"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 pri...

"Here's the Patreon post where the questions were asked: https://www.patreon.com/posts/74013948

Time stamps with thanks to (Sopwith Cameltoe)
1:36 Swiss Straight-Pull Series
2:09 Bottles clanking
2:26 Besonders selten
4:05 Rear locking lug weakness
9:25 Brandon's Mum / Cap 'n Ball
10:30 K31 Aper...

The Chap takes a look at Ian McCollum's first book on his favourite subject. There is of course much praise for Ian's efforts not only to bring more understanding of French firearms to the average collector but also to dispel some of the more negative stereotypes associated with them. There are n...

"Bloke takes his 2012-production .32 ACP and, after having made it vaguely run with an awful lot of work, puts it through its paces on the 25m range. As a comparison, an HK MP5K both with and without PDW shoulder stock appears too!

Apparently these things were called the Klobb in James Bond Gold...

In the left corner a purely functional defensive pistol and in the right corner a beautifuly crafted military/target pistol. When it comes to relatively fast defensive/combat shooting, does one actually have an advantage over the other?

Bloke does some competing at an underground shooting range in some atrocious weather. Includes some hot .380 Enfield revolver action, and some falling plates. Amongst other things. Guaranteed not to be the worst three and a half minutes of your day, or your money back.

You'll Never Believe What The Bloke Does With An M1 Garand!

Bloke on the Range blokesplains certain bits of received knowledge about the M1, and how they ain't necessarily so.

Also packed full of handy tips, like how not to get your thumb caught in the action.

Bloke tries to go out for a night of well-protected wenching, leaving his beautiful platinum-haired wife behind. Ends up staying in to talk about a very gentlemanly Belgian bulldog revolver in 7.5mm Swiss from before WW1, fit to grace the pocket of any well-heeled fool. [It's early days with the ...

Why Lee-Enfields are fast, and other rifles are not. Featuring a customised Australian International Arms M10A in 7.62x39.

Keep the fanboy hate down to a dull roar please...

Bloke's gorgeous platinum-haired wife, through being a bizarre and dozy git, inspires him to invite you into the rich history and wonderful world of S&W hammer block safeties through the ages.

Featuring a century-old .455 Hand Ejector Second Model, an M&P in .38 S&W, and a very early 586. Plus...

The Chap takes his Dremel and his handiness to a Zastava M57 grip to make it fit his Tokarev TT33, and does a very good job of it. The Bloke is still unsure why he wanted to do this, and put a small public safety announcement at the start of the video as a precaution. Don't worry, we've had The C...

Bloke shows the easiest way to deal with corrosive ammo: 50:50 ballistol:water https://ballistol.com/

If you're shooting old .30-06, or old Combloc ammo with corrosive primers, this is one of the simplest and least unpleasant ways to deal with it when cleaning your rifle or pistol.

The Bloke demonstrates charger loading a Lee-Enfield No.4 with a moderately-decent stripper clip, and also a Mauser Kar98k. Which is better? If either........ Obviously a No.4 with a completely useless clip sucks.

Alternative title: Episode IV: The Lugs Strike Forwards

Continuing our series on the Swiss straight-pulls, we get to the next in the series: the Infanteriegewehr 1889/96. Basically an 1889 with the locking lugs moved to the front of the bolt sleeve, so to the middle of the bolt. That's it. Sou...

WARNING: boring, geeky video alert!

Thanks to various gunwriters over the past century, it is commonly believed that all British soldiers in the runup to World War 1 had to shoot at least 15 rounds of rapid fire with their SMLE or long Lee-Enfield .303" at 300 yards for their pay. In fact, thi...

By surprisingly popular demand, here's a video about primary extraction, which is how a sticky case is shaken loose from the chamber after firing.

Featuring an M1 Garand, which has (almost?) no primary extraction, a Mauser Kar98k which has the most common type of cam-based extraction, a Lee-En...

NB: Filmed a while ago, I've learned some more about this particular rifle since (see below). And I've since modded the extractor to work like it's supposed to - at the time of filming, the front face was absolutely flat and had no bevel, so would NOT clip over the rim of a chambered round.

Th...

The Chap got rather lucky a while back and managed to score himself one of the elusive Hämmerli airgun inserts for the Swiss K31 rifle. Relieved of his monies, he returned home with his prize.

This little beauty sticks into the barrel and locks into the ejection opening, and is a side-handle s...

By surprisingly popular demand, a look at The Bloke's shooting jacket, and how to use a side-mounted sling such as on a Swiss Schmidt-Rubin K31, K11, Mauser Kar98k or whatever. Also includes a brief digression into why you should not attempt to free-float a rifle like a K31 (or a Lee-Enfield No.4).

The Chap gives a brief demonstration of the whys and wherefores of paper patching, and gives a demonstration with some Martini-Henry bullets. This type of bullet was very prevalent in the black powder cartridge era.

Bloke takes the ejector screw out of his Lee-Enfield No.4 to show that it's not actually the ejector screw that deals with ejection of empty cases. In fact, it's only necessary for ejecting live rounds, particularly when doing a pumping back-and-forth unload.

He explains how this can be so!

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A brief, no-commentary demonstration that it is indeed entirely possible to shoot muzzle-loading revolver without carting around a massive crate of stuff, and without making up paper cartridges or anything! Bloke's pretty minimalist BP revolver shooting!

For this year's rifle Feldschiessen, The Chap and The Bloke decided to shoot with the worst possible rifles allowed by the rules. So they dusted off their Schmidt-Rubin K11's, zeroed them 3 days prior to the match, and went at it over open sights. Because reasons, but mostly cos they're a complet...

So moving on with the Swiss straight-pulls series, we get up to the Schmidt-Rubin 1897 Kadettengewehr, the Cadet rifle. This might seem an irrelevant branch of the family, but it really isn't. It's the basis for another, more interesting one, which will come later. As a reminder, we're still in t...