Breech-Loading Rifles. Semiautomatic Rifles. Muzzle-Loading Rifles. Types of Rifle Actions Bolt-Action Rifles. A Winchester Model 70 bolt-action rifle. Rock Island Auction Company.

This article was originally published with the title “ Marston's Breech-Loading Fire-Arms and Patent Cartridge ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 17 (January 1853), p. 129 doi:10. ...

Once the breech and barrel assembly is removed from the body, the complexity becomes overwhelming. The G11 is made up of a total of nearly 450 individual parts; 144 of those make up the G11's ...

The Secretary of War has decided that the report of the Board for the trial of breech-loading rifles at West Point is not conclusive in favor of any one of them as a standard government gun ...

If I owned the gun, I might put the metal breech back on and install an aftermarket rear peep. Or maybe not. Again, the rifle is pretty good straight out of the box. Ammo.

Sharps' Breech-loading Patent Rifle, Scientific American, Mar. 9, 1850. The Sharps were especially popular with pioneer families heading West.

His approval led to the purchase of 107,372 Spencer repeating carbines and rifles (of 144,500 made), and the Spencer became the principal repeating gun of the Civil War. 1861 - Breech loaded guns ...

The Model 1873, also known as the “Trapdoor Springfield,” marked a leap in technological advancement for American military rifles. It was loaded from the breech of the gun rather than from the ...

It was a gas-operated rifle with a rotary breech and had a variable rate of fire depending on the automatic setting. At full auto, it fired 460 rounds per minute, while on three-round-burst, its ...

The Australian Defence Force’s standard new rifle, the EF88 Austeyr, which cost taxpayers $100 million, has a defect in some models that could cause an “out-of-breech explosion”.