Bloke takes a look at the OG SUIT sight: Sight Unit, Infantry, Trilux. Most commonly seen mounted on an 7.62mm L1A1 SLR, this sight was available to infantry in the British Army from the mid-70's onwards, and is very forward thinking. However, the mount is hot garbage, which is probably why you d...

There's a lot of hot air generated over the relative merits or demerits of cock on open vs cock on close with turnbolt bolt action rifles. But what's the reality?

Spoiler: it depends on what you're doing. Each has advantages and disadvantages.

Welcome to Bloke on the Range Strip Club, where we're only interested in one thing: Will It Strip. Up today: Swedish Mauser chargers in a 7.62 NATO Sterling Lee-Enfield No.4 conversion, with a comparison to the correct NATO clips.

Bloke explores the answer to this staple of Internet gun arguments: is a semiauto less powerful than a bolt action of identical chambering and barrel length?

Results spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n8oGpgIo5JrTYuDkgtXqYWQPAhUgFC1fNrIbfJ-1ZIg/edit?usp=sharing

Featuring a...

We're often asked about getting firearms out of the US and into Switzerland, or out of Switzerland and into the US. Les, of Polaris Worldwide Logistics http://www.polaris-logistics.com/ actually organised arranging a couple of rifles in the US that Bloke wanted, but couldn't get on this side of t...

Here we have a heroic guest contribution featuring a Snider three band rifle all the way from Alberta Canada which came out of an unrelated competition, however it was too good not to share with you as part of our single shot military black powder cartridge rifle series. Huzzah for Bob!

Chappy's tools and skills have come along a long way since his first attempt at reviving the chonky 18mm rimfire case and cartridge. Time to give it another shot. Will he succeed of will they blow up in his face?

For the accompanying nerdy machining vid, see our sister channel elsewhere.

In which Bloke and Jari of @varusteleka do a 300m to 150m rundown at the Hätilä range complex in Finland! Bushmaster M17S Bullpup chez Bloke, and a piston-driven AR15 with Jari.

Jari's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jarilai/?hl=en
Varusteleka's TST selection: https://www.varusteleka.com/...

We return to the single shot BP military cartridge rifle mad minute with the Swiss Peabody, representative of any of the Peabody series. This particular rifle is of course chambered for 10.4x38R and is fitted with a rimfire breech block but I have dropped in a spare breech block from a CF Spanish...

Retrofitting an optics mount for the FAMAS was no easy feat considering the wobbly top cover construction. The designers finally came up with a novel if somewhat bulky solution.

As an addendum to a @C&Rsenal video, Bloke gets to show off serial number 8 of the 1893 trials of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle in 6.5x55 semi-rimmed (possibly, although the owner is skeptical). This is from the last trials series of 50 rifles, before the final adoption of the 1894.

Bloke takes a dive into how the out of battery safeties, which prevent the rifles from firing when unlocked, operate. Proper mechanical geekery!

Unboxing vid and maybe the start of a bullpuppy farm?

In which Mike takes a post-war rebuild Winchester-made M1 Carbine and has a look at what it can or can't do at 300m.

.30 Carbine For The Win!

Budi shoots his extremely rare 1893 trials Krag-Jorgensen at 300m! This is serial number 8 of 50, and is in the semi-rimmed version of the 6.5x55mm Swedish cartridge. But he's shooting normal rimless.

So from the muzzleloading musket era until relatively late, infantry fought in very tightly packed lines. The trope is that this was very, very dumb. But was it? Bloke discusses with Rob of @britishmuzzleloaders for about 2 hours!!!

Here we have a great submission from Åmund in Norway who kindly gave us permission to share his mad minute. The RB was much requested in the comments of the prior rifles so it's fantastic to be able to bring it to you at last.

While at a dynamic practical rifle match with his Colt M16A1 (9 million series), Mike wound the adjustment drum too far on his Brownells Retro 4x AR15 / M16 carry handle scope, and lost elevation zero by about 4 MOA or so. Which was fun on the clock!

The question is: if you don't wind the adj...

Chappie tries his defrabed reproduction French 1777 pistol for the first time. The result is somewhat underwhelming but we pride ourselves on showing things as they really are. The pistol clearly needs more work but hopefully we'll get there in the end.

Thanks to Robert of Gruenig and Elmiger (not allowed to link, sorry), I got to put one of these antediluvian Martinistutzer target rifles in front of the camera! This one was originally in 7.5x55 GP11 and was converted to .22 lr. Tipping block: what's not to like? Basically a Martin-actioned accu...

Chap goes full nerd on the MAT49, including history, features, a major design fail and accessories. For those patient enough there's a bit of dakka at the end, or just skip to 23:28!

Big THANK YOU to http://armesfrancaises.free.fr/ for letting us use his photos!

Finally we are able to present you with a mad minute featuring the trapdoor rifle, not thanks to Bloke or Chap, but rather thanks to one of our awesome fans who took it upon himself to have a go.

You did the rifle justice. Fantastic run! The BotR community thanks you Oliver!

Mike and Fab dunk their rifles in the Finnish snow to see if they keep running. Mike was, of course, running a Lee-Enfield No.4 (Sterling conversion in .308 Win / 7.62 NATO instead of .303 British) whereas Fab was, again of course, shooting his pre-WW2 MAS-36 in 7.5x54 French.

Walther TPHs are known to be testy tempestuous little things and one of Mrs Chap's ones is exactly that. Light strikes are fairly common so the springs have been replaced but there was one more thing that could be done to hopefully solve the issue for good.

Also, lathe and mill go brrrrr!