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TARGET PRACTICE IX FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Cavalry target practice. 



All officers shoot every year through the first to seventh 

 practices. Noncombatants only shoot the first, second, and 

 third, and all other combatants shoot, in their first year, all 

 the practices; in their second and subsequent years all except 

 Nos. 2 and 4. For each officer there are allowed 75 rounds of 

 ball ammunition, and for each combatant or noncombatant 

 noncommissioned officer or man 75 rounds of ball and 10 

 rounds of blank ammunition, and 100 rounds for use with 

 aiming tubes (gallery practice) yearly. Cossacks go through 

 the sa,me course as regular cavalry. 



There is no revolver practice for cavalry. 



FIELD ARTILLERY TARGET PRACTICE. 



It includes firing against a visible and stationary target, 

 against a target invisible to the gunners and against moving 

 objects. The field practices by single batteries are four in 

 number, and are always executed with a battery of eight guns. 



These practices are : 



1. Direct firing with ring shell, changing to shrapnel, 

 against a target in the open at 2,100 to 2,800 yards. 



2. Firing* against a target unseen from the battery, at 1,166 

 to 2,3.32 yards. 



3. Case or shrapnel fire at short ranges. 



1. Any field practice chosen by the brigade commander. 



