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  2. Ultra-high vacuum - Wikipedia

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    Ultra-high vacuum (often spelled ultrahigh in American English, UHV) is the vacuum regime characterised by pressures lower than about 1 × 10 −6 pascals (1.0 × 10 −8 mbar; 7.5 × 10 −9 Torr). UHV conditions are created by pumping the gas out of a UHV chamber.

  3. Shooting target - Wikipedia

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    Most targets used in shooting sports today are abstract figures of which origins often are not given much thought, but given the military and hunting origins that started most shooting disciplines it is not hard to understand that many of the targets at some point originally resembled either human opponents in a battle or animals in a hunting situation.

  4. YouTube toughens policy on gun videos and youth; critics say ...

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    One video featured an elementary school-age girl wielding a handgun; another showed a shooter using a .50 caliber gun to fire on a dummy head filled with lifelike blood and brains.

  5. Accurizing - Wikipedia

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    However, if the ammunition was tuned to the gun, the clear winner was the Python, which averaged just 43 millimetres (1.69 in) with its favored brand of ammunition. The Python was also by far the pickiest, however, turning in the largest groups at 154 and 102 millimetres (6.08 and 4.0 in) averages with its least favorite brands, for a standard ...

  6. United States Practical Shooting Association - Wikipedia

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    In the open division one can have any number of many optical sights and bipods, and there is no size restriction on muzzle brakes. 1-4 or 1-6 scopes are popular in the Open division. Some use reticles with marked hold overs, while others prefer reticles with a simple dot and crosshair and choose to dial long range adjustments on the turrets ...

  7. UHV - Wikipedia

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    UHV may refer to: Ultra-high vacuum , the vacuum regime characterised by pressures lower than about 10 −7 pascal Ultra-high voltage , a classification of overhead power line with an operating voltage of higher than 800 kV

  8. Action (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Whilst the basic principle can be traced back to other self-ejecting rifles, such as the single-shot Harrington & Richardson Model 755 rifle, this action has since been popularized in the United Kingdom by Southern Gun Company, who manufacture with "Manually Actuated Release System" (MARS) action rifles/pistol-caliber carbines in .223, .308 ...

  9. Coast Artillery fire control system - Wikipedia

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    The red "1" on the diagram at right indicates this first stage of the fire control process. A series of observed positions (blue circles) establishes the likely track of the target. Using a plotting board , the set forward point is determined, based upon the target's observed course and speed and an assumption about when the gun is to be fired.