ENORMOUS SPEED
STREAM-LINED BULLETS
A GERMAN CLAIM
LONDON, ?Sth November
A sporting cartridge, with streamlined bullets and the terrific muzzle velocity of nearly 4000 miles an hour— twice the initial velocity oi the ordinary magnum high-velocity ammunition —is claimed to have been perfected by a Gorman, Dr. Gerlich.
The invention follows lengthy experi menting with ultra-high velocities. The bullets are stream-lined, and provided with a "ghost" head, in which a light framework supports a tip of gilding.
The metal envelope contains 100 grains of a special nitro-ccllulose powder, with ;t velocity of 5800 ft a second.
It is estimated that the bullet will travel 200 yards in one-tenth of a second, in which timo an animaJ aimed at, If moving at twenty miles an hour, would only have, covered 3ft, compared with a usual velocity occupying a quarter of a second, in which a similar target would move over 7ft. The invention enables allowances for a moving target to bo reduced to a minimum.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 9
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ENORMOUS SPEED
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 9
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