Post by GruntGuy on Jul 20, 2007 7:46:57 GMT 8
Hi guys, I'm back from Bisley.
Had a good few days. Was fun, but also had its boring parts.
For those who don't know what this is, Bisley is a huge shooting place down in Surrey, south of London. Every year the UK's biggest shooting competition is held there, and this year, I went to represent my school team.
Today (thursday) was the main competition and I shot much better today than I normally do. The highest possible score on a target is 35.7 from 7 shots. 5.1 points for a "V Bull" or a bullseye, 5 points for an outer bull, 4 points for the next consecutive ring, 3 points.. and so forth. Over monday, tuesday and wednesday, my scores were averaging around 27 and 28, but today after changing my foresight element for each disatnce, as well as wearing my boonie hat to keep the sun off my face, my scores on each target didn't drop below 30, which I was pretty pleased with. We shoot on 3 distances. 300 yards, 500 yards, and 600 yards. We use L81A2 target rifles. No scopes.
The range was huge. I think there were 108 firing lanes.
On the site, there were shops and stalls where I could buy souvenirs and stuff. There were also gunsmiths stores, in which one of them, I saw this rifle with this RIDICULOUSLY HUGE supressor. I mean seriously huge. It was about half the size of the rifle itself, and about as thick as a gutter pipe. I just laughed at it. Also saw several weapons for sale in other shops. I recognised glocks, a P228, an M4 (single-shot only because it didnt have a gas block), and various other rather large handguns. Yes, these are all real steel weapons.
As a matter of interest, I asked how much the M4 was selling for and discovered it was going for about £900
Here's a photo I took of the M4 I saw. Also take note of the incredibly awesome and huge sniper rifle beneath it. Very expensive. Looked at the price tag and saw lots of 2's and lots of 0's. Coulda been £2200, maybe £22000, who knows. I didnt pay much attention.
Another highlight of the trip was the sniping competition which I entered. Had to pay £3.50 to enter, which is no money at all considering the forthcoming experience.
The sniper rifle used? See below:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The L96A1. ;D ;D ;D
It was amazing. Just pure awesomeness. The feel and the sound when you fire is just incredible. It's sleek, comfortable, powerful, and unforgiving. If I was to personify the guns as dogs, the L81A2 would go "Woof!", and the L96 would be more of an aggressive "BARK!".
I couldn't believe it. I was holding, and firing a real L96. A real L96 with real 7.62mm ammunition. Ahh.. Heaven.
Annyway. Enough creaming of pants. The sniping competition involved shooting appearing smiley faces in a "castle"'s windows. Each exposure would last 3 seconds, and I had 10 rounds to shoot 10 smiley faces. (plus 2 rounds for the sighter target, to make sure the sights were correctly adjusted).
I didn't do tooo well. Got 4 V bulls, which was very good, but also missed a few targets completely. I think I rushed them a bit, but who cares? I FIRED AN L96! Lol
I'm uploading a video.Will post it up later.
Here it is
www.youtube.com/v/TU9YaII58Jk
Anyway, a typical day at Bisley would be;
6.30am - Wake up
7.00am - Leave in minibus to go to military camp for breakfast
7.20am - Arrive and eat breakfast
7.45am - Report to the Armoury to collect our rifles
8.00am - Get down to the range and set up
8.30am - Commence 2 hour shooting session at 300 yards
10.30am - Half an hour break and move to 500 yards
11.00am - Commence 2 hour session at 500 yards
12.00pm - Packed Lunch
13.30 - Continue 1 hour session at 500 yards
14.30 - Half an hour break and move to 600 yards
15.00 - Commence 2 hour session at 600 yards
17.00 - Pack up
18.00 - Dinner at military camp
18.30 - Return to University of Surrey Halls of Residence.
More pics here:
Me shooting at 600 yards
Photos of our L81A2 rifles:
Tent boredom:
Older team members (6th Form + Leavers):
Action shot - Look carefully and you can see the casing ejecting from the chamber:
My room set-up for each evening
Today was funny at London King's Cross station. We were waiting by the train schedule screen thing, waiting to see what platform our train was at, and one of the guys, nick, started trying to point out to us that there were no brick archways or barriers in between the platforms, and said that harry potter was wrong and that there couldnt have been a barrier to platform 9 3/4. I tried to point out that we were in a different area of the station and the one which had platforms 9 and 10 may well have had brick barriers, so I asked him to come with me to go search for platforms 9 and 10, and he said that was silly and wouldnt go. Then my other friend Robin got into the conversation, and agreed to go because he was bored, so I asked ben too, and he decided to come with us too. So all four of us ended up taking a wander across to platforms 9 and 10, and lo and behold we proved nick wrong. Not only did we find the barrier, we also found platform 9 3/4. Hahahaha. We all lol'd. Hard.
Apologies if this post is far too long I'm sure it's interesting though 
Had a good few days. Was fun, but also had its boring parts.
For those who don't know what this is, Bisley is a huge shooting place down in Surrey, south of London. Every year the UK's biggest shooting competition is held there, and this year, I went to represent my school team.
Today (thursday) was the main competition and I shot much better today than I normally do. The highest possible score on a target is 35.7 from 7 shots. 5.1 points for a "V Bull" or a bullseye, 5 points for an outer bull, 4 points for the next consecutive ring, 3 points.. and so forth. Over monday, tuesday and wednesday, my scores were averaging around 27 and 28, but today after changing my foresight element for each disatnce, as well as wearing my boonie hat to keep the sun off my face, my scores on each target didn't drop below 30, which I was pretty pleased with. We shoot on 3 distances. 300 yards, 500 yards, and 600 yards. We use L81A2 target rifles. No scopes.
The range was huge. I think there were 108 firing lanes.
On the site, there were shops and stalls where I could buy souvenirs and stuff. There were also gunsmiths stores, in which one of them, I saw this rifle with this RIDICULOUSLY HUGE supressor. I mean seriously huge. It was about half the size of the rifle itself, and about as thick as a gutter pipe. I just laughed at it. Also saw several weapons for sale in other shops. I recognised glocks, a P228, an M4 (single-shot only because it didnt have a gas block), and various other rather large handguns. Yes, these are all real steel weapons.
As a matter of interest, I asked how much the M4 was selling for and discovered it was going for about £900
Here's a photo I took of the M4 I saw. Also take note of the incredibly awesome and huge sniper rifle beneath it. Very expensive. Looked at the price tag and saw lots of 2's and lots of 0's. Coulda been £2200, maybe £22000, who knows. I didnt pay much attention.
Another highlight of the trip was the sniping competition which I entered. Had to pay £3.50 to enter, which is no money at all considering the forthcoming experience.
The sniper rifle used? See below:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The L96A1. ;D ;D ;D
It was amazing. Just pure awesomeness. The feel and the sound when you fire is just incredible. It's sleek, comfortable, powerful, and unforgiving. If I was to personify the guns as dogs, the L81A2 would go "Woof!", and the L96 would be more of an aggressive "BARK!".
I couldn't believe it. I was holding, and firing a real L96. A real L96 with real 7.62mm ammunition. Ahh.. Heaven.
Annyway. Enough creaming of pants. The sniping competition involved shooting appearing smiley faces in a "castle"'s windows. Each exposure would last 3 seconds, and I had 10 rounds to shoot 10 smiley faces. (plus 2 rounds for the sighter target, to make sure the sights were correctly adjusted).
I didn't do tooo well. Got 4 V bulls, which was very good, but also missed a few targets completely. I think I rushed them a bit, but who cares? I FIRED AN L96! Lol
I'm uploading a video.
Here it is
www.youtube.com/v/TU9YaII58Jk
Anyway, a typical day at Bisley would be;
6.30am - Wake up
7.00am - Leave in minibus to go to military camp for breakfast
7.20am - Arrive and eat breakfast
7.45am - Report to the Armoury to collect our rifles
8.00am - Get down to the range and set up
8.30am - Commence 2 hour shooting session at 300 yards
10.30am - Half an hour break and move to 500 yards
11.00am - Commence 2 hour session at 500 yards
12.00pm - Packed Lunch
13.30 - Continue 1 hour session at 500 yards
14.30 - Half an hour break and move to 600 yards
15.00 - Commence 2 hour session at 600 yards
17.00 - Pack up
18.00 - Dinner at military camp
18.30 - Return to University of Surrey Halls of Residence.
More pics here:
Me shooting at 600 yards
Photos of our L81A2 rifles:
Tent boredom:
Older team members (6th Form + Leavers):
Action shot - Look carefully and you can see the casing ejecting from the chamber:
My room set-up for each evening
Today was funny at London King's Cross station. We were waiting by the train schedule screen thing, waiting to see what platform our train was at, and one of the guys, nick, started trying to point out to us that there were no brick archways or barriers in between the platforms, and said that harry potter was wrong and that there couldnt have been a barrier to platform 9 3/4. I tried to point out that we were in a different area of the station and the one which had platforms 9 and 10 may well have had brick barriers, so I asked him to come with me to go search for platforms 9 and 10, and he said that was silly and wouldnt go. Then my other friend Robin got into the conversation, and agreed to go because he was bored, so I asked ben too, and he decided to come with us too. So all four of us ended up taking a wander across to platforms 9 and 10, and lo and behold we proved nick wrong. Not only did we find the barrier, we also found platform 9 3/4. Hahahaha. We all lol'd. Hard.
Apologies if this post is far too long
I'm sure it's interesting though 
