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  2. Browning A-Bolt - Wikipedia

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    The A-Bolt rifle is a bolt-action rifle with a short-lift bolt angle of 60 degrees. It uses a non-rotating bolt sleeve (partial sleeve on first generation A-bolt rifles). When the bolt is unlocked, smoothness is achieved with three guide ribs aligned with three locking lugs, enabling precise movement (only on the second and third generation A ...

  3. Browning X-Bolt - Wikipedia

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    The X-Bolt rifle has many variations, yet most are small differences such as different barrel lengths and caliber. RMEF Special Hunter; RMEF White Gold; Composite 3D Birds Eye Maple Blued / Stainless; Composite Stalker; Eclipse Hunter; Stalker Typhon Suppressor Ready; High Grade Hunter Full Line Dealer; Hunter; Hunter Full Line Dealer; Hunter ...

  4. Browning BAR - Wikipedia

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    [2] [5] The basic version has a walnut stock; the Stalker version has a matte-black finish and a black composite stock. The Mossy Oak version has a composite stock, and the entire rifle is painted in camouflage colors. [2] Depending on variant and cartridge, the barrel is 22, 23 or 24 in (560, 580 or 610 mm).

  5. List of military headstamps - Wikipedia

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    The pre-war headstamp has the 1- or 2-letter code for the brass supplier of the cartridge case at 6 o'clock, the 2-digit year the cartridge case was produced at 12 o'clock, the lot number of the propellant at 9 o'clock, and the 2-digit year the finished cartridge was assembled at 3 o'clock. The brass suppliers or cartridge manufacturers would ...

  6. Receiver (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A disassembled Mauser action showing a partially disassembled receiver and bolt. In firearms terminology and law, the firearm frame or receiver is the part of a firearm which integrates other components by providing housing for internal action components such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, firing pin and extractor, and has threaded interfaces for externally attaching ("receiving ...

  7. Polymer-cased ammunition - Wikipedia

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    The first references to the possible use of polymers in the manufacture of casings come from the early 1950s. One of the earliest is the patent filed by Jack W. Roske in 1950 [1] and the idea was to use a metal cup joined with a polymer shell "that will be converted to gas during the firing phase to assist in propelling the projectile and thereby permit reduction in the use of the propelling ...

  8. Century International Arms - Wikipedia

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    He then sought sources of surplus rifles that he could sell for a profit. [ 1 ] With his brother-in-law, Manny Weigensberg, Sucher made contacts in foreign countries for the importation of military surplus rifles and handguns and by the 1970s, Century became the single largest importer of firearms in the United States and Canada.

  9. M1918 Browning automatic rifle - Wikipedia

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    The Browning automatic rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. . The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as a replacement for the ...