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

In this video, we compare the subtle differences between the Magazine Lee-Metford and the Magazine Lee-Enfield

In Part One of the Musktery of 1914 series, we exmine the background to why the British Army had such a reputation for muketry in 1914.

Rob and Mike explore some snap shooting practices of the Second World War

This year's challenge features the SMLE

An in-depth comparison of between the Magazine Lee Enfield and the Boer Mauser

An examination of the Bayonet Exercise as practiced in the late 1890s

In Part 3B of the Musketry of 1914 Series, we examine the group of practices designed to give opportunity to practice various aspects of musketry.

In Part Two of the Musktery of 1914 series, we examine the preliminary training undertaken to teach musketry in the Regular Britihs Army leading up to the Great War.

In Part 3A of the Musketry of 1914 Series, we shoot the first set of practices designed to determine if the theory and training taken int eh classroom was absorbed correctly

We take a look at the drill associated with carrying the Lee-Metofrd in the late 1890s