Modern surgery, general and operative . d States Army the point-blank zone of danger is about 718 bullet from a modern military rifle, even after having struck some solid,hard body, may grievously injure a man by ricochet. With a magazine rifle, at2500 yards, from 5 to 10 per cent, of the balls will ricochet from turf. At3000 yards they will bury in turf, but may ricochet from very hardground. The United States Army magazine Springfield rifle weighs less than9 pounds. The barrel is 24 inches in length and the diameter of the boreis inch. The rifling makes one complete turn in ever
Modern surgery, general and operative . d States Army the point-blank zone of danger is about 718 bullet from a modern military rifle, even after having struck some solid,hard body, may grievously injure a man by ricochet. With a magazine rifle, at2500 yards, from 5 to 10 per cent, of the balls will ricochet from turf. At3000 yards they will bury in turf, but may ricochet from very hardground. The United States Army magazine Springfield rifle weighs less than9 pounds. The barrel is 24 inches in length and the diameter of the boreis inch. The rifling makes one complete turn in every 10 inches. Withthis weapon, by magazine fire, 25 aimed shots may be fired in a minute; and Wounds by Rifle Bullets 313 when used as a single-loader, 23 aimed shots (Surgeon-General OReilly, A., in Keens Surgery, vol. iv). It should be noted that military neces-sity compelled the U. S. Army to adopt a modified Enfield. The Enfields couldbe made quickly because facilities existed in the U. S. for making them. Haste^vas Fig. 128.—Showing secondary missile effect of a rifle ball striking binoculars, causing-loss of right eye and multiple wounds of hand and face. The fragments shown were removedfrom eyeballs, face, and hand (Fauntleroy, Ibid.). Old-fashioned Black Gunpowder as Compared with Smokeless Powder.—There are many different varieties of smokeless powder, but each is essentiallya nitro-powder. Among these smokeless powders are melenite, used by theFrench; lyddite, employed by the British; and shimose, adopted by the Japan-
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