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breech loader would be "RBL", or
often just "BL",
since smoothbore breechloading artillery is
almost nonexistent (except in tank guns). A
muzzle loading weapon...
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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, open...
- 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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which the user
loads the
ammunition from the (
muzzle) end of the barrel. The vast
majority of
modern firearms are
generally breech-
loaders,
while firearms...
- A
rifled breech loader (RBL) is an
artillery piece which,
unlike the
smoothbore cannon and
rifled muzzle loader which preceded it, has
rifling in the...
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great difficulty of
precision manufacturing, and the need to
load readily from the
muzzle, the
musket ball was a
loose fit in the barrel. Consequently...
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Muzzle-
loading guns (as
opposed to
muzzle-
loading mortars and howitzers) are an
early type of artillery, (often
field artillery, but
naval artillery and...
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British Armed Forces in the mid-19th century. The
cannon was a
smoothbore muzzle-
loading gun
manufactured in
several weights, the most
common being 95 long cwt...
- old-fashioned
swivel guns, both muzzle-
loader and breech-
loader. The breech-
loading guns were
called "breech
loading culverin" by Cardwell, they were 8 feet...
- govt.
rifle barrels with an under-barrel
cleaning rod. H&R
produced muzzle loading firearms under the
Huntsman and
Sidekick models,
during two different...
