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Points — Hits. —One for each lodge or through (strikes not counted). 
Fire Discipline. —Points allowed from a maximum of 100. 
Group IY. 
Targets. —Two stationary targets anchored at different ranges—one about 1600 
and the other about 2400 yards. 
Ammunition. —24 rounds 6-inch B.L. common shell, plugged. 
Procedure. —Eacli company to parade four gun detachments, and man two 
6-inch B.L. guns in one group, the second two detachments acting as a relief to 
the first two. 
Twelve rounds, i.e., six rounds from each gun, to be fired by first two detach¬ 
ments at the further target; to be then relieved by second two detachments, who 
will fire 12 rounds at the nearer target. 
Points. — For rapidity of fire; 30 if competition is concluded in 36 minutes. 
Four to be added or deducted for each minute under or over, but not more than 
50 to be allotted. 
For accuracy , shots falling within a rectangle 80 yards long by 10 wide to 
score as hits; outside no score. Total points for 24 hits, 175. 
For fire discipline from a maximum of 75. 
Group Y. 
Targets .—6 feet by 6 feet, with bull’s-eye marked with a radius of 2 feet—one 
at about 1500 and the other about 2000 yards; rectangles 70 yards by 6, and 85 
yards by 6 respectively. 
Ammunition. —40 rounds of 40-pr. K.M.L. common shell, plugged. 
Procedure. —Each company to parade four gun detachments with at least twelve 
qualified layers. In Heavy Batteries the four guns to be manned together and 
fired in succession, 20 rounds being fired at the first position and 20 at the 
second. In Garrison Companies, if two guns are available, both to be manned 
together, the detachments being relieved after 20 rounds; if only one gun is avail¬ 
able, the detachment to be relieved after every 10 rounds. In either case 20 
rounds to be fired at each range. 
Points. — Hits : Direct hit 10. Each shot in outer rectangles, 4 to 7 ; in 
inner, 7 to 10. 
For fire discipline up to a maximum of 100. 
The result shows an improvement in Horse, Field and Mountain Artillery, 
in most points brought to notice in previous years ; the laying has increased in 
accuracy, while in fire discipline and handling of ammunition, and consequently in 
time, there is a decided advance. Steady drill and careful training, in which a 
general improvement has now taken place, should ensure guns being uniformly and 
accurately laid, and fuzes exactly set, and the chief difficulty still remaining lies 
in correct observation of fire by the Battery Commander, upon whom now mainly 
depends the success of the shooting. 
The Royal Horse Artillery Batteries have generally shot well, and it is also 
gratifying to His Excellency the Commander-in-Ohief to find that the superiority 
of the 12-pr. B.L. is so marked as a comparison of the scores, of both Horse and 
Field, in the two groups, shows, 
