The Chap and Mistress Chap head off up the mountain to take part in the yearly Volksschiessen, a nationwide .22 precision shooting competition with wartime roots. Who will win?

The competition originates from a patriotic initiative in 1939. Find out more here (DE/FR/IT)
https://www.swissshoo...

Following on from the Chap's earlier vid on getting a Swiss Milbank Amsler barking again, this time he delves in true BotR nerd style into the surprisingly fast conception, modification and adoption of the Milbank-Amsler trapdoor / tabatière system by the Swiss at the close of the 1860s. Both the...

Bloke pops into Schloss The Chap with an awesome birthday present. He finds The Chap hard at work in the workshop naturally :-)

Continuing on from last time, Dale takes us through the various models of practice grenade and the three types of battle ammunition.

Finally, back in the saddle looking at the trials which led from the Schmidt-Rubin models 1889, 89/96, 1900 and 1905 firing 7.5mm GP90 to the K11 and IG11 firing GP11.

A little teasing look at Chappie's Manhurin-built SIG SG 540 in .223 Rem on the 300m range.

Blokey likey. It's kinda the M16A1 of the SIG range :)

Also served as practice for working with a handheld Rode Wireless Go in an interview stick.

Welcome to Bloke on the Range Strip Club, where we're only interested in one thing: Will It Strip. This episode: can a French 7.5x54 MAS 36 charger be used to load a 7.5x55 Swiss rifle, namely a K31 or a K11, G11, M1911, G96/11 or whatever you want to call them today? Let's find out...

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Chappy has a go at launching Carrots of DOOM under the command and watchful eye of Dale Guardian and custodian of Stgw.57 lore.

Stgw SIG 510 7.5 mm GP11 7.5x55 rifle grenade

Sorry for the clickbaity title. Here we have a gunsmith-made Swiss Jagdstutzer Martini rifle in 7.5x55 Swiss GP11. Kinda as close as you'll get to a real Martini-Henry sniper rifle, which is inexplicably contained in the game Battlefield 1 BF1 for no apparent reason...

Bloke went to Aarberg on Saturday 3 June 2023 to shoot the 300m Feldschiessen with his K31 in GP11 7.5x55 with W+F target sights and some Wyss bolt-ons (butt pad and cocking handle). How did he get on?

As foretold in an earlier video...

... Bloke made the local 300m Feldschiessen final in Aarberg! How did he get on?

For the third time on the channel and the fourth time ever, Bloke takes on the Murtenschiessen! Celebrating the 1476 rampaging victory of the Swiss Confederates against the Burgundians under Charles the Bold, we shoot 12 rounds in 4 minutes max, downhill, with no sighters, against a target that's...

Chappy's tools and skills have come along a long way since his first attempt at reviving the chonky 18mm rimfire case and cartridge. Time to give it another shot. Will he succeed of will they blow up in his face?

For the accompanying nerdy machining vid, see our sister channel elsewhere.

We return to the single shot BP military cartridge rifle mad minute with the Swiss Peabody, representative of any of the Peabody series. This particular rifle is of course chambered for 10.4x38R and is fitted with a rimfire breech block but I have dropped in a spare breech block from a CF Spanish...

Thanks to Robert of Gruenig and Elmiger (not allowed to link, sorry), I got to put one of these antediluvian Martinistutzer target rifles in front of the camera! This one was originally in 7.5x55 GP11 and was converted to .22 lr. Tipping block: what's not to like? Basically a Martin-actioned accu...

Dale takes us through the historical background leading to the Swiss Sturmgewehr 57 rifle grenade series, starting from the WW2 and post-WW2 perspective. In part 2, he dives deep into the various models of practice grenade and the three types of battle ammunition.

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...

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.