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A duelling pistol is a type of pistol that was manufactured in matching pairs to be used in a duel, when duels were customary. Duelling pistols are often single-shot flintlock or percussion black-powder pistols which fire a lead ball. Not all fine, antique pairs of pistols are duelling pistols, though they may be called so.
Pistol dueling was a competitive sport developed around 1900 [1] which involved opponents shooting at each other using dueling pistols adapted to fire wax bullets. The sport was briefly popular among some members of the metropolitan upper classes in the US, UK and France. [ 2 ]
A Wogdon & Barton target pistol c.1801-3, with its case and accessories. Owned by Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number:37.154.3a–g [1] Wogdon & Barton dueling pistols. Wogdon & Barton (founded by Robert Wogdon) was an 18th-century firm of gunsmiths based in London, England.
While pigeon shooting never returned after the 1900 Paris Games, organizers came up with pistol dueling – in which two competitors shot at each other – for the 1908 Games in London.
The competition involved two competitors firing at each other with dueling pistols loaded with wax bullets and wearing protective equipment for the torso, face, and hands. [1] [3] Teams were sent by countries including France, the UK, and the USA. The 20-meter competition was won by the French team of Major Ferrus, J Marais and J Rouvcanachi. [2]
The men's 30 metre dueling pistol (originally called individual competition with revolver and pistol (duel shooting)) was a shooting sports pistol event held as part of the 1912 Summer Olympics shooting programme. It was later standardized by the ISSF to the men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol.
His Oxford Street workshop was seized and his stock of guns bought by Joseph Lang, an aspiring gun dealer whose company would eventually become part of Atkin, Grant and Lang. [8] Lang is credited with opening one of the first shooting schools in the premises adjoining the Royal Theatre Haymarket.
Gentlemen, Swords and Pistols, Harnett C. Kane (1951) Pistols at Ten Paces: The Story of the Code of Honor in America, William Oliver Stevens (1940) The Duel: A History, Robert Baldick (1965, 1996) Dueling With the Sword and Pistol: 400 Years of One-on-One Combat, Paul Kirchner (2004) Duel, James Landale (2005). ISBN 1-84195-647-3. The story of ...