Primed for some needle
Aug 01, 2019
2 minutes
A couple of months ago I said we would take a closer look at another obsolete ignition method: needle fire.
Perhaps the shortest-lived firing mechanism since Forsyth’s ‘scent bottle’, the needle-fire system was another idea from the Swiss gunsmith Pauly, whom we talked about a couple of issues ago. In its simplest form, a needle-fire cartridge is almost assembled back to front in modern terms. The bullet
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