No. 3.
Object: To test men’s intelligence and marksmanship.
Rounds: 10 per man.
Targets: 3 Figure 6 targets concealed behind a short length of wall (built of sandbags on the marker’s gallery), or represented by a specially prepared screen, which is understood to be bullet-proof. One of the targets (representing a man observing) looks round one end of the wall for 10 seconds, and if not fired at moves in quick time along the gallery, followed by the other two targets at 3 paces interval.
On the first shot being fired, all targets move at the double towards the nearest cover (either the wall or the end of the gallery). Any targets which are still under cover when fire is opened do not appear.
Targets to be twirled and lowered when hit.
Distance: Known—400 yards.
Method: 2 men with rifles loaded are concealed behind cover on the 400 yards’ firing-point, and are told the following:
“You are a patrol; before reaching this point you saw an enemy’s patrol of 3 men move behind the wall on the marker’s gallery; you have crept up here unseen by them.
“None of your troops are within a mile of you, and it is unlikely that the enemy’s patrol is closely supported.
“Your object is to try to shoot all the enemy’s patrol. The marker’s gallery represents flat ground, with cover at each end of it.”