VOLUNTEER NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 315, 10 November 1888, Page 6

VOLUNTEER NEWS.

— , 4> of our readers who arc fond of vide shooting maybe interested in the following information respecting the new army ride, which i& extracted fiom an account of Sir William Armstrong's' works at Elswick, in a , recent number of a leading English newspaper : — The, new gun is of fho Chassepot type — ' the breech-loading, centre-fire, needle-gun of the French, of which, in different parts of the world, there Jare several forms c.vi tant. It has a magazine for seven 01; eight, cartridges, and its advantages over the Martini -Henry are that it is. a gun of reduced calibre, and consequently a smalloi cartridge, while ifc has an increased range and less recoil. The bullet is smaller in diameter than thjat oE the MartiniHenry, but in proportion to its weight it is rather longer, and ip more penetrating. The gun also of 'the use of an improved powder griming a propulsive power half.as much agpin as the MartiniHenry cartridges, anrl,^ this, combined with &>&*•' amjillfi* .patib,!;^ and the elongated bullet, '- givefe \\ A k -more horizontal sweep to ibjs tine t>f iire. ' A' bullot, instorid of curvhigiiover the head of one enemy, and dropping) down 6ut of' the 'air on to another, may by it? lower, straighter flight cut its way through both. Tho range of the new guii is i greater than that of the old one, and within its range is a deadlier'weapon. : , i , ; t

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