《1855 American Tycoon》Chapter 40: The New Rifle

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The 600-meter range is quite difficult even for a modern sniper, except the metaphysical snipers who used the unbelievable submachine sniper during the war and were able to shoot off the heads of ghost soldiers at a distance of 800 kilometers. The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.

The case contained a rifle with a scope. This is a special rifle, and from the appearance, in addition to an additional scope, this gun and the general MacDonald 1857 are not very different, but Mason knew that this gun and the general MacDonald 1857 are different, but a completely different new gun.

It was a rare small caliber rifle (by the standards of the time) with a muzzle diameter of only 0.3 inches (7.62mm), which was too small compared to the 0.63-inch caliber rifles common in this era. In the beginning, when he first saw the gun, Mason even doubted how to guarantee the power of such a small caliber.

But after the test fire, Mason was shocked by the accuracy and power of the gun.

The first thing they tested was the power when the guys in the testing department of MacDonald Infantry Arms put a thick piece of pine wood at a distance of 500 meters, and then let Mason fire a shot at the board, and then the carpenters sawed the wood along the direction of the bullet hole in the wood and measured it with a ruler, and boy, did the 0.3-inch caliber bullet penetrate 400 mm of pine wood.

This result allows Mason almost can not believe his eyes, even those 0.63-inch caliber bullets, it is impossible to have such penetration. The next test of accuracy was even more amazing to Mason. When tested on a fixed gun platform, the bullets were guaranteed to hit the head target effectively even at a distance of 1,000 meters without wind conditions. Of course, a shooter would not be able to shoot like this, but at a distance of 600 meters, he could still effectively shoot at the enemy target.

To improve the accuracy of shooting, this rifle has done almost everything it can do. Although its caliber is small, its weight is not lighter than the Macdonald 1857 rifle with 11mm caliber bullets, and even heavier, because the heavier weight helps to improve accuracy and to reduce the force exerted on the muzzle when triggering the gun, the stroke of the gun is greatly lengthened, so that the gun requires the shooter to trigger the gun twice to shoot a round.

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But the price of this gun is also surprisingly high, McDonald Infantry Arms offered it a sky-high price of $ 1,500 a piece, which makes the original love for this gun, ready to buy a gun out of their own Mason immediately put off the idea. What's worse, this gun not only the gun itself is surprisingly expensive, it uses the bullets are not cheap - each round, McDonald Infantry Weapons Company considered for it to open a dollar of the sky. You know, this price to buy other rifle bullets is enough to buy 40 or 50 rounds. For the average person, this gun can not afford to buy, but also can not afford to use.

This expensive gun, once launched is to cause a lot of concern, but although the concern is more, the real willingness to buy it is a pitiable few people. There are not any guns similar in price to this gun, but those carved with gold and silver, inlaid with various gemstones are not so many guns, but rather crafts.

Of course, Scrooge now developed such a thing, do not expect to make money from it, for Scrooge, the use of this thing is mainly used to promote the grade of their products. In fact, in the 21st century, many of the so-called high-end goods, to a large extent just a high price. For example, is a Pagani sports car better than a Porsche? It's just that the high price makes it easier to pretend. In contrast, Scrooge is quite generous, at least, the gun's performance at the time can be said to be unparalleled.

The gun was lent to the "Blackwater" company for use as an experiment, and there was only one of these in the escort team. This gun is of course also given to the best shooting skills Mason to use.

Mason carefully took the gun out of the box, pulled the chamber, and loaded a special bullet - this bullet because of the high price, by the escort guys jokingly called "gold eggs". He carefully loaded the bullet into the chamber, prepared for the shot, and then carefully extended the gun from behind the shield.

The target at 600 meters was not much of a target, even with the 8x scope of the so-called MacDonald 1857 precision shooting model. Mason took a few deep breaths to slow down his heart rate - even the vibrations from his pulse would affect the accuracy of the shot - and then held his breath and placed the cross in the scope firmly on the turkey-feathered Indian chief's head.

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Mason gently triggered the gun once, and now the rifle was in true ready-to-fire condition. At that moment, an Indian on a horse suddenly entered Mason's scope and blocked his shot.

Mason didn't drop his gun and spit out a bunch of words starting with "F" as they do in some movies; precision shooters have to be emotionally stable, and intense emotion will only send bullets flying off into the ether.

The man shifted a little, giving a little room for the Indian chief to get halfway out, but in a flash, he closed the gap again.

Mason didn't take advantage of the opening to fire. However, the gap might not last for less than a second. The man then blocked the chief firmly, and if he had just fired, he would have hit the guy.

A flame-throwing gun grazed Mason's head and flew past, but Mason was unmoved and continued to keep his aim. This calmness made the immigrants on the sidelines very admirable. However, they did not know that the reason why Mason was so calm was that he did not even know that there was a shotgun so close to his head - one of his eyes was fixed on the scope. The other was closed, all his attention was on the target and it was impossible to notice that there was a shotgun flying past him.

At this time, perhaps the sheik just said something to the man beside him, and the man used both legs to clip the stomach of the horse and ran towards the other side, so the sheik was completely exposed to Mason's field of vision.

"Good opportunity!" Mason thought. He'd gotten his aim right, so he held his breath and gently pulled the trigger - "Bang!"

Then Mason saw the Indian chief's body shake violently from the scope, then tilted to the right, and fell from the horse with one head. A group of Indians immediately went around ......

The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. But considering the power of the gold bullets and the Indians' lagging medical care, he felt that the Indian chief's chances of surviving were not high. It would have been safer if there had been a chance to add another shot, or if several shooters had used the rifle to shoot at the target at the same time, but for now, that was all Mason could do.

The sudden bullet hit on the bull chief threw the Indians into confusion, and many of the cavalrymen circling the column slowed down and retreated to the outside, all turning to look at the chief's original position.

"If we still had a cavalry on hand, we could charge out now and with a single blow, we could make these Indians completely collapse!" Robson looked at the situation in front of him and couldn't help but think this way. But he immediately realized, thinking of such useless what to do? So he gave the order.

"Shout together that the sheik is dead!"

The guards did not know the language of the Sioux, but before they went out, they memorized a few lines, one of which was "The chief is dead! Run!"

Before the battle, the guards also taught this phrase to the immigrants, so they all shouted together in various non-standard accents, and this added to the panic of the Indians. Taking advantage of this, the guards with the MacDonald 1857 rifles began to break the restriction of not shooting at targets beyond a distance of 400 meters and began to attack the Indians who appeared to be in range and looked like small leaders. The Indians felt that they had run out of safe distance and were looking towards the chiefs when they were suddenly hit by this round of fire and several more were hit.

At this time, an Indian cavalryman came running from afar, shouting something as he ran, and the Indians immediately became a confused mass, leaving behind the bodies of the dead in battle and riding away on their horses.

If he was still in command of his cavalry company, Robeson would have been chasing after them, but now that he was working as a bodyguard, he couldn't be bothered to do such things. He just ordered them to stay on guard and started to count the losses from the battle.

......

About a kilometer away in a forest, a gang was quietly lying in ambush. The gang leader climbed up into a tree and watched the battle through binoculars. When the Indians retreated, he jumped down from under the tree.

"Boss, are we going to do it?" Some of the bandits sitting on the rocks bored sharpening their swords rushed to stand up and ask questions, the war horse also nervously shaved his hooves, snorting twice.

"Pack up and go back!" The boss said, "The point is very solid, the Indians have suffered a big loss, and we can not go up to win. Even if we can win, we will lose more than we gain. Go back!"

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