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Battlefield Pickup at Moons Out 2025: AR with a PEQ-15A
00:00 - Intro; overall match sponsor Q
03:27 - Stage 1: Rambo's Reading Rainbow, sponsored by TNVC
06:31 - Stage 2: Seal Team Extraction, sponsored by Nocturn Industries
08:10 - Stage 3: Mogadishu Marathon, sponsored by Polaris Logistics
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How Awesome is This? Moons Out 2025 Night 2
00:00 - Intro; overall match sponsor Q
00:51 - Stage 6: Bound Forward, sponsored by Aimpoint
03:14 - Stage 7: Double-Wide of Death, sponsored by B&T
04:15 - Stage 8: Bakhmut Night Assault, sponsored by Varusteleka
08:41 - Stage 9: Radio Freq Out, sponsored by T-Rex Arms
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The Best Night Rifle Match Yet: Moons Out 2025, Night 1
00:00 - Intro; overall match sponsor Q
02:30 - Stage 1: Rambo's Reading Rainbow, sponsored by TNVC
05:57 - Stage 2: Seal Team Extraction, sponsored by Nocturn Industries
08:07 - Stage 3: Mogadishu Marathon, sponsored by Polaris Logistics
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Rifles on the Danube: Hungarian AK-Pattern Firearms - NOW SHIPPING
Now Shipping! Order your copy here:
https://www.headstamppublishing.com/danube-bookAt the end of the Second World War, Hungary was occupied by Soviet troops and soon fell into the Soviet sphere of influence, joining the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Like most other socialist countries behind the Iron Cu...
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Ice Baths and Skis: Finnish Brutality 2025 Day 1
Varusteleka's Snow Camo Anorak that I was using today is available here:
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-tst-l7-camouflage-anorak/58285Finnish Brutality 2025 took the standard for practical shooting matches and raised it again - by making it a true winter match. Run by Varusteleka,...
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Molotovs at the Range: Finnish Brutality 2025 Day 2
Varusteleka's Patrol Coverall that I was using today is available here:
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-tst-l5-thermal-patrol-coverall/76574Finnish Brutality 2025 took the standard for practical shooting matches and raised it again - by making it a true winter match. Run by Varuste...
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Finland's Next Service Rifle (Mostly): Sako ARG S 40
Finland and Sweden are both in the process of adopting AR-pattern rifles, and for the Finns this will be their first service rifle in 5.56mm NATO. It is a transition that has been anticipated for nearly 20 years, but was finally put into high gear by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Finland's ...
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Q&A: Finland and Finnish Small Arms (From Berdan to New Sako AR)
I figured that Finland would be a good subject for this month's Q&A, as I am visiting the country to shoot Finnish Brutality this month. In fact, this video was filmed during the trip (the match took place last weekend, and its video coverage will be coming soon!).
00:39 - Development of the Suo...
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Gerat Potsdam: Mauser Copies the Sten Gun
In the fall of 1944, the Mauser company was given a contract to develop drawings of a direct copy of the British Sten gun (code named Gerät Potsdam), and to manufacture 10,000 of them. In fact, they were to make two different sets of drawings; one suitable for large factory use (like their own) a...
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FK Brno 7.5mm at the BackUp Gun Match
The FK Brno is a take on the classic CZ75 pistol made in the Czech Republic. It was originally released as a boutique steel-framed gun, and then later as a much more affordable polymer-framed model. I have one of those polymer framed ones, with barrels for both 10mm Auto and the unique 7.5mm FK c...
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Savage 1915 at the BackUp Gun Match
Savage launched its model 1907 pistol with a lot of marketing fanfare. It was "10 Shots Quick!" and promoted with testimonials form personalities like Buffalo Bill Cody and Sheriff Bat Masterson. It was intended as a pocket pistol for personal protection and home defense, with a lot made of how i...
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Department of Energy 633 Clone at a PCSL 2-Gun Match
The new Colt 633 Department of Energy clone from PSA/H&R was really quite a lot of fun to shoot, so I decided to take it to a PCSL match. This was basically a USPSA pistol match with two sets of targets, one for pistol and one for rifle (in theory PCSL goes out to much longer range, but that matc...
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Primary Arms' HTX-1: A Completely US-Made Red Dot Sight
Primary Arms just recently announced their HTX-1 red dot, and it sounds pretty cool. From a technical perspective, it has a lot of good points - a clever adapter plate mounting system, two different reticles, and a fully enclosed emitter. However I think the more interesting (and less appreciated...
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Optic and Reticle Choices (featuring Mike Branson)
I'm speaking with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics at SHOT Show 2025, and today the topic is scope and reticle choice. What is good, what is bad, and what is best for you?
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Red Dots: How Cheap is too Cheap? (featuring Mike Branson)
I met up with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics at SHOT Show 2025. Today, we are talking about red dot price and quality. It's easy to get a good red dot if you are willing to spend enough, but how cheap can you go and still have a reliable product?
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Book Review: ERMA Erfurter Maschinenfabrik 1924–2003 (Three Volumes)
Available from Schiffer Publishing as three separate volumes:
https://www.schiffermilitary.com/collections/military-new-releases/products/erma-erfurter-maschinenfabrik-1924-2003-vol-1
https://www.schiffermilitary.com/collections/military-new-releases/products/erma-erfurter-maschinenfabrik-1924-...
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Stamm-Saurer Model 1913 Long-Recoil Prototype Rifle
Hans Stamm developed a series of firearms in Switzerland in the early 1900s, and today we are looking at a second-pattern Model 1913 semiauto rifle. This was developed while Stamm was working for the Saurer company, where he headed its small arms division. Stamm's Model 1907 straight pull rifle f...
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Mean Arms' Bearing Delay System
Mean Arms has developed probably the most refined and sophisticated 9mm AR delaying system on the market, what they call Bearing Delay. This began as an exploration into fitting HK-style roller delay into and AR, and ended up with a system using three spherical bearings to redirect chamber pressu...
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PSA/H&R Clones the Department of Energy Colt 9mm SMG
Palmetto State Armory, under their Harrington & Richardson brand, has released a particularly neat model of 9mm AR. They talked about doing this "at some point" at SHOT Show 2024, but lo and behold it's here and available on the cusp of SHOT 2025! Specifically, this is the Colt 633, an extra-shor...
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Experimental AG-42B Conversion to 7.62mm NATO
Circa 1954, Sweden was starting to look for a new self-loading rifle to adopt for its infantry. The 6.5x55mm cartridge was a good round, but the idea of having ammunition compatibility with its neighbors was appealing, and NATO was standardizing on the new 7.62x51mm round. This rifle is an experi...
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Domestic Burmese G3s: BA64 Rifle and BA-72 Carbine
After achieving independence from the British, Burma (now Myanmar) looked to develop a domestic small arms industry to supply its armed forces. The first weapon produced there was the BA-52, a copy of (how they chose this I don't know) the Italian TZ-45 submachine gun. By the late 1950s, talks we...
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Q&A: British Small Arms of World War Two
Today's Q&A is brought to you by the fine folks at Patreon, and by Penguin Brutality:
https://www.varusteleka.com/en/search?q=penguin
http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons01:11 - Was the Vickers .50 any good, and why did the British use 4 different heavy cartridges instead of consolidating?
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Galand de Guerre Model 1872: Too Good for the Military
Charles François Galand is best known for his simultaneous-extraction Model 1868, but he also developed a very good solid-frame revolver. This was specifically for the French 1871 military trials, which specifically required a solid frame. The Galand was chambered for 12mm Galand (with its distin...
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One of a Kind Prototype vz.38 Pistol in .32ACP
When CZ developed the vz.38 pistol for the Czechoslovak military, they made a number of attempts to also sell it on the international export market. This involved offering some various changes in configuration for different clients - in this case, scaling it down from .380ACP to .32 ACP. It also ...