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hef GERMAN 77 mm. MODEL 1896 FIELD PIECE. AMENDED RANGE TABLES. I. For the model 1915 steel H.E. shell, with gray body and yellow head, armed with long-point-fuze. The maximum effective range is now 7600 m. instead of 8400 m. This range table is to replace the former range tables reproduced on page 25 of lst Edition of Vol. I "Divisional Artillery" of the series "Notes on German Artillery Materiel". When shooting with the German range drum the angles are measured in Range Angles of Elevation in degrees and sixteenths in meters degrees & minutes of a degree as follows: 100 TRONAN 200 "NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 300 s SERVICE" 400 500 45 12/16 600 56 15/16 700 1 6 .1-2/16 800 1 16 .1-4/16 900 1 25 .1-7/16 1000 1 34 .1-9/16 1100 l. 42 1-11/16 1200 1 55 1-15/16 1300 2 7 2-2/16 1400 2 18 2-5/16 1500 2 30 2-8/16 1600 2 45 2-12/16 1700 2 57 2-15/16 1800 3 10 3-3/16 1900 3 23 3-6/16 2000 3 37 3-10/16