Milsurp After Hours

What the %(*& are all those rifles ... YUCK !!!!
Real Frenchmen shoot French Rifles
Glad you had a good day
Guess I must be "FRENCH"






BBQ RAT ANYONE !!! ... Joe will EAT IT since he like Weasel on a stick
Patrick

Ha! You notice that the only military kit there is my Nº4, a Nº5 and a Nº8
Still, the hospitality is French

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. Could be about 300 meters on a windless day.

I have a French trainer in 22 short. The sight is calibrated to 200 meters, and I tried it out once, in France (there are no 200 m ranges in Germany). Well, it hit the black. Grouping? What grouping?
The No. 8 is close to 1 MOA at 100 meters. The black at 200 should be no challenge, one might even get a group. But 300? That would be interesting.

Patrick

Patrick!
The Noº.8 Mk 1 was shooting at 300 mtrs and getting consistent blacks on a 200 mtr target! Next shoot is on April 4th and I will be taking the owner some info on his rifle from my copy of "British .22RF Training Rifles" Wish I had one to play with!!!

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? (There's no range markings to help you set the sight at that distance on the normal No. 8 backsight.)

Now that I now it can be done, I would like to try it myself. But there are no 200 meters ranges in Germany - it seems to be common only in France - so I will have to go "cold" from 100 to 300 meters. I would very much like to know what elevation was required on the backsight.

Patrick

Can't give you any more info Patrick as I don't have it to hand. I will try and check it out next month if the guy is there.
In the mean time here is a close up pic of the sights which appear to be the No.4 Mk 1 which was modified to 25, 50 & 100 yard settings.



Best I can do at the moment mate!

I guess we are fortunate to belong to a club where we can shoot out to 600 yards pretty much any day that there isn't an organized shoot being held.

Our GMRS radios get a workout when we shoot at 600. It's a bit of a pain, one in the pits and the other shooting. It's better if you have 4, 2 shooting, and 2 pulling targets. You couldn't see 30 cal holes at 600 yards with the Hubble telescope. I have enough trouble seeing .223 holes at 200 yards, especially in the black with a dirt berm behind.

Duncan, if your pal does not have a copy of the War Office user handbook for the No.8, a copy in PDF format can be found here....

http://www.gunmanuals.ch/source01a/Enfi ... _MK.1_.pdf

Joe

Thanks Joe, I had it previously but lost it and been looking ofr it for a while. Nothing being easy I initially got an access forbidden message and had to backtrack to the main site and navigate the german language menus

joseyclosey wrote:Duncan, if your pal does not have a copy of the War Office user handbook for the No.8, a copy in PDF format can be found here....

http://www.gunmanuals.ch/source01a/Enfi ... _MK.1_.pdf

Joe

Thanks Joe. Got the same problem as Graeme Good job German is easy to guess