AK50: How Hard Could it Be? Brandon Herrera's 10-Year Project
1.7M views · Nov 5, 2025 · Education
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@BrandonHerrera · 10 months ago
Being there for this felt like watching the professor grade your test 😂<br><br>Thanks for coming to hang out with us Ian, it was a pleasure!
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@GreasyFriedWalleye · 10 months ago
Ian: explains AK50 top to bottom, inside and out.<br><br>Brandon: “What the heck are you doing? How’d you get into my office?”
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@Haphazardprism · 10 months ago
Brandon: "yes officer, he just walked into my armory and started recording"
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@zomkino · 10 months ago
Brandon not even saying "hi" or being in the video at all, makes it even more seems like you just walked in his house un-announced ^^
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@Hongobogologomo · 10 months ago
Now this is a surprise
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@planterz42 · 10 months ago
Next on Forgotten Weapons - Ian takes the AK-50 to a backup gun match.
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@elektro3000 · 10 months ago
Describing the AK-50 as "not a Forgotten Weapon, YET" is darkly hilarious.
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@trikstari7687 · 7 months ago
"We do not do this because it is easy, we do this because we thought it would be easy".<br><br>That needs to be amended with "And because it's fucking awesome" at the end.
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@garotogaivota14 · 10 months ago
The greatest flex to be made so far: "I made an AK in .50 BMG good enough to have Ian come in my shop and record with it"
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@Xtariz · 10 months ago
Ian: explains AK50<br>Brandon: Even I didn't know that
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@keithrickson8522 · 10 months ago
Turns out, Ian just sneaks into museums, auctions and people's homes at night and records these.
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@Fenris717 · 6 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YagIIpex8Is&t=239">3:59</a> “it would fire, extract, and eject, but it wouldn’t feed.” So he made a PTRS-41 in 50 BMG?
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