No. 5.
Object: To teach men to snapshoot.
Rounds: 6 per man.
Targets: 3 per man—300 or 400 yards head and shoulders figures and 400 or 600 yards standing figures.
Directions: A great variety of these practices can be arranged, and men should be encouraged to devise the conditions. Targets must be concealed on the moving and disappearing mechanism Tier A and on Tier B behind cover such as walls, rocks, trees, hedges, bushes, houses, and cottages (see Appendix, Sec. VII, para. 4). Figures will be exposed to represent men firing over cover and round the side of cover. The doors and windows of the larger houses and cottages may be cut out and disappearing figures exposed for short intervals to represent men firing from them as in street fighting. Targets may also be exposed to represent men moving quickly across open spaces between cover such as trees, etc., to represent targets seen in wood fighting.
Men will fire from behind cover, care being taken to see that they watch ground while waiting to fire in correct positions with the minimum of exposure, and that all unnecessary movements in loading and firing are avoided. Men will be trained to aim and fire immediately on the appearance of the target with the minimum of exposure while doing so, and to take cover, load, and resume their watch for targets as quickly as possible after firing. Each target will be exposed twice for 4 seconds. They will be exposed singly in any order at intervals not exceeding 10 seconds, 1 round will be fired on each exposure. They may also be exposed simultaneously to test the judgment of men in the choice of targets.