Section 997(e) in Police Regulations, Bengal , 1943
(e)In giving instruction in the care of arms, stress shall be laid on the following points:-(i)Care shall be taken to prevent the barrel being bent or dented. A musket should never be used for carrying weights.(ii)Care shall be taken not to run the muzzle into the ground. Should this be accidentally done, the dust shall be at once removed; for if the musket be fired with any obstruction in the muzzle, the barrel will probably burst.(iii)The foresight shall be carefully protected from being bent, blunted or otherwise injured.(iv)The "pull off" of a musket should be between 6 lbs. and 8 lbs., but never less than 6 lbs. Any defects in the "pull off' shall be rectified by the armourer only.(v)A trigger-tester may be used to ascertain the weight of force required to "pull off'.
