The Chap got rather lucky a while back and managed to score himself one of the elusive Hämmerli airgun inserts for the Swiss K31 rifle. Relieved of his monies, he returned home with his prize.
This little beauty sticks into the barrel and locks into the ejection opening, and is a side-handle springer airgun taking 4.5mm lead BB balls. Which is quite fun.
Enjoy!
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Bloke gets a rare opportunity to shoot a Swiss ZFK 55 telescopically-sighted rifle in 7.5x55 GP11. Well, it's mostly (but not exclusively) a designated marksman's rifle (aka DMR), developed right at the end of the straight-pull era and overlapping with the Stgw 57 (aka SIG 510)
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In this episode Mike and Budi try out the first 5 of 11 craptastic mostly-Euro revolvers on the range:
Swiss M1878 10.4mm
Swiss M1882 7.5mm
Webley Mk.VI .455
Enfield No.2 Mk.1* .380/200 / .38 S&W
An odd private purchase Reichsrevolver
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La guerre Franco-Prussienne de 1870-71 oppose les fusils mle1866 dit "Chassepot" aux fusils système Dreyse, ces deux fusil utilisant des cartouches à étuis en paper (pour pas dire conbustibles) et des culasse mobiles dotées d'aiguilles. Nous continuons notre série d'experimentation de tir rapide avec chaque type de fusil. Que sera déclaré vainqueur?
Pour les pointilleux, le système Beck fut en effet appliqué aux fusils Dreyse juste avant la déclaration de guerre, mais le processus fut aussitot intérompu pour favoriser la production de fusils standards. De ce fait seulement trois régiments Prussiens sont équipé de fusils "Beck" pendant la guerre.
Le tuto sur les cartouches Chassepot sera diffusé en Français, Anglais et même en Allemand sur nos chaînes parallèles pour ne pas entraver les directives de YouTube.
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In this Off Topic video, The Bloke comes over all peckish and wants to buy some cheese. But there's no cheese shop in sight! How will he manage? Luckily, in rural Switzerland there's this thing called a "Trust Fridge". But will it contain any Venezuelan beaver cheese?
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Please enjoy our little promo skit for the Will Fight For Cheese patches, available at Varusteleka.com at the following link!
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Hosted in Finland by @varusteleka Ian joins the lads of Bloke on the Range to discuss how the French could be simultaneously so backwards and yet so forwards-looking.
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2:02 – The Lebel as the embodiment of French backward and forward thinking
4:50 – The 1866 Chassepot: metallic vs paper cartridges, comparison to contemporary needlefire rifles
11:44 – Early French auto-loading rifles: Meunier, Chauchat, RSC 1917
16:32 – French machine guns before and during WWI: Hotchkiss, St. Étienne, Puteaux, Benét-Mercié
22:45 – French interwar arms development: 7.5x58mm and subsequent ka-booms, 7.5x54mm, FM 24 and 24/29 LMG, legacy usage of French small arms
31:55 – French interwar arms development: self-loading rifle development to MAS-40, MAS-36 as the backup rifle, delays due to French politics in late 1930s
40:30 – Interwar and WWII pistols: replacing the Ruby, 7.65 French Long (.30 Pedersen), SACM 1935A, MAS-1935S, legacy usage of Mle 1892 revolvers and Ruby pistols in WWII
47:35 – Interwar and WWII Submachine guns: MAS-38, Thompsons bought from US, captured Erma EMPs
56:18 – Postwar French arms and development: MAS-44 (briefly) MAS-49 and 49/56, legacy use of MAS-36, MAT-49, AA-52 machine gun, MAC1950
1:03:42 - Postwar French arms and development: rifle grenades (back to WWI), MAS-36/51, MAS 49/56 vs FAL and G3, optics mounting
1:13:47 – Post-colonial conflicts and arms: France encounters the AK, SIG SG 540 as a stopgap, the FAMAS
1:27:23 – Beyond the FAMAS: HK416, loss of French state arsenals, FAMAS safety and selector
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The Chap gets his teeth into a non-functioning Umarex Jericho 6mm airsoft BB pistol, showing you how it works, why this one doesn't, and a solution for fixing it.
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A sardonic view of selected bad points of various rifles. And The Hat is back. Spreads the love over the Lee-Enfield, Mauser 98's, AR15's, M1 Garands, M1A's, Martini-Henries, the SA80, HK G3, FN FAL, AK, 1903 Springfield, Schmidt-Rubins, MAS 36, Mannlichers, Arisakas, the Lebel, Mosin-Nagants, SKS's, Steyr AUG, and the Tavor.
Hopefully there's somthing to tickle the fancy in one way or the other for every fanboy.
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