Handbook for Light ArtilleryDyer, A. B. (Alexander Brydie)
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Handbook for Light Artillery
Dyer, A. B. (Alexander Brydie)
Artillery, Field and mountain
Total weight 2.5 lbs.
Weight of powder-charge 28 grs.
Weight of bullet 230 "
Initial velocity 730 ft.-sec.
The cartridge-case is metallic centre-fire, and resembles in its
construction the rifle cartridge.
=Rapidity of Fire.=--Eighteen rounds in one minute and fifty-four
seconds, beginning and ending with chambers empty.
PENETRATION IN WHITE PINE.
Range, yds 50 100 150 200 250 300
Inches 3¾ 3½ 3⅛ 2¾ 2½ 2¼
COST OF AMMUNITION.
Ball cartridges $10.00 per 1000
Blank " 8.30 " "
PRICE-LIST OF COMPONENT PARTS OF COLT'S REVOLVER.
Components. Price.
Frame $4 10
Recoil-plate 05
Gate 55
Gate-spring 01
Gate-catch 01
Barrel 1 60
Front sight 05
Cylinder 1 60
Centre-pin 18
Centre-pin bushing 20
Ejector-tube 1 05
Ejector-rod 17
Ejector-head 25
Ejector-spring 07
Hammer 55
Hammer-cam 01
Hammer-roll 02
Hammer-roll rivet 01
Firing-pin 05
Firing-pin rivet 01
Guard 50
Back-strap 30
Mainspring 10
Trigger 10
Bolt 10
Hand 10
Hand-spring 02
Stock 35
Long guard screw (2), 1c. ea. 02
Short guard-screw (2) " 02
Back-strap screw (3) " 03
Hammer-screw 05
Trigger-screw 04
Bolt-screw 02
Centre-pin screw 02
Ejector-tube screw 02
Gate-catch screw 01
Mainspring screw 02
Sear-spring screw 02
Sear-spring 02
Screw-driver 10
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Revolver complete $12 50
ALLOWANCE OF AMMUNITION.
Each enlisted man and officer of a battery is allowed for revolver
practice ammunition to the value of $1.00.
Each battery is allowed 5000 rounds of blank ammunition.
Battery commanders will keep a permanent record for each calendar year
of the amount of ammunition expended at each target practice.
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