From 1871 to the 1920s France implemented a number of schemes to introduced military education, shooting theory and practice, not only as a way to boost patriotism but also in a bid to prepare boys and teenagers for military service after leaving school. For this, various scaled down rifles were ...

Day 2 of @varusteleka Finnish Brutality 2024! I decided to go Hard Mode, so I'm competing in Breacher with the full 12kg of TST/Armored gear and after the stages is a physical challenge to complete!

0:07 Introduction
1:11 Stage 6: Disco Stu
5:42 Breacher 6: Tyre Drag
7:50 Stage 7: Hot Wheels
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Yeah, I'm a sucker for nice French rifles. So when Old Western Scrounger brought in another batch of them, I offered to do a video. These are rifles taken out of French long-term storage, having been rebuilt at French arsenals to like-new condition, and are in beautiful condition.

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When the Germans took over control of the Czechoslovakian arms industry, they took some time to work out what out to be mass produced at the Brno factory. In the interim, they decided to restart production of the Czech vz33 Mauser carbine as the Gewehr 33/40 for German mountain troops. This was a...

When Germany took over Czechoslovakia, one of the things they did was buy out a controlling interest in what became known as Waffenwerke Brunn. Headquartered in Prague, the company had two factories; one in Brno (Czechia) and one in Bystrica (Slovakia). The Bystrica factory was already making vz2...

Allied troops occupied the Mauser factory complex in Oberndorf in April of 1945, right at the end of the war. The factory was put under French administration and by May that same year production lines were restarted to supply French forces (who needed as many arms as they could get). In total, ju...

In 1942, the SS devised a plan to rent out concentration camp labor to companies in the German armaments industry. Several different rifle production lines were set up to make use of this source of cheap labor, and the one we are looking at today is Steyr’s plant at the Gusen camp (a subsidiary o...

Day 1 of @varusteleka Finnish Brutality 2024! I decided to go Hard Mode, so I'm competing in Breacher with the full 12kg of TST/Armored gear and after the stages is a physical challenge to complete!

0:07 Introduction
0:45 Stage 1: Kasarda Precision
5:33 Breacher 1: Dummy Drag
9:18 Stage 2: Mo...

Romania had more than a million rifles in its inventory after World War One, but they were mused between Mannlicher 88/90, Mannlicher 95, Mosin Nagant, and Berthier patterns - and they were almost all rifles and not carbines. In order to make practical use of all these arms, it was decided to all...

Bubba works in mysterious ways. Swiss Bubba, who we have named "Bäbbu", also has a penchant for such things. This means that those of us in Swissland have access to horrible sporterised K31's for few cash monies, sometimes even Cheap As Free. Eric, CEO of the Swiss @neutral_af got himself one a...

More Mad Minutes: this time it's a Tikka T3x Arctic (Canadian Ranger Rifle C19) in .308 Win / 7.62 NATO, a Schmeisser SP-15 Straight-Pull AR-15, and a CZ 600 Trail in .223 / 5.56.

Thanks to Kudu Shooting Centre in Sion, Switzerland! Not allowed to link, Google is your friend ;)

Nicolae Ceaușescu ruled România through much of its communist period, from 1967 until 1989. Ceaușescu was a passionate hunter, and owned more than 100 firearms, mostly for hunting. These included some gifts from foreign dignitaries, but also plenty of more humble examples. Under his rule, conserv...

With the fall of communism in Romania, the Cugir Arsenal complex lost its government financial support. Looking for commercial products to sell to keeps its workers employed, the factory turned to producing hunting rifles for the domestic Romanian market. This was possible because the factory had...

Today we are checking out a bespoke gunsmith's project; a DeLisle-inspired .45ACP Mauser built by Lars Rannstad Slang of Oslo. Using a commercial small-ring Mauser action, he fabricated a new bolt head, trigger guard, follower, and large aluminum mono-core suppressor to built a rifle that functio...

Bloke has popped his suppressor cherry, and now he needs to determine what the effect is of hanging that great big weight off the end of his barrel... So he took his new B+T Rotex-X 5.56 Compact suppressor, and a B+T blast deflector to the range and tried them out on his CZ 600 Trail .223. What, ...

Among the many firearms designed and built in Croatia under the duress of the Homeland War was the MACS M2, a single-shot anti-material rifle chambered for .50 BMG. Designed by an engineer named Jankovic, these were in the field with Croatian units starting in 1994, and were used effectively in O...

Romanian had more than a million rifles in its inventory after World War One, but they were mused between Mannlicher 88/90, Mannlicher 95, Mosin Nagant, and Berthier patterns - and they were almost all rifles and not carbines. In order to make practical use of all these arms, it was decided to al...

Bloke was so impressed by the CZ 600 Trail belonging to @PolenarTactical that he used on Day 2 of Lynx Brutality 2023 that he had to acquire one. It's a very interesting design of high speed low drag turnbolt rifle (available in .223 Rem, .300 BLK and 7.62x39) but isn't without a few strange de...

The Mosin M91/30 PU is the most recognized Soviet sniper rifle of World War Two, but it was not their first. It was preceded by the Model 1931 PE, the Model 1936 PEM, and also the scoped version of the SVT-40 semiautomatic rifle. The SVT was intended to become a universal infantry rifle as well a...

This is a good old fashioned hunting review of the excellent Norwegian M1894 Krag-Jorgensen rifle. History, shooting 50-200m and many joyful autumn and winter hunting days in Hungary. Merry Christmas to all of You!

In 1949, Israel was still fighting its war of independence, and purchasing arms internationally was difficult to do. The recently-formalized IDF wanted sniper rifles, and looked to Hammerli in Switzerland for a variant of the K-31 straight-pull bolt action action. Two different models were purcha...

In Part 3D of the Musketry of 1914 Series, we look at the varoious tyopes of field firing activities shot as part of a mans annual shooting year.

Rob and Mike talk about and shoot some Close Quarter Battle Practices from the early war period