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Rotating bolt is a method of locking the breech (or rear barrel) of a firearm closed for firing. Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse developed the first rotating bolt firearm, the "Dreyse needle gun", in 1836. The Dreyse locked using the bolt handle rather than lugs on the bolt head like the Mauser M 98 or M16. The first rotating bolt rifle with two lugs on the bolt head was the Lebel Model 1886 rifle. The concept has been implemented on most firearms chambered for high-powered cartridges since the 20th century.
Rotatingbolt is a method of locking the breech (or rear barrel) of a firearm closed for firing. Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse developed the first rotating...
right-handed). Most bolt-action firearms use a rotatingbolt design, where the handle must first be rotated upward to unlock the bolt from the receiver...
bolt-action firearms do not require the operator to rotate the cocking handle to cycle the action. Some straight-pull designs may use a rotatingbolt...
mechanism. The tilting bolt has lost favor in contemporary firearm design of rifle caliber to locking systems such as the rotatingbolt due to reasons such...
the rear of the bolt causing the bolt to rotate and unlock. A mechanism on the left side of the bolt prevents the bolt from rotating freely as the slide...
many features of its design, such as general shape, stock style, gas-rotatingbolt operation (itself copied from the Lewis gun) and sheet metal and plastic...
powerful handgun in the world for a time. It used a unique long recoil rotatingbolt action which ejected spent cartridges straight to the rear, and the...
locked into battery by means of a rotatingbolt which features two heavy steel locking lugs. The bolt head is rotated by a control cam riding in a helical...
Magnum semi-automatic rifle produced by Sturm, Ruger & Co. It uses a rotating-bolt short-stroke gas-piston. It was introduced in 2000 and discontinued...
9×19mm Parabellum. It is a gas-operated firearm featuring a closed, rotatingbolt. These design features, rare in submachine guns, were chosen to enhance...
weapon features a fully-automatic rotatingbolt system modified from the Type 56 assault rifle instead of the tilting bolt system of the SKS. Overall, the...
features a gas-operated, rotatingbolt (internal piston) system instead of short-stroke pushrod gas system. This Stoner bolt and carrier piston operating...
the rotatingbolt. After the short travel, the lower part of the accelerator arm, held by the receiver upper part, is already hinged in the bolt carrier...
shoulder allowing the bolt carrier to continue rearward under the momentum imparted by the initial recoil stage. The rotatingbolt, with eight locking lugs...
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