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Jan 1, 1498
The addition of groves or rifling in the barrel to stabilize the projectile.
Rifling is the grooves in a barrel of a rifle or gun. It is used to spin the bullet and stabilize it to keep it from rotating lateral in the air. A bullet needs to be stabilized, because it allows the bullet to shoot flatter and it helps retain the energy. If the bullet tumbles it loses a lot of its energy because its not aerodynamic. It would be fighting the wind. -
Break Action Rifle
A break action rifle is probably the most reliable rifle on the market they have the simplest action of all the rifles. All they moving parts they have is a hammer and a trigger. To fire a round you break down the rifle,put a bullet in the breech, close it, pull the hammer back, and squeeze the trigger. -
Invention Of Pin Fire Cartridges
A Pin Fire Cartridge allowed you to not have to put the gun powder down the barrel and then ram the projectile down the barrel either a musket ball or mini ball of the time. They already had powder and the projectile in the cartridge. All you had to do was stick the bullet in the breach put a percussion cap, pull the hammer back and let it slam. Samuel Samuel Joannes Pauly was a Swiss gun maker who patented it in 1835. The first it was used on a pretty high scale in America was 1940. -
First Bolt Action
A bolt action rifle you have to manually lift the bolt and pull back to extract the shell after firing. When you pull it all the way back the magazine or internal clip pushes the next round up and when you push the bolt back it catches the back of the cartridge and pushes up the feeding ramp into the breech ready to be fired. -
Rim Fire Cartridge
Rim Fire Cartridges use a firing pin to strike the rim of the cartridge to ignite the powder. They are very cheap to produce, because they do not have percussion caps. They have very little recoil. They have disadvantages like they cant be re loaded and they aren't as reliable as center fired rifles. -
First Repeating Rifle
Known as a lever gun the repeating rifle was first created by Winchester but other believe that Henry repeating arms created the first repeating rifle. .Repeating rifles are a manually operated gun you push the lever down to discharge the spent round and pull the lever up to load a new round in the breech. -
First Gas Operated Rifle
A gas operated Rifle is a rifle that blows the bolt back and chamber another round by itself. The pressure created by the cartridge discharging is enough to blow the bolt back and chamber another round. To keep it simple i am going to name the most prominent types. Direct impingement and piston system. A piston system gas pushes a rod to move the bolt carrier group back and is cleaner. In a direct impingement it uses just the gas to push it back, and they fowl up the gun faster.
