percussion-lock

It was more than a century after muskets were first used in war before they were introduced in the English army to the exclusion of bows and arrows; more than fifty years passed after the invention of flint-locks before they were substituted for match-locks; and many years elapsed after the invention of the percussion-lock before it came into general use.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

The last improvement which we shall notice was the percussion-lock.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Drawings of these specimens were exhibited, comprising the match-lock, the pyrites wheel-lock, the flint-lock, down to the percussion-lock, as adapted by the author.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

The old flint-lock musket had theretofore been superseded by the percussion-lock musket, but some of the guns supplied to the troops were old, and altered from the flint-lock.

Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Joseph Warren Keifer 1884

At the encampments near the winter station we found a couple of percussion-lock guns, with caps, powder and lead.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866