Nearly 1-Hour of M4 Lore and Facts
16K views · Aug 16, 2026 · Science & Technology
Comments · 49
@cb-bz1wy · 1 month ago
That is a whole lotta "so"
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@BigHead104 · 1 month ago
The audio bugs are killin me, bruh.
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@HairyBogTrotter · 1 month ago
Mate, I love your videos. Informative, thoroughly researched and well paced.<br><br>My only criticism with this one is the constant stressful, impending doom music. I waited for some kind of horror movie jump scare the whole time.<br><br>Keep up the stellar work. I really enjoy it!
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@declineofthewest. · 1 month ago
Can’t imagine how frustrating these issues would’ve been in the jungles of Vietnam.
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@firstliaralwayswins7690 · 10 days ago
Leave it to the bureaucrats to FU a good design.
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@MrErik038 · 10 days ago (edited)
Very informative thank you.<br>Im glad it is so easy 😂
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@fredboat · 12 days ago
Thanks, very comprehensive, FYI ,The FN FNC machinegun Three round burst setting resets to Three rounds every time. And the AK stays pretty much the same for 75+ years. lol.
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@MantaF4U-1D · 1 month ago
A 1 Hour Video From Military Gear Explainer? We Are DEFINITELY Eating Good
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@s.l.2409 · 1 month ago
Videos like this are why I appreciate my Knights KS4 lol the gas system is built out of decades of failures and successes. It’s essentially a brake line hook up tuned from the factory. I just threw their CRS-3 can on it and never had to tune a single thing.
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@harryspeakup8452 · 1 month ago
Bet you a dollar you can't get through even a 10 min video without 100 uses of "so"
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@SmallArmsSolutions · 2 weeks ago
This is very well done. Corrections if i may. The dust test you were refereeing to, that was found to be done in a non scientific way and was misleading. Dust test 2 was drastically different. The M4 did very well, comparable. However in 3, they M4’s were used. Guns with used magazines compared to brand new firearms with their own enhanced magazines. If you were in the know, that Dust Test was not relevant. Also the H2 buffer with the SOCOM barrel. That was not casued by increased cyclic rate of full auto. It was casued by the bolt carrier bouncing off the heavier barrel. The heavier the barrel the elasticity increases. So the additional weight prevented the bounce by absorbing that momentum. The H2 buffer was introduced nearly immediatly. With an H buffer, the carbine will not run on full auto, not at all. Try it yourself. The heavier extractor spring was immediate and done prior to 2002. Those springs were on all M4 and M4A1 Carbines. My book Black Rifle 2/Americas Rifle goes over all of this engineering stuff in detail. Your M4/MK18 upgrades, you missed the enhanced ejector spring. This worked better with higher cyclic rates to prevent failures to eject. Really well done!
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@argg.x · 1 month ago
good stuff! thanks for the ar lesson
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