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The Gunsmith's Manual; a Complete Handbook for the American Gunsmith, being a Practical Guide to all Branches of the Trade. New York: Excelsior Publishing House. – Republished in April 1945 by Thomas G. Samworth, Plantersville, South Carolina. Towsley, Bryce M. (2006). Gunsmithing Made Easy. Stoeger Publishing Company. ISBN 0-88317-294-1.
Standard Ruger 10/22 Carbine on top, and a highly modified version below, all done by the owner with drop-in parts A gunsmith customized Ruger 10/22 by Clark Custom Guns. Firearm modification is commonly done in order to enhance various aspects of the performance of a firearm.
D2 [a] is a survival horror video game developed by Warp for the Dreamcast. Directed and written by Kenji Eno , it was published by Warp in Japan in 1999 and by Sega in North America in 2000. D2 stars the "digital actress" Laura but has an independent story unrelated to the original D , and uses action-oriented gameplay in contrast to the ...
Daniel B. Wesson II worked at Smith & Wesson from 1938 until 1963, and strictly controlled production quality. [1] After the purchase of Smith & Wesson by Bangor-Punta, Wesson set out to open his own manufacturing operation in order to produce high quality, American made revolvers for service as well as competition use.
William Henry was born near Downingtown, Pennsylvania [1] to a family of Scots-Irish extraction. [2] Prior to his service in the Continental Congress, Henry was a gunsmith and provided rifles to the British during the French and Indian War: Henry himself, serving as armorer, accompanied troops on John Forbes's successful mission to retake Fort Duquesne in 1758.
The parts of the two-piece, wood stock met just under the receiver. To operate the action, the user rotated the pistol grip outward and backward to unlock the bolt, extract and eject the case. When the pistol grip was pushed forward and rotated downward, the bolt stripped another cartridge from the magazine, chambered it and locked the action ...
The D-1 howitzer M1943 (Russian: 152-mm gaubitsa obr. 1943 g. (D-1)) is a Soviet World War II-era 152.4 mm howitzer.The gun was developed by the design bureau headed by F. F. Petrov in 1942 and 1943, based on the carriage of the 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) and using the barrel of the 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10).
However, to reliably penetrate the thick armor of modern armored vehicles many modern tank guns have moved back to smoothbore. These fire a very long, thin kinetic-energy projectile , too long in relation to its diameter to develop the necessary spin rate through rifling.