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  2. List of Confederate arms manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Rifles and carbines 3,600 total for all rifles and carbines (.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading carbines) J. M. Eason Bros. Charleston, South Carolina: Fayetteville Arsenal: Fayetteville, North Carolina: Rifles Georgia State Armory Milledgeville, Georgia: 1863 Rifles, cartridges, artillery equipment Wm. Glaze & Co. Columbia, South Carolina ...

  3. Thompson/Center Arms - Wikipedia

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    Thompson/Center's success came with the emergence of long range handgun hunting, target shooting, and, especially, metallic silhouette shooting. [7] Their break-action, single-shot design brought rifle-like accuracy and power in a handgun, which was a new concept at the time.

  4. List of muzzle-loading guns - Wikipedia

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    Muzzleloading artillery evolved across a wide range of styles, beginning with the bombard, and evolving into culverins, falconets, sakers, demi-cannon, rifled muzzle-loaders, Parrott rifles, and many other styles. Handcannons are excepted from this list because they are hand-held and typically of small caliber.

  5. Knight Rifles - Wikipedia

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    Knight Rifles is an American manufacturer of modern muzzleloading rifles and shotguns that pioneered the in-line muzzleloader in the mid-1980s. [1] The company was founded in 1985 by Tony Knight, a gunsmith from rural Worthington, Missouri, and is now owned by PI, Inc. [2] Originally, Tony built the guns by hand one at a time in his garage, and as demand increased, their first factory was ...

  6. Muzzle-loading rifle - Wikipedia

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    A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore, and is loaded from the muzzle of the barrel rather than the breech.. Historically they were developed when rifled barrels were introduced by the 1740ies, which offered higher accuracy than the earlier smooth

  7. Muzzleloading - Wikipedia

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    Driven by demand for muzzleloaders for special extended primitive hunting seasons, firearms manufacturers have developed in-line muzzleloading rifles with designs similar to modern breech-loading centerfire designs. Knight Rifles pioneered the in-line muzzleloader in the mid-1980s, manufacturing and selling them to this day. [2]

  8. National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association - Wikipedia

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    The NMLRA Logo. The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA) is the largest association of muzzleloaders in the United States.The Association was founded in 1933 and is known for its promotion of the sport of muzzleloading which involves the firing of muzzleloader or black-powder firearms.

  9. Category:Muzzleloaders - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Muzzleloaders" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1792 contract rifle; B.