Robert, who made this beautiful custom SIG 510 / Stgw 57 / 510 / PE57 / PE 57 7.5x55 GP11 Sturmgewhehr, explains the design choices that went into it. Both Chappie and Bloke shot it a while back, and it is amazingly smooth.

Gruenig and Elmiger can't be linked to due to YT reasons, but I'm sure...

As requested in the teaser comments, the Chap shows his journey to bringing his previously mummy-wrapped arsenal new MAS44 up to shooting form with hopefully a few interesting anecdotes about the rifle along the way.

While looking for a muzzle brake / compensator for my 9mm CMMG radial / rotary delayed blowback PCC AR15 upper (paired with a WWSD 2020 lower from KE Arms), I decided to go hard or go home and get the Nordic walking pole tip looking Walker Defense Research WDR NERO-9 compensator.

This is 3D pr...

Ian McCollum talks Bloke through the WWSD2020 (What Would Stoner Do 2020) AR15 type rifle at Loppi shooting centre in Finland, and he gets to try it out!

Courtesy of Varusteleka, Sako, InRange TV, KE Arms, Polaris Worldwide Logistics and Brownells, who all conspired in various ways to make it...

With thanks to Tinck Arms, Lynx Pro Tactical Training Center in Slovenia and @PolenarTactical we got to take a look at the new Perun X16 in .223 Rem. It's rather an interesting design, intended for suppressor use, and it shoots really, really flat - a contender to take the crown from the AR15?

Mike (Bloke) takes a look at a 300 series CMMG Resolute 16" 9mm Para rotary delayed blowback upper on his WWSD2020 KE Arms lower.

Aside from a little reliability issue on the ejection, which he's hopeful he will be able to solve, he thinks this system is absolutely great!

And obviously the ...

Mike (Bloke) tells of how he fixed his 300 series CMMG Resolute 16" 9mm Para rotary delayed blowback upper on his WWSD2020 KE Arms lower to make it reliable with a stiffer ejector spring (from David Tubb). The ejection problems were quite substantial, and have now been fixed.

This rifle is a Winchester semiauto prototype that has no documentation I could find in any source. So, today we will take a look at what we can possibly extrapolate from its various features. It will be a fun exercise, and if any archival record of it ever comes to light we will get to see if an...

The AR-14 was the subject of a widely-seen political gaffe a while back - but what was the real AR-14? Because yes, there was one! It was one of many firearms planned by Armalite, but not put into production...

Of all the classic 7.62mm battle rifles of the Cold War, only the G3 remains in modern military service updated to serve alongside the more recent 5.56mm rifles (no, the M14 DMR rifles don't count). Why the G3, and how? Today we will take a look at a clone of a Norwegian AG3F2 and a sort-of clone...

Today we are looking at the Tanker M1 rig I put together about 15 years ago. This is an original WW2 production receiver rebuilt with an 18" 7.62mm NATO barrel in the 1980s by Arlington Ordnance. In pursuit of a universal do-it-all practical rifle, I then added a forward scope mount with a Burris...

I used to say that one really common and popular rifle that I really didn't like was the H&K G3. Well, putting together this rifle for myself really changed my opinion. The roller locking system is accurate, simple, and reliable - you just have to fix all the ergonomic problems with the G3 in ord...

Thanks to the owner (who wishes to remain anonymous), we got to take the factory semi-auto Enfield SA80 / L85A1 to the range to have another session, this time with iron sights.

How did it fare compared to with a SUSAT optic and with an M16A1?

2003 Pamphlet / Manual: https://drive.google.co...

So Bloke took his Bushmaster M17S bullpup meme rifle to Finland, and shot an SRA Etelä-Häme match with Jari of @varusteleka and Jenny Koskimäki. The other two had quite different AR-15 rifles: Jari has a short piston-driven Barrett, and Jenny has a highly customised and heavily tuned Ruger AR-5...

The BotR lads go up to the Most Beautiful Range in the World for the last day's shooting there ever, since it's closing due to not being able to afford to comply with the new environmental regs. A 10.4mm Vetterli, Schmidt-Rubin G11 long rifle and a CIS SAR80 accompany them.

Robert of Gruenig and Elmiger (can't link, YT rules, Google is your friend) takes us through a detail strip of a Swiss Army SIG 510 / Sturmgewehr 57 in 7.5x55 GP11, and then gets it competition ready with a Dobler Mantelrohr (barrel shroud), new match barrel, and match sights! Thanks, Robert! It ...

Mike of BotR and Jari of Varusteleka try out an Ensio Arms KAR-21 multicalibre rifle, which can be converted from .223 Remington to .308 Winchester with just a simple tool! How does it perform on the range?

"While looking for a muzzle brake / compensator for my 9mm CMMG radial / rotary delayed blowback PCC AR15 upper (paired with a WWSD 2020 lower from KE Arms), I decided to go hard or go home and get the Nordic walking pole tip looking Walker Defense Research WDR NERO-9 compensator.

This is 3D pri...

The early pattern (Type E, specifically) FG-42 is one of the most eye-catching military rifles ever made. Designed to be a universal paratrooper's rifle capable of acting as sniper's rifle, light machine gun, hand-to-hand weapon, and grenade launcher, only 2,000 of this early pattern were ever ma...

When the German attack into Russia stagnated in late 1942, some areas of the front returned to a trench-and-sniper sort of warfare that was reminiscent of World War One. The German military actually went so far as to design and issue a periscopic tech rifle mount, the “deckungszielgerät” (DZG). S...

South Korea experimented with a series of rifle designs in 7.62x51mm in the 1960s and early 1970s, but none of them came close to production. In 1974 a license was acquired from Colt for Daewoo Precision Industries to built the M16A1 for South Korean military use. This was good, but the license d...

In the late 1970s and early 80s, Gordon Ingram came close to producing a military rifle in one of the most convoluted international arrangements I’ve yet heard of. Prototypes were made in Italy using British raw castings, to be tested in Somalia as part of a project to build a rifle factory ther...

The Czech ZK-383 is a magnificent submachine gun, but sadly very scarce in the United States. So when I saw the semiauto example, I wanted to take it out to the range for some plinking. It has some magazine issues (as one might expect form a one-off semiauto made by a hobbyist here in the US), bu...

Developed by the Soviet Union primarily as an antiaircraft weapon (and used to good effect in that role through World War Two), the DShK heavy machine gun was modernized almost immediately upon adoption. The first batch of new DShKM guns entered production in February of 1945. The final pattern w...