cap-and-ball revolvers in production ... a leather bullet pouch and an additional 250 lead bullets. The #11 percussion caps, bullet grease, and propellant needed for these guns to go BANG will ...

Muzzleloaders have come a long way since their renaissance in the 1950s and ‘60s. Contemporary muzzleloaders are anything but primitive, with their high-tech materials, state-of-the-art designs ...

Powder, minie ball and wad, tap the three down into the rifle barrel, slip percussion cap onto the firing nipple, cock the hammer, aim, fire. Ralph Hettig just shot a piece of history. The owner ...

Cap and ball revolvers are different to load as each ... rifled musket (50 yards); flintlock rifle (25 and 50 yards); percussion rifle (25 and 50 yards); ladies rifle (25 and 50 yards); junior ...

police said they found a percussion cap, which would be consistent with the discharge of a black powder weapon. A search of Partin's home found boxes for two separate cap and ball weapons ...

In fact, he’s removing the cap from a small powder horn as he prepares to prime the pan of his rifle. Priming powder is of a much finer grade that the gunpowder used to power the ball.

the hammer falls and sets off the percussion cap, sets off the powder charge and fires the ball. "In my opinion, this is the most important firearm ever made in the development and the history of ...

The percussion cap gun with a hexagonal barrel was marked ... The first smacked of braggadocio: “With powder and with ball, Hero like to conquer all.” Dwight scratched that message around ...

The gun operates with a percussion based system and cylinder ... The Tranter revolver was a double-action cap-and-ball revolver that operated with a dual trigger mechanism with one rotating ...

The LeMat was a cap and ball revolver, which used a percussion cap to set off a separate gunpowder charge, sending lead ball ammunition flying down the barrel. One of the most unusual and ...