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Thompson/Center manufactures a variety of muzzleloading rifles of both traditional and inline designs, and sells percussion and flintlock rifles in a wide variety of bore diameters. Some of the better-known models are the Renegade, the Hawken , the Big Boar, and the White Mountain.
The Cookson flintlock rifle, a lever-action breech-loading repeater, also known as the Cookson gun, is one of many similar designs to appear beginning in the 17th century. The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has a Cookson Gun, dating to 1690. [1] According to the museum, John Cookson made several repeating guns based on this system.
Prussian caplock muskets converted from flintlock and imported during the conflict. Richmond rifled musket: A Confederate copy of the Springfield M1855 without Maynard tape primer. Sharps rifle: The Sharps rifle was a falling-block rifle used during and after the American Civil War.
Flintlock muskets tended to be of large caliber and usually had no choke, allowing them to fire full-caliber balls. Military flintlock muskets tended to weigh approximately 10 pounds (4.53 kg), as heavier weapons were found to be too cumbersome, and lighter weapons were not rugged or heavy enough to be used in hand-to-hand combat.
A Model 1817 Hall U.S. contract breechloading flintlock rifle. The M1817 common rifle (also known as Deringer M1817 rifle) was a flintlock muzzle-loaded weapon issued due to the Dept. of Ordnance's order of 1814, produced by Henry Deringer and used from the 1820s to 1840s at the American frontier.
Girandoni air rifle (1779) Break Action Flintlock (18th century) Boxlock action (1782) 1789 French rifle: In 1791 it was mentioned in a book published in France that there existed since at least 1789 a rifle that held 5 or 6 shots and was capable of being reloaded three times in a minute for a total of 15 or 18 shots a minute.
This is an extensive list of antique guns made before the year 1900 and including the first functioning firearms ever invented. The list is not comprehensive; create an entry for listings having none; multiple names are acceptable as cross-references, so that redirecting hyperlinks can be established for them.
Hall-rifle. breech open. The original flintlock model of the Hall rifle had a 32.5 in (830 mm) barrel rifled with 16 "clockwise" (right-hand) grooves, making a full rotation in 96 in (2,400 mm). The muzzle was reamed to a depth of 1.5 in (38 mm), creating the illusion of a smoothbore when the user looked down the muzzle of the firearm.