-
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...
-
converted to
breechloaders,
using .450
Boxer centerfire cartridges. From 1872 to 1880,
these revolvers (conversions and new
breechloaders) were adopted...
-
which was
considered sound.
Armstrong returned to the
manufacture of
breechloaders in the 1880s,
using an
interrupted thread breech with its own "Armstrong...
-
which time they were
displaced by
modern metallic cartridges and the
breechloader.
Paper cartridges varied in
their construction based on the specifications...
- 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...
-
Reilly were
similarly inspired by
French originals and
improved pinfire breechloaders became the new type of gun
which by 1857–1858
every fashionable British...
- The lock of a
firearm is the
mechanism used to
initiate firing. It is
generally used as a
historical term,
referring to such
mechanisms used in muzzle-loading...
- 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...
- are also
described by the type of
action emplo**** (e.g. muzzleloader,
breechloader, lever, bolt, pump, revolver, semi-automatic,
fully automatic, etc.)...
