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A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore, and is loaded from the muzzle of the barrel rather than the breech. Historically they were developed when rifled barrels were introduced by the 1740ies, which offered higher accuracy than the earlier smoothbores.
RML 2.5-inch mountain gun United Kingdom: 1879 73: 2.9-inch Parrott rifle United States: 1860 76: 3-inch ordnance rifle United States: 1862 76: RML 7-pounder mountain gun United Kingdom: 1873 86: Canon de campagne de 4 rayé France: 1858 96: Wiard rifle United States: 1861 121: Canon de 12 La Hitte France: 1859 140: 70-pounder Whitworth naval ...
A muzzleloader is any firearm in which the user loads the projectile and the propellant charge into the muzzle end of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel). This is distinct from the modern designs of breech-loading firearms, in which user loads the ammunition into the breech end of the barrel .
Springfield Model 1866 breech. The Springfield Model 1866 was the second iteration of the Allin-designed trapdoor breech-loading mechanism. Originally developed as a means of converting rifle muskets to breechloaders, the Allin modification ultimately became the basis for the definitive Springfield Model 1873, the first breech-loading rifle adopted by the United States War Department for ...
The Hawken rifle is a muzzle-loading rifle that was widely used on the prairies and in the Rocky Mountains of the United States during the early frontier days. Developed in the 1820s, it became synonymous with the "plains rifle", the buffalo gun, and a trade rifle for fur trappers, traders, clerks, and hunters.
Knight Rifles is an American manufacturer of modern muzzleloading rifles and shotguns that pioneered the in-line muzzleloader in the mid-1980s. [1] The company was founded in 1985 by Tony Knight, a gunsmith from rural Worthington, Missouri, and is now owned by PI, Inc. [2] Originally, Tony built the guns by hand one at a time in his garage, and as demand increased, their first factory was ...
The design of the rifle The M1867 Russian Krnka (Винтовка Крнка́) was a breech loading conversion of the muzzle-loading Model 1857 Six Line rifle musket designed by Austro-Hungarian arms maker, Sylvester Krnka .
As a muzzleloader, the rifle is not considered a firearm under the Gun Control Act of 1968; [2] and the integrated suppressor is exempt from the US National Firearms Act because it is permanently attached to the rifle. [3] When fired, the rifle has a report of 139.9 decibels. [1] The firearm does not have iron sights, so requires a telescopic ...