Crantor said:
He's on a reserve course. Part time. Likely every two weekends. So the benefit of having course mates handy or duty staff like marching NCOs and such are likely not there like on a full time course.
army.ca is a ready ressource. Or at least it could be.
I don't disagree, I did my basic on the weekends as well but I also had everyone in my sections phone numbers/emails, I also created a private Facebook group where we all asked questions, posted inspection standards etc.
However I will attempt to assist the member.
In my opinion what I would focus on is:
Safety infractions (weapon down range, individual safety precaution, clearing before and after assembly, on safe when not shooting)
Timings that you need to meet (loading a mag by hand, with a charger and anything else that is timed). Your instructors should also ask you if you have any questions prior to the rest, if they don't ask them.
Don't over think and remain calm.the way I was taught is that you were supposed to be able to drills with out thinking about so that when you actually are shooting it is all muscle memory.
How did they instruct shootinf from a distance? On my course we had Herman the German and wed point where we would aim based on the distance and whether they were walking or running.
The C7 is effective up to 300m away and with a section can enagae up to 600m.
Good luck and again remember safety, safety.
One last point, when you load you need more pressure to load a magazine full of dummy rounds (on my basic we did loads/unloads and when it came to the test no one had every loaded a rifle with bullets and a few couldn't get the magazine to catch causing them to fail).
Good luck, you will be fine.
Cheers
Edit:
The four types of rounds you need to be concerned with.
Dummy (silver cremped ends)
Blank (brass colour cremes ends, shorter than ball rounds)
Live/Ball (live bullets)
Tracers (look the same as live/ball but with a green coat) which will allow tour rounds to illuminate roughly after 100m)
