Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's military rifle, team explained

Event:	Men's team military rifle
Games:	1908 Summer
Venue:	Bisley rifle range
Dates:	10–11 July
Competitors:	48
Nations:	8
Longnames:	yes
Gold:	Charles Benedict, Kellogg Casey, Ivan Eastman, William Leushner, William Martin, Charles Winder
Silver:	Arthur Fulton, John Martin, Harcourt Ommundsen, Walter Padgett, Philip Richardson, Fleetwood Varley
Bronze:	Charles Crowe, William Eastcott, Harry Kerr, Dugald McInnes, William Smith, Bertram Williams

The men's team military rifle, also referred to as the International, was one of 15 events on the Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.^[1] Teams consisted of six shooters, with each shooter firing 90 shots at targets at varying distances. Fifteen shots were fired at each of six distances: 200, 500, 600, 800, 900, and 1000 yds (based on traditional military rifle range distances in English speaking countries). A bulls-eye counted for five points, and thus the highest possible score for each shooter was 450 points, with the team maximum being 2700.

Each shooter was required to use his nation's official military rifle.

Results

Place	Nation	Shooter	Score
Place	Nation	Shooter	200yd	500yd	600yd	800yd	900yd	1000yd	Total
1		Team total	428	438	425	436	405	399	2531
		71	75	73	73	67	71	430
		71	74	72	73	71	69	430
		69	74	72	73	72	69	429
		74	71	69	73	67	69	423
		70	74	70	71	67	60	412
		73	70	69	73	61	61	407
2		Team total	419	436	426	433	399	383	2497
		68	74	73	72	70	67	424
		72	75	71	71	67	67	423
		71	70	71	75	65	65	417
		68	73	70	72	64	66	413
		70	73	69	71	68	59	410
		70	71	72	72	66	59	410
3		Team total	412	418	414	434	394	367	2439
		71	72	70	75	72	61	421
		69	66	71	74	65	70	415
		71	74	70	74	65	70	414
		68	73	73	74	65	60	413
		69	63	65	70	64	61	392
		64	70	65	67	61	57	384
4		Team total	397	417	378	401	373	306	2227^[2]
		70	72	65	67	60	51	385
		67	68	68	62	58	60	383
		70	71	65	65	65	43	379
		59	65	60	68	61	50	376
		64	70	63	72	65	55	376
		67	71	57	67	64	47	373
5		Team total	423	425	381	378	337	269	2213
		72	75	64	66	57	54	388
		68	73	71	67	56	57	382
		70	69	63	64	59	51	376
		72	74	66	68	50	44	374
		69	69	61	59	58	35	351
		72	65	66	54	57	28	342
6		Team total	396	391	386	394	329	296	2192
		65	69	68	67	63	53	385
		70	70	70	65	54	46	375
		63	61	61	67	58	59	369
		65	63	60	67	49	58	362
		69	58	63	59	52	51	352
		64	70	64	69	53	29	349
7		Team total	384	385	357	316	282	275	1999
		70	68	59	65	48	47	357
		66	63	62	60	60	38	349
		64	71	65	64	32	53	349
		60	62	59	40	48	56	325
		62	60	56	50	51	35	314
		62	61	56	37	43	46	305
8		Team total	375	359	369	307	279	220	1909
		65	60	63	68	53	43	352
		67	67	64	49	42	44	333
		60	56	59	57	48	46	326
		56	52	58	64	43	36	309
		65	60	62	48	45	27	307
		62	64	63	21	48	24	282

Sources

Book: Cook, Theodore Andrea . 1908 . The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report . British Olympic Association . London.
Web site: De Wael . Herman . 2001 . Shooting 1908 . Herman's Full Olympians . 9 May 2006.

Notes and References

Web site: Shooting at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Military Rifle, 200/500/600/800/900/1,000 Yards, Team . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418125735/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1908/SHO/mens-military-rifle-200-500-600-800-900-1000-yards-team.html . dead . 2020-04-18 . 2014-02-16 . sports-reference.com.
Total scores for the team and for individuals are according to the Official Report. A summation of Merillon's scores at the various distances gives a total of 363 points rather than 376, while Hecht's scores sum to 389 instead of 376. The two discrepancies cancel each other out in the addition of the team total, which comes to 2272 points. The Official Report lists the team total as 2227 points.