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The Mad Minute was a pre-World War I bolt-action rifle speed shooting exercise used by British Army riflemen, using the Lee–Enfield service rifle. The exercise, formally known as "Practice number 22, Rapid Fire, The Musketry Regulations, Part I, 1909", required the rifleman to fire 15 rounds at a "Second Class Figure" target at 300 yd (270 m).
Thomas Høgåsseter is a Norwegian shooter who won the 2014 and 2015 Norwegian National Cup of Stang and Field Rapid Shooting. [1] He also has the official Mad minute World Record of 36 hits in one minute. [2]
The "mad minute" originated as a pre-World War I term used by British riflemen during training to describe scoring 15 hits onto a 12" round target at 300 yd within one minute using a bolt-action rifle. The term still exists in modern military parlance to describe any short period of intense weapons fire.
The guy who was on trial for shooting Bryan — I met him once. He was asking me what kind of background I came from, how much money my parents made. It was like he was trying to get something out of me. It was like, I have to get out of here, I can’t deal with this guy. JOEL: Bryan went to Atlantic City. He went down there with $3,000, and ...
Survivors of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas and families who received somber calls hours later said they were alarmed when the U.S. Supreme Court Friday struck down a ban on the gun ...
The same year, he set a mad minute record, scoring 36 hits in one minute on a 48-inch target at 300 yards. [3] He was a sniper when the Great War broke out and taught numerous soldiers how to shoot. At the 1899 International Shooting Sport Federation World Championships in Loosdoinen, Belgium, he won the Gold Medal in 300 metres free rifle ...
The deadly incident unfolded about 11:30 a.m. CT at the Mad Butcher in Fordyce, a small town about 70 miles south of Little Rock. ... “He came in and started shooting,” Gill said. “We made ...
The deadly incident unfolded just before 11:40 a.m. CT at the Mad Butcher in Fordyce, a small town about 70 miles south of Little Rock, state police Director Mike Hagar said at a late-afternoon ...