AUSTRIA-HrNUARY. 9 



As a rule the range practice sliould be finished by the end 

 of June, and be followed by the long-range and field firing, 

 but if required hj local conditions the long-range fire may 

 take place before the spring plowing. In that case young- 

 soldiers should have had previous training in gallery prac- 

 tice in firing with raised sights, and have gone through their 

 preliminary range firing. 



The practice at known distances, instruction practice, and 

 the competitive firings, are held in ordinary field uniform, 

 without knapsack; the individual field practice, without the 

 field utensils; and the long-range and field firing, in full 

 inarching order. 



Men who fail to qualify in one year repeat the same pro- 

 gram in the following year. Men in the lowest (first) class 

 who qualify, may, nevertheless, in the discretion of the com- 

 pany commander, be kept in that class, if unsteady or unreli- 

 able shots, and su'ch men may be ordered to repeat any 

 exercise in their preliminary shooting if the company com- 

 mander think it desirable, and if it be not done with ammu- 

 nition reserved for the regular practice. 



During the target year every soldier is required to expend 

 the number of cartridges prescribed ; failure to do this on 

 account of detached service, sickness, etc., is noted on his 

 individual shooting record. At least one exercise should be 

 fired on a practice day, a second only in case that qualifica- 

 tion in the first was made in 6 shots. Men who qualify in 

 their class with less than their allowance of ammunition will 

 use the saving at the discretion of the- company commander, 

 first repeating exercises in the regular practice in which the 

 conditions were not fulfilled. 



Men who on account of defective vision are unable to fire 

 at all distances, remain in the lowest class. 



The school targets have wooden frames covered with jute 

 cloth, on which the paper targets are pasted ; the figure tar- 

 gets and its varieties are of pasteboard, or of papier-mache. 



The school target is of the pattern and dimensions shown 

 in the illustration. The center band is white. The two outer 

 vertical bands are light blue or gray. The oval outlined 

 thereon represents the limit of dispersion of correctly aimed 



