A Brit teach me something?

[k0ua]

All Right here is another Brit trying to teach me something. I know all there is to know about a SMLE... right? I mean after all I have owned them and shot them. And yes I KNEW they were slick and fast. Well turns out, he did teach me a thing or two about the venerable old British rifle. Just exactly WHY they were/are slick and fast. It makes you think a little. Bloody 'el.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

All Right here is another Brit trying to teach me something. I know all there is to know about a SMLE... right? I mean after all I have owned them and shot them. And yes I KNEW they were slick and fast. Well turns out, he did teach me a thing or two about the venerable old British rifle. Just exactly WHY they were/are slick and fast. It makes you think a little. Bloody 'el.

I knew that they were one of the ugliest firearms ever made, along with the Webley revolver, but I also knew they were extremely reliable, accurate and almost indestructable. I have one that I have never fired.

 

[gsganzer]

I always joke that there's only been 3 good things to come out of Britain.

1. The Rolling Stones
2. Scotch
3. Americans
:laughing:

I don't own any, but I always admire the ingenuity of many of the old firearms. They're truly engineering and machining marvels.

 

[k0ua]

I always joke that there's only been 3 good things to come out of Britain.

1. The Rolling Stones
2. Scotch
3. Americans
:laughing:

I don't own any, but I always admire the ingenuity of many of the old firearms. They're truly engineering and machining marvels.

If you can get your hands on a MK4 SMLE, you should "give it a go" as our British cousins say. It is truly one of the slickest and fastest bolt actions around. If you get good at it, and have plenty of stripper clips handy, you can keep up a pretty good sustained rate of fire.

 

[Alan W.]

Have one made by Savage love it. From the markings on the gun you can trace its history. Ifn I remember correctly mine was a lend lease gun that was used enough that it needed an arsenal refurb before going back to service.

 

[dmccarty]

And with the Enfield the Brits had their Mad Minute drill, Mad minute - Wikipedia.

The Mad Minute was a pre-World War I bolt-rifle speed shooting exercise used by British Army riflemen, using the Lee胞nfield service rifle. The exercise formally known as "Practice number 22, Rapid Fire, 禅he Musketry Regulations, Part I, 1909", required the rifleman to fire 15 rounds at a "Second Class Figure" target at 300 yd (270 m). The practice was described as; "Lying. Rifle to be loaded and 4 rounds in the magazine before the target appears. Loading to be from the pouch or bandolier by 5 rounds afterwards. One minute allowed".

The first Mad Minute record was set by Sergeant Major Jesse Wallingford in 1908, scoring 36 hits on a 48 inch target at 300 yards (4.5 mils/ 15.3 moa).[1] Another world record of 38 hits, all within the 24 inch target at 300 yards (2.25 mils/ 7.6 moa), is said to have been set in 1914 by Sergeant Instructor Alfred Snoxall,[2]

In the Mad Minute Challenge in Norway in 2015 a standard 200 m DFS target was used, scoring 1 point for every hit inside the black area which is 400 mm in diameter and corresponds to 2 mils at 200 meters (6.9 moa). This actually makes the target size used in the Norwegian event smaller compared to the story of Alfred Snoxall, who had all 36 hits inside a 24" circle at 300 yards (2.22 mils/ 7.64 moa).

A Mad Minute event was held in Soknedal, Norway, on 30 May 2015 featuring some of the best stang shooters in the country.[3] The competition was called the "Mad Minute Challenge",[4] and was shot at a round 400 mm diameter target at 200 meters (2 mils/ 6.9 moa), making the target smaller than original. The winner, Thomas H?蚶seter, scored 36 hits. The average score, of 11 shooters, was 29.

During the opening of WWI, the use of the Mad Minute is supposed to have helped slow the German advance.

Later,
Dan

 

[cqaigy2]

Whoa, that's some mad shooting!