The rifling is scorched about a third of the way up the barrel. From Wordnik.com. [.270 vs.] Reference
The advantage claimed for cut rifling is that it creates no stresses within the barrel because nothing is bashed, pounded, or stretched. From Wordnik.com. [Roll Out the Barrel] Reference
The rifling is not cut “Sharp”, there’s rounded edges … to my eyes anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Some Random Thoughts on the Election] Reference
I still don’t know if “cut” rifling is better than “button”, or if a hammer-forged barrel is best. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Important Part of a Rifle] Reference
They look different from standard Fosters, too-the "rifling" extends all the way up to the hollow point. From Wordnik.com. [Full-Bore Ahead] Reference
They look different from standard Fosters, too — the "rifling" extends all the way up to the hollow point. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bourjaily Reviews Three Full-Bore Slugs for Hunting Deer with a Shotgun (Plus How to Shoot Them)] Reference
Until his hand found something more interesting to do, such as rifling through the preoccupied dwarf's pockets. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of Summer Flame]
The Baltimore Oriole also is fond of rifling these webs. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
And, as far as the rifling was concerned, this was true. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference
The rifling consists of narrow grooves and bands, 45 of each. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
Anna exploded into motion, rifling through her small apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Cellphone Girl (Part I)] Reference
Government stores, shortened and rebored to get rid of the rifling. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Comstock -- the same callow youth who had been charged with rifling. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills] Reference
Alvin post-office was stealing ordinary letters and rifling registers. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
Across from Lorrie, she looks graceful, rifling her hand through her dark hair. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Mothers] Reference
One of them in my mouth, another rifling my purse where I keep half moons of Oxycontin. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Cannot be your Facebook Friend] Reference
Cameron befriends them by sticking hymn sheets in their hands while rifling their pockets. From Wordnik.com. [What is Cameronism? Part one] Reference
By engaging the lands of the spiral rifling in the bore, the band causes rotation of the projectile. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
In the rifling of cannon, there seems to be no reason why the same rules should not hold good as in small arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
He began rifling through his wallet looking for enough cash to pay his tab when he found an unfortunate surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Peace and Love from the Middle of Nowhere] Reference
'Foyer Breton' who, when dying of hunger and thirst, says, as he looks at the bullfinches rifling the fruit-trees. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A number of Hungarians collected about a number of bodies at Cambria which had been washed up and began rifling the trunks. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
His new acquaintances showed themselves expert practitioners in the breaking open of trunks and the rifling of treasure-boxes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Rotating bands for muzzle-loading cannon were expansion rings, and the powder blast expanded the ring into the rifling grooves. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
"But as we have no means of rifling our guns, there will be no necessity of putting the cavity in the rear end of our bullets.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
At the Reformation there was a carrying off of relics, a rifling of tombs, and a temporary disturbance of the Confessor's bones. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
After keeping him in a state of suspense for six hours and rifling his letters and pockets of a large sum of money, they left him. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
Though Benjamin Robins was probably the first to give sound reasons, the fact that rifling was helpful had been known a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
And then Mike is rifling them and they shoot into the earth on either side, like knives thrown at the spinning woman in the circus. From Wordnik.com. [Hepatitis RR or Bust] Reference
A second and a third Bushman fell dead, but the others made no attempt to retreat, and appeared to be rifling the body in frantic haste. From Wordnik.com. [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference
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