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By R. A. Steindler

ISBN-10: 0811706141

ISBN-13: 9780811706148

Essentially designed for the shooter, hunter, firearms hobbyist, The Firearms Dictionary deals a unmarried resource of reference or a number of the phrases which are both difficult to appreciate or that have by no means been thoroughly defined in any of the preferred texts. The Firearms Dictionary differs from the standard dictionary in that it is going past the mere defining of a time period or notice. anywhere attainable the textual subject, in addition to the images and the drawings, additional clarify the time period itself and its courting with different phrases of our gun language.

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BROACH a cutting tool with several cutting edges that, when forced into the bore of a barrel, removes metal, each edge a little more than the preceding one. Broaching is used to make rifled barrels, system cuts all grooves simultaneously. „ BROWN BESS 38 muzzle-loading BT see Bullet, Boattail. BUCKHORN SIGHT Buckhorn. BUCKSHOT see Sight, see Shot. BUFFER any part of an action that absorbs recoil. BUGGY Rifle. RIFLE BULGED BARREL Obstruction. see Bicycle see Barrel BULLET a non-spherical projectile designed to be fired through the rifled barrel of a gun.

BULLET CORE sporting bullets have lead core or center. A part or the entire core may be covered by bullet jacket. Military bullets for special purposes have special cores, such as armor piercing, incendiary, etc. g. target shooting, varmint hunting, big game hunting. ), & proposed use. Type of jacket metal, as well as jacket thickness, is also determined by bullet's use, anticipated velocities. Thus, during developmental stages of the 17 caliber bullets, many of them disintegrated in flight when thin bullet jackets were unable to hold together at velocities of around 4000 fps.

65 mm Browning 9 mm Browning 9 mm Browning Short (kurz or corto) 9 mm Parabellum CARTRIDGE LENGTH the total length of the cartridge, from the base of the case to the tip of the bul- let. g. a 270 Winchester cartridge will function through an action of 30-06 length, similarly, the 30-06 magazine will accomodate the 270 cartridge. CARTRIDGE, LIP-FIRE a now obsolete type of rimfire cartridge. C A R T R I D G E , LOW P O W E R term once used to designate any cartridge that developed less than 1850 fps at the muzzle.

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