Pepperbox Firearms (The Firearms Classics Library)

NEW, (Tan Leather) still in original factory seal. The Palladium Press Firearms Classics Library has the same characteristics as Easton Press titles and are produced in genuine full leather. Features include: 22 karat gold accents and lettering and decoration on covers and spine; Printed with acid neutral pages that are thread sewn, not glued; Gilt page edges; silk page marker sewn into the binding; 4 raised spine bands; silk moire end papers. 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Reprint of Greenberg, 1952 edition. . . . . . . The pepper-box revolver or simply pepperbox (also "pepper-pot", from its resemblance to the household pepper grinder) is a multiple-barrel repeating firearm that has three or more barrels grouped around a central axis. It mostly appears in the form of a multi-shot handheld firearm. Pepperboxes exist in all ammunition systems: matchlock, wheellock, flintlock, percussion, pinfire, rimfire and centerfire. The pepperbox should not be confused with a volley gun (like the seven-barrel long gun made by Nock), a firearm that fires multiple projectiles simultaneously by use of multiple barrels.[1] The difference is that a volleygun fires all the barrels simultaneously while the pepperbox is a repeater. The pepperbox should also not be confused with or as a development of the Gatling gun, which fires rapidly by the use of rotating multiple barrels.--Wikipedia

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Publisher: Palladium Press

Year: 2001

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

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