Firearms

Firearms

Guns such as pistols or rifles that use explosives to shoot bullets. These are usually small arms as compared to big weapon systems such as artillery cannons or missiles.

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A custom cartridge for which ammunition and firearms are not mass produced. These cartridges are often created in order to optimize a certain performance characteristic (such as the power, size or ...

wildcat

Military; Firearms

windage

Military; Firearms

The side-to-side adjustment of a sight, used to change the horizontal component of the aiming point. See also Kentucky windage.

x-ring

Military; Firearms

A circle in the middle of a shooting target bullseye used to determine winners in event of a tie.

yaw

Military; Firearms

The heading of a bullet, used in external ballistics that refers to how the Magnus effect causes bullets to move out of a straight line based on their spin.