Looking at the target with a bullet hole in the distance, Jérôme Bonaparte looked slightly embarrassed, because the bullet fired from the Mauser breech-loading rifle almost missed the target.
Walewski, who was standing aside, did not feel embarrassed at all. He immediately applauded and flattered Jérôme Bonaparte and said: "Good! Your Majesty, what a good shot!"
After reacting, the old Mauser and his sons also began to applaud, praising Jérôme Bonaparte's sunset red marksmanship.
"Haha!" Jérôme Bonaparte felt even more embarrassed.
So he handed a paper-wrapped fixed-load ammunition to Walewski, and said to Walewski with a kind face: "Minister Walewski, you can try it too!"
Walewski was stunned for a moment, and then took the paper-packed fixed-load ammunition and Mauser breech-loading gun handed to him by Jérôme Bonaparte.
When Walewski pulled the breech of the Mauser and loaded the gun, a plume of white smoke floated out of the barrel.
"Let's begin!" Jérôme Bonaparte said lightly, and then added: "Walewski, I know your shooting ability, so you used your miss to fool me!"
As soon as Valewski said this, he immediately felt like he had shot himself in the foot.
Why did he insist on boasting just now? Now the emperor won't allow him to miss the target.
Seeing that he could not get away with it, Walewski had no choice but to put the paper-packed fixed ammunition into the barrel of the gun, then closed the barrel of the gun and began to aim at the target in the distance with concentration, while thinking in his mind about how to avoid missing the target.
Under the circumstances, he achieved worse results than the emperor.
Jérôme Bonaparte, on the other hand, crossed his arms and communicated with old Mauser, "Mr. Mauser!"
"Your Majesty, what are your orders?" Old Mauser asked Jérôme Bonaparte.
"It's like this, Mr. Mauser, I just saw a piece of rubber on the firing pin of this Mauser rifle. I was thinking about how to replace it with a brass bullet. How should you ensure that the brass bullet can be extracted smoothly?
Jérôme Bonaparte asked old Mauser: "And I didn't see the shell extraction mechanism on your rifle!"
After the old Mauser was silent for a moment, he responded to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, this rifle is not equipped with a shell extraction mechanism!"
"So, this is a product designed entirely for shooting paper-cased fixed-load ammunition!" Jérôme Bonaparte asked the old Mauser again.
"Yes! Your Majesty!" Old Mauser nodded and responded to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Can you tell me why you don't complete the design according to the design ideas I gave you?" Jerome Bonaparte asked the old Mauser with a serious face.
"Your Majesty, it's not my father's fault!" Paul Mauser apologized to Jérôme Bonaparte, "It's all my fault!"
"Paul, I don't want to start an attack!" Jerome Bonaparte immediately realized that there were some problems with his attitude. He quickly corrected himself and replied to Paul Mauser: "I mean, you are...
Are you having any difficulties in any area?"
Paul Mauser told Jerome Bonaparte that they had encountered some difficulties with metal fixed ammunition.
Although it is said that metal fixed-load ammunition first appeared more than 20 years ago (the earliest was the 1830s), it did not really develop until the 1850s.
In other words, the development time of the entire metal fixed-loading ammunition is only about 5 years, so there are many technical problems that need to be solved in metal fixed-loading ammunition.
If the problem of metal fixed-loading ammunition is not solved, then even if the shell extractor mechanism is completed now, it will need major adjustments later.
Instead of doing this, it is better to test other performances first.
Wait until the metal fixed-loading bullet is completely formed before thinking about the shell extraction mechanism.
As for adding a magazine, we have to wait until the shell extraction mechanism is solved.
"I know!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and responded to Paul Mauser.
At this moment, a gunshot was heard, and Jérôme Bonaparte turned his attention from the Mausers to the target.
I saw another small black dot on the target more than 200 meters away from Jérôme Bonaparte. The location of the black dot was also at the edge of the target.
"Your Majesty!" Walewski put down the Mauser breech-loader in his hand and couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"Not bad! Not bad!" Jérôme Bonaparte glanced at the sweat on Valewski's forehead and pointedly said: "Thank you for your hard work!"
"It's not hard! It's not hard!" A slightly embarrassed smile appeared on Walewski's face. This shot indeed consumed too much of his energy. It can be said to be the most difficult shot in history!
"Okay! Wipe it! The sweat is almost running down your chin!" Jerome Bonaparte said lightly, and then took the rifle from Valewski's hand.
Just when Jerome Bonaparte was about to test a round, the man who was sent to get the brass bullet appeared and handed the bullet to old Mauser.
"Your Majesty, the bullets are here!" Old Mauser handed several brass bullets to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Relying on the brass bullet with a diameter of about 11mm in his hand (after smokeless gunpowder was not produced, the diameter of the bullet was generally larger than after smokeless gunpowder), Jérôme Bonaparte hesitated for a moment, and then put the yellow bullet in his hand.
The copper bullet was returned to old Mauser.
"Your Majesty, aren't you going to continue the experiment?" Old Mauser looked at Jerome Bonaparte doubtfully and said.
"I'd better wait until you finish making the shell extraction mechanism before I go test it!" Jérôme Bonaparte replied to the old Mauser, "The focus of the test now is the range of the rifle!"
Subsequently, Jérôme Bonaparte ordered Valewski to call the veterans patrolling the industrial park.
The veterans first saluted Jerome Bonaparte, and then asked Jerome Bonaparte what his orders were.
Jérôme Bonaparte randomly assigned a person and handed him the Mauser breech-loading gun and 3 paper-packed fixed ammunition.
"Now, I want you to shoot at the targets at around 300, 400 and 500 meters respectively!" Jérôme Bonaparte pointed at the target in the distance and ordered the veteran.
"Your Majesty, just take a look! I think it was the same for me back then..." the veteran boasted to Jérôme Bonaparte while patting his chest.
Then the veteran walked to a place about 300 meters away, opened the paper bag of fixed ammunition in his hand, and tried to pour it into the barrel.
"Wait a minute!" Jérôme Bonaparte quickly stopped his thoughts.
Under the doubtful eyes of the veteran, Jérôme Bonaparte pointed to the breech of the Mauser rifle and said to the veteran: "This type of rifle does not need to be wrapped in a paper shell, it just needs to be stuffed into the rifle as a whole.
Got it!!"
"Your Majesty, is this a breech-loading gun?" the veteran asked Jérôme Bonaparte with wide eyes.
"Yes!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded, "What's wrong! Are you having any difficulties?"
"No, no!" The veteran shook his head to Jérôme Bonaparte, and then couldn't help but remind him: "Your Majesty, I heard that the performance of breech-loading guns is far inferior to that of front-loading guns!"
"It depends on which aspect of performance you are talking about!" Jérôme Bonaparte replied to the veteran with a smile, "If you only evaluate power and range, the current breech-loading guns cannot be compared with front-loading guns! (
In 1866, the Xia Sepo rifle's range was only the same as the Minie gun, and its power was slightly inferior to the Minie gun)
But when it comes to rate of fire and other aspects, breech-loading guns are far better than front-loading guns.
And the potential of a rear-loading gun is far greater than that of a front-loading gun!”
"But, I remember what my previous commander said! He would rather die than use a breech-loading gun!" the veteran said to Jérôme Bonaparte again.
Indeed, under the premise that the breech-loading gun has not experienced actual combat (Dreiser even lost face in Olmutz), it is difficult for the conservative forces in the army to let a Migne who has experienced the test of the Crimean War
Rifles are completely off the stage!
"It's not up to them!" Jérôme Bonaparte responded firmly.
As soon as the technologies of metal fixed-loading ammunition and Mauser rifles are fully mature, he will promote them to the entire army.
No one can stop him!
The veteran stopped talking and began to stuff bullets into the breech.
After a while, gunfire rang out, and Jérôme Bonaparte immediately used a telescope to observe.
Through the telescope, Jérôme Bonaparte found another bullet hole in the target more than 300 meters away from him. The bullet hole was very close to the bullseye.
"Very good!" Jérôme Bonaparte patted the veteran on the shoulder, "You were indeed a good player in the army before!"
The veteran laughed, then ran to a place 400 meters away from the target for the second shot.
The shooting this time was obviously not as good as the last time. The bullet hole was very close to the edge of the target.
When the veteran ran more than 500 meters away from the target, Jerome Bonaparte immediately ordered him to change the target. The veteran no longer shot at the target, but the big tree behind the target, which was much easier to shoot than the target.
"This is no problem!" The veteran raised his gun and fired again, and soon there was also a bullet hole in the tree.
"Continue!" Jerome Bonaparte ordered the veterans to retreat to 600 meters. This time the bullet hole was located on the edge of the tree.
A look of surprise appeared on the veteran's face. He had used the Minie gun before and understood that the range of this shot was almost the same as that of the Minie gun.
This means that this breech-loading gun can completely replace the ecological niche of the Minie gun, and its reloading speed is faster than that of the Minie gun.
"Very good!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded, and then said to the veteran: "You can leave!"
The veteran handed the Mauser breech-loading gun to Jerome Bonaparte and left. Jerome Bonaparte said to the old Mauser: "Mr. Mauser, to be honest, your rifle has done everything it can."
To the point of replacing the Migne rifle, I really find it hard to believe that you can make such a perfect work in such a short period of time!”