Letter: S

A failure to eject where the fired case is caught in the ejection port by the forward motion of the bolt The case protruding upward out of the ejection port is said to resemble an old fashioned stove pipe.

On shoulder firearms, describes a butt stock without a pistol grip.

A bolt action firearm in which the bolt need not be rotated to open or close the action but is reciprocated by a straight backward and forward motion of the shooter’s hand.

The rate of spin of a projectile fired from a rifled barrel.

A bullet which has lost all of its kinetic energy.

Smokeless Propellant manufactured by a process in which nitrocellulose is first lacquered with solvents then being processed into a sphere. The finished product may take the form of a sphere, flattened sphere, or cylinder.

The deviation from the expected flight path of a bullet due to the gyrational spin of bullet imparted by the rifling.

A pointed projectile characterized by a sharply secant ogive or a conical nose profile.

A pointed projectile characterized by a long tangent or slightly secant ogive.

A longitudinal split in the sidewall of the brass or steel cup assembled on a plastic or paper shotshell.