Patent ID: 6918201

Claim:
A muzzle loaded black powder hunting rifle having a rapid fire rate comprising: a rifle barrel having a projectile bore provided with a load chamber connecting bore end and a muzzle end; a moveable, muzzle loaded black powder load chamber structure having multiple muzzle loaded black powder load chamber structures formed therein each including a separate primer cap holding structure end having a primer cap holding structure provided in connection therewith, a projectile load chamber for holding a quantity of muzzle loaded, black powder projectile propellant and a projectile, and a chamber projectile ejection opening end; the moveable, muzzle loaded, black powder load chamber structure being held in connection with a load chamber alignment and locking structure that allows a user to selectively, rapidly, functionally connect the chamber projectile ejection opening of one of the multiple muzzle loaded black powder load chamber structures with the projectile receiving bore end of the rifle barrel projectile bore and the corresponding primer cap holding structure end of the selected one of the multiple muzzle loaded black powder load chamber structures such that the primer cap holding structure is located in the striking path of a firing pin of the muzzle loaded black powder hunting rifle adapted for striking and igniting a primer cap seated on the primer cap holding structure in a manner to ignite a quantity of muzzle loaded black powder projectile propellant within the projectile load chamber causing the projectile to be fired from the projectile load chamber out of the muzzle end of the rifle barrel bore.