Interesting facts of rifle to share

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In 1853, when America pushed Japan into the outer world, the Japanese representatives were presented such gifts as 15 rifles, 12 cavalry swords, 2 carbines, 3 muskets, 20 army pistols, 120 cartridges in cartridge boxes, and many other items.

Cartridge paper refers to high quality drawing paper. Brass cartridges gunpowder used to be wrapped in high quality paper to ease the loading of single shot muzzle guns. “Lock, stock and barrel” is a common phrase referring to a whole thing in sense of entirety. Guns or rifles having these three things – lock, stock and barrel – are supposed to be complete.

Stainless steel was invented during the process of developing wear and water resistant steel for rifle barrels, in 1913, for the British Government. The inventor was Harry Brearley, chief metallurgist, in England.

The largest bore gun ever made in the world was used to fire a hollow cast iron ball of 3 feet diameter. The ball contained 215 kg of gunpowder and weighed about 1 tonne. A civil engineer, named Robert Mallett, had designed this giant rifle.

The French is notorious for having fired 510,000 round shot, 350,000 mortar shells, and 43,000 tonnes of iron During the siege of Sebastopol when the Crimean War going on. The British had fired about 10,000 tonnes of iron shot. This equals to the weight of as many as 4 Eiffel Towers.

Barrett Rifle

Germany is famed for having used the longest range rifle in the last phase of the First World War. The gun had fired an amount of 100kg projectile up to a distance of 75 miles. It fired at a speed of 1500 meters per second and reached a daring height of 25 miles above the ground.