Quote Originally Posted by Beerhunter View Post
The article purports to be about advice to TR (Target Rifle) shooter. Now the one thing that TR shooters do NOT like is rifles that have magazines because they are inherently evil and may contaminate the Holy ground at Bisley. Especially as some of the shooters of these nasty guns insist on USING the magazines in some competitions.

If TR shooters such as the author do not point out how evil magazine rifles like Lee-Enfields are then some unscrupulous members of the NRA may even use them on Stickledown. I have personally witnessed them being used on Century rather than Short Siberia - where they rightly belong with all the other 'cowboy' guns.

There is no doubt that the people who shoot these horrible inventions do not 'know the form' and will insist on grinning and generally having good time. (You know know who I mean - LERA. At least some of the HBSA are a bit po faced and have been to 'good' schools.) Unless a stand against Lee-Enfields is made now, the NRA may find that a lot more people are using them.
Just as I suspected.

What a pathetic, parochial bunch of snobs; with nothing to be snobbish about. What sort of rifles do they think won the Queen's/King's Prize for the last 100+ years?

They might not rest so proudly on their Swings if they paid attention to this:
Target Shooter December
Go to page 8 and read "5.56mm and 7.62mm Outlawed"

"Hang together, or hang one by one". Take your pick.