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The allowance of ammunition for the yearly course of prac- 

 tice in all field, reserve, sortie, and mountain batteries is 182 

 ring shell, 164 shrapnel, and 10 case, and in addition, for 

 field firing, 15 ring shell and 30 shrapnel for field, etc., and 7 

 ring shell and 13 shrapnel for horse or light batteries. 



For the inspections there are allowed, for each battery, 70 

 to 100 rounds, to be fired at about 3 A'ersts (about 3,300 yards), 

 50 to 70 rounds to be fired at about 2 versts, and about 30 

 rounds to be fired at about 1 verst. 



Artillery practice begins about the 1st (our 14th) of August, 

 and is carried out in the great artillery camps, five in number. 



For revolver practice, 20 rounds per pistol are allowed in 

 the field, and 26 in the horse batteries. 



SEACOAST-ARTILLERY TARGET PRACTICE. 



No details obtainable. 



RIFLE RANGES. 



Each camp has a rifle range for the use of all troops sta- 

 tioned in it, and it must be so arranged that it can be used 

 for tactical exercises also. It should be about 6,500 paces 

 long, and firing should be capable of being carried on over 

 3,500 paces of it. 



If sheets of water, marshes, hills, large woods, etc., are in 

 the rear of the targets, the length of the range may be reduced 

 to 4,500 paces. The total breadth of a range for an infantry 

 regiment is 1,000 paces, for a brigade 1,300 paces, and for a 

 division 1,900 paces. In these figures it is assumed that 8 out 

 of the 16 companies of a regiment will be using the range 

 simultaneously. Only four markers' butts are allowed for 

 each regiment. 



FIRING SCHOOLS. 



The firing school for infantry oflicers at Oranienbaum is 

 designed to give instruction in combat firing to ofiicers detailed 

 yearly for instruction. The number of officers detailed and 

 range of subjects treated have been greatly increased since 

 1898. The instructional troops attached to the school have 

 been increased from a company to a battalion. The courses 

 of instruction last for seven months, and more stress is now 

 laid on the training of captains as battalion commanders and 

 as directors of the scientific investigations of young officers. 



