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Muzzleloading is the
shooting sport of
firing muzzleloading guns.
Muzzleloading guns, both
antique and reproduction, are used for
target shooting, hunting...
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primer attached at the base.
Unlike older muzzleloading mortars,
which were
loaded the same way as
muzzleloading cannon, the
modern mortar is
fired by dropping...
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ramrod (or
scouring stick) is a
metal or
wooden device used with
muzzleloading firearms to push the
projectile up
against the
propellant (mainly blackpowder)...
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mounted shooting at the 2012 AQHA
Mounted Shooting World Championship Muzzleloading are
concerned with
shooting replica (or antique) guns.
Competitor shooting...
- with much
slower rates of fire. The
history of
firearms began with
muzzleloading single-shot
firearms such as the hand
cannon and arquebus, then multi-barreled...
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Breechloading and
repeating rifles promised significant improvements over
muzzleloading rifles,
particularly repeaters as they
allowed a far
greater rate of...
- vent, is a
small hole at the rear (breech)
portion of the
barrel of a
muzzleloading gun or cannon. The hole
provides external access of an
ignition spark...
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substitute is a
replacement for
black powder (gunpowder),
primarily used in
muzzleloading firearms.
Substitutes may have
slightly different properties from gunpowder...
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barrel list also
includes shotgun barrels in 28, 20, and 12 gauge, and
muzzleloading barrels in .45, .50 caliber, and 12
gauge using #209
shotgun primers...
- in a
purse or a stocking. The
original Philadelphia Deringer was a
muzzleloading caplock single-shot
pistol introduced in 1825 by
Henry Deringer. In...
