The No 1 Mk III* and No 4, MK I*: Musketry of WWII - Field Firing 

Loved the It Ain’t Half Hot Mum reference! One of my favourite shows of all time!

Great impression of Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Bryn 'Shut Up' Williams! I loved that series!

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.

I loved the vintage "It ain't half hot Mum" TV Series.

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.

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)

Bren gun series coming when...? Jokes aside, top notch stuff as always Rob, especially loving those drone shots!

I'm amazed and humbled by how much work goes into your videos, so well done! Thank you!

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

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!

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.

Loved the Mills bomb sequence! Well done!

Thank you for your in depth research and demonstration. Very well done

I love the No 1 Mk III*, i have one made by Ishapore from the 50s

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.

Kudos again. Another fantastic presentation with humor, historical accuracy, and increasingly high production values. Top notch. Carry on.

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!

Awesome video ! Your hard work in putting this together is greatly appreciated !

Thank you for another great video. It takes great talent to turn a simple gun drill into an interesting narrative.

OUTSTANDING WORK. The Lee Enfield is truly a great rifle; the short sequence at 31:13 is one reason why.

Nice skit in the beginning one of the best history channel very accurate

These intros are getting so much better, love it!

Another hysterical intro Rob! A great video, period pictures and invaluable information! Thank you!

Man i love your Videos. The productionvalue is Superb!

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!

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.

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.

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...

I like your attention to detail passion and theatrics. Thank you

Love the addition of drone camerawork - adds a lot. Thanks for your efforts

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 🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧💂🤠!!!

That's was a cracking Sgt major Williams reference. From Wales:D

Another excellent work providing context to otherwise dry history.

These videos are great, so much information. And the introductions are comedy gold!

Brilliant video as usual. So informative and interesting and let's not forget humorous. Love the It ain't half hot mum reference

Nice nod to the late, great Windsor Davies :)

One of my favorite British sitcoms of the 70’s 👍🏻🇦🇺

It ain't half hot mum, that's a blast from the past.

Good bits history, and good bits of comedy. Keep up the good content, bud

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.)

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.

Well prepared , Entertaining , educating and a statuesque moustache . Brilliant as usual . Greetings from England .

Very well done Sir 👍😊

I think we need to start a Kickstarter to get Rob and a Bren, and or a Sten together.

Another excellent video.

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.

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....

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!

I just now got around to viewing this video, it’s a great one (like all of your work). Thank you

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 ru-vid.com again, many thanks.

"Mwahah! That's right my lovely boy!" Now that is how you deliver a line to camera. Another brilliant intro sequence.

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.

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.

Another outstanding video! Congratulations on your recent promotion and appointment!

Very nice camera work here, Rob.

Fantastic demonstration thank you

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

Brilliant, well done mate.

Thanks for another brilliant video :)

I love all the historical content, but I would really love to see a whole episode of the goofy shenanigans

Ross Jones Great work as always .

Your videos are wonderful! Nice drone piloting 👌

great video, and the intro, lovely :D

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...

Wonderfull! Amazing drone footage.

I really enjoyed this video. Makes me want to buy a number 4.

I like the conclusion of the video

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.

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. ;-)

Nice job Rob Love the Herbie RSM part!

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

1:43 Rob says too hot in Canada October. That's why I love your videos !!!:)

5:50 Not quite Blackadder, but funnily close.

I'm glad that Canadians and Americans aren't all that different with humor.

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。

Fantastic as always!

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!

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.

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

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.

I have a quick question. What is the zero distance for the battle sight on a no.4 mk. 1 with a third/ fourth generation sight?

Brilliantly filmed and explained again Rob. Now, where's that bloomin' char wallah? CFGB

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.

Luv the videos Luv the uniforms Luv britishmuzzleloaders Simple as

That was one waify German you impaled on the counter attack. Tossed aside with barely an effort. Must have been a victim of the turnip winter. OH! great videos!!

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?

Another great video. Question, Which I am sure others have asked before is. How do you get access to such a great back drop for this videos?

Sgt Major Shut Up MK II*. * = Without the Welsh accent. You have too much fun, if there's such a thing. Excellent!

Great channel

Just a suggestion but it you plan on throwing something like your Mills bomb again try tying brightly color strips to them. It won't leave residue behind but it will make it a lot easier to find.

This man is a pioneer in covid-secure filmmaking!

Excellent video.

Brilliant!...Windsor Davis will be grinning as much as me......Ta!

grew up on aint half mum, legend mate

Did you get a new rifle? I noticed the earlier type of cocking piece on the one while in your “hot weather” uniform

Great Windsor Davies !!

"Fine pair of shoulders lad"! 😄

At 18:46 , two of the rifles are P14s or M1917s? I thought that during WW2 only the Home Guard used them. What are they doing with a Number 4? An interesting yet confusing picture.

I would have thought after a counter attack you would have moved through the position to stop pulling enemy fire down onto what would be a zeroed position? Brilliant video though, especially that bit about middle finger firing

Question: Do you find the P-37/P-40 battle dress trousers and jacket comfortable? What do you wear underneath?