"Aim, align the two firing points in the middle of the target, keep your hands steady... pay attention to the match rope, close your eyes, and release!"
Hearing Viricault's loud shout, Claude closed his eyes and pulled the trigger hard.
"Chi... bang... boom!"
The butt of the gun on his shoulder slammed back. To Claude's surprise, the recoil of this Obas II standard matchlock gun was not as great as expected when it was fired, and was stronger than that of Verricro's.
The recoil of the old-fashioned Galli III matchlock gun was much less. The recoil of the matchlock gun when it was fired was like being punched hard. If you were not prepared, you would take a few steps back.
, if you are in poor health, you might fall backwards...
Viricero did not look at the target, but instead came over and took the matchlock gun from Bockar's hand. He looked at it fondly and praised with envy: "What a good gun. In fact, I should try the gun first.
When I watched you shoot just now, I realized that this gun can be fired without closing your eyes."
Um?
Looking at the doubtful expressions on Claude and Bockard's faces, Verricro raised his gun and explained: "I was still wondering why the pill box of this Obash II standard matchlock gun was separated from the wooden butt.
So far away. You see, the wooden butt of this gun is very long, about a foot and a half from the rear end of the barrel. This lengthens the distance between the pill box and the eye when aiming, ensuring that the matchstick splashes out after entering the pill box.
The sparks will not hurt the eyes. Secondly, it allows the wooden butt to hold the shoulder more comfortably and maintain the stability of the gun body. Thirdly, such a long distance makes it easier for the gun holder to move between the two firing points and the target.
Aiming between...
If you have seen my old-fashioned Galli Type III matchlock gun, you should have noticed that the position of the pill box is particularly far back. When aiming, the firing point on the pill box is easily blurred because the distance is not enough. It is just too close.
Because of that. In addition, I found that the sealing of the pill boxes on your two new guns is very good. When you pull the trigger and enter the pill boxes, there are almost no sparks. That’s why I think you don’t need to close your eyes when firing these guns.
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Viricero raised the gun to his shoulder and made a standing and aiming motion: "Look, the distance between this pill box and my eyes has been increased. I no longer need to close my eyes when shooting, which can better maintain the accuracy of shooting."
And this wooden stock is very comfortable to hold and can better maintain the stability of the gun when it is fired. By the way, I forgot to ask you, did you feel the recoil was strong when you fired just now?"
Claude and Bockard shook their heads together, both feeling that the recoil was not strong.
As for the issues about the pill box distance and the wooden butt mentioned by Verricro, Claude didn't think there was anything to make a fuss about. As long as he studied it based on human body mechanics, the appearance of the matchlock gun has been improved and is the same as those in memory.
Modern rifles are very similar, although their firing method is still very primitive and backward...
Verricro weighed the matchlock gun in his hand, and then stood it up to compare his height: "In terms of weight, it is about a kilogram lighter than my old matchlock gun, and the length of the gun body seems to be shorter.
Twenty centimeters longer, making it easier to carry and launch during long distance marches. I remember my father said that the Obash II standard matchlock gun can be equipped with a bayonet and become a spear for direct assassination and combat on the battlefield. Do you have this gun you bought?
With bayonet?”
Claude recalled all the matching items in the wooden box and shook his head: "No, I didn't find a bayonet. If there had been, I wouldn't have bought that fishbone dagger from Valkuri."
Bokhar said he didn't find any bayonet accessories in the wooden box.
"I originally wanted to see how the bayonet is attached to the barrel of the gun," Viricero touched the barrel and said, "The barrel of your gun is straight, and the muzzle and barrel are the same size, unlike mine.
That one has a bit of a bell mouth. My father said that my old matchlock gun had the bayonet inserted directly into the barrel, but your new one is said to be buckled outside the barrel and does not affect the firing of the musket."
Claude has seen the bayonet of Vericro's family. Vericro took it with him last time he went to Bailuzhou. It is almost the same length as a dagger, but one has a single-edged blade and the other has a double-edged blade.
.But the handle is bare and very uncomfortable to hold. There is no way, Viricero explained, this is to fit it into the barrel of the gun.
"It's actually very simple. Just put two ferrule-like iron rings on the front and end of the bayonet handle and put them on the outside of the barrel. It won't affect the firing of the musket." Although there is no actual bayonet, but think of Cloro
De knew it well.
"Let's go take a look at the target to see if the shot Claude and I just made hit." Bockaar was impatient of everyone standing here talking nonsense. He couldn't wait to see his shooting results.
So the three people walked towards the target fifty meters away. This distance was determined by Viricero. He believed that using standard dry powder No. 1 as the launching gunpowder, the error in determining the aiming and shooting distance should be about fifty meters.
.The first is that you can see the target clearly and aim accurately, and you can easily adjust the aiming gap according to the location of the hit. The second is that the gun fired from this distance can only be in a straight line, without having to consider external factors such as whether the wind is strong or not.
The effect of factors on the fired gun...
It was only when the three of them arrived at the target that they discovered that the target was smooth and intact, with no bullet holes as expected. It was obvious that neither Claude nor Bockard had hit their target.
The two targets were not the circular targets with a red dot in the center that Claude was familiar with, but two pseudo-shaped wooden signs, one with the shape of an antelope and the other with the shape of a wild boar.
The targets in this world are all pseudo-shaped. For example, archers use human-shaped straw targets when practicing shooting. In the age of muskets, military camps replaced straw targets with human-shaped wooden targets. They did not pursue the shooting accuracy of a musket.
During the training, they also stood in a horizontal formation and fired in unison, and then counted the number of bullet holes on the wooden target as the coverage success rate of the shooting.
Verricro once heard his father say that a hundred soldiers lined up in a row and fired in unison. If all ten wooden targets lined up on the opposite side had bullet holes in them, it would be considered excellent. If eight targets had bullet holes in them, it would be considered good. If six targets had bullet holes, it would be good.
If you have bullet holes, you are considered qualified. If you have any bullet holes below, you will be punished.
The two wooden targets with images of antelopes and wild boars that Bokhar moved from his own store's warehouse are actually commodities, but not many people buy them, and only one or two of them are sold over the years. So Bokhar wants to practice this time
The shooting was taken directly from the warehouse.
"Where were you aiming at just now?" Viricero asked.
"I aim for the center of the boar's body," said Boker, who shoots at the boar target.
"This is where I'm aiming." Claude pointed at the heart of the antelope target.
These two targets are each leaning against a big tree.
Verricro lowered his head very experiencedly and looked for bullet marks around the target.
"This should have been shot by Claude." Soon Verricro found a bullet hole in the ground under the antelope target.
Claude looked at the bullet hole on the ground, and then at the target area where he was aiming, and thought that this was too exaggerated. The difference between the top and bottom was more than thirty centimeters, a distance deviation of nearly one foot.
It would be good to be able to find the bullet hole that Claude shot, but the bullet shot by Bockar could not be found. After spending a long time, Viricero could only helplessly think that Bockard was very likely.
At the moment of firing, I closed my eyes and my hands shook. As soon as the muzzle of the gun was deflected, I didn't know where to shoot. Fortunately, this was an uninhabited forest, otherwise it would have likely caused accidental injury.
Bockard was not convinced, so he and Claude poured the medicine again, tamped it with a stick, loaded the gun, tamped it again, then filled the medicine box with medicine, cut the match, clamped the match, and put the match gun on
Set up the stand, light the match, and start aiming...
Claude didn't close his eyes this time. When he saw that the match rope was almost burning, he pulled the trigger. There was a "boom", and the fire flashed on the musket box and a puff of gray smoke came out.
Bock Albire shot a few seconds later than Claude, but after shooting, he complained that he was startled by Claude's gunshot, and that he might not be able to shoot accurately this time.
I went to the target again to check, and the target was still smooth. But this time I found bullet holes in the tree trunk and a flattened gun less than a finger's distance below the target.
Claude estimated that this time there was about a twenty centimeter deviation from the aiming position.
The bullet hole in Bockaar was also found, but it was about half a meter away from the target. This deviation was really too big.
For the third time, Claude adjusted himself, moved the two firing points a finger's distance above the target in a straight line, and fired.
This time, bullet marks were finally left on the target, but the bullet marks that Claude estimated should be on the antelope's head turned out to be on the back. Verricro joked that if it were a real hunt, the antelope would still be alive and kicking in the forest.
Escaped.
Bockaar still missed the shot.
Verricro took out a small brush and dipped some ink on the bullet mark that Claude left on the antelope target. This was to avoid confusing the bullet marks from the subsequent shooting. After checking, he dotted on the bullet marks on the target.
Mo also wanted to make greater use of this target.
Claude kept shooting.
But after Bokhar fired ten shots, he felt it was boring. He threw the matchlock to Viricero and asked him to help adjust the shooting deviation. He drove the carriage to the dock to find Ericson, and made an excuse.
I went to see if he had towed the sea-breaking boat back.
Claude and Viricolo looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Bockar had such a temper. It was not that he was not smart, but he had no patience for these weapons, just like he was learning swordsmanship. If he was given an account book, then Claude
Both De and Verricro were not interested in looking through it, but Bockar could read it with great interest for a long time. Finally, he could tell his friends what the account book was and whether any false accounts had been made in it and someone had taken advantage of it.
something...
Compared with Bockaar, Viricero is much more professional. He has this Obash II standard matchlock gun in his hand. He only fired ten times to estimate the deviation value. The two firing points are in a straight line with the target.
After shooting, the bullet hole was about one finger's left to the left of the aiming position. After adjusting the deviation, the next ten shots basically hit the target. Eight out of ten shots hit the target.
Claude was still shooting and estimating the deviation distance by himself. He always felt that no matter how he adjusted the aiming target and the bullet hole of the shot was not in the same position, maybe this should be the reason for the antelope target. This thing is really difficult to aim.
I can only roughly estimate an outline, and it’s considered good if I can shoot it on that part of his body, rather than wherever Claude imagined...
Bockard came back with a carriage. He said that Erikson had towed the sea-breaking boat back and was now setting a fire on the dock with Uncle Peg to roast the sea-breaking boat.
"Why bake that?" Claude didn't understand.
Verricro laughed: "That's to dismantle the ship planks. Don't you know that the ship planks are grooved on both sides and the top and bottom pieces are glued together... The glue is made from a mixture of isinglass, animal horns and beef tendons.
The ship planks are glued together in the form of glue. If you want to dismantle the ship planks, you must use fire to raise the temperature to melt the glue before you can separate the ship planks. Otherwise, even if the ship planks are cracked, the places where the glue solidified will still be very strong..."
So that's it, Claude thought of his own affairs: "By the way, Boa, send me to the bookstore first, and I'll buy some papyrus to make target paper. You don't need to bring these two pseudo-targets tomorrow, I'll give them to you
You can ask the carpenter in your business to make two simple targets for me, and I will use them for shooting practice tomorrow. I guarantee they will be better than these two targets."