'42 Lithgow Range Day

[krinko]

Took this one out with a selection of ammunition---DA MkVII, FNB 86 and PPU---and got the pictured results
Rifle is an unmodified 1942 Lithgow with a bit of use evident. A little soft at the crown, but it still has a shney bore.



First target----the Canadian DA 44


Second target---FNB 86




Third target---PPU awful boat-tails


At least it wasn't heaving them sideways.
Sorry to say I am all out of the Dominion .303 and I will be out of the FNB soon enough.
Targets are 100 yard, five-in-a-row with no peeking in between shots. A sort of quick slow fire?
Anyway, the moral of this story is: Don't mess with your rifle until you try different ammunition.
-----krinko

[bradtx]

"Anyway, the moral of this story is: Don't mess with your rifle until you try different ammunition.: --krinko

So very true! Also excellant advice about not peeking at the target until the string is finished.

Brad

[Peter Laidler]

Brad and Krinko, how very true............ That's one of the 'problems' of sorts in the Forces where all the ammo manufacture we use is tightly controlled (?) so while you might get a very slight shift in MPI, we never see great differences with different ammo because we simply don't use ammo with vast differences. While we'll use UK, Australian and NZ ammo in the tropics and for many years Canadian and UK in Germany plus a bit of Portugese NATO, it was all pretty well much of a muchness.

I remember a day 15 or so years ago when we let some civilian Police use a couple of Sterling SMG's as a sort of 'get to know you' day. I couldn't get a lot of our usual RG Mk2Z so 'borrowed' some of their commercial stuff from the local Police. Jeeeees....., it was frightening. Good shots were putting groups all over the place because even when the change lever was set to 'R' (single shot) the guns were shooting whole magazines off on automatic...........

Well, you can't spoil their day so after a bit of a discussion, they fired it all off safely and in the general direction of the targets but hardly any went down the range on single shot and we certainly didn't take scores and made them PROMISE that they'd tell their bosses that it was a great success!

I didn't borrow any more after that but repayed them later with some spare Mk2Z. I bet that made their Brownings jump around a bit!

[RJW NZ]

We haven't seen a range report in a wee while, excellent to smell the cordite here again ...

[albert]

Whats the size of the aiming black?

[krinko]

albert,
It's 7 7/8"----or for those of you on the metric system---7 7/8".
These targets are a shade bigger than I like them----aim small, miss small---but they're what I have until I get some more Hun's Heads made up.
-----krinko