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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 333 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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nickel. N.G.=Nitro-glycerine. See also:hand to execute the See also:fire-director's orders. Within decisive ranges fire-direction has to give See also:place to fire-See also:control. All that the strongest See also:commander can enforce is the opening and ceasing of fire when he gives the See also:order, and success is sought through making the individual soldier skilful at rapid and snap See also:shooting. See also:Black See also:bull's-eyes on See also:white targets are now used only to See also:teach men to make uniformly See also:good shooting, which is shown by the closeness of the shot-grouping. The See also:rest of the musketry course is fired against See also:grey-See also:green " See also:head and shoulders " targets or See also:brown silhouettes, and consists of slow, rapid and snap shooting, from behind See also:cover, at disappearing or See also:running targets, &c. In 1909 See also:special See also:attention began to be paid to visual training, both as an aid to judging distance and as an actual ingredient of fire-discipline. A method of indicating targets which originated in the See also:French See also:army was adopted and improved upon, consisting essentially of giving two or three conspicuous " See also:auxiliary marks," in See also:artillery See also:language, and naming the See also:target with reference to them. Judging distance is generally associated with fire-discipline practices, and men are frequently exercised in locating and ranging upon a hidden skirmisher, 300-800 yds. away. Perhaps the most important modification of musketry training, within See also:recent years, has been the See also:adoption of rapid fire in " bursts," as the normal See also:procedure for See also:infantry, instead of slow continuous fire. The See also:complete cessation of fire at intervals enables the leaders to ehSerrve the MILITARY-See also:MAGAZINE.

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