From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think what Richard Loweth was saying was it set 1914 in context.
The British Army (an all regular force at the opening of the war)
was capable of delivering sustained, accurate _area_ fire to
ranges in excess of 1,000 yards with bolt action rifles, to such
an extent that the German's believed they were facing massed
machineguns.
Here Richard was talking of the average infantryman with standard
equipment and in the heat of battle. By no stretch of the
imagination could a Match or Target rifle be described as
'standard' in the military sense and the experience of even a
relative novice in TR or MR probably outstrips the average
infantryman of 1914 when judging wind, etc. The scoped and
accurized rifles at Diggle are even further removed form what
Richard was talking about.
Regards
Jerry
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