Talk:Field gun competition

Intermingling
This article is a horribly confused mix between two different events. The well-known but discontinued Royal Tournament obstacle course and the less spectacular but ongoing Brickhill flat run. These need to be separated into at least different sections, ideally different articles if there is enough material for each.

The Brickhill bits could also do with a somewhat more encylopaedic tone in places.

Would be great to have some pictures, especially of the Royal Tournament version, as it's quite hard to understand the character of the event just from the text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.184.230 (talk) 21:03, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Completely agree FreeFlow99 (talk) 12:39, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Ladysmith irrelevant
The account of Ladysmith is very interesting but completely irrelevant. Naval field gun competitions can be dated back to at least 1885, and in 1896 a team was sent to the Royal Military Tournament. Unless someone can provide a valid reason why all this Ladysmith material should remain, I'll delete it and provide referenced examples of earlier field gun competitions (including a rather nice photo of an 1896 competition in the Mediterranean). &mdash;Simon Harley (Talk | Library). 08:19, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

I think the Ladysmith event is relevant, not as the origin of the competition, but as an example of the original value of the skills developed for dismantling, manhandling, and reassembling such guns. FreeFlow99 (talk) 12:43, 22 March 2020 (UTC)