Excerpt from The Crack Shot, or Young Rifleman's Complete Guide: Being a Treatise on the Use of the Rifle, With Rudimentary and Finishing Lessons
By the line of fire, or projection, is meant the axis Of the barrel indefinitely prolonged. It is the pri~ mary direction of the center of the bullet; a direction which this center would not cease to follow if the bullet were subject to the propelling force of the powder alone.
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