Welcome to Bloke on the Range Strip Club, where we're only interested in one thing: Will It Strip. Up today: What happens when you've stripped but you can't blow your load? You have to relieve all that pent up spring pressure somehow! Fear not, the French thought of that (at least for the FM1924/...

Combat in sandy places such as Algeria highlighted that tight tolerancing of the conventional MAT49 32rnd magazine and mag well could cause jamming and feeding issues. The was resolved with the issue of a (19)58 sand magazine with a number of features to render it and the SMG far less sensitive t...

By popular request, here is my attempt at a mad minute with the "lightning rifle". It took a while to get it running due to mechanical issues and sourcing reliable ammo components but we got there in the end!

3:10 - Shut up and show me the mad minute!

Different means, less grrrrr, more biscuits, same goal!

Here we have an odd one out in the single shot military black powder cartridge rifle series 'cos a Vetterli is a repeater innit!

This episode is simply to show what a repeater brings to the field especially in a situation where rapide fire may be necessary, whether the incoming horde makes a ...

Shooting around a barricade is quite self-explanatory with a semi-auto rifle, but as Bloke discovered on the timer in a match, it's a different thing entirely when you've got to work a turnbolt rifle: how exactly do you hang on to it? Bloke discusses his experience and the solutions he came up wi...

Well, there's only one fun way to test whether an FN Browning Hi Power magazine will fit and function in an FN BDA-9 (aka HP-DA or DA-HP, as in double action Hi Power) and vice-versa, and that's to test it out on the range! Will we confirm or refute what the Intartubes says about it?

With a so...

In response to some *very* virulent comments over the years, this video rather proves that point that the bolt throw on a rear locking rifle can be shorter than on a front-locking rifle, aside from a couple of exceptional cases...

The Ruby is simple and of barely adequate quality for a service pistol but nonetheless rugged and reliable. It is often the case however, that the user can't disassemble it for cleaning.
Why is this and what can be done about it?

A bit of a nerdgasm here on the first three generations of 30 round magazines for the British Army's fabled Enfield 5.56mm SA80 rifle series: Colt, RG (Radway Green), HK (Heckler & Koch, aka Hasst Kunden).

Chap aims to be (slightly) more competitive at Finnish Brutality 2023 and has got himself an Arex Delta Gen.2 to go with his VHS2. What are his first impressions and nerdy mechanical analysis of this pistol and what mods does he have in mind?

So, GWACS Armory is suing KE Arms, @SinistralRifleman (Russell Phagan), @brownells and others over the KP-15 polymer AR15 lower used in the What Would Stoner Do 2020 / WWSD 2020 rifle developed by @InrangeTv based on... shall we say some novel legal theories?

Here's what's hopefully a g...

Link to Summary Judgment: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.oknd.54111/gov.uscourts.oknd.54111.191.0.pdf

The Judge has absolutely excoriated GWACS Armory in their suit against KE Arms, @SinistralRifleman (Russell Phagan), @brownells and others over the KP-15 polymer ...

Organised by @Riflechair in Canada, Bloke and Chap attempt the Cabin Fever Challenge 2023 in Division 6 (.22 Rimfire) at 50m on a 4" target. How did they get on with Bloke's Victor Arms / CZ / ADCO / LUVO V-22 upper on an Oberland Arms AR-15 lower?

Full info on the Challenge here: https://ww...

Organised by @Riflechair in Canada, Bloke and Chap attempt the Cabin Fever Challenge 2023 in Division 5 (Muzzleloading) at 50m on an 8" target. How did they get on with Chap's French 1859 Chasseur carbine, loading from as-original-as-possible paper cartridges?

Full info on the Challenge here...

It's well-documented that the light-barrel L8 and Sterling 7.62mm (.308 Win) Lee-Enfield No.4 conversions shot low compared to .303" to the point they couldn't be zeored with the normal front sight set, and a lowered datum line rear sight was the solution. This is due to the difference in "jump" ...

So what we're looking at here is, if we put a CMMG .22 Ciener-type conversion set in a straight-pull Schmeisser SP-15 (with no gas, so not semi-auto), what is the difference in point of impact, of grouping capacity, and when we put it back to .223, will we have problems with extraction due to all...

While most countries are still messing about with single shot percussion pistols or tentatively trying out newfangled percussion revolvers, the French navy blows caution to the wind by adopting a metallic cartridge revolver patented by Eugène Lefaucheux in 1854 using the pinfire ammunition patent...

In which Bloke demonstrates, with the help of an L39A1 Lee-Enfield 7.62 / .308, three different ways to use a two-point sling for support: Hasty with the butt and action swivels, and also Crossover, which you may not have heard of, and which requires an action swivel or other middle attachment po...

From the late 70's onwards, a number of AR-18 derivative rifles start to appear on the world markets. Given that Armalite's patenting game around the AR-10 and AR-15 systems was so on-point, how come they didn't have a patent preventing such things as the Steyr AUG, Enfield SA80 (L85), Sterling S...

Chappie heads out solo for this year's VRMM. Join him as he marches in the alpine foothills with a running commentary about anything that comes into his head.

In preparation for this year's Lynx Brutality, organised by @PolenarTactical in Slovenia, Bloke put a Holosun 503 on his famous Australian International Arms M10A1 "Frankenrifle" in 7.62x39 (a modernized Lee-Enfield based rifle) and took it out to 300m with some unconscionably expensive SAKO am...

Everyone has that one gun that they love and that has nothing to do with the rest of your collection. It may be ugly, or inaccurate or tacky or just plain weird but you love it no matter what anyone says. For the Chap that gun is the humble TT33 or in this case a slightly more modern Zastava M57A...

In this earlier video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWL-BtBl6g I shot Frankenrifle (an Australian International Arms Lee-Enfield No.4 type rifle in 7.62x39 with AK magazines), someone suggested I shoot it off my elbows. So a week before Lynx Brutality 2023 I did.

And I'm very glad I did, c...