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ing and finishes with the importance for the Rules for the care of the Rifle on the range opening with " Wipe out the bore
with a clean cloth patch each time before going to the firing point. Always clean at the end of each days shooting, a rifle that
has been fired should never be left overnight without cleaning"
Suffice to say that it can be absolutely guaranteed that a keen eyed NCO will have inspected each and every rifle that
was used on the range in Kilbride by members if C Company 7 Bn that day to ensure that they were of a sufficiently high
standard of cleanliness before being handed back into the armoury.
So there is a silver lining in this social distancing we are all partaking in at the moment and I am looking forward to
reading through the online archive of An Cosantóir magazines and seeing the evolution of the equipment available to the
Defence Forces since 1940 to where we are at now in 2020 and I wonder if I will see any similar articles as to the two I have
just seen and read about and find out what other aspects of soldiering have not nor will they ever change.
