Jacques

The popular name "Jacan" comes from the name of the bullet Jakana, which, in turn, is named after its inventor Lithuanian Yakanis. ^[1] . Other popular names: "zhekan" and "impeller".

The mass of the jacquin bullet is from 26 to 31 grams, the length is up to 32 mm. Caliber 12 and 16. It has a pronounced stopping effect, which is especially important when hunting a large beast, for example, a bear.

In pre-revolutionary Russia and after 1917, such bullets were made of lead by hunters themselves in artisanal conditions. A cavity was left in the center during casting, which, in some cases, was filled with chalk. This cavity produced the explosive action of the bullet when it hit the target, which caused huge wounds to the animal, which quickly died from massive blood loss and the shock caused by it, even if he managed to escape from the place of the shooting.

Small cuts were made on the sides of the bullet, since the hunters believed that when they emerged from a smooth barrel, the bullet would begin to rotate under the pressure of the air like a rifle. These cuts gave this pool a second name: “impeller”.

The firing range of Jacques reaches 200 meters. However, in real conditions of hunting, fire is fired at much shorter distances, of the order of 50-60 meters, which reduces the dispersion and brings to the fore the main property of the Jacques bullet: huge lethal force. ^[2]

• Jacan (yakan) // Dockers - Zheleznyakov. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1952. - S. 579-580. - (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 51 vols.] / Ch. Ed. B.A. Vvedensky ; 1949-1958, vol. 15).