French 8mm Revolvers: Model 92 (NOT A LEBEL!) And "Spanish Model 92"
Bloke on the Range
•
18m
Bloke's French cousin and his mate galliantly offered to talk about the French 8mm revolvers. The was an offer the Bloke could not refuse. There may have been red wine involved These revolvers, both the French-not-a-Lebel ones and the Spanish "Eibar" ones, stayed in military service until at least the 50s, and in Gendarmarie and prison service until the late 60s, and are underappreciated pieces of revolver history. Here's the Bloke's old contribution to Forgotton Weapons on the Spanish Model 92: http://www.forgottenweapons.com/eibar-spanish-model-92-revolver/ PS - watch the French exchange again with the embedded CC subtitles switched on...
Up Next in Bloke on the Range
-
Schmidt-Rubin K31 Technical Short: Po...
This technical short video is a little something I tossed off in response to certain comments on the K31 by the awesome Alex C on this superb TFB TV run-and-gun video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAn_HUFNws
Here at Bloke on the Range, we love TFB TV's work, and we hope they keep it up. Ho...
-
Fanboi Lovefest Episode 2
By public demand (so don't blame me), Bloke turns his (lack of) wit and humour to selected bad features of other fanboi favourites. Featuring the G43, FN2000, SCAR, ACR, Beretta ARX180, Krag, M1 Carbine (with proper English pronunciation), SVT40, SIG 550, Ljungmann, Hakim, Rashid, lever actions,...
-
Weberschiessen Match 2016
In this video, Bloke goes and shoots the Weberschiessen in a field in the rain with his trusty K31 (which made him remember the olden days of shooting at Bisley), with unexpectedly positive results.
Includes obligatory sausages, yodelling, wine before lunchtime and all manner of other kinds of b...
