Action
This type of firearm uses a lever
What is a lever action?
A bullet with a jacket that encloses the entire bullet
What is full metal jacket?
The spiral pattern cut into the bore
What is rifling?
The longitudinal marks found on a bullet that are used for identification
What are striations?
Parallel, arched, and circular are all examples of these
What are breech face marks?
This type of firearm has a rotating cylinder
What is a revolver?
A bullet with a soft lead core exposed at the nose
What is a jacketed soft point?
This type of rifling is produced by hammer forging
Wha is polygonal rifling?
These marks which are found on fired cartridge cases, can be used for comparison
What are breech face marks, firing pin impressions, extractor marks, ejector marks?
This is the area of a bullet where caliber measurements are taken
What is the base?
This type of firearm requires the manuel cocking of a hammer
What is single action revolver?
This bullet type has a truncated nose and a sharp shoulder
What is a semi-wadcutter?
This type of rifling has a sharp transition between lands and grooves
What is cut rifling?
Firing pins can have these two basic shapes
What are rectangular and hemispherical?
The mass of a bullet in grams must be converted to this unit of measurement
What is grains?
This type of firearm is also known as pump action
What is slide action shotgun?
This type of bullet is used in target shooting
What si a wad cutter?
The information placed onto the head of a cartridge case
What is the head stamp?
The cartridge case comes in these three finishes
What is brass, nickel, and aluminum?
This term describes the direction in which lands and grooves are running
What is twist?
This type of firearm uses the energy of discharge to perform part of the firing cycle
What is semi automatic pistol?
This ammunition contains shot, wadding and a body
What is shotgun ammunition?
This is how a breech face acquires its individual characteristics
What is the machining process?
These are the two types of metal the primer is made from
What is nickel and brass?
The lands on the fired bullet are made by this of the gun barrel
What are grooves?