Everyone talks about sand cuts, and they're supposedly magic. Let's look at the most commonly-known sets of them, on a 7.62mm L1A1 SLR (British inch FN FAL) after being exposed to Finnish moon dust at Finnish Brutality 2023, and a 9mm L2A3 Sterling Mk.4 SMG after having had about 150 rounds throu...

Toni of Ensio Firearms made this unique rifle as his final project at gunsmithing school. It's a scratch-built, one-off 7.62x39 AR-15 type rifle with a 4 lug bolt, annular piston like a Vz.52, and it takes AK47 magazines that just slide in and out of the magazine housing like butter.

Ziga of Polenar Tactical wanted a go on Bloke's British L1A1 SLR (an inch-pattern FN FAL in 7.62 NATO / .308 Win). So we had to oblige!

It turns out that designing a rifle from scratch is hard. Very hard. Which is why most manufacturers don't bother and just make variations on well-established designs like the AR-15, AK, FN FAL or similar.

Ensio Firearms of Finland decided to break the mold and design their own .308 Win / .223 R...

Allyness saves lives!

Bloke takes his 7.62 NATO BSA L1A1 SLR and Browning Hi-Power Mk.1 to @varusteleka 's Finnish Brutality 2023, LARPing in Breacher category in full late-70's-early-80's British Army style, even down to the dodgy facial hair. How did this out of shape office monkey get on wi...

Chappie shows his Mk.2 version of making 18mm Milbank-Amsler rimfire ammunition.

Gone is the French cosplay after entering the gatrix, it's time to get down to business with modern kit, gear and guns. The tactical gear is all Varusteleka and the general clothing is Decathlon for everyday trail running and hiking. I'm competing on a budget but hopefully I'll end up a little hi...

Chappie demonstrates a really easy way to make M1866 Chassepot needlefire rifle cartridges.

In a followup to an earlier video, Bloke takes his 7.62mm L1A1 SLR to the range with his L2A2 SUIT (Sight Unit, Infantry, Trilux) on it in order to demonstrate how it makes the rifle group worse and doesn't hold zero.

In the process, it self-destructed and gave him a nice Glasgow kiss, which wil...

A somewhat tired Bloke and Chap answer Patreon's questions in some pretty poor acoustics! And of course, a BotR episode wouldn't be complete without some form of screw up somewhere along the line......

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Bloke takes his Bulgarian-contract 8x50R Mannlicher M95 straight pull rifle out for a spin at 300m. It's really surprisingly accurate!

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Bloke unboxes and takes a first look at the Tikka T3x Arctic rifle, adopted as the C19 rifle for the Canadian Rangers in 7.62 NATO / .308 Winchester. Is the hype real? Oh yes! Yes, it really is!

Thanks to the RUAG Ammotech museum, here's a very brief look at the three ground-role machine guns in Swiss service in WW2. All in 7.5x55 GP11, one is a French Chatellerault for tanks (the Swiss bought French tanks), a Furrer LMG 25 (with toggle locking, of course), and a Maxim MG11.

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To the tune of the Red Dwarf theme:

It's cold outside / there's no kind of atmosphere / I want to shoot / revolver / there's a kit / and it comes from France / fun, fun, fun / in the barn, barn barn!

Yes indeed, H&C Collection make a kit for indoor training with black powder muzzleloading p...

Another "contrary to popular belief" mythbust: yes, M95 Mannlicher straight pull rifles do indeed have primary extraction.

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In a slight deviation from normal mad minute programming, Mike takes a look at a more or less practical 15 rounds, and discusses the important point that if you can in principle fire 25+ rounds, when you dial it back to 15 you can spend much more time doing things like aiming, worrying about your...

A bit long this one, but I thought some people might like to see the whole process, and how some rifles will really like some ammo and not others.

Here's Bloke's "Minty Mauser", which is a Spanish M43 (kinda almost VZ24 / Kar98k configuration), with a scope mount and turned down bolt handle do...

An addendum to an earlier video...

Bloke gets loaned a back-converted M1900 Kurzgewehr and some re-primed original 1910 dated GP90 ammo to try out at 300m!

This one was originally a 1900 Short Rifle, was officially converted to a K00/11, and then unofficially converted back to a model 1900.

Th...

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!