https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/the-real-mad-minute <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I just found this wikipedia entry (not the best source I know but I believe this to be credible) about the origins of the term "Mad Minute". Many of us know this today as the first minute after initiating an ambush. After reading the original definition do you think there is something left to be desired in our military marksmanship? Could you pull off this feat?<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute">Mad minute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">The Mad Minute is best known as a bolt-rifle speed shooting event, which was derived from a pre-World War I rapid-fire exercise used by British Army riflemen, using the Lee–Enfield service rifle. The exercise (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 yards. The practice was described as; “Lying. Rifle to be loaded and 4 rounds in...</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:55:22 -0500 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/the-real-mad-minute <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I just found this wikipedia entry (not the best source I know but I believe this to be credible) about the origins of the term "Mad Minute". Many of us know this today as the first minute after initiating an ambush. After reading the original definition do you think there is something left to be desired in our military marksmanship? Could you pull off this feat?<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute">Mad minute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">The Mad Minute is best known as a bolt-rifle speed shooting event, which was derived from a pre-World War I rapid-fire exercise used by British Army riflemen, using the Lee–Enfield service rifle. The exercise (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 yards. The practice was described as; “Lying. Rifle to be loaded and 4 rounds in...</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> SGT James Elphick Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:55:22 -0500 2015-02-12T13:55:22-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/the-real-mad-minute?n=472141&urlhash=472141 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>double post Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:05:09 -0500 2015-02-12T15:05:09-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/the-real-mad-minute?n=472144&urlhash=472144 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I've always liked that we had Rapid Fire Stages (10 shots each, 1 minute time limit with a mag change) at the 200 &amp; 300 for our Rifle Qualification in the Marine Corps.<br /><br />I'm willing to bet I could pull off a mad minute at the 300 even now. Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:08:09 -0500 2015-02-12T15:08:09-05:00 2015-02-12T13:55:22-05:00