In this BONUS VIDEO (so don't be cross with me and leave me nasty comments cos it's not a normal, in-depth one), The Bloke plays Santa Claus and brings The Chap an early Christmas present. What could it possibly be? And will Mrs. The Chap be cross???

Quite likely it could be the most common Sw...

The Chap pulls out his Swiss Peabody and takes it out for a little blat. The Peabody was adopted as a stopgap before the Vetterli rifles came on line, and fires the same 10.4x38mm rimfire cartridge. It's basically pretty much an external hammer tipping-block Martini rifle

By popular request, The Bloke explains the fine detail of zeroing a K31, or a K11 or whatever other milsurp you might have handy that zeroes on the foresight.

Along the way, there's a brief mention of how to set up the screws on the rifle, but that will be explained in detail at another occasion.

In an Internet First, Bloke takes his shiny new hundred year and extremely rare old private-purchase Schmidt-Rubin 1889/96 to the range, and actually manages to find some 7.5x53.5mm GP90/03 that goes bang! Well, click-bang, anyway. And only about 3 of them... But anyway, he does it all the same. ...

After some minor grumbling in the comments of our earlier video that we'd fired a round of GP90/03 rather than original GP90, we're back on this topic again.

Now, there's no documentary evidence of any change to powder from GP90 to GP90/03: it's stated in the literature as PC88 for both. The ...

The Bloke, briefly beardless, receives a package in the post. What could be more YouTuberish than an unboxing video? What could possibly be hiding in the box?

Well, it's a private series M1889/96 Schmidt-Rubin, his rarest and most expensive straight-pull to date! No, it's not an M1889, nor is ...

...well, the Chap does it really.

Finally, BotR joins the legions of gun YouTube channels in which fruit is targeted. The Chap takes it up with a hand-sized melon and a pear because, well, we had to do it some time due to popular demand. Apparently...

But of course, being in Switzerland and...

In this Off Topic video, The Bloke comes over all peckish and wants to buy some cheese. But there's no cheese shop in sight! How will he manage? Luckily, in rural Switzerland there's this thing called a "Trust Fridge". But will it contain any Venezuelan beaver cheese?

In this Bonus Video, The Chap goes into his workshop, has a good long rummage in his drawers, and rustles up a couple of awesome airgun targets for fun during the long, cold winter nights. He's good with his hands, is The Chap... :/

With the increased interest in World War One following the centenary and Battlefield 1, Verdun etc., The Bloke follows on from his general video about Euro armies typically wearing their pistols on the left in the World Wars, to a discussion about the exceptions to this general rule, and specific...

So, some countries ran canvas webbing beltkit, others leather. Why? And how did the Swiss care for their leather gear to at least try to stop it getting all mildewy and nasty?

If you're interested in this kind of random nonsense, this video is for YOU!

Stan_Da_Bout from Arrse sent us some footage of him shooting some .303" bulleted blanks intended for the BREN LMG at about the same distances as we did in our video, only in Imperial.

Thanks, @Stan!

He gets basically similar results. Which is nice.

The Bloke and The Chap try out an awesome air cartridge home training system from http://www.easy-munition.com/ Turn your basement, living room or loft into a range, without noise issues!

These air cartridges take plastic bullets, and are charged with air from a pump or a compressor. Then, the...

GEEK ALERT: this video contains maths, sorry. If you don't like it, click away now...

In out earlier video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dhPTf18_mw some viewers were confounded and confuddled by the Bloke shooting the sport pistol free-handed, and couldn't quite understand why that had no e...

The Bloke, in his walting gear, has a look at how his fake WW1 sniper rifle does at 300m, with somewhat disappointing results.

And why could the UK (and the US in 1917) not?

In this extra video, The Bloke has a bash at explaining the fundamental difference between the US and UK, on the one hand, and France and Germany on the other, when it came to organising their militaries in the pre-WW1 period.

Basically, the F...

Practical Stage In Full Swiss Kit With K00/11

The Bloke and The Chap take some time out from their busy shooting schedule to answer some of the most commonly-posed questions from video comments.

Now, before anyone gets antsy about the sound, the river wouldn't let us film there without getting at least an audio role, and threatened to bur...

Here at Bloke on the Range, people often ask us whether the Schmidt-Rubin K11 is used in competitions, or whether it is considered as not being accurate enough. Well.... it isn't. And That's cos... it isn't.

Doesn't stop the bloke putting on his walting gear and giving it a go anyway! So this ...

At the world's most beautiful range, in not the world's most beautiful weather, Dani tries his luck with his Hawken rifle.

Bloke takes a tour of the GP90 7.5x53.5mm, GP90/23 7.5x54.5mm and GP11 7.5x55, to see which of the common straight-pulls they fit in: models 1889, 96/11 and K31 are tested.

The Bloke explains his offset scope WW1 "sniper" rifle project, and dials in a short-range zero. All while nattily attired in a ... erm... WW2 helmet and a post-WW2 tunic. Because reasons.

JBM ballistics calculator: http://www.jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmtraj-5.1.cgi

The Chap surprised the bloke by pulling a 1920s Ortgies from his pocket. The interesting thing about this pistol is the grip safety, which is really a grip-actuated manual safety, and stays disengaged once given a good squeeze.

Unfortunately, despite the great pointability of the piece, the ac...

The Bloke and The Chap take a clickbaity look at the 100% safe Brünnlisau range, which is here: https://goo.gl/maps/qWahz3aVCAC2 and they explain why it is 100% safe, and "vorschriftsgemäss", as the Swiss would say. For the hard of thinking, the keywords are "baffles".

This 300m rifle range ac...