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Jan 7, 1500
the first rifle
The arquebus (sometimes spelled harquebus, harkbus] or hackbut; from Dutch haakbus, meaning "hook gun") is an early muzzle-loaded firearmused in the 15th to 17th centuries. -
old rifles
The long rifle developed on the American frontier in the period beginning in the 1740s, and continued its development technically and artistically until it passed out of fashion in the mid to late 19th century. -
eaily rifles
In the 1750s it was common to see frontiersmen carrying a new and distinctive style of rifle that was used with great skill to provide tens of thousands of deer hides for the British leather industry. This gun could shoot up to 250 yards. -
good rifle
Made in the 1780. Usually, the musket is thought to be the weapon that replaced the arquebus, and was in turn replaced by the rifle. But the term “musket” has applied to a range of different weapons, starting with a long, heavy weapon with a matchlock or wheel lock and loose powder fired with the gun barrel resting on a stand, and ending with a lighter weapon with rifling and percussion caps, affixed with a bayonet. -
rifleing
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 , imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. When the projectile leaves the barrel, the conservation of angular momentum improves accuracy and range, -
battlefield
Then, as now, rifles had a stock, either fixed or folding, to be braced against the shoulder when firing. Early military rifles, such as the Baker rifle were shorter than the day's muskets, and usually the weapon of a marksman. The invention of the minie balls in the 1840s solved the slow loading problem, and in 1850 and 1860 rifles quickly replaced muskets on the battlefield. -
loding
This was during the period of the, when reloading each barrel was a slow, tedious process. The form of firearm didn't evolve until the 1860s, and was gradually perfected over time. -
double rifles
The earliest double rifles employed two external hammers to "cock" the weapon, to ready it for firing, but later development brought about hammerless designs to the double rifle. (Of London) most notably perfected the hammerless design in 1880. -
muskets
In 1881, there were rifles, and there were muskets. Muskets were smooth bore weapons, firing round balls or buck and ball ammunition. Rifles were typically similar weapons, using the same type of flintlock or caplock firing mechanisms that muskets used. A rifle differed from a musket by the fact that its barrel was rifled, which meant that it had lands and grooves cut into the interior wall of the barrel which would cause the ammunition to spin as it left the barrel. -
bayonet rifle
In 1890 rifle was almost 2 m (6 ft) in length with a fixed bayonet. -
rang
By 1910 rifles could shout up to about 300 yards. -
michine guns
The first service precursor of the assault rifle was the Russian Fedorov Avtomat issued for the first time in 1915 and chambered for the Japanese 6.5x50mm Arisaka rifle cartridge; the Fedoroy Avtomat, though a service rifle, was only used in small numbers. The Fedorov Avtomat also cannot be considered a true assault rifle in the modern sense as it did not fire an intermediate cartridge. -
war
From 1937 to 1941and World War II had significant impacts on the design and use of the rifle. -
Assault Weapons
For the term as used in the 1994 US Assault Weapons Ban, see Federal Assault Weapons BanThe M16 was first adopted in 1964 by the United States Air Force (USAF). It fires the 5.56x45mm NATO round. -
hunting &airsoft
Most air rifle use metallic projectiles as ammunition. Air rifle that only use plastic projectiles are further classified as air soft guns.
modern hunting rifle.
