Hitching posts and water troughs were common place especially at ' watering holes ' like the Papanui Hotel.

He details his experiences hitchhiking across Japan in Hokkaido Highway Blues, later retitled Hitching Rides with Buddha.

* Hokkaido Highway Blues ( 1998 ), republished in 2005 as Hitching Rides with Buddha

The Hitching Post Motel, one mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of downtown Forest Lake, was featured in the 1996 Academy Award-winning movie Fargo.

* Just north of the Hitching Post Motel was the site of a Minnesota Highway Department historic marker which had this inscription: " Through this point from southeast to northwest extended the Indian Boundary as defined by the Prairie du Chien Treaty of 1825 as surveyed and marked by the government.

* Hitching Corner – A hamlet east of West Winfield village on combined US-20 / NY-51.

The Southwestern portion of Perinton is called Bushnell's Basin and is home to the Bushnell's Basin Fire Department, Hitching Post Plaza, and Richardson's Canal House.

Hitching a ride in a consignment of cheese has the fans captured by the feudal inhabitants of Milwaukee who are burning the excess houses in the city for heat.

The observation level featured a lounge / restaurant called the Hitching Post.

It was named after the late Paul Smith ( no relation to the founding director Shane Smith ), who was the proprietor of a once notable hotel, The Hitching Post Inn.

* Hoofprints and Hitching Posts.

Hitching a ride aboard the Vogon ship which has just destroyed Earth, the pair eventually find themselves aboard a stolen spaceship called The Heart of Gold.

Noel Field remained a staunch communist ; his final testament, written in Budapest and published in an American political journal, was entitled " Hitching Our Wagon to a Star.

The original Gatling gun was a field weapon which used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose ( no links or belt ) metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper.

No revolver or rifle was found near Tom, and he was not wearing a cartridge belt.

* Upon the command " Handle cartridge ", the soldier would draw a cartridge from the cartridge box worn on the soldier's right hip or on a belt in front of the soldier's belly.

Additionally he had a Colt Single Action Army revolver with a nickel finish and ivory stocks bearing the serial number 89524, and a Sheffield Bowie knife with a dagger type of blade and stag handle made by George Wostenholm in an elaborate silver-studded holster and cartridge belt.

The return spring then pushes the bolt assembly forwards again, pushing a new cartridge out of the belt into the breech, and the sequence repeats as long as the trigger is depressed.

The belt feed mechanism damaged the cartridge cases and the gun was found too complicated and liable to malfunctions and was withdrawn from service.

The weapon would draw in the belt, pull each round out of the belt and into the breech, fire it, and then drop the brass cartridge out of the bottom, to gather in a pile of spent brass underneath the weapon, while the cloth belt would continue through to the left side and wind up on the ground.

The QIC cartridge is distinguished from other types of tape cartridges by the fact that it contains an endless drive belt which is moved at a uniform speed by a motorised capstan.

When the cartridge gets old, the belt may not provide enough friction to turn the takeup spool smoothly.

The rimless. 30-06 Springfield cartridge on the right headspaces on the shoulder, while the belted. 300 H & H Magnum cartridge on the left headspaces on the belt.

This belt is of slightly larger diameter than the adjacent case, so the cartridge may headspace on the edge of the belt closest to the bullet.

The GSh-6-23 uses the 23x115 Russian AM-23 round, fed via linked cartridge belt or a linkless feed system.

The cartridge was an adaptation of the. 50 BMG, with a belt added firing a 47. 6 gram bullet.

The Darne machine gun has an unusual belt feed between the gas piston and barrel, using the two-stage cartridge feed system ( cartridge withdrawn from the belt to the rear, and then pushed forward into the barrel ).

Equipped with only a rifle, a cartridge belt, a knife, and a three-day supply of food, she set out with the mother and child on a perilous journey through territory occupied by Mexican and U. S. Cavalry forces.

The cartridge used by the FN P90, the 5. 7 × 28 mm, for example, fires a 2. 0 g ( 31 grain ) armor-piercing bullet at velocities of around 700 m / s ( 2300 ft / s ).

In order to get around Nintendo's lockout chip, when using the Doctor V64 a game cartridge is plugged into the Nintendo 64 through an adaptor which connects only the lockout chip.

The film is also distinguished by how it is wound with regard to perforations and base or emulsion side, as well as whether it is packaged around a core, a daylight spool, or within a cartridge.

The original ROM size spec was later enhanced on cartridges with bank switching memory technology, increasing the maximum cartridge size to around 716 Mbit.

The first cartridge revolvers were produced around 1856 by Smith and Wesson.

:‘ Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette ?’ [...] With the Russian army in Romania, around 1917, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, put a single cartridge in the cylinder, spin the cylinder, put it to his head and pull the trigger.

The hollow cartridge was made by tying the sticks of dynamite around a tin can, the open mouth of the latter being placed downward ".

In around 1848, Sharps introduced a rifle and paper cartridge ( containing everything but the primer ) system.

* 8 × 57mm IS: The standard German service rifle cartridge from 1888 to 1945, the 8 × 57mmIS ( aka 8 mm Mauser ) has seen wide distribution around the globe through commercial, surplus, and military sales, and is still a popular and commonly used hunting round in most of Europe, partly because of the abundance of affordable hunting rifles in this chambering as well as a broad availability of different hunting, target, and military surplus ammunition available.

The endless loop tape cartridge was first designed in 1952 by Bernard Cousino around a single reel carrying a continuous loop of standard 1 / 4-inch, plastic, oxide-coated recording tape running at 3. 75 in.

The area around the cartridge slot of the HVC-101 is flat rather than convex.

Above all else, it had been designed around the first ever rimless military cartridge using the new smokeless powder ammunition: the 7. 92 × 57mm Mauser cartridge.

In order to avoid accidental ignition of sharply pointed Balle D ammunition inside the Lebel's tubular magazine, a circular groove was formed on each case head, around the primer pocket, in order to receive the bullet tip of the cartridge that followed.

By around 1907, the Swiss knew the old GP90 cartridge was inferior to those being adopted by their neighbors.

The firing mechanism consists of a helical spring around a pointed metal striker, the tip of which passes through a hole in the face of the block to impact the percussion-cap of the inserted cartridge.

Since the time the chain takes to move around a complete loop of the rectangle controls the rate of fire, varying the motor speed allows chain guns, in principle, to fire at a rate continuously variable from single rounds to the maximum safe rate imposed by the pressure drop rates in the barrel after firing a cartridge, mechanical tolerances, and other factors.

The cartridge consists of a plastic case, a steel head, and a plastic sabot shell around the penetrator.

:: The Sensor for Women was released around the same time and is nearly identical, but has a wider cartridge head.

The plot partially revolves around the missing master copy of a film cartridge, titled Infinite Jest and referred to in the novel as " the Entertainment " or " the samizdat ".

Later guns, such as the Glock 20, Glock 29, and the Smith & Wesson Model 1006, were built around the cartridge to help increase durability and reliability.

Most probably, the main reason for this is that the rifle was designed around an outdated cartridge, and there was doubt that the action could be modified for more powerful ammunition.

Released around 1984, the original MPU-401 was an external breakout box providing MIDI IN / MIDI OUT / MIDI THRU / TAPE IN / TAPE OUT / MIDI SYNC connectors, for use with a separately-sold interface card / cartridge (" MPU-401 interface kit ") inserted into a computer system.

In the immediate post-war era, Mauser engineers spread out from Germany and developed similar weapons around the world ; both the British and French made outright copies of the 30 mm versions of the MK 213 as the ADEN and DEFA, respectively, Switzerland produced the Oerlikon KCA, while the U. S. used the 20 mm version, re-chambered for a slightly longer 102 mm cartridge intermediate between the 213's 82 mm and Hispano-Suiza HS. 404's 110 mm.