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TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Pasteboard is generally preferred because it is easily worked 

 and is quite durable. 



Cloth is used for disappearing and moving targets. 



The designs are classified as : 



(a) School targets. — Generally of wood, 5 meters square 

 (fig. 12). The dimensions are given in meters and centi- 

 meters. 



Fig. 12. 



wood and of the 



(6) Pr'ize shooting targets. — Also of 

 dimensions specified for the competition. 



(c) Field targets. — Figures representing men, horses, etc., 

 viz: 



Infantry figures of full length or of half, one-third, or one- 

 fourth the full length, of the form and dimensions shown in 



figs. 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17. They 

 are made of pasteboard tacked on 

 a skeleton of wooden laths. 



Cavalry figures are sketched 

 on cloth of the pattern shown in 

 fig. 18. The dimensions in milli- 

 meters. The cloth is tacked on 

 a wooden frame. Those for the 

 horses without riders are similar 

 in design. 



Artillery figures are made of 

 pasteboard. That for the piece 

 unlimbered is shown in fig. 19; 

 for the limber, fig. 20: for the 

 personnel the infantry figures are 

 used. For artillery limbered up 



