-
emplacements for
breechloaders can be
smaller since crews don't need to
retract the gun for
loading into the
muzzle end.
Unloading a
breechloader is much easier...
- or "sliding block". At the time of
development of the
first modern breechloaders in the mid-19th century,
gunpowder propellant charges for artillery...
-
which was
considered sound.
Armstrong returned to the
manufacture of
breechloaders in the 1880s,
using an
interrupted thread breech with its own "Armstrong...
- fire;
Springfield breechloaders "in the long run, had a
higher rate of fire,
which was
sustainable throughout a battle." The
breechloader design patent for...
- are also
described by the type of
action emplo**** (e.g. muzzleloader,
breechloader, lever, bolt, pump, revolver, semi-automatic,
fully automatic, etc.)...
- later-invented breech-loading
designs provided a
higher rate of fire, but
early breechloaders lacked an
effective way of
sealing the
escaping gases that
leaked from...
- Belgian,
Brazilian or
Chilean Comblain. W.W
Greener wrote in
Modern breechloaders:
sporting and
military in 1871: This
rifle is
called No.2, to distinguish...
- The lock of a
firearm is the
mechanism used to
initiate firing. It is a
historical term, in that it
generally refers to such
mechanisms used in muzzle-loading...
- mechanism.
Originally developed as a
means of
converting rifle muskets to
breechloaders, the
Allin modification ultimately became the
basis for the definitive...
-
million in 1869. As a result, by
November 1870, only 316,650
Werndl breechloaders had been
produced and the army
still needed an
additional 302,810 rifles...
