42 TARGET PRACTICE IX FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Great attention is paid to the time required to find the 

 target, and to the number of trial shots necessary to get the 

 range. As soon as practicable a field observatory is set up 

 to watch the shots. This is simply an extensible ladder with 

 a hinged prop to support it and a rest for a spyglass near the 

 top. It is so placed that the observer can see without being 

 himself too conspicuous. 



The amount of ammunition for all the artillery firing 

 depends upon the annual appropriations. 



TARGETS. 



For Field Artillery. — The targets, representing infantry 

 in line standing uj), are rectangles measuring 30 and 15 feet 

 wide by 5 feet high ; infantry kneeling or partly covered, 30 

 feet wide by 3 feet high; infantry in column, 10 feet wide 

 and 15 feet high; for the pieces and limbers of artillery, 

 H -shaped figures 5 feet wide and 5 feet high; for skirmishers 

 standing, figures about 20 or 21 inches wide and 5i feet 

 high; for skirmishers kneeling, 21 inches wide and 33 

 inches high; for skirmishers lying, 22 inches wide and 19 inches 

 high. Sometimes the targets are set up in rifle pits. Disap- 

 j)earing targets are 30 feet long and 6 feet high with two 

 pivots at the center of each end, which rest on supports which 

 are driven into the ground wherever the target is required. 



Movable targets, 12 to 20 feet long and G feet high, are 

 moved on sleds with corrugated-iron runners. The wooden 

 framework is covered with canvas or linen. The sled is 

 dragged by a line attached to a wagon or limber. 



The targets for fortification artillery consist of real objects, 

 viz, old cannon, magazines, bombproofs, gun pits, rifle pits, 

 sapheads, batteries made of old cannon; and representations 

 of objects, such as siege batteries traced on the ground and 

 with the exterior slopes, etc., marked by colored cloth. 

 Infantry targets 60 and 30 feet long and 5 feet high. Stand- 

 ing figures 5 feet high and 2 feet wide, kneeling figures 2^ 

 feet high and 2 feet wide, lying figures 14- feet high and 2 feet 

 wide. Artillery pieces or limbers, 5 feet high and 5 feet wide. 

 All kinds of objects against which the fire of position artillery 

 may be directed are represented by combinations of flags, etc. 



Targets falling automatically when struck are made as 

 follows : A figure representing a kneeling skirmisher is cut 

 out of a board, f or ^ inch in thickness, and set up with a 



