Well done lads!

Congrats to Chappie!

@custardthepipecat6584

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure he got a cheese 🧀 trophy 🏆

Congratulations on the effort Excellent to hear chap is now a citizen bravo👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@viperscot1

Ай бұрын

Ps really interesting and informative chat you had when doing that right now still watching this Was going to try this but work got in the way big time on the date Still going to try it will help with my fitness to see how bad it is 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Speaking of changed minds, I had always assumed the ww2 pistols with adjustable sights were hilariously pointless. Had the opportunity to shoot a stocked hipower a while ago, set the sights to 200 and it happily slapped the plate at 200 all mag long. If canada ever corrects its attitude re: pistols again I shall have to buy one.

Congrats to Chap ,-) Hope to see Bloke at the Feldschiessen!

I used to go hiking with my grand parents and their best friend (a ranked officer) who had a masterkey to access the military bunkers in the mountains for an overnight. Everything needed was there except food and "luxury" items like a comfy pillow, etc. You guys would have loved to experience that.

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

Definitely!!!

Thanks for the invitation and the great time we had : )

55:20 even the cows were giving you funny looks.

11:25 I also can attest to the joys of one-way signage. I did a circuitous hike in my area not too long ago where if you go the counter-clockwise direction, there are a BUNCH of signs saying there is no bridge over a river, a BUNCH of markers showing where the trail resumes on the far side of said river, and even some subtle markers where the river is mostly under a meter deep so you can ford without having to empty your pockets of water-sensitive equipment. If you go the clockwise direction...nothing whatsoever about the river. You walk several kilometers up and side forested hills and just stop at a river with nothing but a hundred meters of rocky water and virtually unbroken trees on the far side. There are no markers showing which tiny break in the trees is where the trail comes up to the water. Even the subtle ford markers are functionally invisible because the colored sides are pointing to the riverbank you are not on! Who ever did the marking apparently assumed that people would only go the counter-clockwise way, even though there is not one sign at the trail's start saying this is recommended, and so countless people go clockwise and end up having to backtrack because they lack the skills and courage to ford the river blindly. Fortunately for me, I am reasonably competent at trail-blazing, so I had the skill and courage to get across the water without drowning and find the trail again, all while keeping a brave and reckless teenager on a short leash. Still, a good reminder that if you are going to walk far from home, be prepared to improvise when the paths don't show themselves!

Good comparison between the P13 and the XM-7, I've been thinking they were both solutions to problems that had already gone away.

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

I also think it's interesting that they're both in an absolutely raging-hot 7mm cartridge, that's the chef's kiss of the parallel right there!

@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq

Ай бұрын

@@BlokeontheRange that would make for an interesting episode.

@foleymaj

Ай бұрын

XM7 is a solution looking for a problem. I mean I guess it could be an effective rifle in a few decades if effective body armour is a thing, but right now it's a clear step back in firepower for the infantry. At least that's how I view it from an amateur perspective. If you look at the combat footage from Ukraine (not advising for it, it's not pretty seeing people get shot/blown up), the current assault rifles we have are doing just fine. Just like it was in the previous big wars, infantry small arms are there to allow manoeuvring. Artillery does the real work.

I was hoping he was leading up to the d’ya like dags quote 😆. Congratulations Chap! Fudd lore gets us in the beginning. Even when growing up with goldeneye 007. Thanks for the awesome video!

Congratulations Chappie 🎉

Congratulations Le Chap! Well done! Nice job on the hike guys! You must have been quite a sight to the locals!

Congratulations to Chap!

We trained with some french tankers in berlin during the eighties and lo and behold they DID have vino in their ration packs,they were very good soldiers (moaned a lot ,constant hunger,abuse etc)😊

Glad you had a nice route march Bloke and Chap. Here were I live if you did not cover up in tick spray you would have 4-5 in you by the time you were done.

Stroll in the Swiss country side or force march... it's all the same with a picnic at the end.

Really enjoyable ramble about this-n-that, good on you for completing the trek in kit!

Well done lads.

Sun burn on the Bloke... red, blue and green.....

On the subject of BP lube, Mr. Capandball uses synthetic motor oil in his and he is a world champion shot, so it does not seem to be much of an issue for him.

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

The standard lube here in Switzerland is a universal lithium soap bearing grease you buy in farm supply shops, wish we'd mentioned that now!

Ohhhh - sun tan Me got my CH pass in 2016. Also got UK and Irish. So 3 as well. My process was very different to get my Swiissie pass. Much simpler. No idea why. Wife is Swiss maybe...? I've also had experience of a badly trimmed bush taking me down the wrong path

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

If your wife is Swiss, you benefited from the vereinfachtes Verfahren :)

Algorithm needs a salty comment, so: I too started in shooting aged 13. With the Garand and with the 1911A1. Mind that was 1973. I remember being fit enough to shrug off a 10km ruck march, and a 20-25 once a quarter, sadly, age has stolen that away.

What ho the lads ,switching from the SLR to SA80 in the eighties was great ,every fecker became a good shot (ev3n refms)rifel was pants but got better,as for the future I reckon it will be defeating body armour whilst still retaining a good volume of fire and considering everything is vechle based then a soldiers fighting order will be ammo and water(no 24 hour rats)

@somebrains5431

Ай бұрын

It will be more interesting to see sporterized milsurps for the 1 moa thing getting pulled out of closets. They were cheap in the US. What Bloke hasnt seen is milsurp actions with a bad barrel were often the $100 or cheaper wildcat test beds in the US. Your cheaper Savage or similar off the shelf rifle was considered too expensive when we had piles of rifles. Barrel blanks were in the $150-$250 rnage back then and have a reamer made wasnt that expensive. Modern rifles are boring because almost everything is commercially accessible here. I want to see real weird things get pulled out. Same era the was a lot of unusual pistolsmithing and hot rodding going on.

@somersethuscarl2938

Ай бұрын

I remember from cadets at school in the early 80's the mad lads down the road in Aldershot just returning from parts South speaking in hushed tones and admiration of the alliness of Leathernecks Colts in 5.56mm when compaired to The Pike

@keithplymale2374

Ай бұрын

@@somebrains5431 My dad probably in the 1950's sporterized an M1903 and M1917. Wile they look beautiful though no idea how they shoot I wish they were still in military stock and metal parts because if they were in equivalent condition they would be worth a very great deal today. But back in the day who could have foreseen that?

Have you guys ever made a video on your path to where you are today ? If so where can it be found ? If not I think that it would be very well received by your viewers. I still live about 50m from the house I was raised in so I'm curious.

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

There's snippets of it in various vids over the years.

@FrankMuchnok

Ай бұрын

@@BlokeontheRange Thanks

LIke dags classic😺

I wanted to take Swiss to meet the foreign language requirement in college. Imagine my disappointment when they told me no such language existed.

@thebotrchap

Ай бұрын

Well technically they’re right, there is no single collective “Swiss” language.

This citizenship process seems very foreign. Surely you just raise the Union Jack, colour the map pink and congratulate everyone in the vacinity on now being a British Subject?

Speed Racer had red socks.

@thebotrchap

Ай бұрын

Red goz fasta innit!

@keithplymale2374

Ай бұрын

Every on knows red ones go fasta! Especially with fins!

.277/6.8×51 is supposed to be even flatter shooting than 5.56 with the military cartridge. Single point of aim out to 1000.... Supposedly

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

The P13 had a 700 yard battlesight with the .276 Enfield cartridge. Insanity, particularly in view of the propellant tech of the time.

@nothim7321

Ай бұрын

@@BlokeontheRange I'm skeptical of the stated point blank range of the new US cartridge as well, we will see...

1:07:54 Here live the helvets underground.

You can apply finlands citizensip soon.

@thebotrchap

Ай бұрын

On the basis of how many Brutalities we’ve done?

@Turmootti

Ай бұрын

@@thebotrchap Yes, that box is ticked. Only the language test left.

@thebotrchap

Ай бұрын

@@Turmootti Olen nyt sveitsiläinen

hey jan!

Félicitation le Chap ! J'espère que tu n'es pas devenu Suisse *juste* pour les impôts, pas toi, nooooon 😂 C'est un bonus de ce splendide pays ☝️😎 (contrairement aux flingues, ça c'est une bonne raison 😁😁😁)

@thebotrchap

Ай бұрын

Contrairement aux légendes urbaines, la Suisse est loins d’être un paradis fiscal pour le citoyen moyen 💸💸💸

@Zorglub1966

Ай бұрын

@@thebotrchapil suffit de lire la presse helvétique.

@Vin_San

Ай бұрын

@@thebotrchap oui j'en ai entendu parler de gens qui vivent ou taff en Suisse, mais il fallait la blague ! Y'a bien des youtubeurs qui partent en Andorre pour ça, ou Bernard Arnaud en Belgique, vous êtes des youtubeurs compétent et (dans mes normes), à succès, donc la blague est nécessaire, bien qu'outracière.

@Vin_San

Ай бұрын

Plutôt que se dire "waw, c'est guntubers se sont déplacés en Suisse" je me dis "le cadre social et légal autour des armes en Suisse permet de faire des vidéos encore plus complète que Forgotten Weapons sur l'AA-52 !" C'est cool la Suisse, je pense qu'il y a pleins de petits trucs sur lesquels on peut prendre exemple pour s'améliorer 😁

Just lvl3 plates?

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

They were cheap as free ;)

@xxxlonewolf49

Ай бұрын

@@BlokeontheRange Hard to argue with that, hehehe. 😁

Pour fêter la naturalisation : kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6NnpMRvms6WeLw.html Vous énervez pas, c'est juste pour la blague.

10:10 wait, even if you have another nationality, and the other country is okay to have you, you can't be deported? Swiss are really over nice, people would get mad about that in France x) (tho, we're easily mad about anything 🤔)

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

The Swiss rules around that sort of thing are independent of if you have another nationality or not.

The U.S. should take note on Swiss citizenship required testing! Not just “I snuck in and so I AM”!

Looks like the United States could learn something from the Swiss.

A Brit complaining about not knowing how to pronounce French words from how they are written? Take a good hard look at your own language. :D

@BlokeontheRange

Ай бұрын

We have no illusions regarding British spelling and pronunciation though! 😆