Weapons Hunter on Smithsonion

[sirhrmechanic]

They are building a Stinger. Generally a stupid show. But I have a love affair with the Garand/1919/BAR hybrid.

Cheers,

Sirhr

PS The guy who is the host of this is an appalling twat-waffle. His comb-over/back is just disgusting. WTF. You have a TV show and you can't do better than look like a cross between Les Nessman and Predator? And, really, you can't take out 7 walking targets with a 1919 at 100 - 20 yards... with a whole belt? WTF kind of retard are you???

 

[sirhrmechanic]

So 25 minutes in and I can't listen to this ass-pirate any more.

Sorry folks. What a cool weapon, being described by such a complete tool.

Don't bother. Don't watch. Don't even think about DVRing. You will be so beyond disappointed as to want to pull your own eyeballs out with a corkscrew after a few minutes.

Where on earth do they get these people? And who on earth could watch the edited version of this show and think... "Hey, people will tune this in and watch it and think it's good!"

Unreal. So many losers.

Sirhr

 

[Flint62a1]

Tell us how you really feel hahaha

 

[Triggered]

Never had heard of the show but was trying to find some clips from this episode on the ol innerweb a while ago since the Stinger has a special place in my heart for whatever reason.

Hard to find the good stuff, like actual shooting, when I looked. Might be different now.

Host is a major tool, but such a cool piece if you can stand to watch. Have been very intrigued with the Stinger for years. That one was associated to some museum right? I remember looking it up and seemed like they had other cool projects going on as well.

There are other clips of a homebuilt Stinger on YouTube that was built recently and makes for decent entertainment. I'll link them below.

Ugly ass paint job in my opinion, and I was unaware that the originals were painted and named as the builder claims in one of his videos - supposedly this is documented in a book? Would love to know that source. I've never heard this and have researched these guns quite a bit.

I've been a total Stinger nut since seeing one on a Shootout (History Channel) episode back in, dear lord, 2006 on Iwo Jima. So 14 years later and more has come out on this gun in the last 12-24 months than 12 years.

Shot a regular ANM2 on a hard mount before and its a zipper, very MG42-esc for mind melting fire rate.

 

[Triggered]

This is the channel with the recently built Stinger



Can only get the URL, dare not try to watch as my internet sucks undefinable amounts of ass at present location.

Give the guy props for building one; hard transferable to find in NFA land, tough to get running consistently, then clobber it together with some Garand and BAR parts.

Sorry for thread hijack Sirhr, but everyone should be enlightened by genuine WWII Marine ingenuity / pure righteousness of the Stinger.

 

[acudaowner]

is this the thing your talking about ?

 

[sandwarrior]

This is the channel with the recently built Stinger



Can only get the URL, dare not try to watch as my internet sucks undefinable amounts of ass at present location.

Give the guy props for building one; hard transferable to find in NFA land, tough to get running consistently, then cobbler it together with some Garand and BAR parts.

Sorry for thread hijack Sirhr, but everyone should be enlightened by genuine WWII Marine ingenuity / pure righteousness of the Stinger.

Not a hijack when that video was very pertinent to this thread. Between this video and the one Ian had, which didn't fire, I thought they did a pretty good job of showing what this weapon is.. The Tony Stein story is pretty amazing too. He helped fabricate the gun, which had local commander approval, and carried one to good effect, earning himself a Medal of Honor. Funny that Ian noted something like this was tested back in the states. and for various reasons the project got rejected "because it just wouldn't work". In Stein's case, he had no ammo bearer, which would seriously be needed with this gun!

As to the fucking ass-hat/butt-muncher on Weapons Hunter, I agree, WTF is that greasy fuckin' hairdo of his. Youtube starts out with him and a group of Marines doing a workout to honor Stein. The head Marine tosses him a t-shirt to work out in. Probably hoping never to get it back as whatever that shit is in his hair ain't gonna wash out. Ass pirate indeed.