Interesting firearms forensics puzzler

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Here's a puzzler that someone that served during WWII may be able to answer.:D

What sort of military firing range would have a mixture of 30.06 and .22 bullets in the berm, but only be 100 yards long??? No .45 or .38 pistol bullets are showing up.
 
Simple.

There were many .22 training rifles used in WWII.

The M1922, M1, M2 were training rifles. Why burn up .30 caliber when you can shoot .22. There were also commercial training rifles used by the military in .22. The Remington 513T, Stevens 416-2, Winchester Model 75, Mossberg 44 and the Marine Corps used the Harrington & Richard Model 65 as a training rifle.

It's done to this day. Instead of shooting a live AT4 round we had simulators that used a 9mm tracer round.
 
100 yards long is a bit short for a training round that also has 30-06 in it, as that is normally done on a longer range.

humm, I am guessing it is the range where they fired guns for some reason other than traditional training or competition, something like the firing range set up behind the repair station of the armory, where once it gets fixed it gets tested before it gets returned, or somethign along that line
 
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It's possible that the 1919 training may have been done there. There was a kit used to fire .22 from chamber reducers so that gunners could get cheap practice.

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Sounds like a basic rifle training range, the type used to acclimate recruits to basic shooting skills. They'd start on the .22s, then transition to the .30-'06 once they had basic marksmanship down. For longer range training, they'd have a longer range somewhere else. If the base had plenty of space available, that'd be the way to set it up. That way, you don't have two groups of shooters with different requirements using the same range.
 
100 yards long is a bit short for a training round that also has 30-06 in it, as that is normally done on a longer range.

humm, I am guessing it is the range where they fired guns for some reason other than traditional training or competition, something like the firing range set up behind the repair station of the armory, where once it gets fixed it gets tested before it gets returned, or somethign along that line
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Not necessarily.

If you qualify 3 times as an Expert in the Marine Corps you have the choice to do the full rifle qual or do what is called PET training. You shoot at a 100 inch (yes, that's not a typo) range, just at small targets.

So if 100 inches is good enough for 5.56, then 100 yard is more than adequate for .22 and 30/06.
 
For some reason I want to say this was a firing range for army airforce to train gunners in bombers to lead their targets.
 
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