Blackstone entered, his back ramrod straight, as if he were still in the military. |
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All the brass furniture including the buttplate, sideplate, ramrod thimbles, trigger guard, and patchbox were hand polished bright. |
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The next step is ensuring an unloaded firearm, which is accomplished with the ramrod as explained earlier. |
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Contemporary drill manuals dictated twenty separate steps to load and fire the Bess, including five just to replace the ramrod. |
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Another plus on the side of safety is the length of the ramrod, which matches the distance from base of breech to muzzle. |
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At the end of the second round he had opened up a 18-11 advantage mainly thanks to his ramrod right which he used with unerring accuracy. |
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I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod. |
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This produces enough tension to keep the ramrod from wiggling around and cancels the tendency to come loose from the barrel groove under recoil. |
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Her mother spat fire whenever she caught Danielle sitting in any position other than the normal prim and proper, ramrod stiff spine lady pose. |
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Raven now withdrew a metal ramrod that was set beneath the metal tube, and stared at it. |
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We both rammed the ball down at the same time, throwing the ramrod over our shoulders carelessly. |
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The magazine that was in my hand flew from my hand and up I stood like a ramrod and trampled out into the stairwell. |
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Walking over to the wall, he pulled his body gracefully up and sat down with his back ramrod straight. |
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He walks over to his locker, stiff-legged, his back ramrod straight, and grabs his change of clothes. |
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With his back ramrod straight, he balances a heavy water jug on his head, spilling not a drop, and turns to trudge up the hill. |
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She was sitting ramrod straight in her chair, with perfect posture, of course. |
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He handed over his passport to the ramrod stiff guard in the booth and waited. |
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With his ramrod posture and off-the-cuff New York delivery, Dean did not meet that need. |
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I lay down beside him on my back, stiff as a ramrod, praying he wasn't going to do what he did. |
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Every time he appeared on screen, with his ramrod straight posture and gaze of steel, my friends and I would burst out laughing. |
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Two brown-finish thimbles under the barrel secure the wooden ramrod with its brass tip threaded for jag, worm, screw or other implement. |
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He glanced at the girl next to him, holding her head so regally and high, her back ramrod straight. |
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This lever is hollow to house the shot barrel ramrod, which generally lands on the ground. |
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The pair comes in its original case with label in lid and lots of accessories including powder flask, bullet mold, ramrod and key. |
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Two brown-finish thimbles under the barrel secure the wooden ramrod. |
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Stark's regiment loaded the powder and wad into the muzzle of their gun, and with a ramrod forced a musketball into the burning hot barrel of the weapon. |
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She glared and him from one step down, her back ramrod straight. |
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Sitting ramrod straight in an armchair in the sitting room of the London hotel where she is staying, she replies that she had forgotten she had written that. |
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The pierced side plate, trigger guard, and ramrod finial have highly detailed cast military trophy motifs and are gold plated. |
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Trigger guard made of dark polished horn with brass inlay, three iron barrel fixings and ramrod tube, wooden ramrod with brass top. |
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A brown-suited instructor with ramrod posture and an air of self-important officialdom points at a blackboard covered with indecipherable scrawls. |
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Mandela's grandson and heir Mandla, sombre in a long black coat and black tie, stood ramrod straight with eyes fixed on the middle distance. |
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The octagon barrels have an under rib that supports a button-tip swivel steel ramrod. |
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In a replacement, felt-lined wooden case with bullet mould, hammer, and ramrod. |
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The feeding hopper consists of a fabricated body, ram and ramrod, with a pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder attached to provide the ram pressure. |
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To look for the necessary ramrod, consult the list with diameters, lengths and the proper codes. |
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The conical ramrod with horn tip gives an elegant detail in the sober contrast of one of the most beautiful replicas on the market. |
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Aluminium ramrod for pistol completed with handle, jag and muzzle protector. |
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Jillie tossed her hair over her shoulder as she walked to her car, her back ramrod straight, feeling his eyes boring into her with every step she took. |
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Side mounted wooden ramrod with brass tip. |
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The buttcap, trigger guard and ramrod finials are brass. |
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The smiles will be wooden, the backs ramrod straight. |
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After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod. |
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Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman. |
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Standing next to Rachel on the tug's flying bridge, on the deck above the wheelhouse, he kept his face to the wind and his back ramrod straight, like a wooden figurehead. |
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That new project manager is just the one to ramrod this through to completion. |
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It has a 31-inch, heavy octagon barrel, and although a breechloader, it has an onboard ramrod. |
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He sat at a table in the morning room of Fletcher House, his back as straight as a rifleman's ramrod, his head held with the alertness of a man 30 years his junior. |
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Thanks to Lulea's dry climate, there's no ice on the ground and roads are so ramrod straight and Swedishly well-maintained that braking to a halt in front of the reindeer isn't the hazard I'd imagined. |
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The ramrod is a replacement and there is a metal piece on the left side behind the action that fills a hollow in the grip, but this piece also seems to be a replacement. |
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Wooden ramrod with conical setting head of black horn. |
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Instead, here we are spending hours debating a piece of legislation that we know the Liberals will ramrod through, because that is how they operate. |
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The executioner prepared the weapon for rapid use by lightly filing the lower part of the ramrod so that it would not get stuck in his clothes, thus allowing him to draw quickly in case of a surprise attack. |
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Original wooden ramrod with bone tip and iron threaded tube. |
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