Mike and Rob of Britishmuzzleloaders discuss the whys and wherefores of the changes from the 1908 Pattern web equipment to the 1937 Pattern. Something to do with rifles and BREN light machine guns.

Also featuring: a couple of .303 Lee Enfield No.4's and an SMLE

Mike takes a look at an original factory SA80 / L85A1!

Bloke and Chap show you their genuine first ever attempt at powder coating cast bullets! And it's not BotR unless something goes wrong!

Sometimes Enfield does things right. Normally when they're just polishing up an existing design. Like the L1A1 SLR, the British version of the FN FAL.

Both The Chap and The Bloke try their hands at a rapid fire unlimited mad minute with a MAS 36 in 7.5x54mm French.

This one was rather fun. Also includes a discussion about charger clip automatic ejection at the end.

Bloke and Chap go and shoot the 2018 300m rifle Feldschiessen - The Chap with his Sturmgewehr 57 off a bipod, and The Bloke with his Schmidt-Rubin G11 - with no aids to accurate shooting! Who will win, and will The Bloke even hit the target?

Bloke and Chap take this well-worn French M16 Berthier Carbine in 8x50R Lebel for a spin. We could say it was fast and smooth, but we'd be totally lying.....

We belive this WW1 piece is in Battlefield 1....

Bloke gets to blather on about the .303 Rifle No.5, aka "Jungle Carbine", thanks to the kindness of a friend of the channel. What's the deal with this "wandering zero" thing that appears so frequently in the literature but seems to be rarely seen in real life?

Mike and Rob of the parish of Britishmuzzleloaders try their hand at the Advanced Snap Shooting exercise from Weapons Training Memorandum No.7 of 1944: https://vickersmg.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/wtm07.pdf

In this, they use Rob's Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.1* with Rob's .303 British cast bullet loa...

Bloke and Chap take Swiss 7.5mm M82 and M82/29 revolvers out on the range to see if there's an improvement for the user from one to the other. And discuss Furrer. With many thanks to www.kudutir.ch

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Bloke on the Range takes you through some BREN light Machine Gun shooting technique and doctrine on its use.

Das Schiessen war selbstverständlich kantonal bewilligt!!!!!

Platoon in the Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSf6aN3H2Y

.303 British LMG

Mike was lucky enough to be able to shoot the semiauto SA80 / L85A1, so he zeroed it at 100m and shot it at 300m

Bloke gets a rare opportunity to shoot a Swiss ZFK 55 telescopically-sighted rifle in 7.5x55 GP11. Well, it's mostly (but not exclusively) a designated marksman's rifle (aka DMR), developed right at the end of the straight-pull era and overlapping with the Stgw 57 (aka SIG 510)

So, does the French 7.5x54 MAS-36 automatically eject clips or not? Here is the definitive answer!

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Monsieur Le Chap and Monsieur Le Bloke shoot a pair of French model 92 revolvers side by side: a proper St. Etienne Mle 92, and a Trocaola-made Mle 92 Espagnol, a Smith & Wesson M&P clone made in the Eibar valley. But which one is better?

Did you know that the French army had soldiers load 8mm Lebel reduced power gallery cartridges powered by magician's flashpaper? Let The Chap tell you all about them!

Extra keywords:
8x50 berthier flash paper

Bloke and Chap discuss the whys and wherefores of how the French 1886 Lebel rifle came about, and why it was obsolete the minute it was introduced. Also digresses into tolerancing, rifle grenades, etc etc etc.

Bloke takes his Lee-Enfield No.4 apart (a rare event, since unless you've got to dry a sopping wet rifle, no good can come of it) to show how the forend is attached to the metal. It's not obvious, and it's rather clever.

Also there's a few verbal digressions railing against the common unthinki...

Bloke takes a train from quiet Switzerland to noisy Milan to meet Kevin of SBAM shooting. Please go subscribe to their channel here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_7GHCVbjCdwWMQWueqTu2A

There'll be lots of content coming up in the next weeks, both on BotR and on SBAM, so you'll probably wa...

Finally. The first "proper" installment in the Mad Minute series! In which The Bloke geeks out with the footage and data he got! This one is the Lee-Enfield No.4 in .303 British (natch), to serve as the baseline. Target is 18-20m away, in case I forgot to say it in the vid.

Sorry for the echo ...

Lloyd, of the Parish of Lindybeige rapid fires four rifles under so-called "Mad Minute" conditions - a Swiss Schmidt-Rubin K31, Mauser Kar98k, a Lee-Enfield No.4 and a US M1 Garand. How did he get on?

Bloke takes his practical experimentation very, very seriously. Here, he takes a look at whether reloading a single charger clip, two of them, or replacing the magazine is quicker, under several different sets of circumstances.

Featuring his lovely 1943 Long Branch .303 British Lee-Enfield No....

Moving slowly forwards on the rapid fire Mad Minute series, here's the first straight-pull rifle to be tested - a Swiss K31 in 7.5x55 GP11. It did surprisingly well - except the reloads, which bit spicy monkey chunks.

(BTW the bloke is not fanatical about the term "Schmidt-Rubin" being applied...

Vlog of Day 2 of the BotR / SBAM trip. In which we drive up to the awesome range in Lodrino (thanks, Range!). And in which we shoot a whole bunch of stuff. And lots of stuff goes wrong...