The No 1 Mk III* and No 4, MK I*: Musketry of WWII - Field Firing
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Here we examine some aspects of Field Firing as may have been practiced during the Second World War.
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Loved the It Ain’t Half Hot Mum reference! One of my favourite shows of all time!
Oh dear , how sad , never mind .
Cheers!
Lovely boy
i dont mean to be off topic but does anybody know a tool to get back into an instagram account..?
I stupidly lost the login password. I love any tips you can give me.
@Bishop Cullen instablaster ;)
Great impression of Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Bryn 'Shut Up' Williams! I loved that series!
Well, not so much an impression but "an ode to".....
I think anyone who has done some kind of military basic training will recognize him/herself in this kind of practice. Still used to this day.
Cheers!
Or the reverse... if someone forgot to bring or wear something, everyone else who had it, don't get to wear it.
@@GenericShirtNinja Exactly, better that everyone is wrong than some right.
Gloves during winter. Forgotten by one of my comrades.
@@britishmuzzleloaders this looks like Vancouver Island? Seaforth is in Vancouver tho, which is it?
I loved the vintage "It ain't half hot Mum" TV Series.
Knowledge of even knowing of such a TV show would get you cancelled on Twit Tw@t...... great gag.... keep it up.
Me too!
thank god for DVDs...
It's a great show.
SHUT UP!
Windsor Davies would be proud....
A fantsic demonstration of the possibilities and complexities of Field Fireing. Well done Rob.
The unceremonious "sweeping" of the enemy out of the taken positions gave me more than just a small giggle.
Thanks! There is only so much you can do with an evil piece of wood or card,..... 🙂
This is really close to what it still performed nowadays within belgian army.
We got a whole system for combat shooting techniques but the module "defensive" is pretty close of this ! ...it only depends on the skill of the range master to set a proper "scenario" but overall, it looks really like a "defensive" scenario !
We keep practicing long range engagements and techniques such as "fire recon" and "linear shooting" (shooting as straigth as possible on a crest shooting target where 2 thin lines are drawn to control impacts/results. It's a very difficult technique to master when you got no support for your carbine)
Cool! Thanks for sharing!
The laugh at the end was of a man that had lost the an important piece of the only example that he owned rendering it useless, and then finding it after almost giving up.
Pretty close!
Bren gun series coming when...?
Jokes aside, top notch stuff as always Rob, especially loving those drone shots!
A bren might be tricky in canada
@@markthemaniac3350 Marstar have the odd Bren Gun.
Second the idea of automatic weapons.
Maybe one day....
Maybe we should start bothering MARSTAR and Movie Armaments Group to give him some trigger time.
squirrel 1: Anyone can clearly see he was out of regulations.
squirrel 2: Why do you care?
Squirrel 1: Squirrel McKenzie! Cookhouse, potatoes! Hop to it!
Acorns more like hahaha.
@12:36 "dig mcKenzie! there's potatoes in that their sod!"
Haha!
@@britishmuzzleloaders
And now Sargent Squirrel and his squad will execute an assault on that strategic bird feeder
@@mpetersen6 I'm having flashbacks to that squirrel obstacle course video the bait package guy set up. By now I'm imagining the squirrels dressed like Commonwealth Troops, and one of them having a military grade mustache.
Loved the Mills bomb sequence! Well done!
Cheers!
I'm amazed and humbled by how much work goes into your videos, so well done! Thank you!
Thank you very much!
It ain't half hot mum, that's a blast from the past.
Cheers!
Thank you for your in depth research and demonstration. Very well done
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!
Nice nod to the late, great Windsor Davies :)
Wrists of steel, wrists of steel!
Thanks 👍
Exceptional as always Rob. I can only imagine the amount of prep prior to the fun of the range exercises and the work involved in editing the footage. The archive film and stills were fascinating. Very well done sir! Fine pair of shoulders lovely boy show 'em off, show 'em off lol
*sucks in breath of pride through clenched teeth*
beautifulboybeautifulboy!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you.
OUTSTANDING WORK. The Lee Enfield is truly a great rifle; the short sequence at 31:13 is one reason why.
It has advantages..
Hi Rob,
I would just like to say thank you for your excellent informative video’s they are a pleasure to watch I stumbled upon one of your video’s about eighteen months ago and have been an avid viewer since please keep up the good work!
From a fellow military bolt Action rifle user/collector from here in Blighty (Liverpool England)
Stay safe and well.
Thanks! Glad you enjoy the clips!
Thank you very much for this series!
As a non native english speaker i love your clear and perfect to understand explanations, as well as seeing your practical efforts to show what you explain.
Great work!
You're very welcome! Very kind comments.
The BHQ mentioned in the Queen's Own Rifles War Diary is still there. Ratton Wood is a large house that is right on the edge of the Willingdon Golf Course. Frightfully handy for the Officers....
Cool!
I think we need to start a Kickstarter to get Rob and a Bren, and or a Sten together.
Wouldn't that be nice!
What does Movie Armaments Group charge for rentals?
Nice skit in the beginning one of the best history channel very accurate
Thank you!
Another excellent video.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for another great video. It takes great talent to turn a simple gun drill into an interesting narrative.
Thank you!
Great stuff once again. Most of the principles here are still in use and range training practices very similar - carried out on the same WW2 ranges! Of note when looking at troops in photographs of training is that the publicity photographs will always have something that "looks the part" (such as the whole section leaping into a crater) rather than what would actually be done. Some blokes crawling along, some yards distant from each other and posting grenades doesn't look the same for the pictures! Starting as individuals, then moving to pairs, then half sections etc etc is still carried out today so those WW2 training schemes are very much still effective in principle although the weapons have changed over the years.
Thanks Neil!
These intros are getting so much better, love it!
Glad you like them!
I just wanted to say thank you for the awesome videos! I really appreciate these projects that bring a living aspect to the history I love so much. Cheers!
Glad you like them!
Awesome video ! Your hard work in putting this together is greatly appreciated !
You are most welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Ah say, auld cheil. Weel dain. Considerin' nary a knee was tae be seen throoghit.
Let me say that this is the very first time I have ever seen the middle finger firing method in a practical training, i.e. field application. BOTR of course having demonstrated it at a range. Very interesting to see the SMLE used in such a way and demonstrating a ROF very nearly as fast as a semi automatic.
I guess you missed the referenced video on the Channel from a coulee of years ago on late war Close Quarters Shooting... 🙂 It's the focal point of the video.
Kudos again. Another fantastic presentation with humor, historical accuracy, and increasingly high production values. Top notch. Carry on.
Thank you!
Another hysterical intro Rob! A great video, period pictures and invaluable information! Thank you!
You are welcome and thank you!
Now then Lofty, when you 'as been up the jungle lovely boy. Grew up on It Ain't Alf Hot Mum, loved to see it refernced here. Lovely boys.
Cheers!
Man i love your Videos. The productionvalue is Superb!
Thank you kindly.
Brilliant video as usual. So informative and interesting and let's not forget humorous. Love the It ain't half hot mum reference
Cheers!
One of my favorite British sitcoms of the 70’s 👍🏻🇦🇺
Classic!
You sir have done the world a great service , with your informative videos on the subject of musketry of the British armed forces , and British military history with the bonus Canadian military( hope to see more Canadian musketry videos in future.)
Canadian musketry is British Musketry, as far as the timelines of this channel go.... Cheers!
These videos are great, so much information. And the introductions are comedy gold!
Glad you like them!
Another excellent work providing context to otherwise dry history.
I like your attention to detail passion and theatrics. Thank you
You are welcome!
Excellent presentation as always sir! Always a pleasant surprise when I see the notification for your channel. A great rifle indeed, Appreciate the time and trouble to bring us this video, drone shots were brilliant. Stay safe and God bless 🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧💂🤠!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Memories of the Royal Military College 'Duntroon' and the range outside Queanbeyan with a L1A1 SLR and L2A1 AR with several hard bitten Vietnam vets from the Royal Australia Regiment in 1977.... Basic Training and Fieldcraft and Infantry Minor Tactics
Thanks for sharing!
Good bits history, and good bits of comedy. Keep up the good content, bud
Glad you enjoyed it
It's interesting how similar modern tactics are to ones used almost 80 years ago. I guess, as they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it...
There are consistent concepts for sure.
This is one of the best things I have seen for a very long time - Thank you for this awesome presentation which could easily have been on the History Channel or similar...
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
5:50 Not quite Blackadder, but funnily close.
Im glad i was not the only one who caught that.
Interesting reference for sure!
I just now got around to viewing this video, it’s a great one (like all of your work). Thank you
Most welcome.
"Mwahah! That's right my lovely boy!" Now that is how you deliver a line to camera. Another brilliant intro sequence.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another outstanding video! Congratulations on your recent promotion and appointment!
Haha!
Well prepared , Entertaining , educating and a statuesque moustache . Brilliant as usual .
Greetings from England .
Thank you! One of my favourite productions!
Love the addition of drone camerawork - adds a lot. Thanks for your efforts
Glad you enjoyed it! You are most welcome.
I'm glad that Canadians and Americans aren't all that different with humor.
Ehh, much english
Canadians are like British people who have abandoned understatement and adopted the wisecrack.
No the yanks laugh at a whole heap of bullshit thats not funny
Lot's of variation for sure...
@@ashcarrier6606 I blame all that fresh air.
Great video, enlightening and satisfying as always!
One wonders how many sacks of potatoes the many generations of Mackenzies have penitentially peeled over many decades of service in the British Army.
No kidding! Cheers.
Thanks for another brilliant video :)
Glad you enjoyed it Kev! Cheers!
I like the conclusion of the video
Because you were happy it was over?
Brilliant, well done mate.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic as always!
Thank you! Cheers!
I love the No 1 Mk III*, i have one made by Ishapore from the 50s
Nice!
Wonderfull! Amazing drone footage.
Glad you enjoyed it
Ross Jones
Great work as always .
Thank you! Cheers!
another excellent presentation, Sir.
those bandoliers were a real liability it seems.
one wonders how soldiers deployed their allotted munitions in actual combat conditions.
one day, it would be nice to see all the great historical youtube shooters compete side by side in an army manouvre and fire excercise and have a comparisson of the weapons and kit in the same excercise, Karl Kassada in weimar kit, Ian McCollom in french late great war kit, Bloke in early Second World War BEF kit and Lindybeige as the training rupert, yourself as the training sergeant demonstrating the requirement and then givin' the the order.
it would give a good comparisson of kit and tactic and the evolutions' reasonings, it would also be a good opportunity of showing what the tactical training solutions for defending the same excercises from the correctly uniformed, [within reason], and accoutred participants, would look like using your doppelganger editing skills, the doctrines being more comparable this way.
I appreciate this would be a big project, but worth a collaboration with these other practical military historian channels, and the entire series on archive here with links to them .
you really illustrate the requirements most excellently and the group would work well in section mock ups.
the short film unit of ParaLight WorX would maybe also interested in filming in unit mode to illustrate whole wehrmacht counters, or what actual assults would look like to the chaps, as they are re-enactment and film making using mostly late war scenarios, and do not have prior drilling/can supply kit and video making knowhow. every one wins, they're constantly on point for new projects too czcams.com/users/ParaLightWorX
again, many thanks.
The bandolier was the primary way to carry ammunition into the fight. Exactly as shown....
great video, and the intro, lovely :D
Thank you!
Your videos are wonderful! Nice drone piloting 👌
Glad you like them! Cheers!
Nice job Rob Love the Herbie RSM part!
Cheers!
Britishmuzzleloaders, Wow that video must have taken a long time to set-up and run. But it was a great video another A+ ! I assume a drone was used for the over head shots. I hope got help to set-up and run all this different stuff so that you could do the shooting part. When your done with the WW2 time line it would be something to see a compare and contrast video as between the British Empire way of doing things and the Germany and Italion and Japanese load out and way of ding operations. Of corse this would have be pictures from books and talking to the camera.
Yes, it did take a very ling time. Thank you! I had a little help from the memsahib pulling targets in the first practice of all things...
It looks like the Alberta foothills!
Excellent video.
Thank you very much!
I love all the historical content, but I would really love to see a whole episode of the goofy shenanigans
Maybe one day.
Very well done Sir 👍😊
Thank you! Cheers!
@@britishmuzzleloaders It is a very hard to do what you are doing ( video editing, creating, having the set up for your shooting rang target ect,,, ) you are doing an outstanding Job Sir 👍😊 Cheers !!!
That was well done and took a lot of work to make. Congrats on your work.
US infantry notes. Our scouts and squad leaders used tracers to signal target areas, guys were taught to also fire at where the enemy might be. Germans used flares and whistles to command squads.
But the nugget if gold in your film is that British troops zeroed their rifles with bayonets fixed. US troops did not do that. All very interesting. Thank you for the film again!
Glad you enjoyed it Jim!
It would make a lovely video to see the D-day veterans' banter with a fully kitted up and armed re-enactor at one of the events in Normandy. Especially if the re-enactor is an old soldier himself. I think they would love it. Sadly a bit too late in the day now.
Indeed.
The trend appears to be that the characters are from the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (natural if one knows Rob). The Seaforths weren't at Normandy (D Day Dodgers) - they were busy slaughtering Germans in Italy... along with the rest of a corps of Canadians. How about a video about Ortona? Where the Seaforths and Loyal Eddies literally 'wrote the book' on modern urban warfare.
31:42 Quote:"For obvious reasons, i can not include examples for larger groupings...."
Why? I think there will be many volunteers here to do that. ;-)
I am not answering for Rob but I will throw in my 2 bits, I am sure there is no shortage of volunteers to act as section and platoon mates but to ensure safety, there would need to be substantial and through training and practice. Throw in broken ground, live firearms and moving people .. probably not the risk anyone should take on outside a structured and regulated environment
"many volunteers"?... to come together and shoot live,..... ummm,.... certainly not with just "any volunteers" as far as I am concerned...
@@britishmuzzleloaders You can always ask Westies to provide safety staff. Then you'd be alright.
Would be great to see a video on supplementary and non standard kit, batons, lanyards, maybe things the soldiers/offices weren't issued but took themselves. It's clear how much effort you put in and I am enjoying watching, Thanks
HI there. This is an Historical Shooting Channel and as such, the items you speak of are unimportant. Just the philosophy of the Channel thats all. There is a series on the kit I use if you are interested. As for going into the details of non-shooting related items, I can't promise that I will as it doesn't really play into what I do. "Rifleman Moore" on YT will have some other details that you might interested in. Cheers.
@@britishmuzzleloaders No worries, you do what interests you and you do it well, cheers.
Great channel
Thank you!
Great vids sir👍
Thank you!
I live not far from Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. It was possibly the worlds first purpose built field firing range during the great war, POW labour was used to construct it. It was heathland turned into a replica of the trenches and it was used to train infantry in snap shooting with the rifle, Lewis Gun, Mills Bomb and trench raiding, I would assume it was accompanied by the usual pyrotechnics and the Stokes Mortar . These days it would be called a live fire range. I go mountain biking there now as its a national park but the trenches are still there to be found. You should read up on it. It was a form of training that went away until WW2.
Thanks for sharing! Cool!
Very nice camera work here, Rob.
Cheers!
This man is a pioneer in covid-secure filmmaking!
Sure!
I really enjoyed this video. Makes me want to buy a number 4.
Cheers!
This is SO COOL!!!
Thank you. One of my favourite projects. Cheers!
Great video thank you.
Glad you liked it!
6:08 from the diary, "1100 Brig K Blackader visited the Range" I'd be interested to know the name of his Batman....
Fantastic video, thank you.
I know! Cheers!
I bet it was very cunning
Brilliantly filmed and explained again Rob. Now, where's that bloomin' char wallah? CFGB
He was just off screen.... the urn was steaming and ready to go.... OK it was a Jetboil.... but the intent was there.
Outstanding! 👍👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Great Windsor Davies !!
Cheers!
What a great course of fire and exercise. The utilization on that cut block is very good. Very little waste volume. The '41 No4Mk1 Long Branch is sweet. I noticed that you were loaded and ready with safety on when you applied the pig sticker. Was that an acceptable convention of the day? Your command of the bolt throw is great. This is definitely one of my fav BM videos. Really well done.
Thanks Richard. Bayonets could be fixed at any time, yes,.... although typically before going into action rather than during...
ありがとうございます!
おかげで Lee Enfield が好きになりました。
Cheers!
You need to shoot Karls Desert Brutality with an enfield in KD.
That would be fun!
Cant wait till i get my PAL Paperwork back from the RCMP. Its damn hard finding a unsporterized lee enfield. Its crazy how little field exercises have changed over the years!
Cheers!
1:43 Rob says too hot in Canada October. That's why I love your videos !!!:)
Yes,... but when was it actually filmed????
nice ww1 gun . i would love to have an Enfield like that. I do actually but it hss some time in its past been sporterized . it has the original back site that is windage adjustable and finely adjustable elevation. my one is a 1913 bsa
That would put it about right... before the Mk III* changes.
Luv the videos
Luv the uniforms
Luv britishmuzzleloaders
Simple as
Thank you!
Interesting video, thanks Rob. One thing I wanted to comment on was at 5:12 there is an image of three men shooting prone supported with No. 1 rifles. The nearest man is shooting left handed. I don't think I have seen a photo of of a solider shooting left handed. I thought, back in the day, the military forced all left handed recruits to convert to right handed shooting?
That would certainly be the norm, yes,.... I suppose that there were exceptions...
Brilliant!...Windsor Davis will be grinning as much as me......Ta!
Cheers!
🍻 brillant. love the height joke
Thanks. I'm at least 5' 10"
Sgt Major Shut Up MK II*. * = Without the Welsh accent. You have too much fun, if there's such a thing. Excellent!
Cheers!
@@britishmuzzleloaders knowing how long it takes to put my crappy video efforts together, you deserve a medal!
@@britishmuzzleloaders P.S. Next episode you'll have to do a rendition of Whispering Grass (he hee).
That's was a cracking Sgt major Williams reference. From Wales:D
Thank you!
"Fine pair of shoulders lad"! 😄
Haha!
Another excellent video Rob. Just wondering if you are required to or choose to leave out flags or markers to inform people that there is live firing or is that spot so remote it's never an issue.
Good question. Always perform a bit a of due diligence whenever I head out. Dead ends, routes proved clear, backstops selected, etc,... if access is somewhat of an issue, parking the truck across the road just so no-one can drive into the immediate area is an easy solution. No requirement or need for any kind 'advisory' though... it's the bush.... 🙂
grew up on aint half mum, legend mate
Cheers!
We do similar here in the States, at least in 2009, when I went through.
Thanks for sharing!
If you wanted something to 'happen' when you throw a grenade, you could use an airsoft one. They just make a loud pop, granted it wouldn't fit the authenticity. Love the Sgt. Maj. Williams touch
Thanks!
bonus points for Windsor Davies reference :-D
Cheers!