In the shooting range of Bunas, Tang Mo watched with interest as Weiss finished a pistol magazine and then continued to load it.
Good shooters are fed with bullets. Without a large amount of live ammunition shooting, no matter how talented they are, it will be in vain.
You must keep shooting year after year, day after day, to maintain your gun feel, so that you can maintain your muscle memory and make the most correct shooting movements in the shortest time.
Weiss is Tang Mo's personal bodyguard. Until he finds another successor who can be used with confidence, he is the last barrier around Tang Mo.
Such people need to be in the best fighting condition at all times, so Weiss always seizes every moment to train his fighting skills.
He has become so good at shooting pistols that almost every shot can hit the target. Moreover, his shooting speed is incredibly fast, like lightning.
"Bang!" After the last shot was fired, Weiss put the PPK pistol sample gun he was using for testing on the tray. He turned back to Tang Mo with some unfinished thoughts: "You can always make something that people like.
arms."
Frankly speaking, the PPK pistol is really easy to carry and not too powerful as a personal weapon. In Wes's hands, this thing is simply a magical weapon.
Compared with the large M1911 pistol, the PPK pistol seems to be more suitable for use by personnel such as bodyguards or spies.
However, the PPK pistol also has its own shortcomings. The first disadvantage is that the power of this weapon is relatively small.
The caliber of the M1911 pistol is larger, and the bullets used are much more powerful than the 7.65mm pistol bullets used by the PPK, and the stopping ability is naturally much higher.
Therefore, in the hands of a gun master like Weiss, the M1911 pistol, a weapon that can solve problems with one shot, is actually more powerful.
It can also only hold 7 bullets. The 7 bullets of the PPK pistol may not solve the problem, but the M1911 pistol is much safer.
Therefore, Weiss still prefers the powerful M1911 pistol. At least after experimenting with many kinds of pistols, Weiss prefers the M1911 pistol and the "shell gun".
If it can be carried, Weiss prefers to carry a shell gun, also known as a Mauser automatic pistol. This weapon is very powerful and can be used as an automatic weapon temporarily.
Although there are huge flaws in accuracy, Weiss prefers this kind of powerful automatic weapon. After all, compared with the Cyric flintlock pistol of the year, the pistols currently participating in the Datang Group's pistol bidding experiment can be considered.
It's the best of the best.
In fact, a prototype of the Ruger pistol was produced, but Wes didn't like this pistol that was not so stable when firing.
Although it is expensive and uses many new technologies, the Luger pistol still has many inherent flaws and it is difficult to compete with the more stable PPK and M1911.
In fact, even in the Santoku era, not many Prussian aristocratic officers wore Luger pistols. Most of the Luger pistols were left to the police and second-line troops... After all, the battlefield environment was too bad. This kind of precious gold
The pistol is not very suitable for use.
In the world before Tang Mo traveled through time, around 1910, too many pistols with excellent performance were born.
Both Jack and Belgium have good designs, and the Browning Hi-Power pistol and Jack's CZ pistol are both famous.
In Tang Mo's laboratory, these pistols were also copied by skilled craftsmen to test the ultimate performance of each pistol.
In the end, the M1911 pistol and the PPK pistol became Tang Mo's preferred semi-automatic pistols, while the older Mauser rifles were regarded as heretics and sent to other places to deceive Cyric's idiots.
After all, what no one knows is that the automatic weapon Tang Mo really wants to develop is not the automatic pistol that has not been widely popularized until the 21st century, but a submachine gun that uses pistol ammunition more rationally!
A weapon that was the same size as an Uzi submachine gun but had very average melee power was definitely not what Tang Mo wanted.
The only highlight of the Mauser pistol is its power at mid-range - its effective range is indeed much farther than that of a pistol, especially after the butt is installed as a holster, the accuracy is also very high.
But if the butt is installed, this automatic pistol is basically the same size as a submachine gun, not a pistol at all...
This is also the main reason why the Mauser automatic pistol, which has incredible performance among pistols, only shines on the Chinese battlefield - there are no submachine guns here!
Therefore, China is the natural battlefield advantage for Mauser automatic pistols. This is caused by the environment, not the excellent performance of the weapon itself.
Therefore, this weapon is not irreplaceable. On the contrary, this weapon is very easy to replace: just produce a serious submachine gun.
"To be honest, I haven't decided what to call this pistol, S4 or S5?" Tang Mo asked Weiss, feeling the sun shining comfortably on his body.
Weiss thought for a while and answered Tang Mo's question: "Actually, I prefer the one that can solve the problem...the big one."
"Well, men all like big ones." Tang Mo teased maliciously.
Weiss smiled with a smile on his face, and then said, "Then I named this gun."
He weighed the M1911 in his hand twice and named this otherworldly pistol S4, and the PPK pistol naturally became an S5 semi-automatic pistol.
Instantly, he liked the S4 pistol more. After all, this was the pistol he named it. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
Tang Mo smiled mischievously and waved to the entourage holding the plate next to him: "Bring that thing over here!"
The attendant hurried forward and handed the plate covered with white cloth to Tang Mo. Tang Mo did not lift the white cloth immediately, but looked at Weiss and said, "Do you still remember the joke I told you?
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"Which one?" Weiss tried hard to recall the various dirty jokes Tang Mo had told him.
"Within ten steps, the one with the fastest punch..." Tang Mo knew that Weiss must have thought wrongly, so he reminded him.
Weiss was stunned for a moment, then nodded pretendingly: "Remember, you told me at that time that a gun is faster than ten steps away... within ten steps... a gun is fast and accurate."
"That's just a joke." Tang Mo smiled and opened the tray, showing the contents in front of Weiss: "Now, you don't need to care too much about whether it's accurate or not."
Tang Mo did not choose the German MP series submachine gun for his troops because he liked another type - the American Thompson submachine gun.
This is a slightly complicated submachine gun, but its overall performance is pretty good. However, the reason Tang Mo likes it is because it has repeatedly appeared in some gangster movies.
The image of a Chicago typewriter hidden in a violin case and being carried around by a killer in a black suit looks very touching.
Of course, Tang Mo directly manufactured its improved version - the US military version without a front grip and only a horizontal handguard.
This weapon was born around 1928, so there is no technical difficulty. In comparison, Germany's better MP-38 submachine gun is much slower.
In fact, in terms of performance and fit, Tang Mo wanted to choose the MP-38 submachine gun because its manufacturing process was more advanced, its accuracy was higher, and it also had better performance in other aspects.
Not to mention anything else, the fact that German submachine guns are more foldable is very attractive: Tang Mo values weapons that are easy to carry.
However, when Tang Mo was hesitating which weapon to choose was better, another factor influenced his choice: bullets!
Tang Mo has decided to mass-produce the M1911 pistol, or the improved M1911A1 pistol, but the bullet of this pistol is 11.43 mm caliber.
Another type of PPK pistol that Tang Mo prefers, the bullets it uses are 7.65 mm caliber bullets - yes, another brand new bullet.
The rifle bullets used by Tang Mo's security force soldiers are 8 mm caliber rifle bullets, which is a completely different metal fixed-loading bullet.
At the same time, the Maxim heavy machine gun produced by Datang Group also has a caliber of 11.43 mm ammunition.
This put Tang Mo into an embarrassing dilemma: his bullets had too many calibers and were too complex.
If he continues to produce the MP-38 submachine gun that uses 9 mm caliber pistol bullets, he will have to open another production line for the production of 9 mm caliber pistol bullets.
In addition to the existing bullet production line, Datang Group will simultaneously produce 6 different caliber models and lengths of bullets: .45 caliber (11.43) pistol bullets, .32 caliber (7.65) pistol bullets, and 9mm caliber pistol bullets.
, 8 mm (7.92) caliber rifle bullets, .45 caliber (11.43) machine gun bullets, and paper shell custom bullets for needle guns...
This is something Tang Mo, or Datang Group, is unwilling to accept.
Therefore, Tang Mo had to consciously reduce the types of his bullets to reduce his production line and simplify the logistics of the army.
In fact, there is a certain continuity in the development of weapons. Tang Mo chose the relatively advanced Colt revolver as his revolver, so he chose the caliber of the bullet to be .45 (11.43).
So next, the bullets for the M1911 pistol were also .45, which simplified Tang Mo's bullet production to a great extent.
Therefore, when it came to the choice of submachine gun, Tang Mo had to make a certain degree of compromise. He gave up the MP-38 submachine gun, which he was more optimistic about, and chose the Chicago Typewriter and Thompson submachine gun.
Although this weapon is not satisfactory, it is still a very mature and effective weapon. If the disadvantage of this weapon is that it is bulky and expensive, this is not a problem at all in today's era.
This weapon is only used to equip Tang Mo's security forces, so Tang Mo is more willing to simplify it and let the new submachine gun use existing bullets.
Therefore, when Tang Mo lifted up the white cloth, what Weiss saw was a beautifully made Thompson submachine gun.
