A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel)...
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Rifled breech loader (redirect from Rifled breechloader)
or "sliding block". At the time of development of the first modern breechloaders in the mid-19th century, gunpowder propellant charges for artillery...
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the first breechloader firing a metallic cartridge in regular British service, the Martini was designed from the outset as a breechloader and was both...
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Werndl-Holub M1867 rifles to arm the military. The rifle was a lifting block breechloader chambered for the 14×33mm Wänzel rimfire cartridge. The Austrians converted...
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are also described by the type of action employed (e.g. muzzleloader, breechloader, lever, bolt, pump, revolver, semi-automatic, fully automatic, etc.)...
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started the conversion of the existing percussion revolvers into the breechloaders using .450 Boxer centerfire cartridges, and simultaneously, the production...
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The Merrill carbine was a breechloader firearm designed by Baltimore, Maryland gunsmith and inventor James H. Merrill. It was one of several firearms either...
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firearm. Its history is closely associated with the development of the breechloader, which would eventually replace all muzzle-loading firearms. The cartridge...
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even a breechloader that only achieved the same rate of fire as a muzzle-loading musket would still be superior to the musket, as the breechloader could...
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by the Austro-Hungarian army on 28 July 1867. It replaced the Wänzl breechloader conversion of the muzzle-loading Lorenz rifle. Josef Werndl (1831–1889)...
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