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
=3. Concurrent Instruction in Aiming and Firing.=--Aiming instruction
should proceed simultaneously with firing instruction and muscle
exercises to develop speed and facility in handling the rifle and
steadiness in firing it. The following scheme of concurrent instruction
in aiming and firing is suggested for the guidance of instructors, who
may modify it at their discretion:
AIMING FIRING
A. A.
1. Aiming at bull’s-eye target 1. Correct position for firing
with the foresight and standing.
backsight.
2. Explanation of trajectory 2. Practice in loading
and and the need for elevation by unloading in standing position.
sighting.
3. Laying an aim with Legret 3. Adjustment of sights and
Aim-Teacher.[8] standard tests of same.
4. Rules of aiming. 4. Trigger-pressing and
adjustment of sights with
rifle rested.
5. Common faults in aiming
and their results.
6. Aiming at bull’s-eye target
from a rest.
7. Test of aim by triangle of
error.
8. Aiming at figure targets
and at ground.
B. B.
9. Aiming practice (_a_) at 5. Practice in assuming the
bull’s-eye and (_b_) figure targets different firing positions with
with (i) rifle rested, (ii) rifle standard tests of same.
unsupported.[9]
10. Test of aim by aiming-disc. 6. Practice in combining
aiming with trigger-pressing.
11. Aiming and trigger-pressing 7. Practice in muscle exercises
combined, practised with in the standing and lying
eye-disc or aim-corrector. firing positions.
12. Practice in firing at
bull’s-eye target on miniature
range and 30-yards range.
C. C.
13. Explain influence of side 8. Practice kneeling and
wind. sitting firing positions, and
taking cover in these positions.
14. Explain aiming-off for
wind, and wind table for 500
yards. Apply tests in aiming-off
for wind.
15. Explain aiming-off for
movement. Practise same on
miniature range and check
with aim-corrector.
D. D.
16. When accuracy in deliberate 9. Practise firing over and
firing at elementary and round cover in various firing
service targets is assured, explain positions at elementary and
the nature and practical service targets.
value in warfare of snapshooting
and rapid firing.
17. Practise gradually quickening
the aim with aiming-disc,
and on miniature and 30-yard
ranges. Apply grouping and
application tests.
E.
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