tion of the The heaviest of the foreign woods are the pome- bullet. The Mauser bullet is only 0:295 of an inch in dia- rifle automatically works aspring placed in the at- granate and the lignum vite; the lightest, cork. The meter—about the thickness of an ordinary lead pencil. tached ‘‘ feeder,”… … the important matter of mak- gum, 52; water gum, 62; white ing the rifle light and handy. hickory, 49; shellbark hickory, The caliber of the Lebel bullet is only 0°315 of an inch, penetrating power being specially given to it, as a set off to its lightness, by coating thelead with nickel. The…
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