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Bolt action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by directly manipulating the turn-bolt via a bolt handle, most commonly placed on the right-hand side of the firearm (as most users are right-handed). The majority of bolt-action firearms are rifles, but there are also some variants of shotguns and handguns that are bolt-action.
Bolt-action rifle United Kingdom: 3,427,761 [70] 3,500,000 1,257 Pattern 1913 Enfield [70] more than 1,000,000 Pattern 1914 Enfield [71] more than 2,000,000 M1917 Enfield [72] ~28,000 Remington Model 30 [73] Mannlicher M1895: Bolt-action rifle Austria-Hungary: 2,500,000 [74] 3,500,000 [27] Berdan M1870: Single-shot bolt-action rifle Russian ...
This is an extensive list of antique guns made before the year 1900 and including the first functioning firearms ever invented. The list is not comprehensive; create an entry for listings having none; multiple names are acceptable as cross-references, so that redirecting hyperlinks can be established for them.
James Paris Lee (9 August 1831 – 24 February 1904) was a British Canadian inventor and arms designer. He is best known for having invented the Lee Model 1879 rifle, which is the first bolt-action detachable box magazine-fed rifle.
The Welrod is a British bolt-action, magazine-fed pistol with an integrated silencer that was devised for covert operations during the Second World War by Major Hugh Reeves at the Inter-Services Research Bureau (later Station IX). Station IX is based in Welwyn, and gave the Welrod its unusual name. It is derived from "Wel" from "Welwyn" (a ...
1. Henry Repeating Arms. Going by the motto "Made in America, or Not Made at All," gun enthusiasts can rest assured that Henry Repeating Arms is deeply rooted in local tradition.
As of 2017 the Rifle Shooter magazine [6] listed its successor Blaser R8 as one of the three most popular straight pull bolt-action together with Merkel Helix [7] and Browning Maral. [8] Some other notable modern straight pull bolt-action rifles are made by Chapuis, [9] Heym, [10] Lynx, [11] Rößler, [12] Strasser, [13] and Steel Action. [14]
Bolt-action rifles of the United States (83 P) I. Bolt-action rifles of India (5 P) Bolt-action rifles of Iran (2 P) M. Mauser rifles (3 C, 31 P) P.