Chapter 225

The fifth month of 1765 came unconsciously.

In the Cherokee calendar, the fifth month of the year is called "flower month.". In this month, you can see flowers in full bloom everywhere, and flowers are the most prominent symbol of this month.

At this time, the temperature has been very warm. At this time in previous years, all the people in the tribe have taken off their skins and clothes.

Thanks to the cotton cloth seized from the French, blackmailed from Fort okron, and brought by major hank, the whole gaoshu tribe has now put on clothes made of cotton cloth.

Compared with the animal skin clothes, the clothes made of cotton are far more breathable and comfortable than those made of animal skin clothes, and the people also like this kind of cotton clothes.

As a 17-year-old boy, Shi Xiong's body was the period when he was strong enough to sleep on the cool Kang, so he changed into a sleeveless vest early. Although it's still a little cold in May, he doesn't care about it because of the enough firepower.

Of course, the stone bear, who had taken off his animal skin clothes, finally showed his arm, which was as thick as an adult man's thigh, in front of the people of quangaoshu tribe, attracting countless hot eyes

Stone bear himself is very puzzled, this pair of body is clearly a yellow, but why even have stronger muscles than most black people? Most importantly, the stone bear found that this body seems to be still developing

Helplessly shook his head, accelerated the pace of walking, and soon came to the south side of the tribe on the hillside.

It's about a mile away from the tribe. Thanks to the popularity of double saws in gaoshu tribe, the originally dense forest has been cut into a large area of open space, with several mu of land. After being cut down, those trees will either be used for paper making or for fuel. If they are cut down on such a large scale in future generations, they will definitely be in prison.

However, in this era, no one is in charge at all, which makes Shi Xiong secretly sigh that ancient times are really much better than modern times in some aspects.

The clearing was roughly rectangular. As a result, Ferguson took a fancy to the place and cleaned it up, turning it into a shooting range.

The first ten Ferguson rifles made by Lieutenant Ferguson will be tested at this range.

In fact, the so-called gun testing is mainly to test the strength of the barrel.

After all, it's a cast barrel, and its strength can't be compared with that of later drilled or cold forged barrel, let alone precision forged barrel.

However, the material used for casting gun barrel can be regarded as low carbon steel. The toughness and strength of the material itself are much higher than that of the wrought iron used in various countries. In addition, the current guns use black powder, and the gas pressure generated when the powder deflagration is far less than that of smokeless powder, so this kind of casting gun barrel can also be used.

And according to Ferguson's analysis, the quality of the cast barrel is even better than that of the brown Beth rifle used by the British today.

Although Ferguson has confirmed the quality of the barrel, stone bear still needs further inspection.

For example, according to the loading speed of six rounds per minute, 60 guns can be fired continuously with normal fixed charge to see if the barrel will explode.

For example, the maximum tolerance of the barrel can be tested by the limit charge which is twice or even twice as large as the fixed charge.

Anyway, it's how to abuse it. As long as these ten Ferguson rifles can stand the test, it's absolutely no problem to win the battle in the future.

A wooden frame was specially made at one end of the shooting range. A Ferguson rifle was tied to the solid wooden frame. Behind the wooden frame stood a row of logs with the thickness of lower legs, which was more than two meters wide.

When testing the gun, a rope was tied to the trigger, and the man stood behind the wooden wall made of logs. First the gun was loaded with ammunition, then the man went back behind the wooden wall, pulled the rope and fired the ammunition.

In any case, this kind of test gun does not require any accuracy, but only the ultimate tolerance of the test gun barrel, so as long as the muzzle is always aimed at the other end of the range. And the whole gun is firmly tied to the wooden frame, even shooting will not make the muzzle offset.

And that row of wooden walls is used to protect the safety of laboratory personnel. In case of a burst during the experiment, this row of wooden walls is enough to ensure that people behind the wooden walls will not be hurt.

Ferguson, as the R & D of this rifle, naturally wants to be the first experimenter. He still refuses to do this job if others want to.

The gun is a good gun, the barrel is a good barrel, and lieutenant Ferguson knows that. He can guarantee that the gun will not explode even according to the limit test method of British troops.

And he is also very skilled in loading ammunition. Although he increases the time to run back and forth from the back of the wooden wall, he can't say six rounds in one minute, but eleven rounds in two minutes is absolutely no problem.

The loading speed of the back loaded rifle is much faster than that of the front loaded rifle. Even if it is loaded with five rounds per minute, the speed is much faster than that of the rifles tested in various countries.

Stone bear knows that Ferguson is a very responsible person. Since he insists on being the first experimenter, let him do it.

Stone bear and his party stood about 20 meters away from the wooden frame, watching Ferguson finish loading the bullets and fixed powder, then quickly ran back to the back of the wooden wall, pulled the rope, and the next moment, with a loud gunshot, the wooden frame with the rifle was surrounded by the blue gray smoke.

The terrain here is a little higher, and it's a bit windy today, so when Ferguson ran out from behind the wooden wall for a second loading, the smoke had been blown away by the wind.

In this way, Ferguson with a sharp loading speed of fast loading, basically able to reach the speed of five in a minute. It's a bit slower than a man loading a gun directly, but it's also twice as fast as any current rifle.

But for every five shots, Ferguson has to clean the gun with a special strip. This slowed down the experiment.

There is no way. In the era of gunpowder, no matter what the gun is, if you fire a few shots, if you don't clean the barrel, the residue of gunpowder combustion will accumulate in the barrel. If you don't clean up, don't shoot. If you don't blow up, your gun is of good quality.

Generally speaking, almost all the rifles used in other countries are fired once to clean the barrel, but the gunpowder used this time is made according to the perfect proportion provided by stone bear, so it's OK to fire five shots to clean the barrel.

It takes about 20 minutes to test a gun, including the time to clean the gun.

Ten guns will come down for more than three hours, and then we will carry out the test of limit loading of gunpowder, double the amount of gunpowder and double the amount of gunpowder.

Anyway, after the ten guns were tested, it took a whole morning.

But the good news is that none of the ten guns had any major problems. In such a limit test can still maintain good stability, which shows that this rifle has been successful!