An Edwardian SA80? Thorneycroft First Pattern with Firearms Expert Jonathan Ferguson

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Today's episode is an interesting one... you could almost... write a book about it. In other news - we're taking part in a Call of Duty livestream against the Cody Firearms Museum in a 3v3 for each museum to defend their gaming honour. And to hopefully raise a few donations from you lovely viewers too. Keep your eyes peeled for March 14th. 0:00 Intro 1:34 The Gamwell Rifle 2:15 Thorneycroft First Pattern Rifle 4:50 Why a Bullpup? 7:13 Bayonet 8:40 Sights 9:10 Other Features 10:02 Big ol' Slope 13:00 Other Features Continued 16:00 Bolt 17:15 Firearm History 18:50 Comparison with Lee-Metford 20:00 The Final Boss: SMLE 21:35 Gamwell Rifle Continued 22:35 Outro 22:45 CoD Livestream 23:40 Dave's EXP Sources mentioned: F.W.A. Hobart, ‘Gamwell’s ‘Bull-Pup’ Rifle’, American Rifleman, Oct 1970 (pp.68-70). Mounted Infantry watering their horses, South Africa, 1901 (National Army Museum)' https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2011-08-17-35 Ferguson, J. (2019). The Thorneycroft Patent Rifle. Arms & Armour, 16(2), 175–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2019.1667668 J.B. Thorneycroft, ‘Improvements in Rifles and other Small Arms.’, (British patent No. 14,622, July 18, 1901), https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?II=0&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19020818&CC=GB&NR=190114622A&KC=A Subscribe to our channel for more videos about arms and armour Help us bring history to life by supporting us here: https://royalarmouries.org/support-us/donations/ Sign up to our museum membership scheme here: https://royalarmouries.org/support-us/membership/ ⚔Website: https://royalarmouries.org/home ⚔Blog: https://royalarmouries.org/stories/ ⚔Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RoyalArmouriesMuseum/ ⚔Twitter: https://twitter.com/Royal_Armouries ⚔ Instagram: http://instagram.com/royalarmouriesmuseum We are the Royal Armouries, the United Kingdom's national collection of arms and armour. Discover what goes on behind the scenes and watch our collection come to life. See combat demonstrations, experience jousting and meet our experts. Have a question about arms and armour? Feel free to leave us a comment and we'll do our best to answer it.