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tic priming utilizing the percussion cap. The Rousseau, English Patent #9258 of 1842, supplied caps through tube spring loaded to push out the caps. The nose of this tube lay alongside the hammer …

Apr 25, 2023 · The lock is marked "WATERS/GILL & Co." and is equipped with an automatic priming mechanism in the frizzen with a rotating bottom cover linked to an arm on the lock, sliding half-cock …

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Butterfield entered into an arrangement with the state of Pennsylvania to alter 1,000 state owned flintlock muskets to his self-priming mechanism and add …

Jun 28, 2012 · Self priming was a military practice where rate of fire overrode the safety concerns. I don't recommend deliberately modifying your gun for self priming. I saw a flintlock at a gun show with at …

The first modern revolver was designed by Elisha Haydon Collier in 1814, and was a self-priming flintlock with a manually-rotated cylindrical magazine.

May 8, 2020 · Are you thinking of the Collier Flintlock revolver? They were patented first in England in 1818 by Bostonian Elisha H. Collier and featured a frizzen with a reservoir set up to deliver a priming …

Jul 13, 2025 · Offers a potentially cleaner and more controlled method of priming a flintlock compared to a powder horn or flask. The PanPrimer dispenses a relatively consistent amount of powder, which …

Wheeler’s carbine resembles the earlier volley gun externally but is in fact a manually rotated, self-priming flintlock pepperbox gun with six barrels arranged around a central axis.

Sep 30, 2010 · With three-stage belled barrel fitted with a Water's Patent spring bayonet on the underside, engraved iron tang, flat bevelled border engraved bolted lock signed 'WATERS GILL & …