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A rifle is a firearm with a stock and a barrel that has a spiral groove or grooves ("rifling") cut into its interior. The rifling produces "lands," areas that make contact with the projectile (usually a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. When the projectile leaves the barrel, the conservation of angular momentum improves its accuracy and range, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves. The word "rifle" originally referred to the grooving, and a rifle was called a "rifled gun."
The origins of rifling are difficult to trace. Archers had long realized that spin produced by the natural curve of feather fletchings gave their arrows greater accuracy. Some of the earliest practical experiments occurred in Europe during the fifteenth century and some early examples used straight grooves. True rifling dates from the mid-15th century, although the precision required for its effective manufacture kept it out of the hands of infantrymen for another three and a half centuries, when it largely replaced the unrifled musket as the primary infantry weapon.
Typically, a bullet is propelled by the contained deflagration of an explosive compound (originally black powder, later cordite, and now nitrocellulose), although other means such as compressed air are used in air rifles, which are popular for vermin control, hunting small game, and casual shooting ("plinking").
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how you know youre in tennessee... a rifle is sitting on your bed.
foralexsake (Alexander Claud) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:07:17 -0000
how you know youre in tennessee... a rifle is sitting on your bed.
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RT @jackgraycnn:Saw Did You Hear About the Morgans?Cute & funny.Lovely @MSteenburgen rocked the cowgirl hat & rifle.Grizzly bear was a diva.
Seanotd (Sean Vessey) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:00:26 -0000
RT @jackgraycnn:Saw Did You Hear About the Morgans?Cute & funny.Lovely @MSteenburgen rocked the cowgirl hat & rifle.Grizzly bear was a diva.
Sorry, rifle. Not shotgun.
dannysgirlsg1 (Pip) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:58:24 -0000
Sorry, rifle. Not shotgun.
@SoleBayCheeseCo and the national rifle association. They probably used it.
Ohblimey (Tim Archer) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:58:05 -0000
@SoleBayCheeseCo and the national rifle association. They probably used it.
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SaraiG (Sarai Graves) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:57:04 -0000
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