10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNAPHAUNCE»
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snaphaunce in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Pair of
Snaphaunce Locks
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2
Pistols: An Illustrated History of Their Impact
The snaphaunce held several major advantages over the wheel lock. It was
much simpler in design and easier to maintain and could be produced for about
25 percent of the cost of the earlier pistol. The flint used to produce the sparks
during ...
3
Most Pernicious Thing: Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the ...
To ready the snaphaunce for use the piece was charged, the pan filled with
priming powder and its cover closed. Then the frizzen arm was lowered (moved
rearward) over the pan. In early or cheaper examples, the pan cover was
manually ...
4
From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of ...
The less mechanically complicated snaphaunce, which was invented inabout
1550, halvedthe production costs when compared to the wheel lock. Instead of
iron pyrites, the snaphaunce used a flint and steel to create sparks. The cock in ...
Lyman had done what he could, attaching Longbow's orphans to Major Urowski's
company from TRNS Snaphaunce to form an improvised, truncated battalion. The
brigadier had hoped Stanislaus' people could be pulled back as Urowski's ...
David Weber, Steve White, 2005
6
Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783
snaphaunce, English lock, dog lock, Scandinavian "snaplock," miquelet lock, and
the "true" flint lock. These terms denote both different evolutionary stages in the
development of the flint lock and different regional aberrations. Seventeenth ...
Harold Leslie Peterson, 2000
7
The Bishops' Wars: Charles I's Campaigns Against Scotland, ...
Ten gunmakers agreed to manufacture 80 pairs of wheel-lock pistols, 120 wheel-
lock carbines, 200 'Spanish' carbines, 300 'halfe-bent' snaphaunce carbines, and
200 pairs of 'halfe bent' snaphaunce pistols. Each gunmaker specified a quota ...
Mark Charles Fissel, 1994
8
The Journal of the United Service Institution
This may seem a remarkable fact ; but in the " Norfolk Archaeologia," * a
blacksmith is mentioned as fitting a snaphaunce to a stock in 1588. Now the
snaphaunce (see plate, fig. 5,) is really a flint-lock, although we do not accept it
as such until ...
9
Royal United Service Institution Journal
This may seem a remarkable fact ; but in the " Norfolk Archaeologia," * a
blacksmith is mentioned as fitting a snaphaunce to a stock in 1588. Now the
snaphaunce (see plate, fig. 5,) is really a flint-lock, although we do not accept it
as such until ...
Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 1860
10
Native People, Native Lands: Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis
Similarly, in 1660, the Dutch list, "Return of Goods for the Colonies on the
Delaware River", shows that both the matchlock musket and flint snaphaunce
were in use: 800 Ib. powder 600 Ib. musket and snaphaunce bullets [N.B. Musket
as ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNAPHAUNCE»
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snaphaunce is used in the context of the following news items.
Reflections: Matchlocks, wheelocks, and flintlocks
The first flintlock was called the snaphaunce. Although the name's Dutch in origin, it's unclear whether the Dutch invented the snaphaunce, which featured a ... «Kendall County Now, Jul 15»
