Sentence examples for firing position. from inspiring English sources

When the trigger is pulled, the spring quickly pushes it back to firing position, enabling rapid fire.

Surveying the terrain, he recommended that the Iraqi soldiers set up a firing position overlooking a sniper-infested alley.

Until the 1860s guns were simply allowed to recoil along with their carriages until they stopped moving, and they were then manhandled back into firing position.

After reloading, the carriage was manhandled down the sliding platform, assisted by gravity, until the gun was once more in firing position, or "in battery".

If the trigger was held in firing position, the weapon would continue to fire until it expended all of its ammunition.

Description Rookies go through awkward maneuvers as they try to adjust rifle strap loops for the arm in firing position.

I flipped through the story, reading stray words, words like "firing position" and "spatter" and "reload".

He picked up an AK-47, gathered ammunition from the dead, tended to the injured, and ordered the survivors into firing position.

During fleet exercises off the Îles des Hyères on 5 February 1906 Suffren rammed the submarine when the latter miscalculated the fleet's movements while manoeuvring into firing position.

Thirty minutes later the turrets reported that they were manned, swiveled to starboard in firing position, and ready to begin the drill.

Put the gun in firing position.