A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel)...

or "sliding block". At the time of development of the first modern breechloaders in the mid-19th century, gunpowder propellant charges for artillery...

the first breechloader firing a metallic cartridge in regular British service, the Martini was designed from the outset as a breechloader and was both...

converted to breechloaders, using .450 Boxer centerfire cartridges. From 1872 to 1880, these revolvers (conversions and new breechloaders) were adopted...

Werndl-Holub M1867 rifles to arm the military. The rifle was a lifting block breechloader chambered for the 14×33mm Wänzel rimfire cartridge. The Austrians converted...

are also described by the type of action employed (e.g. muzzleloader, breechloader, lever, bolt, pump, revolver, semi-automatic, fully automatic, etc.)...

even a breechloader that only achieved the same rate of fire as a muzzle-loading musket would still be superior to the musket, as the breechloader could...

The Merrill carbine was a breechloader firearm designed by Baltimore, Maryland gunsmith and inventor James H. Merrill. It was one of several firearms either...

firearm. Its history is closely associated with the development of the breechloader, which would eventually replace all muzzle-loading firearms. The cartridge...

centerfire bolt-action breechloader was patented by Béatus Beringer. In 1852 another metallic centerfire bolt-action breechloader was patented by Joseph...

breech open. The hinged block used in the earliest metallic-cartridge breechloaders designed for general military issue began as conversions of muzzle-loading...

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and his interests as a machine builder. For the navy, the Armstrong breechloaders came in 40-pounder, 70-pounder and 110-pounder caliber. In combat and...

Armstrong developed an alternative horizontal sliding wedge version of his breechloader, for 40-pounder and 64-pounder guns, in an attempt to address the limitations...

rifles to be named "Trapdoor Springfields". The conversion from musket to breechloader was done by milling open the barrel's breech section and inserting a...

containing the propellant bags, usually a breech-loading weapon; see Breechloader. Tank ammunition was developed in WWI as tanks first appeared on the...

by the Austro-Hungarian army on 28 July 1867. It replaced the Wänzl breechloader conversion of the muzzle-loading Lorenz rifle. Josef Werndl (1831–1889)...

which time they were displaced by modern metallic cartridges and the breechloader. Paper cartridges varied in their construction based on the specifications...

carbines argue that their arms are more accurate than most breechloaders, while the breechloader advocates argue that the superior rate of fire makes up...

low cost as a self-defense weapon. The earliest metallic-cartridge breechloaders designed for general military issue began as conversions of muzzle-loading...

Wars. Osprey. ISBN 9780850453362. Bastable, Marshall J. (1992). "From Breechloaders to Monster Guns: Sir William Armstrong and the Invention of Modern Artillery...

later-invented breech-loading designs provided a higher rate of fire, but early breechloaders lacked an effective way of sealing the escaping gases that leaked from...

troops, and they were equipped with modern weaponry, including Mauser breechloader rifles, Krupp artillery pieces, and a large quantity of ammunition. The...

mechanism. Like its predecessor the 3.2-inch gun M1897, it was a rifled breechloader. During the second half of 1890s the so-called "quick-firing revolution"...

The lock of a firearm is the mechanism used to initiate firing. It is generally used as a historical term, referring to such mechanisms used in muzzle-loading...

first of a few 28 cm Breechloader Krupp guns used by the Dutch navy. The 'A' stands for Achterlader, the Dutch word for Breechloader. From the mid 1860s...

fire; Springfield breechloaders "in the long run, had a higher rate of fire, which was sustainable throughout a battle." The breechloader design patent for...

However, tests in the early 1860s showed that even the 15 cm rifled breechloader was almost useless against the standard 114 mm ship armor of the time...

conversion. In 1869 the Bavarian army started to replace it with the Werder breechloader, but due to budgetary constrains by 1870 most Bavarian troops still used...

who, from 1857 onwards, had constructed various experimental forms of breechloader, and the rifle became the French service weapon in 1866. In the following...