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Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company is a firearms manufacturer located in Big Timber, Montana, United States. The company produces a line of reproductions of various historical black-powder rifles, including the legendary 1874 Sharps Rifle , featured in the 1990 Western film Quigley Down Under , starring Tom Selleck .
In 1886, the joint Norwegian-Swedish rifle commission, which had selected the Jarmann, created a list of the ballistic properties of all the rifles tested. [2] It is clear from the list, reproduced below, that the Jarmann M1884 was significantly better than the other rifles tested, although in part this must be due to the higher muzzle velocity ...
The QBS-06 is a gas-operated, rotary-bolt mechanism. [4] The QBS-06 has a capacity of 25 rounds. [1] It is chambered in 5.8×42 DBS-06 caliber, a variant of 5.8×42mm. [1]It is equipped with fixed iron sights and retractable shoulder stock, made of steel wir with the furniture made from plastic. [1]
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
For larger guns, the cooling periods were longer and more water was used. After cooling the gun, the machining process began. The bore was bored out to proper size, the exterior was turned smooth, the trunnions were turned on a trunnion lathe, and a vent was drilled. Columbiads were not the only guns cast using Rodman's method.
The Evans repeating rifle is often considered to be one of the oddest rifles to ever be produced in the United States. The Evans was invented by Warren R. Evans, a dentist from Thomaston, Maine. With the help of his brother George, they perfected the rifle and started the "Evans Rifle Manufacturing Company" of Mechanic Falls, Maine in 1873.
The Contender, first introduced in 1967, is a break-action, single-shot pistol or rifle with a number of unique features. The first unique feature is the way the barrel is attached to the frame. By removing the fore-end, a large hinge pin is exposed; by pushing this hinge pin out, the barrel can be removed.
By 1874, the rifle was available in a variety of calibers, and it was one of the few designs to be successfully adapted to metallic cartridge use. The Sharps rifles became icons of the American Old West with their appearances in many Western-genre films and books. Perhaps as a result, several rifle companies offer reproductions of the Sharps rifle.