Letter: S

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.

A longitudinal rupture in the neck of a metallic cartridge case.