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
(_c_) The firing positions will be any that are suited to the ground or
conditions of the scheme.
(_d_) Some practice should be given in snapshooting in the standing
position during rapid advances at short range.
(ii) =Practices on Classification Ranges.=--If it is absolutely
necessary to use classification ranges (see Sec. 66), the practices
should be performed on a flank, if the extent of the danger area will
permit. In this case, or if the actual range is used, the ground should
be broken by means of screens, earth parapets, brushwood, or any other
suitable contrivance, with a view to introducing some realism and
uncertainty as to distances.
(iii) =Allotment of Ammunition.=--The allotments of ammunition to
individual and collective field practices respectively may be varied as
general officers commanding may decide, but the total amount allotted
to field practices is to be fired in field practices, even if a
classification range only is available. Due safety precautions must be
taken (see _Musketry Regulations_, Part II.).
(iv) =Registers and Records.=--Company commanders will keep registers
of all collective practices fired. Ricochets will not be included in
the figures recording results of standard or comparative firing. They
will be shown separately from other hits in the registers.
=2. Individual Field Practices.=--(i) The distances should not exceed
600 yards. Training should be progressive in regard to targets,
distances, and all other respects. _It is essential to give firers full
information as to the object of the practice, and to criticize freely
the good and bad points of their shooting_ [Sec. 54, para. 2 (iv)].
(ii) The firers should be formed into small squads, but there should
be no fire control, nor any orders except such as may be necessary to
regulate fire and movement in the interest of safety and to insure that
the objects of the training are fully carried out.
(iii) Practice will be afforded in acting promptly against targets
appearing suddenly and disappearing after a short period of exposure.
The value of every shot will be ascertained by markers, and notified to
the firer. The men will as a rule fire alternately, working in pairs
for mutual assistance. When a successful shot is observed, the correct
sighting as found will be immediately notified by the firer to the
remainder of the squad.
(iv) Any preliminary information as to the ground and results of
range-finding at long range which might be available on service should
be given in the later practices in order to combine all methods of
ranging.
=3. Collective Field Practices.=--(_a_) Collective field practices, if
ground is available, should be fired almost entirely at longer ranges.
When ground is not available for firing at ranges beyond 600 yards,
practice in collective firing is necessarily conducted at shorter
ranges, but such practice must be supplemented by fire-direction
practices without ammunition at longer ranges.
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