Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
[If it’s not one thing, it’s another. While I finally got the rifle to work, my camera lens iced over during the shoot. I will likely remake this video completely in the spring].
Introduced in USAF and RCAF service in 1949, the short-lived M4 was a bolt-action magazine-fed rifle chambered in .22 hornet, designed to telescope down to fit in ejection seat survival kits. Its purpose was to allow aircrew downed in wilderness areas to forage for small game.
M6 Survival Rifle on Forgotten Weapons: youtube.com/watch?v=LnHW3-aDP30&pp=ygUSbHVmdHdhZmZlIGRyaWxsaW5n
SOURCES:
patents.google.com/patent/USD179499
swatmag.com/article/long-guns-us-m4-survival-rifle
twz.com/27950/usaf-fighter-pilots-are-now-flying-with-these-converted-m4-rifles-in-their-survival-kits
coffeeordie.com/survival-rifles
[If it’s not one thing, it’s another. While I finally got the rifle to work, my camera lens iced over during the shoot. I will likely remake this video completely in the spring].
Introduced in USAF and RCAF service in 1949, the short-lived M4 was a bolt-action magazine-fed rifle chambered in .22 hornet, designed to telescope down to fit in ejection seat survival kits. Its purpose was to allow aircrew downed in wilderness areas to forage for small game.
M6 Survival Rifle on Forgotten Weapons: youtube.com/watch?v=LnHW3-aDP30&pp=ygUSbHVmdHdhZmZlIGRyaWxsaW5n
SOURCES:
patents.google.com/patent/USD179499
swatmag.com/article/long-guns-us-m4-survival-rifle
twz.com/27950/usaf-fighter-pilots-are-now-flying-with-these-converted-m4-rifles-in-their-survival-kits
coffeeordie.com/survival-rifles
