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The Bloke has recently unearthed some important Historical Documents relating to the SA80 adoption.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.

Yeah, there's a couple of ad breaks. Sorry. But it helps to support w...

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 (...

In Europe we are used to very, very threadbare load data. In the US, you don't have this problem. Sometimes over here it can be impossible to find load data for reloading calibres which are common in the US, with the powders that we can get hold of here. However, all is not lost! If you have a ch...

"I remember the first rifle ever given to me by my grandfather. It was a Werder's Original, and I was four"...

The Chap takes his Bavarian 1869 Werder in 11x50R out to the range for a shoot, and then takes it back to the workshop to give its insides a good look-over.

The Werder is rather th...

The Bloke demonstrates how to shoot quietly for indoor training (or hunting for those of that bent) with a long-barrelled .22 rimfire. Specifically, his Lee-Enfield No.7. Without a silencer / moderator.

Standard velocity .22 rf is already pretty quiet, and needs no hearing protection outdoors ...

Despite having destroyed and laid waste utterly to the bad gen from the English-language literature about Swiss 7.5x53.5 mm GP90 being semismokeless, The Bloke sets up a comparison, just because. Using original 7.5x53.5mm GP90 bullets in his 1889 Schmidt-Rubin, he loads 4 cartridges:

1x 32gn R...

Yes, another M1 Garand fuddlore video!!!

In this one, The Bloke hits himself in the head a lot, and throws metal objects at himself. All in the quest to test as much fuddlore as possible and to answer the age old question of "Will It Ping"? Which sounds like a corny 80's gameshow... Based on t...

The Bloke continues his quest to document the effects on cardboard of various bulleted blanks. This time, Sweden. Not Switzerland. With The Gent's Swedish Mauser!

Same procedure as before, with a long Swedish Mauser in 6.5x55 calibre.

Bloke got lucky at a gunshow recently and managed to pick up one of his favourite Lee-Enfield rifles - a No.7 Mk.1, a .22 lr smallbore training rifle. These are the peak of development of the .22 rimfire trainers, and replicate the .303 No.4 as far as possible, and even have a 5 round magazine.
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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. ...