Muzzel loader: 1. Pour measured amount of powder down the end of the barrel. 2. Place patch over the end of the barrel. 3. Place projectile on top of the patch. 4. Use rod to tamp projectile and patch down the barrel until seated on the powder charge. 5. Prime the flash pan or place primer on the nipple (depends on type of muzzle loader). 6. Cock weapon, aim and fire. Rim fire and center fire: 1. Load cartridge into chamber of weapon. 2. Cock, aim and fire. Rim fire cartridges have the primer in the rim of the shell casing and that is where the firing pin hits. Center fire cartridges have the primer set into the center at the end of the shell casing and that is where the firing pin hits.
muzzle loader is the oldest kind. I'ts the 'pour a gob of gunpowder down the muzzle, roll in a ball, and pack the whole mess in good with a long stick! It is slow and short range, but powerful enough for deer. This makes it more challenging to use in a hunt, so a lot of hunters like to use it for that reason. Because it is harder to use and more challenging, many states have a seperate muzzle loader season, which means more hunting time, so some guys who don't care either way, or who don't particularly care for muzzle loaders still buy them and learn to use them because it means more time hunting. Rimfire is an early style of metallic cartridge. It is pretty much extinct now except for in small rifles intended for shooting rabbits and squirrels and other small game Centerfire is the most common type of big game rifle today. It gives the best performance
A muzzleloader loads from the front (the muzzle), and the barrel, itself, is the container for the powder and projectile. It's ignited by any of several systems, the most common of which are flintlock and percussion cap. Even earlier than flintlocks there were wheellocks and matchlocks. Centerfire and rimfire are ignition systems used with breech loading (from the rear) firearms. The powder and projectile is contained in a cartridge, traditionally made of brass (and, colloquially, called that), but sometimes other metals such as aluminum and steel---or, in the case of shotshells, paper and plastic. With breach loading firearms, a firing pin is spring-driven against the ignition system, causing it to explode, and ignite the powder. With rimfires, the base of the cartridge is solid, and the entire face of it (the part inside the cartridge) is coated with a fulminate compound. This is pressure sensitive, and explodes when hit by the firing pin. Centerfire cartridges have a hollow in the base which holds a primer (similar to a percussion cap, in fact), which serves the same function. FWIW, centerfire systems evolved from an earlier ignition system called pinfire. With those, a primer-like cap was mounted to the inside of the shell base. A steel pin was driven into it by a hammer, which caused it to explode and ignite the powder.
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you should hit google for this. a muzzle loader is loaded, oddly enough, via the muzzle, that is: the gunpowder and projectile are pushed down the barrel from the pointy end, they usually do not have an opening breech, as such, the gunpowder is ignited by fire from a flint, match or percussion cap, being blasted through a small hole above the trigger. centerfire weapons are breech-loaded by any number of means, (bolt, slide, lever etc) A centre fire cartridge is one that has a primer located in the center at the rear of the cartridge, this does the same job of the flint etc, inigniting the gunpowder further forweward in the case, pushing the projectile out the end. the primer is detonated by a firing pin hitting it (in the centre) a rimfire cartridge is the same design as the centrefire except that the entire rear face/rim of the cartridge, if struck by a firing pin, will cause the cartridge to fire.
