{"id":2741,"date":"2017-04-28T05:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T05:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/busting-the-mad-minute-myth-with-the-musketry-regulations-1909\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:19:08","slug":"busting-the-mad-minute-myth-with-the-musketry-regulations-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/busting-the-mad-minute-myth-with-the-musketry-regulations-1909\/","title":{"rendered":"Busting the Mad Minute Myth with the Musketry Regulations 1909"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dd79sQfHa88?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>WARNING: boring, geeky video alert!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to various gunwriters over the past century, it is commonly believed that all British soldiers in the runup to World War 1 had to shoot at least 15 rounds of rapid fire with their SMLE or long Lee-Enfield .303&#8243; at 300 yards for their pay. In fact, this is very commonly believed, and a supposed record of 38 rounds in a minute is alledged to have been fired by a Sgt. Instructor Snoxall, for whom no records seem to exist&#8230; Jesse Wallingford, on the other hand, seems to have fired his 36 in a demonstration. <\/p>\n<p>Wallingford was an interesting chap, you should read up on him: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesse_Wallingford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesse_Wallingford<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, using the Musketry Regulations 1909, The Bloke shows the received wisdom to be a complete myth. So this is a real single-document mythbust right here. Boring, eh?<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, the spoiler &#8211; the mad minute seems to have been an instructor demonstration. Nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farcebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; yes, the endscreen bites spicy monkey chunks. I know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARNING: boring, geeky video alert! Thanks to various gunwriters over the past century, it is commonly believed that all British soldiers in the runup to World War 1 had to shoot at least 15 rounds of rapid fire with their SMLE or long Lee-Enfield .303&#8243; at 300 yards for their pay. In fact, this is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/busting-the-mad-minute-myth-with-the-musketry-regulations-1909\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busting the Mad Minute Myth with the Musketry Regulations 1909<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14897,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/14897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}