Ok, so I was wearing my calibrated eyballs after all. 300 meters for a 22 must be ballistically equivalent to about 800 with a BPCR, if you scale everything, so hitting the 200 meter target at 300 is pretty good. What ammo was used? And was the rifle fitted with a backsight as used on a No. 4? (Ther...

Am I having hallucinations, or is the guy in the picture showing the 700 meter marker shooting an Enfield No. 8? Of course not, it must be an Enforcer/distractor/rejector or whatever they call the things! Just one of my daydreams - to see how far one can shoot with a No. 8 and still hit the black. C...

My G96/11 is the most accurate service rifle with off-the-shelf ammunition that I have ever had. It is the only service rifle for which I do not reload - the GP11 is cheaper and better than anything I could do myself. If the barrel ever wears out, that might bother my great-grandson. But after a cen...

O.K. I apologize for "jumping the gun". I'll take that back about spurious - I just saw the other posting with the reference and looked it up. But it's not a good replica either. For instance, the butt form is way off the original. Maybe because the identical boxlock was used for a couple ...

Sorry, no mystery. It is a spurious replica of a gun that never existed. Find a picture of a real Foster and you will see that I am right. (Sorry, I did see a real Foster once, but failed to save the image to my hard disk). Spurious means that it is not even eligible for competitions here in Germany...