On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:19:29 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Gunner Asch on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:40:41 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Plus it holds 3 rounds less than the LE

So how fast can each get 30 rounds downrange?

Isnt Aimed Fire the key to winning a battle? Or am I mistaken?

The British taught "How to Rapidly fire an Enfield rifle" to such
an extent, that in the open days of the First World War, the Germans
thought the Brits had more machine guns, due to the volume of fire
they were receiving.
If memory serves,the record is held by a British Sergeant Major,
who put 60 round into the target in sixty seconds. Which obviously
meant he worked a bolt sixty times, plus swapped out magazines five
times.

Again, it comes down to accuracy of the rifle, skill of the
shooter. And for a combat arm, robustness in the field. In The Great
War, the Germans had a good hunting rifle, the Americans a good target
rifle, and the Brits had a good battle rifle.


The following is from Wiki but was taken from a US Army report which
studied WW I, II casualties:

Following the end of World War II, the U.S. Army conducted a number of
studies of what happened in the war and how it was actually fought.
Several things were learned which applied directly to personal weapon
design. Perhaps most important, research found that most combat
casualties caused by small-arms fire took place at short range. So the
long range and accuracy of the standard rifle was, in a real sense,
wasted. Second, the research found that aiming was not a major factor
in causing casualties. Instead, the number one predictor of casualties
was the total number of bullets fired.[16] Third, psychological
studies found that many riflemen (as much as 2/3) never fired their
weapons at the enemy. By contrast, those soldiers equipped with
rapid-fire weapons (submachine guns and the early assault rifles) were
far more likely to actually use their weapons in battle.[17] This
combination of factors led to the conclusion that a fairly short-range
weapon capable of rapid fire would be the most effective general
purpose weapon for infantry.

Cheers,

John D. Slocomb
(jdslocombatgmail)