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  • Practical Stage In Full Swiss Kit With K00/11

    Practical Stage In Full Swiss Kit With K00/11

  • Bloke on the Range FAQ

    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...

  • A Fool In An Old Blue-Grey Uniform Shoots A K11 At 300m

    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 ...

  • Bonus Video - One Shot With A .45 Hawken Rifle At 300m

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

  • What Swiss Service Ammunition Fits In What Common Straight-Pull 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.

  • Ersatz WW1 Sniper Rifle Project #1: Background And Zeroing

    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

  • Range Time With The Ortgies .25 ACP Pocket Pistol

    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...

  • This Range Is Genuinely 100% Safe Otherwise It Could Never Have Been Built

    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...

  • Can A .308" M1 Garand Slamfire If You Put .30-06 In It?

    In response to certain comments, the Bloke has a look as to whether the receiver bridge on the M1 Garand would do anything at all to help avoid a slamfire if you accidentally put a clip of .30-06 in a .308 Winchester-chambered rifle.

  • Bloke Off The Range: 120-Year-Old Pear-In-A-Bottle Schnapps

    After a trip to the range, The Chap pulls out a family heirloom, a bottle of eau de vie / schnapps with a 120 year old pear in it. And very smooth and tasty it was too. Let the Chap explain the history behind this particular tipple.

  • A Vaguely Normal Swiss 300m Rifle Match... But Not Quite!

    The Bloke and The Chap dust off their old wood-and-steel pieces to go and shoot a new "Karabiner Match" in view of the Mighty Stockhorn mountain. 10-franc prize vouchers all round!

    There's also an homage to another channel in here somewhere too :)

    In the interests of pleasing everyone as fa...

  • 50 Shots Consecutively From The 3-Round Group Video

    This video is a supplement to Blokesplaining 3 round groups.

    It's a composition, in real time, of all 50 shots fired, so those interested can look how the group forms over time, and how any 3 consecutive shots is probably not representative

  • Blokesplaining Why 3 Round Groups... Aren't

    Bloke takes to tackling one of the great topics of debate of our age: why anyone claiming their AK or Mini 14 shoots MOA is talking nonsense.

    Or, more generally, why a 3-round group... isn't.

    EDIT: It appears that some viewers are confused by the fact that I am firing the gun, as if this ha...

  • Chinese PU 3.5x Scope First Impressions

    In a short bonus video, the Bloke shares his first impressions of a cheap Chinese PU scope he received directly from China. Overall build quality, and optical quality are looked at.

    The PU scope is a 3.5 power scope used on the Mosin-Nagant 1891/30 sniper rifle.

    This one cost about US$145 s...

  • Bulleted Blanks - What Are They, And How Dangerous Are They?

    Bloke, appropriately attired, acquires some old bulleted blanks in 7.5x55 GP11 calibre. In the absence of any ballistic gelatin gummy bears, he sees what they do against cardboard.

    How dangerous is a little soft wood bullet in a blank anyway? A slack handful of them through a Schmidt-Rubin K1...

  • 380 Friday - Like 455 Friday But 75 less. Which Is The "Best" 380/200 Service Revolver?

    The Bloke, The Chap and Nick head to the range to see which is the "best" of the three standard .380/200 revolvers in British service in WW2. In the rain. With possibly surprising results! Featuring an Enfield No.2, a Webley .38 Mk.IV, and a S&W M&P.

    Busybody by Audionautix is licensed under a C...

  • Bunker Open Day 20 August 2016

    Extra video! Swiss bunkers!

    Bloke and the Chap take their kids on a WW2/Cold War bunker open day in the Berner Oberland, taking in the artillery emplacement in Krattigen, the command post above Hondrich, and the place-to-be-defended-at-all-costs, at Einigen. Lots to interest troglodytes here, ...

  • Operating The Swiss 1851 Feldstutzer Muzzleloader

    Bloke takes his favourite smokepole for a fondle. This rifle is one of the early model 1851 Feldstutzers in 10.5mm calibre.

    Detailed info in this exact rifle is here: http://militarygunsofeurope.eu/listing/swiss-1851-federal-carbine/

    It shoots a 300gn compression bullet at 1400 fps, and wa...

  • 1848 Prototype And 1851 Feldstutzer

    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...

  • Chap In The Workshop With A Pedersoli Priming Flask

    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 ...

  • On The Trail Of The Uniformed Redneck: Alpenflage, Roadsigns, A Cool Range And A Centibunker.

    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...

  • Murtenschiessen 2016

    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...

  • Two Ways To Load A Flintlock Musket

    Bonus video!

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

  • 455 Friday: Which Is The "Best" Late-WW1 .455 Revolver?

    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...