This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...yards an advantage of about six minutes in the angle of elevation over the pattern hitherto in use, and the new pattern thus obtained became the accepted pattern for match rifle bullets, and subsequently for military bullets. The sharp point was not tried by him; but though it would no doubt have shown some further ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...yards an advantage of about six minutes in the angle of elevation over the pattern hitherto in use, and the new pattern thus obtained became the accepted pattern for match rifle bullets, and subsequently for military bullets. The sharp point was not tried by him; but though it would no doubt have shown some further advantage, it was easily liable to deformation, military bullets being still made of alloyed lead. Nor could even a proportionate advantage from such an alteration in shape be gained by projectiles moving at 1,300 to 1,500 feet per second (as was then the case), as against this modern military bullet, with its velocity of 2,500 to 3,000 ft. per second." Of course, pointed bullets had been made and used before 1877 (General Jacob's, for instance), but as they were associated with a length little greater than their calibre, and with low velocities, they cannot be regarded as direct parents of the modern shape. The virtues of the pointed bullet might have been discovered, again in this country, at a date when they could have been put to some practical use. About 1895 experiments with reduced charge or "gallery ammunition" were being carried out at Woolwich, and one of the cartridges experimented with was given a bullet with a very pointed nose. It showed no advantage, as was to be expected, with the low velocity used for short-range work and was abandoned. But what might have happened had any one connected with those experiments taken the trouble to load such a shaped bullet into a service case, and taken it to a longer range with the service charge? To understand the advantages of a pointed shape in bullet construction we must consider very briefly the conditions which govern the passage of a projectile through the air. If the projec...
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