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Identifier: deadshotorsportm00markrich (find matches)
Title: The Dead shot; or, Sportman's complete guide;
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Marksman, pseud
Subjects: Shooting
Publisher: London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the trigger beingpulled, strikes the pin or nipple, explodes the capand fires the charge. Lock-plate : the flat surface forming the outsideof the lock ; to the inside of which the various partsare screwed. Main-spring : the larger steel spring which, onthe trigger being pulled, causes the hammer tostrike the pin and explode the cap. Scear: the piece which catches the tumbler, onthe hammer being moved to half or full-cock. Scear-spring: the small spring which holds thescear in the notches of the tumbler at full or half-cock. Spring-cramp : a most useful little instrument fortaking off and replacing the main-spring of a gun-lock. Swivel: the smallest piece of all, one end ofwhich fits into the neck of the tumbler, the otherend being held in the claw of the main-spring. Tumbler: the moveable centre-piece subservientto the hammer and scear. Tumbler pin : the outside screw which securesthe hammer to the tumbler. In hammerless guns, the tumbler is sometimesboth striker and exploding pin. 12
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PRINCIPAL TAPTS OF A GUN-LOCK. TO STRIP A GUN-LOCK. 13 On the opposite page is an illustration of theprincipal parts of an ordinary gun-lock, as theyappear when removed from the lock-plate. No. 1is the seear-spring ; *2. The scear ; 3. The main-spring; 4. The hammer, or striker; 5. Theswivel; 6. The bridle; 7. The tumbler; 8. Thetumbler pin. In the hammerless guns of different makers, themechanism of the locks varies considerably : in factscarcely two are alike. In some of them themechanism is composed of a great many parts orpieces; in others there are even fewer pieces thanin that of an ordinary gun-lock with outsidehammers. To strip a nun-lock.—To strip a gun-lock is totake it to pieces ; and although such is an operationusually left to the gunsmith, there are many sports-men who prefer to see to then- gun-locks themselves;and in some instances, where no gunsmith is reason-ably accessible, they have no alternative but to doso, or to allow them to rust and spoil. Andalthough it bedeadshotorsportm00markrich

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Marksman__pseud
  • booksubject:Shooting
  • bookpublisher:London__Longman__Green__Longman__and_Roberts
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