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Peter comes to 5050 with his own videographer, a friend who records him doing difficult tricks, including a kickless rewind to a 360 bar rewind, which happens too fast for the uninitiated to fully comprehend.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2014

Secret of the kickless weapon: it lets some of the powder blast drive to the rear through the breech as the projectile is driven forward.

From Time Magazine Archive

The M-14 kicks like a mule, but the M-16 is almost kickless.

From Time Magazine Archive

Secret of the kickless cannon: a backward powder blast through the breach�"a fiery column 12 to 15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter."

From Time Magazine Archive

Barney, in solitude at one end of the bar, slowly sipped with a sort of indignation against his kickless purchase.

From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy