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WAR DEPARTMENT
BASIC FIELD MANUAL
U. S. RIFLE, CALIBER .30 M1917 (ENFIELD)
August 3, 1942
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FM 23-6
BASIC FIELD MANUAL
U. S. RIFLE, CALIBER .30 M1917 (ENFIELD)
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON : 1942 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C.
Price 35 cents
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, August 3, 1942. FM 23-6, Basic Field Manual, U. S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1917 (Enfield), is published for the information and guidance of all concerned. [A. G. 062.11 (6-8-42).] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
G. C. MARSHALL, Chief of Staff.
OFFICIAL: J. A. ULIO, Major General, The Adjutant General.
DISTRIBUTION: C and H (5); IBn 1 (10); IC (20). (For explanation of symbols see FM 21-6.)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. Mechanical training.
Paragraphs
SECTION I. Description --__----_-------______ 1-6
II. Disassembly and assembly_______- 7-9
III. Care and cleaning- __-__________ 10-20
IV. Functioning ------_-__________-__ 21
V. Individual safety precautions______ 22
VI. Spare parts and accessories__-_____ 23-25
VII. Instruments -__-_--- ____---______ 26
VIII. Ammunition ......................----_____- 27-33
CHAPTER 2. Marksmanship-known-distance targets.
SECTION I. General -____-------------
__ -- - 34-41
II. Preparatory marksmanship train-
ing____-----------.-------
-____42-49
III. Qualification courses _____--- __.__ 50-54
IV. Range practice ----- __-------____ 55-57
V. Equipment; known-distance targets and ranges; range precau-
tions ------------------- -__._ 58-61
VI. Small-bore practice___________... .__ 62-25
CHAPTER 3. Marksmanship-moving ground targets.
SECTION I. General
...........................--6--6-67
II. Moving vehicles __---_______-_____ 68-70
III. Moving personnel _________-______ 71-72
IV. Moving targets, ranges, and safety
precautions__----______-- ___- __ 73-74
CHAPTER 4. Marksmanship-air targets. SECTION I. Air targets for rifle_ _____________ 75-76 II. Technique of fire _______________- 77-81 III. Antiaircraft marksmanship_______ 82-86 IV. Miniature range practice__________ 87-90
V. Towed-target firing_______________ 91-95 VI. Ranges, targets, and equipment__-- 96-101
CHAPTER 5. Technique of rifle fire.
SECTION I. General ___--__________________ 102-104
II. Range estimation _______- ___.-- 105-109
III. 'target designation __._--------- 110-116
IV. Rifle fire and its effect _______--
117-123
V. Application of fire_________-__--
124-131
VI. Landscape-target firing _________ 132-139
VII. Field-target firing __-___________ 140-145
VIII. Fire exercises ______-___________ 146-148
CHAPTER 6. Advice to instructors.
SECTION I. General
-------------____-_-_- ___ 149
II. Mechanical training -__________---
150
III. Marksmanship - known- distance
targets _-_____--- ____---- _-_- 151-165
IV. Marksmanship-air targets _____ 166-170
V. Technique of fire---____________ 171-177
INDEX ___-------------------------------______
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Page 1 4 9
18 20 21 23 27
32
35 87 93
112 121
126 127 128
129
132 132 136 145 148 151
162 163 167 175 178 184 190 194
197 197
198 216 222 226
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