Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 54: First Line Aim at 3: 00

Yeah, Claude, that reminds me that seven days have passed. So I apologized to Ericsson and stopped helping him at his dock today. I turned around and called a carriage to go to the big hammersmith's shop in south town.

Then Claude found out that all three of his buddies had boarded the carriage and were ready to follow the long vision of the past. Claude spent seven giant rearsaults on a silver taller to figure out what the hell this sight was...

Go ahead. It's rare and weird. Four men went to the hammer, and when Boss Mike saw Verricolo and Claude, he consciously took out the already built sight.

I have to say, Boss Mike, don't look at the five big three chunks of a guy, but the craftsmanship is really good, the built sight is dark and dark, the corners are smooth and round, and it feels very comfortable to touch.

Claude noticed the size and straightness of the center quasi-centric, borrowed Boss Mike's measuring tool once and found no deviation from the size he was given. Claude smiled satisfactorily and thanked Mr. Mike.

Boss Mike was relieved, and customized devices like this were paid for first. He was worried about getting things out and not satisfied with the booked customers, and even said that what he wanted wasn't like this. Though there are drawings and the Guest is not afraid to resist, one more thing is less important, especially a second generation like Claude with a parent's back is the hardest to serve...

Claude and Boss Mike greeted each other, one expressed satisfaction with the craftsmanship and technology of the hammer, and one thought that a delightful guest like Claude would come to visit more often if needed, and the hammer would definitely give a very affordable price. After half a day of nonsense, Claude said goodbye and his buddies took the star sight and walked out of the yard door of the big hammersmith's shop.

Erickson said why don't Claude go home and get the gun, and then go over to his dock and see if this thing's as useful as Claude's bragging these past few days.

Although it is a private pier for the Ericssons, the place may have accidentally injured people. After all, it is surrounded by stone houses and huts built with wood. People come and go around the hall. There is also a small market next to the pier... so Claude rocks the head...

“Are you fools? My pier is by the lake. Wouldn't you shoot at the lake? How could you possibly hurt someone there?” said Erickson angrily.

“But there's nowhere in the lake to put a target...” Bok Al hasn't reacted yet.

“What kind of target do you want, throw a piece of wood in the lake and float on the surface of the water? You wooden head! ”

Eriksson's right. That's a good idea. So the four of them took a carriage to the big red brick house at Claude's house. When Claude went up to the attic to pick up the rope guns and gunpowder, he took the carriage to the private pier at the Ericssons'.

Four Sonar carriages were paid for by Bok Al, who ran the slowest and was caught by the wagon driver. Anyway, as soon as the carriage stopped, Claude, Verricolo and Ericsson jumped out of the carriage and ran to the pier. Bok Al didn't react. He wanted everyone to pay for his car...

Bok Al complained that the partners had gone into the pier without mumbling, and Claude was putting the sight on the muzzle, and Eriksson and Velikro were watching.

With a little butter on the outside of the barrel at the muzzle, Claude put the sight on the barrel very smoothly, fixing it with a small screw, drilling a small hole in the casing below the center of the barrel, screwing it in and onto the barrel to secure the sight. Just before it's fixed, Claude has to give the centering pin on the sight to the middle axis of the barrel.

After holding the entire sight, Claude is now adjusting the centrifugal needle. Because the rear sight hole is on the cover of the cartridge, not the normal door gauge tape crankshaft adjustment device, Claude can only hit the idea of distance sight adjustment over the centerpin.

This compass is divided into five parts, the thickest underneath and thinner up, like a stretched sleeve, one feel at a time. No way, Claude calculated that the highest point of this centrifugal needle was a millimeter below the sight hole on the cover, so that it would be a firing target at three o'clock around 50 meters. So a little further, like a hundred meters away, from the rear sight hole to the centerpin, you can only start with the second section and then go to the target, which is to adjust the number of centerpin sections to adjust the crankshaft of the door gauge ruler...

As soon as Claude adjusted the sight of the star, Vericulo did his best to throw a small piece of wood that was ready into the lake, because it was a piece of wood, and the light drift did not make it strong, so it was a little close, only 20 meters away, which is why it drifted off on the water.

“It's okay,” Claude said. "I'll try a few shots first. ”

Load the gunpowder and gun, clamp the flame rope after tamping, light it, press the flame rope gun onto the bracket, and start aiming.

Aside from anything else, Claude felt the aim was more natural with this sight in front of the barrel. There was a sense of familiarity coming from the inside. From the U-shaped hole on the cover, aim at the highest point of the sight pin in front, then aim at the floating block of wood in the lake, pull down the trigger, and the "thump" sound of the fire rope was hammered into the injection box, and a "boom” sounded, and the ash smoke started...

Claude was a little upset when he missed the block. The gun just hit the lake water behind the block, less than a finger away from the block...

Continue to wipe the barrel down with a general strip, pour the powder again, tamper with it, put the gun down again, keep tamping with it, clamp the flame rope, ignite the flame rope, put it on the bracket, aim again, shoot...

In total, four shots were fired. The first three shots were said to have been fired at the side of the small block, very close, almost like sticking to the small block. Only the fourth shot hit the small block with a real cut, and even shot the small block a few meters from the water to the front...

Claude turned his head and realized he had just shot, while his three partners stood there with their eyes open and stared at the little piece of wood in the lake that had been hit...

“How did you do it...” Vericulo felt like he was going crazy. Even if he had his old Gali 3 firewire gun in his house, even if he was familiar with the firearm's habit, Vericulo didn't think he could hit this little piece of wood in the lake within four shots...

The reason is simple, when he targets the target, he needs to first subtract the distance of that error in his mind. For example, he needs to aim a finger at the top left of the small block, but that's the lake water, and there's a small wave of waves together, and the ripples caused by the small block sinking in the water, which makes it difficult for Velikro to estimate the distance error, which is easy to see...

Verricolo can guarantee that he can only shoot the little pieces of wood in the lake by mask, but he believes that it is impossible to mask them next to the little pieces of wood three times in a row. That's almost as good as shooting them, all sticking to the little pieces of wood in the lake...

“It's all because of this sight.” Claude smiled softly, picking up a small piece of wood and drawing a simple diagram on the ground: “From here, the U-shaped hole on the cover, pointing at the top of the center needle in front, then pointing at the little piece of wood in the lake, three o'clock a line, holding the gun steady, pulling the trigger, you can hit the target. ”

“Boa, you hear me? Try and do as I say.” Claude handed the fire rope gun to Bok Al.

“Boom," the little block was hit again and bounced out of the water...

“Haha, I told you I had a gift for shooting. If you don't believe me, the first shot hit, yeah! Long live!”

Claude stared and watched Bock-All jump in there, and all he could do was scold the shit out of him! Why did you shoot four shots yourself to hit that little piece of wood in the lake? Bok Al shot the target the first time...

Now it's Ericsson's turn to shoot, and Claude finally regains confidence in him. This guy didn't hit the little block after seven shots. Every time he almost hit it, it was so close. Like Claude's first three shots, he hit the water with the little block...

Bok Al was dancing next to Eriksson pointing out how he was aiming, but he forgot how he was aiming at the little piece of wood that hit him, more and more chaotic, and finally Claude went up and drew again and told them what a three-point first-line aiming was.

Eriksson fired three more shots, finally hitting a small piece of wood in the lake.

In the end, it was Véricolo's turn, but he stopped shooting only once, and that shot was very strong, almost half a metre away from the little lumber in the lake.

“What's wrong with you?” Claude thinks Velricolo looks a little strange.

Véricolo smiled bitterly: "I can't shoot with your gun and your aiming method... I'm afraid shooting with your three-point first-line aiming method will make me forget the instinct to automatically adjust distance errors that I would have mastered... Really, your aiming method is simple and feasible, and even a novice can easily grasp the point of shooting. Although the sight on this sight is ugly, I have to admit, it does work...”

Bok Al came over and said, "Claude, I'm sorry. I thought you did this the other day. What was your name again? By the way, preparing a sight is a costly behavior. Now I admit that I was wrong, and this prep sight works and works, and I want to put one on my gun. Can you take me to the big hammersmith's shop and talk to the big boss? ”

Claude also laughed bitterly: "It's called a center sight, not a prep sight. Naturally, if you want to install one, I have all the drawings. I can talk to Mike at the hammer later. You pay the fare. ”

“When you came in this afternoon, you cheated on me and left me to pay the fare.” Bork Al was dissatisfied, but then he came up with the idea of this sight: “By the way, Claude, would a lot of people buy this sight if we took it out and sold it? Such a convenient firing sight, 3: 00 a line, haha, even a novice can easily hit the target, there must be great market prospects...”

Claude shook his head: “Sorry, Boa, I'm not going to get involved in this business. If you want to do it, do it, but you have to be prepared to bleed...”

“Why?” Bok Al wondered.

“One, this thing is expensive, I'm a silver taller Chiriazo, or does Mike boss see a good price on my father's face, and the other one has to count as Mike boss craftsmanship, this is hand polished, who do you think would pay more than two or three silver tallers for this stuff?

Secondly, the star sight is mounted on this Obash Type II flare rope gun, and your one is the same, and then you have to let me reinstall the fixing adjustment to use it, not just what you think. Who else besides me can you find to calibrate this thing? But I don't want to help others do this calibration job...

Three, vintage flare rope guns don't fit this star sight, like Vero's Gali III, and the muzzle is horn type, which you can't even fit. And most importantly, Vero has just said that he can't shoot with my aim method, because that would create a lot of confusion about his own shooting instincts and techniques...

So, you can't do the business of a star sight, and people with guns have their own way of shooting, and people who don't understand don't pay for this stuff, you understand? ”

“That's right…” said Bok Al disappointed.

Claude shrugged his shoulders, and one thing he didn't tell Boquer was that the biggest customer in the star sight business was actually the military, which was most useful to recruits who had just entered the barracks, making them a good archer in the shortest possible time.

But Claude didn't think Boa could get on the military line, and if he did it with the military, it wouldn't do him any good and his partners any good. There is no patent law in the world. If you want to imitate it, no one can stop you. You can play with it yourself. There is no need to do business to get yourself into a lot of trouble...