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Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun.Its longer range necessitated exploding projectiles to judge range, which in turn dictated a shell weight of at least 400 grams (0.88 lb), as that was the lightest exploding shell allowed under the Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and reaffirmed in the Hague Convention of 1899.
Roofed bench rest shooting position at Byers Canyon Rifle Range. Byers Canyon Shooting Range is part of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Hot Sulphur Springs State Wildlife Area. The 80-acre (32 ha) facility is 7,700 feet (2,300 m) above sea level on the north side of U.S. Highway 40, four miles (6.4 km) west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado. [1]
The 37 mm version of the Maxim gun used by both sides during World War I QF 1 pounder pom-pom, the British version; 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K), a Soviet World War II anti-aircraft gun; 37 mm anti-tank gun M1930 (1-K), a Soviet World War II anti-tank gun; 37 mm Gun M1, an American World War II anti-aircraft gun
U.S. Highway 40 passes through the canyon between Hot Sulphur Springs and Kremmling. The Union Pacific Railroad's Moffat Route also travels through the short canyon. The Byers Canyon Shooting Range is part of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Hot Sulphur Springs State Wildlife Area within the canyon providing a winter foraging area for big game ...
A Maxim Flak M14 Anti-Aircraft Crew. A 3.7 cm SockelFlak L/14.5 The flaming onion was a 37 mm Hotchkiss revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army at the beginning of World War I , the name referring to both the gun, and especially the flare or tracer ammunition it fired.
The 37 mm M9 autocannon was a derivative of the M1A2 anti-aircraft gun. It had a 74 in (1.9 m) barrel, weighed 405 lb (184 kg) (the barrel alone weighing 120 pounds), had a muzzle velocity of 3,000 ft/s (910 m/s), and had a rate of fire of 150 rounds per minute.
A tragedy like this is unimaginable,” Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said at a news conference. The shooting caused a lockdown at the university, which has an enrollment of more ...
The Cameo Shooting and Education Complex is a public shooting and archery range near Palisade, Colorado, owned and managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). The complex is listed as one of Colorado's 43 state parks in CPW's 2023 publication Your guide to Colorado's state parks. [2] The complex hosts shooting and archery competitions.