My Enfields

Trakker262 said:
True, very few have the quals for sniping anyways. The only major user around here is the cadets with the old 22s. I have seen a few of the CF Reservists using slightly modified Enfields at the CF practice grounds. Most only are sported and scoped. I was in the CF Regs and actually had my Sgt throw an R700 down to pick up an Enfield, said it was more reliable and easier to work with....DUH!!!
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which CF "practice ground" are you talking about
 
Trakker262 said:
True, very few have the quals for sniping anyways. The only major user around here is the cadets with the old 22s. I have seen a few of the CF Reservists using slightly modified Enfields at the CF practice grounds. Most only are sported and scoped. I was in the CF Regs and actually had my Sgt throw an R700 down to pick up an Enfield, said it was more reliable and easier to work with....DUH!!!
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???:confused:

what reserve unit (or reg for that matter) uses R700s and sporter lee enfields??

Enquiring minds want to know.



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Hmmm. Post #1 mentions that the coyote was chasing cattle, so that would help to explain some of the BS anyway.;) You mention a .308 diameter barrel, or was that a .303, or maybe some kind of .308/.303 wildcat:confused:

The Sierra ballistics tables describe a 180gr .311 boattail bullet fired at a MV of 2400fps with a 200 yd zero having a drop of 549 inches/46 feet @ 1000 yds. If you allow for a modest 10MPH crosswind effect this would create 141inches/12feet of bullet drift from line of sight @ 1000 yds. That's a lot of hold over and wind allowance @ 1000 yds, let alone 1800 yds.:eek:

Here are a few authenticated sniper kills just for the sake of comparison with this remarkable feat of marksmanship in the field @ precisely 1797yds (just plus of a mile for the metric generation). BTW these kills are assisted by a precision rangefinder and a spotter who can report point of impact for correction;

-longest recorded kill is 2707 yds with a .338 Lapua Magnum

-next longest kill is 2657 yds with a .50cal

-longest kill using 7.62x51 NATO round (ballistics somewhat similar to a .303 British as reported in this story) is a more modest 1367 yds
 
desporterizer said:
I would pay to see that.
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Would ya believe thee are some brain dead sassenachs who dinna appreciate guid musik?

My favourites are the Black Bear and the Bonnie Lass O' Fivie
Have a bit over 150 piping CD's but its hard to find any new ones that don't have Amazing Grace on them. that puir tune has been beaten to death.;)
 
Trakker262 said:
kjohn: The shot was exactly 1797 yards, for the 303 and someone that knows how to use it that is not an extremely hard shot. Any rifle in the right hands can be a thing of art.

David K: The Tactical is a No1 Mk3 with an almost new barrel, crisp rifling and deadly accuracy, not a No4.

Winnipeg Toymaker: Don't ask me to tell you how I do it. I was asked once by a US Ranger sniper to write the math down......I had no idea where to start. In all truth my neighbor said it: how the F*** do you do that!?!
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Must be the sheer raw talent i guess:jerkit::jerkit::jerkit: I call BS!
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600 yards i can believe it, i've seen a no4 hit similar sized stationary targets with ease at 600 yards using parker hale peep sights, that being said it was a fulton regulated rifle not some 100$ sporter that's been regulated by handsaw Bob

1800...no way, the bullet drop would be in meters and meters, its 19 feet of drop at 1100 and thats the max my traj chart goes too

the change of shooting minute of barn with a sporter enfield at that distance is so far out there i'd need to see alot more proof
 
How big a stack of coyotes would that scope reticle obscure @ 1800 yds anyway?:confused:

Long ago and far away machine gunnery was employed in the indirect fire role at extended ranges for such tasks as harassing rear areas, interdicting reverse slopes etc. This was all worked out with firing tables giving pre-determined elevation and windage settings to the gun tripod to predict the fall of shot. I have a set of range tables for this.The rainbow- like trajectories of this "plunging fire" at such extended ranges are truly amazing. I'm thinking that coyote must have been hit with the bullet entering the back and ranging downwards through the belly.:rolleyes:
 
purple said:
The Sierra ballistics tables describe a 180gr .311 boattail bullet fired at a MV of 2400fps with a 200 yd zero having a drop of 549 inches/46 feet @ 1000 yds. If you allow for a modest 10MPH crosswind effect this would create 141inches/12feet of bullet drift from line of sight @ 1000 yds. That's a lot of hold over and wind allowance @ 1000 yds, let alone 1800 yds.:eek:
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Ha ha:p So he's gotta aim over 100 feet high AND 25 feet left or right if the coyote stands still. But, it's running - chasing cattle. Yotes run on average 37mph - that's 54 feet per second. Say the bullet's averaging 1400 fps (sounds too fast) it would take about 4 seconds of flight time to reach the critter - which would mean picking an aim point 250 feet in front of it and a hundred feet high. If he did everything perfect, but the wind (somewhere within that mile) were off by just 1 mph - he'd miss it by 3 feet.

This guys right up there with that other guy that dropped 12 mallards with a single 16 ga shell.:rolleyes:
 
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I am in awe. The best I have ever done with a 303 was to hit a 30" bull at 1200 yards. Of course I had the advantage of being able to correct off of previous shots - but I was shooting off my elbows with iron sights.

Don't be hard on him. He may have been dropped on his head as a baby. Not his fault.
 
Best shooting I ever saw personally with a Number 4 was an afternoon I once spent spotting for old Bill Brown (Sergeant W.J. Brown, A Tp, XII Man. Dgns at that time).

Bill shot 14 out of 15 in the 18-inch bull at 600 yards for a score of 74/75 in a crosswind in which I would have been happy with half a dozen Magpies to show for my efforts.

That was a man who made the Bisley team 6 times, Captained it once.

He shot 1100 at Bisley and in the Commonwealth Games. But 1800? EVEN Bill would have gone home!

I'm sure that if he has read this thread from wherever he is now, he's rolling over.... and over.... and over!
 
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