SWEDEN. 171 



Hours. 



4. Sharpshooting with the guns 40 



5. Shooting with revolver 4 



6. Distance measurement 9 



7. Shooting with reduced charges and practice with ex- 



plosives --- 14 



8. Making out reports and records of the firing. - 98 



9. DisciTSsing reports, etc 6 



The lectures were on the following topics : 



Aiming drills and means for aiming, the duties of the 

 detachment chiefs and the gun commanders during firing in 

 battery ; the making up of reports and firing records, Unges 

 distance measurer, the distribution of fire, explaining the 

 results by examples from the shooting, and the scout service. 



The shooting school fired over 1,000 shots from 8-centi- 

 meter guns with smokeless powder. 



At the firings the officers were divided as follows : 



Detachment chief s 3 



Gun commanders 6 



Records and reports 4 



Timing shots 1 



On duty at the target as observers, etc 3 



To follow the shooting and keep the shooting books 3 



The work was distributed in this manner every forenoon 

 and changed in the afternoon, so that the same pupil had 

 several opportunities to practice different duties in turn. 



TARGETS. 



Targets for elementary or precision shooting are compara- 

 tively simple. Those for field shooting are more and more 

 complicated until in the final exercises they form a perfectly 

 dramatic representation of the hostile forces advancing, 

 retreating, firing, or charging under all the conceivable cir- 

 cumstances of actual warfare. 



Figures and Designs. — The targets are usually composed 

 of figures which represent the object on which the fire is sup- 

 posed to be directed, and these figures are arranged separately 

 or collectively according to the nature of the problem. 



These figures, etc., are made of wood, pasteboard, or cloth. 



Wood is used for permanent targets of small dimensions, 

 and for certain special problems. 



