TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Recent events have shown how necessary good marksman- 

 ship is to success in war. A view of the methods and course 

 of training adopted in several European countries to give 

 their troops the required skill is shown in the following 

 pages. 



Working for the same ends, with almost identical tools, of 

 necessity involves much of sameness in methods, but diversi- 

 ties are nevertheless numerous, and valuable hints for adop- 

 tion into our own service might be gathered from a study of 

 foreign systems. 



I.-AUSTRIA- HUNGARY. 



[From translations of official firing regulations furnished by Lieut. Col. James B. Kerr, Ninth Cav- 

 alry, United States Military Attache at Berlin, compared and arranged by Capt. E. A. Edwards, 

 Twenty-fifth Infantry.] 



INFANTRY AND RIFLE REGIMENTS. 

 GENERAL RULES. 



The thorough individual training of every soldier in the 

 fighting use of his rifle is the object of the prescribed course 

 of instruction, which is divided into preparatory instruction, 

 firing at known distances, demonstration firing, collective 

 firing at long ranges, and field or combat firing. 



The captain is held responsible for the instruction of his 

 men and for the training of his officers. Underofficers and 

 skilled men are assistants in carrying on the instruction of 

 his company. Higher commanders are to foster the fire 

 training and supervise the course of instruction in the units 

 of their command. 



The preparatory instruction consists in teaching the recruit 

 the construction, nomenclature, and mechanism of the rifle, 

 the theory of fire, principles of aiming, etc. This is accom- 

 panied, or followed, by position, pointing and aiming drills, 



