smoothbore weapon

As such, many smoothbore weapons were still in use and production even at the end of the war.

A smoothbore weapon is one which has a barrel without rifling.

They included seventeen 32-pounders, six 8-inch smoothbore weapons, and two 10-inch howitzers.

Smoothbore weapons that were designed for hunting birds were called "fowlers."

New York also allows muzzleloaders to hunt deer with a smoothbore weapon; rifling is no longer required.

The smoothbore weapon chambered 40mm rounds and could deliver them with accuracy at one hundred fifty yards.

It is a smoothbore weapon that uses the same fin-stabilized bombs as normal 60 mm infantry mortars.

It was the first smoothbore weapon designed for tanks and heralded the change in main armament from rifled cannons.

Subsequent models in the series continued to be referred to as rifled muskets, even though they had not been produced as smoothbore weapons originally.

Originally the term referred only to muskets that had been produced as a smoothbore weapon and later had their barrels rifled.

It is actually a smoothbore weapon, like many modern tank guns, and not a true rifle but this can help accelerate projectiles and increase ballistic effectiveness.

Sharpshooters were equipped in the same manner as infantry, with the standard rifle or rifle-musket; some were even armed for a time with smoothbore weapons.

The use of a smoothbore weapon would have allowed Challenger 2 to use NATO standard ammunition developed in Germany and the US.

Model 1840 and 1842 muskets were produced as smoothbore weapons, but many had their barrels rifled after production, causing them to be referred to as rifled muskets.

The first rifled muskets, having originally been smoothbore weapons like the Model 1842 Musket, which were typically .69 caliber weapons, though smaller caliber weapons were sometimes modified as well.

Another smoothbore weapon in use today is the 37-mm riot gun, that fires non-lethal munitions like rubber bullets and teargas at short range at groups of people, where a high degree of accuracy is not required.

Saloon guns were smoothbore weapons that fired a Flobert round, but can refer to a large caliber firearm that was made to shoot a smaller caliber round in indoor shooting galleries by use of a chamber insert called a Morris tube.

SCMITR was part of the CAWS (Close Assault Weapon System) program, which investigated 20 mm smoothbore weapons (basically combat shotguns) designed to be effective to ranges of 150 metres against combatants wearing body armor.

Bombards developed in Europe were massive smoothbore weapons distinguished by their lack of a field carriage, immobility once emplaced, highly individual design, and noted unreliability (in 1460 James II, King of Scots, was killed when one exploded at the siege of Roxburgh).