Gas-electric locomotives for “dan patch” line
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1915
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Volume
- 180
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
various encounters with the hill men of India, evolved a generous bullet of 0.455 calibre for their service revolvers. Their o~cers went even further and adopted a double-barrelled pistol taking either huge slugs or a number of buckshot. These pistols were usually of 20gauge in shotgun measurement, which in inches is o.6I 5 calibre, smooth bored. These huge o.6I slugs usually proved amply effective in use.
The Uni.ted States Army discarded the old, single-action, 0.45calibre revolver in the '9o's and adopted a o.38-calibre, doubleaction revolver. Then came the conquest of the Filipino insurgents, in which the revolver as a weapon was largely employed. The experience of the American soldiers engaged was precisely that of the British ; namely, the larger the calibre, the better the results, and the o.38-calibre was voted ineffective. So there is considerable satisfaction with the present gun of the American forces, the o.45-calibre automatic Browning pistol, with its eight shots, its compact form, ease of taking apart, and certainty of function.
The other nations lacking the practical experience of the Americans along a western frontier, and the British in their various and never-ceasing arguments along the Indian frontier, favor smaller calibres in their pistols than we regard as being practical. The 9ram. or o.36-calibre appeals to them as adequate. None of the nations now at war has adopted the o.45-calibre in its automatic pistols, but doubtless they will know better when the war is over.