Modern American pistols and revolvers - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...cartridges for smaller calibers are now made with an increased number of cannelures and no exposed lubricant. The chief trouble with revolver ammunition to-day is its excessive fouling from the grease and powder. By firing bullets into soft snow from a revolver which has been shot a few times, the investigator will find a ragged bullet, which shows how it raked over the adamantine-like crust which adheres to the inside of a revolver barrel, and which impairs its accuracy; therefore the fine shot cleans his revolver about once in every ten shots, if shooting the full charge. We have seen frontiersmen who stated they seldom clean their revolver except when they go hunting for a victim; but as these individuals never did what is now called fine shooting, and the man who cleans his revolver as often as every ten shots puts ten consecutive shots in a four-inch bullseye at thirty yards, it is evident that keeping a revolver clean is conducive to good marksmanship. Most shooters believe a great improvement will, before long, be made in powder, and it is thought that this will lessen the fouling of revolvers; but this difficulty is not likely to be wholly overcome. A new cartridge recently invented and perfected by Mr. D. B. Wesson, senior member of the firm of Smith & Wesson, of Springfield, Mass., the famous revolver manufacturers, is known as the self-lubricating cartridge, and it was invented by Mr. Wesson with the object of lessening the fouling in revolvers. The finest shooting revolver in the world, if shot rapidly in a dry atmosphere, is likely to become so inaccurate by fouling as to greatly affect its usefulness. Mr. Wesson sought to overcome this difficulty in the following manner:--The bullet is provided with a core in its base about one eighth of a...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 123232700X
- ISBN 13 9781232327004
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages46
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