| 11. | Nock continued to innovate until his death late in life he was making breech loading muskets.
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| 12. | Large breech loading guns continued into the 1880s, using wooden staffs worked by several sailors as ramrods.
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| 13. | During the U . S . Civil War, Joseph Rider experimented with several breech loading weapon designs.
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| 14. | The heaviest field gun in use at that time was the 64 pdr Armstrong breech loading siege gun weighing.
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| 15. | The cylinder was held down to a base where the gunpowder sat, making it a breech loading design.
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| 16. | The charges for these cases are made up in a very similar manner to those already described for breech loading.
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| 17. | For ground defence, the Rhodesian Air Force had their own Eland 60s armed with 60 mm breech loading mortars.
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| 18. | Berdan chose the Sharps rifle mainly because of its fast breech loading and outstanding accuracy from long-range distances.
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| 19. | The program proved expensive : Li Hongzhang had wanted the Jiangnan Arsenal to produce breech loading rifles of the Remington type.
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| 20. | The first gun on the battery was a 6-inch breech loading gun with a Vavasseur mounting on a centre pivot.
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