crappy show". Like I did after I saw the Spetsnaz vs Green Beret episode.
@ponllo007 well they were either joking or very stupid, heres an example from WWI 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps at High Wood on August 24, 1916. This company had ten Vickers guns, and it was ordered to give sustained covering fire for 12 hours onto a selected area 2,000 yards away in order to prevent German troops forming for a counter attack whilst a british attack was in progress And in that 12-hour period the ten guns fired a million rounds between them without a single failure
@ponllo007 Were they comparing it to an American gun?
I saw one such program that described the M14 as the first assault rifle. Didn't even mention the StG 44. you know, the gun that gave the class its name!
Actually, there was a story of two vicker guns that fired over a million rounds over the course of twelve hours.
"24 August 1916 Two whole companies of infantrymen were allocated as carriers of ammunition, rations and water for the machine-gunners. Two men worked a belt-filling machine non-stop for 12 hours keeping up a supply of 250-round belts. One hundred new barrels were used up, and every drop of water in the neighbourhood..."
The weapon had a reputation for great solidity and reliability. Ian V. Hogg, in Weapons & War Machine Guns...In August 1916, during which the British Army's 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 new barrels, they fired a million rounds without a single breakdown. "It was this absolute foolproof reliability which endeared the Vickers to every British soldier who ever fired one."
@ponllo007 Deadliest Warriors and the History channel on firearms are extreme shit bro. History channel gets most of everything and I mean EVERYTHING wrong on firearms. They put personal liking before facts.
Just imagine this letting rip into a squad of poor advancing infantry armed with bolt action rifles picking their way through mud and barbed wire and the bodies of the last failed attempt.
is it ok to have this kind of video on youtube available for everyone. mind you i am not juging the uploader as person i am just intrigued by the fact a video about a big gun is rigth there.
i got here after watching a video about a british comedian.
My father was a sergeant in charge of a Maxim machine gun unit in the Finnish army in the early 1900s. Apparently it took seven of them to move the thing around and set it up for action. And you burned your hands a lot changing barrels.
The scary thing is that the vickers gun was accurate enough to cut down a tree under 1000 yards but it came with an clinometer sight that let you use it as an indirect fire weapon like a mortar. The Brits knew the ballistics of the .303 round down to a yard as volley fire was still taught to the colonial forces, they took that and applied it to the machine gun, meaning it can rain lead on you from the other side of a hill. The same kind of sights are used with the modern GPMG.
@PaulGibson100 it depends on your situation if you have to keep firing the vickers could have the edge it is water cooled and can keep firing you would have to change the barrel on the MG42 alot sooner.
I still like the MG42 more it is more mobile a better all round gun.
Charging these would suck, hats off to my dad's side for doing so though. I'm just glad my mum's side charged the maxims with better results. For some.
In my father’s WW1 diary, he writes the Vickers MG he fired in WW1 in France had a clip of ammo. In the video you show a belt fed Vickers. Were there 2 kinds of Vickers MG?
@ejlmp Yes, and no. Vickers was a engineering company out of Great Britain that made quite a few weapons for the British Army. The Vickers in this video was mainly for ground use, but some were installed in fighters and bombers of the era with mixed effectiveness. There was a box magazine fed version that came around in the 1930's, but not during WWI.
Another British design that was used was the Lewis gun, it served as an LMG during WWI and some parts of WWII.
As SF Machine Guns go the Vickers is perfect in all aspects but one: being water cooled. For those interested: at Strensall Barracks 1963 they fired a Vickers over a period of 7 days, firing over 5million rounds and only stopping to reload and change the barrels. Apart from that it was constant fire (not bursts). At the end of it they took it back and everything still worked perfectly and there was no wear and tear at all. To this day it is still the perfect Sustained Fire weapon.
Hi.. my son's doing a project on the First World War and I wonder if you could help with some information. How long does it take to set up this gun, put it on the tripod, load it and get it ready to fire? In other words how long would it take to bring the gun into action?
@VIDOONS Hi, if the gun already has water in the jacket and a belt of ammo is loaded then I would say about 2 minutes. Most guns on the Western Front during WWI had the guns pretty much set up and only moved them when they knew they were about to be over-run in a full frontal attack. Hope this helps.
@181jose All the weapons I feature in my videos are mine, either bought or built. Yes I know there are lots of guys out there doing videos with borrowed guns.
@devidsen: His son is doing a project about World War 1 ...not about machine guns. "Those that forget the lessons of history are bound to repeat them". How are young people meant to learn a lesson from something if they are not taught about it?
@samj5664 That's for air cooled weapons. For the vickers the barrel had to be changed every 10,000 rounds. That is the beauty of water cooled weapons, there are few weapons that can match it in a sustained fire mode.
@TheMultiLive The .303 Mk VII is great in the Vickers, that what I shoot through mine. The Mk VIII is a little hotter load but was made for the Vickers.
@craphunter water cooled machine guns don't really have that problem. They are designed to be fired constantly. The Idea of firing bursts came along with air cooled machine guns becoming standard. WWI machine gun doctrine calls for prolonged firing basically only with the pause to change a belt or add more water.
This gun, like the Maxim 1910 and similar machine guns on heavy stands.. deadly accurate and very easy to control. You can basicly saw someones head off with these from couple hundred meters. Inflicted massive casualties in ww1 and ww2.
@MRoesterreicher1 Yes WW1 & 2 and was still in first line units until the 1960's. I think the last use in combat by the British army was Brunei in the early 1960's and it probably stayed in use with reserve units until finally replaced by FN 7.62 GPMG in the late 1960's.
@MRoesterreicher1 Yeah the British had hoped to replace the Vickers with the Bren. While the Bren was a very good light machine gun it couldn't perform the role of GPMG like the MG34/42 so they ended up having to keep the Vickers in service all the way to the Cold War.
C2builder, I love your videos! You review pretty much every weapon I am interested in! I was wondering why the rate of fire of this Vickers gun is quicker than the one in your other video? Were there different models?
I know it's your vid and channel but why is the embedding disabled? I was trying to use this in a Power Point about World War I for my class. I'll be teaching full time within the next couple of years, would it be at all possible for me to download or get the files for some of your vids? They would only be used as educational material, not distributed or shared to anyone (besides possibly other history teachers). If not I understand, but using this video went over extremely well. Thanks!!!
I do enjoy shooting my 20+ Lee-Enfield rifles, but there'd be nothing better to an Aussie .303 fan to give one of these babies a go! I'd imagine that it isn't cheap to feed?
Sweet. I'm thinking of making a replica Nieuport 28. Sell one with an interrupter gear? :D On the other hand, that would be too much fun, and that probably means illegal these days.
Thank you for posting - very interesting to this student of History of Technology. One can really get a sense for how these guns were so damagingly effective in WWI.
@SirOneoneselfandone This was built from a kit by me and is whats called a Dealer Sample. I sell these for $2,000US without the tripod. Originals here in the USA cost about $20,000US.
Damn..those soldiers from WW1 are on another level of bravery. Just put your self into a shit hole of a swampy trench, with officers willing to shoot you if you did not go over the top knowing that you will be torn to shreds by this monster!!
canmoore 1 week ago
The DADDY of all belt fed heavy machine guns! No other MG can match the Vickers when it comes to maintaining sustained firing. There are recorded incidents of British troops firing Vickers machine guns for many hours without stopping-save for reloading. Am awesome piece of kit.
LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH 1 week ago
This is music in my ears =)
YINGnYANG86 1 week ago
I compared it with the german MG-42 I must say there's a big difference in rate of fire XDDD
SlowmotionDim 1 week ago
@SlowmotionDim True but in reality the MG42 would have trouble putting out a sustained rate of fire similar to this gun. Any air cooled gun will struggle to match a water cooled gun for sustained fire. The big advantage of the MG42 is that with a tripod it is quite light and can be used offensively which water cooled guns can not. Hence why water cooled guns have been phased out even though in many ways the are better.
The US M1917 once shot 21,000 rounds in 48 minutes non stop.
Mcplkelly 4 days ago
this is what my grandpa shot, nice
Paintballhaze 2 weeks ago
I would love so se you with a German MG-08.
135twilight 2 weeks ago
What would happen if the water froze in the jacket would that effect the barrel in anyway
left4james 1 month ago
This was a really reliable machine gun. the british army demonstrated this by shooting it continuously for 12 hours without a single breakdown.
randomname9812 1 month ago
This kind of weapon is why so many WWI boys came home in body bags. Imagine going over the trenches and running straight into the teeth in that. Fuck the generals....
jq747 1 month ago
Eight German WWII veterans watched this...
rotator1471 1 month ago
If we are speaking of urine, I read about one of the first gas-attacks on the western front.
Apparently the allied soldiers was caught unaware and they didnt have any gasmasks. I think they were canadians. These soldiers used pieces of cloth which they urinated into and used them as provisional gas-masks. Apparently it worked somewhat but there was of course gas-casulties.
FredDude27 1 month ago
@FredDude27 There were crude gas masks made out of cloth with some chemical in it that was activated by urinating on it.
AngeredKabar 3 weeks ago
i absolutely adore this gun!
MrAn011822 1 month ago
so is it better to be shooting with your left eye or just use both eyes?
cplR3yk1ng 1 month ago
too slow.... a german mg42 would eat this one alive
Gauchoo1234 2 months ago
During the German Offensive of WWI in Spring 1918
The Germans were so numerous that many British & empire forces machine gunners fired the Vickers in the air.. causing a rain of bullets to come down on the attackers & was so effective that it helped blunt the offensive & caused huge losses.
LordGeorgeRodney 3 months ago
I'm more surprised that it didn't jam
goofiegoofball 4 months ago
from this point of view, it looks like an RPK-47 (an AK-47 type Machinegun)
KuchingZaz 4 months ago
@KuchingZaz not really
BigMek456 4 months ago
@KuchingZaz It looks nothing like an RPK whatsoever?
TaZ101SAGA 3 weeks ago
i heard that when the soldiers ran out of water they used to piss inside the water jacket lol.
victinhoemn 4 months ago 42
@victinhoemn There are reports in history that confirm that but I'm leary on the story of British soldiers using the boiling water from Vickers water jackets to make tea. I once took a "spotless" and steam-cleaned water jacket on a Vickers and tasted the water after 1000rds and coming to a boil. Believe me, that was some nasty ransid water. If they did drink it they probrably got sick and died.
C2builder 4 months ago 44
@C2builder
To be fair, the water in the trenches was just as bad. The boiling would've killed off most of the REALLY nasty bugs, and tea would've masked the terrible taste of the water.
So yeah, the stories are most likely apocryphal, but they can't be ruled out entirely.
CJTheReal 4 months ago
@C2builder You obviously forgot to add the tea bag, a dab of milk and a teaspoon of sugar dear fellow.
The1stPoster 3 months ago
@C2builder
Yeah i read that the water would have been tainted with oil from the barrel and the asbestos packing string. But other veterans have said they did do it and didn't care about a little grease.
(Source: "Boiling tea in the waterjacket", Vickermachinegun . org . uk)
JustAnotherYtuber 2 months ago
@C2builder i would agree with you as well, but my grandad was an armouer in the army and he said they used to do when in the field....he didnt say it was a good cup of tea tho :P
donoghue666 1 month ago
@C2builder in fairness though they did have to eat some pretty rancid things in the trenches
marzcorp 6 days ago
@victinhoemn i dont see how urine would be a bad water replacement for the gun... id say its plausible... if not that soldiers need water too
BartJBols 1 month ago
Top video and a great machine. For the people commenting about them jamming a lot. That is probably due to the fact that they would have jammed in a battlefield circumstance. Dust, mud, sand, any foreign contamination can break down the simplest of machines.
PerthHunter 4 months ago
@engaurd Yes, its all physics. The Vickers can run forever if breaks in firing will allow oiling, barrel replacement and more water.
C2builder 4 months ago
TAKE THAT ZOMBIES!
qxoc 4 months ago
What is the price for a vickers or a m1917?
TrueBlueSuperFan 4 months ago
@TrueBlueSuperFan About $20K for a Vickers and $17K for a M1917.
C2builder 3 months ago
i think you got em
1999samtheman 5 months ago
I'll call you if NZ allows full-autos... I want that Vickers.
poik12 5 months ago
Nice. I like how it doesn't buck so much like the Type 98.
azimuth361 5 months ago
Wasn`t the rate of fire a little low to be really effectiv? Especially in aircrafts... ?
neumi107 5 months ago
@neumi107 It's not that bad. A well placed shot at a slow rate is just as effective as one fired at a higher rate. This is still faster than a bolt or even semi-auto rifle could fire. As far as aircraft go, they weren't terribly fast back then. You didn't need a high rate of fire to make sure the bullet and target came together. Nowdays, with faster planes, you DO need a faster rate of fire to increase the chances the bullet and target will be moving through the same space at the same time.
zerstorer335 4 months ago
"Recommendation for the Harrow Governors: Heavy machine guns for fullbacks." Bright idea, Blackadder.
peteblueeyesfromBI 5 months ago
How much does a belt of ammo cost you for this thing?
yTubeBlowsBigBalls 5 months ago
i saw this on deadliest warrior and it said it jammed a lot, does it?
ponllo007 5 months ago
@ponllo007 any gun will jam if not properly manned and serviced. I say the Vickers (properly set-up) is one of the most reliable belt fed guns around.
C2builder 5 months ago 36
@C2builder We used the Vickers in action in 1964 in the Radfan. It was reliable and had immense range but care had to be take to clean it. It only became obsolete when the new 81 MM mortar came in to rep[lace the old 3 inch mortar. And today a WWII gun ,the 50 Cal, is used by our forces.
alastairgrant77 3 months ago
@ponllo007 Dude, you have to understand... everything deadliest warriors says is bull shit once you understand that you will ask yourself "why I am I watching this crappy show". Like I did after I saw the Spetsnaz vs Green Beret episode.
J3rEmY17 5 months ago
@ponllo007 well they were either joking or very stupid, heres an example from WWI 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps at High Wood on August 24, 1916. This company had ten Vickers guns, and it was ordered to give sustained covering fire for 12 hours onto a selected area 2,000 yards away in order to prevent German troops forming for a counter attack whilst a british attack was in progress And in that 12-hour period the ten guns fired a million rounds between them without a single failure
Ramzzy666 4 months ago
@ponllo007 ....From what i have read ,the vickers was one of the most reliable weapons ever.
umfums 4 months ago
@ponllo007 Were they comparing it to an American gun?
I saw one such program that described the M14 as the first assault rifle. Didn't even mention the StG 44. you know, the gun that gave the class its name!
No1sonuk 4 months ago
@ponllo007 no they dont proporly maintain their weapons.
hummerskickass 3 months ago
@ponllo007
Actually, there was a story of two vicker guns that fired over a million rounds over the course of twelve hours.
"24 August 1916 Two whole companies of infantrymen were allocated as carriers of ammunition, rations and water for the machine-gunners. Two men worked a belt-filling machine non-stop for 12 hours keeping up a supply of 250-round belts. One hundred new barrels were used up, and every drop of water in the neighbourhood..."
No jams. Id say thats pretty freaking reliable.
TheCraziestFox 3 months ago
@ponllo007 Cut and pasted for you :)
The weapon had a reputation for great solidity and reliability. Ian V. Hogg, in Weapons & War Machine Guns...In August 1916, during which the British Army's 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 new barrels, they fired a million rounds without a single breakdown. "It was this absolute foolproof reliability which endeared the Vickers to every British soldier who ever fired one."
imissbritishleyland 3 months ago
@ponllo007 Deadliest Warriors and the History channel on firearms are extreme shit bro. History channel gets most of everything and I mean EVERYTHING wrong on firearms. They put personal liking before facts.
FPSrUSSRia 2 months ago
@ponllo007
Deadliest Warrior finds that facts get in the way of entertainment; so don't believe 95% of what they say.
leeham991 2 weeks ago
the gun that won ww1
we66y357 5 months ago
I laughed at the chain wiggling around everywhere. Was this loud as hell?
Lukasmbtv 5 months ago
Just imagine this letting rip into a squad of poor advancing infantry armed with bolt action rifles picking their way through mud and barbed wire and the bodies of the last failed attempt.
HelmutVillam 5 months ago
This was such a deadly weapon when it was used for the first time. Completely devastating to the current infantry tactics at the time.
darthspeaks 5 months ago
wow this gun is accurate
deluxes000 5 months ago
is it ok to have this kind of video on youtube available for everyone. mind you i am not juging the uploader as person i am just intrigued by the fact a video about a big gun is rigth there.
i got here after watching a video about a british comedian.
Gabriel1o1 5 months ago
My father was a sergeant in charge of a Maxim machine gun unit in the Finnish army in the early 1900s. Apparently it took seven of them to move the thing around and set it up for action. And you burned your hands a lot changing barrels.
deriter64 6 months ago
dear santa...
TheLukaszH 6 months ago 3
was this gun from a kit? and if so, where do you get them?
burningsponge 6 months ago
@burningsponge Always read the descriptions below the video, it will usually answer your questions.
C2builder 6 months ago 7
@C2builder thanks
burningsponge 6 months ago
A diabolical acme
BradBrassman 6 months ago
Wow man!
Been watching your videos. Fantastic collection!
Shim267 6 months ago
Respect to the many Germans who ran into the fire of this weapon.
Hjaldrgud 6 months ago
Are those sights actually made off centre or is the barrel closer to the right side of the gun?
odin6616 6 months ago
This gun has an incredible range more then two thousand yards!
Can't even match by today's standard machine gun!
BHuang92 7 months ago
Its just self explanatory to see why in WW1, the many reasons the troops stayed in trenches. This one of them.
tuck234 7 months ago
C2builder..... TEACH ME!
TribeFan7Lofton 7 months ago
sexy weapon
Metalvidvid 7 months ago
Your my hero
BooBopization 8 months ago
The scary thing is that the vickers gun was accurate enough to cut down a tree under 1000 yards but it came with an clinometer sight that let you use it as an indirect fire weapon like a mortar. The Brits knew the ballistics of the .303 round down to a yard as volley fire was still taught to the colonial forces, they took that and applied it to the machine gun, meaning it can rain lead on you from the other side of a hill. The same kind of sights are used with the modern GPMG.
zoiders 8 months ago
@zoiders the early SMLE had volley sight as well.
jacobburbank 7 months ago
Nice video! An MG42 would beat this thing hands down though.. lol
PaulGibson100 8 months ago
@PaulGibson100 MG42 doesn't have the full weight of the pith-helmeted British Empire behind it
IPAColosseum 8 months ago
@PaulGibson100 it depends on your situation if you have to keep firing the vickers could have the edge it is water cooled and can keep firing you would have to change the barrel on the MG42 alot sooner.
I still like the MG42 more it is more mobile a better all round gun.
evanderfan 7 months ago
I put the volume up, I put it on full screen, put my hands out and made a fist and pretended I was shooting it.
ungd1 8 months ago
Charging these would suck, hats off to my dad's side for doing so though. I'm just glad my mum's side charged the maxims with better results. For some.
sgtcrusher 8 months ago
you're neibors must hate you.
oxXbritneyXxo 8 months ago
That's why it's given the name "The Cheeser". It can turn man into cheese in a few seconds.
ge5undhe17 9 months ago
dammm thats awesome nice video
XxDarkRoguexXtv 9 months ago
In my father’s WW1 diary, he writes the Vickers MG he fired in WW1 in France had a clip of ammo. In the video you show a belt fed Vickers. Were there 2 kinds of Vickers MG?
ejlmp 10 months ago
@ejlmp Yes, and no. Vickers was a engineering company out of Great Britain that made quite a few weapons for the British Army. The Vickers in this video was mainly for ground use, but some were installed in fighters and bombers of the era with mixed effectiveness. There was a box magazine fed version that came around in the 1930's, but not during WWI.
Another British design that was used was the Lewis gun, it served as an LMG during WWI and some parts of WWII.
Reynard13Fuchs 8 months ago
As SF Machine Guns go the Vickers is perfect in all aspects but one: being water cooled. For those interested: at Strensall Barracks 1963 they fired a Vickers over a period of 7 days, firing over 5million rounds and only stopping to reload and change the barrels. Apart from that it was constant fire (not bursts). At the end of it they took it back and everything still worked perfectly and there was no wear and tear at all. To this day it is still the perfect Sustained Fire weapon.
InfantryChans91 10 months ago
Never seen my Vicker use one of these during the Service o_o
sweatygummybear 10 months ago
woah! that looks accurate
Achiliesguy21 10 months ago
is this the water cooled machine gun used in ww1?
MrLJ4 10 months ago
@MrLJ4 Yes
TaZ101SAGA 7 months ago
Hi.. my son's doing a project on the First World War and I wonder if you could help with some information. How long does it take to set up this gun, put it on the tripod, load it and get it ready to fire? In other words how long would it take to bring the gun into action?
Hope you can help.
Graham Majin
Kent
UK
VIDOONS 10 months ago 41
@VIDOONS Hi, if the gun already has water in the jacket and a belt of ammo is loaded then I would say about 2 minutes. Most guns on the Western Front during WWI had the guns pretty much set up and only moved them when they knew they were about to be over-run in a full frontal attack. Hope this helps.
C2builder 10 months ago 20
wow, thankyou so much for your info. we will include this in his project. thanks for taking time to reply.
VIDOONS 10 months ago
@C2builder Do you make/buy all of these guns? Or you are borowing them to make shooting videos? Im curious answer me if you can.
181jose 9 months ago 12
@181jose All the weapons I feature in my videos are mine, either bought or built. Yes I know there are lots of guys out there doing videos with borrowed guns.
C2builder 9 months ago 14
@VIDOONS
That sounds like an AWESOME project.
chitoryu12 9 months ago
@VIDOONS your son is doing a project on machine guns? You Brits are unbelievable, I never came across war mongers like you.
devidsen 8 months ago
@devidsen How the hell do you figure that?
suspicious35 8 months ago
@devidsen: His son is doing a project about World War 1 ...not about machine guns. "Those that forget the lessons of history are bound to repeat them". How are young people meant to learn a lesson from something if they are not taught about it?
digglyda 6 months ago
@samj5664 That's for air cooled weapons. For the vickers the barrel had to be changed every 10,000 rounds. That is the beauty of water cooled weapons, there are few weapons that can match it in a sustained fire mode.
Mcplkelly 11 months ago
Hey man, nice video!
I was wondering, can you only use the Mark 8 .303 british round in a Vickers MG or is it able to take the Mk. 7 as well?
Thanks.
TheMultiLive 11 months ago 5
@TheMultiLive The .303 Mk VII is great in the Vickers, that what I shoot through mine. The Mk VIII is a little hotter load but was made for the Vickers.
C2builder 11 months ago 3
Very best of the Maxim types imo.
RangerThompson 11 months ago
you have an amazing collection. thanks for sharing :)
b0xcrash 11 months ago
Are the guns you make post 86 dealer samples?
AngeredKabar 11 months ago
@AngeredKabar If he "makes" the guns they have to be registered as a post 86 sample to be legal.
SporadicallySane 10 months ago
water cooled?
jonasldg 1 year ago
Thats a Jerry-mower!
weewulliebee 1 year ago
haha the sight is alittle off, but whi cares, when your mowing ppl down you just kinda shoot, not aim
NYmosVids 1 year ago
how do you know when the MG is over heating? might be a dumb question but i honestly cant see the signs of over heat
craphunter 1 year ago
@craphunter Its recommended by the Germans to change the barrel every 180 rounds or so if I remember right.
samj5664 1 year ago
@craphunter water cooled machine guns don't really have that problem. They are designed to be fired constantly. The Idea of firing bursts came along with air cooled machine guns becoming standard. WWI machine gun doctrine calls for prolonged firing basically only with the pause to change a belt or add more water.
DrKorn5 1 year ago
The gun's got rhythm!
schizoidboy 1 year ago
The gun was used in ww1 and ww2 but it sounds to me that the ww2 has a bigger rate of fire than the ww1-one
Is that correct?
fulllead 1 year ago
How many rounds per minute doese it fire ??
MaoSuratt911 1 year ago
that looks like fun
airsoftshowoff 1 year ago
This gun, like the Maxim 1910 and similar machine guns on heavy stands.. deadly accurate and very easy to control. You can basicly saw someones head off with these from couple hundred meters. Inflicted massive casualties in ww1 and ww2.
emcom 1 year ago
i like the british style of mounting the sight on the side of the gun
camaro76 1 year ago
Great noise and probaly the last thing many Germans heard in their life.
patsyd80 1 year ago
awesome!
xboxdude156 1 year ago
this weapon may take a whole building down
alex007919 1 year ago
dont wanna stand infront of that rain of hell
16UnknownSoldier16 1 year ago
it was used in ww1 &ww2?
MRoesterreicher1 1 year ago 32
@MRoesterreicher1 Yes, and IIRC, it was pretty much unchanged throughout its service life.
No1sonuk 1 year ago
@MRoesterreicher1 Yes WW1 & 2 and was still in first line units until the 1960's. I think the last use in combat by the British army was Brunei in the early 1960's and it probably stayed in use with reserve units until finally replaced by FN 7.62 GPMG in the late 1960's.
freebeerfordworkers 1 year ago
@MRoesterreicher1 Yeah the British had hoped to replace the Vickers with the Bren. While the Bren was a very good light machine gun it couldn't perform the role of GPMG like the MG34/42 so they ended up having to keep the Vickers in service all the way to the Cold War.
CaptHawkeye 9 months ago
@MRoesterreicher1 it was used into the 50's
BMWM3GTRLOVER 6 months ago
@MRoesterreicher1 we (the british armed forces) were using this gun up to 1968. Thats how brutaly effective this gun is.
xance1 6 months ago
@MRoesterreicher1 And the Korean war
efcboy 5 months ago
Bloody Marvellous!!!!!!!!!
ThatTankid 1 year ago
Nothin' beats a good ol' water-cooled MG!
lordxeras 1 year ago
dam it sounds like an AK47 so dam loud!!!!
HoWaRRKalashnikov 1 year ago
C2builder, I love your videos! You review pretty much every weapon I am interested in! I was wondering why the rate of fire of this Vickers gun is quicker than the one in your other video? Were there different models?
Thanks again for the videos!
Lordwatson303 1 year ago
sounds exactly like the lewis gun
Bombazor 1 year ago
The only MGs that's more hardcore then the Vickers is the MG42
jso0125 1 year ago
compare the rate of fire of this and the one of MG42... :)
MarkTools 1 year ago
I know it's your vid and channel but why is the embedding disabled? I was trying to use this in a Power Point about World War I for my class. I'll be teaching full time within the next couple of years, would it be at all possible for me to download or get the files for some of your vids? They would only be used as educational material, not distributed or shared to anyone (besides possibly other history teachers). If not I understand, but using this video went over extremely well. Thanks!!!
IVSpod 1 year ago
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mrlokalist 1 year ago
looks a bit like the maxim^^
40UmdrehungenMinimum 1 year ago
these guns where not made to aim and shoot they where made to spray every where
F3ARR1 1 year ago
Gerry 100 yards front. Fire!
olivergwilson 1 year ago
and they said the M42 was more scary...that thing is freakin terrifying that pause in the gun lets you know!!
PrototypeU41 1 year ago
have made a benet nercie for the movie all quiet at the western front
metallicafan114 1 year ago
I dont think u hit the target lol jk
rockbandmlb 1 year ago
Excellent video. This has given me a glimpse of what it would be like to fire a vickers. Thanks.
ckolonko 1 year ago
what a low rate of fire compared to the mg34/42
xn117 1 year ago
Be careful with your knuckles!
BombadierYossarian22 1 year ago
Gunporn
AmonGoeth88 1 year ago
I do enjoy shooting my 20+ Lee-Enfield rifles, but there'd be nothing better to an Aussie .303 fan to give one of these babies a go! I'd imagine that it isn't cheap to feed?
Jollygreenslugg 1 year ago
LOL. Look at the grass near the gun, they suddenly just been blown from it'sfirepower.
thejadepad 1 year ago
i bet when this vid finished a man walked from behind the targets and said that he gave up and that you had won
DrUgSkIDOO 1 year ago
Sweet. I'm thinking of making a replica Nieuport 28. Sell one with an interrupter gear? :D On the other hand, that would be too much fun, and that probably means illegal these days.
DPW1889 1 year ago
did this machine gun really see much action? because the attacking was done by the allies most of the time wasn't it?
thatkindofguy234 1 year ago
Love it! Love it! thank you for the video! :)
DennyAJD 1 year ago
Thank you for posting - very interesting to this student of History of Technology. One can really get a sense for how these guns were so damagingly effective in WWI.
DailyBrusher 1 year ago
that would be sooooo much fun to shoot
pinecone4444 1 year ago
i love the dust storm
1942nuclear 1 year ago
Is this a kit or did you get the original designs also how much would a real one cost?
SirOneoneselfandone 1 year ago
@SirOneoneselfandone This was built from a kit by me and is whats called a Dealer Sample. I sell these for $2,000US without the tripod. Originals here in the USA cost about $20,000US.
C2builder 1 year ago 5
@C2builder holy shit thats expensive, anywaay you have done a great job. tis my favourite gun
SirOneoneselfandone 1 year ago
@C2builder Sir, where can I buy a blueprint of these guns?
manoynav 1 year ago
wait so would i need a class three permit for one because a built one for 2000 sounds amazing
eagerbeaver53 1 year ago
nice sound..i love it!!!
mrlokalist 1 year ago
Wow, love the slow rate of fire on that. Sounds so balsy.
Sodiumreactor 1 year ago
Very nice. Well done.
breebw 1 year ago
they actually have one of these at the soldiers of Gloucestershire museum i walk past it everyday on my way to college
heavymetalsinner1 1 year ago
Would'nt want to be a German when that went off seriously look at the spread!!!
MrBlurtit 1 year ago
Awesome gun!
MJLittleboy 1 year ago
do you reload rounds?
nunvikingsofthesea 1 year ago
@nunvikingsofthesea Not really alot but I do occationally reload .303 British.
C2builder 1 year ago
You built all of your guns?!
bazio19 1 year ago
@bazio19 Most of what you see in my videos were built by me, there are others I have that are factory originals.
C2builder 1 year ago
@C2builder Wow! Nice collection by the way :)
bazio19 1 year ago