To: EXCH54FE
Interesting article except for the author's error here:
"Like when single shot cap and ball ran headlong into a repeating rifle that used air."That should read "...when single shot flintlock..."
The percussion cap was invented in the early 19th Century; there were no caplock rifles in the 1700s and Lewis and Clark carried flintlocks too.
5 posted on
01/27/2013 1:46:33 PM PST by
Inyo-Mono
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To: Inyo-Mono
You are correct. The percussion cap was developed in 1805. The Lewis and Clark expedition started in 1804.
12 posted on
01/27/2013 2:12:49 PM PST by
Jack Hydrazine
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To: Inyo-Mono; EXCH54FE
The percussion cap was invented in the early 19th Century; there were no caplock rifles in the 1700s and Lewis and Clark carried flintlocks too.
The invention that made the percussion cap possible using the recently discovered fulminates was patented by the Rev. Alexander John Forsyth of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1807.
wiki The Vicker was a fowler.
18 posted on
01/27/2013 2:22:06 PM PST by
Uri’el-2012
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