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    The Ballard Rifle was a single shot, breechloading longarm used during the American Civil War by Kentucky volunteers. The Ballard Rifle was designed and...
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    .38-55 Winchester (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    38-55 WCF and the .38-55 Ballard, is a centerfire rifle cartridge. It was based on an earlier cartridge called the .38-50 Ballard Everlasting that was introduced...
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    The .32-40 Ballard / 8.1x54mmR, also known as .32-40 Winchester is an American rifle cartridge. Introduced in 1884, the .32-40 Winchester was developed...
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    during the American Civil War in the Henry repeating rifle, the Spencer repeating rifle, the Ballard Rifle, and the Frank Wesson carbine. While rimfire cartridges...
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  • Marlin Firearms (redirect from Marlin rifle)
    departure from the standard "Ballard," or cut rifling. One purpose of Microgroove rifling was to increase the speed of producing rifle barrels. Microgroove rifling...
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  • Musket Model 1842 (Austrian Empire – rifle – 1842) Baker rifle (UK – muzzleloading rifle – 1800) Ballard Rifle (USA – rifle – 1862) Beaumont–Adams revolver...
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  • their way onto the battlefield. Though the muzzleloader percussion cap rifled musket was the most numerous weapon, being standard issue for the Union...
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    Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is...
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    Child of God (redirect from Lester Ballard)
    proactive, creating dead female partners by shooting them with his rifle. Ballard also makes no distinction between adult women and young girls, at one...
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    lever-action repeating rifle introduced in 1894 by the Marlin Firearms Company of North Haven, Connecticut. At its introduction the rifle came with a 24-inch...
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    Single-shot (redirect from Trapdoor rifle)
    standard British Army rifle of the later Victorian era, and the Martini was also a popular action for civilian rifles. Charles H. Ballard's self-cocking tilting-block...
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  • that of the Martini–Henry rifle, the Peabody action (similar to, but not identical with, that of the Martini–Henry), the Ballard action, and the Madsen–Rasmussen...
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    .56-56 Spencer (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    56-56 Spencer (14x22mmRF) was an American black powder rifle cartridge. Designed for the Spencer rifle and carbine, patented 6 March 1860, it was employed...
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    List of rifle cartridges, by primer type, calibre and name. .17 PMC/Aguila .17 Hornady Mach 2 .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire .17 Winchester Super Magnum ...
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    The Winchester Model 1885 is a single-shot rifle with a falling-block action. It was principally designed by John Browning. Two models were produced,...
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    Ballard treated two Marines suffering from heat exhaustion, and when returning to his platoon from the casualty evacuation helicopter pad, his rifle company...
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  • .32 caliber (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    Ballard, an American rifle cartridge (1884) .32 Winchester Special, a rimmed cartridge created for use in the Winchester Model 94 lever-action rifle (1901)...
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    .444 Marlin (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    The .444 Marlin (10.9×57mmR) is a rifle cartridge designed in 1964 by Marlin Firearms and Remington Arms. It was designed to fill the gap left when the...
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    smoothbore muzzle-loaders. Only a few muzzleloading weapons, such as mortars, rifle grenades, some rocket launchers, such as the Panzerfaust 3 and RPG-7, and...
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  • the Henry repeating rifle (cartridge introduced in 1860), Spencer repeating rifle, Maynard carbine, Frank Wesson rifles, and Ballard rifles. The .44 caliber...
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    underwater assault rifle (APS stands for Avtomat Podvodny Spetsialnyy (Автомат Подводный Специальный) or "Special Underwater Assault Rifle") is an underwater...
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    vol. III, pp. 778–780; Ballard, p. 332. Ballard, p. 339. Ballard, p. 333. Kennedy, p. 171; Foote, p. 384; Smith, p. 252. Ballard, pp. 338–339; Bearss,...
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    Двухсредный Специальный - Special Dual-environment Automatic rifle) is a Russian assault rifle specially made for combat divers. It is of a bullpup layout...
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  • List of Winchester Center Fire cartridges (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    List of Winchester Center Fire rifle cartridges. More commonly known as WCF, it is a family of cartridges designed by Winchester Repeating Arms Company...
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    high-powered rifle and scope, and even provided a contingency plan of planting a bomb in the judge's vehicle to the inmate. The inmate gave Ballard a handwritten...
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    bayonet designed to be used with the Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) rifle. The Pattern 1907 bayonet was used by the British and Commonwealth forces...
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    Operation Desert Storm. Urban worked with the Philadelphia-based law firm of Ballard Spahr as a public finance attorney from 1994 to 1997, when he became chief...
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    .22 Extra Long (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    (5.6 mm) American rimfire rifle and handgun cartridge. Introduced in 1880, the .22 Extra Long was used in Remington, Ballard, Wesson, Stevens, and later...
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    amphibious rifle is an early example of such a weapon. First fielded by the Russian special forces in 2000, the folding-stock ASM-DT amphibious rifle is capable...
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    Andy Dalton (redirect from The Red Rifle)
    Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). Nicknamed the "Red Rifle", he played college football for the TCU Horned Frogs, where he became the...
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