- a variation of muzzleloader.
muzzle-loader
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The firearms included an unloaded Remington Nylon 66 .22 caliber rifle, an unloaded Connecticut Valley Arms .50 caliber muzzle-loader, a loaded Mossberg .410 caliber shotgun and a Gamo pellet gun.
From Fox News ● Jan. 13, 2022
It is a muzzle-loader, works on air at 50 lbs. pressure.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good muzzle-loader could on average fire about three to four shots a minute.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
He said what happened to a stone after I chunked it was like a ball shot out one n’em old muzzle-loader rifles.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
The latest improvements in cannon indicate that the old smooth-bore muzzle-loader guns are to be entirely superseded by breech-loaders, just as in small arms the muzzle-loading musket has given way to the breech-loading rifle.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
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