I cried at watching the gentleman having to manually cycle a M1 Garand.

Mike congratulations for coming over and taking part, never mind the fact you actually won! This match was conceived on the CSR forum from an idea of mine which I rather bigheadedly take any credit for. Those taking part in CSR with AR15's and the like also wanted to have a go with their No.4's but didn't want to swap classes for fear of losing any league points they had collected on SO & PR class, hence the match. 225 is a first rate score, well done!

Thank you so much for posting this! It was wonderful to see Bisley again, I haven't been there since I was a teenager shooting No4 Mk2 with the school rifle team in 1979-1980. I still have particularly fond memories of shooting on the 1000yd range there. :-)

Congratulations!! Awesome to see you shooting well and enjoying competitions!

Many congratulations and thanks for taking me back to those happy days when rifle and pistol shooting were considered 'normal' sports,I did manage a medal at one of the annual 'Pistol' events at Bisley,thoroughly enjoyed watching you compete.

Congratulations for your WIN. Thank you for the view of Bisley in colour and operation.

Absolutely marvelous!! Congratulations and very well done, sir!

thank you for taking us with you

Congrats on the win, Bloke!

Well done sir, A family friend shot there in the 1960's, he was from the Lyndhurst rifle club NSW Australia.

Congrats! Bloke

I LOVE IT! Beautiful. Great work!!!

Great shooting and great filming by Ken ‘n’ Kev

I hope, when you said it 'ran like a train' that you did not mean a British train. Congrats on the Gold.

Congratulations on the win

Congratulations, Bloke 👍

Congratulations!! Well done!

Congratulations on your win!

You won Gold...get otta town. Well done. Bisley is a well known event it was nice to see what is involved. Gold....that deserves a beer.

Subscribed for you using a Longbranch No 4; the most lovely No 4 of them all!!! 🇨🇦

Congrats & well-done!

Such as slick action the old Lee Enfield. Congrats are in order

Well done Blokey, two thumbs up. :)

Ayyyye you go man !!!!!!!! Congratulations!

Bisley? Yes! I still watch the old Bisley documentary for the entire length quite often. The one that goes on about the Queen's Prize.

Great shooting! -congrats.

Awesome Job!

Congratulations!

Danng man, that's cool! Nice job!

Congratulations on the Gold. That’s real shooting no high tech stuff :o)

Well done!

Well done,sir!

Nice shooting Tex! Need to get you to Camp Perry Ohio. You'd love it. I honestly expected to see hundreds or even thousands there. I was sad to see so little participation. Beautiful range though. I hope piles more people will come out and shoot after seeing this. Looked like a lot of fun. Like your videos. Keep posting and shooting friend. Joe in the USA.

Well done that man!

Well, its official BOTR is the best shot in the UK with old service rifles. Congratulations on your win man.

Well done Bloke, the course of fire looks very challenging for a first attempt. Next time you need to take Chap, he would ace the whole match.

Very good! Having a sore right knee, supported kneeling is out; I have to go for sitting.

Good job running that bolt. TARGETS........ UP!

awesome win. congrats.

Yes very difficult using service grade bolt action rifles. It is very fun and great training.

OutStanding Bloke !!! .....HooRahhh👍

Good work!

Congrats and well done. Would love to cross the pond and shoot in one of these matches.

Fine shooting my friend.

Congratulations Mike for winning and I did like your video. 0032, 15/05/2020.

Congratulations from America. I have several excellent British Military Rifles.

Well done 👍🏽👏🏽

Beautiful range. Congratulations on your score!

good job! I just became a patreon because of your video's

Nice shooting! I went through the NRA probationary course last month, really ought to get down to Bisley again soon now that I'm a full member. These HSR/CSR events do look like a lot of fun, maybe I'll see you at one some time. Thrashing me no doubt. Also, the comment about the competition being run "like a train" really shows you've been living in Switzerland for too long haha

That looked like loads of fun. And being on the historical ranges at Bisley? Bucket list item. I could bring a Lithgow SMLE and an 1950's M1 to that.

I see you were blessed with decent weather,i used a MAS 36 a couple of years ago on this with the hail that hit us and the thick front sight i couldn't see much haha,well done on you're shooting.

Well done.

Well Done! Great! results.

Looks fun.

For people who don't know about the National Shooting Centre at Bisley it is much more than just 'a range'. There are over 24 Clubhouses dedicated to around that number of clubs (when Bloke said 'join one of the clubs' at Bisley he wasn't joking), at least one Gunmaker and other Gunsmithing services, several accommodation blocks and 8 ranges of up to 1,500 yards. In typical British manner, the Century Range has 108 Lanes (at up to 600 yards), the Short Siberia range is in the middle of nowhere (and shoots 5 *metres* to 200 *yards*) (edit: originally said 128 Lanes at Century, from a (UK) NRA page that was in error)

i quite liked the head cam on the action, its a perspective you dont often get

Great shooting

Congratulations. It is a great achievement. Now you can change the name to gold bloke on the range...

Way to go Bloke!!!! I could hit the berm at 300 with irons.... impressive shooting skills!

Lovely!

Desire to own an SMLE or No.4 intensifies. Nice job on the second shoot. You know it might be easier to mount your GoPro off your earpro? A few of the guys I've seen over here mount them off their cans, facemasks or helmets to one side, so you can see down the weapon and to the target better even if canting the head to aim.

Nice shooting 👍🇺🇸🪖

Well done! Shame there just isn't the number of ranges that have the sufficiant distances and facilities for such matches here in the UK.

Nice shooting Mike, 225 is a great score and would put towards the top of the CSR Service optic shooters with 4.5mag

Those Garands make me cry

So nice to watch a video about shooting, hear "NRA" and be able to think, 'Oh yeah, those guys. They do some great work!'

Well done. Do they have a martini- Henry category?

In the CCF I got my Marksman 1st Class in 69 with a Mark 4 I was 16

Jolly good Ol boy!

Was long time since I did any shooting there early 90 when I was in the army shooting team with slr and bren

Varusteleka has become youtube gun channel Gucci gear. Only the most fire hype beasts and middle finger trigger pullers are in the know.

Stupid youtube dropped my sub. Had to resub. Is this now a thing? Great info and video Bloke.

Nice shooting, congrats. Good thing you won as that phantom 10th shot would really rankle away had it dropped you to second! Your left handed shooting neighbour looks to have given up on his hearing :D

watch and shoot. much more refined than “rotate your selector from safe to semi and scan your lane”

The straight pull M1 Garand. I know that's way its gota be in the UK. I also know you saw it, ain't I right comments section ;).

too bad about the head cam. I used to know some one who would travel all the way to England from Canada for the Bisley match. Looks like fun.

Well done. Thanks for sharing! Tangent, where can I find a fleece jacket like that?

Congrats on winning! Surrey...? You haven't by chance met Matt Easton have you?

Now that DOES make 60 year old me itch to get back "into-it"

3:19 (I don't know how to tag), Herman the German looks like he's tripping balls, with the orange shot indicators in.

Shot a 600 yd F Class match with a M1 (iron sights) some years back. Shot a 268/400. No gold and nothing to brag about but I was happy with my score.

Good shooting - well done on Gold :D Also - is that rifle a tad short for you? Had me thinking you might need a butt pad or similar on it, as it looks like it kept slipping off your shoulder, a key indicator to an iffy fit? Or is that prohibited by the rules of the shoot in question?

Bloke, Can a yank enter this type of competition? I would gladly jump through hoops to bring my M1903 & ammo. Have you experienced anyone silly enough to travel that far to shoot HSR?

I just remembered something. Many years ago, not long after arriving in the US, my non gun loving ex-wife allowed me to enter an off the beaten track fishing tackle store. Often these stores can turn up some weird oldie fashioned gear that used to be very effective in the their day, just now superseded. There was very interesting old gear in there. Over the counter, for sale, and easily acquired then, in Connecticut, one wood furnitured SLR, and one Lee Enfield #4. I expressed interest and before I knew it I was sitting in the car empty handed.

Very interesting and entertaining video. Are you wearing Varusteleka's Sarma TST Woolshell jacket? How is it holding up to use? Looks like you even have Thor's hammer on your right sleeve.

Check our the lefty!

Well done good shooting, hope you filmed the CSR comp. now do you think they will let you back...

Now we know why the Swiss use those fancy electronic scoring computers. Swiss shooters are so accurate they didn’t want to risk getting perfect doubles and losing a shot!

Them wee bobbity men are at it again.

Bisley ranges are very big, there are different ranges for different diciplines. A couple of friends i served with were on the same shoot bloke. Both own number 4's i was looking for them but didnt see them . Well done on the gold, love a number 4 however here because o have no where in my house to have a secure gun safe i could not get my licience

Straight pull M1...😱😱

Was the ammo issued or did you bring it? Does it cost anything to challenge a score? In the US it costs a few bucks, which you get back if the challenge is upheld.

The question I have is this. Was this tougher than Finnish Brutality? Hehehe...

Is your hat really that blue, or is it the camera? That's a pretty hat.

What ammo were you using do you use mk7 original ammo or something else? How do you get your rifle zero for 300 yards? Did you get to shoot some zeroing rounds first?

Shot there a few times

Hell, how do you get a rifle through customs, let alone Ammo??

in the opening scenes it looks like that M1 has been converted to a straight pull. is this some sort of legal requirement - or just necessary for this match?

The lefty shooting a right hand bolt makes it look difficult.