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In place of an open rear sight on the barrel, a bubble level is fitted to help avoid canting the rifle.
The sudden snort of a kudu could cause me to grip my rifle and prepare for the worst, until I remembered that it was not a large carnivore.
Police later found a gas-operated rifle and sheath knife among weapons at his home.
After refinishing the stock and doing a complete action job on this inexpensive rifle, I find it is one of my favorite shooters.
During the sweep, Company A destroyed nearly 3,000 mortar and recoilless rifle rounds and searched dozens of caves and bunkers.
Police say the weapon used in the shootings was likely an assault rifle or a hunting rifle, accurate up to 650 meters.
The gunman took the rifle and together with a possible accomplice was able to get away.
The rifle recoiled as it fired, and the shell exploded about a foot short of the missile.
After inspecting the rifle, the inside of the upper receiver, bolt, and bolt carrier were wiped down with a rag and lubricated.
I'm going after Maggie and I want every man jack here to get his rifle and ride with me.
There were dodgem cars, helter skelters, waltzers, ghost trains, rifle ranges and lots more but two I remember more than most.
The AK47 has the established and well-deserved reputation as perhaps the most reliable battle rifle ever manufactured.
We were relieved not to have had to use our borrowed anti-polar bear rifle, but disappointed not to see any bears, walruses, narwhal or beluga.
Adapters and wads are available for most handgun and rifle calibers, and 12-gauge shotguns.
There seems to be at least one confirmed kill of an enemy plane with such a rifle.
Met by a wall of silence, one soldier battered Ali to the floor with his rifle and tried to beat the information out of him.
Long ago, some unknown gunsmith drilled and tapped a rifle receiver ring to attach a sight base.
This week, police were called after an air rifle pellet was fired at a classroom window while youngsters were having lessons.
Months of suffering at children's hands drove a young householder to fire an air rifle into a street of youngsters, York magistrates heard.
But he stressed that, by their unanimous verdict, the jury had decided he should not have fired the air rifle.
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All hands knew the stream of lead my automatic rifle could throw, and Arthur Deacon knew it.
Richard Travis thrust his rifle barrel through the air hole and aimed carefully.
Thereupon the other four, Harry carrying the air rifle, started off into the woods, jogging along over the solid crust.
Tom continued to carry the air rifle, though plainly the weapon was all for show.
Many a boy thinks that just because a bird is alive and moves it is a proper target for his air rifle or his sling shot.
Sprung from the loins of generations of hunters, the love of a gun was in his blood, and this air rifle was his first love.
The shiny sight of the air rifle glistened against the beady, vicious, triumphant eye, cocked a little sideways.
But there was an air rifle standing in the corner, and I knew I could get it if I needed it.
He levelled his rifle, but could not see the fore-sight, so as to align it with the object.
Slowly Tom rose and went, prodded into amenability by the muzzle of a rifle in the small of his back.
The second askari, his rifle lowered, was staring in vague surmise at his breast, from which protruded a piece of polished wood.
Mr Pringle had just fired his rifle, and was reloading when the assagai struck him.
The other Southron, the one in blue with the autoloading rifle, came out and advanced slowly, his weapon at the ready.
There are signs that the most deadly arm of the future will be the automatic rifle.
On a rack just beside the door was an automatic rifle, ready for instant use.
MacFarland left the screen and swung the automatic rifle to bear on the beast.
Margaret followed him, and behind her came Wada, who carried my .22 Winchester automatic rifle.
She thought that she had to avenge her husband, and had fixed the bayonet to her rifle.
One was the determination of the288 velocity of a bullet fired from a rifle into a Robins ballistic pendulum.
Rearmament of our Cavalry with a 6-millimetre carbine, ballistically equal in all respects to the rifle of the Infantry.
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