Bloke takes his mint 1963 dated Chinese Type 56 Carbine / SKS out to 300m to see how well it is zeroed, and how well it shoots. The first shot you see here is genuinely his first ever shot with this rifle at any distance.

It is surprisingly well zeroed with S&B 123gn FMJ out the box, and shoot...

By a surprising amount of popular demand, here's what Bloke did to get his 1945-dated Indian Ishapore-built .303" SMLE no.1 Mk.III* ("Iffy Ishy") ready for the range.

And the answer is: basically as little as possible. But this was a bigger task than he first anticipated!

Also contains som...

Alex came to Schloss Bloke to talk about German firearms laws, and how they work as of April 2019. He explains how it works for sports shooters, hunters and collectors, and some of the exemptions.

Yes it's long. Yes it's complicated. No, that's not all of it - all the little exceptions and lit...

Yes, so the big aperture bit of this footage has been used in an earlier Extra Vid. But what are these Extra Vids for, if not for re-cycling footage to illustrate specific points? In this case, that the Lee-Enfield No.4 big aperture isn't less accurate than the small aperture to any meaningful de...

After Mike got a reference in a Taofledermaus video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV5zwug89C4 it was only a matter of time before he felt that he OUGHT to weigh in on the Highly Important Topic of the British perspective on the important questions of how to pronounce "Carbine" and ".30-06...

The Chap takes a look at his muzzleloading Swedish 1815/38 flintlock musket, and sees what it can do on the range.

Black powder can be fun!

Bloke and Chap participate with their Schmidt-Rubin G11 and K11 in the 100th and last ever Neueneggschiessen. Includes a history of the Battle of Neuenegg.

Thanks to David for the footage of the three shots into the cold grave. Here's his Twitter: https://twitter.com/mannedavid
And the Faceb...

First in a new series of at least one other video, The Chap talks about French WW2 ammo pouches and his project to make himself a reproduction pair!

So back in 2016, Bloke filmed the Murtenschiessen in early-BotR quality, with the history of the Battle of Murten 1476.

This year, both Bloke and Chap were invited to shoot by the Société de Tir de la Ville de Fribourg, one of the oldest shooting clubs in Switzerland, founded in 1493, so only a ...

Follow my fumbling steps into amateur leatherwork. I'm sure the leathersmiths amongst us with tut, roll eyes, scowl and gnash their teeth but then again, it worked!

The basic breakdown of construction of the pouches (in French) can be found at: https://enguerrandmodelisme.weebly.com/cartouch...

Matt of M426 lets BotR test his .32 ACP Welrod pistol [desperately trying not to use trigger words that will set off the YouTube bots...] Even with the rubber wipes shot through, it's really quite quiet - not silent, but comfortable without hearing protection. Also, it's certainly acceptably accu...

Due to a shortage of Lewis guns and a glut of withdrawn Ross Mk.III rifles once the Canadian Expeditionary Force had been completely re-equipped with Lee-Enfield SMLE rifles, Monsieur Huot proposed to modify Ross rifles into an automatic rifle / light machine gun (LMG) configuration.

5 of the...

Those big old rimfires are wallhangers no more. Learn how to get them booming once again!

Here is my nifty way of making what you need and without expensive tools and basic machining skills. Applicable for feeding not only Milbank-Amslers large and small, but also Swiss Peabodys, Vetterlis, W...

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So we deliberately overstressed a Lee-Enfield No.4 rifle, with .300 WinMag cartridges, both dry and oiled. What happened?

K...

A weird and extremely badly-acted thing happened to Bloke on his return from Finnish Brutality 2019..... It involved an offering of makkarasnapsit schnapps sausage from a strange hooded Ambassador of Metal type fellow... How could Bloke refuse?

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Kevin, formerly of SBAM Shooting, moved back to the UK a year ago, and immediately started the process of getting his firearm certificate (FAC) as a target shooter. Mike discusses with him how the process went. We may have screwed up the details of one-for-one variations slightly and there's a s...

Bloke and Chap take a road trip to Münchenstein, near Basel, to pick up the GoFundMe Myford ML7 lathe, built in 1964! Thanks to all the supporters who made this possible!

The question is though, did they break their backs in the process?

Bismark of the Military Aviation History channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Bis18marck70 was filming in Switzerland, and asked me if I could get him on the range and teach him to shoot. How could I refuse such a request from a Top Bloke like himself? And it gives me an opportunity to illustrate...

The Chap presents a very good, neat way to make paper tubes for your Dreyse or Chassepot needlefire rifle!

Earlier videos on the topic:

Full luxury Chassepot version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iahThVlF7QI
Simple Chassepot version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr1cN9FXA9E

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On 15 April 2019, Mike gave a presentation to the Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association in London: www.hbsa-uk.org

It concerned the parallels between the British and the Swiss in the
British 1880's trials, and some thereafter.

So, after his Tikka T3x Arctic / C19 Canadian Rangers Rifle was returned from warranty repair, Mike takes a look at it and gives it a good wringing out at 300m on the range with SalTech and GGG 308 Win ammunition.

Bloke takes his shiny new Tikka T3x Arctic out to 300m and tests it against his trusty 1943 Long Branch Lee Enfield No.4 off the bag, and offhand standing, kneeling and prone.

There's a little disappointment in places...

This video is Mike's complete run and talk-through of Stage 1 of Finnish Brutality 2019: 3rd person and headcam footage! A kettlebell and an L1A1 SLR / FN FAL on a Kasarda Drill - what could be more epic?!?

This video is Mike's complete run and talk-through of Stage 2 of Finnish Brutality 2019: 3rd person and headcam footage! A BMP armoured personnel carrier?!? On a stage? How awesome was that!