Was there any real speed advantage to a bolt action over other breechloading actions before the advent of repeating mechanisms? The chap aims to find out with a mad minute modified to reflect the 1870s

Thanks to Seth from Alaska for this tour of a Mosin-Nagant out of battery safety as a follow-on

Chappie's instareactions to an M16A1 and to Bloke's heavily customised Oberland Arms OA-15 HBAR with a Muzzle Brake Of Doom on it.

The SACM 1935A pistol, developped by Charles Petter, is a pistol mostly famous by association due to it's infamous offspring the SIG P.49 / 210 and myth sometimes blurrs fact as features of the later are attributed to the former. Let's have a closer look to filter fact from fiction.

Bloke shows off his new Varusteleka Särmä Merino Hoodie, in Kill Bill Yellow, available from here: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-merino-wool-hoodie/30651

Finnish SRA shooting has a particular division, known as TST. This is basically the military/tactical division, with certain requirements such as carrying 12kg of gear, a knife, and many other things as explained by Jari of @varusteleka

Varusteleka even have their own #särmäTST line dedicat...

Quite a lot of first gen black powder cartridges, in particular rimfire ones, make use of heeled projectiles. This presents a bit of a challenge if you require a hard crimp using commonly available dies. As a public service the Chap presents a solution well known in France for the 11mm 1873 Frenc...

So Bloke Jr. (age 9) finds the solution to the issue with the 10 round 7.62 NATO chargers in the Sterling Conversion Lee-Enfield No.4! And it's non-obvious!

And cos he found the solution, he got to run the camera!

The Chap is determined to refresh the tired, bruised and battered frizzen on his cherished old Baker. Two methods are tried out with varied results.

Yet more Browning Hi-Power GP35 mechanical nerdery for you: this time it's what's simultaneously really clever but really dumb/awful/craptastic about the trigger mechanism.

The Browning Hi Power GP35 has possibly the worst magazine safety ever devised, and this vid explains why, with reference...

In which Mike takes another look at the deflection of the mean point of impact on the AR15 platform, this time with a #wwsd2020 at 300m for bipod, hasty sling, magazine rested and freehand, to see how much better it is than a non-freefloat M16A1 with pencil barrel.

Bloke takes a look at a BMS CAM rifle (specifically a CONCAM), a 5.56x45 / .223 Remington bolt action with an extremely small rotation angle of 22.5° and a very short bolt throw, kinda the ultimate "tactical" bolt action.

Uses NATO / STANAG magazines and... an AR15 bolt head and barrel extension!

Bloke gives some coaching advice on shooting bolt action rifles fast, particularly Lee-Enfields but also applicable to other types. Featuring Frankenrifle.

Many thanks to Rob, Rowan, Kevin and Keith for the use of their footage!

Some mechanical nerdery for you: magazine safeties / disconnects sound good on paper, but in my view are dangerous and counterproductive, so should not be a thing. But they are. So here we are.

The Browning Hi Power GP35 has possibly the worst magazine safety ever devised, and this vid explai...

Robert, who made this beautiful custom SIG 510 / Stgw 57 / 510 / PE57 / PE 57 7.5x55 GP11 Sturmgewhehr, explains the design choices that went into it. Both Chappie and Bloke shot it a while back, and it is amazingly smooth.

Gruenig and Elmiger can't be linked to due to YT reasons, but I'm sure...

Well, the question here is whether a Holosun 509T red dot sight mounted on a Glock 17 Gen 5 MOS will return to zero when removed and replaced... So, will it?

Jenny and Laura have been very active in promoting SRA shooting (the Finnish practical 2-gun / 3-gun reservist-based sports shooting discipline) to other ladies, and they were kind enough to take the time to talk to Bloke about it while he was at Hätilä 2022!

Laura's Instagram: https://www.ins...

As requested in the teaser comments, the Chap shows his journey to bringing his previously mummy-wrapped arsenal new MAS44 up to shooting form with hopefully a few interesting anecdotes about the rifle along the way.

With thanks to Guy & Lesley Field of The Yeaveley Estate https://yeaveley-estate.co.uk/ BotR and The Wirksworth Gunroom bring you the definitive, and quite obvious, answer to this strangely contentious conundrum. Simply by shooting the same course of fire in three different manners, with .303 Lee...

Ian of @ForgottenWeapons joins Mike and Fab of BotR to discuss their clothing and equipment used in Plan B of Finnish Brutality 2021: The Winter War. Ian is dressed as a Finnish soldier with Mosin-Nagant and Tokarev, Mike as a British ski trooper with Lee-Enfield No.4 and FN BDA-9, and Fab as a...

Might seem to be a silly question given that they're the same basic rifle in two different calibres (.303 British for the P14 and .30-06 for the M1917), but what were the adaptations for this and what are the other nonobvious and perhaps invisible changes?

Deep dive into one of Chappie's many perversions, namely his obsession with French Ruby pistols. Despite their somewhat undeserved tarnished reputation, they do offer a very interesting and economical collecting subject with a huge number of manufacturers to look out for and as we discover, they ...

While looking for a muzzle brake / compensator for my 9mm CMMG radial / rotary delayed blowback PCC AR15 upper (paired with a WWSD 2020 lower from KE Arms), I decided to go hard or go home and get the Nordic walking pole tip looking Walker Defense Research WDR NERO-9 compensator.

This is 3D pr...

Bloke takes a look at why Enfield nicked the Armalite AR-18 design and bullpupped it to make the L85 series of rifles, rather than "just" scaling down the .280 / 7mm EM-2 rifle from the late-40's/early-50's.

Turns out it's not as trivial as all that...