• recoil buffer is a factory-installed or aftermarket component of firearms which serves to reduce the velocity and/or cushion the impact of recoiling parts...
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    the barrel. To mitigate these large recoil forces, recoil buffering mechanisms spread out the counter-recoiling force over a longer time, typically ten...
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  • output Floor buffer, an appliance used to polish hard floors Optical buffer, a device that stores optically transmitted data Recoil buffer, a firearm component...
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    ordnance personnel began to receive BARs with inoperable or malfunctioning recoil buffer mechanisms. This was eventually traced to the soldier's common practice...
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  • groove on the bolt carrier to aid in silent bolt closure, a heavier recoil buffer for increased reliability and a rotary diopter rear sight with four...
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    if the full power of the gas system is employed without some sort of recoil buffer. The problem is that making the gun durable with such high power loads...
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    recoil buffer tube extended from the back of the receiver to make the cycle of the bolt smoother than previous designs, to absorb some of the recoil of...
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    M16 rifle (section Recoil)
    spring and recoil buffer. The stock being in line with the bore also reduces muzzle rise, especially during automatic fire. Because recoil does not significantly...
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  • clip-off mechanism allows the UBGL to be fitted, with an additional recoil buffer, to any weapon fitted with a Picatinny rail. The UBGL is fitted with...
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    operation. This version has a removable barrel and uses a sealed hydraulic recoil buffer in place of a gas cylinder. After swapping out the barrel and magazine...
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    reduce the amount of felt recoil of the firearm, and to prevent slippage on the shooter's clothing while aiming. Recoil buffer "Recoil Pad". AmmoWisdom.com...
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    40 S&W pressures. Other features added include a captive recoil spring, internal recoil buffer, user changeable monogrips and 17-round magazines. The 92A1...
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    the M249, which contains a hydraulic buffer that contributes to stabilizing the rate of fire and reducing recoil forces. The weapon is fed from the left-hand...
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    behind the action, and serves the dual function of operating spring and recoil buffer. In 1955, Stoner completed initial design work on the revolutionary...
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    spring and recoil buffer. The stock being in line with the bore also reduces muzzle rise, especially during automatic fire. Because recoil does not significantly...
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    previous Chinese designs. Thanks to the low recoil impulse of the small caliber ammunition and a recoil buffer system, the rifle is claimed to be more controllable...
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    Cartridge extractor U.S. patent 829,215 Forearm tip U.S. patent 834,578 Recoil buffer U.S. patent 963,444 Buttstock bolt The government initially ordered...
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    recoil, a spring-loaded cradle replaced the backplate with a heavily spring-loaded buffer that acted as an extension of the standard Browning recoil buffer...
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    features a telescoping return spring guide which serves as a pneumatic recoil buffer. The cocking handle was permanently attached to the bolt on early MP...
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  • necessary to fire the more powerful .50 BMG, including a hydraulic recoil buffer in the buttstock and an innovative muzzle attachment. This muzzle device...
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  • pounder early World War I field gun (the BL 15-pounder gun adapted with a recoil buffer and recuperator similar to the 13-pounder) Ordnance QF 17 pounder World...
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    spring and recoil buffer. The stock being in line with the bore also reduces muzzle rise, especially during automatic fire. Because recoil does not significantly...
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    charging handle system (charging handle post, charging handle, and recoil buffer), a press-fit gas block, and barrel gas port inside bevel. In August...
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  • skeletal stock. Most AR-15 rifle variants have a thick, cylindrical recoil buffer tube, more properly called the receiver extension, that protrudes approximately...
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  • machine gun to .50 cal Browning had to introduce a proper hydraulic recoil buffer instead of a cheaper stack of fiber disks on .30-cal M1917 and M1919...
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    role configuration with L4A1 Tripod Mounting, buttstock replaced by a recoil buffer, and C2A2 Support Weapons Sight fitted to the left side of the receiver...
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    barrel could be quickly removed from the recoil cradle without having to unscrew and remove the recoil buffer and springs. On difficult terrain that may...
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    corresponding springs are attached to the spring holder base plate. A recoil buffer sits on the base plate to prevent damage to the bolt when cycling. The...
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    intended as a rival to the M1918 BAR. It had an extended receiver with a recoil buffer and was fed from 20-round magazines. .30 Carbine Variant. The Model...
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    (sometimes referred to as the RPDM) includes an extended gas cylinder and a recoil buffer mechanism in the stock. Late production RPD variants also had the fixed...
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