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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.
Name Image Cartridge(s) Year Country of origin 35M rifle: 8x56mmR 7.92x57mm Mauser: 1935 Kingdom of Hungary Kb wz. 98a: 7.92x57mm Mauser: 1936 Poland Kbk wz. 29: 7.92x57mm Mauser
The rifle designs are made to use the same cartridge as developed for the LMG, and this means separate rifles are being designed for the cased and caseless cartridges. Design began with seventeen concepts; after the concepts were investigated and trade-offs were analysed, only two remained for the cased round, and two for the caseless round. [2]
The Belgians designated the rifle as the ABL SAFN-49, ABL is an acronym for the Belgian Army in both French and Dutch; "AB" for the French "Armée Belge" and "BL" for the Dutch "Belgisch Leger". The contracts for the SAFN 1949 rifle made by FN for Belgium totaled 87,777 rifles total, composing almost half of all FN-49 rifles ever produced. [7]
The vast majority of modern bolt-action rifles were made for the commercial market post-war, numbering in the tens of millions by Remington in the unique, and most accurate [citation needed] Model 700, two of the others use the Mauser system, with other designs such as the Lee–Enfield system and the Mosin Nagant system, of only limited usage.
Berkut rifle: KBP Instrument Design Bureau.308 Winchester 7.62×54mmR 9×53mmR Russia: 1998 Big Horn Armory AR500 Big Horn Armory .500 Auto Max United States: 2010s Breda M1935 PG Rifle: Breda: 6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Carcano 7×57mm Mauser Italy: 1931 Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle: FN Herstal.22 LR Belgium: 1914 Browning BAR: Browning Arms Company ...
Modern automatic rifles overlap to some extent in design and function with machine guns. In fact, many light machine guns are adaptations of existing automatic rifle designs, such as the RPK and M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle. A military's light machine guns are typically chambered for the same caliber ammunition as its service rifles.
The scout rifle is a conceptual class of general-purpose rifles defined and promoted by Jeff Cooper in the early 1980s [1] that bears similarities in the design and functionality of guide guns, mountain rifles, and other rifle archetypes, but with more emphasis being placed on comfortable portability and practical accuracy, rather than firepower and long range shooting.