THE TRAINING OF A HOWITZER FIELD BATTERY. 455 
Battery 
netic bearing of the battery from the target, the fall of the shell being 
measured and judged 
with reference to the 
line of fire. When offi¬ 
cers were sent out on 
observing duty at '■ 
Okehampton this year, 
they found that this 
practice had been of 
considerable benefit to 
them. 
The employment of \ 
a ranging point is a 1 
distinct help to a Bat- ( 
tery Commander in} 
correcting his guns for; 
line as well as in rang- \ 
ing, and as the avail¬ 
able deflection is am¬ 
ple to allow distribu¬ 
tion over the widest 
target, the rule against 
the use of a ranging 
point (Field Artillery 
Drill, p.p. 94 and 105) 
might with advantage 
be modified in the 
case of howitzer batter¬ 
ies. The power of fol¬ 
lowing the course of the 
shell in the air, which 
has already been allud¬ 
ed to, will be greater 
with the larger Mark II. 
shell, but in any 
case it is facilitated 
by the use of a rang- 
ing point. It is 
worth noting that as a 
consequence of Bat¬ 
tery Commanders be¬ 
ing able to follow and 
identify their own 
shells, several batter¬ 
ies can range at the 
same time on one tar¬ 
get, which may some¬ 
times be an advantage. 
Tarver 
