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TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



color, gray or light brown, and are, excei)t those representing 

 artillery, provided with an apparatus to cause them to fall 

 when struck. 



Targets B, C, and D are of paper, light- brown in color. 

 A, B, C, and D are mounted on wooden frames, arranged in 

 pairs and counterpoised over pulleys so as to slide vertically, 

 very similar to the Brinton targets used in our service. At 

 most of the stands, if not all, the markers' pits are sunken in 

 front of the targets, and a stone wall or other substantial 

 butt is constructed behind the target to stop the projectiles. 



Fig. 11. 



Each recruit is provided with a target book, and when he 

 fires he at once announces to the officer who is instructing him 

 the place on the target upon which he thinks he was aiming 

 when the gun was discharged ; this point the officer marks 

 with a dot ( • ) on the target in his book. When the shot is 

 marked the place hit is marked with an oblique cross (X) and 

 the two points are joined by a line. Many men are inclined 

 to close the eyes when they pull the trigger, and it is believed 

 this helps them to overcome this difficulty, as well as to cor- 

 rect errors in sighting. See illustration (fig. 11). 



POSITION AND FORTRESS ARTILLERY. 



The recruits for these two branches of the artillery service 

 are given the same instruction and individual practice as the 

 infantry recruits, and the same individual practice in the 

 cours de repetition. They are armed with the short rifle. 



