No. 4.
Object: To teach men to fire at ground.
Rounds: 3 per man.
Targets: 1 per man—400 or 600 yards standing figure.
Directions: The figure, must be fixed to clips on either tier behind cover which does not afford protection from fire, such as a bush or hedge. The cover must not conceal more than half the figure when exposed. At first, to render marking down and aim easy, cover may be isolated, such as a bush, but as progress is made it should be continuous. Each figure will be exposed for 3 seconds and then disappeared to represent a man advancing and taking cover. 10 seconds will be allowed for firing 3 shots at the ground line of the spot marked down for the position of the figure behind cover. This practice can also be carried out with the men working in pairs and taking it in turns to fire and to help to observe and mark down. Hits may be checked as follows—on the back of cover immediately in front of the figure an outline in pencil must be drawn of its head and shoulders to represent the figure in the lying position behind cover. The shot-holes will then show whether hits have been scored.
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.