Chapter 94 (2/2)

”I'm sure!”

Second lieutenant Ferguson's affirmative tone put a big stone down in bear's heart.

”Well, now that you're sure the barrel will work, let's talk about the design of the whole gun. Let's go back to the room and say, ”it's a little cold here.”

Lieutenant Ferguson held the barrel tightly and followed the stone bear back to his room.

”Patrick, I want to ask you, do you have any idea about the gun to be made? How do you improve your range? ”

Ferguson thought for a moment and said: ”to improve the range of the rifle, it is necessary to pull the rifling out of the barrel. Only the rifling gun can make the range further. You said that yesterday morning. Now I'm thinking about the method of back loading that you said yesterday. I think that if you can really realize the method of back loading that you said, it will definitely be of great benefit to improving the loading speed of soldiers. It's just that I haven't thought about how to carry out afterloading, because if I want to use afterloading, I have to open the powder chamber, which can't guarantee the airtight of the powder chamber. Although it can improve the loading speed, the power of the gun will be reduced because the powder chamber can't be airtight, It may not even be as good as the standard rifle I use now. ”

Hearing this, the stone bear was happy. He really deserves to be the guy he likes. Even though he is only 20 years old now, he has already been able to think of the advantages and disadvantages of the back loading method through his own suggestions.

So the stone bear said with a smile: ”if you use the rotary valve locking mode?”

”Locking mode of rotary valve?” Lieutenant Ferguson was stunned, and then stood there motionless, as if the stone bear's words were a magic spell, which petrified Ferguson in a moment.

The stone bear was happy again.

This guy is really the capable man who will develop Ferguson rifle in the future. He just mentioned the most critical part of Ferguson rifle, and let this guy enter a state of ”Epiphany”.

In fact, there is no difference between Ferguson rifles and Kentucky rifles except for the rear loading method. They are all self-contained rifles. However, it is precisely because of a way of back loading that this rifle has become a rifle of great historical and practical significance.

Nowadays, all rifles used in various countries are front loaded, that is, ammunition is loaded from the muzzle, and the whole barrel is sealed except the muzzle.

Ferguson's rifle has a round hole in the back of the barrel, that is, the part of the powder chamber, so that the bullet and powder can be directly sent into the powder chamber from the round hole when loading.

Of course, a hole is opened in the powder chamber. If it is not blocked, the expanded air generated by the ignition of the powder will inevitably pour out from this hole, and it is impossible to push the projectile out of the barrel. Therefore, how to close the loading hole after loading ammunition has become a big problem.

However, it was more than a decade later that lieutenant Ferguson solved this problem and made a real afterburner appear in the world.

And the key to solve the locking problem is the locking mechanism that can rotate!

PS: bow and thank you for your reward.