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!

This video is Mike's complete run and talk-through of Stage 3 of Finnish Brutality 2019: 3rd person and headcam footage! Climbing through cars, shooting standing unsupported, then a V-TAC wall to top it off. An awesome stage!

This video is Mike's complete run and talk-through of Stage 4 of Finnish Brutality 2019: 3rd person and headcam footage! Starting in his comfort zone with a bit of fast and accurate middle-finger shooting, and ending with hefting bags of sand around and blazing away at steel poppers!

This video is Mike's complete run and talk-through of Stage 5 of Finnish Brutality 2019: 3rd person and headcam footage! The ultimate stage prop - a BMP - made another appearance, from which some poppers were shot. Then a dummy drag, some rifle work, and some running back and forth with ammo cans...

The Swiss Sturmgewehr 57 (aka SIG 510) is an interesting and unique piece - far heavier and more awkward than its contemporaries, there are however very interesting reasons why it ended up like that. In this video, Dale explains the whys and wherefores of the Stgw 57 design, which fully explain h...

The Chap takes his birthday 1897 cadet rifle apart and discovers something rather unique in the stock.

Bloke and Chap take on the Karabinerschiessen 2019 over open sights to see if they can medal in a "proper" competition.

Course of fire is: 2 sighters, 3 individual shots, 1x3 shot string, 1x4 shot string. No time limit.

This video is Mike's complete run and talk-through of Stage 6 of Finnish Brutality 2019: 3rd person and headcam footage! The stage is called "movement", but it should really have been called "pain"!

Mike takes on the challenge of the October 2019 Historic Service Rifle match at the National Shooting Centre, Bisley, UK, with his trusty 2-groove Long Branch made Lee-Enfield No.4 in .303 British. This match consisted of 5 practices at 100, 200 and 300 yds, with the rifles shot "as-issued". Divi...

The Chap and Mistress Chap head off up the mountain to take part in the yearly Volksschiessen, a nationwide .22 precision shooting competition with wartime roots. Who will win?

The competition originates from a patriotic initiative in 1939. Find out more here (DE/FR/IT)
https://www.swissshoo...

Bloke takes his 1903A3 Springfield for a spin in .30-06 on the mad minute course. Bit disappointing this one - it'll get another go-around when he's had time to polish the bolt and bearing surfaces in the action cos it's parkerised to death.

Shorts, old guns, Glocks, Brutality matches: James Reeves of TFBTV and Mike have a little chat of a morning by Lake Lucerne!

In which Bloke makes a point that should be obvious to anyone who's ever a) shot prone, and b) handled a pump-action rifle or shotgun...

Featuring a Remington 7600 pump action rifle in 308 Win and a Lee-Enfield SMLE in .303 British

Following on from the Chap's earlier vid on getting a Swiss Milbank Amsler barking again, this time he delves in true BotR nerd style into the surprisingly fast conception, modification and adoption of the Milbank-Amsler trapdoor / tabatière system by the Swiss at the close of the 1860s. Both the...

Bloke pops into Schloss The Chap with an awesome birthday present. He finds The Chap hard at work in the workshop naturally :-)