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Why is the carrier block in a winchester rifle made of brass?
Brass is a natural choice for accomodating sliding or rotating contact with steel surfaces. This is because oxide grit or metal particles which would cause galling get embedded into the (softer) brass ...
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Why are pump action rifles so uncommon compared to bolt-action rifles?
I found this "answer" on Quora:
Pump rifles are not popular because a pump action excels at quick shots rather than precise ones. Moving the forend to reload throws off the shooting position. This ...
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What are the advantages of the slide in semi-automatic pistol design?
A simple mechanism, rapid ejection of spent cartridge, rapid loading of fresh cartridge and some of the recoil energy is absorbed in driving the slide helping improve accuracy.
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Why are pump action rifles so uncommon compared to bolt-action rifles?
When you hold the long arm (rifle or shotgun), there are three places where the gun is held:
The forearm is held with your off hand,
near the action or on a pistol grip with your strong hand,
and ...
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What are the advantages of the slide in semi-automatic pistol design?
Purely speculation but I would imagine a huge advantage of the slide is that it seals much better than something like a P08, C96, frommer stop or their derivatives. As well as it would be much quicker ...
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Can rifling be etched onto a bullet for spin stabilization when fired from a smoothbore gun?
This is how "rifled slugs" get some spin. Slugs shoot through a smooth bore shotgun barrel and need to give themselves some spin for stability.
It is a poor substitute for a rifled barrel.
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Is this a rifle or a shotgun?
It's neither or both or whatever you want
Evidence for rifle: It's drawn like a bolt action rifle with a small magazine
Evidence for Shotgun: The barrel is large like a shotgun
Evidence for neither: ...
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Could barrel overheating be solved with magnets?
Magnetic fields are used in fusion to contain the hot plasma.
Heat is not magnetic, you can't hold back heat with a magnet. The primary source of heat is the combustion of gunpowder. Nothing about ...
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Is this a rifle or a shotgun?
From 2:04:20 to 2:04:21, there is a large spark (white then turns red) coming out of the barrel, does this tell something? It looks like a shotgun to me.
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How does Milkor MGL Granade Launcher's trigger and cylinder mechanism work
The drum is spring-loaded, so you basically "crank" it by hand after loading rounds;
And then it just rotates by the spring tension after every shot (gas pressure releases the drum lock on top)
Here'...
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