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RIFLE PRACTICE.
GENERAL Orders Relating 10 Competitions That
Have Been Arranged.

HEADQUARTERS lsr REGIMENT IsrAsrnY.l
NATIONAL GUARD OF STATE OF M.Iyx
BIDDEFoRD, July lG, 1894.
Orders No. 9.
The following competitions will take
place during encampment:
Company team matches First Regiment:
oefen men; seven rounds; 200 yards:
on hand; ammunition government; fur
nished by the State; two sighting shots
o.st score to vic.
Same competition and same conditions
for the 81 cond Regiment.
Prizes Four finely framed pictures of
some war scene will be presented to the
four winning teams of each regiment, Sc
lec:edln order of winning.
OFFICERS COMPETITION,
Seven from the staff and field officers of
Zach regime Mt, to be selected by the regi.
mental Inspector Of rifle practice of the
trst and Second Regiment; number of
-ounds and conditions the came as in the
company team competitions.
r'lze A valuable picture of the Tn
;ampment Of 1892,
REGlMENTAL skIRMIsu MATCH. FOR BEST
RECORD.
Cne hundred men. 10 rounds. Dis
'ance, unknown, limit, $50 to 400 yards.
Position, any. Target, second class. Five
'ounds advancing; 8 retreating; one at each
halt.
The regimental inspectors of rifle prac-
tice will make up the teams of 100 men
each, from each regiment
In this match i've hal i'll ha mo do al
'ancing AMI five retreatiDg. At least one
shot to be taken at each halt.
At the command or signal to "forward
march" the skirmishers will advance until
The signal, halt, which will Immediately be
shen the sights will be adjusted to the est
| mated distance, the lille loaded, and posi-
ii assumed for firing. After the last note
r the signal to commence Fl ipg," the
| firing will commence.
The firing will cease at the last note of
| the signal to 'cease firing" which will be
| sounded at exactly thirty seconds after the
last note to commence firing"
The line will advance as before, the same
-ules governing each "advance," and each
halt, adjusting of sight, loading and fir
ing.
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| rear, march, will be given, and the frings
will be conducted the same as in advancing
The rifles will be pointed in the general d.
| cection of the targets WHEN maDGuvring to
| the rear. Rifles must not be loaded until at
halt, and facing the targets.
Skirmishers will make themselves con-
| versant with the rules governing. All shoot
| ing will be done in fatigue uniform with
belt and cartridge box, ammunition in car
| ridge box.
The compe tition by the teams of the First
| Regiment will commence Tuesday morning,
August 18th, at 7.30 A. NJ sharp, and til t
of the Second Regiment at the same hour
on Wednesday morning the 18th. The regi-
| mental inspectors of Iiae practice of eac h
regiment will forward TO Col. L. c. Far
rington, inspector general of rifle prac-
ice, Augusta, Maine, the names of
each company and staff team, upon
score cards furnished for that pur-
posi-, on or before Friday, the ninth day
Of August. Changes will be allowed in tn .
make up of the teams before the commence
ment of the matches.
| The officers match will take place at
some time hereafter fixed. The reRimental
skirmIsh match will take place on Thursday
at o'clock p. M. or at such time as may
be hereafter ordered, and the regimentsl
inspectors of rifle practice viii select the
competitors from their respective regiments
before Wednesday, ten o'clock A. M. and
furnish the i. G.. of II. Z. with the names
of those selected.
The regimental inspectors of rifle prac-
tice will report to the inspector general of
rifle practice, for duty upon arrival in
camp.
The best score made by any company in
spector of rifle practice, in the company
team matches, in each regiment, will win a
company inspectors, champion badge for
| 1894.
BY order of LUCIus III. KENDALL,
Col. LIST Reg't, N. G. S. NJ,
Comm anding Camp.
Official:
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