Chapter 95

Ferguson rifle in the original historical time and space is a very creative rifle.

In order to solve the locking problem of the afterloading rifle, Patrick Ferguson, who was then a captain of the British Royal Army, adopted a rotating locking mechanism, which completely solved the sealing problem of the powder chamber of the afterloading rifle.

This locking mode is similar to the rotary valve locking of the faucet. At that time, Captain Ferguson opened a round hole in the upper part of the gun chamber, which is at the end of the gun chamber, and then installed a locking rotary valve with thread above the round hole. The locking rotary valve is integrated with the trigger retainer below.

When in use, first turn the trigger retainer for a circle, so that the locking rotary valve can be opened to expose the rear chamber of the gun, and then the spherical projectile can be loaded, and then the bulk black powder can be loaded, so that the loading work is completed.

After the ammunition is loaded, turn the trigger retainer one circle, so that the locking rotary valve can completely close the gun chamber. Of course, after all this work, fine black powder should be put into the ignition pool to make the ignitor. When the flint is excited, the sparks generated can ignite the powder in the ignition pool, and finally ignite the powder in the gun chamber to complete an excitation process.

This kind of locking mechanism that can rotate is the key to Ferguson's rifle. It is precisely because of this kind of locking mechanism that can rotate to open and close that the afterloading ammunition can be realized.

However, this kind of gun is not without shortcomings. One of the biggest disadvantages is that it can rotate the locking mechanism.

Ferguson rifle used a threaded vertical rotary valve lock, which was a genius design at that time. The air sealing effect was good, but the disadvantages were obvious. Because a long time of shooting will lead to the blockage of gunpowder residue between the locking thread column and the thread hole, which will make the thread locking difficult or air leakage failure.

In addition, this rifle has another disadvantage, that is, the fire hole of the ignition pool is located on the right side of the bottom of the barrel, close to the locking end face of the rear of the barrel. In order to spread the fire effectively, if the powder close to the hole wants to be ignited effectively, only bulk powder can be used and cannot be compacted effectively. In contrast, those front loaded guns, although they are first filled with powder particles from the muzzle and then loaded with bullets, can finally use a strip to compact the powder.

Therefore, although Ferguson rifle was an epoch-making rifle at that time, there were still some defects.

However, even if there are defects, this gun was already the top rifle at that time.

As a matter of fact, there is no gun in the world that can guarantee 100% defect free. Even the future generations of rifles that have been refined also have such and such defects.

Stone bear is trying to come up with a serial rifle or even a machine gun, but that is absolutely unrealistic. Even the mini rifle, which he saw from various aerial historical novels in his previous life, was made as soon as the protagonist's finger was opened, now he does not have that kind of condition in gaoshu tribe.

There are no available talents in the tribe.

Now it's not easy to catch a second lieutenant Ferguson. Stone bear naturally wants to inspire him to get his rifle out first.

As for whether or not to inspire him to make the miner rifle in the future, it depends on the situation.

Lieutenant Ferguson just stood there with the barrel in his arms, his face changing very quickly.

Seeing this scene, stone bear knew that this guy was at a critical moment, so he told Kuaima to disperse them and guard around the house, so as not to let the people in to disturb the British officer who was at a critical moment of metamorphosis.

The stone bear will not leave naturally. He will witness this guy's metamorphosis with his own eyes!

This is most of the morning, until almost noon, has been standing still Lieutenant Ferguson, it seems like a dream like a long breath.

Obviously, after hard thinking, this guy finally realized something.

"How's it going? What do you think? Have you come up with the idea of how to carry out the afterloading? " Stone bear smiles at Lieutenant Ferguson.

Lieutenant Ferguson looked at the stone bear with a complicated face, opened his mouth to say something, but finally sighed and lowered his head.

Stone bear heartless smile: "ha ha, look at you like this, obviously under my inspiration came up with some methods. Well, I said that if I can inspire you to develop better guns, you can do it! Mm-hmm, the general boss is doing this... "At the end of the day, the stone bear added such a sentence.

After hearing this, Ferguson raised his head and his face changed several times. Then he bit his cheek and said, "boss, thank you this time. Your inspiration really made me think of a way to solve the air leakage of the gun at the same time. That's the rotary locking mechanism! "

After such a long time, this guy is finally willing to call "boss". Although he is still so reluctant, this is the first time that this guy takes the initiative to call himself boss, which makes the stone bear feel a little relieved!

"Well, now that you've come up with a solution, let's completely realize the idea in your mind! I don't know if you've noticed. I've made an eye for you in the powder chamber of this gun barrel. What you need to do is to find a way to block the eye. "

"Ah? You've got the loading eye out? " Hearing the words of stone bear, Ferguson quickly turned the barrel upside down and carefully observed the thickened part at the back end of the barrel, where he saw a round hole about 0.8 inch in diameter.

Just now he looked at the overall quality of the barrel and whether it was straight or not. He didn't notice that this part had been opened quietly.

"Patrick, this eye is cast according to the caliber of the bullet you are using now, and the caliber of the barrel is also made according to the caliber of the bullet you are using now, that is to say, if you want to test, you can use the bullet you are using now. I don't have that condition here to make a projectile for you. "

After a pause, the stone bear pointed to the round hole and said, "now you have to find a way to make threads on it, otherwise the sealing effect can not meet the requirements. As for how to thread the barrel, you have to think of your own way

"Boss, the steel used for this gun tube is so hard, how can I screw it?" Lieutenant Ferguson is in a bit of a hurry.

"It's none of my business. You're the main force in developing new guns. If I want to do everything, what else do you want? Well, since you are the boss, I can give you a little hint here. It's not complicated to make steel harder than gun barrel steel. Don't we have a big pile of steel left? You can take off one of them and make it into the tool you need to make the thread. Of course, when you make the tool, you must burn the steel red. So you should remember that if the tool is made but still in a red hot state, you can make the tool harder by quenching it with cold water... "

"Quenching?" Lieutenant Ferguson's eyes lit up