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BLBarrel
BLBill of Lading
BLBaseline
BLBlack
BLBlue
BLBilateral
BLBlock
BLBritish Library (London, England)
BLBasel-Landschaft (canton postcode, Switzerland)
BLBasel Land (Basel Country; Suisse Half Canton)
BLBlank
BLBoys' Life (Boy Scouts of America magazine)
BLBlind (flange)
BLBoys' Love (anime)
BLBloco (Portuguese: block; postal usage)
BLBolivia
BLBlend
BLBlessed (title of a beatified person)
BLBlowing (METAR descriptor)
BLBaltic (linguistics)
BLBottom Line
BLBorderlands (gaming)
BLBacklash
BLBlake Lively (actress)
BLBlack Love
BLBin Laden
BLBolton (postcode, United Kingdom)
BLBelluno (Veneto, Italy)
BLBlanking
BLBig Lots (retail store sales quantity)
BLBale
BLBruce Lee
BLBoundary Layer
BLBlower
BLBody Language
BLBlack Lagoon (Anime)
BLBoston Legal (US TV series)
BLBad Luck (chat)
BLBacklit
BLBachelor of Letters (Bachelor of Arts - Japan)
BLBuddy List
BLBuilding Line (construction)
BLBacklog
BLBig Leaf (plant physiology)
BLBush League
BLBud Light (beer)
BLBritish Leyland
BLBell Labs (Bell Telephone Laboratories)
BLBusiness Logic
BLBlockland (gaming)
BLBelly Laugh
BLBurkitt's Lymphoma
BLBart's and The London (School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK)
BLBeam Line
BLBe Late
BLBilinear
BLBurkitt Lymphoma
BLBut Last (Hyper Logo command)
BLBlast Load
BLBioluminescence
BLBlack Lung (Social Security)
BLBody Lift (automotive)
BLBasal Lamina (biology)
BLBoylover (used by pedophiles)
BLBiosafety Level
BLBreech Loading
BLBudget Line
BLBreaking Load (engineering)
BLBit Line (computer memory)
BLBlood Lust (gaming)
BLBarrister-at-Law (UK)
BLBonney Lake (Washington)
BLBlack Lotus (gaming, Magic The Gathering)
BLBattle Lab
BLBikini-Line
BLBachelor of Law
BLBorderline Lepromatous (leprosy)
BLBig Log
BLBasic Load (ammunition)
BLBolaffi (philatelic dealers)
BLBiocontainment Level (US DoD)
BLBishops Lydeard (UK railway station)
BLBats Left (baseball)
BLBeastlord (gaming, Everquest)
BLBattery Limit
BLBachelier en Loisirs (Bachelor of Leisure Studies)
BLBuried Layer
BLBurnlist (social networking game)
BLBoys Latin School of Maryland (Baltimore)
BLBeauty Leopard (Geely sports car model)
BLBereichsleiter/In (German: Director General)
BLBreadth-Length
BLBronzen Leeuw (Dutch)
BLButt Line
BLButtock Line
BLBend Loss
BLBinder Library
BLBattle-Lemarie (wavelet families)
BLBroken Loop
BLBlock Formatter
BLBombline
BLBeautiful Lineswoman (Seinfeld TV show)
BLBeta Lamda
BLBridge Latch
BLBattle Laboratories
BLBell Logger
BLBibliography of the Lepidoptera
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NOTE: During the Franco-Prussian war, some units of the Bayerische Konigliche Armee (Bavarian Royal Army) were armed with a metallic cartridge breech loading rifle, the Bayerisches-Ruckladungs-Gewehr M/69 and Bayerisches-Carabiner M/69 designed by Johann Werder.
Rifle cartridges of the German military from Koniggratz to Peking: Part I
With the ability of donors to spew small online donations repeatedly, week after week, the Internet is like a machine gun in fundraising while the traditional emphasis on big donors is like a breech loading rifle--cumbersome and hard to reload.
Obama has mouse power
On the other hand, ammunition feeding is more complex than with a traditional mortar, as it implies breech loading (as opposed to muzzle drop-loading), and almost by definition the design implies the mobilisation of a dedicated vehicle.
120 mm pop-&-scoot mortars: while the idea of mounting mortars on vehicles is not new, the current trend is to develop systems that increase their efficiency by providing a higher degree of automation both in terms of loading and laying. Munitions, for their part are not trailing far behind development and increased effectiveness, with some today being guide
In Tyne and Wear they include the floating platform for a six inch breech loading gun at South Shields, a pillar box in Newcastle, plus telephone kiosks and lamp-posts.
The waters of time
His father before him was also a noted gunsmith and WWG grew up and worked in an era of exciting developments in gun making; the most important of which was the perfection of breech loading, an area in which he specialised.
W W Greener. The Gun and its Development (Ninth Edition)
The large bronze breech loading gun, cast with the Portuguese coat of arms, is among 160 lots going under the hammer and could fetch up to pounds 12,000 at Sotheby's on December 19.
Auction's pounds 250,000 bounty
Among these were the adoption of steam propulsion on warships and the developments in naval ordnance, such as shell guns, improvements in interior ballistics, rifling, and the transition to breech loading. In addition, while mine warfare, undersea warfare, and ironclad warships were not new in the 1860s, the Civil War became a proving ground for these new ships and weapons.
Raiders & Blockaders: The American Civil War Afloat & USS New Ironsides in the Civil War
Synonymous with the early hunting days of Africa, the breech loading .45/70 Kodiak is equipped with outside hammers and case hardened color sidelocks, a double leaf rear sight, 24-inch barrels and a two-piece European walnut stock with a cheek piece.
Kodiak Mark IV double express rifle
After this during further interrogation, we managed to recover one Chinese made pistol and DBBL (Double Barrel Breech Loading) gun, 18 cartridges of different types.
Punjab police arrests militant, recovers arms and ammunition from hideout
Hull in the "Man at Arms Monograph Series" titled The Burnside Breech Loading Carbines.
General Burnside's little carbine: this odd breechloader saw widespread use during our Civil War
Breech loading helped to reduce reloading time over the older muzzleloaders, but they did little to improve accuracy.
Disassembly and reassembly of the little sharps rifle: with this 80-percent-scale replica, Charles Daly has brought the old buffalo gun down to deer-hunter size
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