When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Percussion cap - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percussion_cap

   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]

3. Primer (firearms) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(firearms)

   In early black powder guns such as muzzleloaders, the primer was essentially the same chemical as the main propellant (albeit usually in a finer-powdered form), but poured into an external flash pan, where it could be ignited by an ignition source such as a slow match or a flintlock, though some muzzleloaders have primers like cap gun caps ...

4. Lock (firearm) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(firearm)

   The percussion cap is fitted over the end of the nipple. The cock was modified to strike the cap and redesignated as the hammer. As a safety measure, the face of the hammer was soon hollowed to surround the cap. As an economy, many existing flintlocks (particularly military stocks) were converted to use the percussion cap.

5. Model 1817 common rifle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_1817_Common_Rifle

   Over time the rifles became obsolete, but they still saw service during the American Civil War, originally flintlocks, most were converted to percussion cap for their firing mechanism. [1] They saw service in the west, as far as California, where there were still M1817 rifles in the Bencia, California arsenal in the 1860s.

6. Muzzle-loading rifle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle-loading_rifle

   A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore, and is loaded from the muzzle of the barrel rather than the breech.. Historically they were developed when rifled barrels were introduced by the 1740ies, which offered higher accuracy than the earlier smooth

7. Musk calls some MAGA supporters ‘contemptible fools’ as visa ...

   www.aol.com/news/musk-calls-maga-supporters...

   Tech billionaire Elon Musk labeled a section of President-elect Trump supporters as “contemptible fools” as the online debate around visas for highly skilled workers on the right intensifies.

8. Rifles in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifles_in_the_American...

   During the American Civil War, an assortment of small arms found their way onto the battlefield.Though the muzzleloader percussion cap rifled musket was the most numerous weapon, being standard issue for the Union and Confederate armies, many other firearms, ranging from the single-shot breech-loading Sharps and Burnside rifles to the Spencer and the Henry rifles - two of the world's first ...

9. Play Just Words Online for Free - AOL.com

   www.aol.com/games/play/masque-publishing/just-words

   If you love Scrabble, you'll love the wonderful word game fun of Just Words. Play Just Words free online!