Chapter 920： One-shot

It is easy to control the horses, as long as the management is strengthened, the number of horses can be counted and checked every day. If the horse is lost, a large army is dispatched to find it, to see the horse in life and to see the carcass in death. If an Indian steals a horse, then the other party will be destroyed, and the other party will never be given the opportunity to own a horse.

Marin remembered the fierceness of the Indian cavalry in the 19th century. At that time, the American colonists were once disgraced by the Indian cavalry on the western prairie. If the firearms of the colonists did not enter the era of rifled guns at that time, and the Indian cavalry was generally not large in scale, it is possible that the American colonists would be helpless against the Indian cavalry. After all, the smoothbore gun can't deal with the light cavalry who can come and go like the wind.

Therefore, Marin will not repeat the same mistake anyway, so that the Indians have the opportunity to get horses. As long as there is no cavalry, the Indians will not be able to make waves.

In the absence of Indian horses, the large North American prairie is actually as easy to conquer as the Pampas. However, the North American prairie does not have the advantage of the Pampas prairie close to the big river, and has little agricultural potential. However, as long as hundreds of Cossacks are dispatched, it is easy to take them down.

Some people may think that hundreds of cavalry are too few? Tell you, it's a lot ...

You know, Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire, using only more than 160 Spanish mercenaries, of which only 62 cavalry. But it was the 62 Spanish armor that only wore half-body armor and Spanish armor to protect the front and the exposed Spanish cavalry. They suddenly dispersed the 80,000 troops of the Inca Empire and captured the Inca emperor alive.

Therefore, Marin sent hundreds of Cossack cavalry to conquer the North American prairie, which is not a problem at all. The problem is, don't let the Indians steal the horses.

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As for shotguns, the ability to break defenses is no better than that of the Indian stone arrows. The stone arrows shot by the Indians' bows and arrows may not be able to break through the thick cowhide of the bison. Even if it breaks open, the meat will not be too deep. Under such circumstances, not only will the bison not be killed, but the bison, especially the bulls, will be irritated.

Therefore, when the Indians hunted bison before, most of them would choose the herd of cows and calves rather than provoke the bulls. Otherwise, if the mad bull stares at him, whoever hunts may be the one. Faced with the 60-meter charge speed of the American Bison, it was difficult to escape.

With horses and shotguns, the difference is that the shotgun's bullets are enough to break the cowhide and kill the bison. At the same time, riding the friesian horses favored by the Indians. Indians love horses of different colors. Later, this breed was circulated in the United States and was called the American horse. The advantage of American Pinto lies in the short-term outbreak. This advantage may have been escaped in front of the angry bull of the North American bison ...

Of course, that was when the small number of hunters faced the bison. If you encounter hundreds of cavalry and the bison is not stupid, you must run .... In fact, the 60-meter running speed of the bison was also trained by the North American wolves. It can be seen that the American bison is not stupid, and should escape when he knows the danger. In order to escape, he developed a running speed that was high enough ...

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A spring igniter using a 30-gram lead bullet is enough to hit a bison. The matchlock gun does not work, it is inconvenient to use on horseback, and when running, the matchline may be blown out by the whizzing wind.

Hundreds of Cossack cavalry armed with clockwork rifles to hunt bison were enough to calm down those bison bulls who were prone to blood and then ran away. If this is not possible, you can also let those Cossacks learn how to ride a prairie wolf and make a wolf-like cry to scare the bison. Timber wolves, weighing up to 80 kg, are the natural enemies of bison. The wolf howling can make the bison fear ...

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Speaking of shotguns, information about the m870 Remington shotgun suddenly appeared in Marin's mind. The shotguns of later generations are different from ordinary firearms. Military guns are generally rifled guns, which are far and powerful. But in the hunting process, playing far is a disadvantage. Because, you can't be sure if there are people hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters away. If stray bullets accidentally hurt passers-by, it would be bad. If in Huaxia, where there is a smoky place a few hundred meters away, using a rifle to hunt rashly, it is easy to cause stray bullets to innocent people. Therefore, generally there will be a loess **** behind the shooting range, which specially absorbs the missed bullets. Or, simply a closed shooting gallery.

Therefore, in order to avoid accidental injuries, many shotguns are smooth-bore guns, using special shotgun shells ...

The bullets of the later smoothbore shotguns generally have three kinds of bird bullets, deer bullets and single-headed bullets.

The bird shell is actually the egg shell of a very thick shotgun shell with a short copper propellant base at the end, which contains the primer. Most of the front is made of plastic shell, which contains a bunch of lead ...

The power of a bird bullet is very small, hitting people, generally not fatal, but it will be very painful. Can you imagine the plot of a lead being sprayed into your flesh? When the doctor uses tweezers to take lead from your flesh, you will feel painful, let alone lead and poison ... So, the riot police like this kind of shotgun that can not kill people, but can beat people to death gun……

The bullet of the deer bullet is a pile of steel **** ~ www.novelhall.com ~ is similar to the small steel ball in the bearing. This kind of steel ball can kill people. It is generally used to hunt deer and other medium-sized prey. The less dangerous one can also be used to hunt cattle.

The most terrifying thing is probably the one-headed bullet. Unlike bird bullets and deer bullets, single-headed warheads are not multiple children, but a single lead warhead, which is heavy and of course powerful.

For example, the single-headed bullet of the No. 12 shotgun, the warhead alone, weighs about 37.64 grams, and the kinetic energy is very high. Therefore, in general, this shotgun shell is specifically used to fight thick-skinned beasts such as wild boars.

This kind of bullet is terrifying. When it hits the meat, it will wreck a large piece and enter the body, which will definitely cause death.

The most amazing thing is that although the single-headed ammunition was shot with a smoothbore shotgun, its accuracy is very high. why? Because the head of the one-shot bullet will have some protruding yang spirals. Therefore, even if it is shot from a smoothbore gun, it can rotate and form a stable flight, which improves the bullet's quasi-head.

However, the rotation principle of the single-headed bullet is opposite to that of the rifle bullet. The rifle gun uses the rotating force generated by the gunpowder gas in the barrel to force the warhead to rotate.

In the case of a single-headed bullet, it uses the sun's rifle on the bullet's head. When flying in the wind, it is slowly rotated by the wind under the air resistance, generating a certain amount of stabilizing couple to keep the bullet stable.

However, because of the slow rotation, the effective range of the one-shot is not comparable to the rifle gun. The effective range of rifle bullets is generally several hundred meters, while the effective range of single-headed bullets is only more than two hundred meters. That is to say, a hunter using a single-headed bullet can aim at a prey up to 200 meters away, and even further away, he can't hit ...

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"Oh!" Marin suddenly gave himself a slap ...

Why? Why didn't he think of a single shot before blaming himself ...