Saturday, December 23, 2006

Cordite

The image “http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Cordite.jpg/180px-Cordite.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.You hear from time to time when you do enough shooting. "I love the smell of cordite" Its one of those things you never really give much thought to, at least I didn't, I know that cordite isn't used in modern small arms ammunition and I'm not loading it in the cartridges I load, so what exactly is cordite? The Box Of Truth knows.

Essentially, it is gunpowder made into spagetti and loaded into cartridges like the 4" shell to the right. (via Les Jones)

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