Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 52—Targets and Sights

The next afternoon, I went to the suburbs to practice shooting. But when Bokal drove the carriage to pick up Claude, he complained. He didn’t expect Crowder to let him find the target of the carpentry. The square is above. Row, nailed a stick below, finished.

"You made them do a few?" Crowder asked.

"I asked them to do two. The result was too simple. They did four more. There were six in total, and I moved to the car." Bocker answered.

Verricko said next to him: "Claude, the target you made is simple but not useful. The target is imitating the image and size of the animal and can be placed in the woods and bushes for training. Hunter's shooting accuracy and estimation ability, and can quickly understand the damage each gun can do to the prey..."

Crowder smiled: "Nothing, these targets are only semi-finished products, and you will understand when you get to the place."

At the place where I practiced yesterday, after selecting two targets from Boker Al, Crowder took out a roll of papyrus and took one and handed it to Verricko: "There is a batter, put this The sheet of paper is affixed to the wooden sign."

This is the target paper, cut into the same size specifications of the square wooden card, with a red circle in the middle and a black circle with a magnified circle on the outside. In order to draw such a target paper, Claude spent a night yesterday to draw twenty.

Verikro looked at the good target paper and immediately understood its usefulness. He couldn't help but extend his thumb to Claude: "This is the best target, how did you come up with it, Claude? ?"

Claude just shook his head with a smile: "Try it first. If you can't use it, you have to try it."

This time, Verricko first tried to grab. He took the shot with only two shots and shot three more shots to hit the red heart. Then call Bokal to the side, tell him the distance error between aiming and shooting, and how to adjust the aiming target in advance to achieve the accuracy of shooting.

Bok Alger started to practice shooting. The first few shots were not shot in the red heart, but they also shot on the target. This made him very happy. He continued to practice shooting under the guidance of Verricko, instead of yesterday. After a while, I felt boring to go to the dock to find Eriksson.

To be honest, the target paper drawn by Claude greatly improved the firing rate of the musket. As Verricko praised, the red dot at the center of the target made it much less difficult to adjust the estimated aiming and shooting distance errors, rather than the graphical targets of the two antelopes and wild boars like Bok Alna yesterday. Because there is no central red dot to target, and even each gun is actually relying on Mongolia.

The reason is actually very simple. The two emission points on the musket and the red dot at the center of the target are emitted in a straight line. The actual error can be calculated according to the black circle on the target. When the second gun is aimed at this error, it can be shot. The center of the target is red.

But Claude is still not satisfied. The two launch points of the Obas two-type arquebus in his hand are the same as those of the old-fashioned arquebus. One is engraved on the front of the muzzle, and the one is engraved on the lid of the pillbox. On the back end, the two marks are also coated with a white phosphor to facilitate the aiming of the shooter.

When the launch point of the front end and the launch point of the back end are not on a central axis, the simplest aiming point of three points becomes a useless theory. The distance error of the shooting target must be estimated and adjusted before each shot. This is to delay the frequency of firearms firing, and the second is to increase the difficulty of hitting the target, especially the goals of those activities...

When Claude is thinking about whether he wants to find a blacksmith to build a muzzle sight, Bokal has completed his practice today, and after 30 rounds, his shooting rate is about 58 percent. He shoots. The target paper on that target is already a hole.

This kind of achievement makes Bokal very proud and thinks that he is very talented in shooting. So I took the target paper off the target and prepared to take it to Eriksson to see it. But at the moment, he wants to talk to Claude about the issue of commercial cooperation. That is, everyone will spend some money to cooperate in the production of this target and target paper, and then put it on the sales floor of their home, and the profits will be divided according to the proportion.

"This is a genius design." Bokal said to Crowd in an endless stream: "Not to mention the convenience of shooting at the gun, it is also a very big improvement in the durability of the target, I think This will be a good business opportunity. It is worth investing in small money. Maybe you can't make big money, but it's okay to earn back the money and get some pocket money."

Bokal is right, like the kind of target of their business, they can't sell seven or eight a year, and the profit is very low. Usually, the children of the upper class in the town will only buy one when they are going to shoot. Like the hunters and mountain people in the town, although they have to practice the shooting skills of the firearms, most of them just do something to be a target, and they will not spend money to buy those target targets, even if they are a little money, they I also prefer to buy wine and drink, a little woodworking skills will also be a target.

The durability of the other type of target is not so good. Most of them are made up of various pieces of residual wood and wood. The shots of the guns are easily broken at close range. In addition, even if there is no break, the bullet holes left on it will bring trouble to the accuracy of the shooting behind, even if the bullet marks of each gun were painted with ink.

The wooden sign designed by Claude can be made with stronger and thicker wood. No matter how many bullet marks are left on it, the new target paper is a new target. As for the target paper, there is no need to draw a picture like Claude last night. It is more convenient and faster to print, and the quantity is much cheaper. So Bokal has taken a look at this. He is right. He may not make big money, but it is perfectly fine to get some pocket money.

"Well, how much do you want to invest? Just say that we are a small business that our four people are partnering with." Claude didn't care much about this target, and it was a good idea to hand it over to Bokal.

Bok Al calculated for a long time: "I want to have a silver tale for each person. I will spend two silver tale to make twenty targets. Each target is equipped with 30 target papers. The rest is reserved. The price of selling three Riazos should have a market. I can also let my father sell to those who love shooting, or I can get the shooting range to sell..."

A target with 30 sheets of target paper, the cost is around a riaso, selling three rias is not expensive, a target can earn two rias, this is a good business, Bok Al calculation is very shrewd. The only pity is that this is not a daily necessities. There are not many people in need, and the shipment volume will not be large. It is impossible to make any big money.

Verricko has no opinion. He thinks that the target designed by Claude is indeed a good thing. It doesn't matter if you invest a little money. So Bokal was very happy to go to the dock to find Eriksson, and he was a silver tower...

Bokal drove in a carriage, and Claude continued to wonder how to install a sight on the muzzle. Verricko took a few shots from Boker Al’s arquebus and asked him what he was doing, why not practice shooting. What?

Claude said his vision, and Verricko did not agree. He said that the musket has been around for nearly six hundred years. Everyone is used to such an aiming method. There is no need to install a sight at the muzzle. A launch point is enough. He thinks that the main reason for Claude's inconvenience is that the practice is not enough. As long as he practiced shooting hundreds of times, he would naturally get used to it.

Summer insects can't speak ice, and Claude can't use his previous life's example to convince Verrick. He asked where there was a blacksmith shop in the town of Verricko, and Verricko saw that Crowder wanted to engage in the sights and wanted to recommend him to a blacksmith shop in Zhennan. He said that the blacksmith The price of the shop is relatively affordable and the quality is good. The trap accessories that his father took when he was hunting were ordered at this blacksmith shop.

So Claude began to design the sight, which is very simple. According to his memory, he will draw the sight of the airgun that he used to play in the past. The width of the sleeve is one centimeter, the circle is hollow, and the center is erected. The needle is at the same height as the cartridge on the barrel. The underside of the sight is also an iron sleeve that is a little larger than the barrel. It is used to fit over the muzzle. It should be noted that the iron sleeve must be fixed on the muzzle, not easy to fall off or vibrate due to the launch. But also easy to disassemble...

In addition, Claude is also prepared to change the launch point on the lid of the cartridge to a u-hole. It is a pity that the cover is active, and it is not suitable as a rear aiming hole. But Claude couldn't help. He remembered the video of the rifle that was seen on the computer in the past. The gun was finally equipped with a sight, and the door was connected. It was the sight.

There is also a related small video behind the video, which is the aiming and launching principle of the rifle. Claude looked at it casually, and many of the content was forgotten, but remember that the simplest principle of aiming is the eye, the door hole, the sight and the target are shot in a straight line, as long as the gun body is stable, it can hit the target.

In addition, the small video says that the installation and proofreading of the aiming device is also very simple. The front sight and the rear door are on a central axis and are parallel to the gun body. The principle of the proofreading sight is from the eye to the door hole, to the crosshair, and finally to the target is an absolute straight line, but the bullet fired from the barrel is a vague curve, so the activity is usually installed in the photo door. The gauge is used for aiming adjustment so that the aiming line and the ballistic curve can meet at the target to achieve the goal of hitting the target.

Crowder remembers to look at the door, and even the curved adjustment mechanism of the meter above is also very clear. But the problem is that he has a hoist gun instead of a rifle in his hand. The biggest difference between the two is that there are pill boxes on the barrel of the arquebus, the cover, the fire rope clips, and there is no way to install a photo. Above. Therefore, Claude had to play the idea of ​​the cover. Anyway, the launch point was engraved on the cover, and then it was used to cover the door.

When Bokal came back in the carriage, he accidentally discovered that Eriksson was also on the top, but his face was not very beautiful. When asked, I realized that he didn’t see his father when he came home last night. It seems that he was a friend’s birthday party. When I got up in the morning, Eriksson didn’t touch it. When I came home from school in the afternoon, I realized that his father went to the sea... Going to the sea...

The news was a bad news for Eriksson. He also planned to get some money from his father to return to the reconstruction fund of his small fishing boat. His father came back from the sea for at least ten days and a half. The fishing boat redevelopment plan has had a very serious impact.

Eriksson said that Uncle Peg’s labor costs can be delayed, and most of the materials are also available in the warehouse of the terminal. However, some of the glues and accessories of the glue powder need to be purchased from the commercial banks in the town. It is estimated that three or four silver taels are also needed. If he waits for his father to come back, he will delay time.

Originally, Eriksson also wanted to borrow some money from his friends to get a head start. As a result, Bocker Alto ran over his target investment plan, and Eriksson was crying.

Finally, Verricko said that he had four silver tale in Bock Al, took a silver tale to invest in the target, and the remaining three were first loaned to Eriksson for shipbuilding. Bokal also said that he would give Eriksson with two Yintales and help him to invest in the target investment of Yintaler.

As for Claude, he was ignored by three partners. Everyone knows that he has money to buy things. He just bought a guest last time, bought a book, and bought three broken things in the shop in Wakuri. Now, what kind of sight is tossing, and I am going to go to the blacksmith shop to customize what the sights are, so I don’t ask him to borrow money...