11. Nock continued to innovate until his death late in life he was making breech loading muskets. 12. Large breech loading guns continued into the 1880s, using wooden staffs worked by several sailors as ramrods. 13. During the U . S . Civil War, Joseph Rider experimented with several breech loading weapon designs. 14. The heaviest field gun in use at that time was the 64 pdr Armstrong breech loading siege gun weighing. 15. The cylinder was held down to a base where the gunpowder sat, making it a breech loading design. 16. The charges for these cases are made up in a very similar manner to those already described for breech loading . 17. For ground defence, the Rhodesian Air Force had their own Eland 60s armed with 60 mm breech loading mortars. 18. Berdan chose the Sharps rifle mainly because of its fast breech loading and outstanding accuracy from long-range distances. 19. The program proved expensive : Li Hongzhang had wanted the Jiangnan Arsenal to produce breech loading rifles of the Remington type. 20. The first gun on the battery was a 6-inch breech loading gun with a Vavasseur mounting on a centre pivot.
