In-line pistol?

[vanstg]

I was browsing thru some old firearm books the other day at a used book store and found a "muzzleloading guide" or something. It was a book about the size of a Shooter's Bible and had some articles about ML in general. I didn't buy it, but one picture caught my attention. It was a picture of what appeared to be a single shot in-line pistol. It looked just like a cap&ball revolver, but without the cylinder. It might even be a modified revolver. The pic wasn't very clear, but buttock, trigger and hammer looked very similar to a colt 1851, or maybe a rem 1858. The barrel was octagonal, maybe 8 inches long (my guess).

Does anyone know this pistol? Was it ever produced? Or maybe someone just made it from a cap&ball revolver somehow?

Thanks,
Vanstg

 

I always considered the blackpowder revolvers to be "inlines"!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Did the one you mention, have a "top-strap"????

 

[gordy]

As rollingb says revolvers "are" in-lines for all practical purposes! There was consderble experimenting done replaceing the cylinder with a machined chamber chamber block of steel ,It did make a very accurate in-line single shot pistol! Why? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif :: just because!

 

[tg]

I think the term "inline" is a modern ome which describes a system in which the striker device travels inline with the bore like a modern fireing pin device in a bolt action or auto loader, the arc of a hammer in a revolver is a bit different so they may not truely be inlines by our current definition.the movement of the detonition device is a critical part of the definition, and is what seperates modern inline ML's with most non-typical guns from the past and revolvers.

 

[Deadeye]

I think the gun you saw was a "Tingle", this was a single shot pistol that looked a lot like a single action revolver
but was solid where the cylinder would be. In a cap and ball the cap, powder, ball are all inline so yes they are an inline. I have a .45 cal barrel (10")for a TC contender
that uses 209 primers and while it may not be any more accurate than my flinters or percussion pistols, it is very easy to shoot accurately. :winking:

 

[vanstg]

I just saw another picture of this pistol in a book called "Advanced Muzzleloading Hunting" or something like that.

It is the Scout Pistol, made by Thompson Center. Probably it's not in production anymore.

Vanstg

 

[Deadeye]

I'd forgotten about the Scout pistol, TC made a lot of Scout rifles but not so many of the pistols. Both had the olD west look.