Why so rough

[Colonel Enfield]

That would be 11 rounds with a 10 rounder (10 plus 1 up the pipe) and if you have a rare 20 round mag then 16-18 could be possible

Our club record is 12 rounds in 15 seconds - 10 round magazine fired off, a single charger reload and another two rounds away before the buzzer sounded.

You could sew one up for yourself, use a pair of mags tack welded together. A steel saw and a wire feed welder and you're good...

Magazine capacities are restricted to 10 rounds in most parts of Australia. A recognised collector could get away with having an original 20 round mag, but a bodgied up hi-cap could get the maker/user in trouble with the authorities.

[browningautorifle]

Magazine capacities are restricted to 10 rounds in most parts of Australia

Guess I should have known that, we have similar but not with a bolt action...

[CINDERS]

We have to keep pace with the Mausers on our shoots (Mad Minute excluded) load only 5 rounds at a time to level the playing field.....

[Eaglelord17]

Regarding the high speed cycling of Lee Enfields, I see funny movies on youtube where the operator slams the bolt back and forth like a lunatic but then carefully pauses to squeeze the trigger with middle finger strangely cocked. I believe the idea of this middle finger pull is to arrange it such that the trigger is pulled almost automatically as you close the bolt- no pause for aiming.

You also have to remember the whole point in the Mad Minute is to get as many accurate rounds down range as possible, not just rounds down range. Generally speaking with the sling tight and your body in the prone the rifle doesn't move much, but you still have to snap shoot on target. It is better to take a extra faction of a second and hit the target than to waste the round as that round lost was meaningless and will seriously effect your score.

[Strangely Brown]

. Generally speaking with the sling tight and your body in the prone the rifle doesn't move much,

The use of the sling is forbidden in the Mad Minute and any other SR"a" event of the period.

Quote: (Bisley Bible 1957)

The sling (if any) may not be used as an assistance for steadying the rifle.

[Eaglelord17]

The use of the sling is forbidden in the Mad Minute and any other SR"a" event of the period.

Quote: (Bisley Bible 1957)

The sling (if any) may not be used as an assistance for steadying the rifle.

That's Bisley though, is it the way it was actually preformed? Looking at the 1909 regulations it doesn't state slings were used, however it doesn't expressly forbid them as well. Having done several mad minutes, if you don't have a sling no way are you getting to the numbers that are claimed. With a sling it is hard enough, without you might as well not even bother.

[Strangely Brown]

That's Bisley though, is it the way it was actually preformed? Looking at the 1909 regulations it doesn't state slings were used, however it doesn't expressly forbid them as well.

In those days the army and Bisley were inseparable when it came to competitive shooting. I suspect away from the UK in the wider commonwealth other practises probably took place?

It requires the sh1t to hit the fan to change what is acceptable in weapon handling; I recall a couple of months before my regiments first tour in Northern Ireland (1973) we were being taught to fire the SLR (L1A1) standing by holding the base of the magazine in the same manner you would hold and fire a Schuetzen rifle.
When the tour was over and the regiment was getting ready for the next tour that method of holding and firing the weapon was forbidden.

[CINDERS]

Could that be it may have pushed the mag a bit further into the mag well causing mis-feeding or jamming the bolt into the rear feed lips just a question. TIA

[browningautorifle]

Could that be it may have pushed the mag a bit further into the mag well causing mis-feeding or jamming

I doubt it, they used it as a standard position. We had advocates for the same position and there were no adverse effects.