This 1917 manual of musketry training is designed to instruct all infantry ranks in the use and care of their rifles, even under the gruelling battle conditions of the western front in the fourth year of the Great War. It is also aimed at instructing Commanding officers to make the best use of their men s firepower under all conditions. There are chapters on the care and maintenance of arms; on visual training and distance judging; fire discipline and range firing; and section, platoon and company training.

Published in 1857, at the time of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, this is the official manual on musketry training and tactics used in British infantry units. The book includes sections on the duties of musketry instructors; drill; and the manufacture of cartridges (this latter section is particularly interesting in that it specifies that the paper cartridges should be greased in a mixture of tallow candle wax and bees' wax; rather than the animal fats, rumours of which offended Hindu and Muslim sepoys alike, and were a major contributing cause of the Mutiny). There are chapters on file and volley firing; skirmishing; target practice and judging distance. With well executed drawings and diagrams.

Excerpt from Musketry (303 and 22 Cartridges): Elementary Training, Visual Training, Judging Distance, Fire Discipline, Range Practices, Field Practices Scope of Instruction - The scope of instruction in the book is practically identical with that laid down in M usketry Regu lations. It contains the conditions of the individual and collective field practices recently laid down for the training of the new armies on classification ranges. It also includes directions for carrying out a complete course of musketry instruction on miniature ranges with the aid of the Standard Target Equipment adopted for this purpose.* This in struction includes elementary training, and leads up by progressive stages to Visual training, fire discipline, fire direction and control, and a variety of individual and collee tive field practices which can be fired under conditions approximating as closely as possible to those of service. Acknowledgment - The Editor desires to express his thanks and acknowledgments to the Military Authorities and to His Majesty's Stationery Office for permission to reproduce illustrations and extracts from the M usketry Regulations and other ofiicial manuals. It is intended to keep each edition of this book abreast of the latest develop ments in the science with which it deals, and the changes made from time to time in the Official training manuals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.