SLR vs. #4 .303

[smle-man]

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-armys-new-rifle

Short newsreel showing the 'new' SLR on the firing range compared to the #4 rifle. Watch how quickly the soldier with the #4 works the bolt.

The SLR shown is a trials model with the experimental optical sight.

[SonofWWIIDI]

SMLE ranked #3 on one discovery channels weapons shows.

I believe there is also some mention of the mad minute. Where the troop would fire as many round was possiblein one minute. There are also some modern videos of folks doing the mad minute.

[highpower]

Cool video.

I have owned both. My first centerfire rifle back in 1966 was a No4MkI. Over the years I have had maybe a dozen Enfield's and a couple FAL's, I sold off all my British bolt guns when the cheap surplus ammo dried up. I kept one of my L1A1's and gave the other to my son.

No matter how much nostalgia I have for the old bolt guns, I like the SLR better.

[pitfighter]

Brilliant!!!!

In "point thirty" - the ammo became known by it's metric size, I never heard the SLR as shooting anything but 7.62 - ever, you might have thought the designation carried over. There were plenty of salts from pre-1971 when I was there.
I know it's the same ammunition, just a different name. -The UK went metric + decimal, in 1971, the year I was born.
I remember huge piggy banks of useless old penny and ha-peenies, farthings etc.,

Capable of single-shots or full-auto - that changed!
No flash suppressor - that changed
The trigger guard was the early experimental - that changed
That lovely tiny optic - that went away, too.
Sixty GBpounds - as opposed to the number four at thirty GBpounds - good value for money at twice the cost, I think.

What a cool and historical film clip.

Thanks for posting!