The Bloke and The Chap take a look at a step in the evolution of the Swiss Federal Carbine 1851, aka Feldstutzer. The Chap happened across a Zurich 1848 prototype, one of several designs on the way from a pure target rifle to the 1851 Feldstutzer.

Of course, they take them both to the range an...

Since Everyone Knows that steel must not get within a mile of black powder being metered, the Chap, attired in a very dapper fashion, modifies his flintlock priming flask to be 100% Steel, GMO and conflict-mineral free. With some hand tools and a surprising source of brass. Now, he can prime his ...

Bloke takes a trip up a valley on the search of the Uniformed Redneck, nattily attired in Alpenflage.

This video is kind of a mashup between a camouflage effectiveness video in homage to Brent0331, a chance to show some scenery, a tour of an interesting military shooting range with the remain...

With his apologies for the poor sound quality, the Bloke proudly presents the Historic Murten Shoot 2016. On the side of the hill where the Burgundians had their command post during the 1476 battle, we have another of those 12-shots in 4-minutes with no sighters special historic shoots. And a gre...

Bonus video!

The Chap demonstrates two different ways you can load your smoothbore flintlock musket. Using "personal" lubricant... :/

What could possibly be better than a 50-cal Friday? How about a 455 Friday, featuring all of the 3 main late-war British .455 Service revolvers? Unfortunately does not feature exploding fruit or rubbber zombies, sorry.... Falls under "stuff we can't get away with on our range".

Bloke, Bloke Se...

The Bloke and The Chap, well really The Chap actually, knock together some substandard replicas of the old Smith & Wesson self-lubricating bullet, to see if the principle works.

Bloke denudes his match K31 of its diopter to explain all the funny business going on with the tangent rearsight.

Here's a photo of the B4 target mentioned in the video: https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpl1/t31.0-8/13308465_232954337087402_4713610398358302671_o.jpg

And an...

The Bloke and the Chap go on a double date with a lovely pair of Swiss carbines, and some collectible ammunition.

With some 1951-dated GP11 (7.5x55) in a K31, and some 1909-dated GP90 (7.5x53.5) in an M93 Mannlicher, they put the entirety of the English-language literature on the GP90 cartridg...

By Popular Demand, Bloke takes his Belgian bulldog out for a spin with some original 7.5mm Swiss Ordnance Revolver ammo and some homeloads.

Please excuse the state of the blackboard and the sketches.... Will do better next time!

Bloke goes all science teacher and blokesplains why a G41 does not have a "Bang"-type gas system on the basis of some chalk schematics tortured from patent documents.

For info on the Bang rifle and syst...

Bloke cops a feel of a rather exotic and sexy Lee-Enfield: the Naval issue SMLE Mk.I**. These were modifications of SMLE Mk.I's (i.e. No.1 Mk.I's) to make them more like a Mk.III. Approved in 1908, the front sight wings were straightened, the barleycorn replaced with a rectangular post, and the r...

Bloke goes competing on what may be the most beautiful range in the world, in Gimmelwald. Let's hope it can keep shooting after 2020, when all village ranges have to be converted to expensive metal bullet traps.

Bloke, for reasons unknown to Science, decides he wants to replicate John Pedersen's waxing process which was used to apply an invisible layer of hard lubricant to cartridges to get his toggle-delayed blowback rifle to run.

Not being the lucky owner of a Pedersen, he decides to lube some Norin...

Bloke's French cousin and his mate galliantly offered to talk about the French 8mm revolvers. The was an offer the Bloke could not refuse. There may have been red wine involved These revolvers, both the French-not-a-Lebel ones and the Spanish "Eibar" ones, stayed in military service until at leas...

This technical short video is a little something I tossed off in response to certain comments on the K31 by the awesome Alex C on this superb TFB TV run-and-gun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAn_HUFNws

Here at Bloke on the Range, we love TFB TV's work, and we hope they keep it up. Ho...

By public demand (so don't blame me), Bloke turns his (lack of) wit and humour to selected bad features of other fanboi favourites. Featuring the G43, FN2000, SCAR, ACR, Beretta ARX180, Krag, M1 Carbine (with proper English pronunciation), SVT40, SIG 550, Ljungmann, Hakim, Rashid, lever actions,...

In this video, Bloke goes and shoots the Weberschiessen in a field in the rain with his trusty K31 (which made him remember the olden days of shooting at Bisley), with unexpectedly positive results.

Includes obligatory sausages, yodelling, wine before lunchtime and all manner of other kinds of b...

Bloke goes training at his (current) local range, with his trusty K31 to give some of an idea about what Swiss shooting can be like. When it's done out in a field instead of in the Schützenhaus...

Please excuse the couple of shonky edits... I'm not going to recompile and re-upload just for them ...

A sardonic view of selected bad points of various rifles. And The Hat is back. Spreads the love over the Lee-Enfield, Mauser 98's, AR15's, M1 Garands, M1A's, Martini-Henries, the SA80, HK G3, FN FAL, AK, 1903 Springfield, Schmidt-Rubins, MAS 36, Mannlichers, Arisakas, the Lebel, Mosin-Nagants, SK...

By popular demand, an Blokeumentary about the legend that is Frankenrifle, her origins and the surgery carried out to make her what she is today: a sort of "Frankenfield" or "Frank-enfield" or something.

I would also like at this stage to knock any rumours on the head that I wilfully and with ma...

More than a whole hour of Ian and Mike shooting the... erm... breeze about four annoyingly persistent, and persistently annoying, gun myths! Complete with whisky, a veritable multitude of digressions and a Lindybeige cameo!

In order to help you navigate and split watching this video up over s...

Tim came to visit. He hadn't fired any form of handgun before. So Mike showed him the ropes! As a new shooter, he was a natural! Some of us had to work hard before we could shoot that well!

Rowan joins Bloke on the Range for a discussion about the common Lee-Enfield and .303 British myths, which seem to originate in the US. How could the rifles have been used for so long in the British Empire and Commonwealth, including in competition out to 1000 yards, without people noticing that ...