Captain Crew had been killed, and a guerilla was rifling his pockets, when another wounded colored soldier summoned strength enough to get to his feet and despatch the guerilla with his bayonet.
A number of Hungarians collected about a number of bodies at Cambria which had been washed up, and began rifling the trunks.
Some years ago a very unnecessary patent was taken out for rifling an arrow by putting on the feathers spirally, over-doing what was already sufficient.
In seven minutes of continuous firing the barrel had grown so large that the rifling failed to grip the bullet at all.
A rifled barrel was not required, because, since the missile was not to be hurled far, it was not necessary to set it spinning by means of rifling so as to hold it head-on to the wind.
Only light guns were used for this purpose, especially those whose rifling was worn down by long service, because long range was not necessary for tank fighting.
It was full of Chinese rifling the lockers and searching in bed-places or wherever anything could be stowed away.
My introduction to you, through our mutual friend Whateley, induces me to make the enquiry whether your apparatus or mode of riflingenables you to give such a twist, and if so, whether you could and would make me a barrel.
There is said to be only one firm in the United States that can produce the rifling tools, jigs, gauges and other exact and intricate machinery needed to make a rifle.
The riflingof many was ruined by rust, due to lack of cleaning after use.
The ships were not hesitating now to wear out the rifling of their guns.
In a twinkling, then, Dan Jaggers knelt beside his uncle, rifling the other man's pockets until he had brought to light both their shares in the evil-doing of the night.
The rifling of Jaggers's pockets brought to light all of Mr. Farnum's money except the five dollars Dan had spent in Dunhaven the night before.
No propellant is required to carry them to the target and no rifling is necessary to keep them head-on in the direction of flight.
Its rifling has a uniform twist of one in forty-five.
The grooves of the rifling are generally shallow, and they widen towards the breech, so that the leaden coat of the projectile is compressed gradually and with the least friction.
This would be a dangerous pressure in an old-fashioned shoulder arm; while a bullet made only of lead would strip on striking the rifling and pass right through the barrel of the gun without taking any rotary motion whatever.
To communicate this very high rotary movement to the bullet in the instant of time during which it is passing through the barrel, the rifling of the gun has to exert an enormous torsion on the bullet.
The larger the calibre, the easier it is to clean and the less chance is there of spoiling the rifling by jamming the rod in it.
Rust in the rifling may entirely spoil accuracy, as, if you work it off, the bore gets enlarged and the bullets "strip.
For the same reason, it is as well to have the rifling "reamed off" at the mouth of the muzzle, so that the edge of it is protected.
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
With the grooving or rifling of the barrel, the accuracy was greatly improved and the arm adapted to conical bullets.
Excessive charges in regulation arms, besides being extremely dangerous, are likely to cause the bullet to strip the rifling and lead the barrel.
And it is the second function of the copper band to catch this rifling and by it be turned as the shell proceeds along the barrel.
The soft copper conforms to the shape of the rifling and so itself becomes in a sense a screw engaging with the rifling.
English makers have experimented somewhat on the rifling of barrels, but with no results which compare with those shown by the improved Kentucky.
General Jacob says, very justly, of this gun: "The mode of rifling is the very worst possible.
In the rifling of cannon, there seems to be no reason why the same rules should not hold good as in small arms.
We may see, then, that, in theory at least, there is no way of rifling so secure as that in which the walls of the grooves are parts of radii of the bore.
Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
In other words, when I say it has similar rifling characteristics--the widths of the lands and the grooves is taken into account the rifling characteristics.
Now the testimony yesterday as I recall it was that it was fired either from Exhibit 139 or from a rifle with similar, or from a weapon with similar rifling characteristics?
The only thing I can testify to, is they could have, on the basis of the rifling characteristics--they could have been.
And while the contour matched, this is not as significant, because any two guns manufactured with the same rifling cutter, as perhaps a production weapon like this would be, would have the same contour characteristics.
Special now that will have similar rifling characteristics.
Their rifling impressions of course would be identical, but the individual marks there would be entirely different.
The only system is in the rifling or in the cutting of the grooves, and in this case of rifle barrels, even the cutters wear down as the barrels are made, eventually of course having to be discarded or re-sharpened.
Now, apart from specially handmade or equivalent weapons, how many other types of weapons have you encountered which have these rifling characteristics?
This change led quickly to the rifling of heavy ordnance as well.
