"T" Shooting Report

[aqbill]

Using steel battle sights (set at 100 yards) and inexpensive Privi Partisan ammo (175 grain softpoint spitzer), my bench-rested shooter "T" .303 was able to stay within 2.5 inches in a 5-round, 100-yard group. That's pretty good by my estimation. Next time I'll post pics of the rifle and the target. The rifle was Bubba-ed up by my Dad way back in the late 1960s to make it look "sporty." Nevertheless, the metal hardware is all "T' and if I ever find that darned matching scope and bracket, I'll try to put it back together so that at least it will look like it's supposed to. Hope you're all having as much fun as I am. If you're ever in northwest Alabama, please drop me a line and we'll go shooting!

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[jmoore]

2.5" group with a "Bubba" stock is mighty good! You may consider just restocking the front, and see if there's any improvement. But keep the old bits.

[RJW NZ]

Shoot man, well done, I wish Alabama and NZ were a bit closer together. The ww2 requirement is reported as being two groups of 5 into a 3 inch square at 100 yards or it went back to the workshops.

Take a look at the sniper page on enfield resource, you might find what you're after. Modern reproduction scope brackets can be found at numrish and few other places, including Roger Payne I think who makes the topest quality one available anywhere, down to a chinese made one that'll get you by, scopes you can wait on.

If you can restore it and keep it in the family I think that would be awesome.

[RJW NZ]

Recently I've collected this data on T's accuracy tests, it should be a bit of fun to try and duplicate this at the range!, not to mention challenging.
• 5 rounds into a one inch circle at 30 yards.
• 3 sets of 5 rounds into a 3 inch circle at 100 yards.
• 2 sets of 7 rounds into a 5 inch circle at 200 yards.
• 6 out of 7 rounds into a 10 inch circle at 400 yards.

If they failed this the rifle was required to go back to the workshops.

[Surpmil]

And I think it's safe to say that most were much better than those minimums.

[RJW NZ]

Yup, I agree, . About the most certain thing is that a T shoots better than I do,lol.
Its an interesting set of requirements, and I'm guessing that it addresses accuracy as the rifle warms up.

I'm still waiting for the enfield accuracy standards that accept all shots except the one flier,