breech bolt

breech bolt

[′brēch ‚bōlt]
(ordnance)
A mechanism which opens and closes the breech in a carbine, machine gun, rifle, and the like; designed to push a cartridge into the chamber by sliding action.
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264 Winchester Magnum with a safety lock that will not stay in the breech bolt when under pressure from the striker spring when assembled.
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Drop the hammer, remove the rear sight, re-cock the hammer and slide the breech bolt from the receiver.
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As the employee turned the handle on the breech bolt, it was expelled into his leg by the gas.
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As the employee turned the handle on the breech bolt holding the round, it was forced out at high speed by the trapped gas.
Weapons firm fined for safety breach
When the breech bolt is moved, the gun will jam with the bolt to the rear.
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When a Benelli is fired, the mass of the breech bolt remains stationary while a carefully calibrated spring pushes against the rotating bolt head, forcing it into tighter engagement with its matching cuts in the barrel extension.
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When the action-bar sleeve impacts against the front of the receiver, 5 ft-lbs of the 10 ft-lbs stored in the moving mass are put back into the equation and an instant later the breech bolt, still moving rearward, impacts against the rear section of the receiver, putting back the other 5 ft-lbs, thus satisfying Newton's Law.
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Depress the spring-loaded, small breech bolt sleeve lock and rotate the breech bolt sleeve counterclockwise (looking from the rear of the bolt).
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Upon inspection, he determined that a GAU-8 Breech bolt firing pin had failed causing every seventh round not to fire.
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If you are dealing with a semi-auto or lever gun where you cannot easily remove the breech bolt to look through the bore, you can use a collimator to get the bore and crosshair intersection aligned as closely as you are able.
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autoloading) pistols use the rearward force generated by firing a cartridge to operate a breech bolt or slide that is driven back by the firing impulse to extract and eject the fired case; it then travels forward under spring tension to strip a fresh cartridge from a magazine into the chamber of the barrel.
Handgun actions. (Gun Talk)
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