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Mick, thanks for the reminder re Stoney Castle. My memory is crap 
as Adam says we are going to have to get our act together next year and set up our own SMLE Extravaganza. Its a really enjoyable series of competitions!
Dave, you have seen this smellie before, i just have`nt used it much lately due to buying and using some prettier "ladies"
Robert there is a definite likeness in our stances, as for your "bunnett", its does suit you, personally anything i wear never looks right
must be the shape of my "heed"
BTW nice looking "03" i am toying with the idea of getting one myself, as i just got a copy of The Springfield 1903 Rifles by Lt. Col. W. S. Brophy as a surprise Xmas pressie.
Joe
as Adam says we are going to have to get our act together next year and set up our own SMLE Extravaganza. Its a really enjoyable series of competitions!
Dave, you have seen this smellie before, i just have`nt used it much lately due to buying and using some prettier "ladies"
Robert there is a definite likeness in our stances, as for your "bunnett", its does suit you, personally anything i wear never looks right
must be the shape of my "heed" BTW nice looking "03" i am toying with the idea of getting one myself, as i just got a copy of The Springfield 1903 Rifles by Lt. Col. W. S. Brophy as a surprise Xmas pressie.
Joe
I don't know if this will work, if it does, one or two of the pictures will appear in twoparts as they are too large for my scanner and I haven't worked out how to stitch them together.
If it works - Enjoy!
Tom
Text from "Musketry Regulations 1905"
14. TARGETS AND APPLIANCES.
196. All targets (including those for aiming and drill pur-poses), apparatus, and range stores, the issue of which is con-templated by regulations, will be supplied through the Royal Engineers.
197. The General Officer Commanding will inform the Sub--District Commanding Royal Engineer of the apparatus and the number and class of targets with which a range is to be equipped. All targets. telephones, and other moveable WD. stores will be handed over to the senior range warden, who will he responsible for their issue.
198. Units using rifle ranges will receive from and return to the range warden daily all targets and other moveable stores required for tiring.
199. The senior range warden will keep a record of all damage or loss in order that the cost may be charged to individuals or corps responsible. Fair wear and tear is excepted.
THE FIRING AND AIMING RESTS.
200. The firing rest (Plate 1), is used in early training in firing exercises, the recruit thus supporting his rifle, whilst the in-structor corrects his position without causing him undue fatigue It is employed in the early practices of the recruits’ course; and also in testing aim, to enable the recruit to rest his rifle when the instructor is checking the alignment of sights by means of the aim corrector, or when snapping at the instructor's eye.
201. To use the aiming rest (Plate 2), place the rifle in the spring clips of the moveable arm, screw up the top lever until it causes the moveable arm to be gripped sufficiently tightly to hold the rifle steadily, but not so tightly that the elevation cannot be easily adjusted from the butt of the rifle without touching the clamping screw. Next screw up the bottom lever hand tight. Aiming practices can then be carried out without further adjustment of the levers.
In the event of the bottom screw lever becoming jammed it may be released by turning the rifle in the direction opposite to that taken by the hands of a clock.
Both screw levers should be slackened when the rest is done with for the day,
AIM CORRECTOR.
202. The aim corrector consists of a small steel box, which is provided with two cross grooves for the insertion of a piece of smoked glass.
The box is attached to, and slides on a stem, and is secured to the rifle by means of a spring clip passing over the hand-guard.
It may be employed on either side of the rifle. Plate No. 3 shows the method of adjusting the clip and the glass.
The aim corrector is used for the instruction of recruits, and of bad and indifferent shots, and enables the instructor, who may stand or lie on either side of the firer, to see in the glass the image of the sights and targets at the moment of firing. He can thus, without interfering with the soldier’s aim, follow the movements of the rifle and note the alignment of the sights when the trigger is pressed. It must be remembered, however, that if the aim appears in the glass to be to the right of the point aimed at, it is in reality to the left and vice versâ
TARGETS FOR AIMING PRACTICES.
203. Plate 4 is constructed of light boarding, strengthened with battens, and provided with two iron spikes.
This target, when not painted, is suitable for long range collective firing. Dimensions are shown on Plate 5.
204. Plate 6, is a convenient form of target for use in more advanced exercises in developing the eyesight and aiming. It consists of strips of canvas, the upper and lower ends of which are sewn to ropes. It can be easily carried, and placed in position by tying one end of tile upper rope to a suitable object, whilst the other end is passed through a pulley fixed to a post driven in the ground. The lower rope is drawn tight at both ends. To raise or lower the targets, tile loose end of the upper rope is pulled or released. Two or more rows of these targets can be worked by one fatigue-man.
205. Plates 11 and 12 are also suitable for practices in aiming and development of eyesight. They are described in para. 214.
TARGETS FOR 30 YARDS’ RANGES.
206. Figure 1, Plate 7, shows the bulls-eye target for use on the
30 yards’ range, and represents the 3rd class bulls-eye target as seen at 200 yards. It is mounted on a piece of stiff cardboard 1/8-inch thick, measuring 15 in. by 7 1/2 in., in order to provide an easy means of fixing in the wire carriers.
207. Plate 8, gives the details of disappearing figures made in sets of four, each mounted on a board measuring 4’ 10” x 9” x 1 1/2”, and held in its place by three pins passing through eyes in iron straps concreted into tile ground. These figures are of card-board 3/16 to ¼ inch thick, and are hinged to the crossbar by ordinary screw staples and a 4-inch wire nail. They are worked from the firing point by two pieces of ordinary twine. By pulling the string fastened to the rear lever all four figures are raised. When the string is released the back lever will fall, but the figures remain up until struck by a bullet or lowered by pulling the second string, which raises the front lever.
Spare figures, with staples screwed into them, should be kept on the range to replace such as are broken. The apparatus should be removed under cover on completion of firing for the day.
208. Crossing Target. — This consists of small wooden carriers fixed on two telegraph wires stretched across the range. The carriers, which are spaced 6 feet apart from centre to centre, and are tied together with string or wire, take the legs of small figure targets, cut out of stiff cardboard, inch thick, Plate 9. A cord runs from each of the outside carriers round a pulley to the firing point, so that the figures can be drawn backwards and forwards.
Fig. 2, Plate 7, represents a target for use in the earliest practices at objects crossing the line of fire. It consists of a piece of cardboard or Willesden paper, 9 inches square, to which is pasted a bulls eye target paper. It is mounted and worked in the same manner as the figure target.
209. Long Range Sight Targets. — These consist of a light wooden frame made of 3” x 3/4“ deal battens, clamped at the corners with short pieces of the same material fastened, with 1 ¾ -inch wire nails. The upper portion of the frame is covered with canvas or Willesden paper, and white paper. The bottom bar of the frame has a strip of white paper pasted over it, in the centre of which is a black bulls-eye. Wooden sockets are pro-vided on the bank of the range for the lower portion of the frame, which is also held in position by wooden struts.
TARGETS FOR CLASSIFICATION RANGES.
210. Bulls-eye targets are of three classes:
.........................................1 st Class............2nd Class...............3rd Class.
Size of target......................6 x 8 feet.............6 x 6feet.................4x 4feet
Diameter of bulls-eye..............3 feet..................2 feet.....................1 foot
Inner ... ... ... .........................5 ,,.....................4 ,,......................2 ,,
Outer ... ... ... ........................................Remainder of target.
211. Figure targets are of two classes (see Plate 10).
212. The 3rd class figure target will be prepared for certain snap shooting practices by drawing lines from the bottom of the target to the lower edge of the upper baud, so as to form a rectangle 2 feet 5 inches high by 2 feet wide.
213. For use with Jeffries’ apparatus the frames should consist of 4 1/2” x 1 1/2” deal, the sides of which are prolonged 2 3/4 feet, so as to fit into the iron carriers. Triangular pieces of elm, 4 inch thick, cut out of 11-inch planks, should be nailed and clenched at the four corner-s to stiffen the frame, which is covered with canvas stretched and fastened with 3/4 - inch flat-headed tacks.
214. Plates 11 and 12 show targets for snap shooting practices. They are of boarding inch thick, on the end of an 8-foot pole or 8’ 0” x 2” x 14” deal batten, so that they can easily be shown above the gallery.
215. Plate 13, Fig. No. 5, is of similar construction, painted both sides, and represents a man crossing the front. -
TARGETS FOR FIELD PRACTICES.
216. To obtain the best instruction from elementary field practices each individual should be given a separate target and should he informed of the results of each shot. The appearance of the targets should also contain an element of surprise.
These conditions can best be satisfied by means of penetrable targets as in Plates 14, 15 and 16, worked by markers in shelters, who can readily observe and mark hits on from four to eight targets, set up at from 5 to 10 yards in front of them.
217. Plate 14 consists of a black head and shoulder figure on a white background measuring 3’ 6” x 3’ 6”, and is for use in Nos. 1 and 2 individual field practices. A hit on the figure is indicated by lowering and then raising the target by means of a cord. Hits on the white are shown by the markers by means of a small disc on a light pole. It is made of 3” x 3/4" deal battens, clamped at the corners with pieces of the same material, covered with canvas and paper in the same way as the bulls-eye targets. The pivoted type, Fig. 3, Plate 15, works well with only one cord, and is practically independent of wind. Plates 14 and 16 require two strings to insure steady working in a wind, i.e., one to pull the target up and another to lower it, but are easier to set up.
218. Figs. 1 and 2, Plate 15, and Figs. 2 and 3, Plate 17, are suitable for more advanced field practices, and can be used to represent aim enemy appearing from behind cover, advancing or retreating. The method employed in the latter case is to set up lines of the full-length figures at different distances. To represent an advancing enemy, the line furthest from the firers is raised, either simultaneously or man by man, for time that would be taken to advance to the next position; after an interval the procedure is then repeated with the next line and so on. For a retreating enemy, the action is reversed. These figures can, in dry weather, be manipulated at a distance of as much as 350 yards from the shelter, but it is not possible to observe the hits at a greater distance than 10 or 12 yards. When several lines are used to represent an enemy appear-ing from behind cover, unless they are placed in echelon, the legs of those at short ranges obscure partially the view of those at longer distances.
219. Targets which fall automatically when struck by a bullet afford interest to the men, but their defects are that (i) They do not come as a surprise. (ii) Considerable time is occupied between the practices in setting up figures which have fallen. (iii) They are unreliable. Of these, the best and most reliable is time iron target, Plate 18.
220. Plate 19 shows a form of sledge, to carry targets represent-ing bodies of men in motion. It is made of two strips of corrugated iron, each 10 feet long, bent up at the ends so as to ride over any unevenness of the ground, and joined together with light deal scan things, which also serve as sockets to carry time targets. It is drawn by means of 4-inch flexible wire rope by a horse or by six men working a winding drum; 400 yards is a convenient length of run, and over rough or undulating ground it gives realistic effect.
If it works - Enjoy!
Tom
Text from "Musketry Regulations 1905"
14. TARGETS AND APPLIANCES.
196. All targets (including those for aiming and drill pur-poses), apparatus, and range stores, the issue of which is con-templated by regulations, will be supplied through the Royal Engineers.
197. The General Officer Commanding will inform the Sub--District Commanding Royal Engineer of the apparatus and the number and class of targets with which a range is to be equipped. All targets. telephones, and other moveable WD. stores will be handed over to the senior range warden, who will he responsible for their issue.
198. Units using rifle ranges will receive from and return to the range warden daily all targets and other moveable stores required for tiring.
199. The senior range warden will keep a record of all damage or loss in order that the cost may be charged to individuals or corps responsible. Fair wear and tear is excepted.
THE FIRING AND AIMING RESTS.
200. The firing rest (Plate 1), is used in early training in firing exercises, the recruit thus supporting his rifle, whilst the in-structor corrects his position without causing him undue fatigue It is employed in the early practices of the recruits’ course; and also in testing aim, to enable the recruit to rest his rifle when the instructor is checking the alignment of sights by means of the aim corrector, or when snapping at the instructor's eye.
201. To use the aiming rest (Plate 2), place the rifle in the spring clips of the moveable arm, screw up the top lever until it causes the moveable arm to be gripped sufficiently tightly to hold the rifle steadily, but not so tightly that the elevation cannot be easily adjusted from the butt of the rifle without touching the clamping screw. Next screw up the bottom lever hand tight. Aiming practices can then be carried out without further adjustment of the levers.
In the event of the bottom screw lever becoming jammed it may be released by turning the rifle in the direction opposite to that taken by the hands of a clock.
Both screw levers should be slackened when the rest is done with for the day,
AIM CORRECTOR.
202. The aim corrector consists of a small steel box, which is provided with two cross grooves for the insertion of a piece of smoked glass.
The box is attached to, and slides on a stem, and is secured to the rifle by means of a spring clip passing over the hand-guard.
It may be employed on either side of the rifle. Plate No. 3 shows the method of adjusting the clip and the glass.
The aim corrector is used for the instruction of recruits, and of bad and indifferent shots, and enables the instructor, who may stand or lie on either side of the firer, to see in the glass the image of the sights and targets at the moment of firing. He can thus, without interfering with the soldier’s aim, follow the movements of the rifle and note the alignment of the sights when the trigger is pressed. It must be remembered, however, that if the aim appears in the glass to be to the right of the point aimed at, it is in reality to the left and vice versâ
TARGETS FOR AIMING PRACTICES.
203. Plate 4 is constructed of light boarding, strengthened with battens, and provided with two iron spikes.
This target, when not painted, is suitable for long range collective firing. Dimensions are shown on Plate 5.
204. Plate 6, is a convenient form of target for use in more advanced exercises in developing the eyesight and aiming. It consists of strips of canvas, the upper and lower ends of which are sewn to ropes. It can be easily carried, and placed in position by tying one end of tile upper rope to a suitable object, whilst the other end is passed through a pulley fixed to a post driven in the ground. The lower rope is drawn tight at both ends. To raise or lower the targets, tile loose end of the upper rope is pulled or released. Two or more rows of these targets can be worked by one fatigue-man.
205. Plates 11 and 12 are also suitable for practices in aiming and development of eyesight. They are described in para. 214.
TARGETS FOR 30 YARDS’ RANGES.
206. Figure 1, Plate 7, shows the bulls-eye target for use on the
30 yards’ range, and represents the 3rd class bulls-eye target as seen at 200 yards. It is mounted on a piece of stiff cardboard 1/8-inch thick, measuring 15 in. by 7 1/2 in., in order to provide an easy means of fixing in the wire carriers.
207. Plate 8, gives the details of disappearing figures made in sets of four, each mounted on a board measuring 4’ 10” x 9” x 1 1/2”, and held in its place by three pins passing through eyes in iron straps concreted into tile ground. These figures are of card-board 3/16 to ¼ inch thick, and are hinged to the crossbar by ordinary screw staples and a 4-inch wire nail. They are worked from the firing point by two pieces of ordinary twine. By pulling the string fastened to the rear lever all four figures are raised. When the string is released the back lever will fall, but the figures remain up until struck by a bullet or lowered by pulling the second string, which raises the front lever.
Spare figures, with staples screwed into them, should be kept on the range to replace such as are broken. The apparatus should be removed under cover on completion of firing for the day.
208. Crossing Target. — This consists of small wooden carriers fixed on two telegraph wires stretched across the range. The carriers, which are spaced 6 feet apart from centre to centre, and are tied together with string or wire, take the legs of small figure targets, cut out of stiff cardboard, inch thick, Plate 9. A cord runs from each of the outside carriers round a pulley to the firing point, so that the figures can be drawn backwards and forwards.
Fig. 2, Plate 7, represents a target for use in the earliest practices at objects crossing the line of fire. It consists of a piece of cardboard or Willesden paper, 9 inches square, to which is pasted a bulls eye target paper. It is mounted and worked in the same manner as the figure target.
209. Long Range Sight Targets. — These consist of a light wooden frame made of 3” x 3/4“ deal battens, clamped at the corners with short pieces of the same material fastened, with 1 ¾ -inch wire nails. The upper portion of the frame is covered with canvas or Willesden paper, and white paper. The bottom bar of the frame has a strip of white paper pasted over it, in the centre of which is a black bulls-eye. Wooden sockets are pro-vided on the bank of the range for the lower portion of the frame, which is also held in position by wooden struts.
TARGETS FOR CLASSIFICATION RANGES.
210. Bulls-eye targets are of three classes:
.........................................1 st Class............2nd Class...............3rd Class.
Size of target......................6 x 8 feet.............6 x 6feet.................4x 4feet
Diameter of bulls-eye..............3 feet..................2 feet.....................1 foot
Inner ... ... ... .........................5 ,,.....................4 ,,......................2 ,,
Outer ... ... ... ........................................Remainder of target.
211. Figure targets are of two classes (see Plate 10).
212. The 3rd class figure target will be prepared for certain snap shooting practices by drawing lines from the bottom of the target to the lower edge of the upper baud, so as to form a rectangle 2 feet 5 inches high by 2 feet wide.
213. For use with Jeffries’ apparatus the frames should consist of 4 1/2” x 1 1/2” deal, the sides of which are prolonged 2 3/4 feet, so as to fit into the iron carriers. Triangular pieces of elm, 4 inch thick, cut out of 11-inch planks, should be nailed and clenched at the four corner-s to stiffen the frame, which is covered with canvas stretched and fastened with 3/4 - inch flat-headed tacks.
214. Plates 11 and 12 show targets for snap shooting practices. They are of boarding inch thick, on the end of an 8-foot pole or 8’ 0” x 2” x 14” deal batten, so that they can easily be shown above the gallery.
215. Plate 13, Fig. No. 5, is of similar construction, painted both sides, and represents a man crossing the front. -
TARGETS FOR FIELD PRACTICES.
216. To obtain the best instruction from elementary field practices each individual should be given a separate target and should he informed of the results of each shot. The appearance of the targets should also contain an element of surprise.
These conditions can best be satisfied by means of penetrable targets as in Plates 14, 15 and 16, worked by markers in shelters, who can readily observe and mark hits on from four to eight targets, set up at from 5 to 10 yards in front of them.
217. Plate 14 consists of a black head and shoulder figure on a white background measuring 3’ 6” x 3’ 6”, and is for use in Nos. 1 and 2 individual field practices. A hit on the figure is indicated by lowering and then raising the target by means of a cord. Hits on the white are shown by the markers by means of a small disc on a light pole. It is made of 3” x 3/4" deal battens, clamped at the corners with pieces of the same material, covered with canvas and paper in the same way as the bulls-eye targets. The pivoted type, Fig. 3, Plate 15, works well with only one cord, and is practically independent of wind. Plates 14 and 16 require two strings to insure steady working in a wind, i.e., one to pull the target up and another to lower it, but are easier to set up.
218. Figs. 1 and 2, Plate 15, and Figs. 2 and 3, Plate 17, are suitable for more advanced field practices, and can be used to represent aim enemy appearing from behind cover, advancing or retreating. The method employed in the latter case is to set up lines of the full-length figures at different distances. To represent an advancing enemy, the line furthest from the firers is raised, either simultaneously or man by man, for time that would be taken to advance to the next position; after an interval the procedure is then repeated with the next line and so on. For a retreating enemy, the action is reversed. These figures can, in dry weather, be manipulated at a distance of as much as 350 yards from the shelter, but it is not possible to observe the hits at a greater distance than 10 or 12 yards. When several lines are used to represent an enemy appear-ing from behind cover, unless they are placed in echelon, the legs of those at short ranges obscure partially the view of those at longer distances.
219. Targets which fall automatically when struck by a bullet afford interest to the men, but their defects are that (i) They do not come as a surprise. (ii) Considerable time is occupied between the practices in setting up figures which have fallen. (iii) They are unreliable. Of these, the best and most reliable is time iron target, Plate 18.
220. Plate 19 shows a form of sledge, to carry targets represent-ing bodies of men in motion. It is made of two strips of corrugated iron, each 10 feet long, bent up at the ends so as to ride over any unevenness of the ground, and joined together with light deal scan things, which also serve as sockets to carry time targets. It is drawn by means of 4-inch flexible wire rope by a horse or by six men working a winding drum; 400 yards is a convenient length of run, and over rough or undulating ground it gives realistic effect.
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Musketry Regs. 1905 - Targets
The pics have been deleted from my previous post - here are the smaller ones, in batches.
The larger ones will have to wait until I can work out how to resize them and I stop sneezing.
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The larger ones will have to wait until I can work out how to resize them and I stop sneezing.
Deleted - still too big
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Musketry Regs. 1905 - Targets
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Musketry Regs. 1905 - Targets
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falling plates
Of all the shooting I did with the SLR, I used to like the falling plates the best. We used to shoot against others in teams of four, two teams at a time. First with all the plates down wins. It was not unknown, if the backstop was dry and dusty, for a couple of rounds to be fired in front of the other team's plates to obscure them in a cloud of dust while the other members of your team got on with knocking down your plates. Was that cheating or gamesmanship? Whatever it was, it was good fun.
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Peter.
Regards
Peter.
