The Gun book for Boys And Men
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SMOOTH-BORE 103 musketeer never reduced the bore of his weapon much below that of one of our larger-sized shot- guns. The use of the spherical bullet had this peculiar and interesting result : if a man wanted to use a ball of a certain weight it had to be of a certain size ; he had no control whatever over its dimen- sions. The elongated bullet of today can be in- creased in weight by simply adding to its length, without enlarging the caliber of the gun. With the sphere, however, this was impos...sible. Thus if you decided that you wanted a gun that would shoot a ball weighing one ounce, you turned to a table showing that such a sphere of lead would be . 652 of an inch in diameter, and made your gun, or had it made, accordingly. It was these curious facts that gave rise to the custom of describing different sizes of bore by reference to the weight and not to the diameter of the bullets used. A gun shooting an ounce ball, for instance, was " sixteen gauge, " because a pound of lead would provide sixteen balls, and so on.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
SMOOTH-BORE 103 musketeer never reduced the bore of his weapon much below that of one of our larger-sized shot- guns. The use of the spherical bullet had this peculiar and interesting result : if a man wanted to use a ball of a certain weight it had to be of a certain size ; he had no control whatever over its dimen- sions. The elongated bullet of today can be in- creased in weight by simply adding to its length, without enlarging the caliber of the gun. With the sphere, however, this was impos...sible. Thus if you decided that you wanted a gun that would shoot a ball weighing one ounce, you turned to a table showing that such a sphere of lead would be . 652 of an inch in diameter, and made your gun, or had it made, accordingly. It was these curious facts that gave rise to the custom of describing different sizes of bore by reference to the weight and not to the diameter of the bullets used. A gun shooting an ounce ball, for instance, was " sixteen gauge, " because a pound of lead would provide sixteen balls, and so on.
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