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...ally [[break open]] designs. Unlike double barrelled shotguns and double rifles, where single selective or double triggers are used to allow rapid firing o ...when chambered in rimmed cartridges. Rimfire rounds, .22 Hornet, [[.30-30 Winchester]], 9.3 x 72R, and 8 x 57JR are all common choices. Gauges tend to be large

...43 Winchester]] <li>[[270 Winchester]] <li>[[30-06 Springfield]] <li>[[308 Winchester]] |manufacturer= [[Winchester Western Canada Ltd.]] (formerly [[Cooey]])

...sh; after Cooey's takeover by Olin-Mathieson, when it became a division of Winchester-Western (Canada) Ltd. &mdash; do have serial numbers. [[category:rifles]]

|manufacturer= H. W. Cooey Machine & Arms Company<br>Winchester Western Canada Ltd. [[category:rifles]]

...901|Winchester 1887]] lever-action shotguns and Colt Lightning pump-action rifles are also legal. Both original and reproduction guns are equally acceptable. ... to 1899. Some CAS matches also offer side events for single-shot "buffalo rifles", [[derringers]], etc. Replica firearms are available from companies such a

...witch barrel rifles and some rifle owners reported ΔL problems with those rifles. These problems can also occur with other European made rifle brands. *[[.223 Winchester S.S.M.]] 0.08

...on was to make a larger gun. The largest bore guns in common use (and bore rifles with the advent of breech loading and rifling in the late 1800s) included t === Nitro Express rifles ===

==Work with rifles== ... the old .33 Winchester, was introduced commercially in 1959 as the [[.338 Winchester Magnum]]. The .338-378 Weatherby Magnum is barely distinguishable from anot

The term '''''express''''' was first applied to hunting rifles and ammunition beginning in the middle 1800s, to indicate a rifle or ammuni ...ess'' has shifted in modern usage, and refers to high velocity, large bore rifles and ammunition, typically used for hunting large or dangerous game at close

...s the [[U.S. Repeating Arms Company]] ([[Winchester Repeating Arms Company|Winchester]]) and [[Browning Arms Company]] (an American gun company founded by [[Joh ===Rifles===

...century. They were replaced for military use by the faster [[bolt action]] rifles, which could reload from a [[magazine]]. As well as artillery, falling-block rifles are still manufactured and used for hunting and [[target shooting]] and [[F

The [[Ross Rifle Company|Ross Rifle Co.]] made sporting rifles from early in its production, most notably chambered in [[.280 Ross]], intr ...nd eventually landed his first contract in 1903 for 12,000 ''Mark I Ross'' rifles.

===Rifles=== | Marlin [[Model 1894]]/ 2.9 (6.5)||[[.30-30 Winchester]]/11 (170) || 617 (2025) || 2.0 (31) ||align=right| '''17''' ||align=right

* an unlimited number of [[hunting weapons]] (both rifles and shotguns) ... loads and with civilian denominations (such as [[.223 Remington]], [[.308 Winchester]]). [[Semi-automatic rifle|Semi-automatic firearms]] can be bought by licen

...ls, or only shotguns, or only (pre-1964) Model '94 Winchester Lever-Action Rifles; for instance). * Design and build complete rifles by fitting stock barrels to stock receivers; fabricating or purchasing addi

...ada) Ltd. At that point, the manufacture of [[Winchester]]s (primarily for Winchester Canada) began and continued through the mid-1970s (''see also: [[Iver Johns ... When the company was sold to the Olin-Mathieson and became a division of Winchester-Western (Canada) Ltd., new production lines were equipped with the most up-

...ridge(s) and the cocking of the hammer(s) were separate operations. While rifles evolved away quickly away from these early breech loading designs, the doub ...receded them, had exposed hammers. Most famous of these is probably the [[Winchester Model 1897]]. Like the double barrelled shotguns, soon the early pump shot

...idge cases, which are often difficult to obtain for older foreign military rifles. Military ammunition is often tightly sealed, to make it resistant to wate ...ze resizing, although this is controversial. [[Semi-automatic rifle]]s and rifles with [[SAAMI]] minimum chamber dimensions often require a special ''small b

...|grain]]s (1.6 g) of [[gunpowder]] to a 216 grain (14 g) bullet. 900 Henry rifles were manufactured between summer and [[October 1862]]; by [[1864]], product ...ially adopted for service by the army, many union soldiers purchased Henry rifles with their own funds. The brass framed carbines could fire at a rate of 28

... bullets, especially those intended for use at high velocity in centerfire rifles, are ''jacketed'', i.e. a portion of the lead-cored bullet is wrapped in a ...States military, for example, uses hollow-point bullets in some [[sniper]] rifles for their exceptional accuracy at long ranges, and believes that the hollow