+-------------+----------------+-----------------+------------------+ |Terms applied| Rifle. | Field Artillery.| Heavy Batteries. | | to Ranges. | | | | +-------------+----------------+-----------------+------------------+ | | Yards. | Yards. | Yards. | | Distant | 2,800 to 2,000 | 6,500 to 5,000 | 10,000 to 6,500 | | Long | 2,000 to 1,400 | 5,000 to 4,000 | 6,500 to 5,000 | | Effective | 1,400 to 600 | 4,000 to 2,500 | 5,000 to 2,500 | | Close | 600 and under | 2,500 and under | 2,500 and under | +-------------+----------------+-----------------+------------------+ =Recruit (Musketry).=--A man who has not completed Table A (the recruit’s course of musketry). =Sector.=--A portion of frontage allotted to a fire-unit for the purposes of observation and fire action. =Snapshooting.=--Firing the most accurate possible shot in the shortest possible time. =Superiority of Fire.=--The means of pouring a more destructive fire into the enemy than he can bring to bear on you. Under ordinary conditions a necessity prior to the bayonet charge. =Target, Crossing.=--A target moving across the front of the firer obliquely or at right angles. =Target, Service.=--The various targets of battle. =Trained Soldier (Musketry).=--A man who has completed Table A (the recruit’s course of musketry). =Trajectory.=--The curved line a bullet or other projectile follows in its flight. This is dependent on the explosion of the charge which drives the bullet forward, gravity which draws the bullet towards the earth, and the resistance of the air which retards the velocity of the bullet (Fig. 2). II. MILITARY VOCABULARY FOR INDICATION AND RECOGNITION OF TARGETS. =Arable Land.=--Ground under cultivation other than pasture or grass land. =Brook.=--A small stream. =Causeway.=--A made road or path, raised by artificial means above the level of the surrounding country. =Clearing.=--Where trees and undergrowth have been cut down in a wood, so as to make an open space. =Cliff.=--A high, steep rock. =Col.=--A gap or break in a ridge of hills, often traversed by a road, which thus avoids to a great extent the ascent and descent otherwise necessary in passing from one side of the ridge to the other. This term is also used to describe the narrow ridge often seen joining a hill to a main chain of hills. =Copse (or Coppice).=--A small wood, composed of young trees and undergrowth for cutting. =Crest-Line.=--Where the top of a hill or mountain appears to meet the sky. =Cross-Roads.=--The point where one road crosses another. =Culvert.=--A watercourse arched over with brickwork or masonry, generally under a road or railway.