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Percussion Cap Pistol: Difference between revisions

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| ''[[A Pistol Shot (Vystrel)]]'' || [[Yuriy Yakovlev]] || The Earl || || 1966
| ''[[A Pistol Shot (Vystrel)]]'' || [[Yuriy Yakovlev]] || The Earl || || 1966
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| ''[[The Adventures of Prince Florisel (Priklyucheniya printsa Florizelya)]]'' || [[Vitaliy Ilin]] || Mark || || 1981
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| ''[[Shipwrecked]]'' || [[Guy Fithen]] || Thatcher || || 1990
| ''[[Shipwrecked]]'' || [[Guy Fithen]] || Thatcher || || 1990

Revision as of 14:06, 6 October 2015

Specifications

(19th Century)

Type: Pistol

Caliber: Various

Capacity: 1

Fire Modes: Single Shot

Percussion cap pistol

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Percussion cap pistol

The percussion cap replaced the flint, the steel "frizzen", and the powder pan of the flint-lock mechanism. It was only generally applied to the British military musket (the Brown Bess) in 1842, a quarter of a century after the invention of percussion powder and after an elaborate government test at Woolwich in 1834. The first percussion firearm produced for the US military was the percussion carbine version of the M1819 Hall rifle.

The discovery of fulminates was made by Edward Charles Howard (1774–1816) in 1800. 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.

The Percussion Cap Pistol and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
A Pistol Shot (Vystrel) Mikhail Kozakov Silvio 1966
A Pistol Shot (Vystrel) Yuriy Yakovlev The Earl 1966
The Adventures of Prince Florisel (Priklyucheniya printsa Florizelya) Vitaliy Ilin Mark 1981
Shipwrecked Guy Fithen Thatcher 1990
Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach A mobster 1992
Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq Gérard Depardieu Vidocq 2001
Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq Bodyguard 2001

Television

Title Actor Character Note Date
The Count of Monte Cristo Jean-Claude Brialy Pere Morrel 1998

Anime

Show Title Character Notation Date
Castle in the Sky Dola 1986
Samurai Champloo Christian missionary anachronistic for a scene that takes place in 16th century 2004-2005