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Old August 25, 2005, 12:07 AM   #2
MLKeith
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I assume the style you refer to as the old style is the one with an exposed hammer on the side of the barrel (typically referred to as a caplock). Nipple sticks up and hammer hits primer on nipple fire goes down turns corner goes into side of barrel and ignites powder. Then someone designed an "inline" which has a breechplug in the back of the barrel with a nipple in the breechplug sticking straight back. A sliding bolt device was invented that you pulled back and it locked back then when you pulled the trigger it flew forward and hit the primer; fire goes straight ahead into the back of the barrel and ingnites the powder. (since it does not turn a corner it was thought that the ignition would be more positive and reduce lock time from trigger pull to ignition). To make the inline more asthetic they have redesigned the sliding bolt to be a real bolt like a centerfire rifle but instead of the bolt going forward like the first inline rifles it has a fat "firing pin" which goes forward and hits the primer. There are a lot of other types of "inline" rifles being made now the most popular seems to be the break action which look like a single shot shotgun but they have a breechplug in the back where a shotgun shell would go if it were a shotgun and the firing pin hits a 209 shotgun primer which fits in the nipple which is part of the breechplug. Now if all that makes sense you have your explanation. If not I wasted a lot of time typing this.
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