Today Caiyun wants to introduce a strange "rifle", which is essentially a derivative of the Remington 700, and the appearance is also very similar to the Remington 700, the only difference is that it has a very thick strip under the barrel, reminiscent of the front-loading flintlock gun and front-loading firing gun in the era of queuing for shooting. Yes, this "Remington 700" is really a front-loading gun, and it is not modified by itself, it is a product of remington company formal production, called remington 700 Ultimate Front-Loading Gun (Rem 700 Ultimate Muzzleloader), which belongs to the modern production of refined specialized front-loading guns.
Remington 700 Ultimate front-loading gun
Mingming entered the era of post-loading guns more than a hundred years ago, why did Remington Company go backwards in history and produce a pre-loading gun, and it was changed to a front-loading gun on the basis of the Remington 700 bolt-action rifle? This is still related to the regulations of the United States gun control and hunting management.
The deer hunting season opened by the U.S. states every year has a time window, and this time window is related to the type of weapon used, and the general bow hunting (bow or crossbow) has the longest time window - the earliest start, the latest end, the shotgun is second, the rifle is shorter, the latest start, the earliest end. The logic behind this provision is that the hit rate of difficult weapons is low, the window time for open hunting is larger, the hit rate of easy-to-use weapons is high, and the opening time is shorter in order to avoid exhaustion and fishing to affect population reproduction. There are also some "white left" reasons, such as giving the prey a chance to escape under the muzzle of the gun.
Hunting deer with crossbows (who says only Chinese eat wild game?). Stand up for me! ）
Because of the low rate of fire of the front-loading gun than the rear-loading gun, some states have a more relaxed attitude toward the front-loading gun: the pre-loading gun hunt can start earlier and end later than the rifle. The hunting advantage of hunting a few weeks earlier in the hunting season is very large - at this time the deer has not been frightened, is still in the stage of excellent swimming, more "silly", better to fight, if a few weeks late, the deer will be highly alerted by the hunter, far away to hear the voice of the person to leave, it is difficult to fight. Because of this legal provision, in order to allow hunters to go hunting a few weeks earlier, there is a special modern front-loading gun like the Remington 700 Ultimate.
Modern front-loading guns obviously don't fire with an external hammer against a flint or fire cap like the old 19th-century front-loading guns, and we don't see an external hammer on the Remington 700 Ultimate front-loading gun, so how is it loaded and fired?
The Remington 700 Ultimate front-loading gun looks very similar to the regular Remington 700 rifle, and also has a rotating rear pull bolt, but the front end of the bolt is isolated from the chamber and cannot be loaded with rifle bullets, only a conical cone that protrudes backwards, and the cone head has a small hole connecting to the front chamber, which is the fire transmission hole when firing. When firing, the shooter pulls open the bolt like a rotating rear pull bolt rifle, attaches an ignition tube to the back-bulging cone, and closes the bolt. The ignition tube is modified with a brass shell of a rifle cartridge, which is equivalent to cutting off the bottom of the brass shell and retaining the central primer, so that when the trigger is pulled to release the firing pin, the firing pin fires the bottom fire of the ignition tube like a rear loading gun, and the flame of the bottom fire is transmitted through a small hole to the front chamber of the gun and ignites the propellant. In front of the trigger guard of the Remington 700 Ultimate, the magazine of the Remington 700 Rifle, there is a trap door that opens to see the three spare ignition tubes carried with the gun.
The front end of the Remington 700 Ultimate front-loading gun is isolated from the chamber, with only a conical body protruding backwards with a fire-transmitting hole at the tip.
The ignition tube of the Remington 700 Ultimate front-loading gun, as well as the cross-sectional structure of the ignition tube installation position, show that the installed ignition tube bottom fire is facing the fire hole.
Since it was a front-loading gun, the Remington 700 Ultimate's propellant and projectiles were loaded from the front of the barrel. The barrel is very thick, the caliber is 0.50 inches, the rifled barrel, in order to adapt to the front loading working environment, to avoid the bullet embedded in the barrel can not be plugged, the rifling distance is more "loose", 1:26, the barrel is attached to a through strip filled with propellant and warhead.
Close-up of the Muzzle of the Remington 700 Ultimate, with a rifled barrel and a loading strip under the barrel.
The gun fired not a spherical warhead, but a conical flat-bottomed warhead similar to a modern rifle cartridge, made of all copper, weighing 250 lattices, with a long cylindrical part of the warhead, an opening in the head and a plastic tip, and a plastic stock wrapped around the perimeter. When the warhead is loaded through the breech part, the outer diameter of the stock is slightly smaller than the male diameter of the rifling, which can be plugged into the bottom of the barrel, and after firing, the stock expands under the action of gunpowder gas, is embedded in the rifling, and drives the warhead to rotate and fly out of the muzzle.
Warheads and stocks for the Remington 700 Ultimate
The gun's propellant is not bulk black powder, but a die-cast tubular column, which has a uniform texture and a fire hole in the center, so the combustion rate is stable and the ballistic consistency is much better than that of bulk black powder. This kind of medicine column weighs 50 tiles each, generally loaded with 4 medicine columns, that is, 200 square orders, all of which are pushed into the bottom of the gun chamber one by one with a general strip, and then loaded into the warhead, and then loaded with an ignition tube from the "breech", closed the bolt, and can be fired.
Four 50-block standard pillars and warheads of the load tray are arranged together
Due to the large caliber and large charge, the recoil of the Remington 700 Ultimate front loading gun is also large, but fortunately, the barrel of the gun is thick, the mass of the whole gun is large, coupled with the low initial speed, so the impact of the recoil is not strong, not a sharp and rough impact, but similar to a heavy shoulder pushing feeling, because the propellant is black powder, the smoke when the gun is fired is also relatively large.
The Remington 700 Ultimate fired with a large amount of muzzle smoke
There are not many types of modern front-loading guns on the US market, but most of them have poor range and shooting accuracy, and the carbon deposit of the gun chamber caused by black powder is also more serious. In contrast, the Remington 700 Ultimate is the best of the modern front-loading guns, because of the 26-inch heavy barrel, the barrel also uses the floating design of the Remington 700 rifle, coupled with a stable burning rate, the thrust of the modern propellant column, the gun has a high shooting accuracy, 100 yards can actually hit 0.75 inches, 200 yards can hit 1.5 inches!
The floating barrel of the Remington 700 Ultimate front-loading gun, which does not make contact with the handguard
However, it should be noted that due to the large caliber and low initial speed, the ballistic trajectory of the Remington 700 Ultimate is very curved, and the modern reargun is not comparable, so it is necessary to accurately estimate the distance and correctly adjust the scope gauge with this gun to hit targets that are slightly farther away, otherwise the warhead will be remote or close, which is a great test of shooting technology.