An Old Lion can still Roar

I love taking mine to the range when there's someone shooting 556. They hit the steel at 200 and it's a dainty "ting" and the plate swings gently. I hit it with the 303 and it's a loud "clang" and the plate's bouncing on it's strap. True joy.
 
Chargers would have been faster with practise.

Interesting that it's a grenade firing variant with the stock reinforcing bolt and wraps. Wonder if t's british or Indian made?
 
Claven2 said:
Chargers would have been faster with practise.

Interesting that it's a grenade firing variant with the stock reinforcing bolt and wraps. Wonder if t's British or Indian made?
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The wire could be a fashion statement when the original purpose is forgotten. From the other visuals, I'd bet strongly on Indian-made.
 
Hmm ! The hearing protection would be nice to have for 31 rounds in a row since once it's gone, it won't come back anytime soon.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
The wire could be a fashion statement when the original purpose is forgotten. From the other visuals, I'd bet strongly on Indian-made.
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While that is certainly likely, I've seen as many british-made enfields in EY grenade launching guise as I have indian ones. Even the indians themselves had a great many foreign-made SMLEs in service. Generally, the british-made receivers were a little more consistent and slicker, so I could see a speed-shooter seeking one out.

Also, I suspect the wire wrap has more to do with bore condition than anything. Many of these wire wrapped guns didn't see much service and often have great bores.
 
Claven2 said:
I hope you're joking, right?

And FWIW, he's not in the prone position - it likely wasn't too bad at all.
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You did see the Smiley ? :):) Advocates promoted lesser calibers because supposedly recruits couldn't handle the recoil from full bore cartridges.

Grizz
 
First shot after each reload was with the trigger finger. Thereafter it appears that he used his middle finger as per British SOP for rapid fire.
 
Seems like every 5 years this video resurfaces. I bet you would be lucky to get that many rounds off using chargers. Charges work great until you get a bobble then you are most likely dropping the mag any ways. Does not hurt either that the mags are being handed to you. Nevertheless the dude obviously knows how to shoot the rifle.
 
Ahh great saturday morning video !!

Makes me want to take out the 1918 spoterized SMLE I got from my grandpa and let the ol' girl let out some barks.

"Giving the enemy the middle finger since 1904"
 
muzzle flash said:
Seems like every 5 years this video resurfaces. I bet you would be lucky to get that many rounds off using chargers. Charges work great until you get a bobble then you are most likely dropping the mag any ways. Does not hurt either that the mags are being handed to you. Nevertheless the dude obviously knows how to shoot the rifle.
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I have done the made minute with chargers before as long as you load you're chargers right not a problem.
 
I doubt he is hitting much of anything. That is only trick shooting, it really isn't hard to pop off 31rds in a minute when your doing it like that. Lets see how well he does at a actual target at 100m.

With a P14 I was able to do 22rds in a minute AND hit the target at 100m (large black bullseye). Even then that is still just trick shooting as in real life your target isn't sitting still waiting for you to pump rounds into them.
 
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