Bono estente! Down in Bella Italia, Bloke meets up with Kevin of SBAM shooting for a spot of shooting and banter on the range. BotR combining with SBAM is a bit like crossing the beams in Ghostbusters (the original one), and disaster would have to ensue. By definition. Ammo didn't turn up, and wh...

Mike shows off a friend's first generation British 7.62mm Target Rifle, based on a Lee-Enfield No.4.

Newsreel footage used under fair use.

Thanks to 4(T) for a few pictures!

Mike and Rob discuss how the lessons learned in the Boer War impacted the rifles and personal carrying equipment of the British soldier in the run up to 1914. How and why did it result ultimately in the SMLE Mk.III and 1908-pattern belt kit, from a starting point of the MLE/MLM and Slade-Wallace ...

Following on from an earlier vid, The Chap takes you through a couple of other of Mr. Lienhard's sub calibre contraptions for indoor training with rifle and pistol. In this case, another Schmid-Rubin 7.5x55 GP11 adaptor, another Parabellum (Luger) 7.65 Para device, and another for the SIG P210 pi...

Mike and Rob continue their look at official British WW2 close quarter battle CQB techniques, this time from Weapons Training Memorandum 7 from 1944, downloadable here: https://vickersmg.blog/manual/small-arms-training-manuals/ Plus, support those guys!

This is the earliest official reference...

With many thanks to our friends as mentioned in the video, here we take a look at the mechanics of the lightweight BREN Mk.3 LMG, issued initially for airborne and jungle use from 1944 onwards, but which found wider usage in Korea, Malaya, Borneo and beyond.

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Mike gets up at sill o'clock to go and shoot the 50m pistol Morgartenschiessen 2018. In doing so, he talks about the Battle of Morgarten, its significance, and discusses with his friend Budi the difficulties this shoot presents.

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Save ammo! And save money buying unnecessary laser bore-sighting equipment! The Bloke bores you all senseless showing you the old-fashioned way to do it with his Hege-bubba'd Spanish M43 Mauser in .308 Win!

This is a followup to an epicly long vid on the original cartridges: https://youtu.be/iahThVlF7QI

The Chap takes you through a much easier way to confect M1866 Chassepot paper needlefire cartridges for any 45-ish calibre black powder rifle bullet.

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The Chap takes a stroll around Vetterli Stutzer set triggers, and gives a brief history of the role of the Sharpshooters in the Swiss military of the era.

The Chap takes a look at a Früwirth M1872 Austrian Gendarmerie Carbine. Not a Fruhwirth, Frühwirth, Fruwirt, Frühwirt or any other wierd spelling, but Früwirth. This was a critical developmental step on the way to the Kropatschek M1886.

The Chap takes you through a new metallic conversion kit for the 11mm Chassepot Needle Rifle, which easily converts it to use particular metallic cartridges, and takes it out to the range and shoots it!

The kit is from H&C Collection

The Daily Show recently produced a couple of videos about Switzerland's gun culture. Although broadly positive and in favour of the Swiss, it of course contained some Fake News: basically both videos contained some misleading graphics and incredibly false statements about certain aspects of Swiss...

Bloke takes a friend's .303 P14 rifle (aka Rifle, No.3 Mk.1 (W)) out to the range and blathers a lot about it before finally getting down to some hot shooting action. The P14 rifle was a modification of the Pattern 13 Trials Rifles from before WW1, which fired a ridiculous .276 / 7mm cartridge at...

The Chap has a blat with his M1886 Mannlicher on the range, then takes you through it in the workshop.

The Bloke takes you around the Sperrstelle Sattelegg, near Wimmis in the Berner Oberland, discussing the Swiss defence strategy for WW2 and the Cold War, and how this particular bunker layout protects one of the entrances to the so-called Redoubt (Réduit National).
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The Chap takes a look at the Wyss and Furter sub calibre training systems for the Swiss Stgw 90 / SIG 550.

The Chap demostrates the rather spiffy 4mm Lienhard sub-calibre training insert systems for Swiss straight-pull rifles, and the Swiss Parabellum (Luger) pistol. And, he shoots them in his Schmidt-Rubin K11 and 00/06 Parabellum pistol!

Thanks to www.swisswaffen.com for the use of their photo!
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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?