Musketry with the Ross Rifle

[skirsons]

I'm not sure if anyone's posted this before. Perhaps it's old hat.

http://link.library.utoronto.ca/broadsides/digobject.cfm?idno=CAP02098

Hewett, G.A., Nix, Jasper Ormal, Musketry, taken from lectures given by ... G.A. Hewett ... Containing full description of Mark III. Ross rifle and valuable information for officers and N.C.O.'s ... Compiled and published by ... J.O. Nix ... ([Winnipeg: J.O. Nix, 1916]) Plate wanting.55 p. diagr., plate.

 

[H Wally]

Page 26 - range finding with Sight jump is interesting.

It isn't very well explained though... When measuring a true distance in yards, does he mean to multiply your personal jump by the distance in guessed yards between your thumb and the object after switching eyes or what????

 

[skirsons]

There are a lot of interesting proceedural instructions in that book relating to the rifle. One could learn a lot from it if there was the inclination to read the whole thing on a computer screen. I think it's great that the whole world is becoming digitized. Things like this will become more common!