Calvin (aka Phúc Long of Firepower United) pops his proper British made .303 charger cherry. And we got the reaction!

A quick little video from when we tested some 7.5 Swiss Ordnance revolver ammo from trimmed Soviet 7.62x38R Nagant cases. Did it work?

A quick review of the main features of a lovely Martini Henry MkI rifle, featuring some 2nd and 3rd pattern upgrades. I'm sure the real afficionados will have more to say.

Thanks to the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum: https://www.seaforthhighlanders.ca/home-museum Please pay them a visit!

A very brief look at an unconverted German Gewehr 88 (which nevertheless had had the chamber re-cut for the spitzer S-Patrone), which had not been converted to an 88/05 ...

Bloke and Chap do a taste test on some rather nice... ermmm... let's just use the Swiss term "Hausbrand" to describe the product in question, emanating as it does from small, shall we say "artisanal" production...

And includes a discussion of the old gunpowder test for spirit proof, a future C...

So Calvin (aka Phúc Long of Firepower United) was doing a little tour of Europe, and asked me whether I could teach him how to run a bolt-action rifle quickly. Since he's such a Top Bloke I took him to Brünig Indoor, and taught him how to run a Lee-Enfield action quickly, using both my No.4 in .3...

Bloke and Chap answer questions from Patrons. Topics discussed:

0:59 - Vetterli modifications for smokeless & GP90
2:49 - What is an interesting skill you've picked up?
4:48 - The Chap’s French skills, nationalities & Swiss-German
8:35 – Will a straight-pull L1A1 be allowed in the next B...

Welcome to Bloke on the Range Strip Club, where we're only interested in one thing: Will It Strip. This episode: can a Russian or Chinese Mosin-Nagant charger be used to load a 7.5x55 Swiss rifle, namely a K31 or a K11, G11, M1911, G96/11 or whatever you want to call them today? Let's find out......

By a lot of popular request, here's a Mad Minute with a Finnish M24 Mosin-Nagant in 7.62x54R. How disasterous could it possibly be?

Here's the start of the BotR Desert Brutality 2020 content on Bloke on the Range! A bit of an introduction, and then a talkthrough of Mike's Stage 1, with what went wrong and why.

At the end, there's a cameo from Iain Harrison (editor of RECOIL and winner of Season 1 of The History Channel's T...

Lots of discussion of marksmanship principles and technique (natural alignment, calling shots etc.) in this talkthrough of Bloke's Desert Brutality 2020 stages 2 (Kasarda Drill +P) and 3 (Riot Control)!

Bloke is shooting Karl Kasarda of InRange TV's Colt SP1, and a Browning Hi-Power in Retro d...

BotR Desert Brutality 2020 Day 2: stages 4-6. The usual geeky over-analysis and technique discussion

Mike is modelling a .223 Remington Colt SP1, a 9x19mm Browning High Power in a Canadian P51 holster, a vaguely Borneo campaign jungle getup (plus sweater and scarf), and a basic 44 pattern webb...

After some competition and mad-minuting, it's about time we take a look at the difference between the pre-war and post-war versions of the MAS 36 and see how the design was optimised for easy manufacturing without compromising on performance.

Continuing on from last time, Dale takes us through the various models of practice grenade and the three types of battle ammunition.

Bloke takes his fresh factory refurb UB61 BSA-made 7.62mm (.308 Win) L1A1 SLR (British FN FAL variant) out at 300m, zeroes it and has a bit of a play prone offhand.

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At Desert Brutality 2020, Bloke got to interview Pascal, who, alongside his day job is also a 1st Lieutenant in the Swiss Army. They talk about the match, and also the comparison with the kind of shooting that Pascal is used to in the Army. At the end Pascal's full runs are included!

Continuing the Mad Minutes series, here's what happens with 1100fps light cast bullet loads in a .303 British Lee-Enfield No.4. Includes a comparison with the original No.4 Mad Minute footage

Chappy tries his hand at the début de siècle pre-WW1 French Berthier Cavalry Carbine exercises. How does he do with his 8x50R Lebel M16 Berthier Mousqueton?

So, it turns out that Neil of The Wirksworth Gunroom was looking after a very interesting piece that I had no prior knowledge of: BSA's competitor to the trials which resulted in the adoption of the 5.56mm L98A1 Cadet GP monstrosity rifle that I suffered as a CCF cadet at school back in the 90's....

In this video we look at Military Mauser 98 (Gewehr 98, Kar98AZ / Kar98a, Kar98k) accuracy based on figures from German the 1909 and pre-WW2 Schiessvorschrift. We also look at the WW2 era K98k acceptance standard, including the 300m test for the Japanese 98k contract, and a 1901 Hythe test of two...

Chap has in itchy trigger finger and finds a handy solution to try out his new antique shootin' iron. All you need are cases, primers and a handy rubber pellet, oh and a drill with 4mm bit.

Finally, back in the saddle looking at the trials which led from the Schmidt-Rubin models 1889, 89/96, 1900 and 1905 firing 7.5mm GP90 to the K11 and IG11 firing GP11.

Bloke takes his shiny new M16A1 from 1980 +/- 3 years to the 300m range and sights it in. And is rather impressed by it. Chappie rather likes it too! Man of tastes, he is

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Since I had the very interesting book Verschlußsysteme von Feuerwaffen which contains the best diagrammatic representation of the difference between roller delay (e.g. HK G3 rifle) and roller locking (e.g. Vz.52 pistol), I took it upon myself to make a little addendum to Ian of Forgotten Weapons'...