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!

Bloke and Chap get an Arsenal Strike One 9mm pistol thrust into their hands, and give their first impressions! The mechanism is kinda cool, as if Browning and Lahti had a child.

After an earlier video showing how fast this German 7.62 NATO / .308 Win plastic training ammo actually goes, some doubting Thomases in the comments weren't satisfied.

Also, I promised a closer look at the stuff, including a disassembly of it. So finally, after 2 years, here it is: German Kurz...

Bloke's shooting footage from the SPOL 4 SRA match in Finland, October 2021!

Bloke is shooting a Bushmaster M17S bullpup with Holosun 503, a Glock 17 Gen 5 MOS with Holosun 509, and a Benelli M4 23G.

Most of Bloke's gear is available from https://www.varusteleka.com/en and the knife sheath ...

Chap flogs a dead horse by persisting to find an easy way to shoot with the Dreyse M55 Langblei. The sabot is the main sticking point as the original method of rolling and pressing paper and card is a long process with often varying results on target between batches. To try and solve this issue C...

Mike of BotR and Jari of Varusteleka discuss what's important in a holster for Brutality and SRA matches, and have a little polite rant about the limitations of the Safariland website...

Follow Jari on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jarilai/?hl=en

It's not every day you order something in "good condition" which turns out to be mint with tags! So here's an L85 / SA80 5.56mm cleaning kit, mint with its tag! Demonstrated with the help of a Chartered Industries of Singapore SAR80 rifle.

Chap does a show and tell covering the MAS45, a nice simple .22 universal traininer used by the French armed forces for 35+ years. Aside from the unique rear sight it shares many similarities to Mauser .22 rifles of the 1930s and 40s, including the KKW, and from it's interesting history it's clea...

In which Bloke takes his 9 million series real Colt M16A1 (not an AR15, or a build kit or a repro) at 300m with a Brownells Retro 4x carry handle scope and puts 30 reasonably quick rounds through the barrel to see if there's any worrying drift due to imperfect stress relief in the barrel. What ha...

Bloke bought yet another Holosun 503, and also a 3x swing-out magnifier to go with it. The interesting question is whether the magnifier causes any optical distortion that changes the point of impact compared to the bare red dot optic.

What better way than to test it than at 300m on electronic...

The advent of the percussion era and developments in gun carriages brings about the design of a new short handy musketoon for French artillery crews. Issued from 1829 onwards, initially as a smoothbore flintlock, the musketoon evolves through the final stages of muzzleloading technology.

LEGAL...

Mike, Jenny and Jari ( @Varusteleka ) shoot their third stage (Stage 2) at the SRA Etelä-Häme match at Hätilä in Finland, July 2021! How did they get on? And what's up with that Soviet BMP-1 armoured personnel carrier (APC)???

Stage descriptions (in Finnish): https://ehsra.net/wp-content/uploa...

Mike, Jenny and Jari ( @Varusteleka ) shoot their fourth stage (Stage 3) at the SRA Etelä-Häme match at Hätilä in Finland, July 2021! How did they get on?

Stage descriptions (in Finnish): https://ehsra.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/H21_Rastikuvaukset.pdf
Full results: https://shootnscoreit.c...

Chappie takes part in the cabine fever challenge for the first time. Due to issues with range access it was only possible to enter the two 50m divisions but nonetheless it was fantastic to take part and we'll take part fully next year for sure!

Dale takes us through the historical background leading to the Swiss Sturmgewehr 57 rifle grenade series, starting from the WW2 and post-WW2 perspective. In part 2, he dives deep into the various models of practice grenade and the three types of battle ammunition.

BotR jumps on to the Manurhin MR73 love-fest bandwagon, well almost. Instead of gushing about the new production models now being distributed by Beretta, Chap will introduce his vintage original 80s 4” target model MR73 and reveal the most important feature of its lockwork, the key to the excelle...

Mike, Jenny and Jari ( @Varusteleka ) shoot their fifth stage (Stage 4) at the SRA Etelä-Häme match at Hätilä in Finland, July 2021! How did they get on?

Stage descriptions (in Finnish): https://ehsra.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/H21_Rastikuvaukset.pdf
Full results: https://shootnscoreit.co...

Bloke takes his ex-Slovenian Territorial Defense Chartered Industries of Singapore SAR-80 in 5.56x45 / 5.56 NATO / .223 Rem out to 300m to see how it groups, and the video takes a disturbing twist. This garbage-tier

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