A brusque sergeant had taken Wiener's place, and I continued to feed ammunition into the spandau, operated by someone considerably less expert than my friend.

The AK-47's 30-round magazines have a pronounced curve that allows them to smoothly feed ammunition into the chamber.

The system was to use the XM301 lightweight gun, and fed linked ammunition from a 500 round storage drum.

Another reason Goldman is so eager to resolve this dispute is that it may have inadvertently fed ammunition to Mr. Tarrin's critics.

Ahead was a flight of spiral stairs, with at its centre the hoists that fed ammunition to the guns in the fort.

He found the box of shells and, fumbling in the dark, feeling the pressure of Karl's presence, he began to feed fresh ammunition into the clip.

Beneath the guns were extensive magazines, which fed ammunition up to the firing parties by conveyor belt-like lifts.

Of his complicity in feeding anti-Marsh ammunition to the reporter, Cope said, "It is a business I do not like, but it is absolutely necessary."

These variants included a carbine, an assault rifle, and various light machine guns feeding linked ammunition from the left or right.

By modern standards, the M1's feeding system is archaic, relying on clips to feed ammunition, and is the principal source of criticism of the rifle.