Chapter 196 (1/2)

”What about the power, range and accuracy of this gun?” Asked the stone bear.

”It's pretty good. It's better than I expected.” ”Ferguson is very excited,” the effective range of this gun can reach 200 yards, at this distance, with this gun can easily hit a slightly smaller target than the real person. The power is also very good. Boss, you can try this gun

Stone bear nodded with a smile and nodded at Ferguson, who immediately handed him a small cloth bag and a bullet.

The small bag contained gunpowder, and one bag contained about eight grams of gunpowder. Before the large-scale production of the new gunpowder, the French gunpowder needed about eight grams for each shot.

The concept of fixed charge gunpowder has been implemented in the European continent for nearly a hundred years. Before the flint gun became popular, when the European countries used the firerope gun, the firerope shooter's shoulder would be slanted with a leather strap, and the belt would be hung with twelve wooden pre loaded cartridges, each of which was the charge of a gun, a bag of pellets and a horn powder can.

At that time, the Musketeers were all carrying twelve pre loaded cartridges. This kind of musketeers was called ”Twelve Apostles”.

But between 1670 and 1690, with more and more flint guns in the army, leather straps gradually disappeared from the Musketeer's equipment list. Instead of it is an ammunition box, which is wrapped in oil paper and pre loaded with a precise amount of gunpowder and a projectile. When loading, the Musketeer bites one end of the gunpowder roll with his teeth, bites the bullet in his mouth, pours the gunpowder into the muzzle of the reversed Musketeer, then inserts the bullet into the muzzle, the packaged oil paper is used as the filling plug, and finally compacts the ammunition and the propellant with a pressure bar (first wooden bar, then iron bar).

The gunpowder roll that Ferguson had brought before could not be used because of the calibre of the new rifle. If you want to remake this kind of gunpowder roll, stone bear hasn't measured out the paper, and Ferguson didn't bring oil paper when he came here, so the method of using oil paper to make this kind of fixed loading gunpowder roll can't be implemented for the time being.

But it's hard for Ferguson. Although there is no oil paper in the gaoshu tribe, well, it can't be said that there is no oil paper. The wooden casks containing gunpowder, sulfur and tinnitus seized by the stone bear from the French are lined with kraft paper and oil paper, but that thing can't move. Once the lined kraft paper and oil paper are pulled out, then both gunpowder and tinnitus sulfur are easily affected by moisture.

But there were many cotton cloth in the gaoshu tribe, so Ferguson commissioned the clever women in the tribe to sew a batch of such small cloth bags, which were specially used to hold gunpowder.

Although this kind of bag is not moisture-proof, the powder in the bag can be loaded as soon as it is used. As long as it doesn't rain, it's OK to use this method temporarily.

The powder in each small bag is quantitative, which can be regarded as fixed powder. When loading, just untie the mouth of the cloth bag and pour all the gunpowder into it.

The stone bear first plugs the bullet into the hole above the open powder chamber, and then tilts the muzzle down a little bit, so that the bullet will automatically clip into the barrel along a shallow groove in the powder chamber after entering the powder chamber.

Then the stone bear opened the bag and poured all the powder into the powder chamber. Then turn the trigger retainer again, and the iron cover above the powder chamber is rotated with the help of the thread to seal the powder chamber, and the small iron bar below the cover can also compact the powder in the powder chamber after the cover is screwed. The compacted powder will resist the projectile in front, even if the gun is erected, the projectile will not leave the barrel.

Stone bear took out a small pinch of gunpowder from another big cloth bag that Ferguson took out, put it in the medicine pot next to the fire hole in the gunpowder room, and then pulled down the sickle reed to cover the top of the medicine pot.

This small amount of gunpowder is specially used for igniting. When shooting, the ”rooster” (PS: the gun term for the firing hammer in the firing mechanism) will move rapidly downward driven by the reed, and the flint clamped by the flint clamp on the ”rooster” will rub with the sickle reed above the medicine pot, and then produce sparks to ignite the small amount of powder in the medicine pot.

Because the flint on the ”rooster” rubs against the sickle reed, the sickle reed has sealed the medicine pot and acted as the lid of the medicine pot, so the ignited powder in the medicine pot can not explode to other positions, and the flame can only be transmitted to the powder chamber at the back of the barrel in a very short time through the ignition hole, and finally ignite the powder in the powder chamber. The ignited powder in the powder chamber will burst out a large amount of gas in an instant, and the gas will push the projectile to shoot out from the barrel to complete a shot.

After finishing this set of actions, even if the loading is finished, the next moment is to raise the gun to aim, and then pull the trigger to complete the firing.

”Boss, there's a target outside. I stood up when I tried the gun. The straight-line distance from the door to the target is 200 yards. I measured it myself

”Come on, let's go out and shoot a few shots!” Stone bear took the gun filled with clothes, strode out of the house, walked out of the house, looked into the distance, vaguely could see the human shaped target nailed to a big tree.

Two hundred yards is a little more than 180 meters. In this distance, even real people look very small. The target is slightly two circles smaller than the human body, so the head and body of the target can only be vaguely distinguished at this distance.

Stone bear took up his rifle, butts tightly against his right shoulder socket, his left arm straight, his left hand firmly holding the gun body under the barrel, his right hand also holding the front of the butts, his right index finger slowly extended into the trigger retainer, pulled on the trigger.

His feet were separated back and forth, breath holding, his face leaning against the butt of the gun, his left eye slightly narrowed, his right eye through the front sight of the barrel, aiming at the humanoid target 200 yards away.

When the collimator and the head of the target are in a line, the stone bear pulls the trigger.

With the sparks from the flint rubbing on the sickle reed, the gunpowder in the medicine pot was ignited. A few seconds later, the stone bear only felt that the body of the gun was shocked, a large stream of smoke came out from the ignition hole and muzzle of the gun, and the round bullet was also ejected in an instant.