Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A pepperbox by Allen & Thurber, one of the most common American designs A mid 19th century four barrel Russian pepperbox revolver. The pepper-box revolver or simply pepperbox (also "pepper-pot", from its resemblance to the household pepper shakers) is a multiple-barrel firearm, mostly in the form of a handgun, that has three or more gun barrels in a revolving mechanism.
Feldl gun 11x50mmR Bavaria: 1867 Fokker-Leimberger: A.H.G. Fokker & Leimberger: 7.92×57mm Mauser Germany: 1916 Fyodorov–Shpagin Model 1922: 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka Soviet Union: 1922 Gardner gun United States: 1874 Gast gun: 7.92×57mm Mauser Germany: 1915 Gatling gun United States: 1861 GAU-8 Avenger: General Electric: 30×173mm United States ...
The pistol has a double-action trigger and a rotating firing pin. Each pull of the trigger cocks and releases the hammer as well as rotating the firing pin to fire each chamber in succession. A top-mounted latch released the barrel assembly to open forward. Mossberg provided a piece of bent sheet metal to extract spent casings. [4]
Remington Model 95 with pearl grips and barrels open for reloading COP .357 Magnum derringer. The original Philadelphia Deringer was a small single-barrel, muzzleloading caplock pistol designed by Henry Deringer (1786–1868) and produced from 1852 to 1868, and was a popular concealed carry single-shot handgun of the era widely copycatted by competitors. [6]
The standard barrel length was a massive 8 inches long, with the breadth and heft of the Army model center hammer percussion pistols. Single shot rimfire pistols [3] [page needed] With single-shot percussion pistols still selling well, it was natural that Allen would adopt cartridges to this style of pistol.
Sharps four-barrel .22 Rimfire Pepperbox. One of the more common pocket pistols found in the "Old West" were the Sharps Pepperboxes. [11] They are four-barrel, single-action pistols with a revolving firing pin. They come in .22, .30 and .32 rimfire, and their four barrels slide forward to load and unload. First patented in 1849, they were not ...
e) Vintage (pre 1939) rifles, shotguns and punt guns chambered for the following cartridges expressed in imperial measurements: 32 bore, 24 bore, 14 bore, 10 bore (5 ⁄ 8" and 2 + 7 ⁄ 8" only), 8 bore, 4 bore, 3 bore, 2 bore, 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 bore, 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 bore and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 bore, and vintage punt guns and shotguns with bores of 10 or greater.
It was produced in a single item product with a 2-5/8" barrel. The Cloverleaf Model was more produced by far, and had two different variants, depending on the barrel length: 1-1/2" and 3". The 1-1/2" barrel length variant had an ejector rod contained within the center pin of the cylinder, allowing to reload while keeping the cylinder in the gun.