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Research Press Digest 2022

Details: Category: Publishing; Written by Research Press

Key subjects covered in this volume are the British Volunteer Movement and musketry instruction. W.H. Blanch’s pamphlet of 1900 presents an informed and critical review of the Volunteer Movement. Viscount Bury reports on his musketry instruction course at the Hythe School of Musketry in 1860 and instructor Arthur Walker discusses 'Rifle Trajectories and Rifles.' Volunteers put the rifle skills to test at the NRA(UK) annual rifle meeting at Wimbledon. Through the latter part of the 19th century rifles evolved from single shot muzzle loaders to magazinerifles and musketry instruction was necessarily adapted to suit. $12.95 USD. View on Amazon

Long Range Muzzle Loading

Details: Parent Category: Marksmanship; Category: Long Range Muzzle Loading; Written by David Minshall

The hey-day of the muzzle loading era for rifle marksmen in Great Britain was the first two decades of the National Rifle Association's (NRA) existence; broadly 1860-1880. Today, two national associations within the UK cater for the discipline of long range muzzle loading, namely the Muzzle Loaders Association of Great Britain (MLAGB) and the National Rifle Association (NRA). The World Governing body for muzzle loading shooting is the Muzzle Loaders Associations International Committee (MLAIC), who in 1999 introduced long range World Championships to their competition programme.

Enfield Paper Cartridges

Details: Parent Category: British Military Longarms; Category: Enfield; Written by David Minshall

For today's researcher into Enfield ammunition, the definitive reference is "Rifle Ammunition. Being Notes on the Manufactures connected therewith as conducted in The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich" by Arthur B. Hawes, Captain (r.h.p.), Bengal Army and published in London, 1859. Hawes writes in his introduction: "These notes, intended at first only for myself, were, I am happy so say, useful to others; and from that reason more than any other, I am induced now to offer them, imperfect as they are, for the perusal of all who feel interested in the preparation of ammunition of different descriptions, with the exterior of which all soldiers are so familiar."

The School of Musketry, Hythe

Details: Parent Category: Military Marksmanship; Category: Hythe School of Musketry; Written by The Times

Situated in a remote corner of the kingdom, on the coast of Kent, about 18 miles from Dover, is this our new military establishment, of the existence of which the great majority of the public are probably not aware. It owes its origin to the introduction of the Minié rifle into the army, and has been established little more than a year and a half, or since April 1853. Guided by his experience of our military system, the Commander-in-Chief judged that, if it were left to the commanding officers of regiments to see that the men under them were properly instructed in the use of the new weapon, he should fail of securing throughout the army that uniformity of practice so essential to the efficiency of the service, and advised the creation of a special establishment which might serve at once as a training school for our infantry and marines.

British Musketry Manuals

Details: Parent Category: Marksmanship; Category: Military Marksmanship; Written by Bill Curtis & David Minshall

The year 1859 was a remarkable one in the annals of Rifle Shooting. It marked the sudden flowering of the Volunteer Movement and the foundation of the National Rifle Association. A new and enlarged 2nd Edition of the Infantry Manual entitled "Field Exercices and Evolutions of Infantry 1859" was prepared with many of the lessons of the Crimea absorbed. The 1st February 1859 saw the beginning of the new series of smaller format Musketry Instructions now more grandly entitled "Regulations For Conducting The Musketry Instruction Of The Army." Popular at the time are the Official Pocket Editions of some of these manuals. Bound in red leather and secured by a hinged brass clasp they are attractively embossed with the full Royal Arms and the title.

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