Lefaucheux handgun
French..12 mm. pinfire...Self-contained fixed metallic cartridge...A small tube containing priming compound jutted out at a right angle from the cartridge case and when hit by the hammer fired the round... Stonewall Jackson was said to have carried a Lefaucheux...
French..12 mm. pinfire...Self-contained fixed metallic cartridge...A small tube containing priming compound jutted out at a right angle from the cartridge case and when hit by the hammer fired the round... Stonewall Jackson was said to have carried a Lefaucheux...