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...

Bloke and Chap try their hand at the 25m Pistol Feldschiessen. Bloke is boring and shoots his SIG P210 two-handed, whereas Chap shows some class and shoots his Luger Parabellum 00/06 one handed like a champ.

So, like, rimmed ammo is a massive systematic problem, and weren't the British so stupid for keeping it around for so long, eh? I mean, it's bound to inevitably cause rimjams like every time you reload cos a rim will catch behind another rim, how massively stupid is that? Cos Mosin-Nagants with i...

The Bloke, with the help of the chap's handy hands, takes a detailed look at the Swiss Karabiner 93, a Mannlicher straight-pull with basically the same action as an M95 Steyr. This is the only Swiss straight-pull that is Austrian rather than Swiss.

Chambered in 7.5x53.5 GP90 - a smokeless (not...

Yes, Bloke on the Range has finally answered this question once and for all! Now we all know the objective answer to the question of which is better? The Lee-Enfield (of course which exact one is never specified - could be anything from a Lee-Metford, through an SMLE to an L42, although a No.4 ap...

Cos we're original like that.

The Bloke and The Chap answer questions posed by Patreon subscribers. Topics covered: acquiring firearms in Switzerland, dream firearms, how the cr@p they ended up in Switzerland, how the P14 safety works, and more.

Bloke ropes in his slightly suspect German cousin Kurt Kerl to explain some of the most awesome design features built into the Mauser Kar98k - the pinnacle of German bolt-action rifle design.

(And yes, both Kurt and The Bloke are aware that the bolt is probably from a Gew 98, a Standard-Modell...

As mentioned in the previous video, The Bloke had to split what would have been a massive single episode into two. So this is the second part. Schmidt-Rubin striaght-pull 1889 rifle mechanics. Have at it!

Continuing the very serious and highly scientific theme of testing the performance of wool serge vs. cotton military clothing, The Bloke and The Chap get their old uniforms slightly damp. Or at least mildly moist. In the most creative way they could: by attempting to waterski. Badly. Up a mountai...

The Bloke takes a trip to the range to blokesplain why revolver sights are set to have the barrel point quite a bit downwards, muzzle flip, and why different bullet weights can shoot to quite different points of impact.

The Bloke has recently unearthed some important Historical Documents relating to the SA80 adoption. In 1986, the cast of the BBC's Grange Hill soap opera for kids produced a hit single as part of a campaign to un-adopt the SA80 and adopt the M16 or FN FNC in its place.

The campaign failed for...

Bloke takes a trip through the history of the straight-pull Schmidt-Rubin 1889 rifle in 7.5x53.5 mm GP90 calibre. This video was going to be complete with a mechanical description, but a last-minute executive decision was taken to split it in a humorous way. Or, if not humorous, at least bizarre....

Since The Bloke and The Chap were up in the mountains with their families anyway, they decided to use the opportunity to test an old wool serge uniform against its (poly)cotton replacement in the only way they knew how: go skiing in them and get deliberately intimate with the snow! Much falling o...

As the start of a looooong series looking at each of the Swiss straight-pulls from the 1889 to the K31, The Bloke gives a short (ha!) overview of the series, and the context of the Swiss militia system in which they existed.

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Following a helpful suggestion, The Chap takes his GoPro and makes a plexiglass sideplate for his Bavarian 1869 Werder rifle, and gets another chance to talk about it. It is his favourite rifle, after all.

In this video, he goes through the entire operating cycle. The Bloke, while editing this...

By public request, a minor treatise on diopter rearsights - particularly contrasting the design of a W+F K-diopter for a Schmidt-Rubin K31 with a Parker-Hale 5C for a Lee-Enfield No.4 and a modern RPA Trakker.

Also featuring an awfully chintzy table cloth that doesn't belong to the Bloke, but ...

A philosophical episode, this one - on the many lives lived by milsurp rifles. This one is a Schmidt-Rubin K00/11, a K11 converted from an earlier model 1900 short rifle. The rifle lived a number of lives, and we have a bit of the human history behind the last one.

I promised someone I'd do th...

As part of his ongoing quest to increase the total sum of all human knowledge (never knowingly understated is Our Man here) and to wipe out Bad Gen, he takes on a couple of myths and common misunderstandings as to how the magazine and clip on the M1 Garand really function. Not how some Ian Hogg (...