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The Winchester Model 54 is a bolt-action rifle manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The 54 was the first successful production run civilian centerfire bolt action for Winchester. [1] Using a Mauser 98 [2]-type action, the Model 54 was produced until 1936 when, with some modifications, it was reintroduced [3] as the Winchester ...
The French Army adopted its first bolt-action rifle, the Chassepot rifle, in 1866 and followed with the metallic cartridge bolt-action Gras rifle in 1874. European armies continued to develop bolt-action rifles through the latter half of the 19th century, first adopting tubular magazines as on the Kropatschek rifle and the Lebel rifle.
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.
It is a bolt action hunting rifle with a fixed magazine with hinged floorplate produced in a number of centrefire calibers in three variants, the normal, the full-length stock Stutzen ("short") and the carbine. Weight: Length: 44.5 inches (40.5 for Stutzen and carbine variants) Barrel Length: 24 inches (20 inches for Stutzen and carbine.)
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It was a single-shot bolt-action rifle chambered in the .22 or .25 rimfire cartridge. Different versions of this rifle were made in Toronto until 1929. The single-shot .22 version of the rifle had a reputation for accuracy and affordability, and won a Certificate of Honour at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. [ 2 ]
The operating mechanism of the CZ 550 series is based on the Mauser M 98 controlled-feed bolt action system.The original Mauser M 98 is a simple, strong, safe, and well-thought-out design that inspired other military and hunting/sporting rifle designs that became available during the 20th century.
The Type 44 cavalry rifle (四四式騎銃, Yonyon-shiki kijū/Yonjūyon-shiki kijū) is a Japanese bolt-action rifle. This rifle is also often referred to as a Type 44 carbine . The Type 44 is sometimes confused with the Type 38 carbine , since both were based on the Type 38 service rifle. [ 4 ]