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8 unusual facts about breech-loading weapon


Arthur Sclater

The banks of the river were covered in thick undergrowth, and while making his way through it, his breech loaded gun caught a twig, causing the gun to discharge.

Breech-loading weapon

Henry VIII possessed one, which he apparently used as a hunting gun to shoot birds.

Cookson repeater

The Cookson flintlock rifle, a lever-action breech-loading repeater, is one of many similar designs to make an appearance on the world stage beginning in the 17th century.

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

He is wounded, but manages to sabotage all the guns by removing their breeches, saving many American lives.

Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik

In the war against Denmark in 1864, the superiourity of Breech-loading weapons became apparent; so, starting 1865, experiments began to adapt the Vereinsgewehr to a breech-loading rifle; amongst these, a trapdoor rifle-construction (system Milbank-Amsler), which should have been adopted.

Layforce

One party was able to damage a bridge, while another set a tyre dump on fire and blew up the breeches of a number of naval guns.

Lockheed XF-104

An investigation later showed that one of the 20 mm cannon rounds had exploded in the breech, blowing the bolt out the rear of the gun and through the structure into the forward fuselage fuel cell.

Safehold

During the fighting Loyalists manage to capture Charisian breech-loading guns, allowing them to duplicate these weapons.


14 cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun

Breech block design began in 1922 AD, the eleventh year of the Taishō period.

14 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun

Breech block design began in 1914, the third year of the Taishō period.

20 cm/50 3rd Year Type naval gun

Breech block design began in 1914 AD, the third year of the Taishō period.

7.92×57mm Mauser

Later, when Egypt decided to manufacture the Hakim rifle, a licensed copy of the Swedish Ag m/42, they redesigned the breech to accept the Mauser cartridge rather than use the original Ag m/42 cartridge.

Adriatic Mills

He manufactured the Joslyn rifle, the first breech-loading rifle, on these premises before selling them in 1863 to the Jordan Marsh Company.

António da Silva Porto

Paiva Couceiro arrived in the area of Teixeira da Silva around January 1890, with a contingent of 40 Mozambican soldiers, armed with Snider-Enfield breech-loading rifles, which worried the chief of Bié.

Blish lock

The Blish Lock is a breech locking mechanism designed by John Bell Blish based upon his observation that under extreme pressures, certain dissimilar metals will resist movement with a force greater than normal friction laws would predict.

Chassepot

This simple yet effective technology was successfully adapted to artillery in 1877 by Colonel de Bange, who invented grease-impregnated asbestos pads to seal the breech of his new cannons (the De Bange system).

Christopher Miner Spencer

General Ulysses S. Grant declared Spencer rifles "the best breech-loading arms available".

Dreyse needle gun

The only contemporary rifle which it can be compared to is the Norwegian Kammerlader—the only other breech loader adopted for service in the 1840s.

First Battle of Collierville

Buckner's Battery was armed with a 6-pound, a 10-pound and four breech-loading, rapid-fire Williams Guns.

Imperieuse-class cruiser

One of the Warspite's 9.2" breech-blocks is/was held at the Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) at Shrivenham.

Inchcolm

An inventory of 8 January 1548 lists the English armaments on the island as; one culverin; one demi-culverin; 3 iron sakers; a brass saker; 2 iron falcons; 3 brass falcons; 4 fowlers; 2 port pieces; 14 bases; 90 arquebuses, 2 chests of bows; 50 pikes; and 40 bills.

Jim Breech

James Thomas Breech (born April 11, 1956 in Sacramento, California) is a former American football kicker in the National Football League, who played for Oakland Raiders in 1979 and Cincinnati Bengals from 1980-1992.

Joseph Jules Dejerine

Dejerine-Klumpke paralysis: Lower brachial plexus paralysis occurring during birth, particularly with breech deliveries.

Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin

He invented the Carabine à tige ("Stem rifle", also "Pillar breech rifle"), based on a method by which muzzle-loading rifles could be easily and effectively loaded.

Pancor Jackhammer

At the moment of firing, the front of the shell sealed inside the breech of the barrel much like the Nagant M1895 revolver.

Pedersen rifle

The breech block mechanism thus operated in a manner resembling the operation of the Luger pistol, but unlike that pistol the Pedersen mechanism was at no time mechanically locked.

SIG Sauer P220

Instead of the locking lugs and recesses milled into the barrel and slide of other Browning-type weapons as the Colt M1911A1, Browning Hi-Power and CZ 75, the P220 variants (and many other modern pistols) lock the barrel and slide together using an enlarged breech section on the barrel locking into the ejection port.

Steel Point Battery

In 1893 the fort was upgraded to hold a BL 9.2 inch (234 mm) Mk VI breech-loading 'counter bombardment' British Armstrong 'disappearing' gun.


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