01-10-2020, 10:40 PM | #61 | |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
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01-10-2020, 11:17 PM | #62 | ||
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The visual image of shoving (what looks like) a chili down a muzzleloader and blasting someone is pretty awesome, though. And here I thought ghost peppers packed a punch! Quote:
If this is doable, I suspect it would speed up reloading a good deal. Indeed, you may be able to get away with attaching the wrapped bullet to the top of the cartridge-chili, letting you ram the whole thing in at once. Normally, a caplock muzzleloading rifle using a paper cartridge and Minié bullet would take 20 seconds to load, 16 with Fast-Draw (Ammo), while a caplock muzzleloading rifled pistol in the same situation would take 10 seconds to load, 8 with Fast-Draw (Ammo). Not needing to tear open the cartridge is going to save some time; perhaps these times become something like 15/12 and 7/5?
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____________ Postscript: ¹ Do not load your rifle with chipotle — it produces too much fouling.
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01-11-2020, 12:02 AM | #65 | |
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01-11-2020, 12:52 AM | #66 | |
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If these guns are using a form of smokeless powder, which is sounds like they are, fouling won't be a big deal, so patches will be even less necessary, and the bullets can be made closer to the bore's actual size, improving accuracy.
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01-11-2020, 05:28 AM | #67 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
Good point. I was thinking of skirmishers, who might well wait in the prone position for a target to come into range, but would then withdraw before reloading.
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01-11-2020, 07:52 AM | #68 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
My concern is that, with a sub-caliber munition, there's nothing really holding it in - angle the rifle down and there's a risk of your bullet falling out, or at least getting shifted some distance from the powder load (particularly if the weapon is shaking, such as if you're moving around a good deal). Would the (likely-lubricated) grooves catch on the rifling well enough prior to expansion that this wouldn't be an issue? Agemegos' suggestion of a lubricated gasket could also work (it doesn't give enough resistance to make ramming the bullet home difficult, but does give enough to hold the bullet in place; I assume it would be destroyed by the heat and expansion associated with firing the bullet.
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
It's in High Tech as the Accessory Rail, page 161. It's noted as TL7, but I suspect it would be doable at TL5 or so; if your firearms are standardized enough that identical models can use each other's bullets (as opposed to the user needing to cast his own bullets), I suspect you have the sort of precision needed to be able to make rails. Whether there's a real market for it may be a different question (those shooters who import fancy accessories may be well-served enough by just having their local gunsmith install the accessories).[/QUOTE]
Prior to the picatinny rail was the simple dove-tail rail on the receiver, which allowed the early versions of scopes, which had decent optics. Fixed as well as collapsible telescopes were one of the major early technologies (First telescope in1608 built by Hans Lippershey in the Netherlands.) Scopes were in fairly common use by the 1860s. Note the Berdan riflemen of the US Civil War. |
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N is highly water soluble and at high gradients it "burns" plants by messing with their osmotic balance. That's the reason that your grass dies when your dog pees on it. High N urine gets taken up by the grass, which then causes some or all of its cells to lyse. If you could solve the problems of keeping the plant from dying due to high N levels, you then have the problem of how to keep all that concentrated N from leaching back into the soil. Perhaps it would get concentrated as ammonia/water mix stored in water-resistant nodules. That's not unrealistic, since plants and cells isolate similar harsh, but simple, organic molecules. Of course, since free N is scarce in nature and vital for plant growth, a plant has every incentive to use the N for itself. If it needs N for its offspring, better to coax some heterotroph into eating seeds which pass through the critter's gut and end up in a nice pre-made pile of urea, carbon, and trace minerals. |
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