| And in that society it was looked upon as the right to bear a flintlock rifle was a right that ought to be possessed. |
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| Loaded loosely, the lower barrel produces hang fires reminiscent of flintlock ignition. |
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| As with the flintlock gun, the damage inflicted with a hit will be devastating. |
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| This system of firearms ignition replaced the flintlock in the early 19th century. |
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| From the other side of the duck pond, Pete draws his flintlock and fires at the boat. |
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| The leader likewise finds a firearm, suddenly remembering the flintlock tucked into his sash. |
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| Imagine where we would be if gun makers believed the flintlock could not be improved. |
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| He met my gaze and took a couple of steps toward me, a hand moving toward the hilt of a flintlock. |
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| The French Marine would show the students how to load and fire a flintlock, and how to make a fire with flint and steel. |
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| Recently he built a flintlock double rifle intended for dangerous game hunting in Africa. |
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| Muskets spanned the transition from matchlock, through wheel lock and flintlock, to percussion. |
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| Side plates are decorative additions placed on the lateral margins of flintlock muskets opposite the lock plate. |
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| In the firearms field, flintlock smoothbore muskets gave way to percussion-capped, rifled muskets. |
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| It tossed a foot-long wooden truncheon onto a table beside a flintlock pistol and flopped down into a chair, snarling all the while. |
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| Thirteen individual steps were required to load and fire a historic reproduction flintlock musket. |
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| I was interested in a flintlock smoothbore typical of the French and Indian War period. |
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| Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a shadow walking towards Brad holding an old flintlock rifle. |
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| Aside from a few shotguns, most were flintlock rifles, kept more for hunting game than fighting. |
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| It was actuated by stepping on it or by tripping a wire along the ground that released a flintlock igniter to fire the main charge. |
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| The Glock 9mm has about as much relationship to the flintlock pistol as a Ford Taurus does to a saddle horse. |
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| I've hunted game from rabbit to elk with flintlock rifles and smoothbores with great success and satisfaction. |
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| Only that and the dull metallic sheen of the flintlock pistol clutched firmly in his hand. |
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| In addition, most Rangers had one or more single-shot flintlock pistols of varied design and manufacture. |
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| By the late 17th century devices were being developed to fire grenades from the muzzles of flintlock muskets. |
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| I always had the feeling the flintlock had a much slower lock time than the Colt cap and ball revolver. |
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| Very beautiful flintlock pistol of a taste very on and of a completion seems it irreproachable. |
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| Two centuries ago, soldiers called fusiliers, who were armed with light flintlock muskets, fought on battlefields using tactics and formations trained on the parade field. |
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| One carried an old-fashioned rifle that looked like a flintlock. |
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| A flintlock small arm was slightly faster to load than a matchlock, if the flint itself did not require adjustment. |
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| It is about a pistol flintlock with two superimposed barrels and only one firing device. |
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| It is about a pocket pistol flintlock transformed with percussion of origin of Liège. |
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| It is about a smooth gauge 12 flintlock to draw the plate, and he gives very good results. |
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| Pair of flintlock guns, two barrel in table with remainder of gray Damas decoration, drawer assembly, remainders of gold incrustation. |
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| Decked in pitch-black garb, a flintlock pistol held tightly in each hand, Nathaniel watched as the dim curtain of midday crept over the autumn scarlet of the forest. |
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| In England it was almost exclusively flintlock, but wheellock carbines could be found on the Continent. |
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| All matchlock, flintlock and wheel lock long guns are classified as antiques no matter when they were made. |
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| At any time during a political debate Washington was permitted to remove a flintlock pistol from his trousers and shoot off a finger of his rival. |
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| The calibre limitations do not apply to flintlock or percussion cap muzzle-loading rifles. |
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| The whip-like snap of a small-caliber flintlock is a lovely sound. |
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| A flintlock muzzleloading gun is considered to be loaded if there is a charge of powder and a projectile in the barrel and the vent is unplugged. |
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| We have here a flintlock pistol of the 18th century, lock round A la française, hammer swan neck, wood going to the mouth and finishing side handle by a nozzle of bird. |
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| It is about a pair of piostols flintlock of the type First Empire. |
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| Ignition was usually via flintlock, but some snaphances and miquelets were also seen. |
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| Both carried a smoothbore flintlock musket that might just kill their man at 50 yards. |
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| During the 1690s, matchlock muskets were replaced by flintlock muskets. |
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| I can relate to this as most of my hunting is with flintlock rifles and smoothbores. |
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| The invention of the flintlock gun mechanism in the sixteenth century produced a demand for specially shaped gunflints. |
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| He wanted to tell his readers how great guns were. On the evidence of his book, Hawker's greatest joy was to be out in the brush on a September morning with bag, dog and flintlock rifle, preparing to deal out death to ducks. |
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| Old matchlock weapons were recovered and converted to flintlock mechanisms. |
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| Outside neat rows of white tents, they cleaned flintlock muskets, cooked over campfires in steaming kettles, and ate historically accurate lunches from tin plates. |
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| Its soldiers were outfitted in brown and grey, with those who came to Canada carrying matchlock and flintlock muskets with bayonets, another novelty of the era. |
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| One of the most picturesque of the old flintlock guns is the blunderbuss, which was often carried by coach guards for protection against highwaymen. |
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| The shotgun entered the century as a flintlock, mutated into a percussion lock and finally evolved into the side-by-side breechloader we know today. |
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