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2007.045.001

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2007.045

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Rifle, Training

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Swift Training Rifle, WW II

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FIREARMS & ORDNANCE

ARMES À FEU ET MUNITIONS

Swift Training Rifle, WW II

DUMMY training rifle, Swift Training Rifle 9B 20/30 S.R. Mk. IV SN 15765 NOT A FIREARM The Swift Training Rifle was a rifle shooting training device made in Great Britain during the Second World War.This rifle did not actually fire a cartridge, but shot out a forked probe that punctured a paper target barely an inch from the "muzzle'. The system illustrated, to a recruit or trainee, the required sight picture and the correct hold of the rifle as well as the correct operation of the action, the finesse of trigger pull, and the importance of prevention of cant of the rifle.
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