"It turns out that the mercury thunderate fire cap in the plane can be made, but it can only be produced in the laboratory, and industrial-scale production cannot be realized." Wen Tongxin replied, "But it is said that Lao Li is tinkering with a new firing potion, the main ingredient is not thunder ~ mercury, but some kind of secondary product processed from the black ~ gunpowder of the original plane, which is reliable enough to ensure safe storage and transportation, and sensitive enough to ensure fire when hit hard." “

"Ray ~ mercury can't be mass-produced, it doesn't mean that this new thing can't be mass-produced. Even if the chemical plant attached to our iron factory does not start, relying only on the existing production capacity of Wenjia Workshop can ensure the supply of black ~ gunpowder. If Lao Li's experiment can be successful, then the supply of ammunition for our firearms will not be a problem. “

"That's good!" Young Master Lan breathed a sigh of relief, "I'll just say, without mercury thunderate, where is the firing gun!" Although the flintlock mechanism is not unusable, the firing rate of the flintlock pistol and the reliability in wet and rainy weather are almost hot! ”

"In addition, I see that your gun body and stock are well processed! The texture is delicate, the wood is tight and dense, the whole gun body is integrated, the lines are smooth, and the difference in shape between the guns is very small, which is much better than the original Kentucky long rifle in the original plane! You can't grind it out with a replica lathe, right? “

"It's not that advanced." Director Wen was modest in his mouth, but he was still very useful in his heart, "The wood we use to make the butt of the gun is a special kind of tree branch trunk, and the name of the tree is 'Old Man's Staff'. This is a conifer tree, similar in appearance to fir, and the hilly woodlands outside Yangguan Town are full of this tree, so the source of wood for the gun body is absolutely abundant. What's more, this conifer tree has exactly the same shape in its side branches, between 5 and 15 meters high, with only slight differences in length! In other words, we only need to sawn the branches along the trunk, remove the twigs, and simply polish and paint them, and then use them to make the gun body handguard! This 'pine branch' is not only dense and solid, but also resistant to wear and tear, and the weight is acceptable, no worse than the walnut and red teak used for the butt of the original plane! “

When Young Master Lan heard this, he sighed in an old-fashioned manner: "To be honest, this can be regarded as a blessing in disguise!" If we hadn't come to another world, there would have been nowhere to find these amazing species of animals and plants, let alone use them to make guns! “

"Isn't it! Therefore, there are two sides to everything, and Seon will not know if he is blessed! ”

"Come on, just talk about not practicing fake handles, when can I try a gun? My hands are itchy! I don't know if the marksmanship that has been abandoned for so long has regressed! There's nothing more exciting for a veteran soldier than being able to get his hands on a modern firearm once again--- even a 19th-century front-loading ---. Holding this smooth, slender, and powerful individual weapon in his hand that exuded the familiar smell of gun oil, Young Master Lan was already eager to try it.

Director Wen pouted: "Hey, look at your little bit of talent!" What's the hurry, this first gun must be yours, let you fight enough in the future! But not now, the inspection, calibration and debugging of the guns themselves have not yet been completed, and at the same time, the paper pack ammunition we plan to match this batch of guns has not yet been produced, and this gun may not be able to fire for a while, so you have to wait. ”

"Where do you get so many rules?! It's not that we have to eat hairy pigs without Zhang Butcher, and this gun doesn't have to be equipped with fixed ammunition, right? Quantities of bulk gunpowder and split buckshot can always be taken out, right? Also, shouldn't gun calibration be the job of us shooters, when will it be your turn to be the gunsmith of your old man?! Lan Wang, who was itching in his heart, was already a little impatient.

"Who do you call a gunsmith? We're a real firearms designer! As soon as the Lan family's words came out, Director Wen was also unhappy, "That lead bullet is not so easy to make!" Spherical buckshot needs to be wrapped in leather, lubricated, and if it doesn't work well, it needs to be covered with a canvas gasket to shoot it with a rifled gun. I'll also have to give you the tester a small hammer so that you can hammer the lead bullet into the muzzle of the gun before you can push the bullet into place with the strip and compact! ”

Lan Wang sneered, "Your old man is still a designer? Plagiarism masters are pretty much the same! "I know that it was very difficult to reload early front-loading rifled guns, but if you use a Miner, the diameter of the bullet is smaller than the inner diameter of the barrel, and it should be easy to load!" Besides, isn't the manufacture of Mine's bomb just a matter of molds, isn't it that complicated? “

Director Wen shook his head like a rattle: "You are wrong, Migne is more troublesome!" This bullet is simple to use, but not easy to produce! The accuracy of the cast lead mold in our workshop is not up to par for the time being, and the expansion bottom edge of the Mingne bullet bottom cannot be thin enough, so the expansion effect will not be very good. To compensate, we had to add an expansion plug to the cavity at the bottom of the bullet--- which should have been made of iron or steel, but we used hardwood instead to save as much trouble as possible, and it was easier to process. “

"Even if we try to simplify the process, it takes more than one process to make the Migne bullets used in rifled guns, and the whole process is not done overnight, but also takes some time! So my eldest young master, you better be restless! “

"What's more, these three sample guns in our hands are actually of a strong experimental nature, and strictly speaking, they can only be regarded as the 'monkey version' of the Kentucky long rifle!"

"Huh? What does this say? Lan Wang was a little surprised. Although he is good at marksmanship, he really doesn't know much about these old and antique weapons.

"You don't know what to do, the length of the barrel of this rifle can be adjusted according to the length of the branch handguard, just like the sample gun you hold in your hand, the barrel is 1 meter long, the whole gun is 1.4 meters long, the caliber is 0.5 inches, the empty gun weighs 3.6 kilograms, and the whole weapon is quite light and compact. However, this sample gun can only be considered a conventional rifle at best, and the real Kentucky Long Rifle is more than 1.5 meters long, and most of them are even between 1.6 meters and 1.8 meters long, and the gun body can reach at least the tip of the nose of a standing adult man when it is upright! “

"In a few days, when the workshop starts to produce this rifle in full force, I plan to produce some 'exact replicas' of long rifles from some longer old man's cane branches, and the barrels will be faithful to the original design of this rifle, starting at 1.2 meters in length and 1.5 meters in length, which can be used as a sniper rifle with a compound ruler or scope. So if you want me to say, you really don't want to try guns at this time, and when the workshop creates this complete version of the sniper type, you will have time to get a gun addiction again! “

Lan Wang groaned for a while and smacked his lips: "Hiss...... What you say seems to have some point! “

"Of course! They are all refugees in time and space, can I still trap you? Wen Tongxin, who has always been a little unsmiling, laughed very presumptuously at this time, "Listen to me, the user experience of the sniper type is definitely much stronger than these experiments!" You must know that even the most advanced front-loading rifled gun in the mid-19th century has a muzzle velocity of no more than 300m/s, which can only be regarded as a subsonic bullet firearm; But our sniper long rifle is different, because the barrel is longer, and the hair ~ projectile used is also more powerful than black ~ gunpowder. Once the speed of the bullet is faster than the speed of sound, the target cannot hear the shot until it is shot! You make up for it: you lock onto the enemy's eyebrows in the scope, pull the trigger and kill with one shot, and the enemy doesn't know where the bullets are flying from until they die, how cool it feels! “

For a moment, Lan Wang felt that the Wen Tongxin in front of him was not an engineering dog, but an arms salesman......