Rifle with blasting powder
The first rifles were charged by the mouth, where the black Poudre versed then was first of all packed. The ball was then introduced into the gun, sometimes preceded by a note-book intended to improve the sealing thus to reduce the gas loss. Paper cartridges containing the powder and the ball were developed to facilitate recharging. The Soldat was to tear it with its teeth to reload its rifle. The later appearance of the metal cartridge facilitated and accelerated the loading.
The use of blasting powder nowadays is rather a hobby amateurs attracted by the nostalgia of the thing, however the weapons with loading by the mouth are always in production today and know a renewal of popularity like hunting weapon because of period and zone of hunting reserved for this type of weapon.
A certain number of problems involved in the use of the blasting powder make weapons difficult of them to handle even dangerous (in addition to their staut of weapon). The wearing of safety goggles is encouraged because of important projections of gas and residues not flarings with high swiftness by the interstices of the weapon. Indeed because of the absence of modern starters with release by the impact, the combustion of the powder must in these weapons being engaged by the fire provided by a dog or a wick located in a side way. part of the energy of the detonation thus is lost by these openings and potentially transformed into harmful effect for the user of the weapon itself. the imbulés residues of combustion, in significant proportion with this type of explosive, clog the weapon which should regulierment be cleaned, contrary to the weapons to modern explosives or all compose them chemical volitilize.
The most important risk with the weapons with blasting powder rises however from the handling of the powder itself, this one not being packed up in a hermetic enclosure like that of the modern ammunition, the risk of flashover of the ammunition is important and makes plane a threat for the awkward user. for this reason the use of the powder horn, container traditional of the blasting powder is banished in bulk, gradually to impose the use of individually bagged powder amounts and whose explosion would have less annoying consequences.
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