Bisley Bibles

[Strangely Brown]

Does anybody on this forum collect them?

I do because they are an invaluable aid to research but I am need in of some information from 1969 onwards regarding the then new 7.62mm class of Target Rifles; it states in my 1968 copy that the "new" class of rifle must have a safety catch fitted, now niether my Whittaker Special or Geoff Hart conversion has a safety fitted. (Both based on No 4 actions)

The question then is what year did the NRA drop the requirment of a safety catch for 7.62mm conversions, if you have Bisley Bibles of that period could you all look for me please?

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[Edward Horton]

Mr. Strangely Brown

Would you explain the term “Bisley Bible” to one of the unwashed colonial barbarians who has never be to Bisley, I guessing it is some kind of rule book BUT knowing you it might also have something to do with pagans paying homage to the *Enfield Gods.

*Requires painting your face blue and dancing in the circle at Stonehenge.

[Strangely Brown]

Sorry Edward, I owe you and all the other forum members an apology regarding my first post and my inability to explain myself properly.
The Bisley Bible is an annualy produced booklet (pocket sized) by the NRA (British) with the rules of shooting and programe of the summer Imperial Meeting.
The early ones are a delight to anybody with a sense of history and have the railway timetable from Waterloo to Brookwood and also the branch line connection to Bisley Camp on the Bisley Bullet (the train that ran from Brookwood to Bisley).

[Strangely Brown]

And again!
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[Badger]

Thanks for posting the pic and info.

I had never seen them before ...

They really look interesting ...

Regards,
Badger

[Gnr527]

Mick

You are wicked

300ish pages (all for less than a tenner!) - at 6 or 8ish point print

Current edition must be around the 140th mark - size approx 6 x 4 x 3/4"

Packed - and I do mean packed - with just about every conceivable fact about Bisley competition shooting (since the year dot)

An anoraks delight

and Ed doesnt have one

[Edward Horton]

Mick

You are wicked

300ish pages (all for less than a tenner!) - at 6 or 8ish point print

Current edition must be around the 140th mark - size approx 6 x 4 x 3/4"

Packed - and I do mean packed - with just about every conceivable fact about Bisley competition shooting (since the year dot)

An anoraks delight

and Ed doesnt have one

“An anoraks delight”

After working for 34 years at a military overhaul depot the only excessive compulsive disorder I have is collecting books and manuals related to the care and feeding of the Enfield Rifle.

Bisley Bibles would force me out of the maintenance category and into a tweed jacket, to lay on the ground to shoot and drive on the wrong side of the road.

Reading about how to fix the Enfield rifle would be a more “normal” activity and I would not be considered cold and remote as most British are.

[Peter Laidler]

Just interested Ed, but what in heavens name is all that white stuff you're sitting in and surrounded by? Is that some wild colonial landscape feature? We have something similar here but it's called 'oh, not that xxxxxxx rain again'. We set our clocks by it

[Edward Horton]

Mr. Laidler

I had my wife take the above comic photo 6 or 7 years ago as a gag and learning tool for the Australians who live in the southern hemisphere and celebrate Christmas in what would be July in the northern hemisphere.

Over my left shoulder in that photo 220 miles or 362.03 kilometers is Canada where COLD wind blows down into the “wild colonial landscape”. I personally find it very invigorating to take my Irish contract Enfield to the range on a brisk day and fire 50 to 100 rounds.



This is the only time I notice that long military head space is to your advantage, you can actually hear the frozen condensation in your chamber crackling and crunching as you chamber a new round.

[Bindi2]

How does one calibrate christmas. Thank god for heat and dust but then that cracking i hear is silica cracking on closing a little harsher than water. Dont add oil or you have the best grinding paste known.