Chapter 795: Ammunition Production Workshop
The military camp in Hanyang City was previously converted from a large warehouse. Later, the army expanded and moved away, and it became idle again. However, it was once again filled with various mechanical equipment, and it became a small weapons workshop.
When Luo Chong came here in the morning, he saw machines piled up in the warehouse, as well as a researcher from the Power Research Institute who came with the equipment this time - Hu Jin, who was here to guide the installation and use of the equipment.
"Chief, this is the double-shot shotgun you want. We have currently made a sample gun. The two barrels are first cast into thick steel pipes with sand casting, then stretched into barrels with cold bone forging, and finally expanded and polished with a steam boring machine. There are no rifling inside. According to your classification, it is a smoothbore gun."
Seeing Luo Chong bringing people in, Hu Jin immediately took out a shotgun from the wooden box next to him and handed it to Luo Chong. This was a sample gun made according to the drawings provided by Luo Chong, but it was kept by Luo Chong himself for fun, and also used to test the newly developed shotgun.
Because this gun is not the pump-action shotgun that Luo Chong wanted to equip, but a double-barreled shotgun, with two barrels arranged up and down, and the root of the barrel and the butt are connected by a mechanical hinge. The loading method is to open the gun, put two shotgun shells directly into the chamber, and then straighten it, and then open it again after firing to load. It
has the same structure as the sports shotgun used in the Olympics, and is quite similar to the s686 double-jet in major games, but the 686 has double horizontal barrels, and Luo Chong's is a vertical barrel. This barrel structure is more conducive to aiming.
Luo Chong lifted the shotgun in his hand and tried to aim. He felt that the weight and feel were okay. Then he found a table to disassemble the parts of the gun one by one, observing the processing quality of the internal parts. After looking through them all, he commented.
"It looks okay on the surface, but I don't know how it works. Have you tried the gun?"
"Reporting to the leader, not yet. We don't have the power research institute and live ammunition." Hu Jin replied immediately.
Luo Chong nodded, opened the barrel of the double-barreled shotgun and put it on his shoulder. Then he looked at the machines in the warehouse and asked again, "Tell me about these equipment you made."
"Yes." Hu Jin immediately stepped forward and began to introduce them one by one. "This time we produced two steam punching machines, which are powered by the Tieniu Type 1 steam engine. One is specifically used to punch cartridge cases, and the other is specifically used to punch warheads and cartridge cases. The one that punches cartridge cases can punch shotgun shells and bullets at the same time. We only need to replace the hammer and mold on it. The cartridge cases produced have fully met the requirements specified by the leader, but the output is not yet known. We haven't run the machines all day to test the output.
There are also several ammunition loading equipment and warhead casting equipment. These devices are all manual. The machine that loads rifle bullets has a 20 by 20 operating panel and can load 400 rounds of bullets at the same time. The shotgun loading machine can load 100 rounds at a time. Both machines can be operated by one person.
There is also a cartridge case washing and splitting machine, which is used to reload recycled cartridge cases so that the cartridge cases can be used multiple times." Hu Jin introduced the machinery in the warehouse as he walked, and then pointed to the components and functions on them one by one.
"Well, it looks good. Do you have any trial shells? Show them to me." Luo Chong nodded in approval, and then asked for the shells. Hu Jin immediately brought out a box, which was filled with golden brass stamped bullet shells.
Luo Chong grabbed a full-power shell of an 8mm rifle pointed bullet. The shell was 5.7 cm long. The charge of this cartridge was exactly twice the weight of the bullet. The complete bullet also had a three-centimeter-long streamlined pointed bullet installed on it. By then, the length of the entire bullet would reach more than eight centimeters.
There was also a small box of shotgun cartridges and a box of golden primers that looked like corn, which made Luo Chong feel very familiar.
What a familiar modern weapon, but unfortunately I haven't touched it for many years.
He immediately asked Hu Jin beside him, "Have you made the prototype of the rifle?"
"Reporting to the chief, the wooden structure has been completed, the firing mechanism and the bolt in the receiver have also been completed, but the rifling of the barrel has not yet been completed. We are still working on the equipment for rifling. We have tried it several times before and scrapped several barrels, but it was almost completed before I came. It is estimated that a prototype will be delivered within a day or two." Hu Jin answered again.
Luo Chong nodded and said, "Then you can take them to start debugging the machines. We must get these machines running as soon as possible."
"Yes, chief, what about the workers here?" Hu Jin nodded in agreement, but he did not start working immediately but asked the workers instead.
Luo Chong looked around and directly arranged a personal guard of a small flag to serve as a temporary worker here. The scale of this small workshop is not large, and twelve people are enough to cope with production. After these people are proficient in the operation of the machine, he will transfer a group of injured and retired veterans to work here. One is for the purpose of military control, and the other is to provide some work for those injured and disabled people to meet their lives.
After arranging these trivial matters, Luo Chong asked someone to carry a few boxes to the corner with him and began to load bullets manually.
The copper shell cartridge part of the shotgun is the same, but the plastic shell of the upper part is divided into two colors, one is a light blue single-headed shotgun shell, and the other is a red shell with eight large lead bullets, which is used to distinguish the two types of ammunition.
Luo Chong waved to Qubing, who was wiping his mouth after finishing his meat bun at the door, and the kid immediately ran over.
"Leader."
"Well, follow me to load the bullets. If you want to learn to use a new firearm, you must first understand its structure and learn it well." Luo Chong instructed him.
However, Qubing stared curiously at the double-barreled shotgun on Luo Chong's shoulder. It was not the same as the handheld firearm he imagined, but there was always an inexplicable feeling that made him think that Luo Chong's design was more reasonable and looked very advanced.
The silver-shining fine steel barrel, the solid wood carved buttstock and receiver looked extremely beautiful, but he didn't know what it would feel like to actually use it.
He really wanted to ask Luo Chong if he could try it, but when he saw that there was only one sample gun, he didn't ask. He didn't even think about it, how could it be his turn? In addition, the girl's inexplicable request in the morning, he didn't say anything else, and began to follow Hu Jin to learn how to load ammunition.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
