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...

Sorry for the clickbaity title. Here we have a gunsmith-made Swiss Jagdstutzer Martini rifle in 7.5x55 Swiss GP11. Kinda as close as you'll get to a real Martini-Henry sniper rifle, which is inexplicably contained in the game Battlefield 1 BF1 for no apparent reason...

In an earlier video I explained some of the intricacies of using a bolt-action against a barricade. A number of comments suggested grabbing the sling and pushing my fist against the barricade. So I thought I'd try it out!

Bloke went to Aarberg on Saturday 3 June 2023 to shoot the 300m Feldschiessen with his K31 in GP11 7.5x55 with W+F target sights and some Wyss bolt-ons (butt pad and cocking handle). How did he get on?

Bloke went to Witzwil, behind the prison, to shoot the 2023 25m Pistol Feldschiessen with his SIG P210 / P49 in 9x19mm. How did he get on?

The day before he shot 300m in Aarberg with his K31

As foretold in an earlier video...

... Bloke made the local 300m Feldschiessen final in Aarberg! How did he get on?

Formerly the ARES SCR and now the Fightlite SCR, this rifle is an AR-15 system modified to work with a FAL or Remington 1100 type mainspring housed in the butt. Without the muzzle thread it's 50-state legal in the US, and looks like... well any semiauto hunting rifle in this configuration. It'll ...