breechloading

The guns known as breechloading rifles are from three inches to fourteen inches in calibre, that is, across the bore, and in length from twelve to over sixty feet.

Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing

The arrival of a given technology—whether breechloading rifles, tanks or computers—does not itself miraculously produce progressive change or induce soldiers to behave differently.

Where They Got Their Grit Alexander Rose 2011

The Union Army fought the Civil War with single-shot muzzle-loaders, despite the fact that practical breechloading repeaters were available for almost all of that period.

Substandard Issue: Why can't the military give good guns to our troops? 2006

In - lines are set up with scope sights, flater trajectories, and other features that make them much closer to hunting with a modern bolt gun or breechloading single shot than a traditonal muzzleloader.

The Gun Nut Survey: A highly biased, unofficial poll of 2,000 readers on all things shooting 2006

For his timely and needful present I gave him two doti, and amused him with an exhibition of the wonderful mechanism of the Winchester rifle, and my breechloading revolvers.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Muzzle-loading black-powder firearms were more common far longer than metallic-cartridge, breechloading guns.

Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

He armed them with the Sharps breechloading rifle that owed its design to the Ferguson rifle of 1776.

ONE SHOT-ONE KILL CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS 1990

The offensive power of the ship consists of seven breechloading rifled guns of 27 centimeters (10.63 in.), and weighing 24 tons each, six breechloading rifled guns of 14 centimeters (5.51 in.), and quick-firing and machine guns of the Hotchkiss systems.

Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various

Reserves, and her armament was composed of six-inch breechloading rifles, not of the rapid-fire class.

A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Russell Doubleday 1910

I picked up an Evans rifle -- we had two on board -- filled the magazine, handed it to Niâbon, told her to lay it down in the little cabin, out of sight, with the other arms -- three Snider carbines, my breechloading shotgun, and three of those rotten pin-fire French service revolvers -- the Lefaucheux.

The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 Louis Becke 1884