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  2. Colt Army Model 1860 - Wikipedia

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    The Colt Army Model 1860 is a cap & ball.44-caliber single-action revolver used during the American Civil War made by Colt's Manufacturing Company. It was used as a side arm by cavalry , infantry , artillery troops, and naval forces.

  3. Colt 1851 Navy Revolver - Wikipedia

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    The Colt Revolving Belt Pistol or Navy Pistol, sometimes erroneously referred to as "Colt Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber" or "of Navy Caliber" (Naval is heavy gun and Navy Size Caliber was termed later for another Colt model), is a .36 caliber, six-round cap and ball revolver that was designed by Samuel Colt between 1847 and 1850.

  4. List of revolvers - Wikipedia

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    Starr revolver: Starr Arms Company: Ball, percussion cap #11 6 ... .36 caliber cap and ball black powder 5 or 6

  5. Percussion cap - Wikipedia

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    Percussion caps have been manufactured in various sizes to fit snugly over different sized nipples. Nipples for 4.5mm and 6mm percussion caps. The percussion cap, percussion primer, or caplock, introduced in the early 1820s, is a type of single-use percussion ignition device for muzzle loader firearm locks enabling them to fire reliably in any weather condition. [1]

  6. Tranter (revolver) - Wikipedia

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    The Tranter revolver was a double-action cap & ball revolver invented around 1856 by English firearms designer William Tranter (1816–1890). Originally operated with a special dual-trigger mechanism (one to rotate the cylinder and cock the gun, a second to fire it) later models employed a single-trigger mechanism much the same as that found in ...

  7. LeMat Revolver - Wikipedia

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    LeMat Revolver, original cap & ball model, used by Confederate States troops in the American Civil War. When war broke out, LeMat received Confederate contracts to produce 5,000 revolvers, and plans were laid to manufacture the gun abroad and then import them into the Confederacy, which lacked the necessary facilities to produce the weapon locally.