Your Gun or Rifle should be cleaned as soon as possible after firing. Boiling water should be made ready and some soda should be added and the boiling solution poured through the barrel from the breach-using funnel. The barrel should than be thoroughly dried with clean flannel patches or gun tow wound on the jag of the cleaning rod or else with a pull-through. Next scour the barrel very thoroughly with the bristle brush dipped in with GUN OIL (Never dip the brush into the bottle of oil, but always pour out the necessary amount of oil into a saucer). This further removes fouling and counteracts any traces of acid which may have escaped the first treatment. Wipe out dry with flannel or gun tow as before again and again until the flannel or tow ceases to show strains. Run the tow or flannel dipped in GUN oil through the barrel once, so as to leave the barrel oily inside as prevention against rust. This oil should be entirely removed from the barrel and chamber before firing; otherwise the cartridge case fails to grip the chamber and thru it on the breach face is materially increased. Always carry a pull through when out for shooting so as to be able to clean barrel in case some dirt agents down the muzzle. During rains all weapons should be examined at least once a week for sudden formation of rust and the lock mechanism should be stripped and thoroughly cleaned at once a year by M/S.GUN AFFAIRS.
Weapons
Strength and Skill decide the winner in a fight without weapons, but in armed combat, the fighter with the better killing tool may win ever since people began to compete for land or food, warriors have sought weapons of increasing power. Changing technology supplied them. Metals were used to make swords; nuclear power was first used in bombs. This arms race has now led to weapons so powerful that a nation that used them might, win the war, but would destroy everything in the conquered lands.
About Rifles
German gunsmith Dreyse (1787-1867) designed a more effective weapon for the battlefield: a Rifle that fired twice as fast as earlier Guns. Troops loaded bullets near the trigger so they could shoot lying down, safe from enemy fire. The Prussian army began using the gun in 1840.
Gunpowder
The most far-reaching development in weapons technology came in the 14th century, with the invention of firearms. These weapons were powered by gunpowder, an explosive. Although feeble at first, firearms were soon capable of firing missiles great distances. Battles could be fought at long range, instead of face-to-face.The most far-reaching development in weapons technology came in the 14th century, with the invention of firearms. These weapons were powered by gunpowder, an explosive. Although feeble at first, firearms were soon capable of firing missiles great distances. Battles could be fought at long range, instead of face-to-face.
