pin-fire

Their striped jumpers were stained with red clay and sweat, and the tall man had a pin-fire revolver stuck in the top of his trousers.

The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

The little, low-powered rimfire and pin-fire cartridges date from the decade before the American Civil War, but they were nowhere nearly as common as percussion-fired, muzzle-loading blackpowder guns.

Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

Presently entered the recusant bearing signs of prosperity in the flowered print about his loins, the ancient cartridge pouch slung around his waist and a huge revolver of the pin-fire model dangling from a neck which appeared more tortoise-like than ever.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Zalu Zako with a duplicate of the pin-fire revolver.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

My gun was a breech-loading, pin-fire double-barrel, of French manufacture.

I. Boyhood and Youth 1913

My gun was a breech-loading, pin-fire double-barrel, of French manufacture.

An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

Out of the balance of the money spent on the boat, we purchased a pin-fire, breech-loading gun, the pride of my life for many days.

A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord? '

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

Being well fed and the adored of his mistress, Amomma had naturally swallowed two loaded pin-fire cartridges.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

And it was a matter of indifference to them whether the neglected Amomma with two pin-fire cartridges in his inside blew up or trotted beside them; for they had come into a golden heritage and were disposing of it with all the wisdom of all their years.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900