Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-07-04

hsve shens gagged for size Of pocket,
heads gagged for diameter. shells care
fully inspected inside and out for flaws,
dents and buckled necks. primer peck
cts examined for shape and condition,
shells gagged for length, shells gagged
in chamber gauge for body diameter
necked shells gauged for profile and dis
lance from head. shells examined for
depth of primer seating, condition of
anvil and exploded primer and shells
finally gone over for general defects
that may have escaped other inspec-
tons
Weighing Bullets.
In the same spirit workers with deli
cate scales, like those you see in
druggists prescription department. are
weighing the bullets carefully, one by
one hour after hour, day after day,
giving all their thought and attention
to this one thing, while other employ
ees explode about 100000 primers a
year in testing their senstiveness.
! The loaded shells and cartridges go
through a series of gauges and tests
seemingly unnecessary after all that
have preceded the loading. For exam
pie. 1t does look a little wasteful to
see men take shells at random from
the various loading machines and
packing tables in order to cut them up
and examine the contents When we
learn that a half million perfectly
good shells are thus destroyed each
year it impresses us as painstaking
run mad but it helps to explain why
there are no misfires in your U NJ G
box.
Testing For All the World.
And then at last come the shooting
tests. Five hundred thousand rim fire
cartridges. 100000 center fire car
tridges and 100000 loaded shells must
still be sacrificed on the various shoot |
ing ranges each year in order to study
velocity, intensity of sound. penetra
ton. pressure and shot pattern; also |
the mushrooming qualities of soft
point bullets and the rigidity Of those
with metal cases. Each of these points
in what is known as the "ballistlc"
work has special experts and APP
paratus There is no guesswork any
where
How Shot Is Made.
How many Of our readers have ever
seen a shot tower? The great building
at Bridgeport, of solid masonry. metal
and concrete is a sight worth miles of
travel. Two large iron cylinders de
scend in the center. coming down
through the ceiling from above We
are invited to look through an open
port in one of these.
Raining Shot.
We see nothing but the whitened
opposite well. against which a light 1
burns.
1t appears absolutely empty, though
within 1t is raining SUCH swift show {
sr Of invisible metal that if we were
o stretch our hands into the apparent s
Y vacant space they would be torn
rom our arms ,
A large water tank below is churned {
nto foam with the impact Of the fall S
ng shot, and as we look downward we S
make out finally the haze of motion. {
t is so interesting that we take the I
elevator and rise ten stories to the S
ource of the shower.
Here high In the air are the large S
aldrons where many pigs of lead. with e
he proper alloy. are melted into s
ort Of metallic soup. This is fed into n
mall compartments containing sleeves v
r screens. through the meshes of g
Thich the shining drops appear and
zen plunge swiftly downward.
Cascades Of Shot. II
But this only begins the process. d
AIKEN from the water tanks and hoist
| up again the shot pellets in sec Sc
nd journey down through complicated b
evices are sorted, tumbled. polished.
'aded. coated with graphite and Gnal. g
stored. Il
The building is almost bare Of work. to
en-; everything is mechanical Il
one pretty sight is that Of cascades I
shot pouring out Of spouts and roll. tn
g smoothly down glass inclines, tier a
'ove tier Here perfect shot moving he
ore swiftly than the occasional i'm Ell
'rfect ones. shoot over low partitions II
hlch check the latter and drop them al
to separate bins. al
ome Secrets of Arms Manufacture. Pc
From the ammunition plant let rs -
lvel to the great factory at Ilion that .
Is once forge shop As in the car
dye factory, we find here similar Wis 90
: of swiftly whirrlng shafts. belts -
d pulleys. long rows OF resounding -.
lehinery and armies OF operators. ~,
Making Barrels. nj.
)ne Of the most Important features gi,
OF course. the making Of barrels pc,