Guns of today
The Guns of Today
Today, there are three main types of shoulder- and hand-fired guns: The rifle, shotgun, and pistol. There are others, but they are rare and not efficient, like the hand cannon, and (as the Americans call it) the Boom-stick-boom, which would rarely work, and when it did, it usually blew up, causing serious injury or death. You might have wondered why these here haven’t been called “Weapons”, and the reason is- guns, if used properly, are not any harm to anyone who follows and knows the rules of shooter safety. The first type of gun is the Rifle. This is the term used for a gun that has a rifled barrel (hence the name “rifle”) and only fires a single projectile per shot. It may have a clip that holds more than one cartridge, maybe for a follow-up shot if you miss a deer, or for easy and fun target shooting. There are many types of rifles, which is determined on how they load the cartridge into the chamber, fire, then extract and eject (throwing out brass) the empty, or fired, case. This is called an action. A common action of a rifle is bolt action, which uses a “bolt” to push the cartridge into the chamber, where it is fired by a sharp needle-like piece of metal, and then extracted. There is also Semi-automatic, where the action fires, extracts, and reloads with one fluid motion; Break-barrel, where you “break” the barrel open and put cartridges in manually; and lever action, where you push a lever to load and eject. Rifles are usually meant for long ranges, sometimes up to 1200 yards! The second type of gun is a shotgun. A shotgun is basically a big-barreled rifle without rifling that has a cartridge, or shell, that contains a primer, powder, wadding (to help send the shot out) the shot cup (which contains the shot), and the shot, which is little lead pellets. The shot, when fired, speeds through the shotgun barrel at speeds of around 1280 feet per second, and when it leaves the barrel, it starts to spread out. This causes effectiveness for
Today, there are three main types of shoulder- and hand-fired guns: The rifle, shotgun, and pistol. There are others, but they are rare and not efficient, like the hand cannon, and (as the Americans call it) the Boom-stick-boom, which would rarely work, and when it did, it usually blew up, causing serious injury or death. You might have wondered why these here haven’t been called “Weapons”, and the reason is- guns, if used properly, are not any harm to anyone who follows and knows the rules of shooter safety. The first type of gun is the Rifle. This is the term used for a gun that has a rifled barrel (hence the name “rifle”) and only fires a single projectile per shot. It may have a clip that holds more than one cartridge, maybe for a follow-up shot if you miss a deer, or for easy and fun target shooting. There are many types of rifles, which is determined on how they load the cartridge into the chamber, fire, then extract and eject (throwing out brass) the empty, or fired, case. This is called an action. A common action of a rifle is bolt action, which uses a “bolt” to push the cartridge into the chamber, where it is fired by a sharp needle-like piece of metal, and then extracted. There is also Semi-automatic, where the action fires, extracts, and reloads with one fluid motion; Break-barrel, where you “break” the barrel open and put cartridges in manually; and lever action, where you push a lever to load and eject. Rifles are usually meant for long ranges, sometimes up to 1200 yards! The second type of gun is a shotgun. A shotgun is basically a big-barreled rifle without rifling that has a cartridge, or shell, that contains a primer, powder, wadding (to help send the shot out) the shot cup (which contains the shot), and the shot, which is little lead pellets. The shot, when fired, speeds through the shotgun barrel at speeds of around 1280 feet per second, and when it leaves the barrel, it starts to spread out. This causes effectiveness for