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26 relations: Ball and shot gun, Breech-loading weapon, Bullet, Caliber, Cape Colony, Cartridge (firearms), Dutch Cape Colony, Dutch Republic, Elephant gun, Flintlock, Gauge (firearms), Gunpowder, Kiln, Muzzleloader, Rifle, Rifling, Samuel Baker, Shot (pellet), Shotgun, Smoothbore, William Wellington Greener, 18th century, 19th century, 2 bore, 4 bore, 6 bore.
Ball and shot gun
The ball and shot gun, often also known by the marketing name paradox gun, is a shotgun capable of firing both shot and solid projectiles.
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Breech-loading weapon
A breech-loading gun is a firearm in which the cartridge or shell is inserted or loaded into a chamber integral to the rear portion of a barrel.
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Bullet
A bullet is a kinetic projectile and the component of firearm ammunition that is expelled from the gun barrel during shooting.
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Caliber
In guns, particularly firearms, caliber or calibre is the approximate internal diameter of the gun barrel, or the diameter of the projectile it shoots.
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Cape Colony
The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.
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Cartridge (firearms)
A cartridge is a type of firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shots or slug), a propellant substance (usually either smokeless powder or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for the practical purpose of convenient transportation and handling during shooting.
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Dutch Cape Colony
The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was between 1652 and 1691 a Commandment, and between 1691 and 1795 a Governorate of the Dutch East India Company.
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Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic was a republic that existed from the formal creation of a confederacy in 1581 by several Dutch provinces (which earlier seceded from the Spanish rule) until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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Elephant gun
An elephant gun is a large caliber gun, rifled or smoothbore, originally developed for use by big-game hunters for elephant and other big game.
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Flintlock
Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint striking ignition mechanism.
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Gauge (firearms)
The gauge of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) of the barrel.
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Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.
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Kiln
A kiln (or, originally pronounced "kill", with the "n" silent) is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.
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Muzzleloader
A muzzleloader is any firearm into which the projectile and usually the propellant charge is loaded from the muzzle of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel).
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Rifle
A rifle is a portable long-barrelled firearm designed for precision shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls.
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Rifling
In firearms, rifling is the helical groove pattern that is machined into the internal (bore) surface of a gun's barrel, for the purpose of exerting torque and thus imparting a spin to a projectile around its longitudinal axis during shooting.
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Samuel Baker
Sir Samuel White Baker, KCB, FRS, FRGS (8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist.
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Shot (pellet)
Shot is a collective term for small balls or pellets, often made of lead.
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Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.
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Smoothbore
A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling.
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William Wellington Greener
William Wellington Greener (1834—1921) was an innovative English gunsmith, the founder of the W. W. Greener company.
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18th century
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.
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19th century
The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.
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2 bore
Two bore or 2 bore is a mostly obsolete firearm caliber.
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4 bore
Four bore or 4 bore is an almost obsolete black powder caliber of the 19th century, used for the hunting of large and potentially dangerous game animals.
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6 bore
The 6 bore, also known as the 6 gauge, is an obsolete caliber that was used commonly in 19th-century black-powder firearms.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_bore
