• A muzzleloader is any firearm in which the user loads the projectile and the propellant charge into the muzzle end of the gun (i.e., from the forward,...
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  • other slight differences among the rifles including the breech plug on muzzleloader versions. The original Contender, now known as the generation one (G1)...
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    When Russia decided to exclusively use breechloaders, this 11-inch muzzleloader was in a forward state of manufacture, but it was nevertheless decided...
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    A rifled muzzle loader (RML) is a type of large artillery piece invented in the mid-19th century. In contrast to smooth bore cannon which preceded it,...
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    bore.). They are also described by the type of action employed (e.g. muzzleloader, breechloader, lever, bolt, pump, revolver, semi-automatic, fully automatic...
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    historical weapons from before the invention of smokeless powder, such as muzzleloaders. Black powder substitutes are propellants designed to provide explosive...
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  • rifled musket used in the latter half of the 19th century. A single-shot muzzleloader with excellent long-range accuracy for its era, especially when used...
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    which that mechanism works. Actions are technically not present on muzzleloaders, as all those are single-shot firearms with a closed off breech with...
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    item which serves this purpose is often called a sabot. Wadding for muzzleloaders is typically a small piece of cloth, or paper wrapping from the cartridge...
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    , from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel), as opposed to a muzzleloader, in which the user loads the ammunition from the (muzzle) end of the...
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    A patch box is a patch storage compartment on muzzleloader guns, usually built into the stock or butt of a rifle. Patches were used to wrap a round shot...
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    1870, roughly 358,000 rifles had been converted, while 1.4 million muzzleloaders stayed in their original configuration. This weapon system was recognized...
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    typical firearms carried by the Lakota and Cheyenne combatants were muzzleloaders, more often a cap-lock smoothbore, the so-called Indian trade musket...
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    a simple, separate percussion cap for ignition, just like a typical muzzleloader of the era, and often used paper or linen cartridge cases, which provided...
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  • assortment of small arms found their way onto the battlefield. Though the muzzleloader percussion cap rifled musket was the most numerous weapon, being standard...
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  • Muzzle-loading rifle (category Muzzleloaders)
    from the German "Jäger" rifle; a popularly recognizable form of the "muzzleloader" was the Kentucky Rifle. Although by definition they must be reloaded...
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  • called Black Powder. Until 2014, the Association occupied the Grade-II "Muzzleloader's Association Hut" at the National Shooting Centre, Bisley. Black powder...
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    deer with a compound or recurve bow, and he occasionally utilizes a muzzleloader. Lewis has been open about his struggles with substance abuse and mental...
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    inches (180 cm), or slightly longer, although for a typical multi-purpose muzzleloader rifle, a twist rate of 1 in 48 inches (120 cm) is very common. The M16A2...
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    while being easier to load than previous rifles. Most firearms were muzzleloaders which were armed by pouring the gunpowder and bullet down the muzzle...
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    introduction of metallic cartridges from the 1860s onwards were single-shot muzzleloaders . However, multi-barrel, breechloading, revolving, and other multi-shot...
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    ballistics Tubes and primers for ammunition Minié ball Gunpowder Cannon Muzzleloader Muzzle (firearms) Gun barrel Projectile Look up smoothbore in Wiktionary...
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    exempt from any restrictions on barrel and overall length. A smoothbore muzzleloader held on a shotgun certificate would be subject to the standard 24-inch...
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  • weapon of the Austro-Prussian war due to its long range. Originally a muzzleloader, it was converted to breechloading in 1867, the so-called Lindner conversion...
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  • modern muzzleloading rifles and shotguns that pioneered the in-line muzzleloader in the mid-1980s. The company was founded in 1985 by Tony Knight, a gunsmith...
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    power. The Djambi's carried a mix of rifled muzzleloaders of 16 cm caliber (RML) and smoothbore muzzleloaders (SBML) of 16 cm caliber, known as long 30-pounders...
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    projectiles out of the gun barrel. In early black powder guns such as muzzleloaders, the primer was essentially the same chemical as the main propellant...
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    1840. Buckskinning grew out of the increased interest in gunpowder and muzzleloader firearms in the last decades of the 20th century. Many buckskinners also...
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    A crank-operated harmonica gun was patented in 1856 by C. G. Terrel. Muzzleloader "Al stone's 2240 auto-loader". Retrieved 26 October 2014. "Airgun hobby...
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    an African elephant. The first 4 bores were probably single barrel muzzleloaders converted from British fowling pieces that were, in essence, slug guns...
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