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The Federal FireStick is a proprietary polymer-hulled blank cartridge, introduced in 2020 for the Traditions NitroFire rifle. Containing 100 to 120 grains of Hodgdon 888 black-powder substitute and neither a primer nor a bullet, the round and the rifle designed for it were devised as a way of creating a gun that functions as closely to a modern rifle as possible whilst still being legal in ...
RML 6.3-inch howitzer United Kingdom: 1878 178: RML 7-inch gun United Kingdom: 1860s-1890s 191: Widow Blakely [1] Confederate States of America: 1861 203: RML 8-inch gun United Kingdom: 1866 206: 68-pounder Lancaster gun United Kingdom: 1850s 227: RML 9-inch 12-ton gun United Kingdom: 1865 233: Somerset cannon United Kingdom: 1863 254: RML 10 ...
The idea behind a gun that could fire spherical exploding shells but not solid armour-piercing shot was that large projectiles capable of carrying a large explosive filling could be fired from comparatively light guns: [8] the 8-inch 68 pounder gun intended to fire solid shot weighed 95 cwt (4,826 kg) compared to the 65 cwt (3,302 kg) of the typical 8-inch shell gun.
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
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.
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.
A rifled muzzle loader in the forecastle of HMS Gannet (1878). A rifled muzzle loader (RML) is a type of large artillery piece invented in the mid-19th century. In contrast to smooth bore cannon which preceded it, the rifling of the gun barrel allowed much greater accuracy and penetration as the spin induced to the shell gave it directional stability.
The barrel was of the new Mantel Ring Kanone typ (jacketed and hooped). The caliber was exactly 355 mm. The barrel was 8 m long (L/22.5) with a length of bore of 6.865 m (L/19.3). It had 80 grooves of 2 mm depth. The lands were 4.5 mm wide. The constant twist length was 16 m or L/45. The barrel weighed 57,500 kg. [1]