]64 TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



At times also in division shooting a target should appear 

 against which the battery chiefs should turn their fire with- 

 out waiting for orders from the chief of division. 



The regimental commander himself should act as leader at 

 this shooting and conduct the critique of the work of the 

 chief of division. The critique of battery commanders is 

 incumbent upon the chief of division. 



PRIZE COMPETITION. 



Each gun fires 8 shells with bursting charge and smokeless 

 powder against a target placed at 600 meters' distance, the 

 target being 3.3 meters square and provided with a bull's-eye 

 of a diameter of 40 centimeters, and seven rings of respec- 

 tively 40, 60, 80, 100, 130, 140, and 160 centimeters' radius. 

 The first 3 shots are trial shots and are fired with the same 

 elevation and deviation. The center of impact is marked 

 with a small point and the chief of piece makes the necessary 

 alterations in the elevation and azimuth corresponding to the 

 distance of the center of impact from the center of the target. 



After these adjustments have been made, the remaining 5 

 shots are fired for "points." Each hit, the center of which 

 falls in the bull's-eye, is counted for 8 points; between the 

 bull's-eye and the first ring, 7 jjoints; the first circle and 

 second, 6; the second and third, 5; the third and fourth, 4; 

 the fourth and fifth, 3 ; the fifth and sixth, 3 ; the sixth and 

 seventh, 1 ; other hits, 0. 



The number of hits for each gun is recorded and the time 

 occupied in the shooting for points, which is counted for each 

 gun from the firing of the fourth shot to the firing of the 

 eighth shot, inclusive ; and the order in which the prizes are 

 distributed is regulated only by the number of points received 

 if the time occupied in the shooting for points has not exceeded 

 two minutes, unless a projectile has either failed to hit the 

 target, or only hit in the ricochet, in which case no prize can 

 be given. 



If an even number of points be made, the distance of the 

 hits, made during the shooting for points, from the center of 

 the target is measured and preference is given to the one for 

 which the sum of these distances is the least. When the 

 sums are the same the preference is decided by drawing lots. 



Shooting medals of silver are distributed yearly to the 

 chiefs of piece who in the prize shooting have received prizes 



