doctorbossman
NES Member
I made in interesting discovery the other day at work.
Earlier this month our practice expanded into another office in Medford. Turns out the building was the old Medford Armory.
Initially I took the elevator from the basement parking level to our 3rd floor office. It's a nicely renovated interior. This past week I decided to stop being a lazy a** and walked up the stairs. And this is what I found in the stairwell...
It looks like it's Corporal Perry Schofield's world record target from 1910. He hit 116 consecutive bull's eyes at 500 yards. The previous record was 60 consecutive. I counted 114 holes (2 were apparently "sighters"). The Target B bull's eye is 20" across. He used a Springfield 1903.
I think that's pretty impressive. Battle rifle with open sights (I'm assuming) consistently doing 4 MOA. There aren't many things that I can do 116 times consecutively with that much precision.
I found details from the following book...
The A B C of Rifle, Revolver and Pistol Shooting. (see page 175-6)
https://books.google.com/books?id=5...utive bull's eye&pg=PA175#v=onepage&q&f=false
Earlier this month our practice expanded into another office in Medford. Turns out the building was the old Medford Armory.
Initially I took the elevator from the basement parking level to our 3rd floor office. It's a nicely renovated interior. This past week I decided to stop being a lazy a** and walked up the stairs. And this is what I found in the stairwell...
It looks like it's Corporal Perry Schofield's world record target from 1910. He hit 116 consecutive bull's eyes at 500 yards. The previous record was 60 consecutive. I counted 114 holes (2 were apparently "sighters"). The Target B bull's eye is 20" across. He used a Springfield 1903.
I think that's pretty impressive. Battle rifle with open sights (I'm assuming) consistently doing 4 MOA. There aren't many things that I can do 116 times consecutively with that much precision.
I found details from the following book...
The A B C of Rifle, Revolver and Pistol Shooting. (see page 175-6)
https://books.google.com/books?id=5...utive bull's eye&pg=PA175#v=onepage&q&f=false