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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.
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.
Garrucha (pistol).32 S&W.38 S&W.22 Short.22 Long.22 Long Rifle Brazil: 1930s Howdah pistol.577 Snider.455 Webley.476 Enfield United Kingdom: 1800s-1900s 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
The lock, stock and barrel of a flintlock musket " Lock, stock, and barrel " is a merism used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America, meaning "all", "total" or "everything". It derives from the effective portions of a gun : the lock , the stock , and the barrel .
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.
The anatomy of a gunstock on a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic rifle with Fajen thumbhole silhouette stock. 1) butt, 2) forend, 3) comb, 4) heel, 5) toe, 6) grip, 7) thumbhole A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing ...
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 ...
Uberti makes their revolvers, lever action rifles as well as the 1885 single shot falling block rifle, and shotguns. Pedersoli makes rolling block and falling block single shot rifles to their specifications. In 2011 Cimarron contracted Armscor to manufacture a pre-World War 2 pattern 1911 semiautomatic pistol to their specifications. [2]