Stangskyting — Amazing Bolt Action Rifle Speed Shooting
How fast can you shoot a bolt-action rifle? We doubt you can out-pace the ace “Stangskyting” shooters from Scandinavia. Some of these guys can run more than two rounds per second, including mag changes! That’s impressive. Bulletin reader C. Lemmermann from Denmark told us: “In Scandinavia we have this competition called ‘Stangskyting’. It’s similar to the ‘Mad Minute’ but we only have 25 seconds to hit the target [at] 200-300m distance with a 6.5×55 [target rifle].” In the Stangskyting video below a shooter named Børklop puts 16 rounds on target in just 25 seconds. (He starts with a round in the chamber and cycles through three, 5-round magazines). Børklop’s performance, with just a sling and iron sights, is impressive. He’s shooting a Sauer 200 STR target rifle with 5-round magazine. Note that Børklop manipulates the Sauer’s bolt with his thumb and index finger, while pulling the trigger with his middle finger. As good as Børklop is, some Stangskyting competitors are even better. Roy Arne Syversrud from Oslo, Norway tells us: “The best shooters in Norway can do 21 shots in 25 seconds, changing the mag three times.”
This Guy Could Break the “Mad Minute” Record
Børklop’s rate of fire, 16 rounds in 25 seconds, is the equivalent of 38.4 rounds in 60 seconds. That’s a notable number because the record for the “Mad Minute”, a British Army marksmanship drill, is 38 rounds in one minute. That record was set in 1914 by Sergeant Instructor Alfred Snoxall, and still stands. So as you watch Børklop, keep in mind that Snoxall shot that fast for a full minute with a Lee-Enfield nearly 100 years ago!
Børklop has an average cycling time of 1.56 seconds per shot, starting with a round in the chamber. To beat the record of 38 rounds, he would need to make seven mag changes in sixty seconds. All those mag swaps could reduce his average time per shot, making it difficult to achieve 38 hits in a minute. But, if Børklop could use 10-round mags with his Sauer STR, this guy has the skills to break the record.
To emphasize the capabilities of the WWI-era British shooter who set the record, Snoxall shot as fast as Børklop does, but Snoxall reloaded with stripper clips. Snoxall’s SMLE (Lee-Enfield) rifle also had relatively crude open sights and the stock was far less ergonomic than Børklop’s Sauer STR stock.
Here’s another Stanskyting video showing John O. Ågotnes shooting rapidfire with his Sauer 200 STR (Scandinavian Target Rifle) chambered in 6.5×55. By our count, Ågotnes manages 17 shots within the 25-second time period. That rate of fire (17 in 25 seconds) equates to 40.8 rounds in one minute!
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Wonder how much faster ( or more rounds downrange ) he might be if he didn’t have to bring his head off the buttstock while cycling the action.
well if he does that he loses his sight pichture .. and no matter how many rounds you shoot you still have to hit at 200m
Here is a couple of videos from the Mad Minute trials Kurt Bekkevold set up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHZSgNrHjXg&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRZZcNCTFyQ&feature=youtu.be
The most hits in one minute, bolt action and iron sights, 36 was shot by Thomas Høgåssæther
How big is the target at 300m
Lee Enfields have several great mechanical features that enable “speed”:
1. The bolt handle, “turned” down in all “factory” models, is aligned just behind the trigger. As the bolt is turned down to lock, the trigger finger (of your choice) just falls into position and away you go, again.
2. The bolt “lift” is about 65 degrees, roughly a third less than “that other rifle”.
3. The “cock on closing’ system means that there is no other significant resistance to bolt handle lift other than the helical unlocking surfaces, (1 in 1″ twist), extracting the fired case. With the bolt being then run forward at the sort of speed required for these capers, you will hardly notice the cocking piece engaging the seat just before the bolt handle is slapped into position.
4. Finally, the “by the book’ method for ALL modes of Lee Enfield shooting is that the bolt knob is NOT operated with the palm of the hand, but MUST be held between the thumb and forefinger. It is this hold that places the trigger finger of choice correctly to simply “roll” downwards and deliver the goods.
The ten-round mag kept constantly filled using the 5-round “chargers” is the icing on the cake. This was one of many lessons learned whilst competing against “Team Mauser” on the two-way rifle range in South Africa in the late 19th Century.
The bolt lift on the Sauer 200 STR is 60 degrees.
Who sells the Sauer 200 STR rifle in the United States?
The other “Coulda-been” contender for “slick” was the old Remington 788.
Three rows of multiple lugs located at the rear of the bolt body.
Detachable mag. (single column, unfortunately).
Major faults: Poor primary extraction.
Remington’s dubious “spring-clop” extractor.
Bolt handle SIVER-SOLDERED as a “stub” straight into the bolt body.
The dodgy extractor and some idiot’s hot / untrimmed handloads combined to see the bolt handle literally KICKED off a LOT of these rifles by desperate “operators. Sometimes they would get the bolt open at the expense of the extractor cracking the thin front of the retaining groove.
I have a surviving example here, albeit with a replacement stainless, 1:9″ twist,.223 barrel I fitted about fifteen years ago.
Correctly loaded (and TRIMMED) ammo and normal cleaning and maintenance has kept it chugging along for quite a few years. Accuracy is excellent.
Most of the “wrecked” ones I have seen are in .243Win.
The straight-pull Schmidt-Rubin, especially the 1911 “Short Rifle” is also slick. The mid-locking K-11 is smoother and faster to operate than the later, stronger K-31. Extra six-round 1911 mags are VERY hard to find in these parts and the classic Swiss “cardboard” charger clips don’t last very many “recyclings” as opposed to the near-indestructible Lee Enfield types.
No one does, STR = Scandinavian Target Rifle.
But its exactly the same receiver, trigger and magazine that sits in the SIG SSG 3000. Same barrels just in different contour and cailber.
And a different stock, it’s similar to the old black wood stocked SSG.
And the SSG rifles are easy to come by in the US.
The fastest rifle for this kind of shooting is the Steyr SSG69 P2. Short bolt travel due to rear locking lugs, 60 deg bolt lift, excellent bolt knob and 10 shot mags makes it “unbeatable”.