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TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



drilled in a variety of movements of the arms and body, "with, 

 and without the rifle, designed to give strength and ease of 

 movement to the joints and muscles used in aiming, care 

 being taken to avoid undue fatigue or weariness. This is 

 followed by position, pointing and aiming drills, at first with 

 rests, afterwards offhand, standing, kneeling, and lying, 

 behind entrenchments, rifle pits, or trees, aiming at targets. 

 During this period the recruit is also practiced in estimating 

 distances, the course concluding with the firing of blank car- 

 tridges aiming at targets, and with gallery practice. 



GALLERY PRACTICE. 



This may be conducted in rooms, halls, barrack yards, or 

 on open drill grounds, and is usually directed by an experi- 

 enced noncommissioned officer. The rifle or carbine used 

 resembles the ordinary service weapon, into which is inserted 

 a smaller barrel of aluminum bronze of a caliber of 5 milli- 

 meters. Reduced targets are used, so that at 5 meters the 



6.0 cm.- 



Fig. 2. 



appearance of the target and the probability of a hit are 

 about the same as with the regular target and rifle at 100 

 meters. The bullet used in the gallery-practice target will, 

 at 5 meters, penetrate from 3 to 2^ inches into soft wood, and 

 has an extreme range of 80 meters. 



Targets for gallery practice are shown in figs. 1 and 2. 



