Great video Rob. Thanks for coming along and spending the day with us.

When “Land of Hope and Glory” came on with the slo-mo firing of the Vickers, I couldn’t help grinning. Very well done, and in its way something of a tribute to all those who sweated behind the “Emma Gees”.

My great grandfather was in the new Zealand mounted rifles and served in ww1 during the Gallipoli and middle East campaigns and I've been researching their history tactics and battles and I know they set these things up a few times in cross fire positions and were highly successful with them so it's great to see just exactly how a expert gun crew would operate this weapons systems

Hey, wait a minute! Somebody needs a shave! I knew something was off but didn't realize it until the end of the video.

My god, that was incredible! Well done!

Whilst serving in the British Army infantry I qualified on the Bren gun and was also in the Regimental competition team and where it was allowed for top accuracy it was best to anchor the bipod to the ground by inserting a .303 round in the hole in the foot of each bipod, hardness of the ground permitting.

I was assigned the M249 saw, and I also used the M240B as well as M2 machine guns. I am envious of you having a great range day with those great weapons. Looks like you had a lot of fun!

If you ever get near Charleston, a personal experience will be arranged for you on ours

Awesome.

Those BRENs! Absolutely superb... Rather have one of those than a B.A.R. any day. I thought the MKVIIZ ( nitrocellulose powder)was the Emmagee load due to cordite being too erosive for sustained fire in machine guns. Awesome work by all, to preserve these weapons and their histories.

Lovely hearing Machine Gun Guards in the background! Very interesting to learn about! I never knew this association existed!

So pleased you got this opportunity. I cannot think of anyone who deserves it more. Thank you for your service to firearms history

It's amazing to see the difference in the rates of fire of the Bren and Vickers

I learnt to fire the bren in the early 80s along with the 303rifle in the army cadets and we was using 1950s rounds then 😂. And then I moved on to the 7.62 then 5.56.

When two of my favourite gun friends conspire to collaborate!

Rob, so happy for you to be invited to this most historical event. Thank you for sharing it with us! Just incredible!!

2 of the greatest weapons of modern times - nicely done chap!

Always enjoyable to see the Vickers and Bren in action. Thank you!

Rob, fantastic video as always! I only ever used a GPMG, LMG (the 7.62mm version is 👌🏻) and HMG in my service, but I'd have loved to have gotten my hands on a Vickers gun. I do remember meeting a Korean War veteran who credited his survival to the utter reliability of the gun on more than one occasion, although he did note that war hadn't done anything to improve his accuracy, as more often than not they set their pieces to the correct elevation to graze the top of an opposing hill over which the enemy (chiefly the Chinese by the time he was there) would show themselves when attacking, and then just tap-to-traverse...

Thats incredible what an honor would it be to be there, I hope you had fun.

Always interesting!

LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY!!!!!!!! GRATUITOUSLY awsome!!!!! Excellently done as always Rob.

My father in the kings Shropshire light infantry was a bren operator he loved that weapon. he could and would use it from the shoulder and was able to shoot it as accurate as a rifle. I remember talking to Korean war veterans who knew him and confirmed he was a man who could handle his bren and could hit anything he had to. he was a superb shot with his mk 4 enfield when called to do so. He rarely ever spoke of his time in the army but when he did he spoke of the bren with a almost a love towards his bren he would say it was a life saver and would keep the heads down of anyone who decided to try and harm his mates he served with. God bless these service men and women past and present. thank you for showing great admiration towards the excellent firearms in your excellent video.

2:16 I can’t you how much I appreciate you show us th website of this great organization.

What a phenomenal historical examination. Thanks for sharing this.

That was a fantastic video. That Bren really chucks them spent cases!

I know what you were feeling. As an ex-Australian Gunner(Artillery during the very late 70’s to late 90’s), that apprehensive, but excited feeling of shooting them, and the history of sitting, or lying behind these venerable weapons, has stayed with me, even now. Great video Rob.

Wow amazing and fascinating look at the arms of yesterday 👍👍

Bravo Rob and the Association. First class camera work and editing. The Bren must have reminded you of your C3 days as it did my L4 time.

Good afternoon from Syracuse NY USA brother thank you for sharing your facts and truth about British military history

I was waiting for a new video. The video is amazing. Thanks for the new video.

Thank you so much for taking the time to film all this. That high speed footage, the loader. It's wonderful that this association exists. Almost forgot...I still want to see you at a Brutality match. That reminds me of the guy carrying the MG on a tripod for that challenge.

Fantastic videos as always!

What a well-produced video! I learned a lot...thanks! 👍

Thank you for posting

Great content, and fantastic footage.

Very nice to see posts from this channel as usual. Thank you.

Wow!!!!! Amazing!!!! Thank you so much!!!!

Appreciate everything you do & make, keep up the good work!

Fascinating. I’m a long time subscriber and I truly appreciate your work.

Excellent Rob. Insightful.

Very, very cool. That's an experience to remember for sure. One of those Bren guns didn't make it back to the great white north in your suitcase by any chance? No one would know.... Great stuff, looking forward to seeing what you and these goofy nuggets from the south get up to. Make sure you bring them some proper Canadian rye or something!

What what an experience for you. Thanks for sharing . Very informative 👍

Magnificent! A great effort all round.

Really interesting, thanks Rob and friends.

TY Rob. & Vickers team. Also gun jesus , who may own one legally in Arizona ? says the Bren to be the best LMG of WW II . You covered all the good bits well. Secrets of the Vickers are inside the spade grips ; oil bottle and brush.

Great video of a great day!

What a great experience Rob! Loved it...

Great video, Sir!

Thanks for sharing Rob! Looked like a great time, one I wouldn’t mind having myself 😊 Stuart

Bloody outstanding!!! What an extraordinary experience!! Looking forward to seeing the next installment!!! 🇺🇲☠️🇺🇲 🇬🇧🇨🇦

good stuff, congrats on your experience

Fantastic video as always :) keep it up matey

That was great to watch I bet it was fantastic to be there 👍

DUDE you look JACKED.. Maybe you should be on the cover GQ Outdoors?

Thanks again

Bloody good video mate1

What an awesome day! Thank you for showing us what fun you had and all the things available to learn. I had a moment of grumbling when I saw you shooting that Bren prone for the first time. At least one spent, ejected case looked like it came awfully close to bouncing into your eyes, and there you were with your glasses on your forehead. But overall what a fantastic time you all had. That's something many never get to experience. Good for you! Cheers!

Really awesome Rob I'm glad you've had a chance to experience the collection and the old girls in action it's something that I'm extremely privileged to be part of, me and rich have some things in the pipeline which may be of interest to some of you guys.

Outstanding video. Big thanks to the VMGCRA for having you out. Followed the link and subscribed to their KZfaq channel.

Another great video Sir, I am green with envy lol. What a chance in a lifetime.

All smiles on this day, well done fella’s!

Would be interesting to see a shoot like this with a microphone placed down range to try and capture the sound of bullets passing or striking near by.

Nice work with the bren. It is one of my bucket list guns to shoot. Great grouping as well.

Ive been watching this mans videos for years.

Great seeing you "out of uniform" BM. Great vid, as always.

Good stuff. Thanks

All I can say is Gee Whilikers, that was awesome!

Being aussie made Vickers guns I was disappointed not to hear my national anthem when the guns were firing 😎 that's stuff we can only dream of here in Australia. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through your video mate👍

Excellent, sir, excellent!

Love all your videos Sir but this is my favourite 😢 when you played Land of Hope and Glory I cried.

Great video! Always enjoy and anxiously await each of your videos. I seem to remember when the British MOD disposed of their obsolete Vickers guns, they ran over a good number of them with tracked vehicles in a Soccer stadium. This may explain why the guns you used were Australian! I cannot tell how many of the Vickers guns in the 16 gun lineup had the smooth Australian water jackets.

Fascinating!

Elgar, nice touch!

outstanding as always

Well done !

It has been a while but man, do I love you content. Awesome Machine Gun. Just subscribed to the Vickers MG Collection.

Excellent video! I had the opportunity to handle and fire the Bren while on a small unit exchange with the Australian Army. I was a member of D Battery AMF(L), 2RCHA in the 80's, and the exchange was in 1985. The Bren in service at that time was chambered for 7.62mm NATO. They used 30 round FN FAL magazines. Quite the gun I must say!

So very grateful for the video highlighting part of your holiday and the gents maintaining the collection. Did you get to make any detours to Bovington? There is a man associated with a certain museum there that has a mustache as well regarded as yours.

Oooo! So jealous and happy that you got to see the old girls in action!

The L4A4 was the best LMG ever. Extremely hard hitting.

Man, I'm envious... You had such a great opportunity, this kind of stuff is kind of a huge no go here in Canada. The general public wouldn't stand for it.

Up until the 1990's surplus, British 303 ammunition was readily available in the UK and workers fairly well. I am not surprised that you had some stoppages great video.

Fascinating

Your videos usually make me smile, but this one doubly so. It's a bit of a story: When I was in library school, we got taught the very, very basics of shooting a video - libraries basically need to know how to do *everything* - and this instruction included a BBC video on, well, making videos. At one point, the camera is narrowly missed by a falling tree whilst the narrator, in a dry BBC accent, says "The camera may even be set up and left in a dangerous location." Laughing at that was the first moment of bonding with my (now ex, alas) wife. Watching your "shaky cam" brought all that back with great clarity. :D

Some very familiar faces in this video Rob...excellent stuff.

Outstanding video, btw the surplus ammo is called RG as it was captured off the Argentinians after the falklands war. 😜

Vickers is an absolute masterpiece of a machine gun, best Maxim-type in my opinion. Great video.

19:09 "that the sound of the men working on belt gang"

Whenever I hear "Land of Hope and Glory" I can't help but think of Tim Brooke-Taylor.

These guns are as important as any great historic house. To understand them they have to be fired. Exhausting work that someone has to do. Looked great fun, thank you for sharing. I shot the Bren just enough when serving to love them.

Just a group of friends taking their belt of .303 British out for a walk in the English countryside. Fine video as always.

From a history nut damm good video 2 big thumbs up

Was amazing shooting with you mate… 😊😊😊

Looked a fantastic event you attended their Rob. I really must try to attend next year I assume it's something which happens each summer as with most of our military reenactments/shows in the UK?

Very cool! I'm impressed. Never seen so many beautiful vickers and other Era machineguns in one place. I've been to several machinegun shoots around the states. There were just a couple here and there. Surprised they have groups like this in a country with such strict gun ownership laws...

Excellent

The Vickers was an absolute unit! 👍

What a great day! I'd love to have a crack at the Bren one day...my late godfather (RAF groundcrew) always used to say Bren practice off a vehicle mount made him feel like a real marksman 🙂

A vickers used by Sydney Godley (VC) from the 4th Battalion RF halted a German column at The Mons. All until the ammo ran out and he ditched it into the canal.