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THE NEW AUSTRIAN FIELD GUNS. 
On tlie front face are two scales, viz.- 
Left. ... HS. scale, common shell 
400 to 6000 scliritt. 
to yds. 
Eight... SS. /, shrapnel „ 
On the left half-rounded side, and also on the socket, d , 
IIW. scale, common shell (reduced charges) | 
and on the right half-rounded side, 
Scale of metres up to 460. 
( 500 to 2500 schritt. 
to yds. 
yds. 
Before use, the sight socket is secured and clamped in the gun. 
The tangent scale is alone used, unless for very long ranges, when it 
would be too short. In this case it is firmly clamped in the lower portion, 
with the lowest graduation of its metre scale in line with the top of the latter, 
and the clamping screw of the socket being loosened, the whole sight is raised 
or lowered as required, and clamped when necessary by the clamping screw 
of the socket. 
The cross-head of the tangent sight is parallel to the axis of the trunnions, 
and so at an angle with the tangent sight, which, with the socket, is placed 
at the necessary angle to make up for permanent deflection. 
In order to make up for wind, &c., deflection of 15 mm right and 25 mm 
left can be given by means of the cross-head. 
(2) The foresight (Fig. 8) is a small screw sight of steel bronze 
(blackened), which screws into the patch (e, Fig. 1) on the right side of the 
piece, a little in front of the trunnions. 
II.— Ammunition, 
(A.) Projectiles. 
These are of four kinds—common shell, shrapnel, carcass,^ and case. 
Eotation is given by means of four copper rings pressed into undercut 
rings round the projectile, and which are cut through by the lands. 
, The number of rounds per gun, where carried, weights, charges, &c., are 
given in Tables II. and III. 
* It would appear from the fact of carcasses being carried, and from the small charges of the 
common shell and their peculiar construction, that the latter are looked upon only as mankilling 
projectiles, in muoh the same sense as our B.Li segment were. 
