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break-action small arms. Breech-loading provides the advantage of reduced reloading time because it is far quicker to load the projectile and propellant...

Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848 and ceasing...

artillery pieces are termed rifled muzzle loader (RML). Like most early firearms, the first rifles were muzzle-loading, although this involved a lot of complication...

adjustment on the hammer. By 1859, there were a number of single-shot breech-loading rifles available to the American military and public. These included the...

favor of breech-loading designs in the late 1860s. In the later part of the 19th century, rifles were generally single-shot, breech-loading guns, designed...

the single-shot breech-loading Sharps and Burnside rifles to the Spencer and the Henry rifles - two of the world's first repeating rifles - were issued...

of breech-loading rifles became obvious. The rifled muskets used during the war had a rate of fire of 2 or 3 rounds per minute. Breech-loading rifles increased...

breech-loading rifles that was produced from the mid-1860s into the early 20th century by E. Remington and Sons (later Remington Arms). These rifles were...

The Ferguson rifle was one of the first breech-loading rifles to be put into service by the British military. It was designed by Major Patrick Ferguson...

defeat. The Prussians had more modern breech loading rifles that could shoot faster than the Danish muzzle loading rifles. Thus the Prussians had a bigger...

The Kammerlader, or "chamber loader", was the first Norwegian breech-loading rifle, and among the first breech loaders adopted for use by an armed force...

1830s, the armory started manufacturing "Gartung" short rifles, "Phalis" breech-loading rifles, and boarding guns for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial...

musketeer was a precursor to the rifleman. Muskets were replaced by breech loading rifles as the almost universal firearm for modern armies during the period...

seen in Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. While most of the early breech-loading rifles adopted after 1865 used integral metallic cartridges and had hinged...

muskets were made largely obsolete by single-shot breech-loading rifles and bolt-action repeating rifles, such as the M1867 Werndl–Holub, Springfield Model...

M1819 Hall rifle was a single-shot breech-loading rifle (also considered something of a hybrid breech and muzzle-loading design) designed by John Hancock...

"line infantry", although it used rifled muskets from 1853 and breech loading rifles from 1867, and switched from closed lines to extended order during...

limited its range. By the 1870s, the perfection of breech loading magazine rifles led to sniper rifles having "effective accurate" ranges of up to a mile...

automatically loading the next cartridge. These rifles were developed Pre-World War II, and were used throughout World War II. Rifles are firearms designed...

of the new rifles caused the British military to phase out the venerable .75 calibre Brown Bess musket in favour of muzzle-loading rifles in smaller calibres...