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Finnish Brutality 2024 Day 2: Bolt Action, Breacher, Bonuses
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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New Imports: French MAS 49/56 and MAS 36/51 Rifles
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.
Full video on ...
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G33/40: Special Carbine for the Gebirgsjager
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...
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Spoils of War: French Occupation-Production Mauser K98k svwMB
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...
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Finnish Brutality 2024 Day 1: Bolt Action, Breacher, Burpees
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
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Romanian 1930s Mosin Carbine Conversion
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...
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Eric's Bubba'd Swiss K31. Or "Custom Sporter" if you prefer...
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...
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Modern Mad Minutes: Tikka T3x Arctic (Canadian Ranger Rifle C19), SP-15, CZ 600
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 ;)
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Hunting in Communist Romania: Nicolae Ceaușescu's Finnbear 61
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...
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Cugir Model 92 "Dragana" Mauser: Hunting Rifles From MG34s
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...
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Custom DeLisle: A .45ACP Mini-Mauser in Classic Sporting Lines
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...
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Not BotR Unless Something Goes Wrong! CZ600 Trail Suppressor POI Shift
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, ...
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MACS M2: Croatian Anti-Material .50 Cal
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...
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Romanian Berthier Carbine Conversions
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...
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CZ 600 Trail .223 Rem In Detail
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...
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Mosin 91/30 PU: Soviet Standard WW2 Sniper's Rifle
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...
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The FIX By Q | Sniper Course | The 60sec COUNTDOWN
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The Norwegian M1894 Krag-Jorgensen rifle - shooting and hunting
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!
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Hammerli FK-31: Diopter Competition Rifles for the Haganah
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...
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The No 1, Mk III* Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield (SMLE): Musketry of 1914 - PART THREE "D"
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.
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The No 1, Mk III* and the No4, Mk I*: CQB Shooting of World War Two -PART ONE-
Rob and Mike talk about and shoot some Close Quarter Battle Practices from the early war period
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The Mk I Lee-Metford: A Comparison with the Mk I Lee-Enfield
In this video, we compare the subtle differences between the Magazine Lee-Metford and the Magazine Lee-Enfield
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The No 1, Mk III*, Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield (SMLE): Musketry of 1914 -PART ONE- Introduction
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.
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The No 4, Mk I* Lee Enfield: Musketry of World War II - Advanced Snap Shooting
Rob and Mike explore some snap shooting practices of the Second World War