Further research has enabled us to guestimate the composition of the cartridges for the 1837 chasseur carbine. We have both the extensively trialed (but never adopted) Brunéel cartridge and the cartridge for the 1840 chasseur carbine, a carbine using the same Delvigne breech, calibre and rifling ...

Mike (Bloke) takes a look at a 300 series CMMG Resolute 16" 9mm Para rotary delayed blowback upper on his WWSD2020 KE Arms lower.

Aside from a little reliability issue on the ejection, which he's hopeful he will be able to solve, he thinks this system is absolutely great!

And obviously the ...

Bloke and Chap got invited to a shoot with some cool guys at Brünig Indoor. Here's some of the cool things they shot.

GUNS IN THIS VIDEO:
Sterling
Sten
SLR L1A1
SIG AMT
SIG Manuhrin SG 540
M16A1 / AR15
Vetterli 1878
Various Stgw 57 / SIG 510
Mannlicher 1893 K93 M93 carbine
HK MP5 (ac...

The A&W Diverter was designed by Clifford Ashbrook and Wilson Wing to change a shotgun's circular pattern into a horizontal linear one. They applied for a patent in 1967, and it was granted in 1970 (US Patent #3,492,750). Their invention was similar in purpose to the "duckbill" chokes tried out b...

How does full automatic effect a gun's time on the PCC Cours of Fire? Well, let's find out with a Lage Max31A Mk2 on a M11A1. I've got a red dot optic on the gun to simplify aiming, and so the question is how semiauto compares to bursts.

My hypothesis was that automatic fire would offer no rea...

Thanks to the owner (who wishes to remain anonymous), we got to take the factory semi-auto Enfield SA80 / L85A1 to the range to have another session, this time with iron sights.

How did it fare compared to with a SUSAT optic and with an M16A1?

2003 Pamphlet / Manual: https://drive.google.co...

So every time I go up to Finland, Jari, CEO of @varusteleka , invites me to Ruutisavu indoor range near the airport in Helsinki for a bit of training. See how we tried to suck less in July 2022, just before the SRA Etelä-Häme Hätilä match!

Following an accident, Budi was left paralysed from the waist down. Shooting a pistol from a wheelchair in such circumstances presents its own unique set of challenges.

Featuring a W+F Waffenfabrik Bern M06/29 Parabellum (Luger) and a SIG P210 P49, both in 7.65 Parabellum (not 9mm)

So Bloke took his Bushmaster M17S bullpup meme rifle to Finland, and shot an SRA Etelä-Häme match with Jari of @varusteleka and Jenny Koskimäki. The other two had quite different AR-15 rifles: Jari has a short piston-driven Barrett, and Jenny has a highly customised and heavily tuned Ruger AR-5...

A cornucopia of old Euro pistol goodness! Mike and Budi take the opportunity to try out side-by-side the following pistols from WW1 and from the interwar period at 25m:

Mauser Broomhandle C96 7.63 Mauser
FN Browning 1900 7.65 Browning / .32 ACP
FN Browning 1903 / Husqvarna 1907 m/07 9mm Brow...

Mike and Budi make a comparison between:

Colt 1911A1 (Remington-Rand, .45 ACP),
Tokarev TT33 (7.62x25 Tokarev)
French model 35A (7.65 French Long)
French model 35S (7.65 French Long)
Browning Hi Power GP35 (9mm Para)
Walther P38 / P1 (9x19mm)

Obviously the Browning HP is the best. Obvz...

Bloke goes to the Rütlischiessen for pistol in October 22 with his 9mm Para SIG P210 P49.

How did he get on?

Mike and Les (Polaris Worldwide Logistics) joined Jari (Varusteleka) in Finland in July to shoot the awesome SRA Etelä-Häme Hätila 2022 2-gun match. All three were using KE Arms / Brownells WWSD 2020 rifles in .223 Rem / 5.56, and various pistols (Staccato, Glock 17). How did they get on?

Chappie, Bloke and Pascal take the rifles they would have been taking to Finnish Brutality 2020 to Shooting Inn in Oberentfelden for some practice. Unfortunately in the meantime Team BotR has had to pull out of the match due to the risks associated with the Finnish Coronavirus restrictions which ...

The BotR lads go up to the Most Beautiful Range in the World for the last day's shooting there ever, since it's closing due to not being able to afford to comply with the new environmental regs. A 10.4mm Vetterli, Schmidt-Rubin G11 long rifle and a CIS SAR80 accompany them.

"So on 2 November 2019, a bunch of us organised the first ever Bloke on the Range Bolt Action Challenge competition, with a mix of British kinda rapid fire and a Swiss 300m course of fire. How did it go?

Here's the promo vid for the comp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO33aP77ZjI

Results are ...

"Bloke takes his 2012-production .32 ACP and, after having made it vaguely run with an awful lot of work, puts it through its paces on the 25m range. As a comparison, an HK MP5K both with and without PDW shoulder stock appears too!

Apparently these things were called the Klobb in James Bond Gold...

The Manurhin MR73 has always been one of the very best combat revolvers made, but they have been hard to find here in the US. That has now changed, as the Beretta group purchased Chapuis, manufacturer of the MR73. They are now importing both 4" and 5.25" versions, and I have a demo of the 5.25" S...

I have previously filmed a semiauto Hotchkiss Universal, but until today I'd not had a chance to try shooting an intact, original automatic one. Thanks to Battlefield Vegas, I have the chance today!

Turns out, the French absolutely made the right choice taking the MAT-49 over the Hotchkiss Un...

Yesterday we took a look at the history and the design of the Polish wz.88 Tantal, and today we are taking it out to the range. Let's see how that unique Polish 3-round-burst works!

Yesterday we took a look at the inner workings of the VHS-2, and today we are going to put some rounds through it. I am trying out both a short-barreled VHS-K2 that was limited to 2-round burst (for French police trials) and a full-length VHS-F2 from French military trials.

Overall, I quite l...

Huzzah! I finally have a chance to take a proper full-auto FAMAS F1 out to the range. My conclusions? It's very nice, just like the semiauto civilian model. It has a limited 3-round-burst option for those who need it, but also unrestricted automatic for those with enough practice to use it. The g...

Having taken a look at the history and mechanics of the P90 yesterday, I'm taking it out to the range today. I wasn't sure how I would feel about the progressive trigger...

I am excited to have a chance today to take a trip to the range with a proper, factory L85A1 rifle (it's in the United States as a post-1986 dealer sample). I had a chance a while back to shoot one of these in the U.K., but I only had 10 cartridges to work with at that time. Today, I have several...