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ricochet

Military; Firearms

A rebound, bounce or skip off a surface, particularly in the case of a projectile.

rifle bedding

Military; Firearms

A process of filling gaps between the action and the stock of a rifle with an epoxy based material.

rifling

Military; Firearms

Helical grooves in the barrel of a gun or firearm, which imparts a spin to a projectile around its long axis. This spin serves to gyroscopically stabilize the projectile, ...

rimfire

Military; Firearms

A type of firearm cartridge that used a firing pin which strikes the base's rim, instead of striking the primer cap at the center of the base of the cartridge to ignite it (as in ...

rolling block

Military; Firearms

A form of firearm action where the sealing of the breech is done with a circular shaped breechblock able to rotate on a pin. The breechblock is locked into place by the hammer, ...