Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 52 Targets and Sights

The next afternoon, as usual, he went to the suburbs to practice shooting, except that Boc Al complained when he drove a carriage to pick up Claude. He didn't expect Claude to ask him to find a merchant carpenter to make such a simple target, a square wooden chop on top, a stick nailed on the bottom, and it was over.

“How many did you let them do?” Claude asked.

“I asked them to do two, and they did four more because it was too simple. There were six of them, and I moved into the car.” Bok Al replied.

Verricolo said next to him, "Claude, this kind of target you're making doesn't do much good, even if it's simple. Those analogue targets imitate the image and size of animals and can be placed in the woods and bushes to train hunters in shooting accuracy and estimation and quickly understand the damage that each gun can do to the prey..."

Claude laughed, “It's okay, these targets are only semi-finished, and you'll see where they are. ”

Yesterday at the practice point, after picking out two of the targets that Boquer had brought, Clo had to take out a roll of paper, saffron paper, and smoke one and pass it to Verricolo: “There's paste, stick it on the plaque. ”

This is the target paper, cut into square wooden plaques of the same size, with red circles in the middle and ten enlarged black circles outside. Claude spent the night yesterday drawing more than 20 pieces of this kind of target paper.

Verricolo looked at the sticky target paper and immediately understood its usefulness and couldn't help but stick his thumb out to Claude: "This is the best target ever. How did you come up with that, Claude? ”

Claude just shook his head with a smile: "Try it first, it won't work. We'll have to try it again. ”

This time it was Verricolo who tried to rob him first. He grabbed the knack of shooting with only two shots, and then shot all three of them in the heart. Then call Boquer around, tell him the distance error between the aim and the shot, and how to pre-adjust the target to achieve the accuracy of the shot.

Bock Alcin started shooting vibrantly, and the first ones, though they didn't hit the hearts, also shot at the target, which made him happy to continue shooting at the point of Verricolo, instead of feeling bored running to the pier for Ericsson after a while like he did yesterday.

To be honest, Claude's painting of the target paper greatly improves the shot hit rate of the gun. As Villicro praised it, the red dot in the center of the target reduces the difficulty of adjusting the expected aiming and shooting distance errors considerably, rather than the graphical targets of the two antelope and wild boar from Bok Aruna yesterday, because there are no central red dots to aim at, so much so that every shot is actually covered.

The logic is simple: the two firing points on the gun and the center red dot of the target are firing in a straight line, and the actual error can be calculated based on the black edge of the circle on the target. Subtracting this error when the second shot is aimed, the center red dot of the target can be shot.

But Claude was still not very satisfied, and the two firing points of the Obash II flare gun in his hand were the same as those of the old flare guns, one engraved on the front end of the gun port and one engraved on the rear end of the cap of the cartridge, with white fluorescent powder on both marks for easy targeting by the shooter.

When the firing point at the current end and the firing point at the rear end are not on the same central axis, three o'clock first. This simplest aiming technique becomes a useless theory. It is necessary to pre-estimate and adjust the distance error of the firing target before each firing. This delays the frequency of the firing of the firearm and increases the difficulty of hitting the target, especially those of those activities…

While Claude was considering whether he should find a blacksmith to build a gunshot sight, Bok Al had completed his exercise today, more than 30 rounds, a hit rate of about 58 percent, and the target paper on the target he shot was already full of holes.

This kind of accomplishment makes Bok Al proud to consider himself a very talented shooter. So I took the paper off the target, and I was going to show it to Ericsson, and I was bragging. But at this point, he wants to talk to Claude about business cooperation, where you spend a little money working together to produce this target and the target paper, and then sell it on behalf of them in their businesses, and then share the profits proportionally.

“It's a genius design.” Bok Al has been exaggerating to Claude: “Not to mention the convenience of shooting at guns is also a great improvement in the durability of the target. I think it would be a good opportunity to throw in some small money, maybe not a lot of money, but it would be fine to earn back the money and get some change. ”

Bok Al was right, like the kind of analogue targets they had in their businesses, they didn't sell seven or eight a year, and the profits were very low. Generally, it's the best kids in town who don't buy one until they train for shooting. Like the hunters and mountaineers in town, they practice shooting skills with guns, but mostly get something random as a target, instead of spending money on shape-shifting targets at the mall, even for a little bit of money, they prefer to buy wine and drink, and some carpenters make their own targets.

Also, the durability of the analogue targets is not very good, mostly assembled with a variety of residual piecemeal wood boards, which can easily be broken by firing at close range with a firearm. In addition, even if it doesn't rupture, any more bullet holes left on it can cause trouble checking the accuracy of the shooting behind, even if every bullet has been inked before.

And Claude designed this wooden plaque target, which can be made entirely of stronger and thicker wood, no matter how many bullet marks it leaves on it, a new sticker of target paper is a new target. As for the target paper, there's no need for a painting like Claude's last night. It's easier and faster to print, and it's cheaper and more numerous. So this is what Bok Al looks like. He's right. Making a lot of money may not be, but it's perfectly fine to get some change.

“Okay, invest as much as you say, when the four of us do a small business together.” Claude doesn't give a shit about this target, and it's a good idea to hold Boquer accountable.

Bok Al calculates for half a day: “I think one silver taller for each person. Spend two silver tallers for twenty targets first, and each target will have about thirty pieces of paper, and the rest will remain in reserve. Three riazos for the price. One should be marketed. I can also ask my father to sell it to those who love shooting, or I can get it myself to sell it at those range...”

A target with 30 sheets of target paper, this money is around a riazo, selling three riazos is not expensive, and a target can earn two riazos, which is a good business, Bok Al calculates very well. The only unfortunate thing is that it's not a common necessity, it doesn't need many people, it doesn't need a lot of shipments, and it doesn't make a lot of money from this.

Verricolo didn't have a problem with that. He thought Claude's designs were really good, and throwing in a little money wasn't a big deal. So Bok Al was very happy to go to the pier to find Eriksson, and left him with a silver taller...

Bock-All left in the carriage, Claude continued to wonder how to put a sight on the muzzle, and Velikoro fired a few more rounds with Bock-All's flash rope gun, and strangely asked what he was doing, why didn't he practice shooting?

Claude said what he thought, and Verricolo didn't. He said that the gun had been around for almost 600 years, and everyone was used to it. There was no need to mount any more sights at the gunpoint, and a launch point was enough. He thinks Claude's main reason for the inconvenience is the lack of practice, which he gets used to just a few hundred more shots.

Summer worms are unspeakable, and Claude couldn't convince Verricolo of his past life's example. Asked where there was a blacksmith shop in Villicro town that built small objects, Villicro saw Claude and wanted to do something about the sights, so he recommended a blacksmith shop in the south of town. He said that the blacksmith shop was affordable and of good quality, and that his father had ordered the trap accessories with him when he went hunting.

So Claude started designing the sight, and it looked very simple. Just draw the sight of the air gun he had played with in his memory, a centimeter of the casing width, a circular hole, a centipede in the middle, the height of the cartridge on the barrel. Below the sight is also an iron sleeve that is a little larger than the barrel and is used at the muzzle. Note that this iron sleeve must be fixed to the muzzle and not easily detachable or vibrated by the firing. But at the same time, disassembly is convenient...

Claude was also prepared to change the launch point on the cover of the cartridge to a U-shaped hole. Unfortunately, this cover is active and does not fit as a rear sight hole. But Claude couldn't help it, either. He remembered the video he'd seen on his computer making a firearm, and the last thing on the gun was a sight, a door, a sight.

Behind that video is a related little video, which is how a firearm is targeted and fired. Claude looked at it casually and forgot a lot, but remember to say that the simplest way to aim is to shoot when the eyes, the aperture, the star, and the target are in a straight line, so long as you keep the barrel stable, you can hit the target.

In addition, the installation and proofreading of the aiming device is described in a small video, where the front and rear aiming doors are on a middle axis and parallel to the barrel of the gun. The principle of proofreading the sight is from the eye to the aperture of the door to the star, and finally to the absolute straight line of the target, but the bullet fired from the barrel is an implicit curve, so a movement gauge is typically installed at the door to adjust the sight so that the sight straight and ballistic curves meet at the target for the purpose of hitting the target.

Claude remembers the way the door looks, even the curved adjustment mechanism on the gauge above. But the biggest difference is that he's got a flare gun, not a flare gun, and there's a medicine box on the barrel of a flare gun, a tray lid, a flare pinch, and there's no way to put another light door on it. So Claude had to do the idea of the tray cover. Anyway, the launch point was engraved on the tray cover, so why don't we just frustrate it a little bit more for the door holes?

When Bok Al got back in the carriage, he was surprised to find that Eriksson was up there, but he didn't look very good. I just found out that he didn't see his father when he came home last night, as if he was at another friend's birthday party. I woke up in the morning and didn't even meet Ericsson. I came home from school this afternoon to find out that his father had gone out... went out...

The news was a terrible drain for Ericsson, and he was planning to get some money back from his father when he got the money to rebuild his little fishing boat, which was going to take at least ten and a half days to get back from the sea, and the small fishing boat rebuild plan had a serious impact.

Uncle Pegg's labor costs can be delayed, says Eriksson, and most of the material terminal warehouses do, but some pieces of glue powder and other accessories need to be purchased from the town's merchants, and it is estimated that three or four silver tallers will be needed for this purpose. If he waits for his father to come back, it'll be too late.

Eriksson wanted to borrow some money from the guys, so Bok Al came over and said his target investment plan, and Eriksson was crying.

Lastly, Verricolo said he had four silver tallers in Bok Al, invested a silver taller in that target, and lent the remaining three to Ericsson for shipbuilding. Bok Al also said he borrowed two silver tallers to Eriksson and helped him invest money in the target of that silver taller.

As for Claude, he was ignored by three partners. Everyone knew he had money to shop around. The last time he just bought a guest, he bought another book, and he bought three shitty things in Wakuri's shop. Now he's going to toss the sight, and he's going to go to the blacksmith's shop to customize what kind of sight, so he won't ask him to borrow money...