664 
November, 1918 
F 
All Sportsmen 
a&ree on Patrick 
—no matter how widely they may 
differ on rods, g,uns and other equip¬ 
ment. They all know that every 
Patrick garment, whether Hunting 
Coat, Pants, Jacket, Vest, Mackinaw 
or Blanket, offers the most warmth 
with the least bulk—all wool, from 
“sheep that thrive in the snow.” 
"While the Patrick Mills are producing a lar&e 
supply of &oods for the Government, they have 
been permitted to manufacture a limited quan¬ 
tity for their dealers. This supply is now all 
in the hands of our dealers. 
This Patrick Label on any garment signifies 
*Ti&&er than Weather,” and means that it is 
made of all pure wool. Write for the new 
catalog showing many styles. 
We will direct you to 
some hifeh-&rade 
dealer. 
Patrick-Duluth 
Woolen Mills 
12 Safeinaw St. # Duluth, Minn. 
4 _ 
£ 
ROBERT H. ROCKWELL 
2504 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
O R E S T A N 1) S T R E A M 
THE TYRO’S PRIMER 
CERTAIN TERMS, PHRASES AND IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS 
USED BY MILITARY RIFLEMEN ARE DEFINED AND EXPLAINED 
By CAPTAIN ROY S. TINNEY 
E VERY t trade, business, profession and 
sport has a language of its own, and 
nowhere does one find a greater range 
of unique and lucid expressions than among 
those veterans of the'grooved tube who are 
today training our boys for the Hun-hunt 
“over there.” Practically all of those 
senior riflemen are graduates of the rough 
school of experience, and while taking post 
graduate courses in applied ballistics in va¬ 
rious unpopulated corners of this continent, 
and a few others, they have acquired a vo¬ 
cabulary unhampered by tradition or the 
rules of grammar. And this freedom of 
expression also extends to words in com¬ 
mon usage. For instance, cartridge is pro¬ 
nounced “cat’-rige” and is shot out from 
between the teeth with a snap, much the 
same as the trapshooter barks “pul!” Also 
the final “g” is frequently omitted as in 
“cleanin’ rod” and “shootin’ iron.” All of 
which is eminently correct and proper and 
in no wise indicates a lack of “schoolin’.” 
When a brother sportsman suggested that 
I compile a sort of gun bug’s dictionary 
by writing up a budget of the technical 
terms “touchin’ on an’, appertainin’ to” the 
art of propelling a bullet from a grooved 
barrel, I replied, “Ah shucks! It’s all in 
the front part of the Brown Bible.” 
“Exactly,” replied my friend, “and start 
1 right in by telling me what you mean by 
the ‘Brown Bible’?” Whereat I dutifully 
(produced the Small Arms Firing Manual, 
1913, which, plus a score or two of changes 
that must be painfully pasted to the pages 
of the original volume and are always get¬ 
ting lost, stands today as “holy script” to 
the Army on matters of rifle practice. 
A few minutes later the inquisitive per¬ 
son returned the “Brown Bible” with this 
comment. “When it comes to writing gun 
dope you resemble ‘Truthful James’ but 
orally you are about as trustworthy as a 
German Ambassador. I wanted to know 
what you cranks mean by the term ‘possi¬ 
ble,’ or ‘making a possible’ and the man 
who wrote this book was mighty careful 
not to disclose military information. The 
term is ‘awol,’ get that?” 
“Absent Without Leave,” I quoted. 
“That is exactly the point. The ‘patois’ 
you lead-throwing artists speak is marked 
‘A. W. O. L.’ even among sportsmen and 
it’s time you give us the real dope.” 
And I now realize I have been let in for 
a whale of a job. Sure as shootin’ I will 
overlook and leave out some of the com¬ 
monest and most important terms which 
by their obviousness will escape attention, 
so I now send out this S. O. S. to my 
brother riflemen to stand by and send in 
such additions and corrections, comments 
or suggestions as may come to mind. In 
this way we will be able to cover the sub¬ 
ject with sufficient scope and thoroughness 
to render some real service to the Tyro 
who not only aspires to be a successful 
Hun-hunter, but also hopes to some day be¬ 
come a duly ordained dispenser of the 
great American Gospel of getting in the 
first shot and making that first shot count. 
The ordinary alphabetical arrangement of 
such terms is far from satisfactory as it 
breaks all sequence and continuity and 
what at first glance seems to be an orderly 
arrangement, proves, upon reading, to be a 
hopeless jumble of abstract and disjointed 
information. The best way to carry facts 
in mind is by the association of ideas and 
in so far as possible I shall endeavor to 
segregate the various subjects into topical 
groups where one explanation and defini¬ 
tion will relate to and amplify the other, 
for the object of this little commentary on 
the terms and basic principles of marks¬ 
manship is more in the nature of a primer 
than a dictionary. Also, while the matter 
presented will have a military color, it will 
he just as useful and instructive to the 
hunter as the soldier, and the needs of the 
sportsman will never be lost sight of. 
Marksmanship and Musketry 
HESE two terms have been so • fre¬ 
quently misused in the daily press 
that the average reader has come to 
regard them as synonyms, while in reality 
they are nothing of the sort. 
Marksmanship is an ability on the part 
of an individual to so handle, point and 
shoot a firearm that he is able to send a 
bullet, charge of shot, or other projectile 
to a certain point at a certain time. The 
acid test of all marksmanship is accuracy 
and the Tyro must never for a moment 
forget that the number of shots he fires 
is a matter of supreme inconsequence, but 
the number of bullets that hit is a matter 
of vital importance. When instructing ! 
green men this bit of truth can not be ex- ' 
pressed too forcibly or repeated too often. ' 
Rapidity of fire is valuable just so long as 
a substantial degree of accuracy is not sac- 1 
rificed. Both in the hunting field and on 1 
the battle line, “the shots that hit are the ’ 
shots that count,” all other shooting is mere¬ 
ly a useless display of fireworks, an inter 
waste of time, ammunition and effort. 
Musketry is nothing more than team 
work among the riflemen engaged on the 
firing line and the efficiency of a military 
unit depends upon three things: individual 
marksmanship, leadership and team work. 
A company of expert riflemen can not be¬ 
come effective under poor leadership, a 
