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Letter K Firearms Glossary
Usually referred to as a Kentucky Long Rifle or simply Longrifle, the Kentucky Rifle is a flintlock rifle with a long barrel and short, crooked stock. It is widely believed to be a largely unique development of American rifles that was uncommon in European rifles of the same period.
The Kentucky Long Rifleis an early example of a firearm using rifling, (spiral grooves in the bore). This gave the projectile, commonly a round lead ball, a spiraling motion, increasing the stability of the trajectory.
Rifled firearms saw their first major combat usage in the American colonies during the Seven Years war, and later the American Revolution in the eighteenth century.
A horizontal wedge, press-fit through the forend of a vintage gun, through a lump
attached to the underside of the barrel and out the other side of the forend.
To secure the forend in position. Also called a crosspin or a wedge fastener.
The tendency of a bullet to tip in flight and hit a target sideways, leaving a distinctly oblong hole.
This destabilization of the spinning bullet in flight is typically caused by a bullet weight inappropriate
for the rate of twist of the rifled barrel, an out-of-balance bullet or its having nicked an impediment such as a blade of grass, in flight.
The curved, forward end of the bar of a break-open firearm's action, about which the mounted
forend iron revolves downward. This area should be kept lightly greased to avoid galling the bearing surfaces.
A metal surface which contains a pattern of ridges or beads.
German for "short." Seen as part of a cartridge designation. On some German manufactured guns that use .380 ACP, the designated caliber is 9mm Kurtz (9mm Short), which is also the same as the Italian 9mm Corto
13 Other Firearms Definitions You Need To Know
Anything a person can hide behind that will probably stopp a bullet.
A wildcat cartridge that is created by straightening out the sides of an existing case and making a sharper shoulder to maximize powder space.
Frequently the neck length and shoulder position are altered as well. The caliber is NOT changed in the process.
The spotter is a helper who gives the shooter guidance on how to hit a particular target.
In some cases the spotter may just report the location of the bullet impact. In other cases they may judge the speed and direction of
the wind, determine the range, and give the shooter the settings to be used on the sights.
A sub-field of ballistics, is the study of the behavior of a projectile when it hits its target.
A type of cartridge whose bullet diameter is substantially less than the body diameter of the casing.
Damage that is unintended or incidental to the intended outcome.
The act of setting up a telescopic or other sighting system so that the point of impact of a bullet matches the sights at a specified distance.
An established place where firearms and ammunition are stored, repaired, or manufactured.
The term is misused by the media to mean more than one firearm or any quantity of ammunition, as in "they found an arsenal."
The amount of rearward force exerted by the propellant gases on the bolt or breech of a firearm action or breech when a projectile is fired.
The applied force has both magnitude and direction, making it a vector quantity. This is also known as
Bolt Thrust on firearms that are Bolt Action
Not putting your finger on the trigger until your sights are on target, then pulling the trigger smoothly, and following through by realigning the sights before allowing your finger to come off the trigger.
Not really a gun at all. During the U.S. Civil War,
both sides would take tree branches or tree trunks, paint them black, and position them so that they appeared to be rifles or artillery pieces.
By doing so, they could fool the other side into believing that they had more artillery than they really did.
A type of firearm which, utilizing some of the recoil or some of the expanding-gas energy from the firing cartridge,
cycles the action to eject the spent shell, to chamber a fresh one from a magazine, to cock the mainspring and to fire again.
Such a firearm will fire continuously as long as the trigger is held back, until the magazine is empty. A machine gun.
A firearm thus activated, but which shoots only one bullet with each separate pull of the trigger,
while often erroneously referred to as "automatic" is properly termed Semi-Automatic.
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