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From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history; made possible the settlement of a continent ...
Martin Meylin of Lancaster County is credited with the invention of the long rifle which later on became known as the "Pennsylvania Rifle" and also the "Kentucky Rifle" of pioneer fame. The " long rifle " is considered to be an important development by gun collectors, as it combined features of British rifling, Germanic style mechanisms, and ...
Stevens Arms is an American firearms manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864 in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The company introduced the .22 Long Rifle round and made a number of rifle, shotgun, and target pistol designs. By 1902, they were advertising themselves as "the largest producers of sporting arms in the world". [1]
CADIZ − The 23 hunting rifles on display at the Puskarich Public Library earlier this month represented perhaps the largest assemblage ever of weapons manufactured by Harrison County gunmakers ...
Pages in category "Guns of the American West" The following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total. ... Long rifle; M. M1819 Hall rifle; M1885 Remington–Lee;
The Charleville musket was the primary musket used by French infantry during the American Revolution. Getting its name from the principal French arsenal located in Charleville, France in the Champagne-Ardenne province, this weapon had a general effective range of 80-150 yards and fired a .69-cal round. [ 9 ]
M. M4 carbine; M6 Aircrew Survival Weapon; M14 rifle; M1819 Hall rifle; M1841 Mississippi rifle; M1944 Hyde Carbine; Sieg automatic rifle; Marble Game Getter
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.