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2 unusual facts about muzzle-loading rifle


Muzzle-loading rifle

The widely adopted solution, invented in 1863 by William Palliser, consisted of enlarging the bore to accept a wrought iron tube (called the A tube) into which the rifling had been cut.

Warden Point Battery

Warden Point Battery is a battery on the Isle of Wight begun in 1862, that was originally armed with 7-inch and 9-inch rifled muzzle loaders on barbette mountings.


.325 Winchester Short Magnum

Maximum muzzle velocity comparison in % of the probably most proliferated European and American 8 mm rifle cartridges out of 650 mm (25.59 in) long barrels loaded with relatively light to heavy 8 mm bullets to their CIP or SAAMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute) sanctioned maximum pressures.

32-pounder

SBBL 32 pounder a beach loading gun converted from older 42 cwt muzzle loading 32 pounders.

7.5×55mm Swiss

At 780 m/s (2560 ft/s) muzzle velocity the standard GP 11 ball bullet retained supersonic velocity up to 800 m (875 yards) (V800Mach 1.1) under ICAO Standard Atmosphere conditions at sea level (air density ρ = 1.225 kg/m3).

Antoine Treuille de Beaulieu

These developments led to the introduction of the La Hitte system in 1858, a fully integrated system of muzzle-loading rifled guns.

Buffalo gun

Hawken rifle, a muzzle-loading rifle from the earlier period of American western expansion

Claude-Étienne Minié

Claude-Etienne Minié (February 13, 1804; Paris - December 14, 1879; Paris) was a French Army officer famous for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1847, and the Minié rifle in 1849.

Colt Woodsman

Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either boxer Gene Tunney or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner.

Dances with Dogs

The shelter staff trick him into adopting an ill-tempered, muzzled Rottweiler; upon getting the dog home, Bill removes the muzzle only to have the dog begin viciously tearing apart everything in the house to get to Bill, who locks himself in his bathroom to escape.

Dreyse needle gun

Its effective range was very short compared to that of the muzzle-loading rifles of the day, and conspicuously so as against the Chassepot.

I Was Only Nineteen

SLR: L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle (FN-FAL), standard 7.62 mm semi-automatic rifle issued to Australian infantrymen during the Vietnam War.

Ishapore Rifle Factory

British calibre Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III, the 7.62×51mm NATO calibre Ishapore 2A1 rifle, and the 7.62mm NATO L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle were manufactured at the Ishapore Rifle Factory, and the factory now manufactures the 5.56mm INSAS rifle assault rifle for the Indian Army, as well as numerous other weapons like Pistol Auto 9mm 1A for both the military and civilian markets.

James Richard Haskell

James Richard Haskell was an American inventor chiefly remembered for his invention (with Azel S. Lyman) of a multi-charge gun which was intended to increase muzzle velocity by detonating additional propellant charges behind the projectile or shell as it moved up the gun's barrel and was a distant ancestor of the World War II German V-3 "supergun".

Jean Le Vacher

Le Vacher was blown from the muzzle in July 1683, and the French consul Piolle André was blown from the muzzle in 1688 when the Marshal Jean d'Estrées attacked Algiers.

L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle

Communist Party of Malaya cadres had been found with the FN FAL as well, most of them looted from dead or wounded Malaysian soldiers.

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.

Mirja Boes

She had guest appearances on "TV total", "Elton.tv", "Anke Late Night", "open muzzle", "Clueless Genius" and the "Gong Show".

Pistoleer

These soldiers were equipped with a number of single-shot, muzzle-loader wheel-lock or Snaphance pistols, amongst the most advanced weapons of the era.

Self-loading rifle

Automatic rifle, a firearm that automatically loads and fires rounds, through the bullet's energy, as long as the trigger is held down it.

Semi-automatic rifle, a type of firearm which fires a single shot with the pull of a trigger, and uses the energy of that shot to chamber the next round

Serbo-Bulgarian War

However, the artillery was ill-equipped, still using muzzle-loading cannons of the La Hitte system.

Tim Barlow

He lost his hearing in the 1950s when testing a high Muzzle velocity Rifle for the British Army, until recently, when surgery to fit a cochlear implant allowed him to recover some of his hearing.

William Greener

He also invented a self-righting lifeboat, which was exhibited with a rocket gun and, several of his famous percussion muzzle loading shotguns and rifles at the Great Exhibition of 1851, where he was awarded a gold medal.


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