Enfield stuff (Newark auction results)

[bigduke6]

Doesn't sound like there's much of an outbreak of common sense up your way bigduke. At my ranges we've been doing tests but there's been nothing which broke the limits in any case as yet. If it did then we'd have to sort it out for the high velocity shooting, but no-one really has much more than the standard 303 7.62 etc in any case, although some homeloaded stuff's come close to the limits.

There is always one!!! so the ban come into force the other day.(thats just our club)

[Peter Laidler]

We've got a couple of Boys rifles at work and I've got a space for one on my ticket, for the purposes of research in respect of writing a book. Which I'm in the throes of when the Bren book is published..............

There are only 7 ranges in the UK capable of taking Boys ammo as it has a danger area of 7 miles! That's only a danger if you miss the target though! My little boy fired one of ours and the Barratt. It just grunted as he fired it at a target tank on Salisbury Plain. I didn''t want him to be greedy so I limited his .55" ammo use to 20 rounds. When I did the sange safety detail I just used .50 Browning data

The 1939 Infantry Training Booklet says that it can be used on unit 25 yard ranges providing the sand is in good condition and regularly raked over. I can't see that it has ever been amended so there's a thought..................