Century range - yards or metres?

[shugie]

Would not Bisley have been measured out in rods and chains? Anyone else old enough to remember the shiny red exercise books with all those measures set out on the back?

Yes, rod, pole and perch, whatever they might be. Quite logical in their way, multiples of standard items for measuring length, but the devil's work for arithmetic. We switched to metric when I was at the local grammar skule.

I would imagine Army engineers used the 22 yard long chain for much of their measurement, so it's perhaps surprising we don't have 110 yard and 220 yard ranges!

[1066]

Would not Bisley have been measured out in rods and chains? Anyone else old enough to remember the shiny red exercise books with all those measures set out on the back?

Yes, rod, pole and perch, whatever they might be. Quite logical in their way, multiples of standard items for measuring length, but the devil's work for arithmetic. We switched to metric when I was at the local grammar skule.

I would imagine Army engineers used the 22 yard long chain for much of their measurement, so it's perhaps surprising we don't have 110 yard and 220 yard ranges!

Well maybe we have - Do we really know that Short Siberia is actually 100mts and 200mts and not 110yds and 220yds?

[zeroveez]

Using a Leitz rangefinder a couple of years ago on Century the distances were yards, and fairly accurate too.

[Gaz]

I remember an old boy telling me that the firing points on Stickledown aren't quite square to the targets. Something like a 30 yd difference between one side and the other. No idea if that's true or not.

[John25]

I remember an old boy telling me that the firing points on Stickledown aren't quite square to the targets. Something like a 30 yd difference between one side and the other. No idea if that's true or not.

True, but I don't know the actual difference in distance. As someone said to me when I first expressed my surprise, "That's one of the reasons you get two sighters!"