528 
SHRAPNEL FUZES AT OKEHAMPTON. 
Out of the 497 hits with time shrapnel there were 294 “through/* 
whereas out of the 796 hits with percussion shrapnel only 142 were 
through. 
No water shell were fired on this occasion. 
Upon the whole, the Okehampton practice shows that, when the 
range has been ascertained, shrapnel shell with time fuzes will pro¬ 
duce greater effect than shell with percussion fuzes, and will be fired 
with equal rapidity. 
The water shell with percussion fuze as used at Okehampton did not 
give any puff of smoke when bursting, and consequently did not assist 
in finding out the range. In destructive effect the water shell was 
superior to the shrapnel shell with the percussion fuze, but not to the 
shrapitel shell with time fuze, if compared in the manner adopted 
above, where the number of dummies disabled and not the number of 
hits has been considered. 
December, 1876. 
