- A
snaphance or
snaphaunce is a type of
firearm lock in
which a
flint struck against a
striker plate above a
steel pan
ignites the
priming powder which...
- to a
piece of
hardened steel. The
snaplock is
therefore similar to the
snaphaunce (sometimes
classed as an
advanced type of snaplock) and the
later flintlock...
- harquebusier. The
harquebusier would usually be
armed with a wheellock,
snaphaunce or
doglock flintlock carbine hung from a
swivel attached to a baldric...
- wheellock, and the
earlier flintlock mechanisms such as the
snaplock and
snaphaunce. The true
flintlock continued to be in
common use for over two centuries...
-
armed forces, and
remained so
until the
latter half of the 1600s when the
snaphaunce mechanism increasingly took over. But it was not
until the
flintlock mechanism...
- by some type of pyrite- (wheellock) or flint-based
gunlock (snaplock,
snaphaunce, and flintlock),
which will
initiate the
combustion of the main gunpowder...
- at
least a
difference of opinion, as to what
constitutes a snaplock,
snaphaunce,
miquelet and a flintlock. The term
flintlock was, and
still is, often...
- "battery" or
striking surface and
separate pan
cover on the less
advanced "
snaphaunce" lock is
often credited to
French gun
maker Marin le
Bourgeoys around...
-
evidence of bias in Morton's exemptions. In 1575
Morton obtained six "
snaphaunce"
musket hand guns from
Flanders to
serve as
patterns for long guns called...
- to
protect the legs
while they rode. They were
armed with
flintlock "
snaphaunces". On the battlefield,
their major function was to
clear enemy musketeers...
