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Set in 1875, Have Gun Will Travel Radio Episode "Landfall" aired November 08, 1959. A character offers Paladin use of his Jennings rifle. The Rider, the title character of Edward M. Erdelac's Judeocentric Lovecraftian weird west series Merkabah Rider, carries a Volcanic pistol inlaid with gold and silver and bearing various Solomonic talismans and wards, including a jeweled Tree of Sephiroth ...
For a Civil War soldier, owning a revolver as a backup gun was important, so Smith & Wesson's cartridge revolvers, the Army Model 2 and the Smith & Wesson Model 1 in caliber .22 rimfire came into popular demand with the outbreak of the American Civil War. Soldiers and officers on both sides of the conflict made private purchases of the ...
Volcanic pistol. 1860 Henry and 1866 Winchester Musket. Left to right Carbines two 1873/1894/92/Trapper 92. In 1848, Walter Hunt of New York patented his "Volition Repeating Rifle" incorporating a tubular magazine, which was operated by two levers and complex linkages.
C. Coach gun; Colt 1851 Navy Revolver; Colt Army Model 1860; Colt Buntline; Colt Dragoon Revolver; Colt House Revolver; Colt Lightning rifle; Colt M1861 Navy
The Smith & Wesson Model 1854 is a lever-action repeating rifle designed by Smith & Wesson.It is chambered in .44 Magnum & .45 Colt.. Introduced in January 2024, it was the first lever-action firearm introduced by Smith & Wesson in 170 years (since the Volcanic Rifle & Volcanic Pistol were patented in 1854).
Some of the early manual repeating pistols (e.g. Volcanic pistol) also use a scaled-down version of lever-action. A one-off example of lever-action loading on an automatic firearm is the M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. This weapon had a swinging lever beneath its barrel that was actuated by a gas bleed in the barrel, unlocking the breech to ...
Yellowstone National Park is symbolic of the American West to many. ... land allows visitors to witness wild animals in their natural habitats who largely behave like their ancient ancestors ...
The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires 20 mm × 102 mm (0.787 in × 4.016 in) rounds at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute).