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Later analysis determined this round fired prematurely, causing the gun to jam due to stress on the breech bolt in the unlocked position.
The barrel is bored out and threaded at breech and muzzle to accept a 17-cal. barrel liner.
It uses the Mauser-type claw extractor with controlled round feeding, a coned breech and mechanical ejection.
Today, it is typing and transmitting from the turret of a Bradley, my head next to the breech of the 25 mm cannon.
Yet, the breech plug is easily removed with a socket wrench when the lever is down.
The British reloaded their weapons, filling the breech with powder and using their rods to push in the balls.
Even though the pistol is a locked breech design, it is not a candidate for hot-rodding.
He came out of his roll into a kneeling position and loaded a fresh shot into the breech.
Problems were overcome by innovations such as the brass cartridge case and the device which sealed the breech.
The 155 mm main gun is equipped with a screw type breech and an electrical trigger mechanism.
The gun has a chromium-plated barrel and semiautomatic lifting breech block with integrated 32-round standard primer magazine.
Since powder pressure was greatest toward the breech, this part of the gun tube was thicker than the chase.
Many had off-centre bores, which affected not only accuracy but also greatly weakened their breech ends, rendering them liable to burst.
Women with hypertension, diabetes, previous Cesarean births, fetal malformations, breech presentations and placenta previa were excluded.
A breech delivery can be difficult to assist when a Shih Tzu puppy is confined in the slippery sac.
Another blog provides the example of doctors losing the ability to turn breech births.
A breech birth is the classic example, when time is of the essence to birth the baby's head.
A breech delivery or one with an umbilical cord around the neck is considered a sign of good fortune.
Manufacturing a swamped barrel involves tapering it inward towards the center point and flaring the muzzle and breech ends outward for balance.
In pregnancy it increases risk of miscarriages, breech births, delivery complication, and low birth weight.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A moulding formerly round a cannon, at a little distance from its breech, the cascabel, and another near the muzzle.
First the sabatons were put on, then the jambs, genouillire and cuisses, then the skirt or breech of mail round the waist.
One man turned a handle at the breech, another kept supplying the self-acting cartridge-box.
So that in writing to you I run the risque of making a breech in the commandment.
This is a photograph, photomicrograph, rather, of the breech face marks on two cartridge cases.
He opened it at the breech, put something in, and snapped the breech-block.
He drops the breech hastily to the ground as the face of Carrie peers forth.
In Marshall's opinion the breech between these kinsfolk ought not to be healed.
When the breech of the gun is above the port-sill, hook the garnet and the thwart-ship-tackle to the cascabel, and bowse on both.
He felt of it from end to end, peered down the black depths of the muzzle, fingered the sights, the breech, the stock, and finally the trigger.
Yawning dolefully, then he reached down to the gun-case, took a solid drawn cartridge, and slipped it into the breech of the.
It loads at the breech, and fires with great force and straightness.
The researchers found that the physical examination detected just 70 per cent of the breech positions, where the baby comes out feet first.
Dan Grady chuckled as he blew for the fiftieth time into the breech of his speckless rifle.
The Padre nodded while he bent over the breech of his Winchester.
They wore only leggings, shirts, breech clouts and a blanket.
Here the missile is inserted at the breech, according to Your direction.
It had a sliding breech block carrying the main spring and firing pin.
Finally it is found sticking in the breech of gammer Gurton's man Hodge.
He laid his hand on the breech of the gun that bore Don Diego.
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