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!

There's a lot of hot air generated over the relative merits or demerits of cock on open vs cock on close with turnbolt bolt action rifles. But what's the reality?

Spoiler: it depends on what you're doing. Each has advantages and disadvantages.

Welcome to Bloke on the Range Strip Club, where we're only interested in one thing: Will It Strip. Up today: Swedish Mauser chargers in a 7.62 NATO Sterling Lee-Enfield No.4 conversion, with a comparison to the correct NATO clips.

As an addendum to a @C&Rsenal video, Bloke gets to show off serial number 8 of the 1893 trials of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle in 6.5x55 semi-rimmed (possibly, although the owner is skeptical). This is from the last trials series of 50 rifles, before the final adoption of the 1894.

Bloke takes a dive into how the out of battery safeties, which prevent the rifles from firing when unlocked, operate. Proper mechanical geekery!

Budi shoots his extremely rare 1893 trials Krag-Jorgensen at 300m! This is serial number 8 of 50, and is in the semi-rimmed version of the 6.5x55mm Swedish cartridge. But he's shooting normal rimless.

Mike and Fab dunk their rifles in the Finnish snow to see if they keep running. Mike was, of course, running a Lee-Enfield No.4 (Sterling conversion in .308 Win / 7.62 NATO instead of .303 British) whereas Fab was, again of course, shooting his pre-WW2 MAS-36 in 7.5x54 French.

Chap does a show and tell covering the MAS45, a nice simple .22 universal traininer used by the French armed forces for 35+ years. Aside from the unique rear sight it shares many similarities to Mauser .22 rifles of the 1930s and 40s, including the KKW, and from it's interesting history it's clea...

A commercial endeavour by the Sterling Armaments Company to make a cheap second-line rifle for 7.62mm NATO by converting existing .303 Lee-Enfield No.4's, this particular example is an all-singing-all-dancing conversion with all the bells and whistles.

Link to the Sterling patent: https://worl...

Matti takes Mike to the 500m range with his SAKO TRG-22 rifle in .308 Win / 7.62x51 with Delta Optical Stryker 4.5-30x56 scope on top!

A real point-and-click interface at that distance!

Thanks to Seth from Alaska for this tour of a Mosin-Nagant out of battery safety as a follow-on

So Bloke Jr. (age 9) finds the solution to the issue with the 10 round 7.62 NATO chargers in the Sterling Conversion Lee-Enfield No.4! And it's non-obvious!

And cos he found the solution, he got to run the camera!

Bloke takes a look at a BMS CAM rifle (specifically a CONCAM), a 5.56x45 / .223 Remington bolt action with an extremely small rotation angle of 22.5° and a very short bolt throw, kinda the ultimate "tactical" bolt action.

Uses NATO / STANAG magazines and... an AR15 bolt head and barrel extension!

Bloke gives some coaching advice on shooting bolt action rifles fast, particularly Lee-Enfields but also applicable to other types. Featuring Frankenrifle.

Many thanks to Rob, Rowan, Kevin and Keith for the use of their footage!

With thanks to Guy & Lesley Field of The Yeaveley Estate https://yeaveley-estate.co.uk/ BotR and The Wirksworth Gunroom bring you the definitive, and quite obvious, answer to this strangely contentious conundrum. Simply by shooting the same course of fire in three different manners, with .303 Lee...

Might seem to be a silly question given that they're the same basic rifle in two different calibres (.303 British for the P14 and .30-06 for the M1917), but what were the adaptations for this and what are the other nonobvious and perhaps invisible changes?

In 1866 Switzerland takes the bold step to universally adopt a breachloading repeating rifle. Why the sudden transition? What was their first choice? All this is explaining in this very nerdy video which contains NO SHOOTING!

We also take a very very deep dive into the mechanics of the rifle d...

In part 2 we take a look at each of the main infantry rifle patterns, the variations in military ammo and take my trusty M1878 to the range.

Schmeisser now make mass-produced straight-pull AR15's under the moniker SP-15. Bloke takes a look at one at Armurerie WYN in Ecublens near Lausanne. Such rifles are popular in the UK for Civilian Service Rifle (CSR) shooting and other type things.

Today, I thought it would be fun (or at least interesting) to shoot a 2-gun match in a reproduction World War One gas mask and helmet. Specifically, a
French M2 pattern, which was used extensively by French, British, and American troops. I paired this with an Adrian helmet, a Lebel rifle, and a...

In the 1870s and 1880s, France experimented with a huge variety of repeating rifle designs, including tube magazines hopper magazines, box magazines, and all sorts of other unique systems (more than 40 different types in total). These experimental rifles appear from time to time, but only a small...

As practice for Finnish Brutality, I ran a 2-Gun match with the Finnish M39 Mosin Nagant I am planning to use over in Finland. The M39 is the final iteration of the Mosin in Finnish service, and has very good sights, a great trigger, and a nice smooth action (for a Mosin, anyway). I was using PPU...

In 1907, the British adopted the final major pattern in the evolution of the Short, Magazine, Lee Enfield. Designated the ShtLE MkIII (Short Lee Enfield) at the time, it would be retroactively renamed Rifle No1 MkIII in the 1920s. This new design was simpler and more durable than its predecessors...

The British entered World War One with a technically excellent rifle, with lots of bells and whistles. By 1916, the war was taking a previously unimaginable toll on the industrial capacity of the Empire and rifle production had to be economized. This led to the adoption of the MkIII* pattern of t...