Now the meat was out of them, the short twist rifling showed clearly.

Was the purpose to make the rifling of the safe look like a mob job?

"I've tried several approaches to getting their rounds to take the rifling.

She mightn't know about our being able to identify the gun used from the marks on the rifling."

When fired, the bullet would accompany the rifling and spin.

The rifling, combined with the barrel's long length, made these weapons very accurate for their time.

It has a hollow base which expands to grip the rifling.

In fact, the rifling did not have standard lands and grooves, but was there nonetheless.

The Swede had discovered the rifling of his box.

Internal differences include a new buffer system and a change to polygonal rifling.

Another issue that has an effect on the barrel's hold on the bullet is the rifling.

Some were exploded, but the bullets showed no rifling, indicating that they had not been fired.

Of primary importance now, too, is changing the rifling of the murder weapon.

He bent forward to continue the rifling of the big safe, but his shrewd glance showed him that the work was now complete.

'We came back early,' she said with a shrug before going back to her rifling.

The manufacturer, turning his bloated gaze in that direction, could not see the actual rifling.

However, rifled barrels required some means of engaging the shell with the rifling.

Not compromising the barrel's thickness in the area of each groove as with traditional rifling.

They removed their prisoner to the ground and then commenced a systematic rifling of the vessel.

The metal jacket on each showed the characteristic marks made by the rifling of the machine gun's barrel.

A number of advantages are claimed by the supporters of polygonal rifling.

Once the bullet is engaged in the rifling, with a good seal and coaxial fit, it must stay that way.

When a bullet or artillery shell leaves a gun, it spins like a top because of the spiral rifling.

Polygonal rifling may leave striations that are difficult to match to a particular barrel.

This was so that the shorter ogive of the new bullet would not have to jump too far to reach the rifling.

One of them turned, saw him coming, and brought his rifle up.

If he had a rifle, maybe I could trade up.

And then he was such a dead shot with a rifle!

He was about to learn how to use a real rifle!

Every one of us here's got a rifle he knows how to use.

My rifle was on the ground right next to him.

Without a word he took the rifle from me and went.

Still, the two rifles had been the best of the lot.

Then tell them to go away, for we have our rifles.

She held a rifle by one hand at her side.

The running man saw him and tried to bring up his rifle.

But we only got the rifles three weeks ago, maybe four.

Before he said a word, his own rifle was out.

Before she could say anything, he held the rifle out to her.

If you must go out alone always take your rifle.

He took his rifle and went on, making no sound.

And if he came to look, I had my rifle.

Using the rifle to help, I got to my feet.

I went to the house to get my rifle instead.

But to become a good shot with a rifle takes a long time.

Then I took the big rifle out of the case.

He got to his feet and went to the wall to take down the rifle.

He also had a rifle now, taken from a man who would never need one again.

But a man with a rifle could hold his place for a long time.

Nothing seemed real, least of all this moment, or the words that rifled through the air.

"You think Bob rifled through your things and took it?"

He studied the subject of rifling between 1840 and 1852.

She had expected them to be angry, rifling questions at her right and left.

I just wanted you to know he was rifling through your things."

By God, the voice on the phone said, he just noticed that his room had been rifled.

Only one thing, though: none of these places were rifled.

It now seems that her files were rifled as well.

She looked as though she'd been caught rifling the till.

The weapons of the dead men had been taken, their pockets rifled.

Tom needed only a glance to see that the hold had been rifled.

I'll remember the guy in a business suit rifling through a dead woman's purse.

I dropped the order and quickly rifled through the rest of the suitcase.

They rifled the pockets of the men lying in the street.

Clothes were on the bed, and the drawers looked rifled through.

"The boat must have been rifled for anything anyone could use on land.

He flipped open the pages and began rifling through them.

She found one in a side seam, and rifled it.

Stuff he had rifled from the trust funds and was holding.

They rifled the bag only to find that not one of the shirts was actually blue.

We rifled through them, knowing it was probably wasted effort.

He considered rifling through the pages, but discarded the thought.

The soldiers folded the clothes they had rifled through and put them away.