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THE NEW AUSTRIAN FIELD GUNS. 
buckets, forage cords, padlocks, water-proof covers (for top of ammunition boxes), 
and the necessary tools. Range tables and range books are also provided. 
Most of the above require no description. 
(1) The details as to the sights have already been given. 
(3) Piasaba grass is used (as with us) for sponge head. 
(5) The extractor or unloader is a short wooden cylinder, with a hole in 
the head to receive the fuze, passed down from the muzzle before the rammer 
is employed to unload. 
(9) This wrench is meant to remove the Broadwell copper ring, when it 
requires to be replaced. It has a short and long arm, and a hinged tooth 
or catch. The latter catches the ring inside, while the short arm, bearing 
against the vent slot, gives a fulcrum for the long arm. 
VII.— Packing. 
The number of rounds of ammunition carried with gun and ammunition 
wagon are given in Tables II. and III. 
The mode in which they are packed is as follows :— 
The wooden drawers, already mentioned, which fit into the pigeon-holes 
or divisions of the boxes, are marked-— 
H. Common shell (HoJilgeschoss). 
S. Shrapnel « 
B. Carcass (Brandgeschoss). 
K. Case ( Kartdtschen ). 
while drawers with cartridges have no distinguishing letter. 
The large drawers of ammunition wagon (p. 20), are used to hold gun 
small stores, &c. 
9 C Gun. 
4 drawers, H, with 20 common shell. 
2 „ S, « 10 shrapnel ,, 
Gun limber box. -| 2 . i \ ?Z\ C . P . mrtl . 
„ 12 service cartridges. 
a 2 0 a a 
,i friction tubes and small stoves. 
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Ammunition wagon | ^ xao t]y same as gun limber. 
