{"id":5072,"date":"2017-12-11T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/qa-with-larry-vickers-german-ww2-gun-and-modern-small-arms\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:13:22","slug":"qa-with-larry-vickers-german-ww2-gun-and-modern-small-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/qa-with-larry-vickers-german-ww2-gun-and-modern-small-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A with Larry Vickers: German WW2 Gun and Modern Small Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HxnpviC6-1c?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Larry Vickers has published the newest book in the Vickers Guide series, and it looks at German small arms of World War II &#8211; the first of two volumes to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com\/ww2germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com\/ww2germany<\/a><\/p>\n<p> I had a hand in the project writing a substantial chunk of the text, and so I met up with Larry to sign copies of the book. And since we were in the same room together, what better to do than a Q&#038;A? These questions, as always, were provided by my wonderful group of supporters at Patreon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1:02 &#8211; Any guns you regret selling?<br \/>\n2:08 &#8211; Condensed bio<br \/>\n5:13 &#8211; Is the DI system in the AR good or bad?<br \/>\n8:03 &#8211; What was Larry\u2019s involvement in the HK 416?<br \/>\n9:04 &#8211; Why is the AK so good?<br \/>\n11:16 &#8211; 7.62&#215;39 or 5.45&#215;39?<br \/>\n12:39 &#8211; What gun do you want to add to your personal collection?<br \/>\n13:31 &#8211; Why is the AR guy (Vickers) doing a book on German WWII guns?<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; Was the massive German R&#038;D in WWII good or bad for them?<br \/>\n17:22 &#8211; If you were in WWII, what rifle and what job would you want?<br \/>\n19:40 &#8211; Thoughts on the Stoner 63<br \/>\n22:26 &#8211; As a lefty, how do you shoot bolt action rifles?<br \/>\n24:18 &#8211; What is the most interesting piece of firearms history development?<br \/>\n25:28 &#8211; What handgun would you have picked for the new Army handgun?<br \/>\n27:56 &#8211; Before the M4, what rifles\/carbines did elite units use?<br \/>\n31:48 &#8211; Plans for another 1911 build class?<br \/>\n33:42 &#8211; Why were the Germans unique in developing a GPMG?<br \/>\n36:44 &#8211; Why does H&#038;K hate 10mm?<br \/>\n39:38 &#8211; Preference for Inglis vs FN High Power?<\/p>\n<p>Want to submit a question for the next Q&#038;A? Sign up to help support Forgotten Weapons on Patreon! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merchandise! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Vickers has published the newest book in the Vickers Guide series, and it looks at German small arms of World War II &#8211; the first of two volumes to do so. https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com\/ww2germany I had a hand in the project writing a substantial chunk of the text, and so I met up with Larry to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/qa-with-larry-vickers-german-ww2-gun-and-modern-small-arms\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&amp;A with Larry Vickers: German WW2 Gun and Modern Small Arms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14556,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions\/14556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}