"Click...... Burst! Hahahaha...... "This cannon fired, and the flintlock device ignited the black powder in the medicine pool normally, which in turn ignited the collodion, and the cannonball was also launched, but unfortunately it was not even thirty meters away. What followed was Swan's unbridled laughter, and the second fool made up materials for himself, and he thought that Hong Tao tortured him less.

"Your Majesty, he!" Hong Tao can endure it, but Bush does not want to endure it.

"Ignore him, change the No. 2 medicine, it's still a quarter of the volume." Hong Tao is now bearing the burden of humiliation and not being affected by any external influence, and he will talk about it when the test is over.

"Click...... Bang! "This time the deck gun really started, and the gun carriage was pushed back by the recoil and slid back more than a meter, and it looked no different from the original firing force of the black powder, but there was no smoke in the muzzle, only a faint yellow mist.

"Your Majesty, it's burned clean, and you can launch it again without cleaning it up." Bush was the first to jump up, ran over with the barrel of the cannon, stabbed it into the bore of the cannon, rubbed it vigorously a few times, and then took it out again. There was only a faint gray color on the shaft head, which was caused by the shell rubbing against the barrel.

"Swan, go and see the bullet point, you go for yourself...... Boy, I can't tire you to death, make you laugh! Hong Tao's revenge was not long in coming, and the clearing was supposed to be a training ground for recruits and a shooting range for Swan, with distance markings on it. But it still depends on people to see the impact point, and every time he has to run out for more than half a mile and then run back, if he tries a few more shots, Swan can bear it.

"Seven hundred and thirty meters of the first landing point." Soon Swann brought back the data.

"It's still number two, change one-third of the charge." Hong Tao personally wrote down the angle of the artillery and the firing distance in his notebook, and then continued the experiment.

"Don't start! Don't start! "Most of these boxes of collodion glue, if replaced with black powder, at most three or four guns will be gone, but now they have been fired eleven times, and Bush is still stuffing medicine into the second deck gun. Swan only had a pair of pants left on him, and he ran back and forth in a few minutes, running farther and farther each time, and even if more than half of the test firing was blown up or could not be fired normally, it was not a comfortable thing to run a distance of one or two thousand meters several times in a row.

"Bang!" Unfortunately, Swan's prayers didn't work, and this time not only did it start, but it shot farther than a dozen times before. Swann could tell from the distance of the gun wagon's retreat without having to run over to see it.

"Ten meters nine hundred...... Your Majesty, can you let me rest for a while, I won't talk much in the future! Swann came back almost crawling this time, and the joy he had when he laughed at Hong Tao just now was gone.

"It's done! It's number seven! The normal charge is a quarter of that of black powder, and the full charge is up to a third. Now you go and call a soldier, and I'm going to test the charge of the rifle. Hong Tao felt very comfortable when he saw that Swan was so tired that he couldn't get up.

"Test the rifle! It won't blow up! As soon as Si Wan heard that Hong Tao had finished playing with the cannon, he was about to toss the rifle again, and he almost fell to the ground. Those rifles are his life, if he blows up a few of them, he will die.

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and take it, or I'll let you report the target!"

With the data of the test artillery, the process of testing the rifle is much simpler. The charge is controlled at about a quarter, two deflagration is too fast can not be used, three deflagration is too slow do not need to try, basically did not waste any time, from the four moderate nitrogen content of the collodion, pick out a more suitable for gun firing.

After switching to collodion as a firing agent, the firing distance and ballistic straightness of the rifled gun have been significantly improved, and a mini bullet can be used to penetrate a two-inch thick fir wood from a distance of 400 meters, and the dispersion area of the projectile impact point does not exceed one meter. Even if the mass-produced rifles are less accurate than these well-built rifles, it is enough to have an accurate head at a distance of 200 meters.

In fact, the pursuit of accuracy that shoots too far is actually meaningless, how many people can aim at one person and shoot accurately beyond the length of two football fields? If you can reach this level of training, it means that all soldiers are snipers.

"Hahaha, Your Majesty, do you see! Hit again! "There is one in front of Hong Tao, this guy Swann is a natural sharpshooter. He has moved away from only looking at the target with his eyes, and instead feels the target with his eyes and brain. In the absence of an optical-assisted sight, shooting at a humanoid wooden target 400 meters away can actually hit two out of ten. Now he began to laugh again, which could be regarded as revenge for the moment just now, because Hong Tao fired fifteen shots, but he didn't hit a single shot, even if he put the gun on the trunk of a tree as a stand.

"Fool it, there is no pain in the body!" On the issue of shooting skills, Hong Tao really has nothing to do with Swan, this thing is a personal talent is king, even if he practices every day, he may not be able to compare to Swan. Since there is such a guy next to him, don't be addicted to guns, let's go back to the lab and continue to think about the next supporting product.

With smokeless gunpowder, flintlock devices are a bit unsafe. Since the cotton wool is made into granules, it can no longer be poured into the medicine pool, and if you want to trigger the firing and firing in the barrel or barrel, you have to sprinkle some black powder on the fire door as a primer. This is a bit of a snake to add to the feeling, obviously using smokeless gunpowder hundreds of years later, but still have to use such a backward tunnel ignition device, not matching!

Historically, what came after the flintlock pistol? The firing pistol is also! As the name suggests, a blaster pistol is to hit the fire cap with a hammer or firing pin to deflagrate, and then ignite the firing charge and fire the bullet. This kind of gun is very close to all kinds of firearms in later generations in terms of fire principle, and its fire rate is very high, with an average of hundreds of bullets before a blind fire occurs.

The firing speed of the rifle is faster, and the protection against rain and moisture is also stronger, so it can still be fired in sports warfare. Moreover, the firing pistol and flintlock pistol do not need to be changed in any way except for the ignition device, and the changed ignition device is much easier to make than the flintlock device.

But such a good gun, why didn't Hong Tao make it, and had to get a flintlock pistol? Because there is a difficulty here, that is, what to use for the fire cap! I can't get a fire cap that burns when I hit it, and everything else is in vain. What's even more difficult is that this fire cap must also be safe, not a little touch, and can only be fired when it hits above a certain pressure.

Thunder \ mercury, which is the most commonly used fire cap material in later generations. But what it was made of, Hong Tao really didn't know, and he didn't teach this experiment in high school chemistry. He's just a pseudo-military fan, and he doesn't see things as soon as he dips into water, and he lacks an in-depth understanding of the knowledge he is not very interested in. In fact, the cotton can also be ignited, but the stability of the cotton is too poor, and the sensitivity is too low after passivation, so it is impossible to rely on the fire.

But is there an alternative to mine and mercury? The answer is yes, and Hong Tao happens to know some. He doesn't like hunting, so he naturally knows some hunting enthusiasts, both Chinese and foreign.

It's better in China that they don't dare to DIY guns and bullets too much, but foreigners are different, especially Canadians who call themselves farmers, and a lot of their shotgun ammunition is made by themselves. The fishing and hunting shops there will also sell some raw materials, such as empty shells, fire caps and fire and ammunition raw materials, so that hunting enthusiasts can go back and make ammunition by themselves. If you catch up with people with a retro spirit, they will make their own bullets in a very primitive way.

Playing with guns and hunting is a kind of entertainment and culture in North America, just like we play with bracelets, and we have to make our own when we play to a certain extent. No matter how advanced it is, it has to be handmade by ancient methods, and those who go on the lathe do not play, and take it out to make connoisseurs laugh.

It is said that in Pennsylvania, there are still some people who live exclusively on coal, do not use gasoline, natural gas and gas in their daily lives, do not even drive cars, and drive a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage in and out all day. This is a kind of attitude to life, and it has little to do with whether you have money or not, usually people who play like this, their families are not poor, and raising a carriage is much more expensive than raising a car.

Hong Tao was fortunate enough to know such a few people, and he also talked to them about how to reuse bullets, and of course he would watch them make them with his own eyes. According to his inquisitive personality, he had to try it himself.

(To be continued.) )