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  2. Caliber conversion device - Wikipedia

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    Rimfire cartridges, with their low cost, noise, and recoil, are ideal for use in a supplemental chamber, except for the fact that the firearm in question is almost certainly a centerfire design. This means that supplemental chambers that use a rimfire cartridge must also provide a special offset firing pin.

  3. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A small number of rimfire and centerfire firearms of older design should not be test-fired with the chamber empty, as this can lead to weakening or breakage of the firing pin and increased wear to other components in those firearms. In the instance of a rimfire weapon of primitive design, dry firing can also cause deformation of the chamber edge.

  4. Firing pin - Wikipedia

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    Fired rimfire and centerfire casings, showing the impression left by the firing pin. Note the rectangular impression left by the firing pin on the rimfire cartridge. The typical firing pin is a thin, simple rod with a hardened, rounded tip that strikes and crushes the primer. The rounded end ensures the primer is indented rather than pierced ...

  5. Rimfire ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of centerfire and rimfire ignition Fired rimfire (left) and centerfire cartridges. A rimfire firing pin produces a notch at the edge of the case; a centerfire pin produces a depression in the center of the primer. Rimfire ammunition is so named because the firing pin strikes and crushes the base's rim to ignite the primer. The rim of ...

  6. Thompson/Center Contender - Wikipedia

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    The Contender frame has two firing pins, and a selector on the exposed hammer, to allow the shooter to choose between rimfire or centerfire firing pins, or to select a safety position from which neither firing pin can strike a primer. The initial baseline design of the Contender had no central safe position on the hammer, having only centerfire ...

  7. Glossary of firearms terms - Wikipedia

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    The extractor and firing pin are often integral parts of the bolt. Bore rope: A tool used to clean the barrel of a gun. Boresight: Crude adjustments made to an optical firearm sight, or iron sights, to align the firearm barrel and sights. This method is usually used to pre-align the sights, which makes zeroing (zero drop at XX distance) much ...

  8. Centerfire ammunition - Wikipedia

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    A fired pistol case as indicated by the dimple from a firing pin and a shotgun (right) primer against an inch and mm scale. All modern shotgun shells (excluding specialized .22 caliber rimfire "snake loads" or birdshot cartridges) are centerfire. They use a large, specific shotgun primer that is based on the Boxer system, in that the primer ...

  9. Trigger (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Firearms use triggers to initiate the firing of a cartridge seated within the gun barrel chamber.This is accomplished by actuating a striking device through a combination of mainspring (which stores elastic energy), a trap mechanism that can hold the spring under tension, an intermediate mechanism to transmit the kinetic energy from the spring releasing, and a firing pin to eventually strike ...