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THE OUTPOST, J05 Sergea nt.Major H . C.WE , 15th (Service) Battalion, The Highland Ligh L lnfan try, Scrgcan t·iVlajor 3. T.\ YI.CJI( , 16th (Service) Batta lion, The Highland Light Infantry , .. "" .. , REGIMENTAL SERGEANT.MAJORS, = 117th INFANTRY BRIGADE. = , , . (') . , . 'ergean t-:\1ajor J. K ELl.Y, I 7lh ( 'crvice) B attalion, 1'h Highla nd Lighl In ~lllt ry. Sergean t·Major J. Bu R HE LL, 15th (Service) Ba ttalion, The Royal Scols.
106 THE OUTPOST. The New Musketry Tables. IT may be safely affirmed that these tests of marksmanship present no insuperable difficulty to any man who has earnestly bent his mind to the instruction he has already received, and who has attained a fairly good standard of proficiency in Miniature Shooting and other preliminary work. Every soldier must go to the rifle-range with firm detemlination to do his best, and he must never lose his confidence and self-reliance. He should get to know his own rifle, and study its little ways as to any slight variations, say in trigger-release, elevation, or side-throw. It certainly happens very occasionally that a rifle shoots inaccurately through some faulty fitting or adjustment of the fore end, bands, barrel, bolt, or sights, but the chance of a soldier getting such a fau1ty weapon is very remote indeed. Every man must, therefore, strive to acquire confidence in his rifle as in himself. \Vhen firing he must not get flurried or excited, but quietly note the result of each round he fires, and calculate what alteration may be requisite to ensure an improvement in his next shot. On the range, it must always be remembered that powerful and potentially dangerous weapons are being used, and every man must go about his work in a cool and self-possessed manner, observing every precaution according to the Range Regulations. The newspapers often contain notices of the results of silly fooling with loaded amlS, and it is to be-sincerely hoped that no accidents of fuis kind will ever stain the records of the 17th H.L.I. The study of the changes in ammunition and the improvements thereby obtained is as interesting as the study of the development of the military rifle itself, so a few observations may not be out of place as to the two patterns of ammunition that may now be used,-the Mark VI. and the Mark VII.; and also as to the effects of fixing the bayonet on the Short Lee-Enfield rifle. It is perhaps needless to specify the peculiarities of the earlier and now obsolete types of the .303" cartridge, but I might mention the Mark Ill., with its soft solid lead nose which caused the bullet to expand on striking animal tissue, and thus deliver a paralysing knock-out blow. This bullet was designed twenty years ago, for use against savage tribes only, by Captain Bert Clay, at that time on the staff of the Indian Government Ammunition Factory at the town of Dum-dum, near Calcutta, and this is the origin of the curious term" dum·dum bullet" that we so often hear used to describe any soft lead or hollow-nosed projectile which is meant to open out on impact. The Mark VI. cartridge with its reinforced base, 30 grains of cordite, and finely proportioned bullet wifu gently sloping, or, to use the correct term, hemispheroidal head, was introduced at the time of the Boer War. It develops the moderate Chamber-pressure of IS tons per square inch, and gives improved longrange target results. In I908 the quest for a flatter trajectory, with all its military advantages, led to the development of the powerful Mark VII. cartridge with 38 grains of tubular cordite, giving 20 tons per square inch of chamber pressure, and firing a light sharp-pointed bullet designed on the model of the " spitz-kogel" of the Germans, which was introduced by them for the Mauser in I905. \Vhen bayonets were fixed on the old-style rifles such as the Enfield muzzle-loader, the Snider, the Martini-Henry, and the earlier models of the Lee-Metford' and Lee-Enfield, a high aim had to be taken, as the weight of the bayonet simply held down the muzzle when the shot was fired. On the introduction of the Short Lee-Enfield rifle in I904 it was found that with the Mark VI. cartridge no alteration in aim was required when the bayonet was fixed. This curious behaviour of the rifle fairly puzzled the experts at the B.S.A. works, at Enfield Lock, and at Hyi:he, for some time, till instantaneous
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