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TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



shots, aiming, at 200 and 300 paces, at the lower part, and at 

 400 paces, at the upper part. 



The figure target and its variants are shown in fig. 2. The 

 figures are of plain light blue, or colored to show details. 



Section targets are made up of figures or variants of the 

 figure target in light blue placed close together. Figure and 

 section targets are used as fixed, moving, and disappearing 

 targets. Their height when used as fixed targets at medium 



Fig. 1. — School target. 



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Figure target. 



ranges is 0.9 meters, when used as disappearing or moving tar- 

 gets the height is 1.2 meters, the width being in proportion. 



In the practice at known distances, when moving targets 

 are used, they are made to move in quick time for a distance 

 of 10 paces; disappearing targets are visible for the period 

 required to march 10 paces in quick time, i. e., 115 paces to 

 the minute. 



For firing at long ranges larger groups are used, represent- 

 ing lines and columns in battle formation, and for field firing, 

 targets representing lines and columns of infantry; cavalry, 

 guns, caissons, etc., arranged as in action, are made to move 

 or disappear so as to show different phases of the fight. To 

 ascertain the effect of fire at long ranges on targets repre- 

 senting columns, only one hit by each bullet is counted. This 

 is effected by placing horizontal lines at certain distances 

 from the top edges of the targets, in rear of the first line, count- 

 ing, on the rear targets, only the hits above the lines. The 



