The Redneck Preppy

The Redneck Preppy spent the winter watching a lot of fishing videos and he saw a lot of things he liked. He also saw some things he hated -- including people who still don't know how to hold a large or smallmouth bass.

In this latest episode of A Short and Convoluted History, the entire line of straight pull rifles from the Schmidt-Rubin rifle family are the subjects. The Redneck Preppy briefly examines the history of the most Swiss of Swiss rifles that began with the Model 1889 and closed out with the Model 1911 and Model 1911 Carbine. 0:05 Introduction 0:42 Who Were Schmidt and Rubin? 2:41 Before the Schmidt-Rubin 5:58 What Schmidt and Rubin Contributed 7:09 At the Beginning 8:06 Demonstrating the Straight Pull System 9:41 Straight Pull vs. Traditional Bolt: Which is Better? 12:33 Returning to the Schmidt-Rubin Story... 24:51 The Legacy of the Schmidt-Rubin Rifles Thanks to Britishmuzzleloaders for the kind use of the following footage: The No 1, Mk III* Short, Magazine, Lee Enfield (SMLE): Musketry of 1914 - PART FOUR "B" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asZiEuz12gE Thanks to C&Rsenal for the kind use of their Schmidt-Rub M1889 bolt animation: The Evolution of the Schmidt-Rubin System - https://imgur.com/a/03pBv Music: Various Swiss military marches Photos: Public Domain courtesy of Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv, Bundesarchiv Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy #militarysurplus #schmidtrubin #milsurp

Combining attractive partly naked women with fishing sounds like a sure fire winner and one company back in the early 1990s did their damndest to make money from that formula. Today the Redneck Preppy takes a look at 1993's Fishin' with the Big 'Uns, which features more nudity than your usual fishing video. Well, at least the Redneck's fishing videos... With special thanks to GoodBadFlicks who provided the copy of "Fishin' with the Big 'Uns". You can find GBF at https://www.youtube.com/@GoodBadFlicks Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

Survival and bushcraft themed channels are a dime a dozen, so it takes something pretty unique to turn the Redneck Preppy's head these days. This month's entry into the Have You Heard About series is one of those rare channels in that space that actually do something pretty unique. WayPoint Survival - https://www.youtube.com/@WayPointSurvival Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

There's nothing more popular these days on YouTube than reviews of books! So the Redneck Preppy is going to clickbait his way to fame with a review of Ben Nicholson's Clockwork Basilisk: The Early Revolvers of Elisha Collier & Artemas Wheeler. The early and crazy days of firearms mechanisms? You can sign him up! Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

You've probably seen those older canisters of smokeless powder at a gun show, estate sale or store and walked right by them thinking that they were nothing but a problem waiting to happen. The Redneck Preppy says you may have walked past an opportunity to save some money on powder. How can you tell if a container of powder is good to use? The Preppy answers that question for you today. 0:06 Introduction 1:25 How to Check Gun Powder 4:27 Proper Storage of Gun Powder 6:19 Conclusion Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

That YouTube is increasingly hostile to certain kinds of videos -- a list of categories that seems to grow at random and ever larger -- isn't exactly a secret. The Redneck Preppy wonders why most of his peers continue to rely on YouTube despite the web site's mercurial attitude towards even the biggest of them. Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

There seems to be something a bit off about the Redneck Preppy this week. That said, in today's video he decides to find out how well AI can design firearms that it totally would never think of using during the planned and coming war against the very viewers watching. Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

Soldiers have always excelled in either breaking or losing their equipment and the Soviets decided they'd make a bayonet that at least wouldn't be easily lost. The result was a bayonet that was permanently attached to the Mosin Nagant rifle. Today the Redneck Preppy discusses the Semin pattern bayonet with the aid of one of the rarest Mosin Nagant M91/30 variants in the world. 0:05 Introduction 0:35 The History 4:40 The Semin Bayonet Up Close 8:54 The History Continued 12:06 Conclusion Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

The Redneck Preppy loves gun channels -- probably not much of a surprise there -- but his diet consists mostly of American efforts. In an effort to promote an alternative perspective, this month he spotlights a channel from the Great White North that proves Canadians know how to do gun channels just as well. The Hunting Gear Guy - https://www.youtube.com/c/Huntinggearguy Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

The last few videos the Redneck Preppy touched upon survival skills and equipment seemed to skew a little towards the tech side -- something that he's long been wary of in those situations. To compensate for that, today he shows you how to easily keep track of distance travelled using nothing more than some cord and beads. 0:06 Introduction 1:39 How to Use Ranger Beads/Pace Counting Beads 5:33 Final Thoughts Make Your Own Ranger Beads - https://www.instructables.com/Army-Ranger-Beads/ Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

The Redneck Preppy feels like he's coming to the end of this series. After all, how many different ways are there to bubba a beautiful firearm? Well, until the day that this series finally grinds to its inevitable end, here is another edition with 15 more firearms that deserved better. Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

Professor Redneck Preppy is back with another edition of gun words that you may be pronouncing wrong. Today he presents a baker's dozen of gun words and companies that many people mangle into pale shadows of how they're actually pronounced. Impress your friends and enemies after watching this video. Pronouncing Gun Words More Righer I - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upUadM4sMFk Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

It turns out that the Garmin Xero C1 Pro has a developers menu with some interesting options available to you -- one in particular may be very useful. Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy #garmin #xeroc1pro #chronograph

It's been several months since the Redneck Preppy reviewed Garmin's shooting chronograph, the Xero C1 Pro. In that initial review he had almost nothing but praise. Does the Xero, which everyone has described as a "game changer" still merit his praise? 0:06 Introduction 1:45 The Things I Like 4:47 The Things I Don't Like 7:52 Do I Still Recommend the Xero C1 Pro? 8:58 If Not the Garmin... Gear Review: Garmin Xero C1 Pro Chronograph: A Game Changer? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Twa08_2pI The Snipers Hide post on Garmin battery - https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/threads/garmin-xero-c1-pro-chronograph.7189898/page-12#post-11189408 Generic case for Xero C1 Pro - https://www.amazon.com/GLCON-Portable-Protection-Enclosure-Universal/dp/B01E70SBB8/?th=1 Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

The Redneck Preppy has long been known as a stalwart enemy of bubba'ing and sportering of military surplus firearms -- a veritable iron peg hammered into the frozen ground. So this month's Have You Heard About will likely come as a bit of a surprise to some people... Athens Armory - https://www.youtube.com/@AthensArmory303 Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

Everybody wants to spend their fun gun money on guns but the Redneck Preppy says it can be just as valuable to spend a few of those dollars on military surplus items that are in service to those very firearms. 0:05 Intro 1:02 Stripper Clips, Chargers and En Bloc Clips 2:38 Bayonets 3:29 Spare Parts 4:37 Magazines 5:52 Issued Tools 7:06 Conclusion Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

The Redneck Preppy received some questions this week about some Chinese Type 56 carbines that recently appeared for sale at some Canadian gun stores. Instead of the usual wood stock, these Type 56 rifles have plastic stocks that have been dubbed "jungle stocks". What's the deal? The Preppy does his best to explain these carbines...or rather, their stocks. Find The Redneck Preppy here: Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy #type56 #junglestock #sks45

The SVT-40 has long been dubbed the Soviet version of the American M1 Garand, but unlike it's counterpart, there was never a successful sniper variant. Why? The Redneck Preppy explores the historical record and tells you why people like Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev had to use an M91/30 instead of the flashier rifle by Tokarev. Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

If you collect military surplus rifles you've undoubtedly heard the term "dark bore" at some point. Some people think a dark bore is a no go while others aren't that concerned. What's the actual deal? The Redneck Preppy takes a look at the issue and offers his opinion. 0:12 What is a "Dark Bore"? 2:41 So What's the Impact? 4:13 Is There a Remedy for Dark Bores? 6:20 Final Thoughts Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

Why spend big money on a media sifter to remove the corn cob media from your brass after cleaning in a vibratory tumbler? The Redneck Preppy says the dollar store can be your best friend.

Measuring groups and adjusting scopes has long been the province of MOA -- at least in North America -- but the forces of Mil have been making serious inroads over the years. Which one should you be using? The Redneck Preppy wages into this pseudo-religious war with his answer. 0:05 Introduction 1:46 Explaining MOA 3:29 Explaining Mil 5:29 Their Pros & Cons 8:23 The Redneck Preppy's Opinion Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

Military surplus rifles have a special place in the heart of the Redneck Preppy and in today's video he goes cheap and easy with a top five list of his personal favourites. What will make the list? Click on the video to find out, my friends. Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

There is a lot of self-importance in the gun world but this month's spotlighted channel is one of those rare examples where the person in front of the camera only wants to have fun and spread some of his world's cheer to you. The Redneck Preppy is not afraid to say that he's an unabashed fan. Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy

Recently the Redneck Preppy reviewed the latest chronograph to hit the market, but it occurred to him that new shooters and reloaders might not know why knowing how fast their bullets are travelling might be a useful or important thing. Today, he explains all. 0:06 Introduction 0:54 Verifying Manufacturer Claims 1:27 Verifying Manufacturer Ammo Velocity is Consistent 2:15 More Effective Hunting Ammunition 2:46 Aids Trajectory Calculation 3:15 Determine if Environmental Factors are Affecting Ammo 4:08 Verifying Data in Reloading and Handloading 5:02 Find Issues in Your Reloading and Handloading 5:38 So Do You Actually Need a Chronograph? Gunpowder Temperature Sensitivity: Fact or Fiction - https://www.rifleshootermag.com/editorial/fact-fiction-gunpowder-temperature-sensitivity/83518 Find The Redneck Preppy here: Odysee - https://odysee.com/@TheRedneckPreppy Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-2744472 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theredneckpreppy/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/theredneckpreppy