Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . , lowers the carrier-block to receive a freshcartridge, securely locks the breech mechaniHni, andleaves the arm ready to fire. The magazine is loaded through an opening in theside (jf the receiver, which opening is closed by acover. It holds nine carlri<lges and one can be])laced in the barrel. The cartridges can be insertedin the magazine either wilh the block open or th( bolt is withdrawn the cartridge at thebottom of the magazine enters the carrier-blocky/v/rf-iialli/. avoiding Hie concussion produced in ma
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . , lowers the carrier-block to receive a freshcartridge, securely locks the breech mechaniHni, andleaves the arm ready to fire. The magazine is loaded through an opening in theside (jf the receiver, which opening is closed by acover. It holds nine carlri<lges and one can be])laced in the barrel. The cartridges can be insertedin the magazine either wilh the block open or th( bolt is withdrawn the cartridge at thebottom of the magazine enters the carrier-blocky/v/rf-iialli/. avoiding Hie concussion produced in manyguns by the sudden .jump of the whole column ofcartridges with a momentum, in some cases, suffi-cient to explode a sensitive ]irinier. All the advan-tages of a single breech-loader are also contained inthis rifle ; it can be used with great rapidity, the car-tridge being inserted in the barrel instead (pf in themagazine, and cartridges specially loaded with patch-ed bullets for target shooting can be used in thUway. The ritle is made for two sizes of cartridges :. the European Governments; but instead of opera-ting the bolt by a cumbersome and ungainly handleprojecting from the side, it is operated by a stnmgami powerful lever, on the under side of tlie making a handsome model, easy of manipula-tion. The bolt comes solidly up to the base of thecartridge, covering it entirely: in this way all dangeris avoided, even though a defective cartridge shouldhappen to lie used. A premature explosion cannotoccur, and the greater the recoil, the more firmly thebolt is held in its place. The operation of the gunis of the simplest kind, and yet the action is thestrongest that can be made. The drawing showsthe ritle with all the operative parts in open forward the lever. A, withdraws the firing-pin, I. ludoeks the bolt, H, and causes it to reoede,carrying with it the extractor, (, which extracts theshell of the cartridge just tired, while the ejectorE, attached to
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