(i) Practices.—(a) Grouping. (b) Application. (c) Snap-shooting. (d) Rapid Firing.
(ii) Stages of Instruction.—The above practices are arranged in a series of tables for recruits and trained soldiers, demanding a gradually increasing degree of skill on the part of the firer, and are divided into the following stages of instruction:
(a) Qualifying Practices. (b) Instructional Practices. (c) Classification Practices.
4. Field Practices.—Individual and collective field practices are dealt with in this chapter and in Chapters VIII and X. The general programme of field practice should be arranged as follows:
(i) Individual field practices.
(ii) Fire direction practices.
(iii) Collective field practices, divided into—
(a) Exercises for sections and platoons in fire direction and application of collective fire.
(b) Standard tests of collective grouping and fire effect.
(c) Comparative demonstrations of fire effect and vulnerability.
(d) Exercises for companies designed to reproduce service conditions as far as possible, and to illustrate tactical principles.
(iv) Combined field firing (see Musketry Regulations).