303 British!!!

[Daniel Cary]

Pasted this off the cell .. found it interesting

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One fool that has to drop his rifle to work the bolt. One guy who can reload at the shoulder.

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[Josh P]

The old “mad minute” drill will illustrate just how fast you can shoot the right bolt gun. I believe the fastest would use their index and thumb to operate the bolt, never fully releasing their grip, while operating the trigger with their middle finger.

 

[RedTag]

I had a .303 British Jungle Carbine years ago. It could send ten rounds so fast you’d almost swear it was semiautomatic. Accuracy, well, let’s just say a watermelon at 50 yards had a fighting chance.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I had a .303 British Jungle Carbine years ago. It could send ten rounds so fast you’d almost swear it was semiautomatic. Accuracy, well, let’s just say a watermelon at 50 yards had a fighting chance.

@RedTag
The jungle carbine was designed by some sadistic bastard of an officer that didn't like the average soldier. The design of the but plate makes it a right bitch even tho it has mild recoil.
Top that off the lightened action is not as strong as the No4
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

The old “mad minute” drill will illustrate just how fast you can shoot the right bolt gun. I believe the fastest would use their index and thumb to operate the bolt, never fully releasing their grip, while operating the trigger with their middle finger.

@Josh P
Sgt Snoxall fired 30 aimed shots at a 12" target at 300yards in sixty seconds. This started with a full magazine and two mag reloads.
This became standard practice in musketry marksmanship in the British army.
Try that with your garand.
Bob

 

[Red Leg]

During WWI, German troops often recorded that they were under intensive machine gun fire while attempting an assault when it was actually a battalion of British infantry clearing those 10 round magazines as fast as the bolt could be worked.

 

[Daniel Cary]

That was inspiring.

Does anyone have "The Clip, famous hunter. Bolt vs running Boars?"

if I'm not mistaken ..

 

[PerH]

That was inspiring.

Does anyone have "The Clip, famous hunter. Bolt vs running Boars?"

if I'm not mistaken ..

 

[PerH]

 

[Wildwillalaska]

DAYYYYAAAMMMMM!!!! I wish I could shoot like Franz. And off hand to boot. He's a bad man.

 

[leslie hetrick]

i think a good man with a garand could do that. i,m not the worlds best shot by no means, but i have shot 24 shots(three enblock,s) in less than 60 seconds at 300 yrd repair targets and all would have hit a man in the upper body, shooting from a bench rest.

 

[Hagler.450Ex]

Back around either 89' or 90', if I remember correctly, I had been loaned a sporterized no.4 to try out. There had been some coyote trouble, so I took it out right as one could start to see by daylight. Spotted four coyotes easing their way to the wood-line for the day. They saw me and began to shift it into 5th gear, and as they were running, it was a bit like reflex took over, and each shot took, one, two, three, and the fourth made it into the woodline before my sights could pick him up. But the speed of that bolt and how it seems to move on its own, not to mention the fast recovery between shots for the .303, and the fast sighting with the peep, it is all an amazing thing to experience. Had to give that rifle back the next week and didn't want to.

 

[PCC600]

Bloody hell the best kept secret among Aussies , Kiwis and Pommies is now out there . The SMLE in 303 is a fantastic combination . Even better if you have a 10 shot Lee Speed . I was late coming to the Lee Enfield / Lee Speed party - but I’m here to stay now .

 

[steve white]

@RedTag
The jungle carbine was designed by some sadistic bastard of an officer that didn't like the average soldier. The design of the but plate makes it a right bitch even tho it has mild recoil.
Top that off the lightened action is not as strong as the No4
Bob

I think curved metal butt plates kick the worst--even with a 30-30

 

[steve white]

DAYYYYAAAMMMMM!!!! I wish I could shoot like Franz. And off hand to boot. He's a bad man.

I'm with you there!
My question concerning the rifles he chooses is: If those rifles cock on opening, how is he able to manipulate them with the flip of two fingers? It's that lift where the stickiness is on a Mannlicher.

 

[PerH]

He used a Sauer 202 in the earlier movies , very quick action to open and use . And you could have much parts and build as you wanted itself .

 

[PerH]

This is the match / precision version of it . But very good to build a snipers rifle that will argue with many at a fraction of cost . Take a laminate stock or a McMillan tac model for it and scope rail .

 

[PCC600]

During WWI, German troops often recorded that they were under intensive machine gun fire while attempting an assault when it was actually a battalion of British infantry clearing those 10 round magazines as fast as the bolt could be worked.

The Battle of Mons - August 1914 . The Germans did not know what hit them . There is a wonderful British TV series called “Our World War”. It is about the action at Nimy Bridge at Mons . It is on YouTube . A company of professional British soldiers led by an Aussie Fred Steele . Two VCs awarded in one company in a few hours . Steele was killed 2 weeks later . Two of his brothers were also killed . The family were honoured with the main sporting oval at Melbourne Grammar School being renamed the Steele Oval . The British Expeditionary Force in early WW1 were unbelievably good soldiers . Casualty rate between August and December 1914 was 100% .

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Bloody hell the best kept secret among Aussies , Kiwis and Pommies is now out there . The SMLE in 303 is a fantastic combination . Even better if you have a 10 shot Lee Speed . I was late coming to the Lee Enfield / Lee Speed party - but I’m here to stay now .

@PCC600
Many moons ago when I could actually see my old SMLE had a chain welded to the mag and then attached to a sling swivel on the king screw.
When you came across a big mob of pigs ( as you did in the late 70s early 80s) you would open up in them. When the mag ran out drop the mag in the chain and slap a fresh mag in and keep shooting. My best effort was 10 pigs for 15 shots from memory before they were gone.
Ah the good old days when I was you, fit and could shoot better than I can now. Getting older sucks but I still have fun just not as good as I once was. Now anything steeper than a level floor and my knees have a hissy fit and long distance is a few miles.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

The Battle of Mons - August 1914 . The Germans did not know what hit them . There is a wonderful British TV series called “Our World War”. It is about the action at Nimy Bridge at Mons . It is on YouTube . A company of professional British soldiers led by an Aussie Fred Steele . Two VCs awarded in one company in a few hours . Steele was killed 2 weeks later . Two of his brothers were also killed . The family were honoured with the main sporting oval at Melbourne Grammar School being renamed the Steele Oval . The British Expeditionary Force in early WW1 were unbelievably good soldiers . Casualty rate between August and December 1914 was 100% .

@PCC600
My grandfather had his 18th birthday in Gallipoli in 1915 then went on to serve all over the Somme and other places, wounded twice and still went back after recovery. Then went on to serve in WW11 but that another story
Bob