Actually we assumed that the 300 yard steel gong at the Virden Fort LaBosse Gun Club was an 18 inch diameter one. When Tinman204 and his Brother came to Virden last week for a range session, they had to move a Picnic Table at the 200 yard line back off the range. While doing that, they decided to take a look at the gong and measure it, as it was only another 100 yards to walk. They wanted to see the effect of their hits that they had been making with the various milsurp rifles they had fired that day. I have been told the Gong measures 12 inches in diameter but next time on the range I will see for myself.
SMELLIE and I had the good fortune to be around when the Lee Enfield was still the Service Rifle in Canada, although it was shortly replaced by the FN rifle. The person who was SMELLIE's Mentor was William (Bisley) Brown, 6 times a Member and 3 times Captain of Canada's Bisley Team. In my case, the old retired Sergeant-Major who was the caretaker at the local Armouries, just happened to have been an Instructor at the School of Musketry, in Hythe, England. He taught a select few of us who loved to shoot, the intricacies of the Number 1 and Number 4 rifles. He also taught us a lot of useful things and techniques that were not mentioned in any available training manuals.
The Commonwealth "Standard" with a SMLE or Lee Enfield was 15 aimed rounds per minute but a very high percentage of soldiers could get off 20 or more.
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SMELLIE and I had the good fortune to be around when the Lee Enfield was still the Service Rifle in Canada, although it was shortly replaced by the FN rifle. The person who was SMELLIE's Mentor was William (Bisley) Brown, 6 times a Member and 3 times Captain of Canada's Bisley Team. In my case, the old retired Sergeant-Major who was the caretaker at the local Armouries, just happened to have been an Instructor at the School of Musketry, in Hythe, England. He taught a select few of us who loved to shoot, the intricacies of the Number 1 and Number 4 rifles. He also taught us a lot of useful things and techniques that were not mentioned in any available training manuals.
The Commonwealth "Standard" with a SMLE or Lee Enfield was 15 aimed rounds per minute but a very high percentage of soldiers could get off 20 or more.
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