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 :-)

Having previously done to death the use of .32 S&W Long wadcutter in Swiss M82 and M82/29 revolvers, we had another few revolvers handy with which to try it out: an Austro-Hungarian Gasser M98 in 8mm, a French St. Etienne Mle. 92, and a Trocaola (Eibar) "Spanish Model 92", the latter two in 8mm/9...

Chap's Shooting at the Bloke on the Range Bolt Action Challenge. With a MAS 36 in 7.5x54 French.

Bloke's shooting at the Bloke on the Range Bolt Action Challenge. With a K31 in 7.5x55 GP11. Cos he screwed up and had loaned his .303" Lee-Enfield No.4 out to someone else while forgetting he had to take himself into account...

Bloke takes his Tikka T3x Arctic to the October 2019 Civilian Service Rifle League Match at Bisley, UK and shoots it instead of his habitual .303 Lee-Enfield No.4. How did he get on?

RULES: https://nra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/CSRandPR-Handbook-v1.pdf
COURSE OF FIRE: https://nra.org.uk/wp-co...

Here is just the shoot-through of the Urban Match from the October 2019 CSR League Match. Shot with my Tikka T3x Arctic / C19 Canadian Ranger Rifle.

RULES: https://nra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/CSRandPR-Handbook-v1.pdf
COURSE OF FIRE: https://nra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Oct-19-CoF-Ver-1.0.p...

Here is just the shoot-through of the Short Range Rural Match from the October 2019 CSR League Match. Shot with my Tikka T3x Arctic / C19 Canadian Ranger Rifle.

RULES: https://nra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/CSRandPR-Handbook-v1.pdf
COURSE OF FIRE: https://nra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Oct-19-C...

Here is just the shoot-through of the Whitehead Match from the October 2019 CSR League Match. Shot with my Tikka T3x Arctic / C19 Canadian Ranger Rifle.

RULES: https://nra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/CSRandPR-Handbook-v1.pdf
COURSE OF FIRE: https://nra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Oct-19-CoF-Ver-1...

Chappy presents a nice little French smallbore .22 rimfire carbine of very special significance, which not only has some clever features but also has an interesting pedigree.

The Chap dug out an old French cavalry manual from the pre-WW1 era, so we thought we'd go through their revolver exercises with his St.Etienne Mle. 92 and my Trocaola (Eibar) "Spanish Mle. 92", both in 8mm/92 calibre (NOT LEBEL). How did we get on?

See the GoFundMe lathe in action while I show you a neat little trick to modify case rim dimensions to make 10.3x60R cases extract and eject with 100% reliability (you'll see why it's important).

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...