The flora and fauna associated with moist ecosystems, such as found in the Pepperbox, seem to exhibit more species diversity than any others in the Adirondacks.
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With the shortage of pistols in the War Between the States, many soldiers on both sides carried an Allen & Thurber pepperbox as a back-up arm.
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The four-shot pepperbox was introduced during the Allen and Wheelock era, highlighting that the pepperbox was still an important design through the end of the 1850s.
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The four-shot pepperbox was introduced during the Allen and Wheelock era, highlighting that the pepperbox was still an important design through the end of the 1850s.
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In the late Victorian era, some French swordsticks had built-in pinfire pepperbox revolvers to increase their lethality; these were carried by civilians for self-defence.
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This simplicity and safety helped the pepperbox survive after more modern revolvers came along, as well as keeping production costs a lot lower than revolvers with their more complex mechanisms.
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Harley Van Cleve and his son Phillip collected and categorized 22 distinct models / variations of the Allen pepperbox, and were an invaluable early 20th century resource for these interesting pistols.
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The church was known locally as the " Pepperbox " due to the dome shaped top of its tower; however this feature was lost when the tower was rebuilt in 1963.
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While weapons like double barreled shotguns were reasonably safe, weapons like the pepperbox revolver would sometimes fire all barrels simultaneously, or would sometimes just explode in the user's hand.
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During the 1960s the Colt Defender, a pepperbox shotgun designed by Robert Hillberg, utilized 3-inch 20-gauge Magnum rounds and had 8 barrels which rotated around a central axis.
