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SHORT NOTES ON PROFESSIONAL SUBJECTS. 
72* 
Minute 27,552. 1314. Boxer Shrapnel Shells for rifled Guns. 
2 
1671 g. Segment Shells. 
Dartmoor experiments. 
D. G. 0., 22. 11. 69., forwards for record, with reference to Minute 26,974, 
a copy of the report of the Special Committee on shrapnel v. segment shell, 
dated 18. 9. 69., which has been printed at the War Office. 
The following are the abstracts of the results of the various experiments :—■ 
1 . Deliberate Practice . 
Abstract showing the average number of hits per effective round, allowing 
throughs, lodges, and two-thirds of the strikes to count. 
9-pounder b.l. gun. 
Shrapnel. 
Segment. 
Hits 
per round. 
•§ 
O CD 
Time&percn 
Percn. fuzes. 
Segment. 
% . 
P'O 
- 
o 
No. of effe 
tive rounc 
Effect. 
No.ofrounds 
fired. 
No. of effec¬ 
tive rounds. 
Effect. 
JNo.olrounds l 
fired. 
No. of effec¬ 
tive rounds. 
Effect. 
Targets. 
Shrapnel. 
Time and I 
percussion. | 
Percussion. 
15 
10 
153 
15 
7 
122 
9 
7 
38 
Single row of targets. 
15-3 
17-4 
5-4 
15 
8 
136 
15 
3 
11 
_ 
_ 
Double row of targets. 
| 6 feet apart . | 
17-0 
3 6 
_ 
15 
12 
371 
_ 
— 
— 
15 
6 
135 
30-9 
_ 
22-5 
12 
T 
199 
— 
— 
~ 
12 
5 
193 
30 feet apart . 
28-4 
— 
38-6 
15 
11 
235 
15 
8 
273 
15 
13 
459 
Columns of targets. 
21-3 
34-1 
35-3 
15 
14 
648 
15 
14 
515 
15 
13 
543 
46-2 
36-7 
41-7 
15 
15 
47 
15 
8 
31 
15 
5 
11 
Skirmishers. 
3-1 
3-8 
2-2 
15 
12 
13 
15 
12 
18 
— 
— 
1-0 
1-5 
— 
15 
10 
29 
15 
12 
16 
Skirmishers, with supports, $c. 
2'9 
1-3 
15 
12 
46 
15 
12 
31 
— 
— 
— 
3-8 
25 
— 
15 
15 
51 
— 
— 
15 
10 
26 
3-4 
— 
2-6 
* Communicated by Director-General of Ordnance. 
