In the days before the heavy-barrelled 7.62mm target rifles, there was SR (b) - Service Rifle (b), which permitted deviations from the military stocking-up system, target sights and middle sling swivels. Calibre was still 303 British though. Various Long Lee-Enfield rifles, SMLE's, P14's and No.4...

Since the available .577/480" ammo didn't fit in the available Martini-Henry rifle when making the Great British Rates of Fire Disaster Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3YiJDgddWk

... a friend of the channel who goes by the name of Stan_Da_Bout on the Army Rumour Service offered to...

Thanks to friend of the channel GR, The Bloke gets a chance to show off a couple of unusual 300m "Standard" rifles (Standardgewehre) as used in Swiss competition, one in 7.5x55 GP11, the other in 5.6mm GP90 (aka .223 Remington). Although Standardgewehr is similar to "Target Rifle" (or Palma Match...

Well, that's that busted. No, the BREN light machine gun does not pull forward on firing. It has to obey Newton just like everything else.

Legal note: selbstverständlich war diese Schiessgelegenheit gemäss Art. 5 abs. 4 kantonal bewilligt

loke takes his STEN Mk.II, which was blocked at semiauto with two blobs of weld on the selector (which means he can shoot it on any range rather than just at permitted events as would be the case if it were not permanently blocked), shooting it "precision" (lolz) offhand at 25m.

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Bloke takes his .303" British Lee-Enfield SMLE and sees how many he can fire through it in a mad minute.

Mike and Rob take a look at the British early WW2 close quarter battle (CQB) drills from Weapons Training Memorandum 1 of 1940, to see how they work. This memorandum can be found here: https://vickersmg.blog/manual/small-arms-training-manuals/

GUNS IN THIS VIDEO:
SMLE Short Magazine Lee Enfie...

Bloke takes a friend's P14 out for a spin, and this is the result! Fast in the shooting, horrible on the reload.

The Bloke takes a deep look into the mechanical differences between a German 7.92x57mm Mauser 98 action (specifically a Kar98k) and a British .303" Enfield Pattern 14 (P14) rifle.

Bloke takes a look at Kevin of SBAM Shooting's .303" MLE Mk.1 and SMLE Mk.III, and talks about the whys and wherefores of certain changes, mostly regarding the sights. And not discussing the SMLE Mk.I in the middle, cos we didn't have one, it's fairly rare, and it's just a kind of intermediate step.

Bloke takes his practical experimentation very, very seriously. Here, he takes a look at whether reloading a single charger clip, two of them, or replacing the magazine is quicker, under several different sets of circumstances.

Featuring his lovely 1943 Long Branch .303 British Lee-Enfield No....

Finally. The first "proper" installment in the Mad Minute series! In which The Bloke geeks out with the footage and data he got! This one is the Lee-Enfield No.4 in .303 British (natch), to serve as the baseline. Target is 18-20m away, in case I forgot to say it in the vid.

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Bloke takes his Lee-Enfield No.4 apart (a rare event, since unless you've got to dry a sopping wet rifle, no good can come of it) to show how the forend is attached to the metal. It's not obvious, and it's rather clever.

Also there's a few verbal digressions railing against the common unthinki...

Mike was lucky enough to be able to shoot the semiauto SA80 / L85A1, so he zeroed it at 100m and shot it at 300m

Bloke on the Range takes you through some BREN light Machine Gun shooting technique and doctrine on its use.

Das Schiessen war selbstverständlich kantonal bewilligt!!!!!

Platoon in the Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSf6aN3H2Y

.303 British LMG

Mike and Rob of the parish of Britishmuzzleloaders try their hand at the Advanced Snap Shooting exercise from Weapons Training Memorandum No.7 of 1944: https://vickersmg.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/wtm07.pdf

In this, they use Rob's Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.1* with Rob's .303 British cast bullet loa...

Bloke gets to blather on about the .303 Rifle No.5, aka "Jungle Carbine", thanks to the kindness of a friend of the channel. What's the deal with this "wandering zero" thing that appears so frequently in the literature but seems to be rarely seen in real life?

Sometimes Enfield does things right. Normally when they're just polishing up an existing design. Like the L1A1 SLR, the British version of the FN FAL.

Mike takes a look at an original factory SA80 / L85A1!

Mike and Rob of Britishmuzzleloaders discuss the whys and wherefores of the changes from the 1908 Pattern web equipment to the 1937 Pattern. Something to do with rifles and BREN light machine guns.

Also featuring: a couple of .303 Lee Enfield No.4's and an SMLE

Bloke takes a friend's .303 P14 rifle (aka Rifle, No.3 Mk.1 (W)) out to the range and blathers a lot about it before finally getting down to some hot shooting action. The P14 rifle was a modification of the Pattern 13 Trials Rifles from before WW1, which fired a ridiculous .276 / 7mm cartridge at...

With many thanks to our friends as mentioned in the video, here we take a look at the mechanics of the lightweight BREN Mk.3 LMG, issued initially for airborne and jungle use from 1944 onwards, but which found wider usage in Korea, Malaya, Borneo and beyond.

Too many jump cuts, I know. Sorry....

Mike and Rob continue their look at official British WW2 close quarter battle CQB techniques, this time from Weapons Training Memorandum 7 from 1944, downloadable here: https://vickersmg.blog/manual/small-arms-training-manuals/ Plus, support those guys!

This is the earliest official reference...

Mike and Rob discuss how the lessons learned in the Boer War impacted the rifles and personal carrying equipment of the British soldier in the run up to 1914. How and why did it result ultimately in the SMLE Mk.III and 1908-pattern belt kit, from a starting point of the MLE/MLM and Slade-Wallace ...