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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.
High Standard .22 Pistol: High Standard Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle United States: 1926 or 1932-2018 [6] High Standard HDM: High Standard Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle United States: 1942-? Horhe (pistol) Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant: 9 mm P.A. Russia: 2006-? Howdah pistol.577 Snider.577/450 Martini–Henry.455 Webley.476 ...
Davide Pedersoli & C. is an Italian firearms manufacturing company based in Gardone Val Trompia, Italy, that was founded in 1957 by Davide Pedersoli. [1] Davide Pedersoli specializes in CNC-engineered black-powder weapon replicas for hunting, marksmanship and reenactment. Its weapons normally are more expensive than its competitors, but they ...
The P-64 was drawn from a competition for a new service pistol issued in 1958. At the prototype stage, two versions of the CZAK pistol were created: the Model M (Milicyjny - Police), with a magazine capacity of 6 rounds and chambered to use the .380 ACP (9×17mm Short) cartridge and the Model W (Wojskowy - Military), with a longer barrel than the Model M, a 6-round magazine capacity and ...
A double-barreled Lancaster howdah pistol with a unique spring-loaded blade is the weapon of the big-game hunter Remington in The Ghost and the Darkness. The Lancaster pistol exists as the Howdah Pistol in the 2016 video game Battlefield 1. The Lancaster pistol appears in the 2024 video game Nightingale by Inflexion Games.
Indian horse pistols in .65 and later .577 calibre were produced at British-controlled arsenals such as Lucknow from 1796 [21] to 1856, [22] and were favoured by big game hunters before the invention of the double barreled howdah pistol. Additionally, many were exported to England and saw use during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars.
Taurus Armas S.A. (previously known as Forjas Taurus S.A.) is a Brazilian manufacturing conglomerate based in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Founded in 1939 as a tool and die forging plant, [2] the company now consists of Taurus Armas, its firearm division, as well as other divisions focusing on metals manufacturing, plastics, body armor, helmets and civil construction.
As on the Mauser C96 and the Lahti L35, the stock was designed to be used as a holster when not mounted. On the military version of the VP70 this combination includes a unique feature: when mounted, a selective-fire switch, located on the stock, allows switching the weapon to a three-round-burst mode, with a 2,200 rounds per minute cyclic rate ...