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The gunstock club or gun stock war club is an indigenous weapon used by many Native American groupings, named for its similar appearance to the wooden stocks of muskets and rifles of the time. [1] Gunstock clubs were most predominantly used by Eastern Woodland , Central and Northern Plains tribes in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The lock, stock and barrel of a flintlock musket "Lock, stock, and barrel" is a merism used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America, meaning "all", "total" or "everything". It derives from the effective portions of a gun: the lock, the stock, and the barrel.
The anatomy of a gunstock on a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic rifle with Fajen thumbhole silhouette stock. 1) butt, 2) forend, 3) comb, 4) heel, 5) toe, 6) grip, 7) thumbhole A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing ...
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie.It follows a heist involving a confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three-card brag, prompting him to pay off his debts by enlisting his friends to help him rob a small-time gang operating out of the apartment next door.
Combination gun: A shoulder-held firearm that has two or more barrels; and at least one rifle barrel and one shotgun barrel. Most combination guns are of an over-under design (O/U), in which the two barrels are stacked vertically on top of each other, but side-by-side (SxS), in which the two barrels are parrarel to one another are also made.
Lock Stock & Barrel. Mr. Dunderbak’s. Neptune’s Galley. Oh Brian’s Ribs. Picadilly Cafeteria. The Rathskeller (not the same as the Chapel Hill one) Remedy Diner. Scotty’s (in old North ...
Lock, stock, and barrel is a figure of speech meaning "everything". Lock, Stock, and Barrel may also refer to: Lock, Shock and Barrel (characters), three fictional characters in The Nightmare Before Christmas; Lock, Stock and Barrel, a musical act appearing on the soundtrack of the film Cool Runnings
Animal hide and sinew may also have been used to repair damaged firearms or build a new weapon using multiple parts. Historic firearms are identified by barrel style, how they are loaded, and by lock, the firing mechanism. Firearms can first be classified by the barrel style which is described as either a smoothbore or rifle.