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English Baker Rifled Musket- Live firing

hamish — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:36:36 +0000

The Baker rifle (officially known as the Pattern 1800 Infantry Rifle) was a flintlock rifle used by the rifle regiments of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. It was the first standard-issue, British-made rifle accepted by the British armed forces.

The Baker rifle was first produced in 1800 by Ezekiel Baker, a master gunsmith from Whitechapel. The British Army was still issuing the infantry rifle in the 1830s.

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1863 Zouave Rifled Musket- .58 cal- Live Firing

hamish — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 14:32:49 +0000

This is a reproduction 1863 Zouave Rifled Musket. It is a practical weapon and is fully functioning.

All weapons in this hire category are capable of firing live ammunition and are therefore strictly controlled by the UK firearms act. However, for film and theatrical use, we have adapted many of our firearms to function firing blank rounds only.

All of our practical firearms are available for hire for film, television and theatrical performance on the condition that each contract is strictly supervised by an approved and qualified company Armourer.

Please refer to our standard Terms and Conditions of hire.

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1851 Potsdam Percussion Cap Pistol- Live Firing

hamish — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 16:03:33 +0000

This is an original 1851 Potsdam Percussion Cap Pistol. It is a practical weapon and is fully functioning.

Please refer to our standard Terms and Conditions of hire.

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1850 Kentucky Rifled Musket- Live Firing

hamish — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 15:30:13 +0000

The long rifle, also known as longrifle, Kentucky rifle, or Pennsylvania rifle, was one of the first commonly used rifles for hunting and warfare. It is characterized by an unusually long barrel, a development in American rifles that was uncommon in European rifles of the same period.

The longrifle is an early example of a firearm using rifling (spiral grooves in the bore), which caused the projectile (commonly a round lead ball) to spin around the axis of its motion. This increased the stability of its trajectory and dramatically improved accuracy over contemporary smooth bore muskets, which were cheaper and more common. Rifled firearms saw their first major combat use in the American colonies during the French and Indian War, and later the American Revolution in the eighteenth century.

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French AN-IX (1800) Flintlock Pistols- Live Firing

hamish — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:11:32 +0000

The Pistolet modèle An IX was a flintlock cavalry pistol, in service in French units from 1801.

The modèle An IX replaced the modèle 1777, which had been criticised to the point where the older modèle 1763 had been brought back into service.

The Pistolet modèle An IX was designed to equip mounted units, each horseman using two pistols. It was used in most mounted units of the Consulat and during the early years of the Empire, as well as in the Navy.

In 1806, the Pistolet modèle An XIII was introduced; the two system co-existed for some time, until the last modèles An IX were upgraded to the An XIII standard.

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1650 Dog Lock Musket- Live Firing

hamish — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:09:12 +0000

A doglock is a type of lock for firearms that preceded the ‘true’ flintlock in rifles, muskets, and pistols in the 17th century. Commonly used throughout Europe in the 17th century, it gained popular favor in the British and Dutch military. A doglock carbine was the principal weapon of the harquebusier, the most numerous type of cavalry in the armies of the Thirty Years’ War and English Civil War era. Like the snaphance, it was largely supplanted by the flintlock.

Much like the later flintlock devices, it contained the flint, frizzen, and pan, yet had an external catch as a half-cock safety, known as the “dog”. This type of lock had no internal, half-cock loading position as the later flintlock mechanism contained. To load a firearm with a dog lock, the cock was secured with the external dog, preventing it from moving forward to strike the frizzen and begin the firing sequence. The user could then safely load the musket or pistol. To fire, the cock was moved to the full-cock position, which caused the dog to fall backward and no longer prevent the lock from firing. A pull of the trigger would then fire the piece. This fell out of favor with the British before 1720. Later flintlocks would contain no such catch, as the half-cock position had been created with the internal parts of the lock.

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English 1640 Match Lock Musket- Live Firing

hamish — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:08:05 +0000

The matchlock was the first mechanism invented to facilitate the firing of a hand-held firearm. Before this, firearms (like the hand cannon) had to be fired by applying a lit match (or equivalent) to the priming powder in the flash pan by hand; this had to be done carefully, taking most of the soldier’s concentration at the moment of firing, or in some cases required a second soldier to fire the weapon while the first held the weapon steady. Adding a matchlock made the firing action simple and reliable by a single soldier, allowing him to keep both hands steadying the gun and eyes on the target while firing.

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English 1830 Manton Flintlock Pistol- East India Pattern- Live Firing

hamish — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 12:56:33 +0000

This is an Reproduction English 1830 Manton Flintlock Pistol- East India Pattern. It is a practical weapon and is fully functioning.

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Colt Army Revolver- cap and ball- live firing

hamish — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:37:28 +0000

This is a reproduction Colt Army Revolver- cap and ball . It is a practical weapon and is fully functioning.

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Italian 1790 Flintlock Duelling Pistols – Cased – Live Firing

hamish — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:03:21 +0000

A duelling pistol is a type of pistol that was manufactured in matching pairs to be used in a duel, when duels were customary. Duelling pistols are often single-shot flintlock or percussion black-powder pistols which fire a lead musket ball. They were made in identical pairs to put both duellists on the same footing. Not all fine pairs of pistols are actual duelling pistols, though they may be called so.

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