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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 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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