Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: X-1 12. The line established by the 1000 yard butt on the fifth strip is carried the entire width of the rectangle, the butt construction allowing for ten long range targets with twenty-four feet between centers in each width of 288 feet. This gives a clear space of thirty feet from the extreme end of the targets to the dividing line between the rectangles. This is to allow the wind-flags to fly their full extent without interfering with the flight of the bullets; to prevent balls striking the flag-poles; or the flags themselves interfering with the line of sight. 13. The above arrangement gives sixty targets for long range shooting in one continuous pit. These pits or butts are numbered from right to left I, II, III, IV, V and VI. 14. The first thing is to establish the height of the embankment wall. Taking it for granted that the ground that this ideal range is to be constructed on is level, the height of the main pit for 1000 yards is established with a target bed two feet above the ground. This will make the height of the embankment wall above the level 12 feet. A line is established from the top of this embankment wall to the 700 yard firing point. This gives the height for the different intervening butts. For instance, on the skirmish butt, VI, there is a 900 yard butt, carrying ten targets 100 yards in front of the main pit. This line established allows the carrying of the height of this embankment to 10 'feet. The 800 yard embankment in section IV is carried to a height of 8 feet. Sections III, IV, V and VI have a continuous pit containing 17 mid range targets in each section, with an interval of 14 feet between centers, with 29 feetfrom the extreme end of the end of the targets to the dividing lines of the section. The embankment for this long pit is 4 feet 6 inc...