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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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!

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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.

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.

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!

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...

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.

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

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.

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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