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    uncommon rifle, the model 1817 U.S. flintlock". Military Trader/Vehicles. Retrieved December 20, 2011. The Rifle Shoppe, Inc. "1817 Common Rifle (516 B)"...
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    muskets and rifles. Among those he produced was the Model 1814 Common Rifle and the Model 1817 Common Rifle. He produced trade rifles, designated for the Native...
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  • 1851) Model 1814 common rifle (USA – rifle – c. 1814) Model 1817 common rifle "Deringer" (USA – rifle1817) Model 1872 Revolver / Ordonnanzrevolver 1872...
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    is unknown what type of rifles were issued, it was most likely Model 1817 common rifle. An effort by Hosea Stout in September 1843 to obtain more from...
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  • WWI handgrenade Search for "model 17"  or "17 model" on Wikipedia. SIG Sauer M2017 pistol (Model 2017) Model 1817 common rifle, U.S. flintlock M1917 (disambiguation)...
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    A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel...
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    minutes at their own speed. The original flintlock model of the Hall rifle had a 32.5 in (830 mm) barrel rifled with 16 "clockwise" (right-hand) grooves, making...
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  • M1841 Rifle "Mississippi Rifle" (percussion muzzle-loader;.54, .58) M1819 Hall rifle (Harper's Ferry;Breech-loader) Model 1817 Rifle ('Common rifle';Derringer...
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    of the open rifle sights. The Maxim gun, the world's first machine gun, was devised in 1885, and a year later, the Lebel Model 1886 rifle had the distinction...
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  • Deloraine-Winchester. Winchester, code name for an Athlon 64 processor model Winchester disk, a once-common generic name for hard disks, from the code name for the early...
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    invented by John Hall and patented c. 1817. It was issued to the U.S. Army as the Model 1819 Hall Breech Loading Rifle. The Hall rifles and carbines were...
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  • SIG Sauer (section Air rifle)
    Squad Weapon (NGSW) variations, the XM7 and XM250 automatic rifle, as well as for the 6.8 common cartridge ammunition used by both rifles. The initial value...
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  • stand for "ArmaLite Rifle", reflecting the company ArmaLite that originally manufactured the weapon. They do not stand for "assault rifle". The Coca-Cola...
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  • also on the Pameacha River. Robert and John D. Johnson manufactured Model 1817 common rifles in 1821 to 1827. After this period, firearm manufacturing declined...
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    in a collaboration between Texas Ranger Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker (1817–1847) and American firearms inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862), building upon...
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  • The sport of rifle shooting at Cambridge University has been practised since at least the early 19th century. Beginning as part of the military training...
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  • This article lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. This list is...
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    Austrian service, and was appointed imperial commissioner and major of the rifle corps in Tyrol. He took part in the wars for liberation, and later on, as...
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    unknown to Paine and his wife Oswald had been hiding his Carcano Model 38 infantry carbine rifle in the garage of their Irving, Texas home, that was used to...
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  • swordsman. In most of the novels he is a Rifle Officer, armed with a 1796 pattern heavy cavalry sword and Baker rifle, although by Sharpe's Waterloo he has...
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  • electrostatic means. 1816: Robert Stirling invents the Stirling engine. 1817: Baron Karl von Drais invents the dandy horse, an early velocipede and precursor...
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    Edinburgh (City) Rifle Volunteers (The Queen's City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade) – three battalions forming the main Rifle Volunteers element...
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    New Hampshire in 1807 and married Sylvester's mother Susan Fairbanks in 1817. Sylvester had an older brother who was a housepainter, two younger sisters...
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    ("Small-Caliber Military Sports Rifle", or KKW), a .22-caliber competition and training rifle sold to the public. They also bored rifle-barrel blanks for the K98k...
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  • year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1904th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 904th year of the 2nd millennium...
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    were unknown. In a great measure the pioneer had to rely on his trusty rifle for the 'creature comforts' of life. Peltry, tobacco monopolized by the...
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    neighboring Sweden in 1814 at the Congress of Vienna. The Royal Decree of 3 July 1817 decided that the Army should, among other things, consist of five infantry...
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    safety pin and sewing machine. He invented the precursor to the repeating rifle and fountain pen. About two dozen of his inventions are used today in basically...
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    a hill "Mount Gillespie" after him. The First Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifle Volunteers was also known as "Hays' Texas Rangers". Colonel Hays organized...
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    service gunpowders were classified RFG (rifle grained fine) with diameter of one or two millimeters and RLG (rifle grained large) for grain diameters between...
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