"rifle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These were not the first expanding bullets, however; hollow point expanding bullets were commonly used for hunting thin skinned game in express rifles as early as the mid-1870s.
- The earliest examples of bullets specifically designed to expand on impact were those fired by express rifles, which were developed in the mid 19th century.
- Arms used to hunt large dangerous game, such as those used in express rifles, may be as large as .80 caliber.
- Bar/Dot or Express sight: Similar to the Straight Eight type, this type of sight is traditional on express rifles and is also found on some handguns.
- The traditional express rifles were break action designs, either single or double barrel designs, and express rifles are still made in this form today.
- "After they have seen what I saw," said Dorf, "they will have more respect for an express rifle."
- A lion coughed and he went into his tent to reappear with an express rifle.
- Leonard fired into one of these herds with an express rifle, for they wanted meat, and a prodigious snorting and bellowing told him that his shot had taken effect.
- This cartridge is used almost exclusively in single shot and double express rifles for hunting in the tropics or hot climate.
- At the same time I stepped from behind my boul-der, drawing one of my revolvers that I might conserve the more precious ammunition of the express rifle.
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