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Excerpt from Modern Breech-Loaders: Sporting and Military
To M. Lefaucheux is due the honour of inventing the modern breech-loading sporting gun; but although, so to speak, a practically useful weapon when first introduced by him, the action was weak and imperfectly developed. But his great achievement was the introduction of a shell or cartridge case which should fit the breech of the gun. This was a most important step towards the perfecting of the work he had so well begun. The shell or case, by ex panding at the moment of discharge, effectually closes the breech joint and prevents the escape of gas. Conditions such as these had not been brought about before M. Le faucheux's discovery, by the combined ingenuity of his predecessors.
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