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 ...

All the features we know and appreciate on target pistols have in fact been present on firearms for centuries in various different forms as firearms technology developped. We haven't invented anything, only adapted stuff. Chappy gives an overview of the nifty mechanisms used to improve the speed ...

Manurhin continued to try any offer new revolvers after the MR73 with various interpretations of Ruger pattern revolvers stemming from the tech transfer agreements between the two companies. In 1993 though they decided to bravely challenge the traditional revolver configuration and try something ...

Ian McCollum talks Bloke through the WWSD2020 (What Would Stoner Do 2020) AR15 type rifle at Loppi shooting centre in Finland, and he gets to try it out!

Courtesy of Varusteleka, Sako, InRange TV, KE Arms, Polaris Worldwide Logistics and Brownells, who all conspired in various ways to make it...

Dale takes us yet further through the theory and use of Stgw. 57 rifle grenades. 2/3.
Dale's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9zNvngfqqZIASarWVYvqyw

0:00 Intro
1:14 Direct Fire Intro
2:15 1960-1983 Firing Technique Demo
12:48 Analysis of Firing Demo
18:33 1960-1983 Technique Iss...

00:00 Title card
00:07 A cheesy duo, intro
01:08 Mrs BOTR appears (partially)
01:36 Cheers, and thank you, then State of the channel
09:08 “When will we see you with a Sauer 200 STR?”
10:12 “If you could keep one hand gun and one long gun from your collection, what would they be?”
14:00 “.....

Thrown into a squad of proper operators in an unexpected category, how did Chap fair in his first full Brutality match?

Will I have another try? Damn right I will!

Firearms: Sig Manurhin 540 .223, Glock 17 Gen 5

At the https://www.varusteleka.com/en flagship store, we fitted Chappie out with the following Särmä items, which form the semi-official BotR uniform:

Woolshell Jacket: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-tst-woolshell-jacket/59958
Windproof Smock: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/prod...

With thanks to Tinck Arms, Lynx Pro Tactical Training Center in Slovenia and @PolenarTactical we got to take a look at the new Perun X16 in .223 Rem. It's rather an interesting design, intended for suppressor use, and it shoots really, really flat - a contender to take the crown from the AR15?

In 1866 Switzerland takes the bold step to universally adopt a breachloading repeating rifle. Why the sudden transition? What was their first choice? All this is explaining in this very nerdy video which contains NO SHOOTING!

We also take a very very deep dive into the mechanics of the rifle d...

The experience of WW2 made it obvious to the French that a modular GPMG was a far more sensible concept than the role specific MGs and LMGs used until 1940 and that the advances in firearms manufacturing provided an ideal opportunity to fully embrace the concept. The fruit of the project came in ...

In part 2 we take a look at each of the main infantry rifle patterns, the variations in military ammo and take my trusty M1878 to the range.

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 ...

In which Mike gives a potted history of the gunpowder proof of spirits (of the drinking type), demonstrates how much it sucks, and tests some lovely blackberry schnapps given to him at Desert Brutality 2020!

Deep dive into one of the very first military purpose built percussion firearms and boy did they go to town on it. Not content with simply altering the ignition mechanism, they spared no expense and included all the best aesthetic and technical features of the time, including the very latest in a...

Mike (Bloke) tells of how he fixed his 300 series CMMG Resolute 16" 9mm Para rotary delayed blowback upper on his WWSD2020 KE Arms lower to make it reliable with a stiffer ejector spring (from David Tubb). The ejection problems were quite substantial, and have now been fixed.

Courtesy of www.panssarikilta.fi , Mike gets driven around the ranges at Hätilä in Finland in a BMP-1 Soviet armoured personnel carrier! A somewhat bumpy ride, with a thrown track for good measure. Thanks, guys!

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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...

Schmeisser now make mass-produced straight-pull AR15's under the moniker SP-15. Bloke takes a look at one at Armurerie WYN in Ecublens near Lausanne. Such rifles are popular in the UK for Civilian Service Rifle (CSR) shooting and other type things.

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!

Chasseurs à pied (aka riflemen or jaegers) were a relatively late addition to the French army, with the first battalions being officially created in 1839. A new firearm was needed for these chasseurs as future sharpshooters and shock troops. Luckily a new rifled percussion carbine had already req...

A while back I made this video about my full-fat Sterling No.4 Lee-Enfield conversion to 7.62 NATO.

Well, the Enfield L8 conversions are a little different. But why though? Here we've got an L39A1 doing stand-in duty, and we'll explain it with reference to Sterling's patent...

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)