Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 51 Shooting Exercises

“Aim, align the two firing points in a straight line to the middle of the target, steady your hands… pay attention to the fire rope, close your eyes, release! ”

There was a loud drink from Verricolo in his ear, and Claude closed his eyes and pulled the trigger hard.

“Pfft... Pfft... boom! ”

Unexpectedly, Claude unexpectedly hit the shoulder-held barrel backwards, and the Obash II flash was fired with less recoil than he had imagined, much less backseat than the Gali III flash gun in Verricolo. The rear seating force when the flaming rope gun was fired was like being punched again. A few unprepared steps back was already done. My body might have fallen back...

Without looking at the target, Verricolo walked over to pick up the fire rope gun in Bok Ar's hand, lovingly measuring it, and praised it with envy: "What a good gun, actually I should have tried it first, when I saw you shooting, I realized that the gun could be fired without closing my eyes. ”

Mm-hmm.

Looking at the suspicious look on Claude and Boquer's face, Vericulo raised his gun and explained: “I was still wondering why this Obash Type II flash gun cartridge was so far from the wooden stock. You see, the wooden gun holder of this gun is particularly long, about a foot and a half from the rear end of the barrel. This stretches the distance between the cartridge and the eye when aiming, making sure that the spark that sprays after the fire line enters the cartridge does not damage the eye. The second is to make the wooden gun holder more comfortable against the shoulder and keep the cartridge stable. The third is to make it easier for the gun holder to aim between the two firing points and the target...

You've seen my Gali 3 vintage flare gun, and you should find the cartridge in a particularly close position, so that when you aim, it's easy to blur this launch point on the cartridge because it's too close. Also, I found the box on the two of you new guns to be very sealed, pulling the trigger wire into the box with little spark. That's why I don't think you need to close your eyes when you fire with this gun. ”

Vericulo raised his shoulder and made a standing motion: “You see, the distance between the cartridge and my eyes is pulled away, and the shooting does not require closing your eyes, so that the accuracy of the shooting can be better maintained. And this wooden stock is comfortable to hold onto and keeps the barrel stable when fired. By the way, I forgot to ask you, did you think the backseat was strong when you fired? ”

Claude and Boquer shook their heads together and both felt the back seat was weak.

As for what Verricolo said about the distance of the cartridge and the wooden stock, Claude didn't find it surprising, as long as it was studied by human mechanics, the flare rope gun looked similar in appearance to the modern rifles in memory, although the way it was fired was still very, very primitive behind...

Villicro took the rope gun in his hand and stood it up and compared it to his height: “It's about a pound lighter in weight than my old rope gun, and the length of the barrel seems to be reduced by 20 centimeters, making it easier for the army to carry and launch over long distances. I remember my father saying that the Obash Type II fireline gun could be stabbed into a spear and fought directly on the battlefield for assassinations. Did you buy this gun with a stabber? ”

Claude recalled all the supporting items in the crate and shook his head: "No, I didn't find the bayonet, and I wouldn't buy the fishbone dagger from Vakuri if I did. ”

Bok Al said he didn't find any bayonets in the crate for the accessories either.

“I wanted to see how the bayonet was put on the barrel," said Vericulo, touching the barrel. "You have a straight barrel, and the barrel is the same size as the barrel, unlike my one, which has a little trumpet. My father said that my vintage flare gun was a bayonet that was stuffed directly into the barrel, and that your new gun was said to be stuck outside the barrel without affecting the firing of the gun. ”

Claude had seen that bayonet from the Villicro family, and the last time he went to Villicro, White Eel, he had it with him. It looks almost as long as a short sword, except one is a single-sided blade and one is a double-sided blade. But the hand was bald and uncomfortable to hold. I can't help it, Verricolo explained. It's to get into the barrel.

“In fact, it's very simple to get two casings in front of the bayonet's handle and at the tail of it so that they can be placed outside the barrel without affecting the firing of the gun.” Though it doesn't come with a bayonet, Claude's mind counts when you think about it.

“Let's go see if Claude and I hit the target.” Bok Al is so impatient to stand here and bullshit, he can't wait to see his shooting results.

So three people walked towards the target 50 meters away. The distance was determined by Villicro, who believed that using standard dry powder No. 1 as the firing powder, it would be preferable to determine an error of about 50 metres between the targeting and the firing distance. This is a clearly visible target that can easily adjust the targeting gap based on where you hit it. The second is that the shot fired at a distance can only be in a straight line, without having to consider the impact of external factors such as the great wind on the fired gun...

It was only before the three of them got to the target that they found that the target was clean and intact, with no unexpected bullet holes, and it was clear that both Claude and Boquer had missed their targets.

The two targets are not circular targets around the center red dots that Claude is familiar with, but two analogue wooden plaques, one for the antelope and one for the boar.

The world's targets are shape-shaped, like archers practicing shooting with human-shaped grass targets. By the time of the firearms, the barracks were replacing grass targets with human wooden targets. Instead of pursuing the accuracy of firing a firearm, they train in transverse queues to fire, and then count how many bullet holes are on the wood target to cover the success rate of firing.

Verricolo once heard his father say that a hundred soldiers fired in one line, all 10 wood targets in the opposite row had excellent bullet holes, eight had good bullet holes and six had bullet holes that qualified. The following will be punished.

The wooden plaque targets of these two antelope and boar graphics moved from their merchant warehouses are actually merchandise, but there are only a few buyers, and over time, only one or two turnovers. So Bok Al took it directly from the warehouse to practice shooting this time.

“Where were you aiming?” Villicro asked.

“I aim at the center of the boar's body.” Bok Al said he was shooting a boar target.

“I aim here.” Claude fingered the heart of the antelope target.

Both targets are leaning against a large tree.

Verricolo had a very experienced low head searching around the target for bullet marks.

“It should have been Claude.” Soon Velikoro found a bullet hole in the ground beneath the antelope target.

Claude looked at this bullet hole on the ground and looked at the target area he was aiming at. The mind said it was exaggerated. The difference between the top and bottom was more than 30 centimeters, and the distance deviated by more than a foot.

It's good to find the bullet hole that Claude fired, but the gun that Bok Al fired couldn't find it. After a half-day of hard work, Velikoro could only think that Bok Al was likely to have shaken his eyes at the moment of the launch, and that the gunshot would have gone nowhere. Fortunately, this is a deserted forest, otherwise there is a good chance of accidental injury.

Bok Al was very uncomfortable, so he and Claude refilled the medicine again, stuck it with a common strip, loaded the gun, stuck it again, then filled the medicine box, cut the flame rope, clamped the flame rope, put the flame rope gun on the stand, lit the flame rope, started aiming...

Claude didn't close his eyes this time, and when he saw the rope burning like that, he pulled the trigger, “Boom," and a smoke flashed on the gun's medicine box.

Bock Albie Claude was a few seconds late to shoot, but after the shooting, he complained that Claude had spooked him, and this time he might have missed the shot.

Check again at the target, which is still naked. However, less than a finger below the target this time, bullet holes and flattened guns were found in the trunk.

Claude estimated a deviation of about 20 centimetres from the target position this time.

Bourke Al's bullet hole was also found, but it was about half a metre away from the target, and that deviation was far too large.

Claude adjusted himself for the third launch, and the two launch points moved a finger straight over the target, firing.

This time it finally left a bullet mark on the target, but Claude estimated that it should be on the antelope's head, and the result appeared on the back. Villicro laughed, saying that if it was a real hunt, the antelope would still be able to jump alive and flee the mountains.

Bok Al still missed the shot.

Verricolo took out a little brush and smeared a little ink on the bullet that Claude left on the antelope target, in order not to mix the bullet marks from the next shooting, but also to make greater use of the target by spotting ink on top of the bullet marks after checking.

Claude keeps shooting.

And after he fired ten shots, he felt bored. He threw the flaming rope gun at Verricolo to help adjust the shooting deviation. He drove his carriage to the pier to find Ericsson, and he made an excuse to see if he had dragged that shitty sea tumbler back.

Claude and Verricolo smiled bitterly at each other, and Boquer was not unwise, he had little patience with these weapons, just as he had learned swordsmanship. If you give him a ledger, Claude and Verricolo won't have much interest in looking through it. But Bok Al can look at it for half a day. Finally, he can tell the partners what the ledger remembers, whether there are any fake accounts in it that have been drilled...

Compared to Bok Al, Velikro was more professional. He had this Obash 2 type flash gun, which estimated the deviation after only 10 shots. The two firing points and the target were linearly shot, and the bullet hole was about the next left finger in the aiming position, and the next 10 shots adjusted the deviation to basically hit the target, with eight out of 10 shots.

Claude is still shooting and self-estimating deviation. He always thinks he can adjust the target and the bullet hole of the shot is not in one position. Perhaps that's why the antelope target is in the same position. This thing is really not good to aim at. It can only measure a profile. It's good enough to shoot at its body parts, not where Claude imagined it to be...

Bok Al came back in a carriage, and he said that Ericsson had dragged that shitty sea tumbler back, and now he was burning that shitty sea tumbler with that Uncle Pegg at the pier.

“Why are you baking that?” Claude doesn't understand.

Vericulo laughed: "That's to dismantle the boat board, don't you know that the boat board is pasted on and off both sides of the slot... that glue is mixed with fish glue, horns and beef ribs to glue to paste the boat board. To dismantle the boat board, you must also use fire to raise the temperature to melt the glue to separate the boat board, otherwise the boat board is the place that cracked the gel solidification is still strong...”

So Claude remembers his own thing: "By the way, Boa, take me to the bookstore first, and I'll buy some paper and saffron paper to make the target paper. Tomorrow you don't have to bring these two analogue targets. I'll give you a size. You tell your carpenter at the mall to make me two simple targets. Tomorrow you'll practice shooting, making sure they work better than these two. ”

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