V.-GIIEAT BRITAIN. 



The musketry regulations of 1898 have already been found 

 to need revision on account of the experience gained in South 

 Africa, and the military authorities are still engaged in pre- 

 paring an edition to bear date 1901. The revision not being 

 completed in December, 1901, a "provisional course of mus- 

 ketry for the year 1902" was issued. 



Targets for individual range practice are rectangular with 

 bulPs-eyes surrounded by one ring : First class 6 by 8 feet, 

 bull's-eye 3 feet, ring 5 feet in diameter ; second class 6 by 6 

 feet, bull's-eye 2 feet, ring 4 feet in diameter, and third class 

 4 by 6 feet, bull's-eye 1 foot, ring 2 feet in diameter. For 

 collective firing a sectional target (1 by 8 feet), having on a 

 white ground four rudely outlined silhouettes of men in line 

 kneeling, is used. 



In the musketry regulations a soldier is a "recruit" until 

 he has gone through his recruit course, Table A, when he is 

 called a "trained man." A trained man is said to be "exer- 

 cised" when he has been through the course in Table B. 



A military correspondent in the Times of December 20, 1901, 

 gives the following synopsis of the provisional course for 1902 : 



' ' Table A, recruits, cavalry, and infantry, "consists of four parts, of which 

 the first three count for classification. Part I includes eleven practices at 

 200, 300, and 400 yards, 7 rounds, ' ' independent, " in each practice. The tar- 

 gets for the various distances are as laid down in the 1898 regulations, but 

 in practices Nos. 5 and 8, at 200 and 300 yards, respectively, the position is 

 "sitting," and throughout the eleven practices any kind of natural or arti- 

 ficial rest may be iised by a recruit if found necessary. Parts II and III 

 remain unchanged except for the substitution of the terms ' ' independent " 

 and "magazine independent" for "deliberate" and "rapid individual," 

 and the reduction of the time allowed in "magazine independent" from a 

 minute to forty-five seconds from the command "Commence." Part IV 

 consists of four "independent" practices, the first three at 100, the fourth 

 at 150 yards, one at a vanishing target, one at a fixed head and shoulders, 

 and two at a moving figure. In the practice at the fixed head and .shoul- 

 ders the firer, crouching behind cover, momentarily exposes himself suffi- 

 ciently to fire a rai^id shot, recruits being allowed four seconds for exposure, 

 fire, and complete return to cover from "Commence" or signal. In the 

 above-mentioned practices 168 rounds are expended, leaving 32 for three 

 field practices to be directed by the assistant adjutant and carried out 

 under conditions as practical as possible. The points required for classi- 

 fication as a first-class shot are, as at present, 300 for cavalry and 380 for 

 infantry. 



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