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TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Firing with Blank Cartridges is practiced to accustom 

 the recruit to the report of the piece. Sometimes without 

 the knowledge of the recruit the cartridges are not all loaded, 

 so that his unsteadiness will be more evident. 



Fig. 10. 



Each man fires 3 blank cartridges with support, and 3 

 without. 



FIRING WITH LOADED AMMUNITION. 



These exercises are at first conducted under the most favor- 

 able circumstances of weather, light, etc., and nothing is 

 permitted to disturb the recruit in his first effort. 



The target is a colored figure of a soldier (fig. 7). A hit 

 within the 4nner oval line (bull's-eye) counts 3, the next, 2, 

 on the figure, 1. 



The men come up in turn and fire after the instructor has 

 given the command "Point; aim; fire 1, (2, 3, etc.) shots" 



