Originally Posted by
floodgate
grumpyone:
In a couple of today's posts, you have referred to odd yardages for your test shooting: 55 and 110 yds. Are you just approximating 50 & 100 meters, - for those of us stuck in the old "King's nose to fingetip" era - or are you translating from surveyors' measures: 10 rods = 55 yds.; 20 rods = 110 yds (exactly). Just for reference, the standard for formal and informal shooting in the US, at least up to the Civil War, was 40 rods = 220 yds.; with the advent of Schuetzen shooting around 1850, that was cut back to 200 yds.
floodgate