ever seen one of these?

[sportee]

In my search for expanding my new hobby I have been compilling a list of "wanted" items. Here are a few

Now i do know a fellow that has an Elliot and says it is a nice piece. The Vest pocket and the Rider are well known pieces but what about the Ballard model? anyone ever seen or owned one? Also out of curiosity, anyone ever seen or owned a Sharps pepperox of this style (model 4) ?

 

[dingus]

Hey Sporte PM snowdog he had a birds head 4 barrel 32 RF just like the one in your Center pic for sale a few times on CGN.
Hes a Good guy to talk with and deal with!

 

[tonyg]

Out of curiosity , how does a pepperbox work ? Do you manually rotate barrels for each shot ? Some seem to rotate , some are fixed looking

 

[SDC]

Out of curiosity , how does a pepperbox work ? Do you manually rotate barrels for each shot ? Some seem to rotate , some are fixed looking

It depends on the specific design; almost all of the percussion pepperboxes worked liked big revolvers, but some required you to manually turn to the next barrel. By the time they'd gone to cased ammunition, though, most designs had worked out a system whereby the hammer hits each firing-pin in turn, or the hammer had a rotating nose that struck each cartridge in turn.

 

[tonyg]

It depends on the specific design; almost all of the percussion pepperboxes worked liked big revolvers, but some required you to manually turn to the next barrel. By the time they'd gone to cased ammunition, though, most designs had worked out a system whereby the hammer hits each firing-pin in turn, or the hammer had a rotating nose that struck each cartridge in turn.

thanks , that clears it up

 

[mooncoon]

On the Sharp's, the firing pin body has a 4 toothed ratchet on the back and the nose is on the edge of the body. There is a hand on the hammer which rotates the firing pin much like the cylinder on a revolver. Think of a clock face with the firing pin at 12 oclock pointing out or forward into the chamber. #### the hammer and the clock rotates to the 3 oclock position and so forth.

cheers mooncoon

 

[Meanea]

I have the Sharps 1 & 2 and am looking for the models 3 & 4
On the sharps Mooncoon is correct the firing pin rotates
Meanea

 

[Casull]

The same is true of the Remington-Elliot, the trigger ring rotates a four position firing pin which revolves to fire each barrel in turn. The trigger ring extends forward to rotate the firing pin then to manage the hammer fall of sorts, all of this is enclosed and works perfectly in my wonderful condition Remington-Elliot which is the only one I have seen.