For this reason, Spanish demicannon were as long as 24 calibers and the quarter-cannon ran up to 28.
Its namesake in bronze was tremendously heavy, with walls up to 4 calibers thick and a bore up to 30 calibers long.
In the following table from Collado, the calibers and ranges for most Spanish guns of this class are given, although as the second column shows, at this period calibers were standardized only in a general way.
It was 4-1/2 calibers long and would carry exactly the weight of the ball in powder.
Collado's pasavolante had a tremendous length of some 40 calibers and fired a 6- or 7-pound lead ball.
The French invented the limber and about 1550 took a sizable forward step by standardizing the calibers of their artillery.
The Germans made their light cannon 18 calibers long.
In the previous century, calibers had been reduced in number and more or less standardized; now, there were notable scientific and technical improvements.
The bore length of a legitimate culverin, said Collado, was 30 calibers (30 times the bore diameter), so its powder charge was the same as the weight of the ball.
During the day they bombarded with numerous batteries of all calibers the Italian positions along the whole front from the Adige to the Brenta, especially in the Monte Novegno zone.
Large numbers of guns of all calibers had been massed here and inflicted heavy losses to the czar's regiments.
In the zone between the Val Terragnolo and the upper Astico a violent concentrated fire from the Austrian artillery of all calibers forced the Italians to abandon their advanced positions.
Throughout the balance of May not a day passed during which guns of all calibers did not maintain a violent bombardment at many points along the entire front.
All day long an intense uninterrupted bombardment by Austrian batteries of all calibers was maintained against the Italian lines in the Col di Xomo-Rochette sector (southwest of Posina).
The ammunition supply was immediately augmented and field guns of various calibers turned out as fast as possible, including 9-inch howitzers.
Sound ranging was an important means of locating the positions and calibers of enemy guns.
The first two are of either high or low resistance, and vary in size for different calibers of guns.
Five million shells of all calibers were fired by the British gunners during the first four weeks of the offensive on the Somme.
Some idea may be had of the variety of artillery in use on the French front when I mention that there are at least eleven calibers of guns, howitzers, and mortars, ranging in size from 9 inches to 20.
They were using a considerable number of guns of various calibers and the crash of the bursting shells was almost incessant.
Charcoal, 3 -- Common Fire for calibersof five-twelfths to half an inch.
Copper calibers to regulate the size of priming tubes.
Guns were originally called bombards, and were eightcalibers in length.
The following table exhibits the calibers for bombs, the length of the fuse for each caliber, and the weight of the powder required for the charge.
One paterero, cast in Portugal, caliber thirty-one libras, fourteen calibers in length.
Another paterero of the same casting, caliber ten libras, and thirteen calibers in length.
One saker, caliber six libras, cast in Flandes, thirtycalibers in length.
Since smokeless charges have been adapted to it many expert shots prefer this cartridge in the gallery contests as the large bullet hole is a decided advantage over the smaller calibers at ranges of 20 yards and under.
An arm of large caliber has a decided advantage over one of small caliber in short-range shooting, on account of the larger hole made by the bullet, and, for this reason the large calibers are preferred for gallery shooting.
The velocities attainable in large calibers within the permissible weight of an automatic pistol are comparatively low.
They consequently lack the safety, reliability, and accuracy of the corresponding calibersin central-fire ammunition.
The larger calibers are much preferable for the general purposes of an arm of this character.
The difference in weight is slight, while the power and effectiveness of the large calibers is important and a great advantage.
In order to avoid excessive fouling with black powders a self-lubricating bullet has been invented and introduced by Smith & Wesson, which can be furnished in all calibers above .
As in the case of pocket revolvers, the larger calibers of the pocket automatic pistols will be found to have better stopping power and as practical weapons for use in case of emergency are to be preferred to the smaller calibers.
Graded like the British social scale were the different calibers of guns.
Lest their perspicacity be underrated, French soldiers even credited the wise elders among them with the ability to distinguish between different calibers of shells.
Every day charts go up to the commanders showing the expenditure of ammunition and the stock of different calibers on hand; for the army is a most fastidious bookkeeper.
The life of guns has surpassed all expectations; but the smaller calibersforward and the soixante-quinze must not suffer from general debility when they lay on a curtain of fire to cover a charge.
The deep-throated roar of the big calibers is not so hard on the ears as the crack of the smaller calibers.
I have read with interest the discussion of the many different makes of guns, the different calibers for large game hunting, etc.
However, if the hunter thinks that he must have a high power gun in order to be a successful deer hunter, he will find the 30-30 or similar calibers good for large game, and it is not heavy to handle.
From the small things on slim tripods to the wide-mouthed heavy calibers spitting from hooded turrets, not one spoke without orders.
They were landing field howitzers of calibersthat the United States Army did not possess.
They took hold of men armed with magnificent rifles, but of a score of different patterns for different kinds of sport, and demanding a score of different shapes and calibers of cartridges.
The big calibers might fail to destroy "strong points" that held machine-gun nests, or a battery of seventy-fives fail to cut the section of wire which was its assignment.
Transport was halted by shell-torn cars and motor-trucks and dead horses until they were removed, and by fresh craters from large calibers until they were refilled.
As the men listened to the scream of the large calibers and studied their bursts, they learned that these were coming not only from the front but from both sides.
The rims of craters, of sizes varying with the calibers of the shells, joined each other; old craters had been partly filled by later bursts.
The valor of tired men had done all it could under sniping of machine-guns and all calibers of artillery.
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