The BEF "Mad Minute", anyone know the details???
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Hi
I'd like to try a Mad Minute at the local range next summer, but they have only 100m. Am I correct to assume that a man size target (roughly 6 feet high) at 300m will need to be 24 inches at 100m so I have about the same challenge ? I would print charging Huns target 24 inches high and use this as targets.
Thanks
Hi
I'd like to try a Mad Minute at the local range next summer, but they have only 100m. Am I correct to assume that a man size target (roughly 6 feet high) at 300m will need to be 24 inches at 100m so I have about the same challenge ? I would print charging Huns target 24 inches high and use this as targets.
Thanks
:Yeah, start loaded with 10, reload 5 from charger when she runs dry. First 30 seconds you think it's gonna take forever, last 15 DO take forever; hands are tired. Prone, unsupported.
You can increase speed by a technique the old-timers called "slapping" the bolt. You ROTATE the right hand after firing, counterclockwise, lifting the bolt-handle with the side of your finger, crook the finger and slip it back, slap it forward with the heel of the hand. Hold your hand right and the bolt plops down into positon, chamber loaded, nicely cocked and your hand continues its rotation onto the pistol-grip, index finger half-extended catching the trigger and taking the first pressure. Check your sight picture and squeeze.
The so-called "Mad Minute", also Volley Fire, both were developed because the Government would not give the Army enough money to buy machine-guns. The Army knew that it would need SOMETHING long-range and something FAST if a war got started, so they developed Volley Fire and the 15 Rapid, both jobs that SHOULD have been done by the machine-guns they didn't have.
Two interesting books: The Retreat From Mons
The Advance From Mons
One by a British officer, one by a German officer who was fighting only 200 yards away, describing the same action. A real revelation!
I have just put the Canadian course of fire onto a CD, image files from an almost-perfect 1915 copy.
Gotta run before v-Bulletin EATS this one, too!
You can increase speed by a technique the old-timers called "slapping" the bolt. You ROTATE the right hand after firing, counterclockwise, lifting the bolt-handle with the side of your finger, crook the finger and slip it back, slap it forward with the heel of the hand. Hold your hand right and the bolt plops down into positon, chamber loaded, nicely cocked and your hand continues its rotation onto the pistol-grip, index finger half-extended catching the trigger and taking the first pressure. Check your sight picture and squeeze.
The so-called "Mad Minute", also Volley Fire, both were developed because the Government would not give the Army enough money to buy machine-guns. The Army knew that it would need SOMETHING long-range and something FAST if a war got started, so they developed Volley Fire and the 15 Rapid, both jobs that SHOULD have been done by the machine-guns they didn't have.
Two interesting books: The Retreat From Mons
The Advance From Mons
One by a British officer, one by a German officer who was fighting only 200 yards away, describing the same action. A real revelation!
I have just put the Canadian course of fire onto a CD, image files from an almost-perfect 1915 copy.
Gotta run before v-Bulletin EATS this one, too!
