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FOREST AND STREAM 
December, 1918 
“I like you, Jim, but your 
Cream is no good,” 
said a traveling salesman friend of mine 
the other day—and he meant it. Claimed 
he had been giving Mennen’s Shaving 
Cream a fair trial for a week, and it fell 
short of my claims about 103%. 
“Try it once more,” I said. “And I'll 
buy you a dinner if you haven’t changed your 
mind.” 
I watched him carefully. He squeezed out 
enough cream for three shaves and brushed it 
for 39 seconds by the watch, using a scant 
brushful of water. 
“Wash it off!” I said. “You are making 
paste—not lather. Start all over.” 
Then I took charge. 
He started with about one-half inch of 
cream and all the water his brush would hold. 
As soon as a lather was whipped up, he kept 
adding water until he had built a lather as light 
as beaten whites of eggs. He worked this 
lather in with the brush for three full minutes. 
Say! I wish you could have seen the 
expression of dawning appreciation that showed 
in his eyes as the old scythe began to sing 
through the stubble. 
“Gosh! Jim,” he said, after the first 
over, “I haven’t had such a shave since that 
old darky head barber at che Planters' Hotel 
retired, fifteen years ago.” 
I’m elling this story because it would be 
too bad for anyone to lose a life-time of pleas¬ 
ant Mennen shaves by getting prejudiced at 
the start because of a wrong method of using it. 
Candidly, our files contain a few letters 
complaining about Mennen’s, but our shipping 
receipts show that every morning considerably 
more than a million men use Mennen’s— 
right —and like it. 
Address 
(Mennen Salesman) 
Send 
12c. 
for my 
Demon¬ 
strator 
Tube. 
J. H. 
JIM HENRY, 
House of Mennen, 
42 OrangeSt.,Newark, N.J. 
Dear Jim; 
I promise to follow instructions 
—plenty of water—no rubbinjr with 
finders. Send me a demonstratot 
tube. 1 enclose 12 cents. 
Name 
E1FLES 
AND 
MFLJ 
IMl 
m 
THE TYRO’S PRIMER 
CERTAIN TERMS, PHRASES AND IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS 
USED BY MILITARY RIFLEMEN ARE DEFINED AND EXPLAINED 
By CAPTAIN ROY S. T1NNEY 
(continued from last month) 
Army Rifles 
Old Springfield —The .45 caliber single¬ 
shot rifle used by our army prior to the 
adoption of the Krag. A fine, reliable old 
weapon that is still far from obsolete and 
is now doing yeoman service among the 
1 various Home Guard units scattered over 
the country. Its charge is 70 grains of 
black powder and a cast lead bullet weigh¬ 
ing either 405 or 500 grains. The old gun 
possesses a killing power exceeded by few 
of our modern rifles and is very accurate, 
grouping its shots in a five-inch circle at 
200 yards, and an 18-inch circle at 500 
yards. Its chief virtue is that the old piece 
never wears out and if given proper care 
will last a life time. The only one who 
speaks disparagingly of the Old Springfield 
is the chap who possesses no real knowl¬ 
edge of rifles. 
Krag-Jorgensen — commonly called the 
Krag. The army’s first magazine rifle. It 
was adopted in 1892 and was followed by 
•Models 1896'and 1898, and a carbine Model 
1899. It is a bolt-action g^.i that has a box 
magazine holding five cartridges that lies 
horizontally under the receiver; in this par¬ 
ticular it differs from any other military 
rifle. Its sole fault is that the cartridges 
must be fed into the magazine one at a 
time through a gate on the right side of the 
rifle, while the newer rifles are fed with 
clips of five cartridges. It is an excellent 
arm and saw service from 1892 to 1905 
leaving behind a reputation of standing 
more abuse and still keeping in serviceable 
condition than any weapon ever used in our 
army. It is superior to the Lebel rifle now 
used by the French Troops, the rifle that 
stopped the Huns and is now sending them 
back over the Rhine. It is known as a 
“30-40-220,” i. e., .30 caliber, 40 grains of 
powder and a full jacketed blunt nosed bul¬ 
let weighing 220 grains. It is accurate up 
to a thousand yards and won international 
matches. It is an excellent hunting weapon 
and sporting arms patterned after it and 
using the same ammunition are today re¬ 
garded as among our best big game rifles. 
By loading it with the present pointed 150- 
grain service bullet and the latest powder, 
it equals the shooting qualities of the most 
modern guns. It is largely used by the 
Rifle Clubs affiliated with the National Rifle 
Association, and is today rendering excel¬ 
lent service on the ranges. It has done 
good service in the Training Camps and 
some of our Engineer Corps went to France 
equipped with these guns. It is not an ob¬ 
solete weapon as some people are prone to 
infer. 
I New Springfield —U. S. Rifle Model 1903 
and Lec-Enfield —U. S. Rifle Model 1917. 
The two rifles now being issued to our 
troops. These weapons have been repeat¬ 
edly described in Forest and Stream and 
other current periodicals and any comment 
upon them here is unnecessary. 
Bore Measurements 
Caliber —The diameter of the bore of a 
rifle. American manufacturers designate 
this measurement by hundredths of an 
inch, our smallest rifle being .22 and the 
largest .50 caliber. 
English gunmakers use thousandths of 
an inch, their rifles ranging from .177 to 
.600 caliber. Of late years the four great 
American firms have also adopted this sys¬ 
tem of measurement as evidenced by the 
.256—.251—.401 and .405 cartridges. 
French and Italian gunsmiths use milli¬ 
meters, abbreviated m/m, their rifles rang¬ 
ing from 6 to 11 m/m in caliber and here 
is a brief table of comparison: 
Millimeters Inches 
6 .2362 
7 .2756 
8 .3150 
9 . 3543 
10 . 3937 
n . 4331 
As this table is too intricate to be easily 
remembered, a good rule for making men¬ 
tal calculations of comparison is this: 
Multiply the number of millimeters by four 
and extend the result to thousandths, then 
subtract one-half an American caliber, .005. 
For example, the French Army rifle, the 
Lebel, is an 8 m/m gun. Four times 8 
equals .320 less .005 = .315 or . 3 ij 4 caliber 
American standard. This result happens 
to be exact, and a glance at the above table 
will show that the degree of error in cal¬ 
culating the smaller and larger calibers is 
so small that the rule remains practical and 
useful of oral explanations during instruc¬ 
tion or conversation with a Brother Bug. 
Measuring the Speed of Bullets 
Chronograph — A scientific instrument 
used by ballistic engineers for accurately 
determining the speed attained by rifle bul¬ 
lets, or other projectiles, as they travel 
through the air. The term used is velocity, 
the initial speed of the bullet being called 
muzzle velocity, and the speed of the ball 
at any given point in the gun’s range re¬ 
sulting velocity. 
The unit of measure is foot-seconds, 
meaning the number of feet the bullet 
would travel in one second if the speed 
of the ball was not reduced by outside in¬ 
fluences such as air resistance or wind. 
For example: The muzzle velocity of our 
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