Musketry (.303 and .22 cartridges): Elementary training, visual training, judging distance, fire discipline, range practices, field practices
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Musketry (.303 and .22 cartridges): Elementary training, visual training, judging distance, fire discipline, range practices, field practices
Grenades; Rifles; Shooting, Military
=1.= Soldiers of the cavalry, Royal Engineers, and infantry of the
Regular Forces who complete Table A will be exercised in the whole of
Table B (sappers of the Royal Engineers the prescribed practices only),
with their own companies, if possible, in the same year; but their
scores in Part III. will not be included in the company or battalion
averages. In special cases, which should be exceptional, commanding
officers may direct that backward men shall repeat Part II., Table A,
instead of firing any portion of Table B in the same year.
=2.= If Part II., Table B, has been commenced before they are
available, they will begin firing at any practice which their companies
are executing at the time they become qualified, and will then complete
the remainder of the table. If all the companies in the battalion
have completed Part II., Table B, before they are available, the
brigade commander will decide as to whether they shall be exercised
as casuals.[28] They will be awarded marksmen’s badges if they attain
the necessary standard in Table B. In any case, they will receive
such further practice in firing as may be considered by their company
commanders to be necessary.
Section =64=.--Trained Soldiers’ Course.
=1. Object of Range Practices.=--Range practices are fired by trained
soldiers in order that they may revise their knowledge of elementary
and timed shooting before entering upon more advanced practices.
Soldiers who have missed the whole or a portion of the range practices
and have become available to commence the field practices with their
companies may, if they are known to be good shots, be allowed by their
commanding officers to execute the field practices, and fire the range
practices subsequently.
=2. Programme of Instructional Practices.=--Considerable latitude is
allowed as regards the programme of instructional practices. Officers
commanding companies may vary the number of rounds to be fired by
individuals, or they may alter the order of the practices in Part
II. Officers commanding battalions may, with the approval of general
officers commanding brigades, vary the instructional practices in
any way calculated to further instruction; but it is not permitted
to design practices, or to vary the details of practices in Part
II. with the object of assimilating the conditions to those of the
classification practices.
=3. Uncompleted Practices.=--If a man has fired one or more rounds in
any range practice, and is prevented from completing it, the points
made will not count, and the whole practice will be recommenced when
his training is resumed. _Every soldier not exempted by Musketry
Regulations or by the King’s Regulations will execute the full course
of range and field practices yearly._
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