Century range - yards or metres?

[R.G.C]

Bisley was built in 1889, and the NRA was formed to support the Volunteers against the French. So anything as French as a metre will be out of order.

Bisley ranges are all in yards except Short Siberia 100 (metres), Running Deer 100 (metres), Running Boar 50 (metres), Running Boar 10 (metres) and Century 300 electronic (metres) and the Zero Range (71 ft 7 inches).

Iain

Iain,
At the date of the NRA creation, England already mistook their ennemy. Napoleon III was more than an anglophile (his son was killed under the brotish uniform). Bismark represented certainly a greater threat....

OK, there has been Fachoda and the Entente Cordiale since....

Not to forget NSRA 50 and 10 metres...

ISO systems invading G.B more and more.... Napoleon I must laugh in his grave. Remind me his nephew is buried not that far from Bisley.......

Big LOL
R.G.C

[DOGGER2UK]

At the date of the NRA creation, England already mistook their ennemy. Napoleon III was more than an anglophile (his son was killed under the brotish uniform). Bismark represented certainly a greater threat....

So you were the cop in ALLO ALLO

[ovenpaa]

Robert who posted that (Not DM as you seem to have quoted) Is in fact a rather elderly French gentleman of great knowledge. Sadly his eyes are not what they used to be or I am sure he would post a lot more on the forum.

[John25]

je repete

If God had wanted us to be metric, there would have only been ten diciples

The sights on all my service rifles are in yards.

J'ai fini

As is my French

[R.G.C]

je repete

If God had wanted us to be metric, there would have only been ten diciples

The sights on all my service rifles are in yards.

J'ai fini

As is my French

Vous vous répétez, cher ami,

He simply needed 2reserves..perhaps because of inaccuracy????(bis repetita)

BTW, was it God or Jesus who had disciples???

Cordialement
R.G.C

[John25]

You are correct of course, it was Jesus who the disciples followed, God however ordains; so it must have been His decision to send the twelve.

His all seeing eye would have known that there was no need for spares, as He must have known that only eleven would remain true.

Is there any measurement system, I wonder, divisible by eleven?

stgeo

[Watcher]

Would not Bisley have been measured out in rods and chains? Anyone else old enough to remember the shiny red exercise books with all those measures set out on the back?

[IainWR]

Is there any measurement system, I wonder, divisible by eleven?

stgeo

Try Imperial land measurement. An acre is 22 x 220 yards, so has factors 2,2,2,5,11,11.

[R.G.C]

Is there any measurement system, I wonder, divisible by eleven?

stgeo

Try Imperial land measurement. An acre is 22 x 220 yards, so has factors 2,2,2,5,11,11.

In north of France, the popular land measure was, and probably still us, the 'cent de terre" and there is 11 cents for one hectare.

R.G.C

[John25]

Well, that's my ignorance exposed, hangs head in shame.

The original mesurements would have been done by the Engineers, or possibly by soldiers pacing it out.* I can tell you that, according to modern range finding kit, the firing points on Stickledown are not 100 per cent parallel to the butts.


* the expression 'Pegged out' for tired, comes from the days when the British army sent out 'peggers' to put a stake in the ground at intevals towards the enemy so that the officers could call out the range as the enemy obligingly advanced at the march towards them. Job done, these lucky soldiers would return to the rear rank as quickly as their little legs could carry them. If you had pegged out, you got a short rest before the slaughter began.