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It was a repeating Winchester, carrying a long steel-jacketed bullet of special caliber, but it was of a pattern fifteen years old, and fitted with target sights. "That gun," Samson explained, in a lowered and reverent voice, "was my pap's. I reckon there hain't enough money in the world ter buy hit off en me."
They heard reserves now coming up behind them, more trains of motor cars, bearing fresh troops, and batteries of field guns advancing as fast as they could. Men were busy also stringing telephone wires, and, presently, they passed a battery of guns of the largest caliber, the fire of which was directed entirely by telephone. Some distance beyond it the regiment stopped again.
But this conquest did not help much. No guns of great caliber could be carried on the mountain, and Tolmino, which had been heavily fortified, and contained a garrison of some thirty thousand men, was entirely safe. The following week there were repeated counter-attacks at Plava and on Monte Nero, but the Italians held what they had won.
She was the laggard of the fleet, and her heaviest guns were of six-inch caliber; but, being designed for a battle-ship, she carried this temporary battery behind sixteen inches of steel, and had maintained her integrity, taking harder blows than she could give.
He tapped the revolver. "Same make, same caliber." With the pistol in its case between them, Trent and the inspector looked into each other's eyes for some moments. Trent was the first to speak. "This mystery is all wrong," he observed. "It is insanity. The symptoms of mania are very marked. Let us see how we stand.
"What caliber was it?" "I'm not quite sure about a .38, I think." "When did you see it last?" "I don't recollect." The prosecuting attorney glanced at his notes. "You are his next of kin?" "My brother and I are his nephews. He had no nearer relatives." "You are his only nephews his only near relatives?" Cunningham hesitated, for just the blinking of an eye.
He looked at her in a scared way out of the corner of his eye, child-fashion, as though to make sure she was loyal and worthy of confidence, and then he said: "I invent 'em. I have written a treatise on guns of large caliber." "Really?" cried Zora, taken by surprise. She had not credited him with so serious a vocation. "Do tell me something about it." "Not now," he pleaded. "Some other time.
In Champagne the Germans, after a fresh artillery preparation, with the employment of suffocating shells of large caliber, renewed their attacks in the region to the north of Le Mesnil.
His consciousness of a great talent did not interfere with a perfect democracy; it did not cause him to assume an air that said to these people, "I am better than you, keep your distance," but he gave the impression of ability solely through his simplicity of manner and the ease with which he adapted himself to the caliber of the person who spoke to him.
The rifle now used by the Army of the United States is the United States magazine rifle, model of 1903, caliber .30. It is 43.212 inches long and weighs 8.69 pounds. The bayonet weighs 1 pound and the blade is 16 inches long. The rifle is sighted for ranges up to 2,850 yards. The smooth bore of the rifle is 0.30 inch in diameter.
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