Bloke on the Range

Bloke on the Range

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Bloke on the Range
  • Mad Minute Series: SMLE

    Bloke takes his .303" British Lee-Enfield SMLE and sees how many he can fire through it in a mad minute.

  • EXTRA VID: 7.62x39 AIA (Lee Enfield) Frankenrifle's First Ever 300m Outing (With Crap Wolf Ammo).

    Bloke takes Frankenrifle, his customised Australian International Arms AIA M10A1 in 7.62x39 to the 300m range to zero it and see how it does with iron sights and Wolf steel-cased ammo.

    No Lee Enfield SMLE or No.4 rifles were harmed in the making of this film.

  • Souped-Up Sturmgewehr 57's!

    Starting back in 2003, the Swiss shooting federation approved certain go-faster modifications for 7.5x55mm Stgw 57 rifles in 300m competition. Here's two particularly nice examples of rifles with various permitted ad-ons, including one with a freefloat tube!

  • Zielfernrohrkarabiner 31/43: The Ssecond Swiss K31 Sniper Rifle With A Periscope Telescopic Sight

    The Bloke presents a K31/43 sniper rifle, the second of two designated marksman / sniper rifles the Swiss army adopted in WW2 in order to provide long-range capability to its infantry. Naturally, this rifle is in 7.5x55 GP11 calibre, is a straight pull, and has a funky periscope telescopic sight....

  • Finnish Lahti L-35 Pistol Disassembly, Reassembly And Functioning

    The Chap takes you through disassembling and reassembling his Finnish Lahti L35, which is mechanically NOT AT ALL A LUGER-DERIVATIVE! Also, he explains how it works.

  • EXTRA VIDEO: STEN Mk.II Blocked At Semiauto, 25m Offhand "Precision"

    loke takes his STEN Mk.II, which was blocked at semiauto with two blobs of weld on the selector (which means he can shoot it on any range rather than just at permitted events as would be the case if it were not permanently blocked), shooting it "precision" (lolz) offhand at 25m.

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  • EXTRA VIDEO: The "BREN Pulls Forward on Firing" Myth

    Well, that's that busted. No, the BREN light machine gun does not pull forward on firing. It has to obey Newton just like everything else.

    Legal note: selbstverständlich war diese Schiessgelegenheit gemäss Art. 5 abs. 4 kantonal bewilligt

  • Two Unusual 300m Swiss "Standard" rifles, incl. an Accuracy International!

    Thanks to friend of the channel GR, The Bloke gets a chance to show off a couple of unusual 300m "Standard" rifles (Standardgewehre) as used in Swiss competition, one in 7.5x55 GP11, the other in 5.6mm GP90 (aka .223 Remington). Although Standardgewehr is similar to "Target Rifle" (or Palma Match...

  • .577/450 Martini-Henry 10 Rounds Rapid (Video Collaboration)

    Since the available .577/480" ammo didn't fit in the available Martini-Henry rifle when making the Great British Rates of Fire Disaster Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3YiJDgddWk

    ... a friend of the channel who goes by the name of Stan_Da_Bout on the Army Rumour Service offered to...

  • EXTRA VIDEO: Target SR(b) .303 British Lee Enfield No.4 Mk.2 at 300m

    In the days before the heavy-barrelled 7.62mm target rifles, there was SR (b) - Service Rifle (b), which permitted deviations from the military stocking-up system, target sights and middle sling swivels. Calibre was still 303 British though. Various Long Lee-Enfield rifles, SMLE's, P14's and No.4...

  • Patreon Q&A Volume 2: July 2017

    Unoriginal vid idea, maybe some original-ish ideas in the video :)

    0:35 reloading/shooting 7.5mm GP90
    3:50 zeroing sights on pistols - should you? Getting around to old-school pistol technique: when?
    6:18 reloading in Switzerland
    9:13 subguns in Switzerland?
    10:12 Kar98k accuracy acceptan...

  • A Swiss Bunker Tour: Fischbalmen

    Bloke and the kiddies go on a tour of the Fischbalmen bunker at Beatenbucht on the shores of the Thunsersee in Switzerland. A small montage ensues, which includes some nice Swiss automatic firearms - the massively over-engineered Furrer MP41 (who needs a toggle lock in 7.65mm or 9mm Para?) and Fu...

  • EXTRA VIDEO: Mosin Nagant M1891/30 PU At 300m Confirming A German Statement

    To add a little context to a quotation in Richard Law's Collector Grade book on the Mauser K98k Sniper Rifle. The Russian angle. Basically, and entirely contrary to popular belief, the Germans had systematic accuracy problems with their Kar98k sniper rifles. And were rather jealous of the Russian...

  • Making the Manky Mauser Work Properly

    Since the Manky Mauser Kar98k had a somewhat extreme extractor that was giving him problems, Bloke took a file and a stone to it. Here's the whys and wherefores of what he did, and a discussion on controlled vs push feed.

    There's a Lindybeige cameo in this vid too!

  • EXTRA VID: .303 Lee Enfield No.4 0.2" Large Battle Sight At 300m

    But that's unpossible! How can someone shoot straight with that great big ghost ring 0.2" / 5.1mm battle aperture on a Lee-Enfield No.4! Let alone at 300m! Inconceivable!

    Music Created By : EternalSushi
    Song Title: Undertale - Megalovania Elevator Jazz
    Credit link: https://goo.gl/PrF6MA
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  • Swiss Straight-Pulls 6: Model 1900 Short Rifle

    And we move ever onwards with the Schmidt-Rubin straight pull rifle series. This time, the Model 1900 Kurzgewehr, or "short rifle". This one is a complete unicorn, as the Bloke explains.

  • The Point Of The Lee-Enfield Magazine Cutoff, Post-1909

    In which I make a screwup of the words of command due to tiredness, but I think nobody notices.......

    Many thanks to Rob of Britishmuzzleloaders.

  • Some Notes On Felt Recoil, And A Fail On Primary Extraction

    With thanks to Kevin & SBAM Shooting, a demo about felt recoil, with an L1A1 SLR (British FAL)! And an attempted demo about primary extraction that failed due to having nice shiny quality brass. We'll do it again with some grotty surplus or steel-cased much to show it properly on another occasion!

  • Getting An M95 Mannlicher In 8x50R Running 1: The Initial Plan...

    The bloke makes an awful gag that's not even in the slightest bit funny to introduce his shiny new hundred-year old Steyr M95 Mannlicher, the main rifle with which Austria-Hungary went to war in WW1. It's probably in Battlefield 1 and all or something...

    Problem is, he can't shoot it yet - wha...

  • Ammunition Compatibility: .32 S&W Long in 7.5mm Swiss Revolver

    Just a short one this week. To settle the myth once and for all as to whether you can or can't shoot .32 S&W Long in a 7.5mm Swiss revolver such as the M1882 or M1882/29, The Chap fires some. Spoiler: he fires some.

  • Yes, Some Modern .303 Rimjams Unless You Treat It Properly

    As a followup to an earlier vid (link below) where I showed that milspec .303 doesn't actually suffer rimjams / rimlock due to the design of the rim, here's some commercial ammo (S&B) that suffers it badly. And how to deal with it. As demonstrated with a very nice 1915 dated Lee-Enfield SMLE Mk.III.

  • Shooting .32 S&W Long Wadcutter In A 7.5 Swiss Ordnance Chambered Belgian Bulldog

    Shooting .32 S&W Long Wadcutter in a 7.5 Swiss Ordnance chambered Belgian Bulldog

  • Official WW1-era British Magazine Doctrine

    Contrary to popular belief, the official WW1 doctrine of use of the .303" Lee-Enfield SMLE magazine wasn't to stuff it full to bursting. Bet most people on active service did though, despite what the Musketry Regulations 1909 said.

  • Mauser Kar98k vs Lee-Enfield No.4: Accuracy

    As part of an ongoing series comparing each aspect of the design and use of the last of the WW2 mainstream Lee-Enfield rifles (No. 4 Mk.1* in .303 British) and of the Mauser rifles (Kar98k in 7.92x57mm), here we take a look at basic accuracy off the bench, and make some comments on the sights.

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