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TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



The practice with reduced charge is now being largely 

 replaced by practice with the service cartridge at reduced 

 distance (30, 50, 60, 100 meters) and gallery practice with re- 

 duced charge is maintained only at those posts where no safe 

 range for gallery practice with the service cartridge exists. 

 The latter is considered much more useful to the soldier in 

 preparing him at once for the range and prevents his acquir- 

 ing the bad habits which come with shooting reduced charges. 



Whenever it is impossible to get a safe range within 2 or 

 3 miles of the post, gallery practice is used with reduced 

 charges. Gallery practice with full charges is given not only 

 to recruits, but to all soldiers, each being allowed 60 car- 

 tridges a year. The captain regulates the kind of instruction 

 to be given to each, and he may direct men who have been 

 prevented from practicing on the range, to shoot their allow- 

 ances in the gallery. 



The range preferred is 30 meters, but ranges of 50, 60, or 

 100 meters may be used if necessary. 



The targets used in this practice, i. e., full charges at re- 

 duced distances, are of white paper traced with two concentric 

 circles whose dimensions are given in the table. These sheets 

 are pasted on the regulation target frame 2 meters square. 



Fig. 1.— Target. Fig. 2. — Shot grouper. 



Figures 1 and 2 show the ordinary target and the skeleton 

 shot grouper ; the table gives the dimensions of the target 

 for various ranges. 



