The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-04-09
RIFLES AND CARTRIDGES.

Number tf Pieces In Rifles of varioua
Typos differences In Cartridges.
There are good many parts to a
rifle, all of which are necessary to
the make up of the weapon, and
these. parts are interchangeable in
manufactured firearms A single
shot rifle put ont by one manufac-
turer has 40 parts, to which must be
added the two sights. II one wishes
O set trigger, seven different pieces
must be added after two pieces have
been taken out. A repeating rifle
must naturally have more pieces
than single shot weapon, but the
number is not SO much greater as
one would think-58, without the
sights, being the number-and a
change of 13 pieces is necessary to
provide set trigger. The prices Of
these pieces, when bought separate
1y, range from 2 cents to $40. Gu
riously enough, the rifle barrel costs
less than the receiver in repeating
rifle. In the single shot rifle the
barrel is the most expensive part
The number of parts varies in the
various models of rifles, even of the
same makes, and the latest models
do not necessarily contain the small
est number of parts, though the
tendency has been to simplify the
weapons as much as possible. A re-
peating shotgun has about 60 parts,
There is great variety of rifle
cartridges ON the market now, and
more are being brought out to meet
the demands of rifle cranks who see
a difference in accuracy of rifle
using 20 grains of powder and ono
using 81 grains of powder.
The 20 caliber rifle is the one most
commonly used. Twelve kinds of
cartridges are listed for it, and to
these must be added blank car
tridges. The short cartridge car
ries grains of powder and 30 grains
of lead. The short, with hollow
pointed bullet, has only 27 grains of
lead. An ordinary long cartridge
has a load of grains of powder to
30 grains of lead. A "long rife
has 5 grains of powder and 40 grains
of lead. Another cartridge carries
grains of powder to As grains of
lead. An "extra long" has z grains
of powder behind 40 grains of lead.
There are two central fire cartridges,
one of which carries 10 grains of
powder and As grains of lead, tho
other grains of powder with a
similar bullet. These cartridges are
also loaded with smokeless powder,
charges varying from 12 grains
of powder and 80 grains of lead to
grains of powder with As grains of
lead.
There are 30 kinds of As caliber
rifle cartridges and charges, ranging
from grains of powder behind a
14O grain round bullet to 1875 grains
of powder behind 800 grains of lead.
The largest bullets are not always
fired by the most powder. The gov
ernments old As caliber rifle had
charge of 20 grains of powder be-
hind 500 grains of lead, a charge
warranted to kick shoulder black
and blue every time. The Danish
military rife carried so grains of
powder and $50 grains of lead.
There are 16 rife calibers, as fol-
lows: 90, 23, 25, 30, 32, So, 40, AZ,
43, A, As, 46, so, Sc, SO. Besides
these there are huge shoulder weap-
ons, used in killing elephants and
other thick skinned animals, and
special rifles, such rs 60 caliber tiger
guns. Tho AZ caliber rifle has but
two styles of cartridges, while the
As caliber, which was the standard
military gauge, has So kinds listed.
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