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Now that's some "sweet 16" pepperbox pistol.

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"All The Information You Need On The Pepperbox Pistol"

The Pepper-box revolver or simply pepperbox (also "pepper-pot", from its resemblance to the household pepper grinder) is a repeating firearm that has three or more barrels grouped around a central axis. It mostly appears in the form of a multi-shot handheld firearm. Pepperboxes exist in all ammunition systems: matchlock, wheellock, flintlock, percussion, pinfire, rimfire and centerfire.

The pepperbox should not be confused with a volley gun (like the seven-barrel longgun made by Nock), a firearm that fires multiple projectiles simultaneously by use of multiple barrels. The difference is that a volleygun fires all the barrels simultaneously while the pepperbox is a repeater. Also a firearm with multiple barrels next to each other (like the Jarre) is not a pepperbox: It is called a "Harmonica gun"......[More]
http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/05/all-information-you-need-on-pepperbox.html[/quote]

The following come from a page with 66 images on it that can take a few minutes to load.
It shows side profiles revealing some of the many nipples.

PEPPERBOX, the collection:

http://members.chello.nl/j.vandriel4/images/mar18.jpg

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[And there's even a flintlock version]

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http://members.chello.nl/j.vandriel4/farecollection.htm
 
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Pork Chop said:
Holy Chain Fire Batman! :shocked2:
Can you imagine firing eight shots and then trying
to clean and reload it without blowing your own
head off??? :shocked2:
 
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