Letter: P

A class of tools, such as nail drivers, that use the expansion of propellant combustion gases as their motive force.

1. (Rifling) the distance a bullet must travel in the bore to make one revolution. 2. (Grips) the angle that the front of the handgun grip makes with the line of sight. 3. A component used in making clay targets. 4. See Stock Dimensions.

An action in which the breech block pivots in an arc to expose or lock the breech.

A complete round of ammunition having a plastic body, a basewad that may or may not be a single unit and a metallic head.

The entire bullet, or just the jacket, electrolytically plated with a different material.

Copper or nickel-plated shot, coated to increase apparent shot hardness and reduce in-bore shot deformation.

The informal target shooting at inanimate objects other than paper targets located at arbitrary or indefinite distances from the firing point.

1. A device used in scoring bullet holes in a paper target. 2. A pin inserted in a bullet mold to form a cavity in the nose or base of a bullet.

The point at which a bullet hits a target.

Very close range.