Chapter 371 (2/2)

The most important thing is that it is not very difficult to refit a Ferguson rifle into a miner's rifle. Once it can be refitted, the tribe will not waste much.

This is the original plan of the stone bear.

But as the saying goes, plans never catch up with changes. Stone bear is now facing such an embarrassing situation.

Stone bear didn't expect brother Gai to be so fierce, so he got mercury fulminate and fire cap out in a short time.

With the firecap, the biggest difficulty for the introduction of the needle type afterloading rifling gun has been eliminated, because with the firecap, the bullet with fixed charge can be developed, so the needle type afterloading rifling gun is not a problem.

Today's flint guns, including the latest Ferguson rifles, all use the charging method of ”lead shot + bulk black powder”. Even now, the propellant of each bullet is quantitative, but when loading, the propellant and lead shot are scattered and loaded into the barrel.

Although Ferguson's rifle is loaded in the way of rear loading, and its firing speed per minute is nearly twice as fast as that of front loading, this method of bulk loading is still relatively slow.

However, because all of them are flint guns now, the propellants in the gun chamber need external flint to ignite, so the guns of this era must use this kind of bulk way of propellants. Otherwise, if the propellants are wrapped in the cartridge case, the external fire will not ignite the propellants, and the bullets will not be able to shoot out of the gun chamber.

Before the fire cap was made out, even if the military of European countries had long thought about the issue of fixed ammunition, the real fixed ammunition had no use at all.

When the fire cap appears, the fixed ammunition will appear.

In the original historical time and space, the fire cap would not be invented until half a century later. At present, the armies of all European countries do not have fire caps, and they still use the pre fire loading gun. So when brother gaige got out the fire caps, he was half a century ahead of the most advanced countries in Europe.

The fire cap appeared. At the beginning, Shi Xiong intended to use it on the grenade, and he was also practical, but the biggest application of the fire cap was in the fixed ammunition, whether it was the fixed ammunition with metal shell or the fixed ammunition with paper shell.

Although the barrel is excellent, no one can stop it in this era, it is not as convenient as the rifle. Therefore, the stone bear is now considering whether it is time to make the fixed ammunition and the real needle type afterloading rifles.

Stone bear knows very well that once this kind of needled afterloading rifles with paper cartridge case and fixed ammunition is equipped with the army of the gaoshu tribe, the army of the gaoshu tribe will have the biggest cornerstone for dominating North America, and even the United States will not be able to compete with the army of the gaoshu tribe with needled afterloading rifles.

There's no way to fight. Even if the U.S. armed forces are carrying Kentucky rifles with an effective range of less than 200 meters, how can they fight back with a pinprick rifle with an effective range of 600 meters? Moreover, the firing rate of the needle type afterloading rifles is generally about 12 rounds per minute, which is twice as fast as that of the Ferguson rifles!

The effective range of this kind of rifle is more than three times that of other rifles, and the shooting speed is so high. The army of gaoshu tribe with this kind of rifle can fly kites to kill the enemy alive in battle!

You can't hit me, but I can hit you with any posture!

How can we fight such a battle?