A recruit after a course of three months’ training at the depôt should be sufficiently trained to be able to take his place in the ranks of his company, but until he has acquired a thorough knowledge of musketry, and can handle his rifle with skill and confidence under all conditions and in all positions, his daily instruction in musketry will be continued.
The following will be the course:—
(a) Care of arms.
(b) Instruction in aiming.
(c) The firing exercises.
(d) Instruction and practice in judging distance and in improvement of eyesight. A short exercise daily.
(e) Instruction in firing from behind cover, and in snap-shooting.
(f) Instruction in the theory, powers, and mechanism of the rifle and its ammunition.
(g) Course of lectures and examinations on the whole of the above subjects.