Instruction of musketry1855 - 1911 pages |
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Page 29 - The eye should be fixed steadfastly on the mark aimed at, and not on the barrel or foresight, which latter will be easily brought into the alignment, if the eye is fixed as directed. IV. — In aiming, the left eye should be closed. Aiming drill is generally taught with a
Page 36 - The red flag is always to be kept up as long as the markers are out of the butt, or any person is in the line of range. Whenever the
Page 25 - ... if he cannot hit the enemy in the field ; this is the object of all training. 50. It has been ascertained by experiment, that if the rifled musket, pattern 1853, be fired with the elevation due to 600 yards at an object 570 yards off, the bullet will strike 2 .38 feet above the mark ; if the musket be fired with the same elevation at the distance of 630 yards, the bullet will strike 2-54 feet below the mark, showing that any error of 30 yards in the appreciation of distance would, at this range,...
Page 25 - ... the distance of the front rank by 100 yards, although such an error would cause him to miss the front rank, he would, if the ground is level, strike the column in its rear. As the soldier, however well trained, cannot always be certain of his distance, it is preferable, when in the field, to give the first shot an elevation rather under than over the correct one ; the shot will then strike the ground before reaching the object, and may possibly hit in its bound, or ricochet, as it is called....
Page 25 - When firing with the 300 yards sight, the bullet will take as much as 70 yards to fall half the height of a man, owing to the trajectory of 300 yards being less incurvated than that of 600 yards. At 800 and 900 yards, the curve being greater than at either of the above-mentioned distances, the same fall would take place in passing over a much shorter distance, consequently the greater the distance the greater the necessity of knowing it accurately. It is for this reason that none but well trained...
Page 29 - That the line of sight should be taken along 'the centre of the notch of the back-sight and the top of the fore-sight, which should cover the middle of the mark aimed at.
Page 25 - Thus, in firing at a column (fig. 12) whose depth is 100 yards, if the soldier over estimates the distance of the front rank by 100 yards, although such an error would cause him to miss the front rank, he would, if the ground is level, strike the column in its rear. As the soldier, however well trained, cannot always be certain of his distance, it is preferable, when in the field, to give the first shot an elevation rather under than over the correct one ; the shot will then strike the ground before...
Page 20 - ... which is fitted a small wooden cup, or plug (vide Plate), which, by the force of the explosion of the charge, acts like a wedge,* and expands and enlarges the lower part of the bullet, making it fit the barrel SECTION OP tightly, and take the rifling, so that THEEOTIELD ° J
Page 25 - ... distance ; but the soldier cannot do this if he is not thoroughly trained to judge distance by the eye. It is of no use his being a good shot at a fixed mark if he cannot hit the enemy in the field ; this is the object of all training. 50. It has been ascertained by experiment, that if the rifled musket, pattern 1853, be fired with the elevation due to 600 yards at an object 570 yards off, the bullet will strike 2 .38 feet above the mark ; if the musket be fired with the same elevation at the...
Page 14 - ... instructors are employed, and time will permit, they may be given more at length. 1. The axis of the piece is an imaginary line along the centre of the barrel A, B, fig. 1, Plate VIII. ' 2. The " line of fire " (B, C) is the continuation of the axis, and the direction in which the bullet would fly, with uniform velocity, were it not impeded by the resistance of the atmosphere and drawn down by the force of gravity. 3. The air is an elastic fluid that resists the bullet and reduces its velocity...