Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-19
GENERAL ORDERS
Reiaiias b Rias Praeiiee, The Season iss
Which sssias Feb. lst.


ADJUrAxr GENERALS OFFICE,
AUGUSTA, Jan. Is, 1894.
General Orders,
No. 2.
1. The season for rifle practice will be-
gin February l. and close October 81. 1884,.
II. Ammunition for practice will be
issued upon requisition, q follow:
To each company Of infantry. one thou
sand rounds Of fixed ammunition, and thirty
1--WE hundred bullets and primers, with reim-
bufsement for powder used in re-loadins
with bullets and primers issued, at the rate
Of $3.50 per NJ, for rounds fred as shown
BY returns to the inspector general of rife
practice.
To the Ambulance Corps. five hundred
rounds Of Axed ammunition and one thou
sand bullets and primers, with reimburse
ment for powder. ~ above.
To each Iegimental headquarters, five
hundred rounds Of fixed ammunition.
To each regimental inspector of rifle
practice five hundred rounds Of fixed am-
munition.
To each member of the State team, when
formed, one thousand rounds Of fixed am
munition.
The inspector general of rifle practice
recommends for use in re-loading, Haz-
yards F. G. powder.
III. General Orders No. 5. Series OF
1898, will govern in the qualification Of
marksmen of the National Guard, with the
following change:
Firing from the 200 yard firing point may
be done from shed or cover for qualifying
scores for the second and third classes.
All qualifying scores for first-class marks
men and sharpshooters must be made Tin
the open"-without any protection Of any
kind.
w. The conditions governing the quail.
ification of officers of the National Guard in
revolver practice will be as follows:
Second-clas,: Two scores of 20 out Of q
possible % at 30 yards.
First-cIass: Two scores Of 20 out of a
possible 25 at so yards: two scores of %
out of possible % at 80 yards.
Expert marksmen: Two scores of %
out Of a possible 25 at 35 yards; two scores
of % out Of a possible % at 80 yards two
scores of % out of a possible % at Is yards.
Target, "a" revolvers, Colts new pattern.
calibre SO, prescribed by the u. S. The
quartermaster general will furnish them at
cost to those officers who desire to procure
them through him.
Two hundred rounds of ammunition will
be furnished for practice to each officer
who has provided himself with revolver.
Scores will be returned as prescribed for
rifle practice in General Orders No. 8.
Series Of 1898.
Suitable badges will be issued whenever
the number of officers seeking to qualify is
such az to indicate that any considerable
degree of interest in this practice prevails
among the officers of the Guard.
v. Whenever any company is provided
with an armory-ranRe approved by the in
spector general of rifle practice, two thous-
a I'd round balls and primers will be issued
to it for practice. Not more than five grains
of DO y der to be used in each cartridge, with
lubricator. .-.. ...t
VI. The inspector general of, rifle
practice is hereby authorized to form q
State team of twelve men and two substi-
tutes to represent the National Guard of
the State Of Maine at such state or inter-
state competitions as he may deem it expe-
die mt to engage in, subject to the approval
of the commander-iE-chief.
VII. Company commanders will see
that the conditions relative to msrksmen'd
pins and buttons set forth in General Orders
No. 5, Series of 1898, are strictly enforced !;
that no soldier whose qualification is of a
date prior to the season of 1898, and who
failed to qualify the past season. is per-
misted to wear button or pin in his posses
sion; and that badges are turned in as re-
quired.
BY order of the ommander-in chief,
SELDEN CoSNoR,
Adjutant General.