The Great GunsTraces the history and development of firearms and provides detailed information and numerous illustrations of some of the most significant rifles, handguns, and smoothbores. |
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accuracy American ball barrel bayonet became began blade blunderbuss bore bottom brass breech breechloading British Brown Bess bullet butt buttstock caliber carbines carried cartridge century charge cock Colt cylinder Deringer developed double-barreled Dreyse duelers dueling pistols early elephant guns English engraved Europe famous firearms firing flint flintlock French German grip grooves gunmaker gunsmiths hammer hand cannon Hawken Henry Henry Deringer howdah pistol hunters hunting ignition improved inches Indian invention inventor jaeger Kentucky rifle later lever lever-action loading makers marksman matchlock mechanism military models musket muzzle Opening pages patch box patent Pauly percussion caps piece pinfire plains rifle popular powder priming produced ramrod range rear Remington revolver rifle-muskets riflemen rimfire rolling-block Scottish shooter shooting shot shotgun shoulder arm sights single-shot smoothbore snaphance soldiers specimens sport target tion touch hole trigger guard W. W. Greener weapon wheel lock Winchester yards