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Fast draw, also known as quick draw, is the ability to quickly draw a handgun and accurately fire it upon a target in the process. This skill was made popular by romanticized depictions of gunslingers in the Western genre , which in turn were inspired by famous historical gunfights in the American Old West .
Draw the pistol, rotating the wrist to normal orientation as the arm is brought up to shooting position. With practice, the cavalry draw can be as fast or even faster than drawing from a normal, butt-rearward holster, because of the assistance of the body in placement of the hand on the pistol stocks.
A drawing of ribauldequins, as designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Organ gun in the Bellifortis treatise (written ca. 1405, illustration from Clm 30150, ca. 1430). A ribauldequin, also known as a rabauld, randy, ribault, ribaudkin, infernal machine or organ gun, was a late medieval volley gun with many small-caliber iron barrels set up parallel on a platform, in use in medieval and early modern ...
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Patent drawing of the Henry rifle. The original Henry rifle was a sixteen-shot .44 caliber rimfire breech-loading lever-action rifle, patented by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860 after three years of design work. [2] The Henry was an improved version of the earlier Volition, and later Volcanic.
Patent drawing for R. J. Gatling's "battery gun", 9 May 1865. The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented on November 4, 1862. [24] [21] Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease. [25]
The Mark 12 5"/38-caliber gun was a United States dual-purpose naval gun, but also installed in single-purpose mounts on a handful of ships.The 38-caliber barrel was a mid-length compromise between the previous United States standard 5"/51 low-angle gun and 5"/25 anti-aircraft gun.
English: Iowa class battleship main battery turret. Based on jpg image 16in Gun Turret.jpg. Based on: Cut away of a 16-in gun turret. Site states that "These photos are arranged in chronological order and are believed to be all declassified official USN photos."