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The bullet/cloth combination will have a nice, tight fit. Place a small amount of gunpowder in the flintlock's pan. Snap the frizzen in place over the pan. Fully cock the hammer. Pull the trigger to fire the gun. When you fire the gun, the flint strikes the frizzen and shaves off iron to create sparks. The hammer's blow also snaps the frizzen back to expose the gunpowder in the pan. The pan's gunpowder ignites, and it flashes through a small hole in the side of the barrel to ignite the gunpowder inside the barrel. The gun fires! The barrel of a flintlock is its own technological marvel, especially for the time. A blacksmith would take a flat piece of iron and beat it into a cylindrical shape around a mandrel -- a long rod of the proper diameter. By heating the iron to a high enough temperature in a forge, the blacksmith actually welded the seam along the length of the barrel to form a strong tube. This process could take days. Barrels ranged anywhere from pistol length (6 to 12 inches, 15 to 30 cm) to long gun length (40 to 60 inches, 102 to 152 cm). The blacksmith could finish the interior of the barrel as either a smooth bore or a rifled bore. A smooth bore is just that -- smooth along the entire length of the barrel. The Brown Bess of the American Revolutionary War was smooth bored. So is any shotgun. Drilling out the tube with successively larger bits and then polishing with a reamer creates a smooth bore barrel. Rifling a barrel is a way of increasing the accuracy of the bullet, whether the bullet is spherical or cone shaped. To rifle a barrel, you start with a smooth bore and engrave spiral grooves down the inside of the barrel. A typical pattern is one twist of the grooves in 48 inches (122 cm) of barrel length. As the bullet speeds down the barrel it engages the grooves, exiting the barrel with a rapid spin (between 1,000 and 3,000 RPM) and traveling at a speed of 1,000 to 2,000 feet per second (305 to 610 meters per second) through the air. You can see the spiral grooves cut into this barrel. Once the barrel is smoothed or rifled, one end is closed off with a breech plug. Then, a small hole is drilled in the barrel to allow the flame from the flintlock's pan to enter the barrel and ignite the charge. LET US PLAN YOUR DAY Executive Days offer the complete solution for your corporate entertainment. With venues all around the country our accommodation, catering and events will give you and your guests an enjoyable day to remember. Clay pigeon shooting This is still a fast growing pursuit, both as a sport and as a form of corporate entertainment because everyone can enjoy it. Under the guidance of our trained and qualified instructors, every guest will experience the pleasure of breaking clays. We won't try to impress you with the fantastic shooting skills of our instructors, they already know that they can shoot. They will concentrate their efforts on showing you how to stand correctly, how to mount the shotgun into your shoulder and what to do to consistently break clay targets. You will move on from basic practice up to a light hearted competition, but always with your instructor present, to give one-on-one tuition or just friendly advice and encouragement. We use top quality instructors and the best of equipment, including tried and trusted Browning and Miroku shotguns. Muzzle loading shotguns Ever wondered what it was like to load your powder and shot down the barrel each time, pushing everything down with the ramrod and firing your gun amidst clouds of smoke. You can try your hand at clay pigeon shooting with these wonderful old guns and enjoy the experience of shooting as it was in the 19th century. Air rifle shooting Target shooting at its simplest and best. State of the art pneumatic air rifles which hold a magazine of ten shots. Simply by cocking the bolt, the gun is ready for your next shot at the 'bullseye', and the telescopic sight will enable you to pick your precise point of aim each time. Our instructor will teach you how to hold the gun and how to control your breathing as you take each shot. Air pistol shooting Similar targets are used as those for air rifle, but this time you will be using top of the range, pre-charged air pistols, which have the look and feel of normal pistols. You will be shown how to load the gun and fire at the target, looking to build your score by hitting that 'bullseye'. Laser shooting This can be done either indoors or outdoors, day or night.
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