I've only fired my SMLE (iron sights only, although they are aperture sights, not the original open version) at 1000 yards once; at the time I was suffering from a neck injury so I was unable to keep firing long enough to correct for azimuth, although the marker said I had got the elevation right.
A month later, at 600 yards, after a few sighting shots I was consistently hitting the v-bull, despite a strong crosswind.
In my original post I did not say the smle was more accurate than the Mauser- rather that its initial lesser accuracy (in its earlier form of the CLLE variant used in the Boer War) was corrected; the Lee bolt system is not less inherently accurate than the Mauser. Of the two actions, if I was going hunting I would probably take something with a Mauser action, not least for the better ammunition available- but if I was going to war I would take the smle.
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