Notes from Dr. Borkosky

Regarding the Baskerville hound, there were were three armed men to intercept the hound, but Holmes ran the fastest and shot it five times and that was enough. [5] It had a faster rate of fire than the standard-issue Adams revolver and was often fitted with a Tranter-type trigger to overcome the heavy pull of the revolving striker. That makes about 525 ft-lbs of energy; a fair bit more than top 45 Colt loads with 40 grains of black powder.

Never get a Holmesian started on the minutiae of the Canon. We can learn a lot from the designs of old, plus the guns on this list are great shooters, and a whole lot of fun at the range. I wonder what that would feel like to shoot. This is an introduction video showing the Lancaster Pistol and discussing my new 8-part series that will follow my process for creating reproductions of this pistol. The .450 (Adams) revolver round launched a 225-grain RNL at 650 to 700 for about 215 to 245 FPE. approaching .500 S&W power levels I believe in black powder. Yes, Lancaster’s oval bore along with Metford “Segmental” rifling were undoubtedly “polygonal” rifling. Early on, it was mainly used for “special effects” by magicians who needed a puff of smoke to hide what they were doing(making the rabbit disappear and turn into a pretty girl, etc.). “Oval” rifling was experimented with over and over again, mainly in rifles, up to the pre-WW2 period. The designer, London gunsmith Charles Lancaster, began his career in 1847 as an apprentice to his father, Charles Sr. During the 1850s he invented oval bore rifling and the gas check bullet. The Lancaster pistol exists as the Howdah Pistol in the 2016 video game Battlefield 1. .577 Snider has the same case dimensions as a 28 guage shotgun case. The Lancaster featured a break-barrel design, supported by a hinge underneath the barrels at the point at which they joined the frame. 28 round lead balls to the pound. Your email address will not be published. Simply put, “cut” rifling was and is more tolerant of changes in projectiles or even less-than-perfectly-made projectiles. Charles Lancaster was a master London gunsmith who made 2-barrel and 4-barrel pistols in a variety of British revolver cartridges (commonly known as Howdah pistols).

Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The rifle had four barrels. I think you meant Cape buffalo. A plain-based flat-back-end bullet, like most pistol bullets of the day, would tend to “skid” and not acquire enough rotation to stabilize properly. Production information Many of his pistols was purchased privately by British military officers, explorers, and big-game hunters to use as backup weapons throughout the Empire. Water buffalo are much more mild-mannered than their larger and more tempramental cousins. Mind you the ancient Chinese art of war, incorporating doing scary dances to frighten each other would have really reduced the body count in WW1 but Krupp’s wouldn’t have been in favour of it. I can make cut rifling with a rifling bench made almost entirely of wood.

Oval or polygon rifling can’t be made that way, AFAIK. Action Lancaster rifle - Henry Thorn developed a full-size, large-bore rifle variant based on the same principles as the pistol.

[4] One famous user was the photographer and film maker[10] Lieutenant Colonel John Montague Benett Stanford (1870-1947),[11] who killed a fanatical assegai-wielding Sudanese Ansar with a Lancaster pistol while working as a war correspondent at the Battle of Omdurman.[12].

His source is W.C. Dowell’s “The Webley Story”: https://www.forgottenweapons.com/577-caliber-tranter-revolver/#comment-314494. Barrel length Pirates often possessed flintlock pistols and used them while over taking ill-fated ships. [6] It was highly prized by hunters and explorers for close range defense against big game such as tigers or cape buffalo. Agreed, the two firing pins are set up on some kind of internal pivot point obviously and when the top pin is firing the top barrel the bottom pin is in position for that side hole. Also if they had a comparable reduction in powder they could be down below .44 magnum energy. United Kingdom They were purchased by the Italians […]. [8] One rare variant, made for the Maharajah of Rewa as a hunting weapon, took the form of a four barreled rifle. Alexander Henry also developed polygonal in the mid 1800’s. China had a vast bureaucracy to control irrigation from a very early date, much like ancient Egypt or Sumeria but on an even more immense scale. Considering that the only examples of such weapons are British in origin, and the fact that they were marketed as Howdah pistols for English travelers in the 19th and 20th centuries, pretty much gives us the answer.

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