The Book of the RifleLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 558 páginas |
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... carried out on the crest of the wave of explosion concentrated in one direction . Progress in such matters , as in all other departments of human invention , has become more and more rapid ; one change has succeeded another , and become ...
... carried out on the crest of the wave of explosion concentrated in one direction . Progress in such matters , as in all other departments of human invention , has become more and more rapid ; one change has succeeded another , and become ...
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... carrying a round ball with a belt cast on it , which fitted into two deep grooves , was found to be that a more rapid degree of twist could be given to the bullet without its stripping . This was the principle on which the Brunswick ...
... carrying a round ball with a belt cast on it , which fitted into two deep grooves , was found to be that a more rapid degree of twist could be given to the bullet without its stripping . This was the principle on which the Brunswick ...
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... carry so far unless the barrel be screwed and rifled ' ; and of the carbine , the chief distinction of which was that it had a wheel lock . De Gaya speaks further of ' extraordinary ( EARLY MILITARY RIFLES 23 carbines ( arquebuses ...
... carry so far unless the barrel be screwed and rifled ' ; and of the carbine , the chief distinction of which was that it had a wheel lock . De Gaya speaks further of ' extraordinary ( EARLY MILITARY RIFLES 23 carbines ( arquebuses ...
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... carry blank about 1,000 paces with the same proportion of powder as is necessary for the fusil , because it is screwed and rifled , that is to say , wrought and crevassed in the inside from the muzzle to the breech in the form of a ...
... carry blank about 1,000 paces with the same proportion of powder as is necessary for the fusil , because it is screwed and rifled , that is to say , wrought and crevassed in the inside from the muzzle to the breech in the form of a ...
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... carried in a brass box in the stock of the rifle ) , required some force to make it enter the barrel . For this purpose a small wooden mallet was used to drive the ball into the rifling , in exactly the fashion already quoted from Sir ...
... carried in a brass box in the stock of the rifle ) , required some force to make it enter the barrel . For this purpose a small wooden mallet was used to drive the ball into the rifling , in exactly the fashion already quoted from Sir ...
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