I finally got a copy.
With a quick look through it looks to be a well written, very interesting and instructive book.
I like old books almost as much as old guns.
Too bad this one is so hard to find and expensive for a paper back book.
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I finally got a copy.
With a quick look through it looks to be a well written, very interesting and instructive book.
I like old books almost as much as old guns.
Too bad this one is so hard to find and expensive for a paper back book.
Yes it is a great book.
What is interesting to me is how similar the books methods are to German WWII rifle training
I agree ... :)
It's one of the best books I've ever read (and trained with) on shooting the Enfield rifle is available in electronic format, professionally scanned (thanks to Ian Robertson), in the Knowledge Library section Technical Articles for Milsurp Collectors and Re-loaders (click here)
"Shoot-to-Live" - 1945 (click here)
Presenting the Johnson Method of Musketry Coaching As Adopted By the Canadian Army, Ottawa, Chief of the General Staff.
This is an excellent Canadian Government issued training manual. If you are specifically a collector and shooter of Lee Enfield rifles, you'll find this to be an outstanding reference work and it contains a wealth of information on how to properly shoot the No.4 Mk1 Enfield, although much of the content is applicable to any bolt action rifle. I remember being issued this manual as part of our regimental rifle team, when I was a little younger back in the early 60's. ;)
Regards,
Doug
This is where I originally found out about it. I had to get a hard copy because besides collecting books on firearms (and many other subjects) I have a bit of a hard time reading from a screen. I much prefer an actual book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger
Me too... I actually have two copies ... :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpelhardt
They are a rare collectible as well .... ;)
Regards,
Doug
I took the time to double-side print it and put it in a binder. Great manual. I only wish I could find some of the 4' targets. It would also be nice to have someone to critique you.
Shoot to Live........., rare and valuable..........! I put a perfect untorn, no dog eared corners etc etc, no coffee cup stains one on that auction site a few months ago. It even had the name and number of the R Canadian Artillery recipient on the inside cover.......... £20 or so as I remember!
Added later...... the buyer, from this forum just remionded me that it was a bargain at £27. So that's it's true value
Just finished reading it. A real treasure trove of info, I know my accuracy will improve. I agree with Cdn303, It would be great to find those targets found in the book
Using autocad, I was able to reproduce a 12 inch 'tin hat' with a 2"x3" auxiliary aiming mark, but not the other one. I've been playing around trying to scale it down, but I haven't quite hit the sweet spot. Once I do I plan to add on the horizontal and vertical scale, to make sight adjustment easier.Quote:
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That sounds great let us know when you have success, would you be interested in sharing with others?
If we were faced with reproducing something such as those targets in a print shop back in "the old days" (5 or 10 years ago) we would measure it up and put the measurement we have and the measurement we want into the cameraman's proportional scale, shoot the biggest PMT we could for the first step, clean it up with knife-tip and marker, then shoot the negative likewise.
Your proportions multiply, of course. Need the target at 450% of what you have? Shoot twice, 300 on the PMT, then 150 on the negative, burn your plate and away.
There is a special type of paper used for printing targets. For some unknown reason, it is called "target paper" and it is used for nothing else. It is specially designed and made to give you nice, clean bullet holes. The biggest problem with the stuff is that, although a mill generally will make it as required, they want a minimum order of AT LEAST a ton. That's a lot of targets.
If you are doing 4-foot targets, though, it would not be all that many. Couple of thousand at most. I don't know, being that I have never weighed one. Here, your biggest headache would be shipping costs. For such a small run, likely you would be better with screen-printing or even stencilling; an offset press capable of handling a 4-foot piece of paper is going to be priced in the millions and will costs hundreds per hour to rent. Smaller targets, up to 34 or 38 inches wide and up to 22 inches deep, can be done on cheap-grade newsprint on a newspaper press and it can be done very fast once you have the art work. When we started the Lewisporte club, a ticked-off pressman 'accidentally' wound the Rockwell Goss up most of the way and discovered that it didn't want to shut off. Our Club ended up with 8500 sets of targets...... enough for years..... for nothing!
If you just wanted a couple, you could get a couple of refrigerator boxes from an appliances store and paint them with Blackboard Slating (doesn't reflect).
But that's targets.
As to "SHOOT TO LIVE!", I don't think there is another book as PRACTICAL in the English language, nor another as easy to comprehend. It just can not be praised highly enough..... even though the humourless politically-correct Socialists of our time would decry the "racist' cartoons.... which my Indian friends find quite funny.
I would (and do) recommend the book as highly as possible to new shooters as well as to experienced shooters who are having trouble.
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