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
(iii) No person, except the officer or non-commissioned officer in
charge, or the marker, is to pass from the firing-point up to the
target during practice. Should it be necessary to stop firing, the same
precautions are to be taken as at rifle practice.
(iv) Every possible precaution must be taken to avoid accidents, the
strictest order and discipline being maintained at the firing-point.
When practice takes place on a classification range, the same orders
for safety, etc., are to be observed as when service ammunition is used.
(v) In practices combining firing and movement, the non-commissioned
officer in charge of the range will examine the rifles to see that they
are not loaded before movement is commenced.
Section =71=.--Targets.
=1. Standard Equipment.=--(i) The various targets of the standard
equipment to be used for miniature range instruction are described in
Appendix, VII, the information in which must be carefully noted. It is
important to avoid confusing the Solano Target when used with scenery,
etc., as shown in Figs. 55 and 56, with various Landscape targets when
fixed to the Solano Target for instruction as in Fig. 57. The points of
difference between the Solano and Landscape targets mentioned in the
following paragraphs must also be noted.
(ii) The scenery, scenic accessories, and Solano figures of the Solano
Target are all correctly drawn to scale for 25 yards, and at that
distance give correct impressions of what they represent. Landscape
targets are not all drawn to scale for 25 yards, _but they must always
be used at this distance when possible_.
(iii) On the Solano Target the various features of the scenery,
including background and details, as well as the position of troops,
can be altered quickly to any extent. The features of landscape targets
cannot be altered, therefore they should be changed frequently, as they
lose their value when their features become well known.
(iv) In firing at the Solano Target when fitted with scenery, the
bullets _strike the objective aimed at_. In firing at landscape targets
rifles must be given elevation so that bullets _strike a screen above
the landscape_, not the objective aimed at (Fig. 58).
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