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    The rook rifle, originally called the rook and rabbit rifle, is an obsolete English single-shot small calibre rifle intended for shooting small game,...
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  • The .220 Rook, also known as the .220 Long Centrefire, is an obsolete British centerfire rifle cartridge. The .220 Rook is a rimmed cartridge originally...
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    6 mm) to .700 in (17.8 mm). Traditional British double rifle calibres include the Rook rifle, Black Powder Express and rimmed Nitro Express families...
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    The .300 Rook, also known as the .295 Rook (by Holland & Holland only), is an obsolete centerfire rifle cartridge. The .300 Rook is a rimmed cartridge...
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    The .297/250 Rook is an obsolete centerfire rifle cartridge developed by Holland & Holland. The .297/250 Rook is a bottlenecked rimmed cartridge originally...
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    The .360 No. 5 Rook is an obsolete centerfire rifle cartridge. The .360 No. 5 Rook is a straight rimmed cartridge originally designed for hunting small...
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    The rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds. It is found in the Palearctic, its range extending from...
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    The .255 Jeffery Rook, also known as the .255 Jeffery Rook Rifle, is an obsolete small bore firearm cartridge. The .255 Jeffery Rook is a rimmed centerfire...
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    .380 Long (category Rook rifle cartridges)
    the .380 Rook rifle, is an obsolete centerfire rifle cartridge. The .380 Long is a straight rimmed cartridge originally designed for use in rook rifles...
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    Loudenboomer .22 PPC .22 Remington Jet .22 Spitfire .22 WCF .220 Russian .220 Rook .220 Swift .221 Remington Fireball .22 Nosler .22-250 Remington .222 Remington...
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    .297/230 Morris (category Rook rifle cartridges)
    Rook cartridge by blowing out the neck of the .297/230 Morris Long cartridge to .250 in (6.4 mm). List of rifle cartridges 5 mm rifle cartridges Rook...
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    Manor in Essex where the dead man was found in the grounds, with a small rook rifle by his side. They interview the widow and can find nothing wrong. They...
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    rifles, the express rifle Small bore, higher velocity rifles, the long range express rifle Miniature, short range rifles, or Rook rifle Since then, express...
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  • death date of his son Nicholas Fleming at ianfleming.org Peter Fleming's rook rifle – a correspondence Archived 18 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine Peter...
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  • between the Luttrells. Shortly afterwards, Luttrell wounds his wife with a rook rifle, saying he mistook her for a rabbit. Mrs Luttrell recovers, and the incident...
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  • .300 Sherwood (category Rook rifle cartridges)
    .300 Rook. As expected, the first rifles chambered for it were made by Westley Richards both in a miniature Martini actioned single-shot rifle and the...
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    British rook & rabbit rifle, The Crowood Press Ltd, Marlborough, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86126-880-8. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rook shooting. Rook Shooting...
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    .22 Hornet .25 ACP .220 Rook 5 mm caliber .17 HMR .17 HM2 Cadet rifle List of rimfire cartridges Table of handgun and rifle cartridges SAAMI/ANZI. "American...
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  • Magnum, rifle cartridge .300 Remington Short Action Ultra Magnum, rifle cartridge .300 Rook, obsolete rifle cartridge .300 Sherwood, obsolete rifle cartridge...
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    a .255 Jeffery Rook rook rifle, a scoped .256 Mannlicher, a .400 Jeffery Nitro Express double rifle, a .600 Nitro Express double rifle, a 12 bore ball...
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  • his famous revolvers. "Tranter was certainly in the very forefront of rook rifle development and production." Tranter was a substantial property owner...
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  • (which Rook refers to as "Prometheus fire"), which scientists had extracted from the xenomorphs and combined with human DNA to "perfect" humans. Rook insists...
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  • picture and shows it to them. It depicts the woman shooting a man with a rook rifle and then burying him. Jim and the narrator are too shocked to sleep. In...
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    .22 caliber (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    cartridges. Cartridges in this caliber include the very widely used .22 Long Rifle and .223 Remington/5.56×45mm NATO. .22 inch is also a popular air gun pellet...
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  • he catches sight of her standing alone, calmly cleaning her husband's rook-rifle. A few days later Thresk resolves to write to Stella to ask if she will...
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  • attacking it: so if a rook attacks an orphan, the orphan now has the movement powers of the rook, but those are lost if the enemy rook moves away. Orphans...
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  • 297/250 Rook introduced before 1880. .275 H&H Magnum introduced in 1912, produced in belted and rimmed versions. .300 Rook also known as the .295 Rook. .300...
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  • and brass cartridges. Rifled barrels also started to be developed. Poachers guns of this era included folding break action rook rifles or .410 shotguns...
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    be on different colour squares, and the King has to start between the 2 Rooks. The opponent's pieces mirror it. Invented by Bobby Fischer (1996). Transcendental...
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  • from a rival gang, the Red Snakes, Rook tried to take on the Snakes alone but was beaten and left for dead. Rook runs away from home as a result later...
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