Abstract: An improved firearm. The improved firearm includes a barreled action; a stock; and a support located between the barreled action and the stock. In one preferred embodiment, the support includes a center support rail and a pair of side rails located parallel to the center support rail.

Abstract: A fluid lubricated projectile trap includes a substantially cylindrical chamber defined by a forward concave wall and a rearward concave wall. A bullet funnel extending forwardly therefrom. The funnel having a lower panel connecting to the forward concave wall in conjunction with an end plate defines a pressurized fluid containment with discharge outlets directed to the rearward concave wall. All plumbing may be secured below the ramp and forward of the chamber.

Abstract: An improved firearm. The improved firearm includes a barreled action; a stock; and a support located between the barreled action and the stock. In one preferred embodiment, the support includes a center support rail and a pair of side rails located parallel to the center support rail.

Abstract: A fluid lubricated projectile trap includes a substantially cylindrical chamber defined by a forward concave wall and a rearward concave wall. A bullet funnel extending forwardly therefrom. The funnel having a lower panel connecting to the forward concave wall in conjunction with an end plate defines a pressurized fluid containment with discharge outlets directed to the rearward concave wall. All plumbing may be secured below the ramp and forward of the chamber.

Abstract: An improved firearm. The improved firearm includes a barreled action; a stock; and a support located between the barreled action and the stock. In one preferred embodiment, the support includes a center support rail and a pair of side rails located parallel to the center support rail. In another preferred embodiment of the inventions, the firearm also includes a harmonic tuner assembly for the barrel.

Abstract: A fluid lubricated projectile trap includes a substantially cylindrical chamber defined by a forward concave wall and a rearward concave wall. A bullet funnel extending forwardly therefrom. The funnel having a lower panel connecting to the forward concave wall in conjunction with an end plate defines a pressurized fluid containment with discharge outlets directed to the rearward concave wall. All plumbing may be secured below the ramp and forward of the chamber.

Abstract: A fluid lubricated projectile trap includes a substantially cylindrical chamber defined by a forward concave wall and a rearward concave wall. A bullet funnel extending forwardly therefrom. The funnel having a lower panel connecting to the forward concave wall in conjunction with an end plate defines a pressurized fluid containment with discharge outlets directed to the rearward concave wall. All plumbing may be secured below the ramp and forward of the chamber.

Abstract: A fluid lubricated projectile trap includes a substantially cylindrical chamber defined by a forward concave wall and a rearward concave wall. A bullet funnel extending forwardly therefrom. The funnel having a lower panel connecting to the forward concave wall in conjunction with an end plate defines a pressurized fluid containment with discharge outlets directed to the rearward concave wall. All plumbing may be secured below the ramp and forward of the chamber.

Abstract: A fluid lubricated projectile trap includes a substantially cylindrical chamber defined by a forward concave wall and a rearward concave wall. A bullet funnel extending forwardly therefrom. The funnel having a lower panel connecting to the forward concave wall in conjunction with an end plate defines a pressurized fluid containment with discharge outlets directed to the rearward concave wall. All plumbing may be secured below the ramp and forward of the chamber.

Abstract: A shooting range including at least one shooting station and a projectile trap. The projectile trap includes at least two projectile trap subassemblies each having at least one end plate and joined together along adjacent end plates and a trap chamber in each of the projectile trap subassemblies, wherein a portion of the front edge of the joint between the projectile trap subassemblies is transposed into the trap chambers substantially out of view from the shooting station. In a preferred embodiment, the shooting range further includes at least one range auxiliary system.

Abstract: A shooting range that may include one or more of a shooting station, a projectile trap and or at least one range auxiliary. In one embodiment of the inventions, the projectile trap includes a trap chamber, an air injection system and an air collection system.

Abstract: A bullet trap for arresting and trapping a fired bullet. The bullet trap includes a primary enclosure having a shooting port and a plurality of discrete, resilient bullet trap media in the enclosure. In the preferred embodiment, the media are generally spherical and have a durometer less than or equal to about 100. The media is operable to arrest and capture a fired bullet in a sufficiently small enclosure so as to be portable.

Abstract: A muzzle-loading firearm is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the muzzle-loading firearm includes a receiver having a locking mechanism; a barrel having a breech end, a bore and a muzzle end; a primer carrier for transporting a primer to the breech end of the barrel prior to firing and for extracting the primer from the breech end of the barrel after firing; and a breech plug in the breech end of the barrel, wherein the breech plug receives the primer from the primer carrier. In the preferred embodiment, the primer carrier includes a horseshoe-shaped primer holder attached to the locking mechanism.

Abstract: A bullet trap with a passageway defined between flat upper and lower boundary walls extending convergingly, at opposite angles of inclination of between 0.degree. and about 15.degree. to the horizontal, from an entrance opening to an exit opening or throat, and a deceleration chamber having a generally spirally curved circumferential boundary wall and provided in its upper region with an inlet opening and in its lower region with a discharge opening leading to a collecting vessel. The circumferential boundary wall of the chamber is constituted by two oppositely concave channel-shaped members the respective upper end regions of which are spaced from each other to define the inlet opening, and the respective lower end regions of which are spaced from each other to define the discharge opening.

Abstract: A rifle has an adjustable muzzle brake attached to a muzzle end of the rifle, the muzzle brake including an inner sleeve surrounded by an outer sleeve. The two sleeves are rotatable with respect to each other and have a pattern of holes formed in each. A pair of detent mechanisms formed in the inner and outer sleeves allow the outer sleeve to rotate to a first position with respect to the inner sleeve where the holes of both sleeves are aligned with each other. In this position the gases of combustion can escape through the aligned holes in both sleeves in a substantially transverse direction to the axis of the gun barrel. This provides for a significant reduction in the amount of recoil force on the shooter of the rifle. The detent mechanisms also allow the outer sleeve to be rotatable to a second position where the holes of the inner and outer sleeves are totally out of alignment with each other.

Abstract: A bullet trap for a horizontally fired bullet includes a passageway bounded by upper and lower flat plates which may be inclined to the horizontal at an angle of between 0.degree. and 7.degree.. The passageway has an entrance opening and a shallow exit opening or throat, and a generally spiral-walled spent bullet energy-dissipating chamber having a horizontal axis communicates substantially tangentially with the passageway through the throat. A white water lubricant is sprayed against the circumferential boundary wall of the chamber and engulfs any lead dust, spent bullets, and other particles, the lubricant then flowing down through the throat into the passageway and along the lower plate into a collecting vessel, flushing the lead dust, spent bullets, etc. into the vessel without possibility of escape into the environment. The self-cleaned lubricant is continuously recirculated from the collecting vessel to the spray head in the chamber.

Abstract: A bullet trap, for catching a projectile fired from a firearm not more powerful than a .44 Magnum handgun, includes a passageway which has an entrance opening and a shallow exit opening or throat, bounded by upper and lower flat plates inclined to the horizontal at an angle of between 0.degree. and about 15.degree., and a generally spiral-walled spent projectile energy-dissipating chamber which has a horizontal axis and communicates substantially tangentially with the passageway through the throat. The chamber wall has an initial part which is an upwardly curving extension of the lower plate and a terminal part which is located at the rear end of the upper plate, and the angle of inclination of the plates ensures that the projectile enters the chamber at a relatively low angle to the initial part of the chamber wall and moves along the latter without being shattered or damaging the wall.

Abstract: A bullet trap for a horizontally fired bullet includes a passageway bounded by upper and lower flat metal plates which may be inclined to the horizontal at an angle of between 0.degree. and 7.degree.. The passageway has an entrance opening and a shallow exit opening or throat, and a generally spiral-walled spent bullet energy-dissipating chamber having a horizontal axis communicates substantially tangentially with the passageway through the throat. The chamber wall, no part of which has a radius or curvature smaller than 28 inches, has an initial part which is an upwardly curving extension of the lower plate and a terminal part which is located at the rear end of the upper plate. A white water lubricant may be sprayed against the initial part of the chamber wall and, upon flowing down the same into the passageway and along the lower plate into a collecting vessel, may be recirculated to the spray head in the chamber.