Chapter 372 (1/2)

The needle type afterloading rifles are also known as the rotary back pulling machine rifles.

Because this is the first rifle in the world to use a rotary back-pull gun, this rifle has three names.

The first name is naturally the needle type rear loading rifles, and the second name is to commemorate that this rifle is the world's first rotary rear pulling machine rifle, so this rifle has the second name.

As for the third name of this rifle, also famous, that is the Dreiser rifle.

On November 20, 1787, a baby boy was born from a locksmith's family in the small town of semmeldane, the Marquis of Mainz.

The birth of the baby boy brings endless happiness to this ordinary family. As a locksmith, his father hopes that the newly born boy can take over his mantle and become a locksmith in the small town. After all, in this turbulent era, although the income of locksmith is not very high, it is still a stable industry. If children can learn their own craft in the future, at least they need not worry about eating, drinking and living.

But the father of the child did not expect that his son did not inherit his locksmith's mantle when he grew up, but plunged into the work of weapon research and development. When the child was 22 years old, he went to a French gun factory and spent five years testing several afterloading rifles.

But unfortunately, the boy, who has grown up as an adult, failed to test these models of rifles.

The failure did not make the young man discouraged. He then returned to his hometown, semelda, where he opened a factory to produce fire caps using the newly developed technology.

The production of the fire cap brought him huge benefits, but he did not indulge in the huge benefits, because he always had a wish in his heart, that is to develop a real rifle that can surpass any rifle in the world.

With the support of this belief, he never stopped the research and development work of the breech gun since he opened his own fire cap processing factory in 1814. It took him 26 years to complete the design of the whole gun with ammunition from the back in 1836!

However, at that time, rifles were loaded with ammunition from the muzzle, and it was undoubtedly a very ”non mainstream” practice to load ammunition from the back. Just as the Ferguson rifle developed by Lieutenant Ferguson was ridiculed by the British people, the world's first rifle, Ferguson rifle, was finally born dead.

Back loaded guns were very unpopular at that time. Even when a Swiss military delegation visited Prussia, the Swiss general who inspected the back loaded guns in Prussia yelled as he walked along: ”it's noble to eat with your mouth (refers to front loaded guns). Swiss shooters are never mean to shoot with” enema guns ”(refers to back loaded guns) loaded from the tail.”

This shows how unpopular the afterloading gun was at that time.

However, the Prussian government realized the superiority of this ”non mainstream” rifle, so the government immediately acquired the invention and secretly developed it as the most advanced secret weapon.

In 1841, after Dreiser solved several leaping key technologies of the pin gun, Dreiser rifles were immediately adopted by the Prussian army and were listed in the name of m1841.

This is the origin of the famous Dreiser rifle!

When the stone bear decided to change the rifle of the expeditionary army, his first thought was the famous Dreiser rifle.