A snaphance or snaphaunce is a type of firearm lock in which a flint struck against a striker plate above a steel pan ignites the priming powder which...
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used alongside the matchlock (c. 1410s), the snaplock (c. 1540s), the snaphance (c. 1560s), and the flintlock (c. 1610s). The wheellock works by spinning...
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amongst the first to be issued self-igniting guns like the wheellock and snaphance. The matchlock was also uneconomical to keep ready for long periods of...
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from the matchlock to wheellock to the earlier flintlocks (snaplock, snaphance, miquelet, and doglock) in the previous two centuries, and each type had...
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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...
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prevailed in the Moukahla, one, which derived from Dutch and English types of snaphance lock, usually with a thicker lockplate. Half cock was provided by a dog...
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Cylinder (firearms) (section Snaphance and flintlock)
against an enemy. The first firearms to incorporate a cylinder were the snaphance and flintlock types. The lock mechanisms were very similar and used the...
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Demi-culverin Doglock Flintlock Hand cannon Matchlock Miquelet lock Musket Pistol Snaphance Snaplock Wheellock "culverin". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.)...
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their appearance in the 16th century in the form of the snaplock, the snaphance, the miquelet, and the doglock. The so-called true flintlock was developed...
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Ordnance" chose five local firearms manufacturers to initially produce 200 "snaphance musquets" per month over the period of one year, paying 17 shillings per...
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Girandoni air rifle) Explosive-propelled Musket Wheellock Snaplock / snaphance / miquelet lock Doglock Flintlock Che Dian Chong Pistol Blunderbuss Musketoon...
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guns. Flash pans are found on gonnes, matchlocks, wheellocks, snaplocks, snaphances, and flintlocks. The flash pan was at first attached to the gun barrel...
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Caplock mechanism Firearms Flintlock Matchlock Miquelet Musket Pepperbox Snaphance Snaplock Terzerol Wheellock Rifled muzzle loader List of muzzle-loading...
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Ordnance" chooses five local firearms manufacturers to initially produce 200 "snaphance musquets" per month over the period of one year, paying 17 shillings per...
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It" June 18, 2012 (2012-06-18) Items appraised include an odd-looking snaphance rifle from the 16th or 17th century; a collection of about 70 vintage...
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time of the English Civil War (1642–1652), one flintlock musket, the snaphance, was in common use in Britain. The term fusiliers was first used officially...
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War hammer wheellock (European pick hammer) Doglock Flintlock Matchlock Snaphance Snaplock Snap matchlock Wheellock Kestros, cestrus, cestrosfendoni, kestrosfedoni...
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due to wear from striking the frizzen. (See also flintlock mechanism, snaphance, Miquelet lock.) The flintlock was widely used during the 17th, 18th,...
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century Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V, 1540 Snaphance flintlock firearm Revolver Diagram of a 1594 Dutch musketry volley formation...
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went out of favour around the same time the snaphance flintlock was invented in Europe, in 1550. The snaphance was followed by the "true" flintlock in the...
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breakdown, thus limiting it primarily to specialist firearms and pistols. The snaphance flintlock was invented by the mid-16th century and then the "true" flintlock...
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lance, the demi-lancer would have been armed with one or two wheellock or snaphance pistols carried in saddle holsters, and a sword (including Walloon swords...
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powder instead of a lit match, starting with the wheel lock, snaplock, snaphance, and finally the flintlock mechanism, which was simple and reliable, becoming...
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mechanism Firearm Flintlock Hand cannon Matchlock Miquelet Percussion cap Snaphance Wheellock Doglock Heard, Brian J (2013). "Forensic Ballistics in Court"...
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1573 Samuel Zimmermann devised an improved method which incorporated a snaphance (or later, flintlock mechanism) into the charge and connected its trigger...
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included: Muzzle-loading rifled muskets and smoothbore muskets Flintlock and snaphance guns Matchlock and wheellock guns Spears and rakes (though later during...
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steel. The spark produced is directed downward into the flash pan. The snaphance incorporates a mechanism to slide the pan cover forward at the moment...
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were equipped with a number of single-shot, muzzle-loader wheel-lock or Snaphance horse pistols, amongst the most advanced weapons of the era. Although...
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Caplock mechanism Firearm Flintlock Hand cannon Matchlock Percussion cap Snaphance Snaplock Wheellock (Held 1970:75) (Blackmore 1965:28 and Blair 1983:67)...
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included: muzzle-loading rifled muskets and smoothbore muskets Flintlock and Snaphance guns Matchlock and Wheellock guns Spears and rakes (though later during...
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