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"The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training"

3. Trigger guard not against shoulder. Butt held too low. Hand not
straight.
[Illustration: CORRECT POSITION OF RIGHT SHOULDER ARMS]
At the command three, drop the left hand by the side.
[Illustration: No. 1 No. 2 No. 3
INCORRECT POSITION OF RIGHT SHOULDER ARMS]
No. 1. Right arm not by side. Right forearm not horizontal.
No. 2. Heel of gun too far to left.
No. 3. Trigger guard not against shoulder. Butt held too low.
Being at right shoulder Arms: 1. Order, 2. ARMS. It is executed in 3
counts.
Press the butt down quickly and throw the gun diagonally across the
body, to the position shown here.
At the command two, lower the gun and assume the next to the last
position of order arms. At the command three, come to the order arms.
The common errors in this movement are to move the head to the left and
to throw the gun too far to the front.
[Illustration]
Being at port arms: 1. Right shoulder, 2. ARMS. It is executed in three
counts.
At the command arms, change the right hand to the butt.


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