Old Musketry Targets

Brian the Brit · Post by **Brian the Brit** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:22 am

At our club committee meeting last night we discussed suggestions as to how we might inject new life into our currently rather tired round of rifle competitions.

As we have quite a few military rifle enthusiasts and access to a military range with firing points at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards, I suggested a possible competition using the old School of Musketry (1910?)targets. I was thinking about the 'landscape' target that I've shot at on occasions at Bisley that has sand, pale blue and black horizontal triangles and also the stylised 'kneeling man' etc.

Can anyone tell me where I can obtain information about the dimensions and colours used so that I can look into reproducing some suitable boards? I've seen them somewhere in my surfing but can't find them now that I need them.

I've just found details of the 'new' 1938 Bisley landscape target in Barlow, J.A. (1951)'The Elements of Rifle Shooting' but the author makes no reference to other contemporary targets. This target has a white top section and sand-coloured main body with two dark brown and one grey horizontal triangles and is exactly the sort of thing that I'm looking for.

I'd appreciate any help.

Brian

Strangely_Brown · Post by **Strangely_Brown** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 8:42 am

Brian, one of the plus points of LERA membership is the summer .22 league and Methuen events that are shot on historic landscape and figure targets.

Try the link on this page:

http://milsurpafterhours.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2180

Tom-May · Post by **Tom-May** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:22 am

Brian,

There are coloured illustrations and (IIRC) dimensioned plans for the targets you are after in ther thread "SMLE" on about page four or five of this forum.

Best Wishes.

Tom

Strangely_Brown · Post by **Strangely_Brown** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:29 am

This is the link to Tom's post. http://milsurpafterhours.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1631

Brian the Brit · Post by **Brian the Brit** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:41 pm

Thanks, Guys!

I knew I'd seen that excellent thread somewhere. Doh!

That should give me lots of material to play with.

By the way I shot the Martini-Henry at 300 yards for the first time on Saturday and put all 10 rounds into the black. Woo hoo! I amazed myself as well as the guys on the firing point and those in the butts.

The sights were set at 200 yards and the rounds were (sort of) grouping at 12 o'clock.

I love that rifle.

How did you get on at the weekend, Mick?

Brian

Strangely_Brown · Post by **Strangely_Brown** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:24 pm

Not well Brian to be honest, I entered the Monday & Tuesday meeting knowing that I had been under par for a few weeks now and it showed!

The weather was the killer for me and a few others as well, and I noticed that their were a few "washes" being called down from the butts, which in this event is unusal.

I had two washes on the Monday even after getting two very respectable sighters.

I scored slightly better in the moving man which I won with a No4 last year but was soundly beaten by at least three other shooters, the NRA are looking at doing more Service Rifle which can only be a good thing and that includes more moving targetry.

Oh well there's always next year,...............err didn't I say that last year!

dromia · Post by **dromia** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:52 pm

Aye Mick its no weather for white man shooting, especially with run downs.

Brian we made up some of these targets a couple of years ago for our shoots.

landscapes are easy, just sight in for an aim point centre bottom of the target frame, Oh shite I've given my secret away.

Sky colour patches are getting harder to find mind.

GrantRCanada · Post by **GrantRCanada** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:15 pm

Brian:

In the hope that they may be of some use to you, here are the "target pages" from my circa 1913

Parker's Rifle Shot's Register .... (I say "circa" because the Register itself is undated, but it contains

the NRA Sight Regulations for the year 1913, and I gather these were updated annually in the

Registers.)

The entire Register is reproduced on Jay Curragh's "The Lee-Enfield Rifle" website:

http://enfieldrifles.profusehost.net/pa.htm

(I've left the page images rather large so you can hopefully make out all the dimensions, etc. - my apologies

if they "bloat" this thread excessively) ...

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Brian the Brit · Post by **Brian the Brit** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:52 am

Brilliant!

Many thanks, Grant.

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