The Nenana daily news., 1918-04-29
AMERICAN ENFIELD FIRES TWO SHOTS TO GERMAN
 MAUSER'S ONE, IS CL AIM

ment in the position of the pencil. Assume the pencil to be the position of the rear sight of a gun and the door knob the front sight, the near CT the rear sight to the eye the slighter movement of the head brings the eye in position to sight the gun.
 The rear sights on both the modi- fled Enfield and Springfield rifles are placed nearer to the eye of the firer than in the case of the Mauser rifle. The rear sight on the Mauser is placed we'll forward of the re- ceiver on the barrel, while the rear sight on the Springfield is placed right against the front end of the receiver immediately in front of the eye of the firer
 Advantage of Large Open Peep
 The modified Enfield is also pro- vided with a large "open peep" near the eye, through which the eye cas- fly looks and quickly and auto- matically centers itself in aiming. This large ''open peep" combined with its rearward position gives a good field of view, permitting this rifle to be quickly pointed at an advancing enemy. Incidentally the rearward position of the rear sight on the modified Enfield rifle length ems the sighting radius Cor distance between the front and rear sights resulting in increased accuracy (3) The weight of the Mauser bullet is slightly greater than that of the United States bullet and the bullet is propelled at a somewhat greater velocity; but the Mauser bull let is of a peculiar shape, such that at the longer fighting ranges it is not considered by many of our rifle experts as accurate as the Unitel States bullet because more apt to tumble or "key hole" at those ranges especially when the wind is blowing across the range.
 It is also known that the Mauser rifle produced in large quantities for the German government and others, is not made with the me- chanical accuracy demanded in the manufacture of the chamber and bore of the United States rifles. One of our rifle experts, who re- gently fired a captured German rifle, states that the bore was not as accurately finished as in the Springfield rifle, nor was the rifle ammunition as accurate
 Demonstrated in Tests
 To form some idea of their stand ing, the records of the Springfield rifle and its cartridge in interna. tional competitive tests with the military rifles and cartridges of other countries may be considered
 In the international Olympic shoot of 1908, held as Bisley, Eng land. the United States, United ] Kingdom, Canada, France Sweden Sorway, Greece, and Denmark par ticipating and scoring in the order just named, our rifle team won first place with the Springfield rifle.
 In the international Olympic shoot of 1912, held in connection with the Olympic games at Stock holm, Sweden, national teams al using their military service rifle: from the United States, Great Brit ain, Sweden, South Africa, France Norway, Greece, Denmark, Russia and Hungary scored in the order just named.
 Worlds Record for United State, In 1912 at Ottawa, Canada, tht American team firing Springfield rifles put on the targets the world: record for any military rifle d
 800, 900, and 1000 yards. Thi. record still stands.
 In the Pan-American Internationa Match. held at Buenos Aires 1T 1912, in which the United States