Milsurp After Hours

Today I held a little bit of history in my hands and I got to shoot it .
http://www.rifleman.org.uk/The_DeLisle_carbine.htm

It was my clubs biannual competition shoot today we always have a raffle for charity , the RBL Poppy appeal , the first ten winners got to shoot 5 rounds using the DeLisle carbine in 45 ACP . Its owned by the author of the rifleman web sight , I was lucky for once and had a winning ticket .



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The owner giving us a talk on the history of the carbine .



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and me shooting it ,



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This was our .22 comp using the old army training targets to simulate the Methuen shoot . I managed a gold medal for the scoped rifle match so Iam a happy bunny tonight .

The targets we use are rapid and precision shots , the top 2 - shot prone the middle 3 prone kneeling and standing , the bottom line is prone , right hand targets , is 2 shots on each in 10 seconds , I was using my BSA MkII International . 193 x 200


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Dave

You lucky lucky bastard,
closest I ever got is seeing one behind glass in a museum.

Quite a day to remember for you Dave, I could just fancy a crack with that piece of history myself.
Interestingly enough I was shooting my .45 Armalon Enfield yesterday at Catterick.

I like the the look of the miniature methuen targets, are they available to buy ?

Thanks for the report and pictures.

Joe

joseyclosey wrote:Quite a day to remember for you Dave, I could just fancy a crack with that piece of history myself.
Interestingly enough I was shooting my .45 Armalon Enfield yesterday at Catterick.

I like the the look of the miniature methuen targets, are they available to buy ?

Thanks for the report and pictures.

Joe

Hi Joe

The club supplies the targets , a chap by the name of Dave Clark put the targets together and got them printed , he wrote a book on the subject http://www.rifleman.org.uk/British_targets.htm You can find the competition details on the rifleman web sight under HESA .
I have fancied one of those armalon Enfields .


Dave

Cheers Dave.

Joe

thats a wonderful opportunity and what a nice example of that arm , ive only seen photos in books , and recently a post of one that has been built up as a replica

http://www.enfield-rifles.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=5492