I just found the funnest Lee Enfield video

[RJW NZ]

Lee Emery with a springfield, and a pom with a No1 MK3, in a race to break 20 plates, complete with slo mo enough to see the bullets in flight, I loaded it onto the front page of enfield resource, just scroll down to the lower half, good fun, even if Emery had to end up cheating.

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[Son]

Lee Emery with a springfield, and a pom with a No1 MK3, in a race to break 20 plates, complete with slo mo enough to see the bullets in flight, I loaded it onto the front page of enfield resource, just scroll down to the lower half, good fun, even if Emery had to end up cheating.

The Lee Enfield Rifle

Haven't had a fresh look, but if it's the vid I watched a while back, the operator with the No1 needs some basic instruction... so unco he couldn't beat time with a stick!

[Surpmil]

Haven't had a fresh look, but if it's the vid I watched a while back, the operator with the No1 needs some basic instruction... so unco he couldn't beat time with a stick!

Agree. That was pathetic. Takes the rifle off his shoulder to reload, actually lets go of the bolt knob at one point and flips it back and then grasps it again.

[read6737]

I think it was 1886 the French started with smokeless powder.

Well before the yanks copied the 30-06 from the German 8X57 round,
and OH yes the springfield was also a COPY of the Paul Mauser rifle
that knocked the stuffing out of the yanks in a little fight with I think it was the Spanish.
I read that the yanks lost a court battle over paying the compensation to Paul Mauser for copying the pattern, and still did not pay up using, I think, the excuse the Germans started WW1.

[Badger]

Old thread from last year ... Lock 'N Load - Enfield No.1 MkIII versus 1903 Springfield M1 Garand (click here)



Regards,
Doug

[Thunderbox]

They should remake that vid with someone who can really shoot a No1.....

[spinecracker]

They should remake that vid with someone who can really shoot a No1.....

It would be worth it just to see Ermey pee himself...

OK, not exactly a constructive comment, but I bet I'm not the only one...

[mike1967]

Not sure about Ermey's comment in regards to the 30/06 being the first smokeless round, i am very sure it was the French with their "Poudre B" in the Lebel round that came first.

[enfield303t]

Not sure about Ermey's comment in regards to the 30/06 being the first smokeless round, i am very sure it was the French with their "Poudre B" in the Lebel round that came first.

Not only was the 8mm Lebel the first ctg adopted by a nation to use smokless powder (1886) it was the first to use a boat tail bullet in 1898.

[newcastle]

Funny though, that they didn't show the final results - as they walked away you could just glimpse the remaining plates and the enfield was only 2 or 3 behind.