ĭepiction of President Lincoln's assassination with a Philadelphia Deringer.
#JUKAR SPAIN 45 BLACK POWDER PISTOL PROFESSIONAL#
Professional gamblers, and others who carried regularly, often would fire and reload daily, to decrease the chance of a misfire. Accuracy was highly variable although front sights were common, rear sights were less common, and some Philadelphia Deringers had no sights at all, being intended for point and shoot use instead of aim and shoot, across poker-table distances. Upon a misfire, the user could fully re-cock the hammer, and attempt to fire the handgun once more, or, switch to a second Deringer. (The half-cock notch prevented the hammer from falling if the trigger were bumped accidentally.) Then, to fire the handgun, the user would fully cock the hammer, aim, and squeeze the trigger.
#JUKAR SPAIN 45 BLACK POWDER PISTOL PATCH#
(The purpose of the patch on the ball was to keep the ball firmly lodged against the powder, to avoid creating what was called a "short start" when the ball was dislodged from being firmly against the powder.)Ī new percussion cap would then be placed on the tube (nipple), and the gun was then loaded and ready to fire. One would then remove the remains of the last fired percussion cap and place the handgun on its half-cock notch, pour 15 to 25 grains (1 to 2 g) of black powder down the barrel, followed by ramming a patched lead ball down onto the powder, being very careful to leave no air gap between the patched ball and the powder, to prevent the handgun from exploding when used. įor loading a Philadelphia Deringer, one would typically fire a couple of percussion caps on the handgun, to dry out any residual moisture contained in the tube or at the base of the barrel, to prevent a subsequent misfire. A popular concealed carry handgun of the era, this pocket pistol design was widely copied by competitors, sometimes down to the markings. The Philadelphia Deringer was a small percussion handgun designed by Henry Deringer (1786–1868) and produced from 1852 through 1868. Left side of the Philadelphia Deringer John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln With the advent of metallic cartridges, pistols produced in the modern form are still commonly called "derringers". Many copies of the original Philadelphia Deringer pistol were made by other gunmakers worldwide, and the name remained often misspelled this misspelling soon became an alternative generic term for any pocket pistol, along with the generic phrase "palm pistol'", which Deringer's competitors invented and used in their advertising. The term "derringer" ( / ˈ d ɛr ɪ n dʒ ər/) became a genericized misspelling during the reporting of the Lincoln assassination, which was committed with a concealed Philadelphia Deringer. Barrel length varied from 1.5 to 6 in (38 to 152 mm), and the hardware was commonly a copper-nickel alloy known as " German silver". 41 caliber with rifled bores, and walnut stocks. All were single barrel pistols with back-action percussion locks, typically. In total, approximately 15,000 Deringer pistols were manufactured. The original Philadelphia Deringer was a muzzleloading caplock single-shot pistol introduced in 1825 by Henry Deringer. It is frequently used by women because it is easily concealable in a purse or a stocking. The modern derringer is often multi-barreled, and is generally the smallest usable handgun of any given caliber and barrel length due to the lack of a moving action, which takes up more space behind the barrel. It is not to be confused with mini-revolvers or pocket pistols, although some later derringers were manufactured with the pepperbox configuration. Close-up of Philadelphia Deringer's markingsĪ derringer is a small handgun that is neither a revolver nor a semi/ fully automatic pistol.
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