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
4. =Scenic Accessories=.--The details of a landscape can be arranged
on the target by placing the various scenic accessories, consisting of
colour-printed representations of various natural and other features,
mounted on stiff card, in any desired position on either tier by fixing
them in grooves made for this purpose either behind targets or in front
to represent cover. The scenic accessories are coloured and scaled for
different ranges, the range being printed on each. They may be used to
represent the following features:
_Wooded hills._
_Flat-topped hills or kopjes._
_Conical hills._
_Woods._
_Fir-wood._
_Group of houses with church._
_Group of cottages._
_House._
_Cottage._
_Oak-tree._
_Elm-tree._
_Fir-tree._
_Palm-tree._
_Hedgerow._
_Thick hedge or bush._
_Bushes._
_Stone wall._
_Undergrowth._
_Folds of ground._
_Low banks._
_Indian hill fort._
_Sangar._
_Rocks._
5. =Solano Figures.=--The Solano figures are all scaled to size for
various distances, and consist of the following brown, grey, or
colour-printed figures. Each figure is provided with a base equal in
depth to the clips which hold them in position.
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
| Reference | Description. | Distance |
| Number. | | (Yards). |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
| 42 | Infantryman in kneeling position | 200 |
| 1 | ” ” standing position | 400 |
| 2 | ” ” prone position or firing from open | |
| | trench | 400 |
| 3 | ” firing from behind sand-bag | 400 |
| 4 | ” ” ” loophole in head cover | 400 |
| 5 | ” in standing position | 600 |
| 6 | ” ” ” ” | 800 |
| 7 | ” ” kneeling position | 800 |
| 8 | ” ” lying position | 800 |
| 9 | Mounted cavalryman | 800 |
| 19 | Machine-gun in action | 800 |
| 25 | Infantry line in extended order | 1,000 |
| 26 | ” ” ” ” | 1,200 |
| 27 | ” ” ” ” | 1,400 |
| 29 | Machine-gun in action | 1,400 |
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