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Heckler & Koch G3 and box magazine

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Gunsights Pro 3.0

The category of rifles is very large, ranging from a single shot .22 caliber gallery rifle to a .50 caliber semiautomatic rifle. They can be single-shot, multibarreled, or magazine fed.

Rifles incorporate several action types, including these:

Bolt
Pump (or slide)
Autoloading
Lever
Falling block
Rolling block

The four types of rifle magazines:

Removable box
Internal box
Rotary
Tubular

Removable box magazine
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Technology Inc.
Gunsights Pro 3.0

Savage rotary magazine
Courtesy of Bill Conrad

Tubular magazine
Courtesy of Bill Conrad

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