The next afternoon, he went to the countryside to practice shooting as usual, but when Bockar drove a carriage to pick up Claude, he complained that he didn't expect that the target Claude asked him to find a carpenter to make was so crude, with a square wooden top.
Row, nail a stick underneath, that's it.
"How many did you ask them to make?" Claude asked.
"I asked them to make two, but because it was too simple, they made four more. There were six in total, and I moved them all to the car," Bockaar replied.
Verricro said next to him: "Claude, although the target you made is simple, it is of no use. Those simulated targets imitate the image and size of animals and can be placed in woods and bushes for training.
The hunter’s shooting accuracy and estimation ability, and his ability to quickly understand the damage that each shot can cause to the prey..."
Claude smiled: "It's okay, these targets are only semi-finished products. You will understand when you get to the place."
When we arrived at the place where we practiced yesterday, we selected two of the targets that Bockard brought and inserted them. Claude took out a roll of papyrus, took out one and handed it to Viricero: "There is batter, put this
Stick a piece of paper on the wooden sign."
This is target paper, cut into the same size as a square wooden sign. There is a red circle in the middle, and outside it is a black line that enlarges the circle in ten steps. In order to draw such a target paper, Claude spent all night yesterday.
Twenty or so.
Verricro looked at the target paper and immediately understood its use. He couldn't help but give Claude a thumbs up: "This is simply the best target. How did you come up with it, Claude?"
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Claude just smiled and shook his head: "Let's try it first. You have to try it before you know whether it works or not."
This time, Verricro was the first to try. He mastered the shooting trick with only two shots, and shot three more shots, all of which hit the red heart. Then he called Bockar to his side and explained the distance error between aiming and shooting.
Teach him how to pre-adjust the aiming target to achieve shooting accuracy.
Bockar started practicing shooting with great interest. Although the first few shots did not hit the red heart, they also hit the target. This made him very happy. He continued to practice shooting under the guidance of Viricero, not like yesterday.
After a while, it would be boring to run to the dock to find Erikson.
To be honest, the target paper drawn by Claude has greatly improved the shooting accuracy of the musket. Just as Viricault praised, the red dot in the center of the target makes the estimated aiming and shooting distance
The difficulty of adjusting the error has been reduced a lot, unlike the two graphic targets of antelope and wild boar that Bokhar brought yesterday, because there is no central red dot to aim at, so every shot is actually relying on the target.
The reason is actually very simple. The two firing points on the gun are fired in a straight line with the central red dot of the target. The actual error can be calculated based on the black edge of the circle on the target. Subtract this error when aiming the second gun, and you can shoot.
There is a red dot in the center of the target.
But Claude is still not satisfied. The two firing points of the Obash II standard matchlock gun in his hand are still the same as those of the old matchlock guns. One is engraved on the front of the muzzle, and the other is engraved on the plate cover of the medicine box.
On the rear end, these two notches are also coated with white fluorescent powder to facilitate the shooter's aiming.
When the firing point of the front end and the firing point of the rear end are not on the same central axis, the simplest aiming trick of three points in a line becomes a useless theory. Before each shooting, the distance error of the shooting target must be estimated and adjusted in advance.
, one is to delay the frequency of musket firing, and the other is to increase the difficulty of hitting targets, especially those moving targets...
While Claude was considering whether to find a blacksmith to build a muzzle sight, Bockar had completed his practice today. He had fired more than thirty rounds, with a hit rate of about 58%. He fired.
The target paper has holes all over it.
This achievement made Bockar very proud, thinking that he was very talented in shooting. So he took off the target paper from the target and prepared to take it to Erikson to show it and brag about it. But at this moment he wanted to talk to Claude.
When it comes to business cooperation, everyone contributes some capital to jointly produce the target and target paper, and then sells it in their own business, and the profits obtained are divided proportionally.
"This is a genius design." Bockard boasted to Claude: "Not to mention the convenience in musket shooting and aiming, it is also a very big improvement in terms of the durability of the target. I think
This will be a good business opportunity, and it is worth investing a small amount of money in it. You may not be able to make a lot of money, but it will be no problem to earn back your capital and get some pocket money."
Bockaar is right. The simulated targets like the ones his company sells cannot sell seven or eight a year, and the profit is also very low. Usually it is the children of the upper-class families in the town who want to have shooting training.
Only then would I buy one. Like the hunters and mountain people in the town, although they also have to practice their musket shooting skills, most of them just get whatever they want to use as a target, instead of spending money to buy those simulated targets from a business store.
Even if it is a small amount of money, they would rather buy wine, and those with some carpentry skills will make a target by themselves.
In addition, the durability of the pseudo-shaped targets is not very good. Most of them are pieced together with various leftover pieces of wood and wooden boards. They are easily broken when shot by muskets at close range. In addition, even if they are not broken, there are bullet holes left on them.
Too much will also cause trouble in checking the accuracy of subsequent shots, even if the bullet marks of each previous shot have been painted with ink.
The wooden target designed by Claude can be made of stronger and thicker wood. No matter how many bullet marks are left on it, the new target paper will be a new target as soon as it is attached. As for the target paper, there is no need for it.
Paintings one by one like Claude did last night are more convenient and faster to print, and the larger the quantity, the cheaper. So Bockard fell in love with this. He was right. It might not be possible to make a lot of money.
But it’s totally okay to get some pocket money.
"Okay, you can decide how much you want to invest. Let's treat it as a small business run by the four of us." Claude didn't care much about this target. It was a good idea to leave it to Bockard.
Bockal calculated for a long time: "I think each person should pay a silver thaler. First, spend two silver thalers to make twenty targets, and each target will be equipped with thirty target papers. The rest will be reserved for later use."
At a price of three riaso a piece, it should be popular. I can also ask my father to sell it to those who like shooting, or I can sell it to those shooting ranges myself..."
A target with thirty sheets of target paper costs about one riaso. Selling three riaso is not expensive. One target can earn two riaso. This is a good business. Bockar calculated it very carefully.
Smart. The only pity is that this is not a daily necessity, not many people need it, and the shipment volume is not large, so you can't make a lot of money from this.
Verricro didn't have any objections. He thought that the target designed by Claude was indeed a good thing, and it wouldn't be a big deal to invest a small amount of money in it. So Bockar happily went to the dock to find Erikson, and there was still a lot to be done.
He is a silver taler...
Bockard drove away in the carriage, and Claude continued to think about how to install a sight on the muzzle of the gun. Verricro took Bockard's matchlock and fired a few more shots and asked him strangely what he was doing and why he didn't practice shooting.
Already?
Claude expressed his idea, but Viricault disagreed. He said that this musket had been around for nearly 600 years, and everyone was used to this aiming and shooting method. There was no need to install a sight on the muzzle of the gun.
Pointing is enough. He believes that the main reason why Claude finds it inconvenient to aim is that he has not practiced enough. As long as he practices shooting a few hundred times, he will naturally get used to it.
Summer insects cannot talk about ice, and Claude couldn't convince Viricero with examples from his previous life. He asked Viricro where there was a blacksmith shop in town that could make small objects. Viricro met Claude.
He wanted to make that kind of sight, so he had to recommend a blacksmith shop in the south of the town. He said that the price of this blacksmith shop was relatively affordable and the quality was good. All the trap accessories his father brought when he went hunting were from this blacksmith shop.
Shop ordered.
So Claude began to design the sight. It looked very simple. Just draw the sight of the air gun that he played in his previous life in his memory. The casing width was one centimeter, circular and hollow, and a crosshair was erected in the middle.
The height of the needle is the same as the height of the pill box on the barrel of the gun. Under the sight is also an iron sleeve that is slightly larger than the barrel, which is used to cover the muzzle of the gun. It should be noted that the iron sleeve must be fixed on the gun.
Above the mouth, it is not easy to fall off or be vibrated due to emission. But at the same time, it must be easy to disassemble...
In addition, Claude is also planning to change the firing point on the plate cover above the pill box into a U-shaped hole. Unfortunately, the plate cover is movable and is not suitable as a rear aiming hole. But Claude has no choice.
He remembered the video of making a flintlock gun that he had watched on the computer in his previous life. The last thing installed on the gun was the front sight and the rear sight, which were connected together to form the sight.
There is a related short video after that video, which is about the aiming and firing principles of a flintlock gun. Claude looked at it casually and forgot a lot of the content, but he remembered that the simplest principle of aiming is the eyes and the rear sight hole.
, shoot when the front sight is in line with the target, and you can hit the target as long as you keep the gun body stable.
In addition, the short video said that the installation and calibration of the sighting device are also very simple. The front sight and the rear sight are on a central axis and parallel to the gun body. The principle of calibrating the sight is from the eye to the rear sight hole, and then to the front sight.
In the end, it is an absolute straight line to the target, but the bullet fired from the barrel is a vague curve, so a movable rear sight is usually installed on the rear sight for aiming adjustment, so that the aiming straight line and the ballistic curve are at the target.
Achieve intersection to achieve the purpose of hitting the target.
Claude did remember the sight of the rear sight, and even the curved adjustment mechanism of the rear sight. But the problem was that he was holding a matchlock gun instead of a flintlock gun. The biggest difference between the two was that the matchlock gun
The barrel of the gun has a pill box, a plate cover, and a matchlock clip. There is no way to install a rear sight on it. So Claude had no choice but to use the plate cover. Anyway, the rear firing point is engraved on the plate cover.
Just make it bigger and use it as a rear sight.
When Boker came back with the carriage, he was surprised to find that Erikson was also on it, but his face was not very good. After asking, he found out that he didn't see his father when he went home last night. It seemed that he was going to a friend's birthday party again.
Ericson didn't see him when he got up in the morning. When he got home from school in the afternoon and asked, he found out that his father had gone to sea... gone to sea...
This news is simply bad news for Erikson. He also plans to get some money from his father to renovate his small fishing boat. Once his father goes to sea, it will take at least ten and a half days to return.
The fishing boat reconstruction plan has had a serious impact.
Erickson said that Uncle Peg's labor costs can be postponed, and most of the materials are also available in the dock warehouse, but some odds and ends such as glue powder and other miscellaneous items need to be purchased from the shops in the town.
It would probably take three or four thalers to get up. It would be a waste of time if he waited for his father to come back.
Originally, Erikson wanted to borrow some money from his friends to support it first, but when Bockal came over and told him about his target investment plan, Erikson almost cried.
In the end, Vericro said that he had deposited four thalers with Bockaar, used one thaler to invest in the target, and lent the remaining three to Erikson for shipbuilding. Bockaar also said that he would borrow two thalers.
A silver thaler was given to Erikson and helped him advance the target investment funds of that silver thaler.
As for Claude, he was ignored by his three friends. Everyone knew that he would buy random things when he had money. Last time, he just treated a guest, bought another book, and also bought three rags from Valkuri's shop.
, now I have to worry about the sight, and I am going to the blacksmith shop to customize the front sight, so I don’t ask him to borrow money...