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It was a modernised version of the pepper-box pistol popular in the early-mid 19th century. [4] Unlike these earlier guns which had percussion cap ignition, the Lancaster was chambered for the more modern brass cartridges. [3] The unique oval rifling also enabled it to fire .410 shotgun shells. [5]
Lancaster pistol.577 inch.450 Adams.455 Webley United Kingdom: 1800s-1900s Mossberg Brownie: O.F. Mossberg & Sons.22 Long Rifle.22 Short United States: 1919 Mk 1 Underwater Defense Gun: Mark 59 Mod 0 Projectile United States: 1970 Heckler & Koch P11 [2] Heckler & Koch: 7.62×36mm West Germany: 1977 SPP-1 underwater pistol: Tulsky Oruzheiny ...
The triple-barrel shotgun is the rarest configuration, and arguably is an odd variant of a double-barreled shotgun rather than a drilling since it lacks the rifle/shotgun combination that all the other drillings have. The triple-barrel shotgun is generally laid out like a side-by-side shotgun, with the third barrel centered and below the other two.
The Winchester Liberator was a prototype 16-gauge, and later on 12-gauge, four-barreled shotgun, similar to a scaled-up four-shot double-action derringer.It was an implementation of the Hillberg Insurgency Weapon design.
Annie Oakley posing with a single shot Stevens rifle in hand, with the Spencer shotgun being the right of the two guns leaning on the prop rock. The Spencer 1882 is an early example of pump-action shotgun. It is a hammerless design and uses an unrefined and complex cycling design in which the toggle breech pivots up and down when cycling. [1] [4]
Double-barrel .50 caliber (13mm) howdah pistol made in Germany Breech of the same pistol open for loading. This particular weapon was made for a left-handed user. The howdah pistol was a large-calibre handgun, often with two or four barrels, used in Africa and India from the beginning of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century during the British Empire era.
Lancaster was the eldest son of Charles Lancaster, gunmaker, of 151 New Bond Street, London.He was born at 5 York Street, Portman Square, London, on 24 June 1820.On leaving school he entered his father's factory, where he practically learnt the business of a gunmaker and soon became a clever designer of models, a thoroughly skilled workman, and a mechanician of high order.
RML 7-inch gun United Kingdom: 1860s-1890s 191: Widow Blakely [1] Confederate States of America: 1861 203: RML 8-inch gun United Kingdom: 1866 206: 68-pounder Lancaster gun United Kingdom: 1850s 227: RML 9-inch 12-ton gun United Kingdom: 1865 233: Somerset cannon United Kingdom: 1863 254: RML 10-inch 18-ton gun United Kingdom: 1868 279: RML 11 ...