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Various calibers. available between .22-250 Rem. and .416 Rem., premium wood stock, matte metal finish, buttoning used on rifling for 22 or 24 in. stainless steel barrel, action made from 416 stainless or 4340 chrome moly steel (either left- or right-handed), 3 or 4 shot mag. supplied with 5 shot test target.
The SR-25 (Stoner Rifle-25) [1] is a designated marksman rifle and semi-automatic sniper rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and manufactured by Knight's Armament Company. [1] The SR-25 uses a rotating bolt and a direct impingement gas system. It is loosely based on Stoner's AR-10, rebuilt in its original 7.62×51mm NATO caliber.
The rifles are described by gun writers as being high quality. [10] Barrels were available in over 20 calibers with a variety of contours and finishes. [7] The barrel making division of MRC was sold to Remington Arms, subsequently Remington, in liquidation sold off most of its parts.
Thompson/Center's reintroduced Hawken-styled rifle with solid brass hardware and an American walnut stock, styled in large part on "plains rifles" made by Hawken in the 1800s, has become one of the most-copied firearms designs in history. [12] Thompson/Center produced these rifles in the following models and calibers:
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.
The Model 700 is available in many different stock, barrel, and caliber combinations, with many third-party and after-market variants built on the same action footprint. From 1978 to 1982, Remington offered the Sportsman 78 , which had the same Model 700 action but with lower-cost features, such as a plain stock without the non-slip checkering.
ArmaLite, or Armalite, is an American small arms engineering company, formed in the early 1950s in Hollywood, California.Many of its products, as conceived by chief designer Eugene Stoner, relied on unique foam-filled fiberglass butt/stock furniture and a composite barrel using a steel liner inside an aluminum sleeve, including the iconic AR-15/M16 family.
In the US builders of AR type rifles can specify barrels with either .223 Remington, .223 Wylde, 223 Noveske, or 5.56×45mm NATO chambers in lengths from pistol (7.5") to long rifle (24"). These barrels are also available with rifling ranging from 356 mm (1-in-14") to 178 mm (1-in-7").