Thread: 96 Years of Progress

Greetings,
After the Boer War there was a movement to longer range rifle cartridges. The Ross was one and the 276 Enfield was another. This was due to the poor performance of the troops at longer ranges. With the brits they blamed the rifle rather than the training and so they came out with the .276 Enfield in the P13 rifle just before WW1 intervened which was fought at ranges in feet rather than yards. Back to the Lee Enfield. Training was also greatly improved. The principal problem with the Ross was poor extraction due to the straight pull action. By the end of WW1 machine guns had replaced rifles for long range work and they had been replaced by artillery. The days of the grunt soldier fighting at long range was over. Snipers were a different matter.
GPM.