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Lefaucheux-Francotte M. 71
Lefaucheux-Francotte M. 71 or Revolver m/1871 was a 19th-century Belgium, Belgian revolver made for Sweden, Swedish military. It was also the first service revolver of the Principality of Serbia. Production In the second half of the nineteenth century, Francotte, Auguste Francotte of Liège, Liege was one of the largest Belgian arms factories, mostly manufacturing rifles and revolvers for export. Francotte's first Breechloader, breechloading revolver was Model 1865, double action revolver chambered for 11 mm pinfire cartridges, made for the Danish Navy. Design Revolver m/1871 has a Casimir Lefaucheux, Lefaucheux-Francotte double action system with solid frame and fixed Cylinder (firearms), cylinder, with no mechanical Extractor (firearms), extractor. Made for Swedish army, it was chambered for 11 mm Centerfire ammunition, centerfire cartridges. In 1875, Principality of Serbia bought several thousands of these revolvers for the Serbian military.Никола Гаже ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolver
A revolver (also called a wheel gun) is a repeating handgun that has at least one barrel and uses a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold up to six rounds of cartridge before needing to reload, revolvers are also commonly called six shooters. Before firing, cocking the revolver's hammer partially rotates the cylinder, indexing one of the cylinder chambers into alignment with the barrel, allowing the bullet to be fired through the bore. The hammer cocking in nearly all revolvers are manually driven, and can be achieved either by the user using the thumb to directly pull back the hammer (as in single-action), via internal linkage relaying the force of the trigger-pull (as in double-action), or both (as in double/single-action). By sequentially rotating through each chamber, the revolver allows the user to fire multiple times until having to reload the gun, unlike older single-shot fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
