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  2. .25 Stevens - Wikipedia

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    To differentiate from the related .25 Stevens Short it is sometimes also referred to as .25 Stevens Long. [ 2 ] Developed by J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company and Peters Cartridge Company , [ 1 ] it was developed between 1898 and 1900; catalogs suggest it was introduced in 1898, but most sources agree on 1900. [ 1 ]

  3. .25-25 Stevens - Wikipedia

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    The .25-25 Stevens was an American centerfire rifle cartridge. [1] Designed by Capt. W. L. Carpenter, 9th U.S. Infantry, [2] in 1895, [1] the .25-25 Stevens was the company's first straight-cased cartridge. [1] It was used in Stevens' single shot Model 44, as well as the Model 44 + 1 ⁄ 2 rifles, which first went on sale in 1903. [1]

  4. Stevens Boys Rifles - Wikipedia

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    The Stevens Boys Rifles were a series of single-shot takedown rifles produced by Stevens Arms from 1890 until 1943. The rifles used a falling-block action (sometimes called a tilting-block, dropping-block, or drop-block) and were chambered in a variety of rimfire calibers, such as .22 Short , .22 Long Rifle , .25 Rimfire , and .32 Rimfire .

  5. .25 Stevens Short - Wikipedia

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    The .25 Stevens Short was an American rimfire rifle cartridge, introduced in 1902. [1] Developed by J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company, [2] it was intended to be a lower cost, less potent variant of the .25 Stevens, on which it was based. [1] It initially used a 4.5 to 5 gr (0.29 to 0.32 g) black powder charge; this was later replaced by smokeless.

  6. Self-loading rifle - Wikipedia

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    A self-loading rifle or auto-loading rifle is a rifle with an action using a portion of the energy of each cartridge fired to load another cartridge. Self-loading pistols are similar, but intended to be held and fired by a single hand, while rifles are designed to be held with both hands and fired from the shoulder.

  7. Self-loading firearm - Wikipedia

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    A semi-automatic firearm is a self-loading repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to manually actuate the trigger in order to discharge each shot.

  8. Semi-automatic firearm - Wikipedia

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    The Colt AR-15, a type of semi-automatic rifle. A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to ...

  9. List of rimfire cartridges - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of rimfire cartridges (RF), ordered by caliber, small to large. Rimfire ammunition is a type of metallic cartridge whose primer is located within a hollow circumferential rim protruding from the base of its casing .