Bloke takes a train from quiet Switzerland to noisy Milan to meet Kevin of SBAM shooting. Please go subscribe to their channel here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_7GHCVbjCdwWMQWueqTu2A

There'll be lots of content coming up in the next weeks, both on BotR and on SBAM, so you'll probably wa...

Finally. The first "proper" installment in the Mad Minute series! In which The Bloke geeks out with the footage and data he got! This one is the Lee-Enfield No.4 in .303 British (natch), to serve as the baseline. Target is 18-20m away, in case I forgot to say it in the vid.

Sorry for the echo ...

Lloyd, of the Parish of Lindybeige rapid fires four rifles under so-called "Mad Minute" conditions - a Swiss Schmidt-Rubin K31, Mauser Kar98k, a Lee-Enfield No.4 and a US M1 Garand. How did he get on?

Bloke takes his practical experimentation very, very seriously. Here, he takes a look at whether reloading a single charger clip, two of them, or replacing the magazine is quicker, under several different sets of circumstances.

Featuring his lovely 1943 Long Branch .303 British Lee-Enfield No....

Moving slowly forwards on the rapid fire Mad Minute series, here's the first straight-pull rifle to be tested - a Swiss K31 in 7.5x55 GP11. It did surprisingly well - except the reloads, which bit spicy monkey chunks.

(BTW the bloke is not fanatical about the term "Schmidt-Rubin" being applied...

Vlog of Day 2 of the BotR / SBAM trip. In which we drive up to the awesome range in Lodrino (thanks, Range!). And in which we shoot a whole bunch of stuff. And lots of stuff goes wrong...

Bloke takes a look at Kevin of SBAM Shooting's .303" MLE Mk.1 and SMLE Mk.III, and talks about the whys and wherefores of certain changes, mostly regarding the sights. And not discussing the SMLE Mk.I in the middle, cos we didn't have one, it's fairly rare, and it's just a kind of intermediate step.

Featuring Lindybeige, albeit briefly!

This is the introduction to the Mad Minutes project, covering the philosophy of what we were trying to do, and giving some preliminary results. More detailed vids on each rifle to follow!

Featuring:

7.62mm M1 Garand by Beretta
.303 British No.4 Lee ...

The Chap takes you through his French MAS-36 rifle, and gives it a good wringing out on the range.

Adopted by France for rear echelon troops while front line soldiers were supposed to get a shiny new semiauto, this rifle ended up as a state of the art front line weapon instead. The Germans als...

The Chap recently acquired himself a .177"-BB-shooting gas blowback Luger. However, it was aesthetically displeasing to him. Dusting off his old miniatures painting kit and accompanying skills, he set about fitting some wood grips and making it look more the part.

The Bloke takes a deep look into the mechanical differences between a German 7.92x57mm Mauser 98 action (specifically a Kar98k) and a British .303" Enfield Pattern 14 (P14) rifle.

The bloke puts the kids to bed, and sits out on his front balcony for a nice tipple and a spot of catharsis - blancoing some webbing with Khaki Green 3 (KG3) blanco. But what on earth is the deal with this wierd paint stuff that the British Army put on webbing during WW1, WW2 and until the adopti...

Bloke takes a friend's P14 out for a spin, and this is the result! Fast in the shooting, horrible on the reload.

Bloke brings you a no-expense-spared method to powder coat cast bullets.

In the interests of serious historical research, The Bloke takes a number of bolt-action rifles up-close and personal, at about 10m, to illustrate an often completely forgotten aspect of bolt-action rifle shooting: what do you do between normal ranges and use of the bayonet? Was the middle finge...

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.

Moving onwards with the Mad Minute series, here's another one that went faster than the Bloke thought realistic, even though compared to the No.4 and the K31 it was quite a bit slower. It was effing hard work though working the bolt on that Mauser 98k that quickly, since it's not really optimised...

Mike and Rob take a look at the British early WW2 close quarter battle (CQB) drills from Weapons Training Memorandum 1 of 1940, to see how they work. This memorandum can be found here: https://vickersmg.blog/manual/small-arms-training-manuals/

GUNS IN THIS VIDEO:
SMLE Short Magazine Lee Enfie...

The Bloke takes his Hungarian Mosin-Nagant PU sniper out to 300m, and shares his experiences on working with the piece in question. This rifle is identical to the WW2 Russian / Soviet sniper rifles, and actually working with them in a vaguely "precision" environment shows up some of the drawbacks...

The Chap shoots some combustible paper cartridges he made to the original pattern in his French M1866 Chassepot Needle Rifle!

The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum gave me the honour of unboxing their latest acquisition - but what could it be?

https://www.seaforthhighlanders.ca/museum-1/

Continuing the Mad Minutes series, Bloke takes an 8x50R M95 Mannlicher Straight Pull rifle for a mad minute spin. How well will it do?

Apparently not as well in real life as in Battlefield 1 I

Rowan shot the InRange 2GAC two gun action challenge WW1 centennial match in Tucson, Arizona, USA in October 2019. He won the WW1 category by absolutely miles. Here's his appearance on InRange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBt31q7diQ0

THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is how you run a Lee-Enfiel...

Bloke takes his Beretta M1 Garand in 7.62 NATO (.308 Win) for a good ragging on the Mad Minute range, in what has to be the fastest yet least eventful episode of this series so far.