The Book of the RifleLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 558 páginas |
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... weight , are made to cancel themselves by being converted into tendencies to deviate equally in all directions . Precisely how early the attempt was made to give this spinning motion to the bullet we do not know . It is very likely that ...
... weight , are made to cancel themselves by being converted into tendencies to deviate equally in all directions . Precisely how early the attempt was made to give this spinning motion to the bullet we do not know . It is very likely that ...
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... weight , and of the great improvement which a Scotch gunmaker made in 1851 by reducing the spiral from the established rates to one turn in ten or eleven feet , which was found to be perfectly sufficient for sporting distances . Captain ...
... weight , and of the great improvement which a Scotch gunmaker made in 1851 by reducing the spiral from the established rates to one turn in ten or eleven feet , which was found to be perfectly sufficient for sporting distances . Captain ...
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... weight of bullet to which I was limited . ' This twist , it will be observed , amounts to one turn in a length of 44-4 times the calibre of the barrel . A spin some- what more rapid than this is found suitable for modern rifles , large ...
... weight of bullet to which I was limited . ' This twist , it will be observed , amounts to one turn in a length of 44-4 times the calibre of the barrel . A spin some- what more rapid than this is found suitable for modern rifles , large ...
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... weight to his opinion , estimated that in the normal pattern of his rifle , in which the velocity was 1,300 feet per second , given by means of an increasing spiral ending with one turn in 34 calibres , the loss of velocity due to the ...
... weight to his opinion , estimated that in the normal pattern of his rifle , in which the velocity was 1,300 feet per second , given by means of an increasing spiral ending with one turn in 34 calibres , the loss of velocity due to the ...
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... weight ; you will then understand what wildly ignorant ideas can sometimes assert themselves in the daily press as practicable improvements . No better method , in short , has been invented than what , so far as we know , is the ...
... weight ; you will then understand what wildly ignorant ideas can sometimes assert themselves in the daily press as practicable improvements . No better method , in short , has been invented than what , so far as we know , is the ...
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