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...

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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.

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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

Patches will be available when we've got our e-commerce solution up and runni...

In early 1937 France adopts not one, but two service pistols, both in 7.65 Long for ammunition compatibility with the upcoming SMG (MAS38). The most widely known is the 1935A mostly due to being the template for the SIG P.49, but the other pistol, the 1935S, is usually dismissed as being somehow ...

The FM24-29 is one of the crowning successes of the France's post WW1 rearmament program. Gone is the requirement to feed archaic 8mm Lebel which frees the designers to adopt a modern design. Clearly inspired by the BAR, the FM24-29 is the precursor to the ZB-26 and eventually the BREN. Despite r...

A commercial endeavour by the Sterling Armaments Company to make a cheap second-line rifle for 7.62mm NATO by converting existing .303 Lee-Enfield No.4's, this particular example is an all-singing-all-dancing conversion with all the bells and whistles.

Link to the Sterling patent: https://worl...

Mike, Jenny and Jari ( @Varusteleka ) shoot their second stage (Stage 1) 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...

Jenny and Jari of @varusteleka talk to Bloke and explain what Finnish SRA (Shooting sports for Reservist Associations) dynamic shooting is all about, in all its practical rifle, pistol and shotgun glory! With a nice little tangent into how national service in the Finnish military works.

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Here we take up the mad minute challenge with the two main belligerents of the Franco-Prussian war, both needle-fire and both using what we now call caseless ammunition. Not ejector needed and no need to pick up your brass. Who will win this epic dual?

A tutorial for the new chassepot cartidge ...

Deep dive into the history and practicalities of historical concealed carry for ladies (and gentlemen) of distinction, namely the muff. We look at the pros and cons of different small pistols as firearms and fashion evolved through the ages, using Mrs Chap's furry muff for reference.