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rifle
A rifle is a long-barrelled firearm designed for accurate shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus on accuracy, rifles are typically designed to be held with both hands and braced firmly against the shooter's shoulder via a buttstock for stability during shooting. Rifles are used extensively in warfare, self defense, law enforcement, crime (most notably assassinations), hunting, and shooting sports.
The term was originally rifled gun, with the verb rifle referring to the early modern machining process of creating groovings with cutting tools. By the 20th century, the weapon had become so common that the modern noun rifle is now often used for any long-shaped handheld ranged weapon designed for well-aimed discharge activated by a trigger (e.g., personnel halting and stimulation response rifle, which is actually a laser dazzler).
Like all typical firearms, a rifle's projectile (bullet) is propelled by the contained deflagration of a combustible propellant compound (originally black powder, later cordite, and now nitrocellulose), although other propulsive means such as compressed air are used in air rifles, which are popular for vermin control, small game hunting, competitive target shooting and casual sport shooting (plinking).
The distinct feature that separates a rifle from the earlier smoothbore long guns (e.g., arquebuses, muskets) is the rifling within its gun barrel. The raised areas of a barrel's rifling are called lands, which make contact with and exert torque on the projectile as it moves down the bore, imparting a spin around its longitudinal axis. When the projectile leaves the barrel, this spin persists and lends gyroscopic stability to the projectile due to conservation of angular momentum, preventing yawing and tumbling in flight. This allows the use of more elongated and aerodynamically efficient bullets (as opposed to the spherical balls used in smoothbore muskets) and thus improves range and accuracy.
LIKE NEW ,PRISTINE CONDTION WITH SIMMONS 4 BY 32 SCOPE(8 POINT) SIGHTED IN WITH LOW ROUND COUNT - TEN RD. MAGAZINE WITH ORIGINAL MANUAL. $320.00 MUST DO BILL OF SALE WITH CURRENT I.D. 480-747-2397..
Lee Armory Romanian AKMS rifle 1966 Cugir factory matching numbers kit
>30 rounds put through it for headspace, function testing & sight zero
>passed all headspace & quality control testing
>The FCG & action is really is responsive, smooth
>iron sights are battle zeroed at 200 yards on 4" steel...
medium/heavy barrell, 10 rd. magazine ,synthetic stock, factory sights,everything works great,like new. great reviews , will take a red dot, no manual or box. $160.00 firm, must do bill of sale. 480-747-2397 - -must do bill of sale with current i .d.
I posted about this a few years ago. On and off, I've kinda been doing my own thing, but doing it all by myself with a few friends is a lot of work, but I would really like to spread the load and have bigger groups to shoot with, just so we can do more stuff.
One of the events we do is "rifle...
LMT Defender 2000 MRP CQB16 5.56x45 mm
MRP Monolithic Rail Platform - Picatinny on all four sides
16" Chrome Lined DI Barrel 1:7
Two-Stage Trigger
LMT Sopmod Stock
Ergo Grip
LMT Full-Auto BCG
LMT Fixed Sights
One 30 rd mag
Used, very few rounds, excellent condition
No trades please.
Custom made single point cut rifle barrels. Full machine shop.
Full service, quick turn around.
FFL. Prescott AZ. 928 710 7353.
Most chamber reamers on hand.
Colt
Selling Springfield Armory M1 Garand military rifle from WWII
Caliber: .30-06
Serial number manufacture date is September 1944.
Comes with Custom Boyd's wooden stock set
Selling for $1,400.00
Must have valid & current AZ ID, CCW preferred, sign a bill of sale.
Located in Peoria, AZ