Fire rope rifle

Firerope rifle is the product of continuous improvement and development on the basis of Firedoor rifle. Compared with Firegate rifle, Firerope rifle has the following main features.

Features. ?

First, the matchlock rifle has a typical wooden support style, such as the front support and the back grip, or the front support and the middle grip with the back shoulder, which greatly improves the convenience of individual control.

The shooter can stretch out one or several fingers to toggle the firing mechanism to shoot without affecting the grip, and the action is very small, which will not affect the stability of the gun.

Sex is conducive to achieving relatively accurate shooting. ?

Secondly, the side ignition disc and protective cover are generally used in matchlock guns, so as to form an effective line of sight at the upper end of the barrel-above the rear end of the barrel.

The ignition disc (also called the ignition tank, which stores the ignition powder in advance before ignition, and there are fine holes in it that communicate with the gun bore) is arranged at the rear side of the gun.

In addition, a protective sleeve can be added to prevent the powder from scattering around when carrying it. In addition, the protective sleeve can also be used as insurance.

Thirdly, matchlock rifles have independent mechanical firing mechanisms, and various firing mechanisms are also the core components of matchlock rifles, so there are many kinds.

Style, in which the simplest firing mechanism is similar to the S-shaped lever design used in later Firegate rifles.

To sum up the three points, we can see that the structural principles of various matchlock rifles are similar, so they are classified into one category. But if you explore further, you will.

It is found that the firing mechanism of the matchlock gun is very different based on different principles, so people have further improved it according to different firing mechanisms.

One-step classification ?

The common firing mechanisms of matchlock mainly include snake lock, Turkish lock, spring lock and buckle lock.

Wherein the firing bolt is divided into a button lock and a trigger lock; Ferroresistive type

The bolt machine can be divided into lever-operated bolt lock and trigger-operated bolt lock.

in addition

In addition, according to the different design, the matchlock in European matchlock rifles can also be divided into forward rotation and reverse rotation, which are mostly used in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

Forward rotation design of matchrope.

As mentioned above, the structure of the snake rod (S-shaped rod) matchlock is the simplest.

Early snake bolts were once assembled.

It is outside the rear end of the stock, but it is easy to be scratched and deformed, resulting in operational obstacles. Later, people hollowed out the back end of the wooden butt and put the snake in it.

The rod bolt was put inside, and this structure was later adopted by the Turks, and a unique Turkish bolt was developed.

Turkish bolt machine is based on the structure of snake bolt machine, which decomposes the original integrated snake bolt into three parts: matchrope, connecting rod and trigger.

A leaf spring is riveted on it, and each part has two round holes at corresponding positions for connecting and fixing with the gun body. The connecting rod is connected with the pin shaft.

The lower end of the matchlock and the upper end of the trigger are riveted together, so that the whole structure can be detached from the gun body together without being lost, and only two pieces on the gun stock are needed for installation.

The pin shaft can be fixed in place through the matchlock and another hole on the trigger respectively.

In addition, because the Turkish bolt machine itself consists of three parts, the distance between the trigger and the matchrope can be changed by replacing the connecting rods with different lengths.

At that time, India, Persia and Afghanistan all used this method to adapt to the different lengths of the butt of the matchlock rifle. Besides,

Through the amplification of the lever connected with the trigger, the function of converting the micro-angle rotation of the trigger into the large-angle rotation of the matchlock gun can also be realized.

It is beneficial to widen the distance between the burning match rope and the ignition disc, prevent accidental fire, and more importantly, the ignition time can be greatly shortened by properly adjusting the structure.

Delay time, as long as the finger moves, the front end of the match rope immediately falls into the ignition plate, thus improving the shooting speed and increasing the hit rate.

It is particularly worth mentioning that Zhao Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty in China once made "Lumiqi" on the basis of the Turkish musket.

The surface performance was better than that of Japanese bird's nest copied from Portugal, and it was quickly replaced, but the matchlock rifles distributed to soldiers by the Qing government were exchanged.

The original design of bolt machine with snake rod is introduced. This may be because the number of equipment is huge and the design needs to be simplified.

At this time, Germany also invented Martin Mertz's lock, which later inspired Spain in Iberian Peninsula.

People invented the famous Mouche Kurt matchlock rifle and lever-driven iron bolt machine. After that, the Dutch, who were constantly fighting the Spanish, launched another attack.

Knowing the trigger-driven iron block rifle was quickly adopted by the armies of Sweden, Britain and other countries.

After the above-mentioned matchlock rifle is fired, the matchlock clip will automatically reset under the action of the spring as long as the finger pulling the trigger is released.

This is convenient for rapid filling; At the same time, the contemporary firing bolt matchlock rifle needs to pull the matchlock clip by hand until it is locked by the iron plug to form the shape to be fired.

State, but when launching, it is often because the spring elasticity is too strong, directly knocking out or knocking out the match rope, and it is impossible to achieve effective firing. But it's also powerful.

Because of its elasticity, firing rifle can have a short firing delay time, so this kind of rifle was widely used in shooting competitions at that time.

Use.

In history, Swiss and German mercenary groups hired by the Holy Roman Empire also used a large number of matchlock steps similar to the hammer bolt structure.

Guns, these matchlock rifles use simple buttons to control firing. Later, the Portuguese who devoted themselves to exploring overseas colonies also noticed this kind of matchlock rifle.

The button was changed to trigger structure under the grip of gun stock, and was brought to Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and other places until modern times.

Some people in these countries also use matchlock rifles similar to firing mechanisms. ?

According to the data, a well-trained shooter can shoot two bullets every three minutes when operating a matchlock rifle.

Various types of matchlock rifles were simple in structure and powerful, and were quickly adopted by European and Asian countries at that time, which also made the weapons and equipment of various countries enter.

To the state of mixed hot and cold weapons.

But the matchlock rifle also has its inherent shortcomings: first, the smell of matchlock burning can be smelled far away, which is not conducive to

Hunting; Second, the fire can be seen far away at night, which is not conducive to night fighting, although the cage fire storage tube was later invented to alleviate this.

Problem, but before launching, you need to take out the matchrope and install it on the matchrope to shoot, and taking out the matchrope too early is easy to expose; Third, it rained heavily.

In windy weather, the burning of match rope is very unstable. Although the ignition panel has a protective cover, the ignition powder inside is still easy to get wet or be blown away. The fourth is

The cumbersome launching steps are not conducive to the rapid formation of combat effectiveness in the encounter. To this end, the later matchlock rifle adopted automatic disc cover (in addition, the Swedish king Gu

Stafford invented the paper shell cartridge, which effectively improved the firing speed by reducing the filling steps. Fifth, in order to cope with emergencies, the matchrope is placed in any place.

All boxes need to be kept burning, which makes the consumption of match rope too large, and the burning match rope itself is an open flame, which is very difficult to carry bulk gunpowder.

It is also a potential threat to the shooter.