CB caps (Known as 6MM Flobert in Europe) and the CCI.22 CB Short (both of which are powered by the primer only) will probably be safe to use in it.Looking forward to killing hordes of empty beer cans at my cabin.
Weapons manufactured before 1890 can be freely sold in Norway, without any of the regular bureaucratic hassle associated with attaining weapons the regular way, and since I already have weapons chambered for.22 LR, I can freely buy ammunition for the derringer in the form of.22 CB caps,.22 BB caps and.22 short. If its in good shape, you should be able to fire.22 shorts out of it without any problems. They used to be quite common here in the U.S.-at one time, I think my dad had five of them. You could also have the barrels flux mapped or x-rayed, but its likely that if there are no indications of cracking, then theres no cracks or defects: this stuff was made pretty well, and methodiclaly, for the most part. Isnt the chief characteristic of a pepper-box that they have multiple barrels that revolve about a central axis, much in the same way that the cylinder rotates on a revolver On this gun, the barrels do not revolve, and instead the firing pin rotates as the hammer is cocked. Aaron Cuffee,. That selfsame pocket pistol, though, (for it cannot be properly called a Derringer, that frequent mispelling and genericizing of Mr. Vincent Deringers pocktet pistol) is the only one of its kind I still own, and it is part of my S.A.S.S. I regularly fire.22 shorts through it.since its hardly practical, and not particularly valuable, but has been rather scupulously maintained for more than a century, now. ![]() Any particular.22 loads brands you prefer I would guess you maybe dont use the CCI High Velocity stuff Edit: And okay, you have convinced me. I am aware that this will lower the guns value for collectors, but I dont care about that, and have no plans of selling it. And I think polished brass looks much better than dirty brass and flaky nickel plating. Heres a picture of it now, with some OLD.22 cb caps I inherited from my grandfather together with his old.22 rifle.
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