P53 - exercise in futility...

[TFoley]

"...I should also tell you that the had just qualified for his certificate with a .22, .223, .303 and .308, and was finishing up the day with the P53."
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If G is as good as you say he is, and if he has been shooting the Enfield accurately up until a few weeks ago I will suggest that his qualifying with four different rifles before he started shooting the Enfield is the problem.
Firing multiple shots with the .303 and .308 can and does take something out of the best of us.

I suspect that after a through cleaning of his gun and a nights rest he will be back to his previous form and have no problem hitting the target repeatedly.

Thanks for your comment - as for shooting lots of shots - the requirement simply means that you have to demonstrate an ability to hit what you are aiming at with the guns you want to shoot at Bisley - five shots grouping in each calibre is all. In any case, in order to 'show use' as club members from two other counties have to do, most of us shoot at least three different guns on a visit to the range - this is nothing new or onerous as far as we are concerned.

Well, we tried again this morning - shooting a bunch of Lyman Minies I made last night, and got the go-ahead to shoot on the 50m range [it's in the VERY small print on the range clearance cerificate]. We got the 'group' down to about eight inches at 50m. Shooting the same bullet over 65gr of FFg in MY three-bander we got about 2.5", but it WAS raining pretty hard - it is usually a little tighter than that.

More playing around is necessary, but he can demonstrably shoot my rifle well without any grief on our range. Sadly, the law here being what it is, he can't shoot it at Bisley as he does not own it, and I cannot lend it to him. [Single-shot five-foot long BP rifles being well-known Weapons of mass destruction, y'know].

Thanks again, all.

tac